A lost Vienna emerges in Hanne Wassermann's archive

Hanne Wassermann Walker lived in Vancouver for four decades. But she had a whole other life in her native Vienna, a life that is only beginning to come to light 33 years after her death.
Between the First and Second World Wars, Hanne taught physical fitness to the Viennese elite. Notebooks and letters from her personal archive include references to the Rothschild family, Princess Helen of Romania, and actress Hedy Lamarr.
But like many Austrian Jews she fled her homeland under threat from the Na