Refuge. Chronicle of a Flight from Hitler By Egon Schwarz

When Adolf Hitler paraded into Vienna on March 11, 1938, Egon Schwarz was fifteen years old. In No Time for Eichendorff he chronicles his family's remarkable escape through Bratislava, Prague and Paris, across the Atlantic through the Panama Canal and finally to Bolivia, where the Viennese family experiences a culture shock of Andean altitude. As the author comes of age, one picaresque adventure follows the next, until fate and fixity of purpose finally bring him to settle in the United States. Since retiring from Washington University in St. Louis, Egon Schwarz has continued his peripatetic life lecturing at universities around the world.