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I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return | Anna Goldenberg

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This book is part author‘s memoir,intermingled with discussions & interviews with her grandmother,Helga, archival material from Nazi &Jewish organizations,family mementos,letters,files,& journals her father kept.She writes,”For…Helga, remembering has become a sport– race against oblivion”(21).The author‘s great grandparents & one son perished in a concentration camp.The other son Hans,hides in plain site with his later adopted grandfather,Pepi.⬇️

kspenmoll ⬆️ in Vienna. After the war, Hans & his wife Helga become physicians & try life in the United States with his family, but after a year they return to their beloved Vienna, as they miss family,culture,the language & the city.The author experiences the same reaction after spending a year as a NYC reporter.She too misses the family closeness & weekly dinners,the city‘s culture & home to her family for generations.So she goes back to Vienna & her⬇️ (edited) 5d

kspenmoll ⬆️ Grandmother‘s home.With her grandmother she tours places of meaning to Helga:old homes sites,some since bombed out & rebuilt, Theresienstadt concentration camp,which her grandmother survived,Terezin,the small town where the camp was located & she saw its people watching them farm,the Aspang train station from which most Viennese were deported.Like many Jewish people, her family were not religious, but viewed themselves as Viennese Austrians. (edited) 5d

tpixie @kspenmoll this sounds very interesting. I have a historical fiction novel on my TBR about that camp

The Girls of the Glimmer Factory: A Novel

kspenmoll @tpixie that book sounds fascinating! 4d

tpixie @kspenmoll I did enjoy it. More great research by this author.

Cradles of the Reich: A Novel

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I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return | Anna Goldenberg

Starting this before dinner. Have had this on my shelf several years. “
“Why would you return to a city that tried to murder you?” ( cover,Kirkus Review).Anna, the author of this book,is the granddaughter of two Jewish doctors who came to the U.S in the early 1950s. Her grandfather lost his entire family in a concentration camp,while her grandmother was a concentration camp survivor. #porchlife

AnnCrystal Grand porch view 💕🌸🌱💝. 1w

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I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust | Julian Borger

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Part memoir, part history tracing the kids whose parents advertised their children to be taken in by British households in 1938. They originated in Vienna, and each of the stories told had such different paths throughout their lives. It‘s heartbreaking, but the biggest impact is thinking of the parents who knew that sending their children to complete strangers in a different country was the best decision they could make to keep them safe.

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Holocaust: An Unfinished History | Dan Stone

I read this passage today & felt how applicable it is to today. Especially with what is happening to so many immigrant families in the US right now. This was a letter written by a French priest in 1942 that was read to most of the churches in Toulouse. Currently, I still don‘t understand how people call themselves a Christian & have no qualms about what is happening to so many innocent people. #ranttime

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Schindler's List | Thomas Keneally

I‘m posting one book a day from my massive collection. No description, no reason for why I want to read it.

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Night | Elie Wiesel

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Found this in the library‘s book sale a couple months ago, and took it as a sign to read it again. So glad I did. It‘s incredibly difficult to read, emotionally speaking, but so important.

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Footsteps of Anne Frank | Ernst Schnabel

Clearly I couldn't be trusted in the Anne Frank Huis book store haha

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The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings from History | Laurence Rees

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Just above. Too many words to not need to edit it down.

charl08 Not to minimise your response, but in case interesting. For me offer grounds for hope. Stamford experiments have come under scrutiny in recent years: perhaps not as inevitable a process as Zimbardo suggested. https://www.livescience.com/62832-stanford-prison-experiment-flawed.html 2mo

Anna40 Is the main argument of the book that Germans are inherently evil? 2mo

Soscha No, it‘s more the human capacity to descend into behavior, an evil mundanity to function in a sick society. They give a list of 15 warning signs to be aware and don‘t consent nor participate in it if it comes. It‘s hard as an American with the rather fascist regime a majority of WP elected, a truly sick White Nationalism. Don‘t consent, don‘t participate. 2mo

Soscha Let me know if I‘m not explaining this very well. The Nazi Mind is a giant mass of trigger warnings but highly recommended. 2mo

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