7 resultados para life in Waterville attractions
em Center for Jewish History Digital Collections
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Obverse: 1 Lira coin, torch and inscription. Reverse: Inside of a depressed pentagon there is a design of a war elephant bearing a turret and Greek soldiers equipped for battle. The elephant is being stabbed by Elazar.
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The author describes his escape from Nazi Germany to France together with his mother. He volunteered for the French army (Defense Nationale), but his application was rejected. After the outbreak of the war Schoenfeldt was interned in Antibes and Les Milles. Recollections of life in the internment camps. Lack of basic hygienic conditions. German invasion of France. Escape from the invading German army. Reunion with his mother. Fervent endeavors to leave France for Spain in order to escape another internment. Escape with his 76 year old mother via the Pyrenees. Arrival in Lisbon. Exit visa for America. In 1941 Herbert Schoenfeldt left with his mother for the United States.
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This is the first of three books about the history of Geoffrey Lynfield's family. It is about four Lilienfeld brothers--Geoffrey Lynfield's grandfather and his brothers. They were born in the Jewish enclave of Marburg and ended up in South Africa when and where the first diamonds were discovered. The manuscript also includes photographs and documents.
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Apprenticeship as goldsmith; marriage in time of economic crisis (1919); persecution of Jews after 1933; November pogrom 1938 in Kassel; emigration to USA in 1940; beginnings of new life in USA.
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Annotated typescript of a dramatic sketch about life in Tahiti. According to a note in 1967, the work was written ‘some years ago’, probably in 1952.
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Second version of a stage play about life in Vienna around the time of the Turkish siege of Vienna, 1683.
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Manuscript: "K. u. K. Landsturm. Erinnerungen aus dem Weltkriege in vier Bildern". Autobiographical play, in four acts, recalling life in the Imperial Austrian Army in a Hungarian village in 1916.