Three Tearless Histories

"Powerful inquiries spurred by photos--history made flesh, the untold lives of the mostly forgotten."

--Kirkus Reviews "A missionary voice of human dignity."

--World Literature Today Erich Hackl, 2017 recipient of the internationally-recognized Human Rights Award of Upper Austria and winner of multiple literature prizes, brings three little-known and inspiring biographies to light: Gisela Tschofenig's hidden life in the Austrian resistance; a fragmented interview with Wilhelm Brasse, who photographed Auschwitz inmates and saved evidence of Mengele's horrific crimes; and "the multi-generational story of the Klagsbrunns, who fled Nazism in Vienna only to find another kind of terror in fascist Brazil.