Table of Contents
The Letter xiv
Berger Family Trees xvii
Foreword xix
Introduction The Letter xxi
Part I
Chapter 1 Ordinary People 3
Chapter 2 The Search Begins 11
Chapter 3 Who Are You? 17
Chapter 4 We Meet 25
Chapter 5 Different Worlds 33
Chapter 6 Home 47
Chapter 7 The Vienna Room 57
Chapter 8 Celia's World 79
Chapter 9 The Cache of Letters 95
Chapter 10 Vienna Bound 101
Part II
Chapter 11 Gilded City 115
Chapter 12 To Schmalzhofgasse 125
Chapter 13 Turnings 139
Chapter 14 Alarm 147
Part III
Chapter 15 Anschluss 157
Chapter 16 The Violence Worsens 169
Chapter 17 Escape 181
Chapter 18 Roundup 195
Chapter 19 Kristallnacht 211
Chapter 20 Exit 223
Chapter 21 "Dear Madam" 239
Part IV
Chapter 22 Hope 255
Chapter 23 War 271
Chapter 24 France-America-Vienna 289
Chapter 25 Distance 301
Chapter 26 War Fever 313
Chapter 27 Precarious 327
Chapter 28 Bitter 343
Chapter 29 A Lifeline Severed 365
Part V
Chapter 30 Mean Streets 387
Chapter 31 Vienna-Minsk 399
Part VI
Chapter 32 Moments 407
Chapter 33 The Present 417
Epilogue 427
Acknowledgments 433
Reader's Guide 439