Lost letters from Vienna / Sue Course.

A unique and fascinating memoir of a wealthy Viennese family whose fate was brutally disrupted with the Nazi occupation. In 2000, former nurse, environmental activist and grandmother, Sue Course, discovers a suitcase from her mother's house crammed with letters from her large Jewish family, dating back to 1938. Born in 1933, Sue and her parents were the first of her family to flee Vienna in 1938, emigrating to Melbourne. Despite the chaos of war and occupation, postal services across the globe kept the letters coming; letters connecting the many aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. They reveal incredible journeys of struggle, survival and adaptation, travail and lost opportunities, as they lose all control over their futures.

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Praises -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Family trees -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- AN ANTIPODEAN LANDING -- DOWNSIZING -- THE GERMANS INVADE VIENNA -- FROM KITCHEN TABLE TO EMPIRE -- NEW BEGINNINGS, DEAD ENDS -- THE 'ROMANTIC REPUBLIC' OF FRANCE -- THE IMMIGRATION MINEFIELD -- CAPITALISTS OUT! -- ALL THAT REMAINS -- FOREIGN -- THERE'S NO STOPPING A WATERFALL -- THE WILL TO LIVE -- JAIL TIME -- IN LIMBO -- GUGELHUPF -- TIMBER -- THE CELLO -- SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS -- FOR BETTER AND WORSE -- TEENAGE ANGST -- MY OWN ADVENTURE -- THE GREATEST CELLIST IN THE WORLD

THE SINS OF THE FATHERS -- AROUND EVERY HOSPITAL CORNER -- BRIGHT -- A PLACE TO CALL HOME -- A 1950s WIFE -- FINAL DESCENT -- DOLLIS HILL -- SICK AND TIRED -- THE DAREBIN PARKLANDS LEGACY -- MOVING ON

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