Sealed Borders, Trafficking and Deportation – Austrian Refugees in the Czechoslovak Border Region after the “Anschluss”

Abstract

“O April 16th, 1938, the Jewish inhabitants of Kittsee and Pama, Burgenland, Austria, were ejected from their homes, robbed of what money and identity papers they had and, during the night, marooned on some a small island in the Czech section of the Danube. On April 17th, they were found by the Czech frontier guard and taken to Bratislava. That very same day they were expelled from Czecho-Slovakia [sic] and once again taken to the German border.”1