Hanni Myers has had an illustrious musical career for decades. She studied Art History and singing and eventually taught at Boston College while working privately with students whom she adored. She started playing the piano at the age of 5, thanks in part to her mother, Mutti, who was a piano teacher in Vienna before they immigrated to Massachusetts in 1938.
Being the local Doctor and the Doctor's wife was a saving grace for Hanni's family. Shortly after the German Army entered Vienna in 1938, the family started the paperwork in trying to immigrate to Massachusetts.
It took quite a long time for them to secure all the paperwork and a job in Boston for her father, but shortly there after they were on their journey to America.
The children's book "My Two Cities" by Robin Mayers Stein with Hanni Myers has been written in verse so children and teens can learn of the experience of this one family. What was Hanni's childhood like as an immigrant who didn't speak English when she arrived in America . They overcame many obstacles but never gave up hope for themselves and many others
No matter how challenging, Hanni's mother and father were able to help 17 families immigrate to the United States to freedom. Some were friends or relatives, others were not. But the family never stopped trying to help others left behind in Europe.
See a video 'Books & Beyond' featuring Hanni Myers & Robin Mayer Stein