Archy života - Historie rodu Löw-Beer - CDmp3 (Čte Marek Holý)

This unabridged Czech audiobook tells the fascinating story of the Löw-Beer family’s survival and return to the places from which they came. It follows two successive escapes from a Jewish ghetto to the free world and traces the journey of the Löw-Beer name. The first escape began in 1848, when Jews started building a promised land in the heart of Europe that allowed them to lead a modern way of life. They could not remain there, however, and in 1938 were sent back to ghettos as the Nazis destroyed their culture. The family factory in Brněnec was later seized and became Schindler’s Ark, a concentration camp where Jews were saved rather than killed, as portrayed in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film Schindler’s List. The Löw-Beers followed the instinct passed down to them by Noah, cut themselves off from their roots and embarked on a second escape. This dark chapter of the Second World War contrasts with the bright years symbolized by their family’s Villa Tugendhat, rising above the centre of Brno as a pinnacle of European architecture. Daniel Low-Beer, a poet, writer and epidemiologist working for the World Health Organization in Geneva, is the grandson of the factory’s last Jewish owner.