Lives Remembered, Volume 9. “Exile in South America” (only available in German)

Book presentation at the Austrian Embassy Buenos Aires on 5 November 2026.

Volume 9 provides an insight into the stories of persecution and flight of Jewish families from Austria who were able to flee to the South American countries Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, through 12 (auto)biographical accounts. Two descendants also share their thoughts and memories in this volume.

In her guest contribution, historian Linda Erker traces the path of Jewish people in Austria following the '"Anschluss", which led to their flight, through European refugee policy and possible routes of exile, as well as support networks, and on to the situation in the various Central and South American countries of arrival. She highlights examples of countries and stories of flight that extend beyond the life stories and regions covered in this volume, thus providing a broader context for the collected memories.

The subject-specific glossary at the end of the book helps to contextualise the events, reveals connections, and encourages further reading and research.
The volume is illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs, documents, and diagrams depicting the escape routes of individual refugees.

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Table of Contents

  • Peter Haubner, Foreword
  • Hannah M. Lessing, Judith Pfeffer, Remembering for the Next Generation
  • Michaela Niklas, Exile in South America
  • Renate Stockreiter, Branching, Intertwining, Entanglement. The Forest as a Visual Symbol of Migration
  • Linda Erker, The ABC of Exile and a Thousand Spanish Words. The Flight of Austrian Jews to Latin America
  • Georg Jorge Hacker, You can’t undo the damage of being uprooted
  • Julia Hacker, The Library of Memory
  • Victor E. Dawid, Deep down in my heart, I have remained a European
  • Ingeborg Bessy Berger de Carricarte, How my parents and I fled Austria
  • Lutz Elija Popper, In Bolivia, there was always plenty of everything
  • Eva Magdalena Hochstimm, This is my life, as I remember it
  • Fritz, Ernst and Heinz Kalmar, Flight in Letters
  • Roberto Kalmar, The Kalmar family in exile in Bolivia
  • Catalina Knopfler, It was wonderful to be reunited with my father
  • Alfredo Bauer, As if the country had been waiting for us
  • Elisabeth Betsy Schipek, A life among the Austro-Brasileiros
  • Erwin Auspitz, Making peace with my beloved homeland’
  • Glossary
  • Acknowledgements

Table of contents, Volume 9 (in German) (PDF)

Michaela Niklas on behalf of the National Fund (ed.), Vienna 2026, 440 pages, 1 volumes (German). ISBN: 978-3-9505259-6-0