Language:
English
Pages:
9 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
2005
Keywords:
Weil, Edgar.
;
Zivi, Hugo,
;
Zivi, Louis,
;
Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp)
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
France.
;
Müllheim (Germany)
;
United States Emigration and immigration.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
This brief memoir starts with a description of family background and childhood experiences in Germany. After things got worse in Germany, Ralph's parents decided to send their children away. In June 1939, they came to France, in order to live with Edgar and Alice Weil, a cousin of his father. After the outbreak of World War 2, they moved on to the Pyrenees, not far from Ralph's parents, who had been transferred to St. Cyprien internment camp. Finally the family received visas for the USA, and they managed to get a ship to Casablanca, Morocco, before boarding the ship "Guinee" to New York. Ralph arrived in the USA in April 1942. His parents quickly found temporary jobs in New York.
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