vienna

Post-World War II Vienna sets the scene for this thriller about an American novelist who comes to Europe for what he thinks is the funeral of an old friend and finds himself entangled in a spiralling web of international intrigue.

A true story of courage, survival, and the power of music to uplift the human spirit, this compelling tribute to one special young woman and the lives she touched will both educate and inspire young readers.

An illustrated biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, discussing his childhood and early affinity for music, his recognition as a child prodigy, his decision to move to Vienna, and his marriage, poverty, and death.

A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front.

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young Jewish woman living in Viennna when World War II started. She was placed into a ghetto, then into a slave labor camp. Months later she escaped and knew she would be hunted so she went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as a nursing assistant, carefully hiding her past. There she met, fell in love with, and married Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member. He did not listen to her eventual confession that she was Jewish and instead worked with her to keep her identity a secret. Paralyzed with fear, she lived her life terrified that she would be found out. Edith even refused all painkillers as she gave birth to her daughter, afraid that in an altered state of mind she would reveal her secrets. When her husband was captured by the Soviets, and she was bombed out of her house, she hid as the invading Russian soldiers created mayhem in the streets. Despite the risk to her life, Edith documented her years as a survivor, keeping everything including photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these form a new chapter in Holocaust history--what it was like for a Jewish survivor in Nazi Germany who was able to live and work openly.

Presents a comprehensive narrative account of the destruction of Vienna during the Nazi occupation of 1938, and describes the removal of over two hundred thousand Jews and the changes in government, education, architecture, and culture under the Third Reich.

Philosopher Peter Singer examines the life of his grandfather, Viennese Jewish scholar David Oppenheim, friend of psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, discussing his marriage, his years as a soldier, his death in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and the changes that shaped Europe in the twentieth century.

A great Austrian symbolist, Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century--a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure.