(first published 9/2011)
184 pages
Softcover, 13 x 21 cm
ISBN 978-3-943324-95-2
Franz Thaler
Unforgotten – A Memoir of Dachau
Translated from German into English by Paul Crichton and Christl Kiener
In this short and gripping memoir Franz Thaler describes his experience of unimaginable suffering at the hands of the Nazis. His father voted to let his family remain Italian citizens and not to become citizens of the German Reich. Franz Thaler, just a young man of nineteen, decided not to serve as a soldier in Hitler‘s army, and fled to the mountains. When his family was threatened by the Nazis with reprisals, he handed himself in, was arrested, put on trial and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau.
When the American soldiers arrived in Dachau at the end of the war, he and some of his surviving inmates were not set free but remained prisoners. They were transported with others to a camp in France and forced to march during the final stage of the journey. There they were at last set free and allowed to return home.
Franz Thaler describes all these appalling events with insight, clarity and passion, but also with a quite remarkable humanity and an astonishing lack of bitterness.
Unvergessen – the Opera
Enguerrand-Friedrich Lühl
Singspiel en trois actes
D'après l'oeuvre autobiographique de Franz Thaler
Livret: Enguerrand-Friedrich Lühl
Mise en scène & direction musicale: Richard Sigmund
Création le 8 janvier 2004 à Bolzano dans le Walther-Haus
Première acte
Deuxième acte
Toisième acte
A copy of the book has been donated to The Wiener Library in London – the oldest collection of Holocaust and Genocide documents in the world, founded by Alfred Wiener in 1933.
Also available in the following languages:
German (original)
Italian
Bozen: Ehrung von Franz Thaler zur Politischen Persönlichkeit des Jahres 2012 am 3. Mai 2013 - Günther Pallaver: Laudatio für Franz Thaler
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