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Maria managed to book a contract for a three-month<br />
concert tour in the United States. In June 1938, the <strong>Trapp</strong>s and<br />
Father Wasner boarded a train near their estate. <strong>The</strong>y took only<br />
what they could easily carry. <strong>The</strong> group traveled across the Alps<br />
to safety in Italy and then gave concerts across Europe.<br />
In September, they sailed to New York. Maria’s third child,<br />
a son, was born in Pennsylvania in January 1939.<br />
After six months, the family had to leave the United States<br />
because their visas had expired. <strong>The</strong>y made a brief concert tour<br />
through northern Europe. <strong>The</strong>n, they were able to return to<br />
New York, arriving in October 1939. By then, World War II was<br />
underway. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Trapp</strong> family had escaped just in time.<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Trapp</strong> Home in Austria<br />
When the <strong>Trapp</strong>s left Austria, they wanted to sell their<br />
home to a religious order. Instead, the Nazis took it over as a<br />
headquarters for their secret police. After the war, the estate<br />
became a college for Catholic priests. Some members of the<br />
family visited their former home when they returned to the<br />
Salzburg Music Festival in 1950.<br />
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