ACROSS THE BORDER

Ruth Wodak in conversation with Hanno Loewy

ACROSS THE BORDER
Escape stories between Lake Constance and the mountains

Between March 1938 and May 1945, thousands of people fleeing the German Reich tried to reach Switzerland via Vorarlberg: Jews, political opponents of the Nazis, deserters, prisoners of war, forced labourers and foreign workers from occupied European countries. Escape helpers on both sides of the border made it possible for individuals to escape. Their stories are about courage and despair, humanity and resentment, xenophobia and solidarity. Having fled the Third Reich, persecution and extermination, the refugees, if they were lucky, reached a country that is disturbingly similar to our present-day Europe.

Conversation:
Hanno Loewy, publicist, director of the Jewish Museum Hohenems
Ruth Wodak, linguistic sociologist, discourse researcher

Read from escape stories: Katharina Grabher and Andreas Kosek, teatro caprile
Sound: Milan Loewy

Book presentation in collaboration with the Jewish Museum Hohenems

Across the border. 52 stories of flight between Lake Constance and the mountains 1938 to 1945
Hanno Loewy/Raphael Einetter, with photographs by Dietmar Walser
256 pages, € 24.80, Bucher Verlag, Hohenems 2023, ISBN: 978-3-99018-682-4