Word: eisenstadt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austrian camps were an unfortunate introduction to the refugees' new life. One large one, at Eisenstadt, had been a Russian soldiers' barracks, and there were Russian signs all around the walls. "The first day there we erased them," Fenyvesi says. The camps were over-crowded, the food consisted of black coffee, American cheese, beans, and meat every day. The refugees did nothing at all for four days--"it was very depressing...
Those who were encamped at Eisenstadt were moved after a while to a pleasanter camp in Salzburg, where college students were given rooms in a separate, and fairly comfortable building. Other refugees, however, had the "depressing feeling that their whole future would be in a camp," Julius recounts. At Salzburg they were given showers and shaving lotion,--"a great thing; we felt like new-born babies...
From Andau, the motorcade moved on to the bigger camp at Eisenstadt, through which about 60,000 refugees have passed en route to other lands. Ten thousand of them were at the camp when he arrived. Once again, there was the press of newsmen and refugees, the snatches of conversation, the handshakes and the good wishes, and once again on Nixon's part a winning display of cordial good fellowship. After that came Traiskirchen, another camp, another crowd. The visitor's one quiet moment came as he attended a Christmas party and play for the refugee children...
Professor S. N. Eisenstadt of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, will speak before the Social Relations Graduate Colloquium on "Communication and Reference Group Theory," Thursday...
...Eisenstadt is a Fellow in the Royal Anthropological Institute and a member of the International Sociological Association's executive committee...