Lost Cafe U Shindlerov. The history of the Holocaust and the fate of one Austro-Hungarian family
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Speaking and thinking about the 20th century, we sometimes lose sight of the details, episodes, individuals that are lost against the background of global formidable events, but they are no less important.
The peaceful life of the Innsbruka and the enchanting traditions of the Austro -Hungarian Empire, the atmosphere of the Cafe “Schindlers” opened in 1922, where people danced, started novels and where they presented the most delicious apple strudel throughout Austria, all broke off with the coming To the power of the Nazis. Family members were scattered around the world, and the truth about their life remained unknown before the time when the author of this book, “having entered the big world of Bohemia of the nineteenth century and Austria of the twentieth, two world wars, the fall of the empire, the poison of anti -Semitism and the Nazi dictatorship,” collected Towardly lost fragments of the puzzle. This is a story not only about tragic losses (some members of Schindler family died in the camps of Terezienstadt and Auschwitz), but ultimately about revival and reconciliation.
“All childhood surrounded us by a variety of stories. I made a firm decision to understand my father, separate the truth from fiction in his stories, accurate memories from inaccurate, and for this I had to plunge with my head into his past and the intricacies of a large, long family history. I had to thoroughly get acquainted with the history of Austria, to understand what it was like to live in a restless country, from the heights of his imperial greatness that fell into the abyss of the First World War, which had almost disappeared and still absorbed by the Third Reich. I had to find out exactly what happened to the Schindlers" Empire. ” (Maryel Schindler)
The peaceful life of the Innsbruka and the enchanting traditions of the Austro -Hungarian Empire, the atmosphere of the Cafe “Schindlers” opened in 1922, where people danced, started novels and where they presented the most delicious apple strudel throughout Austria, all broke off with the coming To the power of the Nazis. Family members were scattered around the world, and the truth about their life remained unknown before the time when the author of this book, “having entered the big world of Bohemia of the nineteenth century and Austria of the twentieth, two world wars, the fall of the empire, the poison of anti -Semitism and the Nazi dictatorship,” collected Towardly lost fragments of the puzzle. This is a story not only about tragic losses (some members of Schindler family died in the camps of Terezienstadt and Auschwitz), but ultimately about revival and reconciliation.
“All childhood surrounded us by a variety of stories. I made a firm decision to understand my father, separate the truth from fiction in his stories, accurate memories from inaccurate, and for this I had to plunge with my head into his past and the intricacies of a large, long family history. I had to thoroughly get acquainted with the history of Austria, to understand what it was like to live in a restless country, from the heights of his imperial greatness that fell into the abyss of the First World War, which had almost disappeared and still absorbed by the Third Reich. I had to find out exactly what happened to the Schindlers" Empire. ” (Maryel Schindler)
Author:
Author:Шиндлер М.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-389-18930-0
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