AHC interview with Ernest Max.

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0:00:16-0:01:26 Recollections of Vienna0:01:27-0:03:36 Emigration route0:03:37-0:05:13 Life in Bolivia, Chile and the US0:05:21-0:08:36 Family members in Vienna0:08:44-0:09:39, 0:34:57-0:35:38 Jewish Welcome Service0:09:44-0:10:32 Religious life0:12:34-0:14:28, 0:19:32-0:21:22 Parents’ business in Bolivia0:14:29-0:15:42 Jewish community in La Paz0:15:48-0:16:32 Obtaining immigration papers in Prague0:16:35-0:17:59 Anti-Semitism0:22:19-0:24:26 Visiting relatives0:26:57-0:28:01 Moving to Texas0:29:45-0:32:18, 0:32:18-0:34:56 Visiting Vienna and Berlin0:38:32-0:41:35 Austrian community in La Paz0:42:57-0:43:40 Final messageApril 17, 2018Ernest Max was born on March 30, 1936 in Vienna, Austria. He lived in an apartment with his parents (Rosa Kohn and Friedrich Max) in Favoritenstrasse 130 in Vienna’s 10th district. Due to the “Anschluss”, the family went to Prague, Czechoslovakia in March 1938. After having received visas for Bolivia, they traveled to Antwerp in 1939. There they boarded the ship Copiapo which brought them to Arica, Chile. They settled in La Paz, Bolivia, where Ernest attended elementary and high school, while his parents excelled in the manufacturing of confectionary. He went to Chile in 1953 to study medicine and worked as a surgeon until he moved to the US in 1971. He completed his residency for one year in Baltimore followed by two years in Pittsburgh. In 1974 he moved to Houston, Texas, where he worked until 2015.Austrian Heritage Collectio