The ten Luisada cousins were first cousins, the grandchildren of Isabella and Augusto Luisada of Livorno Italy. The cousins all summered together at in the seaside villa of their grandmother Isabella Luisada at Viareggio on the Ligurian coast. In the winter, they skied in southern Austria and stayed at the family villa on the Worthensee. The children were all upper middle-class Sephardic Jews, and their parents lived in Vienna, Austria and Florence, Italy, respectively. As adults they were totally assimilated into the educated and well-mannered society of their social class. The men served in the military under the Austrian Empire and the Italian Fascist governments, respectively. Men and women became businessmen, doctors, lawyers, artists, and research scientists. With the sweeping tide of anti-Semitism under Nazi occupation they all realized the necessity of fleeing. Some translocated to Paris, only to arrive just in time for the blitzkrieg invasion of France by Nazi forces. Through commercial and family connections, the cousins in Paris managed to emigrate to the United States, some only after courageous and hair-raising escapades through France, Spain, and Portugal. Those who stayed behind in Italy helped refugees emigrate to Palestine via Trieste, then took the last boat themselves. Others managed to traverse the Alps to stay in refugee camps in Switzerland, or they went into hiding and helped the Partisans. This family history is a remarkable collection of family stories, recollections, interviews, diaries, photographs, documents, and family trees put together the by the children and grandchildren of the Luisada cousins as a tribute to their courage, their endurance, their good fortune, and their foresight. It is edited by Marguerite Vigliani and other children and grandchildren of the ten Luisada cousins. Our goal is to preserve this extraordinary family history and pass it on to future generations.