Language:
English
Pages:
33 pages :
,
bound typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
2000
Keywords:
Lederer, August,
;
Garcia de los Reyes, Margot,
;
Rosenthal, Hilda,
;
Rosenthal family.
;
Lederer family.
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Antisemitism.
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Apartheid
;
Education 1918-1933.
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Families 20th century.
;
Orthodox Judaism.
;
Emigration and immigration.
;
Jewish religious education 1871-1918.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Judaism Customs and practices.
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Pacifism.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1939-1945.
;
Cape Town (South Africa)
;
England.
;
Frankfurt (Germany)
;
Gladenbach (Germany)
;
Hamburg (Germany)
;
Israel.
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South Africa.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were written in Netanya, Israel in 2000. Family history going back to the 19th century. Hilda Rosenthal and August Lederer married in 1903. They settled in Gladenbach. Their son Benno was born in 1904. Childhood recollections. Description of the Lederer household and his father's fancy for technical modernizations. Private studies in Hebrew. Benno attended the local primary school, since Gladenbach was too small to keep a separate Jewish school. No encounter with anti-Semitism during his childhood years. Outbreak of World War One and increasing patriotism. Recollection of his bar mitzvah celebration during the war. Benno was enrolled in the high school (Gymnasium) in Giessen, where he stayed with a Jewish family. Difficulties observing the Sabbath on Saturdays during the school time. Growing political interest and awareness. Benno Lederer became an ardent Pacifist and even started to study Esperanto. His plans to study medicine were shattered due to the economic crisis and inflation, which deprived his parents of their savings and made it impossible to pay the tuition fees. Benno got a position as a bookkeeper in a metal work in Frankfurt. In addition he attended night classes at university. Move to Hamburg. 1930 marriage with Margot Garcia de los Reyes, who came from a Sephardic family. Rising Nazism. Hitler's takeover and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Birth of their son Rolf in 1935. Preparations to emigrate. Benno and Margot left Germany in 1936 via England and Madeira to South Africa. Arrival in Cape Town. Language difficulties and initial problems to get settled. Benno managed to get his mother out of Germany in 1938. Political situation and apartheid policy in South Africa. In 1956 Margot and Benno started their own business. Margot Lederer passed away in 1966. Benno Lederer moved to Israel in 1979.
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