Abstract
Franz Werfel, although born in Prague, spent most of his life in Vienna. There he discovered the artistic atmosphere which so many before him had found. It was also in Vienna that he met his future wife, Alma Maria Mahler, the widow of the composer Gustav Mahler. But Hitler's AnschluB3 of Austria in 1938 destroyed the idyll and made it dangerous for him to remain. As refugees from the Nazis the Werfels eventually made their way to the United States. After the holocaust abroad, Franz Werfel said, as I sailed into the harbor of New York, the Statue of Liberty looked like an angel of Paradise.' Following a brief sojourn in New York, the Werfels settled in Beverly Hills, California, where they lived until Werfel died in 1945.
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