Language:
English
Pages:
437 pages :
,
bound typescript.
Year of publication:
2007
Keywords:
Jewish families Conduct of life 1918-1933.
;
Jews Social life and customs
;
Wolfenbüttel (Germany)
;
Guayaquil (Ecuador)
;
United States Emigration and immigration.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Autobiography.
Abstract:
Told by her daughter, the extraordinary woman is Ruth Spier from Wolfenbuettel in Westphalia (Germany). Her husband Alfred died at the beginning of the Nazi era and left her with two small daughters. The family emigrated to Ecuador, settling in Guayaquil, before finding their way to Washington Heights in New York City.
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