Bibliograph

Alice's book, how the Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook, Karina Urbach ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

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Alice's book, how the Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook, Karina Urbach ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alice's book

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Karina Urbach ; translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

Sub title

how the Nazis stole my grandmother's cookbook

Summary

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she was forced to flee to England, like so many others. Her younger son was imprisoned in Dachau, and her older son, having emigrated to the United States, became an intelligence officer in the struggle against the Nazis. Returning to the ruins of Vienna in the late 1940s, she discovers that her bestselling cookbook has been published under someone else's name. Now, eighty years later, the historian Karina Urbach - Alice's granddaughter - sets out to uncover the truth behind the stolen cookbook, and tells the story of a family torn apart by the Nazi regime, of a woman who, with her unwavering passion for cooking, survived the horror and losses of the Holocaust to begin a new life in America. Impeccably researched and incredibly moving, Alice's Book sheds light on an untold chapter in the history of Nazi crimes against Jewish authors

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