Paul KLEIN (1894-1971), Cilli POLLAK (1894-1978), Ilse KLEIN (1925-2012), Otto KLEIN (1927-2010)

Paul Klein, Cilli Pollak and their children, Ilse and Otto, fled to Luxembourg from Vienna, Austria, after the Anschluss in 1938. The family lived there with the support of the Jewish aid organization ESRA and thanks to Paul Klein's continued employment as a sales representative for a Viennese weaving factory. He regularly travelled between Luxembourg and Brussels for this company. On November 7, 1940, they were on a deportation transport from Luxembourg to Lisbon, which was stopped at the Portuguese border and sent back to France. In Marseille, the family finally obtained visas for Cuba and left for the island via Madrid and Lisbon at the end of 1941. After several years on the run — including two years in Luxembourg and three years in Havana — the family of four found a new home in the USA in 1945.