Alfred Frankfurter - Vienna to Switzerland

This is another Holocaust story. It begins with Fredi's  mother, Berta (Papa's sister), taking the four-year old Fredi on her bicycle through the woods at night, even though he had a fever, desperately trying to find an entry way to Switzerland. Papa did not help her escape Vienna, nor did he help others in the family, which caused particular resentment on Berta's part, especially given her ordeal. She was abused by Nazis along the way, all to bring her son to safety. She pleaded with a woman at a fence to please take her son, and the woman did. I don't know how she reconnected with him later, but Fredi stayed in an orphanage. He had tuberculosis there. The girls and boys  were on different floors, but he made lasting friendships. 

Fredi came to America from Switzerland. Rabbi Seelig Erlich got him out of Ellis Island. He helped Fredi by telling him to eat kosher because it would get him a better meal. Fredi stayed with Max and Papa in the Walton Avenue Bronx apartment for about a week, playing gin rummy and hearing endless arguments. 

He tried staying with his mother and her husband - Rudy? (she  had divorced Fredi's father) when he was 18, but that only lasted a very short time. He felt constrained and better making his own way.

He got a job as a window dresser, but lost it due to goofing off. He was also a cook on a boat at one point. Eventually, he became a school counselor/therapist/school administrator in California.