Language:
English
Pages:
32 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1990
Keywords:
Fraenkel, Max (Sali),
;
Fraenkel family.
;
International Student Service.
;
Bankers.
;
Citizenship
;
Education, Secondary 1918-1933.
;
Engineers.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish families.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Berlin (Germany)
;
Germany History 1918-1933.
;
United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The author describes his family history from the late 19th century; his father (Sali) Max Fraenkel was born as the youngest of four children in 1878 in Zuelz, Silesia; 1906 he moved to Berlin and became a manager in one of Berlin's larger banks (Diskonto Gesellschaft); due to the prejudiced environment Max Fraenkel could only get to a certain rank as a Jewish employee; 1916 marriage of the parents in Breslau; Stephen Fraenkel's mother was born 1888 in Kattowitz, Silesia; she was a piano teacher and very musical; the family lived in Berlin, Charlottenburg in a solid bourgeois neighborhood; summer vacation with family in Breslau and at the Baltic Sea Coast; recollections of the German inflation in the early 20s; trips to the outskirts of Berlin; liberal environment; elitist high school education (gymnasium); cultural life; depression years and unemployment; 1932 his mother died of cancer; political instability; Nazism gaining more political ground; school exchange trip to France; 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor; beginning of persecutions; 1935 his father lost his job at the bank; "Nuremberg Laws" and loss of civic rights; student exchange trip to London in 1935; Olympic games in Berlin in 1936; graduation from gymnasium; limited work or education possibilities; endangered life due to frequent personal assaults; engineering school in Hannover; in 1937 he got approved for a scholarship through the "International Student Service" which ultimately saved his life; preparations and departure; arrival in New York and Lincoln, Nebraska in January 1938.
Note:
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