Table of ContentsFamily TreePrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I1. By Any Other Name2. Vienna Light, Vienna DarkPart II3. Days of Promise4. To Laugh and Cry5. My Wien No MorePart III6. Irish Intermezzo7. Safe in Brazil?Photographs8. Dances and Dirges9. Braving the New WorldPart IV10. Time for Justice11. We Come for Hugo12. Reverberations13. And Then Is Heard No MoreAbout the AuthorIt explores a daughter's quest to understand her father's hidden past, raising questions about a child's right to know their parent's history and the journey towards forgiveness and self-acceptance.Does a child have the right to know a parent’s history? Does the key to one’s identity lie within that history? Raised as a Catholic in Ireland and Canada, the author of Dancing with my Father thought so as she probed her father’s past, at a loss to understand why he spent so much of his life hiding and fearing it. After all, he painted his early years in Vienna as filled with light and music. Decades passed before he would talk about the dark side that he had left behind in Vienna, when he fled alone, as a teenager, to Ireland in 1939. Though he finally broke open the secrets of his history, was he ever able to see himself in the enormity of those times and forgive himself?Does a child have the right to know a parent’s history? Does the key to one’s identity lie within that history? Raised as a Catholic in Ireland and Canada, the author of Dancing with my Father thought so as she probed her father’s past, at a loss to understand why he spent so much of his life hiding and fearing it. After all, he painted his early years in Vienna as filled with light and music. Decades passed before he would talk about the dark side that he had left behind in Vienna, when he fled alone, as a teenager, to Ireland in 1939. Though he finally broke open the secrets of his history, was he ever able to see himself in the enormity of those times and forgive himself?