Melissa Müller

Melissa MÃ?ller

With the benefit of exclusive interviews with Frank's surviving family and friends and previously unavailable correspondence and documents, the author casts new light on Frank's relationship with her mother and other issues. 30,000 first printing.

The Biography

Anne Frank

Reinhard Piechocki

Alice Herz-Sommer was born in 1903 in Prague—the Prague of the Hapsburgs and of Franz Kafka, a family friend. Musically very gifted, by her mid-teens Alice was one of the best-known pianists in Prague. But as the Nazis swept across Europe her comfortable, bourgeois world began to crumble around her, as anti-Jewish feeling not only intensified but was legitimized. In 1942, Alice's mother was deported. Desperately unhappy, she resolved to learn Chopin's 24 Etudes—the most technically demanding piano pieces she knew—and the complex but beautiful music saved her sanity. A year later, she, too—together with her husband and their six-year-old son—was deported to a concentration camp. But even in Theresienstadt, music was her salvation and in the course of more than 100 concerts she gave her fellow prisoners hope in a world of pain and death. This is her remarkable story, but it is also the story of a mother's struggle to create a happy childhood for her beloved only son in the midst of atrocity and barbarism. Of 15,000 children sent to the camp, Raphael was one of the 130 who survived. Today, Alice Herz-Sommer lives in London and she still plays the piano every day.

The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

A Garden of Eden in Hell

The legendary names include Rothschild, Mendelssohn, Bloch-Bauer{u2014}distinguished bankers, industrialists, diplomats, and art collectors. Their diverse taste ranged from manuscripts and musical instrushy;ments to paintings by Old Masters and the avant-garde. But their stigma as Jews in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe doomed them to exile or death in Hitler{u2019}s concentration camps. Here, after years of meticulous research, Melissa Müller (Anne Frank: The Biography) and Monika Tatzkow (Nazi Looted Art) present the tragic, compelling stories of 15 Jewish collectors, the dispersal of their extraordinary collections through forced sale and/or confiscation, and the ongoing efforts of their heirs to recover their inheritance. For every victory in the effort to return these works to their rightful heirs, there are daunting defeats and long court battles. This real-life legal thriller follows works by Rembrandt, Klimt, Pissarro, Kandinsky, and others.

Jewish collectors, Nazi art theft, and the quest for justice

Lost lives, lost art

Die Geschichte einer doppelten Liebe: der Liebe einer Mutter zu ihrem Kind und der Liebe einer Künstlerin zur Musik. Franz Kafkas Prag und die Hölle des KZ, der Zauber der Musik und die Befehle der Wachleute von Theresienstadt – das sind die prägenden Elemente des ungewöhnlichen Lebens der Pianistin Alice Herz-Sommer. Sie wurde am 26. November 1903 in Prag geboren und lebt heute in London - fast 108 Jahre alt. 1943 wird sie mit ihrem Sohn Raphael nach Theresienstadt deportiert, wo ihr das Unglaubliche gelingt: In über 100 Konzerten schenkt sie den Mithäftlingen Kraft und Hoffnung, und für ihren kleinen Sohn schafft sie inmitten von Hunger, Leid und Tod eine Atmosphäre der Zuversicht und Geborgenheit. "Was für ein Leben, was für ein Mensch, was für eine Frau! Und was für ein Buch! Es feiert die Größe und Unbesiegbarkeit des Menschen und der Kunst." Lausitzer Rundschau

Ein Jahrhundertleben

Alice Herz-Sommer - "Ein Garten Eden inmitten der Hölle"

Monika Czernin

Die Geschichte einer Freundschaft.

Picassos Friseur.

Vollständig überarbeitete, um unbekanntes Material erweiterte Neuausgabe der maßgeblichen Biographie Anne Franks. Melissa Müllers fesselnde Biographie der Anne Frank erregte Ende der 1990er Jahre international großes Aufsehen. Zwei zuvor geheimgehaltene Tagebucheinträge Annes sowie Briefe und Aufzeichnungen nie zuvor befragter Zeitzeugen erweiterten das Bild der Familie Frank um wesentliche Facetten. Die Verfilmung des Buchs wurde 2001 mit dem Emmy-Award ausgezeichnet. In dieser überarbeiteten Neuausgabe kann Melissa Müller anhand neuester Forschungsergebnisse und nach Durchsicht erst kürzlich freigegebener Akten umfassender untersuchen, wer zum Netzwerk der Mitwisser gehörte und die Untergetauchten verraten haben könnte; bisher noch nie publizierte Fotos ergänzen das Bild. »Eine gründlich recherchierte und packende Biographie« Der Spiegel »Eine erzählerisch starke und souveräne Verknüpfung biographischer und historischer Details« The Times

Die Biographie

Das Mädchen Anne Frank

de biografie

Traudl Junge

Gertraud Junge

Führer'le İkibuçuk Yıl

Hitler'in Sekreteri

Looks at the life of the oldest living Holocaust survivor, a classically trained pianist whose lover of music carried her through the worst times of the war.

