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Actions Displays	Telephone Book Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2005/020:001 TitleTelephone Book DescriptionTelephone directory, published in May 1938, Vienna. German troops occupied Austria on 12 March 1938. Before 1938, the Jewish community was one of the largest in Europe numbering some 185,000. On the eve of Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938, Viennese synagogues and temples were destroyed. 6,547 Jews were arrested; Paul Neugasser was one of them. He spent two weeks in prison with 20 people in a cell. Upon release, he left the next morning for Italy with his wife, headed for Shanghai, the only port that did not require a visa. After the war, they left Shanghai and immigrated to Australia, arriving in 1946. If a household and business owned a phone, their name would be in this directory. The donor Paul New (Paul Neugasser) and his wife Hansi (Johanna) names appear in the book on page 435. Hansi’s parents brought the directory to Australia when they immigrated in 1938; her father worked with a multinational company and was transferred to Australia. Paul's brother-in-law defaced the front cover by scratching out the offensive swastika beneath the Eagle. Part of a collection of items including a German Haggadah, a Chinese commercial lease enabling Paul to lease land, his wife Johanna Neugasser (nee Frank) Shanghai Jewish Refugees ID document identifying her as a Jew and a milliner, and a special edition of the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle announcing the start of the war, 3 September 1939. Production placeVienna, Austria Production date May 1938 Production periodpre-World War II SubjectJewish-Viennese population Object namebooks Materialpaper, paper Dimensions cover weight: 205.00 mm height: 295.00 mm depth: 40.00 mm Language German Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Paul New

Object numberM2005/020:001

TitleTelephone Book

DescriptionTelephone directory, published in May 1938, Vienna. German troops occupied Austria on 12 March 1938. Before 1938, the Jewish community was one of the largest in Europe numbering some 185,000. On the eve of Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938, Viennese synagogues and temples were destroyed. 6,547 Jews were arrested; Paul Neugasser was one of them. He spent two weeks in prison with 20 people in a cell. Upon release, he left the next morning for Italy with his wife, headed for Shanghai, the only port that did not require a visa. After the war, they left Shanghai and immigrated to Australia, arriving in 1946.

If a household and business owned a phone, their name would be in this directory. The donor Paul New (Paul Neugasser) and his wife Hansi (Johanna) names appear in the book on page 435. Hansi’s parents brought the directory to Australia when they immigrated in 1938; her father worked with a multinational company and was transferred to Australia. Paul's brother-in-law defaced the front cover by scratching out the offensive swastika beneath the Eagle.

Part of a collection of items including a German Haggadah, a Chinese commercial lease enabling Paul to lease land, his wife Johanna Neugasser (nee Frank) Shanghai Jewish Refugees ID document identifying her as a Jew and a milliner, and a special edition of the Shanghai Jewish Chronicle announcing the start of the war, 3 September 1939.

Production placeVienna, Austria

Production date May 1938

Production periodpre-World War II

SubjectJewish-Viennese population

Object namebooks

Materialpaper, paper

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Paul New

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