“Make room in your heart for one more Holocaust memoir. This one’s worth it.”
First, the true love story part. In 1938, author Trudi Kanter–who was then a hat designer for Vienna’s most fashionable set–met and fell in love with a young businessman named Walter Ehrlich. When Hitler’s troops invaded Austria, Trudi and Walter fled, going from Vienna to Prague to London in search of a safe haven. This is their story.
Now for the rediscovery.
Kanter, who died in 1992, originally published this story in 1984 in London, but it failed to find an audience and quickly went out of print. A British editor plucked it out of obscurity last year, and now we have the chance to read it. Take the chance now, while you have it. Make room in your heart for one more Holocaust memoir. This one’s worth it.
