Détache-moi!/Zimmerflucht

The Burnt Book at left belonged to the library of Schloss Grafenstein in Carinthia and, according to the owner, was misused as heating material during the occupation of the Schloss by the Soviet army at the end of World War II. Books may burn once a conflagration is already established, but, as the occupiers discovered, they are ill-suited as fuel for a fire.

At right my essay on my spouse’s grandfather Dr. Hans v. Karabacek, who was measured for Jewish features at the Natural History Museum in December 1941. Related in “Immeasurable,” in Michael Huey, Inside Stories, Album Verlag, Vienna 2021, pp. 176-195.