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The Lost Café Schindler

One family, two wars and the search for truth

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The Lost Café Schindler

Von: Meriel Schindler
Gesprochen von: Kristin Atherton
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 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 Schindler's List fame? Or Hitler's Jewish doctor - Dr Bloch? What really happened on Kristallnacht, the night that Nazis beat Kurt's father half to death and ransacked the family home?

When 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 Kurt's 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 Café Schindler. Launched in 1922 as an antidote to the horrors of the First World War, this grand café became the whirling social centre of Innsbruck. And then the Nazis arrived.

Through the story of the Café 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.

(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd©2021 Meriel Schindler Judentum Militär Neuere
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An inscription in Yad Vashem reads „and I will give you a house and a name, and you will not be forgotten“. This very special book has done just that. Thank you, Meriel Schindler.

And you will not be forgotten

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Gute Beschreibung der damaligen Zeit und der jüdischen Familiengeschichte. Gefehlt hat jedoch für mein Empfinden, dass gleiches Schicksal auch vielen , nicht jüdischen Familien widerfahren ist.

geschichlicher Rückblick in eine für viele Menschen schwierige Zeit

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I loved the focus on the cafe and how history and lives played around it. The story is touching and very personal but also so thoroughly researched. My only slight complaint is that the narrator, although I could tell she had practiced to some extent, pronounced many German names wrongly, the worst was the pronunciation of Hofer as Hoffer which occurred all the way through. As a German speaker I thought this detracted from the story.
Otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed it, it’s made me think a lot.

The Austrian perspective of Ww2 and the holocaust, lots of revelations

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