When talking and thinking about the 20th century, we sometimes lose sight of details, episodes, individual destinies that are lost against the backdrop of global formidable events, but they are no less important. The peaceful life of Innsbruck and the charming atmosphere reflecting the cultural traditions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Opened in 1922, the Schindlers' Café, where people danced, had affairs and served the best apple strudel in all of Austria, was cut short when the Nazis came to power. The family members were scattered around the world, and the truth about their lives remained unknown until the author of this book, "entering the big world of nineteenth-century Bohemia and twentieth-century Austria, two world wars, the fall of an empire, the poison of anti-Semitism and the Nazi dictatorship," collected putting together the lost pieces of the puzzle. This is a story not only of tragic loss (some members of the Schindler family died in the camps of Theresien-stadt and Auschwitz), but ultimately of rebirth and reconciliation. “All our childhood we were surrounded by all kinds of stories. I made a firm decision to understand my father, to separate truth from fiction in his stories, accurate memories from inaccurate ones, and to do this I had to immerse myself in his past and the intricacies of his big, long family history. I had to become thoroughly acquainted with the history of Austria, to understand what it was like to live in a turbulent country, which from the heights of its imperial greatness fell into the abyss of the First World War, almost disappeared and was nevertheless absorbed by the Third Reich. I had to find out exactly what happened to the “Schindler Empire.” (Meriel Schindler)The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.