Author Ernie Weiss visited our students on Wednesday, January 18th 2012 during the Extended Learning. Below is a brief summary of his book Out of Vienna which he shared with St. Johns Technical High School students.
A nonfiction story, Out of Vienna follows the Weiss family's long flight through thirteen European countries to escape the Nazis' iron fist and cruelty. Engrossing from beginning to end, its dialogue and vivid physical descriptions of places and events are based on personal interviews, research and the author's own recollections. A certified page-turner, this is a story meant to be shared with others. Follow this family's remarkable journey and discover how their resourcefulness allowed them to survive. Though they experienced many difficulties, they never lost hope for a better future and at the end of eight long years - their dream finally came true.
Weiss is the son of a Dachau Concentration Camp survivor, yet he never asked about his father's time in Dachau. Perhaps Weiss wanted to forget the years spent fleeing the Nazis. It was only after his mother's death that he determined to find out more about his father's incarceration, and their eight years of hectic flight.. Thus began a quest to discover other relative's whereabouts and fate.
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