Last Waltz in Vienna

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Last Waltz in Vienna by George Clare was the 1982 winner of The WH Smith Literary Award.

The book, subtitled The Destruction of a Family 1842-1942, tells the history and fate of the Klaar family, who were proudly Austrian and also happened to be Jewish.

The author changed his surname while serving as a volunteer in the British Army. His parents were deported from Vichy France to their deaths in Auschwitz.

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