I Belong to Vienna, Anna Goldenberg
I Belong to Vienna, Anna Goldenberg
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I Belong to Vienna
A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return

Author: Anna Goldenberg

Narrator: Christa Lewis

Unabridged: 5 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/09/2020

Synopsis

In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenbergs great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans passes time in the municipal library and buys standing-room tickets to the Vienna State Opera. Hans never sees his family again. Goldenberg reconstructs this unique story in magnificent reportage. She also portrays Viennas undying allurealthough they tried living in the United States after World War Two, both grandparents eventually returned to the Austrian capital. The author, too, has returned to her native Vienna after studying and working in New York, and her fierce attachment to her birthplace enlivens her engrossing biographical history. This probing tale of heroism, identity, and belonging is marked by a surprising freshness as a new generation comes to terms with historys darkest era.

About Anna Goldenberg

Anna Goldenberg was born in 1989 in Vienna and studied psychology at the University of Cambridge and journalism at Columbia University. She worked at the Jewish newspaper The Forward in New York before returning to Vienna, where she now writes as a freelance journalist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jill on July 01, 2020

Anna Goldenberg is the young author of a family memoir, “I Belong to Vienna”. She attempts to answer what must be an old question posed to members of her family who survived the Holocaust, “why would your family return to live in Vienna after WW2 and the loss of so many family members in the camps?”......more

Goodreads review by Katya on November 10, 2020

Absolutely 5* Falter's review says it all: "Goldenberg has written a big, important, quiet and disturbing book. It is ruthless and precise, honest and inquisitive...". A search all about understanding, not about judgement makes this an exceptionally powerful story. Her quest for identity - of her fa......more

Goodreads review by ManOfLaBook.com on July 24, 2020

For more reviews and bookish posts please visit: [URL not allowed] I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return by Anna Goldenberg is a memoir of the author’s family experience as European Jews during World War II, as well as reflections on the effects on her life and the......more

Goodreads review by Gabby-Lily on September 17, 2020

Touching story about a young woman's family and how some of them survived in Vienna - as well as how some of them were able to leave - during World War II. Part of the story is also about connections. The author's connections to Vienna, to her family (both in Vienna and in the US), her family connect......more

Goodreads review by Ed on January 13, 2021

Very interesting story of family survival of the Nazis and their pogams against Jews.......more

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