Jordan: What sort of work do you do? motilium cost Janet Malcolm was born Jana Wienovera in Prague. She was five when she left Europe with her parents and younger sister, just before the outbreak of war. ‘We were a very fortunate Jewish family, who got out just in time,’ she says. Her aunt and uncle had left several months earlier. Her father, a neurologist and psychiatrist, and her mother, a lawyer, were not quite as prescient – ‘how could one have imagined it, right?’ – but on her aunt’s recommendation they got themselves on the American immigration quota. ‘And then Hitler marched on Czechoslovakia. So they spent the next few months trying to get the exit visa – every penny they had they spent on bribing the Gestapo man, buying him a racehorse, I think. And they finally got it, and we were on a ship from Hamburg to America. When we were in the middle of the sea the quota expired, but we were still OK.’