Language:
English
Pages:
22 + 2 pages :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1998
Keywords:
Anrooy, Peter van,
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Borchardt family.
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Borchardt, Ursula,
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Hermann, Georg,
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Heynemann, Martha,
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
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Westerbork (Concentration camp)
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Children of divorced parents.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust survivors.
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Jewish families.
;
Women authors.
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Berlin (Germany)
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Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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Hilversum (Netherlands)
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Palestine Emigration and immigration.
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Schlierbach (Heidelberg, Germany)
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Genealogical tables
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs are a transcript of a taped conversation with Ursula Borchardt by George Rothschild in 1998. Description of her family background. Ursula lived with her parents in an apartment building in Schlierbach, near Heidelberg. She attended a private Jewish kindergarten. Ursula was frequently taken care of by relatives, since her parents were traveling a lot. After the early death of her mother, Ursula was taken care of by nannies. Friendly relations with her father’s first wife, the pianist Martha Heynemann and her half-siblings of that marriage. Trip to Holland via Cologne in 1929. In 1931 Ursula moved with her father to Berlin. Recollections of a somehow chaotic household, where she was left to herself frequently. She attended Tielien Schule. First signs of rising Nazism. Her father received a warning and fled to Holland during the elections in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power. Ursula was left to live with her father’s first wife, Martha. She joined her father in April of 1933 in Laren, Holland. She went to live with friends of her parents, the conductor Peter van Anrooy and his family in Hilversum. She learned Dutch and went to a Gymnasium in Hilversum. Language exchange trip to Paris in 1935 and London in 1937. German occupation. Marriage to Herbert Kalmann in 1940 and changing her name to Shulamith. Birth of their son Micky (Peter Kalmann) in 1941. Breakup with her husband in the same year and move in with her father. In 1943 they were forced to leave their apartment and move to Amsterdam. Deportation to Westerbork camp in June of 1943. Her father was deported to Auschwitz in November of 1943, where he died on arrival. Emergency affidavits for Shulamith, her son and her father arrived weeks after his deportation in Westerbork.
Abstract:
In 1944 Shulamit was transported with her son to Bergen-Belsen, where they waited for their exchange to Palestine. Description of the dreadful conditions of the camp. Start of the typhoid fever among camp inmates. In mid 1944 she was moved with her son to another part of the camp, where they were seperated from the main camp and lived under somehow improved circumstances, forming the Group 222 to be exchanged for German templars in Palestine. Transport to Palestine via Vienna and Turkey in June and July of 1944. Arrival in Haifa and start of a new life in a kibbutz.
Abstract:
Includes family tree of the Borchardt family.
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