Memoirs from Germany and Palestine 1898 - 1938
by Lotte Fairbrook
Introduction
This book is an autobiography of our mother, Lotte Fairbrook (formerly Schönbach) who was born as Lotte Cohn in Hannover, Germany in May 1898. She wrote these memoirs in ten volumes of approximately seventy typewritten pages each, over a period of approximately fifteen years, ending with her death at the age of 98 in the summer of 1996.
The readers will find in this book not only an interesting story as it describes the saga of the Schönbach-Fairbrook family from 1898 to 1938 and its travels from Berlin to France to Palestine, Yugoslavia, Holland and, finally, the United States. They will find as well some fascinating descriptions of the life of well-to-do German-Jewish families in the period before Hitler, and insight into the daily life of a young girl in comfortable surroundings during the period before and after World War I.
Mother also describes in some detail the development of the Nazi state as seen from the eyes of a Jewish young wife and mother. The family's emigration to Palestine and its experiences in that country from 1933 to 1937 are another subject that will be of interest to many. The difficult decision to leave Palestine, and the harrowing, and potentially fatal, train travel through Germany on the way to Holland is another gripping chapter in the book.
The book ends with the family's immigration to the U.S.A., and its successful passage through Ellis Island and settlement in New York City.
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