num_pages: 288
description: On February 26, 1938, 17-year-old Georg Klaar took his girlfriend Lisl to his first ball at the Konzerthaus. His family was proudly Austrian; they were also Jewish, and two weeks later came the German Anschluss. This incredibly affecting account of Nazi brutality towards the Jews includes a previously unpublished post-war letter from the author’s uncle to a friend who had escaped to Scotland. This moving epistle passes on the news of those who had survived and the many who had been arrested, deported, murdered, or left to die in concentration camps, and those who had been orphaned or lost their partners or children. It forms a devastating epilogue to what has been hailed as a classic of holocaust literature.
language: English
title: Last Waltz in Vienna
titlecomplete: Last Waltz in Vienna
genres: Historical, History, Biography, Memoir, World War II, Holocaust, War, Biography Memoir, Jewish, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 217
places: Vienna
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: WH Smith Literary Award
publisher: Pan Books