For the Kleinmann family, their city had become, in the words of a British journalist: . . . a city of persecution, a city of sadism . . . no amount of examples of cruelty and bestiality, can convey to the reader who hasn’t felt it the atmosphere of Vienna, the air which the Austrian Jews must breathe . . . the terror at every ring of the front-door bell, the smell of cruelty in the air . . . Feel that atmosphere and you can understand why it is that families and friends split up to emigrate to the corners of the earth.19
