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Engelhardt: The Story of a Woman
Engelhardt: The Story of a Woman
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Engelhardt follows the amazing life of Gisela (pronounced with the accent on the first sylable using a hard "e" sound for the i) Engelhardt from her birth n a village outside of Berlin, through her childhood where she shows us the city of Berlin with the eyes of a child and through the incredible and horrible years living under Hitler during WWII.
This courageous woman, whose grandmother died in a concentration camp because she was suspected of having anti-Hitler leanings, tells of the heart-wrenching decision to leave her Mother, Father and young brother to travel to the U.S.; a journey at the end of which she arrived in NY harbor at age 25 with one dollar in her pcketbook and with only a few English words at her command.
Living with an aunt and uncle, Gisela worked as a maid at a dude ranch in North Carolina and at a hotel in Dania, Florida before landing a job on the soda fountainof a Howard Johnson's where the manager took her under his wing and taught her to speak English.
Gisela's life in America then unfolds with all of its beauties and tragedies, including leaving her husband's funeral to give birth to her second child.
In the final section, this now thoroughly American woman traces the ancestry of a strong family back to its roots.
Engelhardt will make you see the Berlin of her youth, shudder atthe injumanity of war, laugh at the foiblesof a young immigrant, smile at the joy she encounters, cry at the tragedies and come to know an exemplary woman and her family.
This courageous woman, whose grandmother died in a concentration camp because she was suspected of having anti-Hitler leanings, tells of the heart-wrenching decision to leave her Mother, Father and young brother to travel to the U.S.; a journey at the end of which she arrived in NY harbor at age 25 with one dollar in her pcketbook and with only a few English words at her command.
Living with an aunt and uncle, Gisela worked as a maid at a dude ranch in North Carolina and at a hotel in Dania, Florida before landing a job on the soda fountainof a Howard Johnson's where the manager took her under his wing and taught her to speak English.
Gisela's life in America then unfolds with all of its beauties and tragedies, including leaving her husband's funeral to give birth to her second child.
In the final section, this now thoroughly American woman traces the ancestry of a strong family back to its roots.
Engelhardt will make you see the Berlin of her youth, shudder atthe injumanity of war, laugh at the foiblesof a young immigrant, smile at the joy she encounters, cry at the tragedies and come to know an exemplary woman and her family.
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