Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
by Karina Urbach
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What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Karina Urbach is Assistant Professor of Modern History at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
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- Canonical title*
- Das Buch Alice
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Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Food & Cooking
- DDC/MDS
- 940.53 — History & geography History of Europe History of Europe 1918- World War II, 1939-1945
- LCC
- DA554 .U733 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485- Victorian era, 1837-1901
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- Languages
- Dutch, English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 2
