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The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth
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Author:
Meriel Schindler
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
October 12, 2021
When the father of British lawyer Meriel Schindler died, he left behind piles of Nazi-era documents related to her Jewish family's fate in Innsbruck, Austria, and a treasure trove of family albums reaching back to before World War I. Here she confronts the truth behind their family history.
What The Reviewers Say
... lingering tastes and luscious aromas...permeate Meriel Schindler’s affecting The Lost Café Schindler.
While the stories could scarcely be more powerful, a tighter edit would have made the book even more compelling. There is too much signposting, too much exposition, too many tangents.
Meriel Schindler’s precise and very well researched book effectively traces her family history from her great-grandfather’s time and is set to the backdrop of a Central Europe enduring the turbulent times of two world wars; very dramatically so for Jewish people who were to encounter a history of resentment and persecution.
Schindler’s book...does provide an impressively researched account of Jewish life in the Tyrol up to and during the Second World War.
