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Greta Loebl followed in her father's footsteps at 18 to become a master goldsmith. Due to the Anschluss, she and her future husband Oscar Schreyer left the country for France in September 1938. In Paris, they met a wealthy American who sponsored their affidavit for immigration to the U.S. The couple arrived in the U.S. in March 1939. They attempted to get visas for their parents but did not succeed, and their parents were all deported to concentration camps. Oscar Schreyer's sister Nina Graboi (born Gusti Schreyer) emigrated to New York City with the help of Oscar and Greta. Greta Schreyer's jewelry design included lapel pins she created to make a living as a newly-arrived immigrant – they became an immediate fashion hit, and were advertised in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Mademoiselle magazines. From a goldsmith she evolved into an artist and from 1956, the year of Schreyer's first solo exhibition, until her death, her work was displayed in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Her paintings and watercolours included symbols of her flight from peril, her dream-world, and her optimism. One series was of burning synagogues in Poland, reflecting the destruction of Polish Jewry by the Nazis. As of her death, her work was in the permanent collections of Brandeis University Library, The Jewish Museum in New York, Museum Haaretz in Tel Aviv, Israel, and The Albertina and The Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna, Austria. After Oscar Schreyer's death, Greta married her cousin, economist and Vassar College professor Eugen Loebl.
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