Elly Glass, a Viennese woman, traveled to Berlin in an effort to free her Jewish husband from Buchenwald. Elly, only 23 years old, obtained an audience with a high ranking Gestapo officer. By the end of that meeting the officer said, “Your husband will be released in 10 days”. And he was.
The couple fled Vienna and came to the United States. With no money, no English and no friends to help them, they overcame extreme obstacles. In less than a year they had worked their way out of the rat and bedbug infested boarding house they were forced to live in.
Later in 1948 Chicago, Henry Glass became the architect of one of the first solar houses in America, an early advocate for “living green” and a legendary industrial designer. His design innovations included use of alternative materials such as plastics and Masonite and were often collapsible to a volume so small it could hardly be imagined.
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