Austrian States: Upper Austria

Micha Shagrir was born in Linz in 1937 as Michael Schwager. His father had already emigrated to Palestine in 1921, where he met Shagrir’s mother. They returned to Linz in 1932. Immediately after the “Anschluss” the family emigrated to Palestine, where they lived in the Kibbutz Chefziba and then in Tel Aviv. Shagrir worked as a journalist and for the radio. Later he became a film producer and director, filming a documentary film – amongst many other things – about the Bischofstrasse in Linz, the street where his family had lived. At the time of his interview, he lived in Israel.