From Wikipedia:
Religion did not play a central role in his education. "My mother and father were Jewish only through accident of birth," Zweig said later in an interview. Yet he did not renounce his Jewish faith and wrote repeatedly on Jewish themes....In 1941 [Stefan Zweig] went to Brazil, where in 1942 he and his second wife Lotte (née Charlotte Elisabeth Altmann) committed suicide together in Petrópolis,[1] despairing at the future of Europe and its culture.
If they could see Europe now, they’d spin in their graves.
Non Sequitur