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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 cafe 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. (Quelle: OBVSG)

 

 

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

 

Prologue: Growing Up with Kurt ix

Family Tree xxiii

PART ONE

1. Sofie and Samuel 3

2. Imperial Gherkins 21

3. Compote 36

PART TWO

4. Rum on the Eastern Front 61

5. Schnapps on the Southern Front 80

6. Food Riots 100

PART THREE

7. Apfelstrudel II9

8. The Matchmaker’s Daughter 133

9. Murder in the Mountains 148

10. Anschluss 166

PART FOUR

11. Postcards 185

12. Two Coffee Cups 207

13. The Jewish Nazi 226

14. The Toboggan 233

The Lost Café Schindler

PART FIVE

15. Brighton Beach 253

16. Viennese Letters 266

17. Rock Cakes 284

18. Jellied Eels 297

19. Return to Sender 310

20. The Gauleiter’s Guest 325

PART SIX

21. Old Labels, New Liquor 341

22. Schlutzkrapfen with the Gauleiter 356

23. Das Schindler 370

Epilogue: Memory and Memorials 381

Acknowledgements 389

Recipes 395

Selected Bibliography 401

Notes on Sources 405