Lucky escape of Helen Meyer and her dinner guests

Helen Topor was born in Vienna in 1915 of Jewish heritage. In the 1930s she was a young film star (a good friend of Hedy Lamarr). The day after Hitler marched into Vienna, her father had already been arrested and nobody in the film industry would talk to her. She managed to escape from Austria by marrying a gay Dutch friend and lived in Holland for a while. When she returned to Vienna to try and save her mother and sisters (in vain), she returned to Holland to find that all the gays had been arrested, and she immediately obtained passage to the UK by boat in 1934 I believe. In London she was e... Mehr ...