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The City Without Jews
Life and Death in Nazi Vienna
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A truly major work, both deeply moving and incredibly powerful. It is a masterpiece of research, structure and writing ... unforgettable. Sir Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad In 1938, Vienna was the second largest Jewish city in Europe. By 1946, only a few thousand Jews...
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An extraordinary chronicle of the Nazi destruction of Jewish Vienna, from the bestselling author of Former People.
A compelling account of the Nazi destruction of Vienna's Jews, told through the life of one remarkable woman.
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A truly major work, both deeply moving and incredibly powerful. It is a masterpiece of research, structure and writing ... unforgettable. Sir Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad
In 1938, Vienna was the second largest Jewish city in Europe. By 1946, only a few thousand Jews remained. In this extraordinary story of loss, fear, longing, and hope, acclaimed historian Douglas Smith chronicles the destruction of Jewish Vienna under the Nazis. Drawing on hundreds of long-forgotten sources, The City Without Jews centres on one remarkable person: Mignon Langnas.
A woman of exceptional strength, courage and dignity, Mignon's story opens a window onto the larger history of Vienna in the Nazi years. The city was at the forefront of the Nazis' anti-Semitic policies and became a laboratory for developing methods to eradicate the Jews - expropriation, forced emigration, exile and eventually mass deportation to the killing fields and death camps in the East.
Watching as nearly every Jew she knew disappeared, Mignon vividly recorded her world in diaries and letters, creating an indispensable and uniquely detailed account that is impossible to forget. In intimate and heart-rending prose, Douglas Smith tells a story like no other - of betrayal, sacrifice, impossible choices and survivor guilt.
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ISBN: 9781529090864
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 560
About the Author
Douglas Smith is an award-winning historian and translator, and the author of Rasputin, Former People (a Sunday Times bestseller) and The City Without Jews. His books have been translated into a dozen languages. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he has written for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal and has appeared in documentaries with the BBC, National Geographic and Netflix. Before becoming a historian, he worked for the U.S. State Department in the Soviet Union and as a Russian affairs analyst for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. He lives in Seattle.
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