Tag: 2024-09 Notes-From-Renate
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The Autograph Book
July 15, 1939. For my 7th birthday, Aunt Fanny gave me a beautiful poetry album bound in brown leather, which even had a little lock on it. I had discovered it long before among the treasures in her shop. On the front left-hand pages she had pasted black paper cutouts, a rarity that no other…
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Kristallnacht
November 10, 1938. At home on the peaceful outskirts of the city in the quiet residential area around the Battle of Nations Monument, I, as a 7-year-old, didn’t notice anything of the riots. I only remember that my father came home the next day completely distraught from his office in the New Town Hall and…
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Otto Schellhorn
An article published in the October 30th, 1969 edition of the Berchtesgaden Newspaper on his 70th birthday, provides a gentle overview: Tomorrow, Thursday, October 30, the retired building inspector, Dipl. Ing. Otto Schellhorn (Berchtesgaden and Marktschellenberg), will be 70 years old. The celebrant, whose parents’ house is in Sonneberg in Thuringia, has acquired a large…
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Renate
Renate was born July 15, 1932 in Unterkochen, Baden-Württenberg, Germany. Her father was Otto Schellhorn, and mother Elsa Schellhorn (née Gmur). Walter was Otto’s brother, and thus Renate’s uncle, and Dickie was Walter’s second wife. It is important to keep in mind that these stories were written by a middle-aged woman, recalling the memories encoded…