Life in Vienna

Our wealth soon lost,  the family moved into an apartment in the city 

(Lackierergasse 1A, in the IXth district) adjacent to Beethovengasse

and the Landesgericht. It was a massive concrete structure with

street level configurations where boys often deposited their school bags, while

indulging in more or less weighty conversations.  I attended the Realschule, (the equivalent of high school in the United States) from 1932 to 1938.  Before I was able to graduate, Hitler’s militias marched into Austria:

DER ANSCHLUSS….. and so begins the next chapter of our/my life….