Language:
English
Pages:
114 pages + appendix :
,
typewritten manuscript.
Year of publication:
2000
Keywords:
Ripp, Norbert.
;
Ripp, Herbert.
;
Geller, Regina, 1898-
;
Ripp, Paul, 1898-
;
Geller, Benno (Ben Zion)
;
Atran, Frank.
;
Ripp, Joseph,
;
Ripp family.
;
United States.
;
Education, Higher.
;
Jews Persecution 1939-1945.
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
New York (N.Y.)
;
Saint Paul (Minn.)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
In his memoir, Joseph Ripp decribes "some of the events that drove them out of Europe and brought them to safety in the United States". He describes the fate of each family member, and their later lives in the United States. Then Joseph Ripp focuses on the time of persecution thorugh the Nazis. In school they were taught the discriminatory racial doctrines, in the outside world his father's business suffered from all different kinds of assaults on his property. It became clear that they had to emigrate. In 1938, young Joseph could take part in a small program sponsered by the American Jewish community which enabld a few hundred children from Germany to escape. He was about to end up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that, they made a stop in New York, where he stayed with his aunt Bertha Geller. He describes how impressed he was by all the new things he got to see in New York. After his arrival, he took on several jobs to help his family survive the struggles of war. The memoir moves back to Nazi-Germany and its persecution of Jews. There is an account of Kristallnight and Joseph Ripp's brothers' escape to Holland and England. His parents are dispersed over Europe, his father being held at St. Cyprien internment camp in France, his mother stuck in Antwerp, Belgium. Finally there is a family re-union in the USA. Joesph Ripp then writes about his family's fate in the US. He joins the army and combats in Europe. He receives education from Columbia University, and then meets his future wife, Mimi, a refugee child as well. Both go back to Europe in the 1950s. Joseph Ripp accepted a job offer in Brussels, Belgium, from his wife's uncle. The memoir closes with the upbringing of the next generation. There are several family photos and documents included in the appendix.
Note:
Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)
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