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Linda F. Burghardt

Apr 16, 2023, 4:20 PM

Homeland or hell: My parents and the Vienna of Leopoldstadt

British playwright Tom Stoppard poses as he arrives for the world premiere of "Anna Karenina," in London. Sept. 4, 2012 (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)

For my mother and father, who lost everything, there was never a sense of belonging after they fled Austria and the Nazis

About Me

Linda F. Burghardt, Ph.D., is the Scholar-in-Residence at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in N.Y. and a journalist and author from Great Neck, Long Island. She was a freelance reporter for The New York Times for 20 years and has written numerous articles and essays for newspapers across the U.S. and overseas.