The Lost Café Schindler
Meriel Schindler
The Lost Café Schindler
Meriel Schindler
- Wydawnictwo: Hodder And Stoughton
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 9781529332087
- Ilość stron: 408
- Format: 13.0x20.0cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: The Lost Café Schindler - Meriel Schindler
Kurt Schindler was an impossible man. His daughter Meriel spent her
adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims
about their family history. Were they really related to Franz Kafka and
Oscar Schindler, of Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor -
Dr Bloch? What really happened on Kristallnacht, the night that Nazis
beat Kurt's father half to death and ransacked the family home?
When Kurt died in 2017, Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed
feelings about him, and to solve the mysteries he had left behind.
Starting with photos and papers found in Kurt's isolated cottage, Meriel
embarked on a journey of discovery taking her to Austria, Italy and the
USA. She reconnected family members scattered by feuding and war. She
pieced together an extraordinary story taking in two centuries, two
world wars and a family business: the famous Café Schindler. Launched
in 1922 as an antidote to the horrors of the First World War, this grand
café became the whirling social centre of Innsbruck. And then the Nazis
arrived.
Through the story of the Café Schindler and the threads that spool out
from it, this moving book weaves together memoir, family history and an
untold story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It explores the
restorative power of writing, and offers readers a profound reflection
on memory, truth, trauma and the importance of cake.
Szczegóły: The Lost Café Schindler - Meriel Schindler
Tytuł: The Lost Café Schindler
Autor: Meriel Schindler
Wydawnictwo: Hodder And Stoughton
ISBN: 9781529332087
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 408
Format: 13.0x20.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.3 kg