Family Escapes Nazi Austria
Migration
Monroe Edwin Price's early life was profoundly shaped by the rise of Nazism. Born in Vienna in 1938, his middle-class Jewish family faced immediate peril after the Anschluss. Following his father's arrest during Kristallnacht in November 1938, the family made the urgent decision to flee, resettling in New York City in 1939. This harrowing experience as a child refugee deeply influenced Price's later work and his memoir, "Objects of Remembrance," which chronicled his journey of becoming an American.

