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RSS FeedsEdmund de Waal: `The Nazis banished my family from Vienna. Now we are returning´
(The Guardian Austria)

 
 

28 september 2019 21:55:33

 
Edmund de Waal: `The Nazis banished my family from Vienna. Now we are returning´
(The Guardian Austria)
 


Writer of the Hare With Amber Eyes tells why a new Austrian law is behind the first gathering at his ancestral Jewish home since 1938The celebrated writer and ceramicist Edmund de Waal has said it is a `huge deal` for his family, whose Jewish ancestors were driven out of Vienna in 1938, that the Austrian government is to allow descendants of Nazi victims to reclaim their citizenship.De Waal, author of the 2010 bestselling family memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes, said he and his relatives would be returning to Vienna in November for their first reunion in more than eight decades. It would `mean the world` to his 90-year-old father, Victor de Waal, a former dean of Canterbury cathedral, who came to Britain as a refugee at the age of 10, to reclaim the citizenship that was stolen from his family, he said.Libraries are incredibly beautiful, powerful places of solace and resistance. They are under threat, not just in war zones but also in the UK Continue reading...


 
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