Slava Flesch: život i riječi jedne hrvatske židovke
Translator: Goldstein Ivo
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- Author: Kabat Geoffrey
- Translator: Goldstein Ivo
- Publisher: Profil
- ISBN: 9789533138817
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 85033
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Slava Flesch: život i riječi jedne hrvatske židovke
Kabat Geoffrey
Translator: Goldstein Ivo
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Geoffrey Kabat: Slava Flesch: the life and words of a Croatian Jewish woman
Slava Flesch was born in 1904 in Tovarnik. She died in 1992 in New York. She lived in Sisak, in Vienna, fled from the Nazis and Ustasha and arrived in the USA via Pakistan and South Africa, where she remained for half a century, until her death. She was very intelligent, educated and well-read. She lived through a lot and in her later years told into the dictaphone what she knew, what she remembered, what was her life experience, a kind of life philosophy. These are layered messages, they stem from her affiliation to Judaism, but also to Croatia, as well as from living in New York for half a century. Most of her memories relate to Sisak. Only 250 Jews, or 60 families, lived in Sisak and they all paid the municipal tax to support the rabbi, cantor, shames and maintain the synagogue. It was a small but rich community. Jews were doctors, lawyers, engineers, railway engineers and, of course, merchants. The father of Slava's wife, Moritz Flesch, was a grain merchant, and the grain was delivered by barges from Hungary via the Danube, Tisza and Sava via Belgrade, all the way to Sisak. He was a very rich man, and Slava's father bought a hardware store, so they supplied building materials to factories and various other businesses: for example tanneries and sawmills, because there was oak and there was a strong wood industry. She married lawyer Emil Flesch and they moved to Vienna in 1924, but when Hitler came to power in Germany and when they saw that there was no future in Austria, they returned to Sisak. Several years of normal life with sons Stefan and Willy followed, and then it became clear that a cataclysm was coming. A Hollywood scripted escape ensued. Namely, the four-member Flesch family managed to escape in the spring of 1941, a few days before the attack of the Axis Powers, on the last Orient Express, which was traveling through the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Istanbul.
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- Author: Kabat Geoffrey
- Translator: Goldstein Ivo
- Publisher: Profil
- Year of publication:2021
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:129
- Dimensions:16x23.5 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Hardcover with dust jacket
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