Franziska in her art gallery, F&B Gallery, Longmont, CO in 1983.
Praise for Chopin Through the Window
“Chopin Through the Window is an enthralling memoir that tells the story of a young Czech woman of German ancestry caught up in the turmoil of World War II. So effortless is the writing, so entrancing is the story, that the book is impossible to put down. Ms. Stein's memoir should be required reading for history students. Her eye for detail, her unflinching honesty and her extraordinary memory make this an unforgettable read. More important, she recounts a slice of history that is not well known. She was a member of the German minority living in the Czechoslovakia when Hitler came to power and unflinchingly recounts the hope that ethnic Germans experienced when they first heard him speak, their gradual disillusionment, and the terror and uncertainty that they suffered when they were expelled with millions of other Germans from Czechoslovakia at war's end.”
—Eileen Welsome, winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and author of The Plutonium Files and The General and the Jaguar
