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The astonishing true journey of�Trudi Kanter, an Austrian Jew, whose courage, resourcefulness,�and perseverance kept both her and her beloved safe�during the Nazi invasion is a rediscovered masterpiece.
“ FOR EVEN IN NAZI VIENNA, Trudi realized, women still looked in the mirror. . . . She knows that even in the bleak darkness, we feel, love, desire. She left no child (she and Walter tried, with no success); her hats are long lost, but her book is her legacy, discovered once again.” —From the introduction by Linda Grant, a uthor of The Clothes on Their Backs, The Thoughtful Dresser and We Had It So Good
In 1938 Trudi Kanter, stunningly beautiful, chic and charismatic, was a hat designer for the best-dressed women in Vienna. She frequented the most elegant caf�s. She had suitors. She flew to Paris to see the latest fashions. And she fell deeply in love with Walter Ehrlich, a charming and romantic businessman. But as Hitler’s tanks rolled into Austria, the world this young Jewish couple knew collapsed, leaving them desperate to escape.
In prose that cuts straight to the bone, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler tells the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journey from Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amid the horror engulfing Europe. It was her courage, resourcefulness and perseverance that kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion and that make this an indelible memoir of love and survival.
Sifting through a secondhand bookshop in London, an English editor stumbled upon this extraordinary book, and now, though she died in 1992, the world has a second chance to discover Trudi Kanter’s enchanting story. In these pages she is alive—vivid, tenacious and absolutely unforgettable.
- Sales Rank: #1196766 in Books
- Published on: 2012-10-09
- Released on: 2012-10-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.44" h x .90" w x 5.63" l, .80 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
From Booklist
Kanter’s jaunty title reflects the unusually breezy nature of this Holocaust-era memoir. The author, a Jewish hatmaker, recalls her efforts to flee Nazi-occupied Vienna with her beloved paramour in tow. While the inherent danger of the situation creates a compelling subtext that strengthens the narrative, Kanter’s often matter-of-fact tone and her keen observations about men, fashion, and sex are a reminder that many seemingly insignificant yet entirely human facets of life go on despite the cruel realities of imminent warfare. From Paris to Vienna to London, Kanter creates a vibrant tapestry of her incredible odyssey through one of the darkest periods in contemporary history. Romance, passion, and peril create an authentically vivid backdrop for this intimate chronicle originally published (and quickly forgotten) in England in 1984. --Margaret Flanagan
Review
“This one memoir is 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.” (Wall Street Journal)
“What makes the book so instantly mesmerizing is Trudi Kanter herself, who fashioned sentences just the way she fashioned hats as a milliner in late 1930s Vienna—each a dazzling, delicate object of delight.” (Oprah.com, Book of the Week)
“TrudiKanter's memoir is 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 is unique—she refuses to lose her vision 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
“There have been many books by and aboutrefugees from the Third Reich…but there can be few if any that manage tocombine terror and death with such sheer frivolity as this engaging memoir….Ms. Kanter’s attraction to the light rather than the storm clouds thatbedeviled so much of her existence makes her book a happy read.” (Washington Times)
“With anatural writing style, a talent for re-creating the details of daily life(especially the fashions), Trudi, who died in 1992, comes alive for the reader,creating what becomes a valuable piece of social history. But more than allthis, her memoir is a poem of love to her husband, to the cities of Vienna andParis, and to a way of life that, in the twinkling of an eye, completelydisappeared.” (Chicago Jewish Star)
“Some Girls,Some Hats and Hitler does not minimize the horrors ofwar or the Holocaust, but through Kanter's delightful hopefulness and spare,riveting writing, it presents an unusual memoir of an era that must not beforgotten.” (Shelf Awareness)
“This Holocaust memoir is more a tale of lovethan a horror story of Nazi-occupied Europe...the words
and imagery flow beautifully.” (Publishers Weekly)
“From Paris to Vienna to London, Kantercreates a vibrant tapestry of her incredible odyssey through one of the darkestperiods in contemporary history. Romance, passion, and peril create anauthentically vivid backdrop for this intimate chronicle.” (Booklist)
“This book is a remarkable, first-hand account of life during the time, andthe importance that fashion played in the survival of Kanter and her lovedones.” (fashionpulsedaily.com)
“In prose that cuts straight to the bone, SOMEGIRLS, SOME HATS AND HITLER tells the true story of Trudi’s astonishing journeyfrom Vienna to Prague to blitzed London seeking safety for her and Walter amidthe horror engulfing Europe…enchanting…In these pages she is alive --- vivid,tenacious and absolutely unforgettable.” (bookreporter.com)
