Summer vacation under a cloudy future
Vacation resort doesn't make future look brighter
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"Greetings from a vacation badly spoiled by rain, during which neither real rest and relaxation nor the mood that accompanies it will emerge."
FILZMOOS/VIENNA
Even though expressions of anti-Semitism were common in Austrian vacation resorts decades before the annexation of Austria, a phenomenon that lead to the coining of the term “Summer Resort Anti-Semitism,” they remained popular with Austrian Jews. But when Liesl Teutsch’s uncle spent his vacation in Filzmoos in the Austrian province of Salzburg in August 1938, its spectacular vistas could not distract him from the unsettling circumstances. In this postcard to his niece in Vienna, he makes it very clear that it is not just the poor weather that prevented true rest and relaxation. He seems to be apprehensive of returning to Vienna, where an uncertain future awaits him.
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Institution:
Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin
Collection:
Elizabeth Deutsch Family Collection, AR 25179
Original:
Box 1, folder 1
on the days before
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