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I Belong to Vienna: A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return
Written by Anna Goldenberg and Alta L. Price
Narrated by Christa Lewis
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This probing tale of heroism, identity, and belonging follows the true story of the author's great-grandparents and their struggle during the holocaust.
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Anna Goldenberg
Anna Goldenberg was born in 1989 in Vienna and studied psychology at the University of Cambridge and journalism at Columbia University. She worked at the Jewish newspaper The Forward in New York before returning to Vienna, where she now writes as a freelance journalist.
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