The accidental caregiver
Subtitle: how I met, loved and lost legendary Holocaust refugee Maria Altmann : a memoir
By: Gregor Collins
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloch-Bauer Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780985865405
Subjects: Austrian Jews; Holocaust survivors; Biography; Caregivers
Description: "When thirty-two-year-old actor Gregor Collins reluctantly interviewed for a job as a caregiver more out of a favor to a friend - he had no idea his life was about to change forever.  Seconds into the chance meeting in 2008 with, it would turn out, a world-renowned Holocaust refugee named Maria Altmann, there was an unexplainable magic in the air - it felt as if they had already met. And Collins was suddenly thrown into a situation with which he had never before been confronted: caring for someone other than himself.  Gregor offers us a personal and unprecedented look at Maria over the three intimate years he cared for her - her thrilling escape from the Nazis, her fight and subsequent win in the landmark Supreme Court Case to return original Gustav Klimt artwork that belonged to her family in Austria, and the extraordinary people she met along the way. But the real heart of the story transcends mere historical facts"--P. [4] of cover.