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About Franziska Tausig
- Franziska Tausig (c.
- 1895 – 1989) was an Austrian author.
- Her parents were deported to Theresienstadt and killed in Treblinka. She gave birth to her son, Otto Tausig, in 1922 in Vienna.
- He later became an actor and director.
- In 1938, the persecution of Jews was heightening in Nazi-dominated Austria.
- She sent her son, Otto (then 16), to England through an advertisement in The Times calling for workers, thus saving him.
- In 1938, she acquired two tickets for the Usaramo, a ship that was supposed to be scrapped in Japan, which transported Jews to Shanghai on the way.
- She emigrated to Shanghai with her husband, who died there of tuberculosis shortly thereafter.
- Ten years later, in 1948, Tausig was reunited with her son in Vienna.In 1987, she published her memoirs with the title Shanghai Passage: Flucht und Exil einer Wienerin (escape and exile of a Viennese).
- In this book she describes her desperate escape from Austria.
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