Detailed source research and precise scientific implementation: Eighteen letters from the front lines of World War II, along with a unique and extensive correspondence between Vilma and Josef from the immediate post-war period, serve as the starting point for personal life stories, embedded in social historical representations and interpretations. Themes of genealogy and biographical origins, a miniature of Steyr during the interwar period, and the depiction of the cosmos of Greater Vienna during the Nazi dictatorship are intertwined with reports on the material hardships of everyday life, the portrayal of a post-war romance, contemporary literary and musical worlds, questions of worldview and religion, character assessments of the father, and an entertaining narrative about the purchase of a radio. Written from a humanist perspective and in the spirit of antifascism, creatively designed with many original private photos, personal documents, and watercolors.