Unsere Vergangenheit, unsere Zukunft Erinnerungen

• Main Author: Winter, Lotte,1910-2000‏
• Format: Still Image
• Language: German
• Published: 1983
• Subjects: Antisemitism; Communists; Emigration and immigration; Jewish families; Marriage; Psychologists; Women authors; Women; Auguste; Golda; Jenny; Levy; Norway; Rosenthal; Sven; Hermine; lotte
• Online Access: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=644647&custom_att_2=simple_viewer

Reflections on anti-Semitism; voyage to Palestine in 1933; attempt to wed on ship to Palestine; life on a kibbutz; conversations with Beatrice and Arnold Zweig; recollections of Rabbi Norden of Wuppertal; relationship to Judaism and path to atheism; friendship during study in Bern after 1933; study at University of Bern; life as a communist emigrée in Switzerland; first wedding Gabriel Ersler; three months in Davos; death of father; move to Paris without husband; how the author learned various foreign languages; foreign study in the GDR; life in Paris; arrival of husband in Paris; suicide of brother following Kristallnacht; emigration of husband to Norway; attempts to leave France; activity in Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ) in Paris; activity of Egon Erwin Kisch in Paris; political activity in Paris; story of how the author became a communist; outbreak of World War II and correspondance with husband; emigration to Norway; study at University of Oslo; friendships in Oslo; flight to Sweden with husband and other communists; internment camp Lokabrun in Sweden; release and settlement in Sigtuna, Sweden; deportation of mother to Theresienstadt; birth of son; move to Stockholm; friends in the Swedish communist party; work as psychiatrist; birth of daughter; end of war; family life; work in hospital in Stockholm; return to Germany; recollections of grandparents; work in hospitals in Berlin and Potsdam; visit to Wuppertal and Elberfeld in 1955; doctorate in psychology; birth of third child; divorce from husband; work as teacher of psychology in Berlin. The following individuals are mentioned: Berendsohn, Walter; Cachin, Marcel; Dattan, Erika; Dattan, Otto; Ersler, Gabriel; Ewert, Arthur; Ewert, Minna; Fleischhacker, Else; Fleischhacker, Fanny; Fleischhacker, Hugo; Fleischhacker, Liebmann; Fleischhacker, Max; Groeger, Hermine; Groeger, Joseph; Hirsch, Emil; Hirsch, Hedwig; Katzenstein, Klotilde; Katzenstein, Ursel; Kisch, Egon Erwin; Lambert, Leo; Lechtmann, Tonia; Levy, Gustav; Levy, Lene; Linderot, Gerda; Linderot, Sven; Matern, Hermann; Matern, Jenny; Muehlingshaus, Auguste; Norden, Albert; Obermann, Karl; Ritscher, Golda; Rosenfeld, Hilde; Rosenthal, Rosalie; Seydewitz, Max; Sternhell, Heinrich; Svensson, Vallborg; Zuckermann, Leo; Zweig, Arnold; Zweig, Beatrice;. Lotte Winter, née Fleischhacker, emigrated to Switzerland in 1933, to France in 1937, to Norway and Sweden in 1939 and then settled in East Germany in 1946. Synopsis in file Davos Divorce Education; primary and secondary; 1918-1933 Education; higher; after 1945 Elberfeld Freie Deutsche Jugend Gurs (Concentration camp) Hospitals Lokabrun (Concentration or internment camps) Osnabrueck Spain; history; 19 Suicide Tel Aviv University of Bern Zionism Zurich