The last words of the Zweigs: “We decided, united in love, not to abandon each other”

2023-07-28 19:52:01
Stefan Zweig said goodbye to the world with a political statement. “The world of my own language collapsed and was lost to me, and my spiritual homeland, Europe, destroyed itself.” It was February 1942. Europe was involved in a bloody war. The world of yesterday, the one in which Zweig shone as a respected intellectual and successful writer, was crumbling. A Jew, far from his native Austria, rendered stateless, he spent the last years of his life traveling through America with his second wife, Lotte Zweig, until the couple settled in Petrópolis (Brazil). There they committed suicide together. The event shocked friends and admirers across the planet. That photo in which Lotte… See More
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