Language:
English
Pages:
72 pages :
,
bound typescript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
1994
Keywords:
Baer, Rudolf.
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Blum family.
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Thurnauer family.
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Bat mitzvah.
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Education, Higher
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Fasts and feasts Judaism.
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Friendship.
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Jewish families.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Socialism.
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Universities and colleges.
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Voyages and travels.
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World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives.
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Women authors.
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Youth movements
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Burgkunstadt (Germany)
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Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.
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Nuremberg (Germany)
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United States Emigration and immigration 1930s.
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Description of the paternal Thurnau family history, who originated from Burgkundstadt, Bavaria and the maternal family Blum. Memories of the arrival of her younger brother Wilhelm. Recollection of food shortages during World War I. Trips to the countryside. Difficulties at school due to her later discovered nearsightedness. Close friendship with two gentile classmates, who shared literary conversations and played music together. They stayed in contact after the war. Preparation for confirmation (Bat Mizvah) at age 15. Member of the German Jewish youth movement "Wanderbund Kameraden" together with her Jewish girlfriends. They undertook hikes and travels in the countryside and sang folk songs around bonfires. They did not believe in fashionable clothes nor in smoking or drinking. Else Thurnauer Baer was enrolled at the college in Heidelberg, where she studied economy. After a year she continued her studies in Berlin, where Else greatly enjoyed the cultural life. Move to Goettingen, where Else started a psychoanalytic therapy with Lou Andreas-Salome. Meetings with the Socialist Students Group. First romances with fellow students. Rising National Socialism and growing tensions at university. Street violence between the Nazis and the Communists. Anti-Jewish propaganda in "Der Stuermer". First introduction to Jewish holidays by a befriended family, who invited her to Shabbat celebrations at their home. Recollection of Hitler becoming chancellor in 1933. Socialist and communist friends were arrested. Her gentile boyfriend Richard became reluctant to be seen with her in public. Difficulties to continue her studies due to political events. Many Jewish professors were expelled from university. Else decided to emigrate as she could not find a position due to her Jewish heritage. Her mother’s younger brother Julius Blum, who lived in the United States provided her with an exit visa.
Abstract:
Her brother had already joined their uncle’s business in 1931. In 1934 Else Thurnauer left Germany for the United States. She stayed with relatives in New York and had a position in the office of her uncle’s company. She and her brother Bill went on many hikes and bicycle trips together. Emigration of her parents with difficulties and delays in 1939. Engagement with her future-husband Rudolf Baer. They married in 1939 and lived in Kew Gardens, Queens with their children Barbara, Tommy and Frankie.
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