Freud's denial lost much of his family. Denial can be such a seductive perspective.

"When Anna was summoned to Gestapo headquarters and barely managed to avoid being sent to a camp, Freud at last roused...

"We also cannot know for certain how much Sauerwald did or even could do to help Freud’s four sisters, who remained in Austria, and whom he visited later in the war and may have protected. The four died in the camps soon after Sauerwald was transferred to the Luftwaffe."