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The lost Café Schindler : one family, two wars, and the search for truth

Summary: "An extraordinary memoir of a Jewish family spanning two world wars and its flight from Nazi-occupied Austria. Meriel Schindler spent her adult life trying to keep her father, Kurt, at bay. But when he died in 2017, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her family's fate in Innsbruck and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Meriel was forced to confront not only their fractured relationship, but also the truth behind their family history. The Lost Café Schindler re-creates the journey of an extraordinary family, whose relatives included the Jewish doctor who treated Hitler's mother when she was dying of breast cancer; the Kafka family; and Alma Schindler, the wife of Gustav Mahler. But the narrative centers around the Café Schindler, famous for its pastries, home-distilled liquors, live entertainment, and hospitality-which was expropriated during the Nazi era. This is a story of tragic loss-several relatives disappeared in Terezín and Auschwitz-but ultimately of reclamation and reconciliation"--

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  • ISBN: 0393881628
  • ISBN: 9780393881622
  • Physical Description: xxii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    print
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue: Growing up with Kurt -- Sofie and Samuel -- Imperial Gherkins -- Compote -- Rum on the Eastern Front -- Schnapps on the Southern Front -- Food riots -- Apfelstrudel -- The matchmaker's daughter -- Murder in the mountains -- Anschluss -- Postcards -- Two coffee cups -- The Jewish Nazi -- The toboggan -- Brighton Beach -- Viennese letters -- Rock cakes -- Jellied eels -- Return to sender -- The Gauleiter's guest -- Old labels, new liquor -- Schlutzkrapfen with Gauleiter -- das Schindler -- Epilogue: memory and memorials.
Subject: Schindler, Hugo 1888-1952 Family
Schindler, Kurt 1925-2017 Family
Schindler family
Jewish families Austria History 19th century
Jewish families Austria History 20th century
Jews Austria Innsbruck Biography
Café Schindler (Innsbruck, Austria) History
Return migrants Austria Innsbruck Biography
World War, 1939-1945 Austria Innsbruck
Innsbruck (Austria) Biography
Genre: Biographies.

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  • 10 of 10 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Cambria County Library 943.642 S336l (Text) 85131001795070 CACM Non-Fiction Available -
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Frackville Free Public Library 943.64SCH (Text) 30459000375032 Adult Non-fiction Available -
Gettysburg Library 943.64 SCHINDLER (Text)
Endowment: Bruno L. Gutman Named Endowment, 2021
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