AHC interview with Alfred Josef Todrys.

August 22, 2016Alfred Josef Todrys was born on July 9th 1924 in Vienna, Austria. His father was the representative of several bicycle companies. His Hungarian mother owned a meat market in Czernigasse, in the building where they lived. The family fled Austria in October 1938 to Paris. Due to an affidavit from a distant, wealthy relative in New York his father was able to obtain papers necessary for the emigration. They left for the United States in November 1938. Alfred became a US citizen in May 1943, when he joined the US Navy. After the war he started working in his father’s bike business.Austrian Heritage Collectio