Language:
English
Pages:
503
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bound typescript.
Year of publication:
1988
Keywords:
Friedland, Bertha.
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Friedland, Hermann.
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Friedland, Rolf Erich Hermann.
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Fry, Varian,
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Kaplun, Sol.
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Ullmann family.
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Warburg, Max.
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Warburg, Paul.
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Anti-fascist movements 1918-1933.
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Jewish families.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Refugees
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Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.)
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France Emigration and immigration 1933.
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Germany History 1918-1933.
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Germany Political persecution 1933-1945.
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Hamburg (Germany)
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New York (N.Y.)
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Paris (France)
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United States Emigration and immgiration 1940.
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir by Pierre Ferrand, written in 1988, published in an abridged and changed version as "A Question of Allegiance." Including information on his grandparents, some of which emigrated in the 1840s from Gailingen to the United States while others came from Eastern Europe to Germany; on the history of Hamburg Jewry; on politics in Weimar Germany; on Ferrand's father, his business in radio advertising and his anti-fascist politics; on political repression and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany; and on American immigration laws. - Recollections of his childhood; of the family's emigration in 1933; of his schooling in France; of the emigrant milieu in Paris; of the Ferrand family's journey from Paris to Southern France, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal to the United States in 1940; of their extended stay at Ellis Island and Ferrand's friendship with Sol Kaplun from Poland; and on the family's adjustment to life in New York.
Note:
Available on microfilms MM2 reel 12 (parts I-II) and MM2 reel 13 (part III).
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English
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Synopsis in file
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=766898&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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