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- Title:
- Eyewitness account by Elsa Meyring regarding her life in Stettin, the National Frauendienst and the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland
- Summary:
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The curriculum and autobiography of Mrs Elsa Meyring (born 1883) up to 1933 when - according to the last line of the report - “ihre Welt in Truemmern lag”.
It describes her childhood, the very high cultural and moral - somewhat ascetic - standards of her parental home, her apprenticeship with her father's printing and lithographic firm, her marriage and later the active interest she took in social work until she became organiser of the whole welfare service and “Stadtraetin” of Stettin. This report also includes interesting details regarding literature, politics (Frauenstimmrecht), etc. During the First World War she was also an organiser of the “Nationale Frauendienst”, the "Hinterbliebene" and "Kriegsbeschaedigtenfuersorge".
From 1933 onwards she was a member of the “Reichsvertretung”, and organiser of the “Winterhilfe” of the Jewish Community as well as of the “Auswanderungs-Beratungsstelle”. She was deported to Lublin on 12 February 1940.
- Witness:
- Meyring, Elsa
- Number of pages:
- 15 pieces
- Date(s):
- 1955
- Catalogue ID:
- 104710
- Reference number:
- 1656/1/1/292
- Location:
- Szczecin
- Date Range:
- Pre 1933
- Type of Material:
- Eyewitness account