Emigration NY (1996)

When Hitlers infamous Anschluss annexed Austria to Germany in 1938 the lives of 130000 Jewish Austrians were placed at risk Over the next three years some 30000 managed to emigrate to the United States settling mainly in New York City In Austrian filmmaker Egon Humers brilliant and moving documentary EMIGRATION NY twelve Viennese Jews seven women five men recount their lives as children in Austria as emigrants as New Yorkers Deceptively simple in style the film gathers striking emotional power as its subjects who include Amos Vogel cofounder of the New York Film Festival offer fresh and often surprising views on their experience of exile and assimilation