[The emigration of the Freud family in 1938]

The knowledge we had of the fates of Freud and his family, of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Association and its publishing house, of the centre for treatment and the premises of the Bergasse in 1938 was still very fragmentary, despite the research accomplished by Régine Lockot, Karen Brecht, Volker Friedrich, Jones' biography, and the accounts made by Richard Sterba and Max Schur. Two years ago the Viennese lawyer Dr. Martin Binder made over more than thirty files containing the deeds concerning the requests for reparation made in the name of Dr. Harry Freud and his heirs to the archives of the Sigmund Freud Gesellschaft. These files also included the deeds made out by another Viennese lawyer, Dr. Alfred Indra, who had represented Sigmund Freud in 1938, and his heirs after that in 1945. These documents have enabled us to bridge the gaps in existing accounts and to present in a more systematic fashion, with corresponding figures and dates, a part of these horrific events.