The Lost Cafe Schindler. One Family, Two Wars And The Search For Truth

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 408 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 Schindlers List fame Or Hitlers Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch What really happened on Kristallnacht, the night that Nazis beat Kurts father half to death and ransacked the family homeWhen 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 Kurts 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 Cafe Schindler. Launched in 1922 as an antidote to the horrors of the First World War, this grand cafe became the whirling social centre of Innsbruck. And then the Nazis arrived.Through the story of the Cafe 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.

ISBN: 9781529332070