Language:
English
Pages:
195 + 193
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1959
Former Title:
World Was Mine
Keywords:
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
;
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camps)
;
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
;
Westerbork (Concentration camps)
;
Emigration and immigration.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Refugees.
;
Social workers.
;
Voyages and travels.
;
Women authors.
;
Africa.
;
Australia.
;
Berlin (Germany)
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China.
;
England.
;
Germany.
;
Jordan.
;
Mexico.
;
Netherlands.
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Palestine.
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South Africa.
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Childhood in Berlin; church visits with nanny every Sunday; early death of mother; study at Alice Salomon's "Soziale Frauenschule"; extended journeys to England, Africa and Palestine; move to Holland; encounter with Zionism; activities as social worker and engagement in various refugee organizations in Holland; assistance for German-Jewish immigrants after 1933; experiences in concentration camps of Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Palestine in 1944; work for UNRRA in China and for Joint in Australia; contains preface by Frank Waters.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 1: The world was mine
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 2: no title
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
English
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=774061&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
