Unlike her portrayal in a movie, she was governess to only one child (*) of naval captain Georg von Trapp, a daughter who was bedridden with rheumatic fever.
Born into the Kutschera family in 1905, she was raised a socialist and atheist, and was cynical towards all religions until she met a Jesuit priest in college. In 1942, she started a music camp on a 660-acre farm in Stowe, Vermont, a location she thought resembled the hills of her native Austria. Unlike her portrayal in a movie, she was governess to only one child (*) of naval captain Georg von Trapp, a daughter who was bedridden with rheumatic fever. FTP, name this woman whose books about her family's escape from the Nazis after the Anschluss were used as the basis for The Sound of Music.
Born into the Kutschera family in 1905, she was raised a socialist and atheist, and was cynical towards all religions until she met a Jesuit priest in college.
{Maria} von Trapp