Fairbrook (Lotte C.) Memoirs, 1898-1938

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Summary

Title:
Fairbrook (Lotte Cohn) Memoirs,
Dates:
1898-1938
Creators:
Lotte Cohn Fairbrook
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Fairbrook (Lotte Cohn) Memoirs, Mss177, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Background

Scope and content:

The Lotte Fairbrook Memoirs describe Mrs. Fairbrook's life from its beginnings in Hamburg, Germany (1898) through her emigration to Palestine (1933) and then to the United States(1938).

Biographical / historical:

Lotte Cohn Fairbrook (1898-1996) was the daughter of a well-to-do banker in Hamburg, Germany. She attended Gertrud Baumer's Women's School of Social Work in that city. In 1920 Lotte Cohn married Alvin Schoenbach, a banker of Hildesheim, Hanover. The Schoenbachs had four children (1922-29), Erika, George, Paul and Helmut. In 1924 they moved to Berlin. There Alvin Schoenbach collected miniature paintings. With the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, the Schoenbachs resolved to emigrate to Palestine. The sale of one of Schoenbach's miniatures financed their trip and they arrived in Tel Aviv in 1933. The parents found that Palestine's climate and social conditions were not to their liking, however, and they soon planned to emigrate to America. During this period, Alvin began collecting postage stamps and the sale of a portion of his collection helped finance their perilous trip to America via Yugoslavia (1938). After their arrival in the United States, the Schoenbachs translated their German name as "Fairbrook." Alvin Fairbrook continued in the stamp collecting business in New York City. He died in 1962. Mrs. Fairbrook remained in New York until 1982, when she moved to Stockton (Calif.) to be near her sons, George, a computer programmer with Atkinson Computer, and, Paul, Director of Auxiliary Services at the University of the Pacific and, later, Commissioner of the Port of Stockton (Calif.).

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Physical description:
0.5 linear ft.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Daryl Morrison; rev. by Don Walker; machine-readable finding aid created by Don Walker
Date Prepared:
© 1998
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Date of source: 1996; October 1998.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Fairbrook (Lotte Cohn) Memoirs, Mss177, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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