About the Book: Emilie and Subhas
Netaji Subhas Chandra Boses relationship with his wife, Emilie Schenkl, is one
of the least-known aspects of the leaders life. They met in Vienna in June 1934,
secretly married in December 1937 in Badgastein, a spa resort in Austrias
Salzburg province, and saw each other for the last time in Berlin in February
1943, two months after the birth in Vienna of their daughter Anita. From 1934
onwards, Subhas and Emilie corresponded continuously through letters whenever
they were physically separated. Born in 1910 into a middle-class Austrian family
of Vienna, Emilie Schenkl nurtured her husbands memory and cultivated a deep
attachment