Gertrud
Kissiloff
Gertud Kissiloff was born Gertrud Nachtigall in 1923 in Vienna and grew up in the 2nd district. After her father’s arrest following the “Anschluss”, Kissiloff went to the Gestapo and was able to secure his release. Kissiloff and her brother escaped to Scotland with the Kindertransport in March 1939, followed some months later by their parents. In October 1940, the family emigrated to the USA. Kissiloff studied at the Cooper Union and worked after graduation as a graphic designer. At the time of her interview, she lived in New York.
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Talks about
“Talks about” are particularly interesting sections of the interviews curated by the editors of Austrian Heritage Archive.
Memories of anti-Semitism and plundering in the apartment building in Vienna after the “Anschluss”
Her father’s release from Dachau Concentration Camp
Memories of the Kindertransport to Great Britain
Travelling on the passenger ship RMS Cameronia to New York
Building a new life in the USA
Seeing her Viennese schoolfriends again after 50 years
Anti-Semitism in Austria
