Language:
English
Pages:
3 + 96
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typescript.
Former Title:
Memoir
Keywords:
Malecki, Alfred,
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Maletzki family.
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Kulturbund (Germany)
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Antisemitism.
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Bar mitzvah.
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Families 20th century.
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Farmers.
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Jazz.
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Jews Education.
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Jews, German Genealogy.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Kristallnacht, 1938
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Berlin (Germany)
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Bolivia Emigration and immigration.
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Cochabamba (Bolivia)
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Gdańsk (Poland)
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La Paz (Bolivia)
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Leipzig (Germany)
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Hannover (Germany)
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New York (N.Y.)
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Oruro (Bolivia)
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Paris (France)
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Poland.
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Santiago (Chile)
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United States Emigration and immigration after 1945.
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written in the United States. Family Genealogy. Alfred's father David (Gustav) Maletzki was born in Poland and was the oldest of nine siblings. He was a businessman who had spent his apprenticeship in Berlin, Paris and in the United States. The author's mother Dora Lea Maletzki, nee Schauber was born in Hannover. Childhood recollections. Description of family life and their affinity for music. Youth group activities with the Zionists and a German-Jewish formation. Life under National Socialism. Creation of the "Kulturbund", which provided art for a Jewish audience. Activities in a Jewish sport's club. Alfred attented a Jewish high school, where he had Jewish and non-Jewish teachers, some of them orthodox. The Maletzki family belonged to a liberal congregation. Recollections of Alfred's Bar Mitzwa in 1934. Vacations near Danzig. Alfred and his friends had a passion for Jazz. Recollections of the forced repatriation of Polish Jews in October 1938. The Maletzki family was considered Polish as well and escaped deportation due to a fortunate incident. Escape to Switzerland failed. Alfred's parents went to Paris, whereas he had to return to Leipzig. Terror of the November pogrom. Alfred took refuge in the Polish consulate and escaped deportation to the concentration camp. Shortly thereafter he was provided with his Bolivian exit visa and left for France to join his parents. A few weeks later the family boarded a British ship in La Rochelle and started their journey to South America. They arrived in La Paz in January 1939. Life in Bolivia. Cultural and language differences. The family moved to Cochambamba. Experiences of antisemitism. Growing number of Jewish immigrants. Alfred joined some refugee friends in a entrepreneurial farming project in the tropical lands. Difficulties due to the extreme conditions and help from the native population.
Abstract:
After the failure of the farming venture Alfred worked in various jobs until he got a position as an office employee at the Hochschild Mining company in Oruro. Position at the Bolivian Development Corporation. In 1946 Alfred moved to La Paz. He became a member of the Polish-Jewish Club, where he met his future-wife Zenia, who was a holocaust survivor from Vilna. Description of the political situation in Bolivia. Marriage of Alfred and Zenia Malecki in 1948. Honeymoon in Santiago, Chile. Birth of their daughter Sophie in 1950. Business trip to New York. Political revolutions in Bolivia. Alfred Malecki moved with his family to the United States in 1953.
Abstract:
Also included is the “Genealogy of the Malecki (Maletzki) and Schauber families”.
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