Alice Barzilay

Alice Schächter

• Austria, Vienna, Jewish Vital Records, 1835-1938
• Record type: Birth
• Birth: Nov 3 1926 - Vienna, Austria (Wien, Österreich)
• Father: Osias Schächter
• Mother: Mizia Matka Krämer

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Oral history interview with Alice Barzilay

Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.3.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0218

Alice Schachter Barzilay, born November 3, 1926 in Vienna, Austria, discusses her upper-middle class childhood with her younger sister Ruth; going to public school with non-Jewish friends; ice skating and skiing; observing Jewish holidays; being seated in back of class after the Anschluss in March 1938; feeling in danger on the streets; reading signs on benches; being frightened at the sound of the German soldiers' marching; being expelled from school; going to a Jewish gymnasium in September 1938; how her father’s textile business was taken over; hearing screams on street during Kristallnacht; an Aryan friend warning them to leave by December; how her father and sister left December 31 for Switzerland and then went to England; how she and her mother received affidavits from her father's cousin, which enabled them to leave in March 1939 for London, England