Irene Wittig

Almost Home - The Story of Otto Gruenbaum, pianist and Ritchie Boy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The true story of Otto Gruenbaum, promising young pianist, who fled Vienna, found refuge in the United States, joined the Army, was selected for secret military intelligence training at Camp Ritchie and served as wartime interrogator in Europe. He almost made it home. Why he didn't is the mystery that still haunts his family. Appendices contain his letters, personal files and documents, information about the Ritchie Boys found at the National Archives, related interviews and other information.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Irene Wittig
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 963g
• ISBN-13: 9798218076610
• Artikelnr.: 65998988

Autorenporträt

I was born in liberated Rome to a half-Jewish Viennese mother who had found a modicum of safety in Italy after the Nazi annexation of Austria. My early childhood was spent changing countries and languages until we arrived in New York. There, from age seven, I lived in a Manhattan neighborhood of Holocaust survivors and fellow Europeans displaced by war. I absorbed their memories of betrayals and sacrifice, of courage and difficult decisions, of strangers' kindnesses and sheer luck. I came to understand that their gratitude for having found safety in America was tinged with longing for the lives they'd once loved and had been forced to give up. I learned that the past is never quite past. These lingering shadows of all that had been lost are what inspired me to write ALL THAT LINGERS - yet, in writing the novel I found myself reflecting on what my family's life might have been like had they not been able to leave Vienna.