Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Prologue: Jewish Women in Nazi Germany Before Emigration
- Part One A Global Search for Refuge
- 1 Jewish Women Exiled in France After 1933
- 2 Arrival at Camp de Gurs: An Eyewitness Report
- 3 Women Emigrés in England
- 4 England: An Eyewitness Report
- 5 Women Emigrés in Palestine: An Eyewitness Report
- 6 “Naturally, many things were strange but I could adapt”: Women Emigrés in the Netherlands
- 7 Refugee Women from Czechoslovakia in Canada: An Eyewitness Report
- 8 Women in the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Community
- 9 Shanghai: An Eyewitness Report
- 10 German-Jewish Women in Brazil: Autobiography as Cultural History
- 11 A Year in the Brazilian Interior: An Eyewitness Report
- Part Two Refuge in the United States
- Epilogue: The First Sex
- Index
6 - “Naturally, many things were strange but I could adapt”: Women Emigrés in the Netherlands
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- Prologue: Jewish Women in Nazi Germany Before Emigration
- Part One A Global Search for Refuge
- 1 Jewish Women Exiled in France After 1933
- 2 Arrival at Camp de Gurs: An Eyewitness Report
- 3 Women Emigrés in England
- 4 England: An Eyewitness Report
- 5 Women Emigrés in Palestine: An Eyewitness Report
- 6 “Naturally, many things were strange but I could adapt”: Women Emigrés in the Netherlands
- 7 Refugee Women from Czechoslovakia in Canada: An Eyewitness Report
- 8 Women in the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Community
- 9 Shanghai: An Eyewitness Report
- 10 German-Jewish Women in Brazil: Autobiography as Cultural History
- 11 A Year in the Brazilian Interior: An Eyewitness Report
- Part Two Refuge in the United States
- Epilogue: The First Sex
- Index
Summary
Of the 534 persons mentioned by name as émigrés to the Netherlands in the three-volume International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés, 1933-1945 only thirty-four are female. There were, however, many more women who are not listed. The biographies of the thirty-four women émigrés given in the first two volumes indicate that there were another eighteen women who fled to the Netherlands: their mothers and sisters. When I checked the first sixty-two names of the 500 male émigrés mentioned in the dictionary, I found thirty-four men whose mothers, sisters, wives, or daughters - fifty-four women in total - had also emigrated to the Netherlands. For example, the Social Democrat Karl Kautsky and his wife Luise, who is listed under his name, were followed in the summer of 1938 by the wife of their son Benedikt, who had been interned, and their two daughters. None of these family members appear in the dictionary. Quite another example is that of the historian and social scientist Henry Ehrmann, who emigrated via Czechoslovakia to Paris and then to the United States in 1940. His biography shows that his wife Claire Sachs had lived as an émigré in the Netherlands between 1935 and 1937. She is not listed separately.
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- Between Sorrow and StrengthWomen Refugees of the Nazi Period, pp. 97 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995