Alice's Piano

How music provided hope in one of the world's darkest times—the inspirational life story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest living Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. A talented pianist from a very early age, she became famous throughout Europe; but, as the Nazis rose to power, her world crumbled. In 1942, her mother was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and vanished. In 1943, Alice, her husband and their six-year-old son were sent there, too. In the midst of horror, music, especially Chopin's Etudes, was Alice's salvation. Theresienstadt was a "show camp", a living slice of Nazi propaganda created to convince outsiders that the Jews were being treated humanely. In more than a hundred concerts, Alice gave her fellow prisoners hope in a time of suffering. Written with the cooperation of Alice Herz-Sommer, Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki's Alice's Piano is the first time her story has been told. At 107 years old, she continues to play her piano in London and bring hope to many.

Tracing Anne Frank's life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Müller's biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. This updated edition includes the five missing pages from Anne Frank's diary, a number of new photographs, and brings to light many fascinating facts surrounding the Franks. As well as an epilogue from Miep Gies, who hid them for two years, it features new theories surrounding their betrayal, revelations about the pressure put on their helpers by the Nazi party and the startling discovery that the family applied for visas to the US. This authoritative account of Anne Frank's short but extraordinary life has been meticulously revised over seven years.

With much new material relating to the betrayal of the Frank family and their attempts to leave for the US in the first years of the War, this updated edition is the definitive biography of Anne Frank

Traudl Junge var bara 22 år och drömde om en karriär som dansös då hon fick sitt livs chans: att bli Adolf Hitlers sekreterare. Från 1942 fram till Hitlers självmord i april 1945 var den unga kvinnan führerns privatsekreterare. Strax efter kriget skrev Junge ner sina minnen. Hennes självbiografiska skildring framställer Hitler som en i stora stycken sympatisk människa, en bild som radikalt skiljer sig från den gängse bilden av den psykiskt instabile diktatorn. Under resten av sitt liv brottades Traudl Junge med skuldkänslor för sin naiva hållning till Hitler och sitt arbete i Tredje rikets tjänst. Texten har bearbetats och kommenterats av den österriskiska journalisten Melissa Müller på grundval av personliga samtal mellan henne och Traudl Junge.

Hitlers sista sekreterare

Updated and filled with striking new revelations, the bestselling, "superb" biography that "honors in full a life we thought we knew" (Newsweek) Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally published in 1998, still stands as the definitive account of the girl who has become "the human face of the Holocaust." For this nuanced portrait of her famous subject, biographer Melissa Müller drew on exclusive interviews with family and friends as well as on previously unavailable correspondence, even, in the process, discovering five missing diary pages. Full of revelations, Müller's richly textured narrative returned Anne Frank to history, portraying the flesh-and-blood girl unsentimentalized and so all the more affecting. Now, fifteen years after the book first appeared, much new information has come to light: letters sent by Otto Frank to relatives in America as he sought to emigrate with his family, the identity of other suspects involved in the betrayal of the Franks, and important details about the family's arrest and subsequent fate. Revised and updated with more than thirty percent new material, this is an indispensable volume for all those who seek a deeper understanding of Anne Frank and the brutal times in which she lived and died.

Updated and Expanded with New Material

Anne Frank: The Biography

Monika Tatzkow

From 1937 on Jewish collectors were under extraordinary pressure from German official and unofficial sources to surrender their priceless collections. Collectors reluctantly agreed to one-sided sales of masterpieces at ludicrously low prices in exchange for a precious exit permit for themselves or a member of their family. This book traces the dispersal of these collections and follow the fate of the collectors. Inevitably, their collections were confiscated by German officials (Jacques Goudstikker), sold by Nazi party member art dealers (Cassirer) or seized for state collections (Bloch-Bauer). Following the war Allied officials made little effort to retrieve these paintings, concentrating their resources on art removed from museums, churches, and palaces. But the collectior s heirs continued to pursue the return of their patrimony, and over the past twenty years have won a number of key court decisions in Europe and the US leading to the restitution of some of the lost art. For every victory, such as the return to the Bloch-Bauer heirs of their family s confiscated Klimts, are defeats and obstinate stonewalling by museums and collectors, who insist that the art was legally acquired in good faith.

jüdische Sammler und was aus ihren Kunstwerken wurde

Verlorene Bilder, verlorene Leben

El Diario de Ana Frank es uno de los documentos más impresionantes del régimen de terror nacionalsocialista, un gran testimonio de humanidad y tolerancia y, a la vez, el legado de una joven y talentosa autora. Pero ¿quién fue Ana Frank?, ¿cómo fue su infancia?, ¿cómo era su entorno familiar? Melissa Müller logra trazar una conmovedora biografía sólidamente documentada y completada con fotos inéditas.

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