The Lost Schindlers' Cafe: The Holocaust and the Fate of an Austro-Hungarian Family
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The Lost Schindlers' Cafe: The Holocaust and the Fate of an Austro-Hungarian Family
14.99 €
Speaking and thinking about the 20th century, we sometimes overlook details, episodes, individual destinies, which are lost against the background of global formidable events, but they are no less important. The peaceful life of Innsbruck and the charming, reflecting the cultural traditions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the atmosphere of the cafe "Schindler's" opened in 1922, where people danced, had romances and served the most delicious apple strudel in all of Austria - all of this was cut short when the Nazis came to power. The family members were scattered around the world, and the truth about their lives remained unknown until the author of this book, "entering the larger world of nineteenth-century Bohemia and twentieth-century Austria, two world wars, the fall of the empire, the poison of anti-Semitism and the Nazi dictatorship," put together the lost pieces of the puzzle. It is a story not only of tragic loss (some members of the Schindler family perished in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz camps), but ultimately of rebirth and reconciliation. "All throughout my childhood, we were surrounded by all kinds of stories. I made a firm decision to understand my father, to separate truth from fiction in his stories, accurate memories from inaccurate ones, and to do so I had to delve into his past and the intricacies of a large, long family history. I had to learn the history of Austria, to understand what it was like to live in a troubled country that had fallen from the heights of its imperial grandeur into the abyss of World War I, almost disappeared, and yet was swallowed up by the Third Reich. I was to find out exactly what had become of the 'Schindler Empire'." (Meriel Schindler)
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