Escape Home: Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss, A Family Memoir

By Charles Paterson and Carrie Paterson 2013. Hardcover. 2017. First trade paper. 570 pages with 200 illustrations and an index. Ebook also available. $29.95 (hc) | 9780983254010$18.95 (pb) | 9780997003468 Cover: Olga Feigl Beck, Stefan Schanzer, Doris Schanzer, and Karl Schanzer, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, 1938. Photo: Max Beck. The memoir of architectural designer and Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Charles Paterson (born Karl Schanzer) is a riveting tale of discovery and coming to terms with a past that casts a long shadow. Paterson was nine years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna in March, 1938. Fleeing Austria for Czechoslovakia just months later, only to witness the invasion of Hitler for a second time in Prague, the author and his sister Doris escaped to Paris to rejoin their refugee father Stefan before being adopted in Australia. When the surviving Schanzer/Paterson family reunite in America in the late 1940’s, the story takes a different turn. Connecting family history with moveme