Trudi kanter biography sample

  • Vienna, 1938: Trudi Kanter, stunning and charismatic, is a renowned hat designer for Europe's most fashionable women when she falls in love with a handsome.
  • Trudi Kanter was born in Austria and moved across Europe as she tried to escape the Nazis.
  • "Vienna, 1938: Trudi Miller, young, beautiful and chic, designs hats for the smartest women in the city.

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    Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler

    “This one memoir fryst vatten a generous- spirited book. Its many delightful moments, as well as its almost matter-of-fact description of menace and impending danger, stay long in the mind.”

    – vägg Street Journal

    “What makes the book so instantly mesmerizingis Trudi Kanter herself, who fashioned sentences just the way she fashionedhats as a milliner in late 1930s Vienna—each a dazzling, delicate object ofdelight.”

    – Oprah.com, Book of the Week

    “TrudiKanter's memoir fryst vatten blessed with a wonderful title and an even better backstory…her spirited charm will win you over.”

    – USA Today

    “In a rediscovered memoir, the charmed life of designer Trudi Kanter is split open as the Nazis claim Vienna and terror reigns. Every Holocaust story is worth remembering, and Trudi's fryst vatten unique—she refuses to lose her framtidsperspektiv of what the world should be at its very best: a place of red roses, Paris avenues, and above all else, true love.”

    – Alice Hoffman, author of The Dove

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    Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler: A True Love Story

    January 22, 2013
    The title grabbed me and then the story sucked me in. This was compelling, lyrical writing and very hard to put down. In the 1980s Trudi Kanter self-published the story of her escape from WWII Vienna with her husband Walter. The book then fell into obscurity. Thankfully, it was rediscovered and published by Scribner. From the introduction by Linda Grant:

    "...There was...an instinctive shrinking away from accounts of the war that did not treat it with the seriousness and solemnity of historians. Trudi must have seemed too shallow, too preoccupied with hats and men to be a sympathetic narrator of the life of the refugee. After all, the emigres and exiles who flooded to England in the thirties, Sigmund Freud among them, were conductors, composers, poets, publishers, and cinematographers. Milliners were de trop. Her book went down into oblivion. Some readers believed it to be a novel."

    I found Trudi's "shallowness" t

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    Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler Summary Audiobook

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    Published date:

     01/01/1984

    Audiobook length:

     31 min

    Rate:

    3.8

    1810 ratings (Goodreads reference)

    Description

    Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler by Trudi Kanter is a breathtaking memoir that takes you on a journey through one woman's remarkable resilience and strength in the face of unimaginable adversity. Set against the backdrop of World War II, this captivating story follows Trudi Kanter, a talented and ambitious hat designer living in Vienna, as she navigates the destruction of her beloved city and the rise of Nazi oppression. Through her eloquent prose and vivid descriptions, Kanter invites readers to step into her world and experience the joy of creating beautiful hats, the terror of living under Nazi rule, and the unwavering love and support of her family. As the horrors of the war escalate and tragedy strikes, Kanter's determination and courage shine through as she fights to protec

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