[Memoirs].

Essays, written for an adult education class in creative writing at Queens College during fall in 1985. The first essay covers Marianne Daniel's family history and the time in Germany before World War II. Two pieces cover her family's immigration to the USA, particularly their time in Belgium. There is a 3 page childhood memoir, recollecting memories of her vacations on a farm in northern Germany, Mecklenburg. One page is about her feelings towards Germany which lead her to boycott German goods.Marianne Daniel was born in Leipzig in 1921. Her prosperous family owned a fur business. She emigrated with her parents and her grandmother first to Belgium, and when it was attacked by Germany, they tried to flee to southern France but ended up in POW camp in northern Belgium. The Germans brought them back to Brussels, where they stayed at her sister's appartment. In 1941, visas arrived for the USA, where her brother and sister had lived, and they took a train via Paris to Bilbao, Spain. They had to wait a month for their visas and boarded the ship "SS Magallanes" to the USA on March 1, 1941.ChildhoodRural LifeEmigration and immigration; 1933-1945; SpainChristmasfur busines