https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/09/freuds-last-days-in-vienna-as-nazis-approached/
In 1923, when diagnosed (with cancer), all Freud asked of his physician was help to “disappear from this world with decency,” according to Peter Gay’s 1988 biography, “Freud: A Life for Our Time.” He was determined to be in Vienna when that time came. The intensity of his resolve matched the urgency with which colleagues and friends begged him to leave as the Nazi threat began to grow. In March 1933, Hitler assumed broad dictatorial powers as chancellor of Germany. That same month, Austria was in political turmoil, following the suspension of its parliament. In May, Nazis burned Freud’s books in Berlin. Freud’s sons, Oliver and Ernst, decided it was time to leave Berlin where they had established careers and settled their families. Oliver relocated to France and Ernst to England.
Yet their father remained rooted in Vienna.
“The only thing I can say,” Freud wrote to his nephew Sam in July 1933, “is that we are determined to stick it out here to the last. Perhaps it may not come out too bad.”
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them hope. He told his friends: “After the destruction of the Temple in
Jerusalem byTitus, Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai asked for permission to open a school at Jabneh for the study of the
Torah. We are going to do the same. We are, after all, accustomed by our
history and tradition, and some of us by our personal experience, to
being persecuted.”
https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2015/10/how-freud-escaped/
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