An Austrian Refugee’s Drive to Create Art, 1938–39
11 min readJul 9, 2022
Story and pictorial history of a year-long journey to the USA
By Elizabeth Kaldeck Smith
Learning about my family’s history
Many of the facts and details about my dad’s departure from Austria were unknown to me until I pored over the hundreds of pages of documents I found in my family’s home after he died.
