![]() Both were later deported to Theresienstadt, where his grandfather perished in December 1943. Resisting pressure to evacuate Luxembourg, Mayer's maternal grandparents fared far worse. In late winter of 1941, the family sailed, separately, from Portugal, setting foot in New York City four weeks apart. The following month, Arno’s father obtained American immigration visas in Casablanca, Morocco, in a manner strikingly similar to the plot of the classic film with Humphrey Bogart. ![]() After moving from town to town, they left France via Marseilles and arrived in Algeria. They stayed ahead of the Wehrmacht and successfully avoided German aircraft, making it to France. A middle-class Jewish family, the Mayers had no illusions about what Nazi Germany’s invasion meant for them. ![]() Image by Germaine Krull.Īs German columns rolled across the border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg on May 10, 1940, 14 year old Arno Mayer climbed into a two-door Chevrolet with his parents, his sister, and his grandfather. ![]()
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