《纽约时报评论版》尽管遭受纳粹迫害,“我的祖父母热爱维也纳,”杰西卡·格罗斯写道。“他们大半生都是美国公民,并感激能在这里建立生活,但直到去世,他们都认为自己是奥地利人。”一部关于二战时期维也纳的新历史著作,描绘了一个繁荣犹太城市所遭受的特定毁灭。
Despite their persecution by the Nazis, “my grandparents loved Vienna,” Jessica Grose writes. “They spent the majority of their lives as American citizens and were grateful to build a life here, but they considered themselves Austrian until they died.”A new history of World War II Vienna illustrates the specific devastation of a thriving Jewish city.