The Eisinger’s apartment on the Reisnerstrasse in Vienna was in the same building as Liesl Kimmelmann and her brother Hans. The Kimmelmann siblings were the same age as Lesley and Josef. In his memoir, Flight and Refuge, Josef remembers that Hans and him ''constructed an aerial tramway that crossed the courtyard from the Kimmelmann’s fourth floor apartment to [theirs] (Parterre) so that [they] could send message to each other (19). The Kimmelmann family emigrated to England, where Hans was studying, soon after the Anschluss. Josef visited his childhood friends in 2000 in Melbourne.

This document was filled out by Josef and Lesley’s father, Rudolf Eisinger, only six weeks after the Anschluss. The Order for the Disclosure of Jewish Assets required that Austrian Jewish families whose assets exceeded 5,000 Reichsmarks list all of their possessions through this document. This was made mandatory after April 26 1938 and families like the Eisinger had until June 30th, so little less than three months to submit this declaration which was also required when emigrating.

completed on April 15, 1939 before Eisinger left on the Kindertransport; a little more than a year after the Anschluss. Following the German annexation of Austria, Jewish males were required to add the name Israel to their name while Jewish females had to add Sarah to theirs.

Grenville, Anthony. ''The Home Office and the Kindertransport parents,'' The Association of Jewish Refugees, vol. 14, no 1. January 2014. pp. 1.

This photograph was taken in 1941, the day a photographer came to the Canadian prisoner of war camp where Josef and his friends were interned. Top row: Walter Michel, Josef Eisinger, Walter Kohn Bottom row: Walter Odze, George Sanger, Pepi Weininger

This scene of Vienna is a watercolor painting by Josef in 1994. Behind the trees stands the St. Stephen's Cathedral which was at a walking distance from the Eisingers’ apartment building on Reisnerstrasse 39; especially when walking through the nearby Stadtpark, the park that Josef crossed every day on his way to school and to his parents’ shop.