Language:
English
Pages:
11 pages (single space) :
,
bound typescript +
Additional Material:
2nd copy
Year of publication:
1993
Keywords:
Opel, Else (née Lichtenstein)
;
Opel, Fritz.
;
Refugees Personal narratives.
;
Women authors.
;
Colombo (Sri Lanka)
;
Masterton (New Zealand)
;
New Zealand Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir by Marianne Opel describing her emigration to New Zealand including information on her stay in London; on life on the boat; on stops in Lisbon, Tangier and Marseilles; on her experiences in Colombo, Ceylon, and her detention in an internment camp for aliens; on her arrival in Sidney; on her impressions of life in Masterton, where she worked as household help for an elderly couple; and on her brother Fritz who was imprisonned in Germany for oppositional activities and later detained in France.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
English
,
Synopsis in file
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=637995&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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