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In the summer of 1994, journalist Carol Bergman traveled to Vienna with her elderly mother, a
Holocaust refugee, and her daughter. Together, these three generations of women uncovered their
family's history and the Austrian complicity in the Nazi genocide.
Like other children of the Holocaust, Carol Bergman grew up oblivious to her parents' story of
resistance and escape. Breaking her mother's silence and recording an oral history grew into a hunt for
a missing cousin, Fritzi Burger, the Olympic ice skating champion who disappeared at the beginning
of the war and the resurfaced during the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan affair. But the search for
Fritzi's story dead-ended in Vienna and the original manuscript was published before Fritzi had been
truly "found." Then, in 2008, Fritzi Burger surfaced again in an email to the author from a former
soldier in General MacArthur's army. In this revised and updated edition of "Searching for Fritzi,"
there is suspense, revelation and closure.
Carol Bergman's articles, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan,
and Salon.com. Her essay, “Objects of Desire” was nominated for the Pushcart Prize; her short stories
have appeared in many literary magazines. She is the author of biographies of Mae West and Sidney
Poitier, and two books of novellas, Sitting for Klimt and Water Baby. She compiled and edited Another
Day in Paradise; International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, nominated for the J.
Anthony Lukas Book Prize. She lives in New York City and teaches writing at New York University.
Date of Publication: December, 2011
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Price: $2.99 US, £1.94 UK, 2.60EU
Email: carol.bergman@gmail.com
www.carolbergman.net