Language:
German
Pages:
40 + 23 pages :
,
typescript (carbon copy).
Year of publication:
1939
Keywords:
Dienemann, Max,
;
Dienemann, Mally,
;
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
;
Nationaler Frauendienst (Berlin, Germany)
;
Antisemitism.
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Women Education
;
Jewish families 19th century.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945.
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Orthodox Judaism.
;
Rabbis.
;
Women authors.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
;
Golub-Dobrzyń (Poland)
;
Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948.
;
Racibórz (Poland)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Recollections of the author's childhood in Gollub (West Prussia) on the border to the Polish-Russian town Dobrzyn. Description of the orthodox Jewish community in Dobrzyn and the assimilated life in Gollub. Mally was enrolled in a homemaking school (Hoehere Toechternschule) and has positive recollections of the relationship with her gentile classmates. In 1900 she was sent to a girl's boarding school in Berlin, where she became involved in literary circles. Influence of the women's movement and opposition of her parents to her wish to learn a profession. In 1904 she got married to the rabbi Max Dienemann. Introduction to a new perception of Judaism. Life in Ratibor. Recollections of World War One. War relief work in a patriotic woman's organization (Nationaler Frauendienst) and confrontation with the plight of the workers' families. Spartakus revolution of 1918. Treaty of Versailles.
Abstract:
Max and Mally Dienemann moved to Offenbach in 1919. Inflation and food shortages. Lectures of her husband. Unemployment and political instability of the Weimar Republic. Rise of Nazism. Boycotts and slowly increasing persecution of Jews in Germany in 1933. Emigration of Mally's siblings and her eldest daughter to Palestine. Optimism of her husband and believe in the general decency of his fellow Germans. Arrest of Max Dienemann in December 1933 after lecturing on Herode and drawing parallels to present time. He was taken to Osthofen concentration camp and was released after a few weeks with the help of gentile friends. Censorship and anti-Jewish propaganda in the press. Discrimination of her children at school. Awareness of the growing danger of Nazi Germany. Kulturbund and Jewish cultural life. Decision to emigrate to Palestine. November pogrom in 1938. Arrest of Max Dienemann, who was taken to Buchenwald. Description of Jewish life in the midst of discrimination and persecution. Emigration to Palestine via England in December 1938.
Description / Table of Contents:
Aufzeichnungen
Description / Table of Contents:
Letters and notes
Description / Table of Contents:
Tagebuchblaetter
Note:
Available on microfilms MM 18 and MF 96(1).
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German
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