“TrudiKanter relates the emotional roller coaster she was on in attempting to get toEngland with her parents and the love of her life, Walter. The reader sharestheir terror and resultant cycles of inertia, hope and finally galvanization ofemotional resources that Ms. Kanter, her family and friends all brought tobear.” (Jewish Book World)
"Nothing undid beauty and romance like the onslaught of World War II. And yet in Trudi Kanter's elegant memoir Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler love and grace survive the horror in Western Europe. What an enchanting book. What a gem. I could not put it down.” --Jennifer Gilmore, author of The Mothers and Something Red
"This Holocaust memoir is more a tale of love than a horror story of Nazi-occupied Europe...the words
and imagery flow beautifully." -Publishers Weekly
"Distilled through the lens of a sartorial dignitary, Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler offers an illuminating chronicle of narrow wartime escapes, calamity, and ingenuity. What makes this account all the more revealing is its candor regarding the persistence of mortal tendencies amid even the most disastrous of situations. Sometimes there is vanity, sometimes jealousy, and often, in the most unexpected of places, beauty of both the aesthetic and human varieties." --Alicia Oltuski, author of Precious Objects
"A fascinating romance, a tribute to the love that beat Hitler." --Daily Post
“A wonderful memoir of a young milliner in pre-World War II Vienna who flees to London with the man she loves when Hitler’s tanks invade. Despite the tragic subject matter, this warm and vividly humorous autobiography is a must for anyone interested in fashion, history – and love.” —Bella
“For even in Nazi Vienna, Trudi realized, women still looked in the mirror….Her book is also about the appetite for life, for clothes and hats, and food, and cocktails, and sex, and furnishings, and good company, and conversation. She knew that even in the bleak darkness, we feel, love, desire. She left no child (she and Walter tried, with no success); her hats are long lost, but her book is her legacy, discovered once again.”
–From the introduction by Linda Grant, author of The Clothes on Their Backs, The Thoughtful Dresser, and We Had It So Good
“Trudi Kanter's memoir is blessed with a wonderful title and an even better back story…her spirited charm will win you over.” (USA Today)
About the Author
Trudi Kanter was born in Austria and moved across Europe as she tried to escape the Nazis. She and her husband finally settled in England, where she first published her memoir. Her story was lost after her death in 1992 but was reintroduced to the world with the publication of Some Girls, Some Hats and Hitler.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
What a Smart Lady!
By Cynthia Dunn
The story behind this book is an unusual one. It was printed by a small press, went out of print and was found in a used bookshop and reprinted. The publisher can't even find a copyright holder.
While not the best written of Holocaust memoirs, it does give you a different perspective. Trudi Ehrlich was a well-to-do Jewish milliner in Vienna when she first heard the rumblings from her friends to get out of town. Quickly. Though the life she leads is somewhat trivial in the greater scheme of things, she's really clever and manages to get herself, her husband and her parents to London. I wasn't crazy about her husband, who is in no great rush to leave Austria. He wants to think it over. Luckily for him, he hitched himself to the right woman.
I liked the book but didn't love it. I think if you read this, you should then read "The Hare with Amber Eyes" by Edmund De Waal. It's also about a rich Jewish family in Vienna who lost everything. Beautifully written and extremely informative.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A Rediscovered Memoir and Love Story from WWII
By Rob Hardy
In March 1938 came the _Anschluss_, the march of thousands of Nazi troops to reclaim Austria for the Fuehrer who had been born there. In Vienna, a witness to the intrusion was Trudi Kanter, a young milliner with a showroom in the city. She was half Jewish, and she was to witness the rampage and the outrages, and she was eventually able to get herself, her husband, and her parents out to safety in England. She brought out a self-published survivor's memoir in 1984, which almost no one seems to have noticed. An editor rediscovered it years ago in a second-hand bookshop, and at last it is going to be noticed. _Some Girls, Some Hats, and Hitler: A True Love Story Rediscovered_ (Scribner) gives Trudi's story, with its unforgettable views of the beau monde of Vienna, its frightening account of the Nazi goons moving in, and the surprising fight she had to make for her husband and father's freedom after they all got to England. Trudi is sharp, observant, funny, and full of love for her Walter; the book works as an important memoir of a unique time but also as a personal love letter. Sadly, Trudi died twenty years ago and could not know how many people are going to be affected by her work this time.
