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Sarotar Dusan

Sarotar Dusan - Billiards At The Hotel Dobray - Paperback

Sarotar Dusan - Billiards At The Hotel Dobray - Paperback

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Description: In the northern Slovenian city of Murska Sobota stands the renowned Hotel Dobray once the gathering place of townspeople of all nationalities and social strata who lived in this typical Pannonian panorama on the fringe of the Austro - Hungarian monarchy. Due to its historical and geographical particularities the town had always been home to numerous ethnically and culturally mixed communities that gave it the charm and melos of Central - European identity. But now in the thick of World War II the town is occupied by the Hungarian army. Franz Schwartz's wife Ellsie has for the past month been preparing their son Isaac a gifted violinist for his first solo concert which is to take place at Hotel Dobray. Isaac is to perform on his bar mitzvah and his 13th birthday on April 26, 1944. When the German army marches into town and forces all Jews to display yellow stars on their clothes Ellsie advises her husband that the family should flee the town and escape to Switzerland. Schwartz promises her he will obtain forged documents but not before Isaac performs his concert at the hotel. A year later in March 1945, Schwartz returns on foot from the concentration camp as one of the few survivors.
Title: Billiards At The Hotel Dobray
Author(s): Sarotar Dusan
Publisher: Istros Books
Barcode: 9781912545254
Pages: 220 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2020
Category: Historical Fiction
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