Elisabeth Gangleberger and Heinrich Krausz interview and transcript, May 30, 1995

Elisabeth Ganglberger was born in Shanghai in 1940. Her father, Dr. Hans Ludwig Modern was a doctor and arrived in Shanghai on May 7, 1939, on the “Conto Rosso” out of Trieste. Her pregnant mother, Leopoldine Modern, arrived in Shanghai in 1940. Dr. Modern worked in the Salvation Army hospital and Mrs. Modern was a nurse in the Ward Road hospital. The family returned to Vienna on the “Marine Falcon”, which sailed from Shanghai on January 17, 1947.

Heinrich K. was born in Vienna in 1938. His parents married in Vienna in 1931. His father, Wilhelm K. was arrested and interned in Dachau in the wake of Kristallnacht. With his mother, Salomea K., Heinrich traveled with the Trans-Siberian Railroad in February 1941 to Vladivostok, then further to Japan and Shanghai. He attended the Kadoorie School. The family returned to Vienna on the “Marine Falcon”, which sailed from Shanghai on January 17, 1947. Mr. K. did not wish to make his full name public.