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  • English  (3)
  • 1985-1989  (2)
  • 1970-1974  (1)
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    On a slow boat to America : A family and life story for our children and grandchildren. (1986)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages (single spaced) : , typewscript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Esslinger family. ; Children. ; Education. ; Merchants. ; Textile industry. ; Konstanz (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history 1870-1937: childhood and youth in Constance; commercial apprenticeship in Nuremberg and Bochum; working in his father's shirt business; persecutions of Jews after 1933; emigration to Palestine and the USA.
    Abstract: The memoir was originally written in German as "Auf Umwegen nach Amerika".
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Sophie Dann. (1986)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
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    Keywords: Dann, Gertrud, ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish communities. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; Nurses. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Social workers. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Youth movements. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Sophie Dann, including description of her childhood in Augsburg; of her secular and Jewish education; of her experiences during World War I; of her involvment in and exclusion from the youth group "Wandervogel"; of her training as a teacher and a nurse; of her employment as a nurse in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Fuerth; of her work for the Augsburg Jewish community after 1933; of life in Nazi Germany and her parents leaving for Palestine; of her emigration to England with her sister; of her work as a domestic and a nurse there; of her life in post-war England and restitution payments from Germany; and of her work in Freud's library, information on her parents moving to England, and their life there.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=420954&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    My first 12 years / (1971)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Remseck am Neckar (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1971 in New York. The author describes her childhood in the tiny village Hochberg on the river Neckar at the end of the 19th century. Recollection of the rural environment and its simple living conditions. Description of the inhabitants of the village, including a night watchman who called out the time in the streets. Alice grew up speaking German and French at home. Her mother was a well-educated woman who had lived in Paris for some time. Her father was a business man. The Jewish community in Hochberg was small, but it had its own synagogue. Memories of family Seder celebrations at her grandparents' home. Recollection of her time at the Alexandrina Kindergarten, where Alice was the only Jewish child. Christmas celebrations at nursery school. Birth of her sister. In 1899 Alice Ottenheimer was enrolled in the local primary school. Private Hebrew lessons with the cantor of the nearby city. Summer vacations at her mother's birthplace in Ichenhausen. In 1905 the family moved from the countryside to Ludwigsburg.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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