Trudi kanter biography samples
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Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler
1984 memoir by Trudi Kanter
Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler is a 1984 memoir written by Trudi Kanter. The book was initially published in 1984[1] but was out of print till 1987 when it was discovered by Ursula Doyle in one of the bookstores in Cambridge, England.[2] From 1987 to 2011 it was out of print again.[3]
Plot
The book tells a story of a hatmaker who is Jewish and falls in love with Walter on the eve of World War II.
The story follows their lives before and during the war, starting from 1938 when the Germans occupy Austria, and ending with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in 1945. Before the war, she was married to another character, Pepi, divorcing him and ending her relationship with him as best friends.
When the Germans invade her homeland, Austria, she emigrates to Czechoslovakia after they establish Kristallnacht, a series of anti-Jewish pogroms. Later on, she and Walter meet in Prague, the c