The Last Palace

The Petschek Villa was Norman Eisen's home during his tenure as US ambassador. He details the colourful lives of five of the palace's residents: the optimistic Jewish financial baron who built t.he Villa after World War I as a statement of his faith in Europe. The cultured, complex German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately saving the house and Prague itself from destruction. The American ambassador and Holocaust hero who became obsessed with the property after the war, acquiring it for the US. An iconic former child star that used her showbiz wiles, with the house as her stage and the author, Norman L Eisen, the son of a Czech Auschwitz survivor, who moved into the palace once seized by the Nazis…