ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author provides an autobiographical memoir of his childhood in Vienna. A number of other family relationships contributed to the lively atmosphere in which the author grew up. There was his mother’s oldest sister, Letche, who was married to a cousin named Yossel Rosenkranz – the same names as his mother’s brother. Yossel and Letche escaped to Shanghai where Yossel died, but Letche survived and after the war was brought to Boston by her son Arnold, a prosperous furrier. A longstanding broiges in the author's family was caused by the apartment of his mother’s father, Meir Yitzchak Schuber. In 1923, the year of his parents’ marriage, Meir, in his early seventies, planned to move out of his small apartment to live with one of his older daughters elsewhere in Vienna. There was a severe housing shortage in Vienna after the war, and the author's parents did not have an apartment.
