Reluctant Return: A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian Town"This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and becomes a universal statement." -- Hadassah Magazine "In an astonishing and moving document, Weiss... describes his 1995 return trip to the Austrian hometown from which, as a boy, he fled Nazi persecution in 1938..... [T]his soul-searching odyssey... will reward readers of all faiths." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A powerful and unusually eloquent memoir of a prominent Austrian Holocaust survivor invited back to face... old ghosts and demons.... An intelligent and profound memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews David Weiss is an eminent biomedical scientist, now living in Israel. But in 1938 he was an 11-year-old boy in Austria who dramatically escaped the Nazis with his family. For some 56 years Weiss held a deep and abiding enmity for everything Austrian and German. Reluctant Return is his account of his emotional return to his hometown of Wiener Neustadt, the remarkable Christian group that brought it about, and the visit's surprising echoes and consequences. |
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... Ichthys : A Mission 4 3. Uli's Visions 8 4. Return ? Nunc Mas 12 5. Guardian Angel as Starshina 19 6. Roots and Specters 25 7. The Tactics of Remembrance 33 8. Encounter at the Holyland 39 9. A Thousand Years in a Blood - Stained Land ...
... Ichthys ; The Wings of the Dove Friday Seven Centuries , Four Generations- Welcome , the Sabbath , the Queen Stunned by These Days Saturday Sunday Monday At Sauerbrunn the Wild Strawberries Are Gone Last Breakfast at the Neukloster 15 ...
... Ichthys Ge- meinde . They have been active in Jewish and Israeli causes . The Eiwens are in Jerusalem right now , at an assembly of European Freikirchen . They and their people come frequently to demonstrate support and to volun- teer ...
... the meal and for hours thereafter , they relate the story of what finally brought them to us in the quest for the son of the rabbi of Wr . Neustadt . Chapter 2 ICHTHYS : A MISSION take Helmuth to be A CALL FROM HELMUTH EIWEN / 3.
A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian Town David W. Weiss. Chapter 2 ICHTHYS : A MISSION take Helmuth to be about fifty , his wife Uli a few years younger . There is nothing striking in their appearance . He has light ... Ichthys: A Mission.
Contents
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Ulis Visions | 8 |
Return? Nunc Mas | 12 |
Guardian Angel as Starshina | 19 |
Roots and Specters | 25 |
The Tactics of Remembrance | 33 |
Encounter at the Holyland | 39 |
Wiener Neustadt March 1938 and Escape | 68 |
Berkeley to Jerusalem | 86 |
Pater Johannes Vrbecky | 96 |
Hillel and Yair Sign On | 102 |
Wiener Neustadt May 1995 | 110 |
What the Pastor of Ichthys Has Caught in His Net | 181 |
When One Stands Face to Face | 188 |
A Thousand Years in a BloodStained Land | 63 |