Three Tearless Histories
Three Tearless Histories
ISBN: 9780999754443
Publication Date: 4 September 2018
'Powerful inquiries spurred by photos - history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly forgotten.' - Kirkus Reviews
'A missionary voice of human dignity.' - World Literature Today
Erich Hackl, 2017 recipient of the internationally-recognized Human Rights Award of Upper Austria and winner of multiple literature prizes, brings three little-known and inspiring biographies to light: Gisela Tschofenig's hidden life in the Austrian resistance; a fragmented interview with Wilhelm Brasse, who photographed Auschwitz inmates and saved evidence of Mengele's horrific crimes; and "the multi-generational story of the Klagsbrunns, who fled Nazism in Vienna only to find another kind of terror in fascist Brazil.