vienna (austria)

"Customs and traditions of the Christmas holidays as celebrated in Austria and its capital, Vienna. Includes crafts, recipes, and carols"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the complete text of William Shakespeare's "Measure for measure," with a line-by-line translation of the play in simple language, a list of characters, and a commentary.

Grisha the dragon is born in the Black Forest in 1803, the last year any dragon was born, and while young he was trapped by the emperor's sorcerer, and turned into a teapot, which was frustrating but kept him alive while magic and other dragons were disappearing--until one day he meets Maggie, a poet's daughter, and the two of them set out to discover what happened to all the other dragons.

Jack and Annie travel to Vienna, Austria, in 1762, where they meet the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his sister and help save the budding genius' life.

In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta purses her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.

Rollo Martins, invited to Vienna by his schoolmate and hero Harry Lime, arrives just in time to attend Lime's funeral, but when he learns his friend was the subject of a criminal investigation, Martins embarks on a quest to clear Lime's name.

Edith Hahn was an outspoken young Jewish woman living in Viennna when World War II started. She was placed into a ghetto, then into a slave labor camp. Months later she escaped and knew she would be hunted so she went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as a nursing assistant, carefully hiding her past. There she met, fell in love with, and married Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member. He did not listen to her eventual confession that she was Jewish and instead worked with her to keep her identity a secret. Paralyzed with fear, she lived her life terrified that she would be found out. Edith even refused all painkillers as she gave birth to her daughter, afraid that in an altered state of mind she would reveal her secrets. When her husband was captured by the Soviets, and she was bombed out of her house, she hid as the invading Russian soldiers created mayhem in the streets. Despite the risk to her life, Edith documented her years as a survivor, keeping everything including photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., these form a new chapter in Holocaust history--what it was like for a Jewish survivor in Nazi Germany who was able to live and work openly.

Presents a comprehensive narrative account of the destruction of Vienna during the Nazi occupation of 1938, and describes the removal of over two hundred thousand Jews and the changes in government, education, architecture, and culture under the Third Reich.

Brano Sev, a spy in Eastern Europe in the 1960s, prides himself in being unswervingly devoted to the socialist cause, whether his superiors have him interrogating a suspect or working in a factory, but when it becomes clear that he is being deliberately framed for murder, he begins to question his loyalties.

Philosopher Peter Singer examines the life of his grandfather, Viennese Jewish scholar David Oppenheim, friend of psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, discussing his marriage, his years as a soldier, his death in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and the changes that shaped Europe in the twentieth century.