Language:
English
Pages:
81 + 16 + 12
,
bound typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
2005
Keywords:
Frank, Werner L.
;
Geissmar, David Jacob.
;
Geissmar, Johanna,
;
Oppenheimer, Clemens.
;
Oppenheimer, Mina (née Adler)
;
Oppenheimer, Max,
;
Plotnik, Marlies (née Wolf),
;
Wolf family.
;
Wolf, Hermann David,
;
Wolf, Paul Jacob.
;
Wolf, Theodor.
;
Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG.
;
Queen Mary (Steamship)
;
Antisemitism.
;
Jews History 20th century.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Jews, German Genealogy.
;
Kristallnacht, 1938
;
Lawyers.
;
Leather industry and trade
;
Darmstadt (Germany)
;
New York (N.Y.)
;
United States Emigration and immigration.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoir starts with the Wolf family's arrival in New York City in February 1939, including a brief description of the ship Queen Mary. Then the memoir jumps back in time, to the year 1933:.fFamily life, their live-in maid who had to leave the family in 1937. The two older siblings Paul and Ellen were exposed to anti-Semitism in their schools, and were sent by their parents to an international boarding school and a Jewish school respectively. Marlies Plotnik then talks about her grandparents and the family's leather business, Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. She recollects the events of Kristallnacht in Darmstadt. She saw that both the conservative and orthodox synagogues were ablaze. It follows a detailed genealogical description of her family background. Then "Life in Pre-Hitler Darmstadt" is covered. Marlies Plotnik writes about the daily routine of her middle class family. Her parents attended the cultural events of Darmstadt, theater, the ball season, etc. The second part of the memoir is dedicated to the departure from Germany, the emigration via England, and the immigration into the USA. The family settled in Washington Heights, as did so many other Jewish families from Germany. Attached are family pedigrees, family photographs, passports (copies), and documents.
Note:
English
URL:
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