Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
23
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typescript.
Erscheinungsjahr:
1961
Schlagwort(e):
Bach, Albert.
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Bach family.
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Baeck, Leo,
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Fleischhacker, Suse.
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Mayer, Ruth.
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Mayer family.
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B'nai B'rith.
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Education, Higher.
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Jewish families.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Journalists.
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Kristallnacht, 1938.
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Orthodox Judaism.
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Women authors.
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World War, 1914-1918.
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World War, 1939-1945.
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Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany)
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Palestine Emigration and immigration.
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Stuttgart (Germany)
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Autobiographies
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Biographical sources
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Memoirs
Kurzfassung:
The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.
Anmerkung:
English
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Synopsis in file
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