Tony Grenville shares a piece of family history, a Red Cross letter (1942) sent by his maternal grandparents before they were deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt and subsequently murdered by German authorities. The letter offers ...See moreTony Grenville shares a piece of family history, a Red Cross letter (1942) sent by his maternal grandparents before they were deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt and subsequently murdered by German authorities. The letter offers poignant insights into Jewish life in Vienna under Nazi persecution and the importance of maintaining these family stories up to the present. Anthony Grenville is an academic and journalist and chair of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, University of London.
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