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I was born in 1924 in Vienna. Father was a prosperous businessman. He owned a store with a huge apartment above. Our family consisted of my mother, father, sister and brother. In 1938, my father sensed it was time to leave Vienna. He had been preparing for two years to go to Shanghai. We left when I was only 14. At my brother’s Bar Mitzvah there were seventy family members. After the war, there were only a handful left. In 1947, my husband and I left Shanghai and came to the United States and had one son, Michael.

 

Hedy Asher

Vienna, Austria