Language:
German
Pages:
82 pages (1 1/2 space) :
,
typescript (carbon copy).
Year of publication:
1964
Keywords:
Stein, Herbert.
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Jüdischer Frauenbund.
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Antisemitism.
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Children.
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Fasts and feasts Judaism.
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Home economics.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Kristallnacht, 1938.
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Judaism Customs and practices.
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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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Munich (Germany)
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United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945.
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Wolfratshausen (Germany)
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=416859&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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