Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] /

Typed transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.Erika's TagebuchIn's neue LebenErika Loebl-Steinberger was born in 1924 in Bamberg, Germany. She attended “Lyzeum der Englischen Fräulein” in Bamberg. In June of 1939 she emigrated together with her younger brother Werner to England, where they stayed in a boarding school. In August of 1939 they joined their parents in Ecuador. Erika established a Montessori Kindergarten (“Villa Erika”). In 1945 the family immigrated to the United States. Erika worked in a Kindergarten in New York and got married to Ralph Steinberger in 1947. The couple had two children.Aufhaeuser, AlbertAufhaeuser, DavidLöbl, Erika, 1924-1996.Löbl-Steinberger, Erika, 1924-1996.Loeb familySamson familyAltonaBlankeneseHamburgLondonRiessenShropshireThueringer WaldEmigration and immigration, after 1945, United StatesJuedischer Kulturbund‘Landschulheim New-Herrlingen’ at Bunce Court in Kent, EnglandProfessions and occupations, businessmenProfessions and occupations, chemist