Franziska Tausig

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Franziska Tausig (born c. 1895 – died 1989) was an Austrian author. Her parents were deported to Theresienstadt and killed in Treblinka.

She gave birth to her son, Otto Tausig, in 1922 in Vienna. He later became an actor and director. In 1938, the persecution of Jews was heightening in Nazi-dominated Austria. She sent her son, Otto (then 16), to England through an advertisement in The Times calling for workers, thus saving him. In 1938, she acquired two tickets for the Usaramo, a ship that was supposed to be scrapped in Japan, which transported Jews to Shanghai on the way. She emigrated to Shanghai with her husband, who died there of tuberculosis shortly thereafter. Ten years later, in 1948, Tausig was reunited with her son in Vienna.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987, she published her memoirs with the title Shanghai Passage: Flucht und Exil einer Wienerin (escape and exile of a Viennese). In this book she describes her desperate escape from Austria.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 47703894 LCCN: n89670453 ISNI: 0000 0000 8224 8413 GND: 124790879

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Name	Tausig, Franziska
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Short description	Austrian Jewish writer
Date of birth	c. 1895
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Date of death	1989
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