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Chs. 3-4 (pp. 66-124) discuss Jewish life in Austria in 1938-39, focusing on experiences of Austrian Jewish interviewees. Traces the relations between Jews and non-Jews, emphasizing increasing antisemitism after the "Anschluss". Reports on gradual discrimination and persecution of the Jewish population, harassment and maltreatment, impoverishment of the Jewish community, and boycott of Jewish enterprises. During the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, many Jewish men were arrested and deported to Dachau. Jews who tried to emigrate were confronted with the immigration restrictions of potential host countries; many took the opportunity to buy a visa for Shanghai. 600 children were rescued by "Kindertransport" to England.