Ludmilla Helga Siersch
Foreword by Mario Monicelli
Fazi 2011
€ 17.50
The March 12, 1938 German troops occupy Austria. The day before the Chancellor Schuschnigg announced on the radio: "Austrians are compelled to yield. The German army enters our country. God be with you. " Ludmilla Siersch
Helga has 17 years, belongs to a wealthy Viennese family composed of Jewish women, the Charlotte great-grandmother, grandmother Wilma, the mother fortunei, and aunts and Renée Ninon.
Milly, as everyone calls Ludmilla, feels distinctly that if he wants to live must leave Vienna and Austria. Without calling time in half, alone, on that cold morning of March 13 he left his home and his family. His dream is to reach Italy, where her aunt lives with her husband Ninon a few kilometers from Florence.
Milly can fulfill his desire, demonstrating great courage and with a little 'luck, four years later. In Italy will be established in Rome, where the war is over will reach the mother, deported to the Theresienstadt camp and survived. The great-grandmother Charlotte el'amatissima grandmother, Wilma, whom the book is dedicated, but not return.
After a painful relationship with a man as fascinating as unreliable, love and finally reach a daughter.
Baccio he recovered, he stretched out his hand to unite it to mine and in that moment I knew I was safe. That life with my daughter, Michelle, kept, or perhaps just beginning then. Everything disappeared at once and in front of me was a picture of my daughter, raised in the air by expert hands.
Ludmilla Siersch Helga was born in Vienna October 28, 1919. With the advent of Nazism forced to interrupt his artistic studies. After the deportation of the great-grandmother, grandmother and mother in the field of Theresienstadt concentration and after years of persecution and violence can escape to Italy. Milly still resides in Rome.
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