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Alma and Franz Werfel flew Vienna in 1938 for France when Austria
fell to the German army. In 1940, the Werfels along with Heinrich
Mann flew by foot over the rugged Pyrenees to Spain, ultimately
leaving Europe for the United States on board the New Hellas,
the last regular ship from Lisbon. In Lisbon, Alma Mahler-Werfel
spent probably the most challenging and decisive months of her
life. Lisbon meant rescue for her. "I can never forget
those days of paradisiacal peace in a paradisiacal country,
after the torment of the previous months!”, Alma wrote
in her autobiography.
There's no country which helped as many refugees as Portugal
in those days. The small country became a transition for many
well known refugees such as Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger
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