The Lost Café Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth Holocaust survivors from 1899 to 1955

from 1899 to 1955

she learns her family history through her father's remarkable experiences of exile and loss

weaving in first person ‘real time’ voices as if watching a documentary about themselves

Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed feelings about him

The Lost Café Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth Holocaust survivors from 1899 to 1955In this book, Meriel Schindler weaves together memoir, family history and an untold story of the Jews of the Austro Hungarian Empire. Kurt Schindler was an impossible man whose daughter Meriel spent her adult life trying to keep him at bay. Kurt had made extravagant claims about their family history. When Kurt died in 2017, Meriel felt compelled to resolve her mixed feelings about him, and to solve the mysteries he had left behind. She reconnected