Language:
English
Pages:
15 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1946
Former Title:
Untitled
Keywords:
Joachim, Gertrude,
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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Jüdisches Krankenhaus (Berlin, Germany)
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Emigration and immigration.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust survivors.
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Hospitals.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Medical technology.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Women authors.
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Berlin (Germany)
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New York (N.Y.)
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written in 1946 in the United States. Brief reflections on German Jewish life before and after World War One. The memoir focuses on Jewish life in Nazi Germany. The author describes her dismissal from her job as an X-ray technician at the University Hospital in 1938. She started to work with a Jewish physician and in a Jewish outpatient clinic. Gertrude lived together with her ailing mother in Berlin after her siblings had already emigrated. Description of daily humiliations and discriminations in Nazi Germany. Assistant to a clinic physician and spared deportation to Theresienstadt in 1941 due to her position in the Jewish hospital. Death of her mother in 1942. Life with constant threat of deportation. Air raids and approaching Russian troops. Liberation in May 1945. Preparations for her emigration to the United States. Gertrude Joachim arrived in New York in September of 1946.
Note:
English
URL:
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