Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Family trees
- 1 Introduction
- 2 German-Jewish lives from emancipation through the Weimar Republic
- 3 Losing one's business and citizenship: the Geschwister Kaufmann, 1933–1938
- 4 Professional roadblocks and personal detours: Lotti and Marianne, 1933–1938
- 5 The November Pogrom (1938) and its consequences for Kurt and his family
- 6 New beginnings in Palestine, 1935–1939: Lotti and Kurt
- 7 Rescuing loved ones trapped in Nazi Germany, 1939–1942
- 8 Wartime rumors and postwar revelations
- 9 Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - New beginnings in Palestine, 1935–1939: Lotti and Kurt
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Family trees
- 1 Introduction
- 2 German-Jewish lives from emancipation through the Weimar Republic
- 3 Losing one's business and citizenship: the Geschwister Kaufmann, 1933–1938
- 4 Professional roadblocks and personal detours: Lotti and Marianne, 1933–1938
- 5 The November Pogrom (1938) and its consequences for Kurt and his family
- 6 New beginnings in Palestine, 1935–1939: Lotti and Kurt
- 7 Rescuing loved ones trapped in Nazi Germany, 1939–1942
- 8 Wartime rumors and postwar revelations
- 9 Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
A few months after their March 1935 wedding, Lotti had emigrated to Palestine with her husband Hans, one of the two sons of Flora and Julius Kaiser-Blüth. Julius and his half-brother Karl owned Mannsbach & Lebach Company on the Lindenstrasse in Cologne, a textile factory that manufactured occupational clothing, until it was “Aryanized” in December 1938. Hans had been an active member of the Zionist youth organization, Blue and White (Blau-Weiss). Studying in Munich and Berlin, he was trained as a mechanical and electrical engineer. Although he had gotten an apprenticeship with the prestigious Deutz Company in Cologne, he could not find work in his profession once the Nazis came to power. Hans did manage to get hired as a commission-only sales representative for Palestine by the MAN (Machine Factory Augsburg–Nuremberg) Company in March 1935, but only after it was clear that he would be emigrating to Palestine.
Lotti met Hans Kaiser-Blüth in a Hebrew class organized by the Zionist movement in Cologne. Hans, unable to find work as an engineer in Germany and, as a committed Zionist, anxious to pursue the ideal of settling in Palestine as a Jewish homeland, had already made immigration plans when he first met Lotti. Within a matter of months Lotti and Hans married and planned their move to Palestine.
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- Life and Loss in the Shadow of the HolocaustA Jewish Family's Untold Story, pp. 141 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011