88 years after Kristallnacht, Gabriele Keenaghan, who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna as a child, was joined by her daughters and granddaughter for an emotional ceremony
By Michelle Rosenberg, Jewish News
A Holocaust refugee who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria as a child has had her Austrian citizenship returned on her 100th birthday, 88 years after Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogroms that changed her life forever.
Gabriele Keenaghan, who fled Vienna on the Kindertransport in 1939, was accompanied by her daughters and granddaughter at the Association of Jewish Refugees’ (AJR) annual Kristallnacht commemoration at Belsize Square Synagogue in London.
In a particularly poignant moment on her 100th birthday, Austrian Ambassador Bernhard Wrabetz presented Keenaghan with confirmation of the return of her Austrian citizenship.
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