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Start giftingI Belong to Vienna
A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return
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Christa Lewis
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Length
5 hours 22 minutes
Language
English
In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg’s 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 Vienna’s undying allure—although 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 history’s darkest era.
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.
Alta L. Price translates from Italian and German to English and was awarded the 2013 Gutekunst Prize. Her publications include works by Corrado Augias, Dana Grigorcea, Jürgen Holstein, and Martin Mosebach.
Christa Lewis is a classically trained actress who graduated from Boston University. She got her start in voice acting at the international television station DW-TV and has been a regular on hundreds of cartoons, museum guides, documentaries, and commercials. Now a full-time audiobook narrator with over three hundred titles to her credit, she has earned multiple Earphones Awards, a SOVAS Voice Arts Award, a Sultry Listener’s Award, a Listeners’ Choice Award, and multiple Audie nominations.