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Critical Mass is partly set in Vienna during Lotty Herschel’s childhood, when Austria’s Nazi government forced her family to leave their apartment and share four rooms with twelve other people. Here’s a photograph I took in Vienna last summer of the entryway to the building where she lived in 1938-39 before she and her brother Hugo escaped to England.

Entryway to Lotty Herschel’s building in Vienna

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