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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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9

SATURDAY

It will get easier

Encouragement for a seventeen-year-old

“Of course it takes a while to warm up to one another, especially if one does not know the language.”

Teplitz

Mrs. Pollak in Teplitz (Teplice), Czechoslovakia, was vacillating between relief that her daughter was safely out-of-reach from the Nazis reach and worry about 17-year-old Marianne’s physical and emotional wellbeing. After changing her initial plans to go to Palestine on Youth Aliyah, the young girl was now in England all by herself. The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany had heightened fears of a similar fate in Czechoslovakia. Refugees were kept out of the country, and local Jews had double the reason to worry – both as Czechs, and as Jews. With news from Vienna and Palestine bleak and Czechoslovakia’s future uncertain, Mrs Pollak made a loving effort to reassure Marianne that things would get easier for her in the new country over time.


TAGS: ANSCHLUSS, ANTISEMITISM, CHILDREN, DISPLACEMENT, EMIGRATION, FAMILY, FAMILY SEPARATION, JULY 9, LETTER, MUNICH AGREEMENT, PALESTINE, REFUGEES, TEPLITZ, TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS, YOUTH ALIYAH

SOURCE

Institution:

Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

Collection:

John Peters Pinkus Family Papers, AR 25520

Original:

Box 2, folder 22

 

on the days before

July 8
Staff exodus
July 7
Loew Blow
July 6
Dr. Singer’s Suitcase

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