Language:
English
Pages:
153 pages :
,
bound typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
1933
Keywords:
Barth, Renée
;
Communists.
;
Emigration and immigration.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish families.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Socialism.
;
Women authors.
;
Women Employment.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
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Alsace (France)
;
France.
;
Germany History 1918-1933.
;
Germany Politics and government 1933-1945.
;
Martinique.
;
Switzerland.
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir by Renée Barth including information on her grandparents' lives in Alsace; her father Rene leaving Germany for Switzerland during World War I because he was a pacifist; her early years in Switzerland; her and her mother's involvement in the communist movement in Weimar Germany; their arrestation after the Nazi seizure of power; Barth's emigration to Switzerland, return to Germany, life as a refugee in Paris; her emigration to the United States via Casablanca and Martinique; and on her career as a social worker and her family life.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
Synopsis in file
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