Hotel Bolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism
Leo Spitzer
1998
Two Photographs
Among the very few possessions my parents were permitted to take with them when they emigrated as refugees from Austria to Bolivia in June 1939 was a box camera and two family photo albums. Soon after their arrival in La Paz, they somehow acquired two additional albums—one in which my father pasted snapshots taken during their ocean…
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