AHC interview with Oskar Grassel.

Digital recordingMarch 13, 2013Oskar Grassel was born on August 4, 1920 in Vienna. At the age of 14 he became a locksmith's apprentice. When his grandfather died in 1937, Oskar took over his hardware business. On November 10th 1939 he left Vienna by train for Shanghai. His parents stayed in Vienna and were later deported to Lublin where they perished. His sister escaped with the help of a Kindertransport to Sweden. Oskar worked for the Shanghai Gas Company as a supervisor. He married in 1944 and left Shanghai together with his wife for San Francisco. In the US he worked as a steamfitter and as a mechanic for an airline.Austrian Heritage Collectio