Talk:Alfred Schild

Students beware
I created the original version of this article and had been monitoring it, but I am leaving the WP and am now abandoning this article to its fate.

Just wanted to provide notice that I am only responsible (in part) for the last version I edited; see User:Hillman/Archive.

I emphatically do not vouch for anything you might see in more recent versions.

Good luck in your seach for information, regardless!---CH 22:25, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I am Alfred Schild's daughter. There's only a couple of corrections that I would like to make.
 * My father and both of his parents were born in Istanbul; actually in
 * Constantinople - the name changed when Alfred was a child. His paternal grandparents were from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. To the best of my knowledge, they were not Viennese.
 * They came from an area called Bukovina, which is currently part of Romania. His maternal grandparents came from Russia, from an area currently in Ukraine.
 * Both sides of his family were Ashkenazi Jews. Before WW II, they got Austrian passports based on Alfred's paternal grandfather's nationality (nobody cared about a woman's nationality in those days). After the Anschluss, the family's Austrian passports were replaced with German passports marked with a big J.
 * My father was studying at King's College in England when Churchill ordered the roundup of everyone with a German passport. Alfred wasn't "allowed" to go to Canada. In 1940, he, along with 1,300 other men were stuffed in the hold of an empty troop ship that took them to a camp in Quebec. After some weeks, many of them, including Alfred, were taken to the town of Sherbrooke, where Alfred was interned for over two years before he was paroled, and allowed to go to the University of Toronto, to study physics. *
 * And I don't have a clue as to the accuracy of any of the physics in this article.
 * Most of this information comes from a biography of Klaus Fuchs, of recent infamy in the movie "Oppenheimer" Atomic Spy, by Nancy Thorndike Greenspan. Fuchs was one of the men on the ship and in the interment camp Judgekitty (talk) 20:11, 29 August 2023 (UTC)