Among Strangers

Friday, July 30, 2010

The building at Schmidgasse 14 is the former Sanatorium Fürth.

The Austrians agreed to return it to our family in 2005.

Posted by Marietta Pritchard

Marietta Pritchard: I am a writer living in Amherst, Massachusetts. My book is available at several local bookstores, from Amazon.com, and from me at: mppritchard@comcast.net at a cost of $25 plus shipping. ***** ***** ***** ***** ****** ****** ****** I spent 13 years during the 1970s and '80s working as a writer and editor at the Daily Hampshire Gazette in nearby Northampton. For the past 20 years, I have been a freelance writer and editor, writing for businesses and educational institutions, editing other people's manuscripts. At the same time, I have continued to write a regular column for the Gazette. During most of that time, I have also been writing about my family, beginning with an attempt to reach a deeper understanding of Hungary, my father's home country, the place where I was born, but which I left too early to remember. Other parts of the family and of the Central European map soon began to interest me. I wrote an essay about my maternal grandmother, which was published in the Massachusetts Review. Shortly thereafter, my mother gave me a few of her father's letters from Occupied France, which launched the project which became Among Strangers.

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