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    Growing up in Germany. (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Opel family. ; Liechtenstein family. ; Families ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New Zealand Emigration and immigration. ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a recorded document of an interview conducted in September 2002. Description of family background. Her father Fritz Opel was a journalist from a non-Jewish family, her mother Else, née Liechtenstein came from a large Jewish family in Berlin. Her father was killed shortly after her birth during World War One. Recollections of early childhood in Berlin, where Marianne and her older brother Fritz lived with their widowed mother in modest circumstances. Summer vaccations in the family’s country house in the Riesengebirge. Marianne attended a boarding school in Letzlingen. After her graduation she dismissed her dream to become a doctor and accepted a position as a secretary in order to help supporting her family. Rising of Nazi movement. Her brother was arrested for political activities and served three years in jail. After his release he immedeatly left Germany and escaped to Switzerland. Marianne received a permit as a domestic help for New Zealand and emigrated in 1939.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Look back to the future : Faithful report by a contemporary, who rather endured than enjoyed the times described. (1994)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 105 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Opel, Fritz (Kaspar) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir describes Fritz Opel's experiences from 1933 to 1945. Memoir was translated by his sister Marianne Haiselden in 1994.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Journey to New Zealand : Letter from Masterton - 2 November 1939. (1993)
    [Wellingron, New Zealand] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages (single space) : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: 2nd copy
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Opel, Else (née Lichtenstein) ; Opel, Fritz. ; Refugees Personal narratives. ; Women authors. ; Colombo (Sri Lanka) ; Masterton (New Zealand) ; New Zealand Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Marianne Opel describing her emigration to New Zealand including information on her stay in London; on life on the boat; on stops in Lisbon, Tangier and Marseilles; on her experiences in Colombo, Ceylon, and her detention in an internment camp for aliens; on her arrival in Sidney; on her impressions of life in Masterton, where she worked as household help for an elderly couple; and on her brother Fritz who was imprisonned in Germany for oppositional activities and later detained in France.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=637995&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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