Month: January 2021

Architecture

Jindřich Blum – My Uncle Otto’s sorely lamented friend

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-01-252021-02-09 No Comments

Great-uncle Otto wrote a moving tribute in his memoir to his friend the Czech architect Jindřich (Heinrich) Blum, which didn’t make it into my book […]

History

Mahler, Freud and me

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-01-152021-01-15 No Comments

I based my book “Uncle Otto’s Puppet Theatre” on seven family memoirs, but I also read as much as I could about the Austro-Hungarian Empire. […]

History

Einstein’s helping hand for my refugee family

by Brigid GRAUMAN2021-01-072021-01-07 No Comments

Albert Einstein must have had hundreds of letters from desperate European Jews asking for help. My grandmother Emma was among those 1930s letter-writers to him […]