Trudi was a beautiful young woman whose bright red hair was always crowned by one of her chic hats. She had a hat manufactory and showroom in Vienna, employing twelve young women. Trudi's appetite for color, for pastry, and for male company are constants in these pages, which benefit from the keen observation of someone who worked in fashion. She happened to be in Paris in March 1938, doing her buying for the coming season, when she saw the headlines that the Germans had prepared to enter Austria. Her Parisian friends were shocked that she would consider a return home, but it was where her work, her Walter, and her parents were, and she could not stay away. Walter may have had many charms, but Trudi had repeatedly to make up for his passivity even when their situation was obviously dire. There was an epic of denunciation as janitors and maids took their revenge. Friends and customers disappeared. There were swastikas all over. Even the superficial hat business reflected the change and Trudi's hats became less gay than the ones she had seen in her Paris excursion: "I used more veiling to hide women's eyes. To hide their sorrow." It fell to Trudi to start hunting up visas, jobs abroad, exit permits, kind tax inspectors, and influential people in the millinery world. Her resourcefulness worked, but her family's problems were not over once they got to England. One of the many distressing parts of this memoir is to learn how Walter and Trudi's father were treated in their new home. All Austrian men were arrested and put into internment camps. Her uncomprehending father said, "But all the refugees are on England's side! We want England to win!" Nonetheless, as enemy aliens they were sent to a camp near Liverpool, where they could not have books or radios or visitors, and their mattresses were scant straw. Trudi had a new round of campaigning to get them out, and was eventually successful, but she could not change attitudes. When they were in the bomb shelter during a night of horrendous destruction, some Briton picked a fight with Walter whom he felt did not deserve the protection that an Englishman did.
I would love to know more about Trudi's life, and whether she returned to Vienna for visits or kept up friendships there after the war. Sadly, it seems as if this book, neglected when she published it, is all we will have. We know that Walter died in 1960, and that Trudi remarried, and that she died in 1992, and that she had no children. When the publishers of this volume tried to find out more about her, there was little else that could be found. Even the holder of the copyright of the original edition is unknown (the colophon page of this edition asks anyone with information to come forward). Trudi is gone forever, and had no idea that her heartbreaking book with its original eyewitness stories was to be a priceless legacy.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
This Book Deserves More Respect
By John P. Rooney
"Some Girls, Some Hats And Hitler" by Trudi Kanter
Scribner, New York, 1982/2012
This book is subtitled, "A True Love Story". In many ways, it IS a love story, the love between Trudi and Walter. In other ways, the book is a concise history of the Nazi aggression from the 1938 Anschluss of Austria until the end of the war in Europe in 1945.
Trudi was part of a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, when Nazi Germany began to expand and no country dared to stop them. In a personal way, Trudi documents the confusion and indecision of her family and so many other Jews. Trudi wanted to run from Nazi occupied Vienna, but found it difficult to convince her lover, Walter, and her parents. The parents were older and settled in their ways.
Bit by bit, Trudi explains how she worked, bribed and stood in line to obtain visas for herself and for Walter, so they could go to England. Using her hat business as a ploy, she gets to England first, and then strives to get Walter over. As she settles down in England, she uses her millinery contacts to arrange for English visas for her parents.
Every now and then, Trudi Kanter begins a chapter with a date. What struck me was September 3 1939. Then I realized that that was the day that England (and France) declared war on Germany. Her book is a mini-history of the important dates of the war in Europe. The author records how the English company took advantage of her hat designing skills and then paid her a minimum amount of money.
There were personal aspects of the book, including the joy of having her husband (she married Walter) Join her in England, and then her parents. Walter designed an important unit in a British aircraft, but did not take out a patent on the item. He also helped rescue people during an air raid. Despite all this Walter and then Trudi's father were interned as "enemy aliens". All these personal reminisces make the book an interesting and poignant history of one family during World War II.
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