Fritz Senn

This was the place to be, the roaring 20s in Paris.

And there was this big, vibrant expats community in Paris, artists, writers, painters.

So he stayed there for the next 20 years.

And the family left after the German invasion of Paris.

They left for Saint-Gérard-le-Puy.

in the unoccupied part of France.

But still, of course, you know, you never knew what's going to happen next.

So his friends urged him to come with them back to the US, the Jolasses.

And Carola Gideon Welker, his Zurich friend, then urged them to come back to Zurich.

And they did not want to leave Europe because of their children, especially because of Lucia, who was in an institution in Paris that was evacuated to the coast in Brittany.

So they decided to come back to Switzerland and that turned out to be fairly difficult.

Unlike the First World War, the immigration policies had become very restrictive.

And it was again Carola Gideon-Welker and other friends, among them Swiss composer Ottmar Schöck, who helped to raise some money as a kind of warranty for them so that the Swiss taxpayer didn't have to take care of immigrants like Joyce.

Yeah, and then he came back to Zurich via Geneva and Lausanne in December 1940.

They were celebrating Christmas with the Giedon Welkers.

And on the 13th of January, he died of a stomach ulcer.

He was buried two days later in Flunten Cemetery.

We are here at Flunten Cemetery.

This is the cemetery where Joyce and his family are buried.

This is a memorial grave and it was installed in 1966.