The Lost Café Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth by Meriel Schindler is one of those marvelous books about second or even third generation children of Holocaust survivors returning to Europe to search for their lost past.
Meriel Schindler’s family suffered from displacement and loss, but as Austrian Jews who left for England before the war, the author has a significant cache of family memories and documents to guide her.
What we get is a very full treatment of a family and its loss, and eventual gains the post-war world. The titular café, and its life and afterlife, becomes a poignant center of gravity for the tale of this family.
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