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Some girls, some hats and Hitler Some girls, some hats and Hitler Trudi Kanter "Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city. She is falling in love with Walter, a charming and charismatic businessman. But their idyll is… OL19956712W
The Nazi officer's wife The Nazi officer's wife Edith Hahn-Beer "Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman … OL20051859W
weiter leben weiter leben Ruth Klüger Swept up as a child in the events of Nazi-era Europe, Kluger saw her family's comfortable Vienna existence destroyed. Despite her shattered childhood, Kluger eventually reclaimed her life. A coming-o… OL2442353W
Reclaiming Heimat Reclaiming Heimat Jacqueline Vansant "In Reclaiming Heimat, Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reeimigres - Ernst Lothar, Stella Klein-Low, Hans Thalberg, Minna Lachs, Franziska Tausig, Hilde Spiel, and Elisabe… OL4976686W
Schlepping through the Alps Schlepping through the Alps Sam Apple Hans Breuer, Austria's only wandering shepherd, is also a Yiddish folksinger. He walks the Alps, shepherd's stick in hand, singing lullabies to his 625 sheep. Sometimes he even gives concerts in hist… OL5859995W
Wir wissen nicht was morgen wird, wir wissen wohl was gestern war Wir wissen nicht was morgen wird, wir wissen wohl was gestern war Peter Sichrovsky A collection of interviews of young Jews living in German and Austria. OL877686W
Pushing Time Away Pushing Time Away Peter Singer ""What binds us pushes time away" wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator, then critic of Sigmund Freud, and friend and … OL936842W