Eighteen-year-old Greta Kolbe would like nothing better than to enjoy skiing, ice skating, and going to concerts with friends, attending the University of Vienna in the fall, and looking forward to romance. But she lives in Vienna in 1938, and Hitler's army has just taken over Austria. Vienna on Fire brings to startling life the nightmarish reality of what Austrian Jews faced when their lives were completely undone by the Nazis that, months, weeks, even days before, most Austrians thought was unthinkable.
To survive, Greta must leave everything she knows behind, leave her mother, father, grandmother and friends to their own unknown fate. Her parents have sacrificed everything to see that she gets transport on a ship to America. The problem is, and there are many of them on her perilous journey to a port in The Netherland, she is wanted by the Gestapo for her political activities and is relentlessly pursued by a vindictive ex-boyfriend-turned Nazi.
Greta has been raised a secular Jew who has attended Catholic schools and whose family celebrated Christmas. Now, thanks to the 1935 Nuremburg Laws, she is simply a Jew, a criminal on the run. Can she outwit her pursuers and make it to the steamer before they arrest and send her to Dachau concentration camp? Vienna on Fire is a fast-paced Olympian sprint mined with dangers every mile of the way. Evil is palpable. Trust a thing of the past. Greta's life has become a life-or-death struggle where the next instant can bring salvation or calamity. But Greta's friends, along with her ingenuity, courage, and will to survive are her only hope to reach America.
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Broschur/Paperback
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Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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978-1-879834-00-2 (9781879834002)
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Don Gabor is the son of a holocaust survivor, but he didn't uncover his mother's family secret until 1997 during a trip to Austria. That's when he was inspired to write his first solo novel, Vienna on Fire: A WWII Story of Survival. Don is also the author of How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends, plus other books and audio programs on communication skills. Since 1981, he has been published by Simon and Schuster, Crown/Random House, McGraw-Hill Education, and others. His titles have also been translated into fifteen languages and have sold twenty-nine foreign rights. Don Gabor's books have been featured in dozens of traditional and social media publications including 60 Minutes: A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and others. The New Yorker called Don "a gifted conversationalist."Don has presented workshops to corporations, associations, small businesses, and colleges. Don was also a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) for twenty years and was the 2010-2011 president of the NSA NYC chapter. An avid history buff, urban gardener, and guitarist, he lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, Eileen, and their cat, Ruby.
