Language:
German
Pages:
typewritten manuscript (bound).
Year of publication:
1942
Keywords:
Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother),
;
Goldschmidt, Grete,
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Goldschmidt, Siegfried,
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Rosenow, Grete.
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Antisemitism.
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Children.
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Education, Primary
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Families 19th century.
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Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918.
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Sports.
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Voyages and travels.
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Women authors.
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Wrocław (Poland)
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir was written 1942 in Haifa, Palestine. Recollection of Toni Ehrlich (née Goldschmidt)'s childhood in Breslau at the end of the 19th century (1880-1895) in an assimilated upper-class Jewish family. Her father, Siegfried Goldschmidt, was the representative of Hoechst IG Farben, the chemical industry company in eastern Europe and founded the largest soap factory in eastern Germany. In 1872 he married Flora Rother. Both her parents were fond of traveling. Her older sister Grete, born 1873, was an excellent student and very close to her. Toni Ehrlich attended the Froebel Kindergarten from age 4 to 6. Recollections of summer vacations in the countryside. Memories of Christmas celebrations and fasting on Yom Kippur. Cultural life and family meetings. Her mother encouraged toughening (Abhaertung) through physical exercises and swimming lessons for her daughters at an early age. Recollections of her elementary school and her early awareness of being different as the only Jewish student among her class amtes. Memories of Imperial Germany and patriotic celebrations of the emperor's birthday at school. Piano and dance lessons. Dream of becoming a dancer, which was impossible in her social setting. In 1891 Toni Goldschmidt was enrolled in the Augusta girl's school in Breslau, where she received Jewish religious education for the first time. Summer vacations in Tyrol and Italy. Recollections of the invention of electric light and memories of the first telephone. Private French lessons. Engagement of her sister to the lawyer Felix Abramczyk. Death of her father in 1894.
Note:
Memoir available on microfilm
,
German
