And Kathy recalls going on walks with her mother Inge across Hampstead Heath, or further where they’d be greeted by a greying old lady who turned out to be a niece of Mutti and Inge’s godmother: the refugee painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczsky.

a b c Finkel, Caroline (2006). Osman's Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923. Basic Books. pp.286–87. ISBN 978-0-465-02396-7. The Turks, however, did not give up. They continued to fight fiercely, thus constantly harassing the allied Christian armies. The Turks withdrew for two miles and set off in pursuit of Polish troops. Selected units of the Christian army took over posts in the Turkish camp at night to guard their prey. The following day, the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth agreed to plunder the enemy camp. exhausted horses which, according to the chronicler, didn't eat anything nutritious for prior two months, while the best Ottoman forces were cavalryRed. (Eds.) (1962–1964). Jan III Sobieski (in Polish). Vol.X. {{ cite encyclopedia}}: |work= ignored ( help)

Do you remember the first time you tasted a bagel? I don't. As a kid in the '80s and '90s, I chewed my way through thousands of those boiled-and-baked rings of bread dough. Fresh bagels from Bruegger's (a national chain that started small in Burlington, Vermont, my home turf, in 1983), frozen bagels, mini-bagels...our family wasn't terribly discriminating, I confess. We often bought bakery "day-olds" (foolish, since most connoisseurs will tell you a bagel goes stale within a few hours), and my dad still prefers microwaving to toasting—another form of bagel heresy. (According to him, 22 28 seconds is the perfect amount of time to warm up a large bagel in the microwave. That's the closest I've ever seen him come to cooking.*) Sobieski, therefore, though always an admirer of France, shifted away from the French alliance and concluded a treaty with the Holy Roman emperor Leopold I against the Turks (April 1, 1683). By the terms of the treaty, each ally had to support the other with all his might if the other’s capital were to be besieged. Thus, when a great Turkish army approached Vienna late in the summer of 1683, Sobieski himself rushed there with about 25,000 men. Because he had the highest rank of all military leaders gathered to relieve Vienna, he took command of the entire relief force (about 75,000 men) and achieved a brilliant victory over the Turks at the Kahlenberg (September 12, 1683), in one of the decisive battles of European history.Opposing them was a massive field of 200,000 Turkish warriors who had spent the previous couple generations perfecting the art of reducing enemy cities to rubble and plundering them with impunity. Into the 19th century and we meet Wasserstein’s traditionally frum great-grandparents and their son Bernhard (aka “Berl”) who was born in Krakoviec in 1898. Kahraman Şakul. II. Viyana Kuşatması: Yedi Ejderin Fendi, Timaş Yayınları. İstanbul 2021. pp. 229–231.