{"id":10949,"date":"2024-03-26T13:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.migwan.ch\/neu2\/?page_id=10949"},"modified":"2026-03-19T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:11:37","slug":"board-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migwan.ch\/en\/board-news\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>News from the Board<\/h1>\n<p>Hava Fleming, Religion<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>I had the privilege of helping an elderly gentleman, Victor Kary, z\"l, write his memoirs before his death just a few years ago. He had been born in Vienna and was an early child on a Kindertransport from that city. When I read about Sarah Gainham's novel, known by the critics in the 1960s as \"The lost masterpiece of wartime Vienna\", I ordered a copy and have just completed the 622 pages. It is, I agree, a masterful work, and seldom can an author capture the essence of those 1930s and 40s as she has done. I found the descriptive passages, as well as the dialogue, compelling and vivid. Her characters, drawn from layers of society, from east and west, but who for reasons of war, are in Vienna on various survival missions. The strong woman, Julia Homberg, a renowned actress, is at the heart of the narrative, and we come to understand that there are many layers to the phrase Night Falls on the City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/migwan.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/migwan.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png 150w, https:\/\/migwan.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-8x12.png 8w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vorstand Nachrichten Hava Fleming, Kultus \u00a0 Buchempfehlung: Ich hatte das Privileg, einem \u00e4lteren Herrn, Victor Kary, seligen Angedenkens, vor seinem Tod vor wenigen Jahren beim Verfassen seiner Memoiren zu helfen. Er war in Wien geboren und als kleines Kind mit einem Kindertransport aus dieser Stadt geflohen. Als ich von Sarah Gainhams Roman las, der von [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11058,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"unboxed","site-sidebar-style":"unboxed","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"disabled","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"disabled","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"enabled","header-above-stick-meta":"disabled","header-main-stick-meta":"disabled","header-below-stick-meta":"disabled","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10949","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vorstand Nachrichten - Migwan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/migwan.ch\/en\/board-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vorstand Nachrichten - Migwan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vorstand Nachrichten Hava Fleming, Kultus \u00a0 Buchempfehlung: Ich hatte das Privileg, einem \u00e4lteren Herrn, Victor Kary, seligen Angedenkens, vor seinem Tod vor wenigen Jahren beim Verfassen seiner Memoiren zu helfen. 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