Language:
English
Pages:
5 + 4 + 5 pages :
,
typescripts.
Year of publication:
1997-2001
Keywords:
Levy family.
;
Levy, Leo,
;
Weil, Leo.
;
Weil, Liselotte L. (née Levy),
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United States.
;
Education, Primary.
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Jewish religious education 1918-1933.
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Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
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Kristallnacht, 1938.
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Reform Judaism.
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Women authors.
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Neuwied (Germany)
;
United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties.
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Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were comprised as speeches from 1997-2001. Brief description of family history. Recollections of the Neuwied Reformed Jewish community. Liselotte attended the Jewish school. Description of domestic life with a nanny and religious traditions. Nazis and preparation of their parents for the children's emigration. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom 1938 (Kristallnacht). The family was arrested and their father beaten up so brutally that he died two weeks later. Liselotte and her younger brother Leo were sent to relatives in the US in 1939. Her brother joined the US army. Their mother and sister stayed in Germany and probably perished during the Holocaust. Description of life with relatives in the United States. Courtship and marriage to Leo Weil.
Description / Table of Contents:
Talk given by Liselotte Weil, July 9, 1997 [in New Orleans]; 5 pages.
Description / Table of Contents:
Sermon by Liselotte Weil at Temple Sinai, New Orleans, on Dec. 7, 2001; 4 pages.
Description / Table of Contents:
In memory of my brother, Aug. 19, 1998; 5 pages.
Note:
English
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Synopsis in file
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