Reluctant Return: A Survivor's Journey to an Austrian Town
"This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and becomes a universal statement." —Hadassah Magazine\ "In an astonishing and moving document, Weiss... describes his 1995 return trip to the Austrian hometown from which, as a boy, he fled Nazi persecution in 1938..... [T]his soul-searching odyssey......
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"This beautifully written memoir, which shifts smoothly from past to present as it blends memory and contemporary experience, is a story that will resonate with any sensitive Jew. [The book] intrigues and challenges, transcends the personal and becomes a universal statement." — Hadassah Magazine"In an astonishing and moving document, Weiss... describes his 1995 return trip to the Austrian hometown from which, as a boy, he fled Nazi persecution in 1938..... [T]his soul-searching odyssey... will reward readers of all faiths." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A powerful and unusually eloquent memoir of a prominent Austrian Holocaust survivor invited back to face... old ghosts and demons.... An intelligent and profound memoir." — Kirkus ReviewsDavid Weiss is an eminent biomedical scientist, now living in Israel. But in 1938 he was an 11-year-old boy in Austria who dramatically escaped the Nazis with his family. For some 56 years Weiss held a deep and abiding enmity for everything Austrian and German. Reluctant Return is his account of his emotional return to his hometown of Wiener Neustadt, the remarkable Christian group that brought it about, and the visit's surprising echoes and consequences.
Acknowledgments\ 1. A Call from Helmuth Eiwen\ 2. Ichthys: A Mission\ 3. Uli's Visions\ 4. Return? Nunc Mas\ 5. Guardian Angel as Starshina\ 6. Roots and Specters\ 7. The Tactics of Remembrance\ 8. Encounter at the Holyland\ 9. A Thousand Years in a Blood-stained Land\ 10. Wiener Neustadt, March 1938, and Escape\ 11. Berkeley to Jerusalem\ 12. Pater Johannes Vrbecky\ 13. Hillel and Yair Sign On\ 14. The Week of Return: Wiener Neustadt, May 1995\ Sunday Giving in Too Easily?\ Monday Where the Temple Stood Tuesday Marianne Neuber: "How Can I Not Tell Them?"\ Wednesday Landscape and Memory Thursday A Day with Ichthys; The Wings of the Dove Friday Seven Centuries, Four Generations—Welcome, the Sabbath, the Queen Saturday Stunned by These Days Sunday At Sauerbrunn the Wild Strawberries Are Gone Monday Last Breakfast at the Neukloster\ 15. What the Pastor of Ichthys Has Caught in His Net\ 16. When One Stands Face to Face
