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BOX 1: LOTTE FAIRBROOK MEMOIRS ["Dear Family!"]

1.1: Staff notes

1.2: VOLUME 1---CHILDHOOD & BACKGROUND

a- Ch 1: Early recollections at home

b-Ch 2: First journeys

c-Ch 3: Early school years

d-Ch 4: Friendships at school age

e-Ch 5: Religious holidays

f-Ch 6: Grandmother Magnus

g-Ch 7: Grandfather Magnus

h-Ch 8: Mother's characteristics

I-Ch 9: Mother and I

j-Ch 10: Grandmother Cohn

k-Ch 11: Grandfather Cohn

l-App. B1: Family tree

m-App. B2: Table of ancestry of B. Magnus

n-App. B3: Children of Bernard & Johanna Magnus

o-App. B4: Grandmother Magnus' ancestors & their dependents [incomplete]

p-App. B5: Cohn & Daniels and Cohn & Dorn

1.3: VOLUME 2---CHILDHOOD & BACKGROUND

a-Ch 12: Father: His political & cultural interests

b-Ch 13: Father: From boyhood to marriage

c-Ch 14: Father as a father

d-Ch 15: The last years with my brother

e-Ch 16: My brother's death

f-Ch 17: Friendships

1.4: VOLUME 3---ADOLESCENCE & YOUNG WOMANHOOD

a-Ch 1: Holland

b-Ch 2: The background & beginning of the First World War

c-Ch 3: Journey toward independence

d-Ch 4: Music - War work - Social work

e-Ch 5: At college in Hamburg

1.5: VOLUME 4---ADOLESCENCE & YOUNG WOMANHOOD

a-Ch 6: An interim - The Fall of 1919

b-Ch 7: Life takes a new turn

c-Ch 8: The handkerchief & A kiss went astray

d-Ch 9: A temporary infatuation?

e-Ch 10: Music making and dancing

f-Ch 11: Walking in the rain

g-Ch 12: The engagement

h-Ch 13: The wedding

I-Ch 14: The honeymoon

1.6: VOLUME 5---MARRIED LIFE IN GERMANY (1920-1924)

a-Letter introducing volume

b-Ch 1: Belonging to a group

c-Ch 2: Hildesheim, lovely little town

d-Ch 3: Our first child

e-Ch 4: Young Alvin & the Weissensteins, a flashback

f-Ch 5: A trip pursuing practical genealogy

g-Ch 6: Traveling, the spice of Alvin's life

h-Ch 7: Our first mistake: The wrong location

i-Ch 8: Exurbia Borgsdorf & more mistakes

j-Ch 9: Second childbirth

k-Ch 10: Father's death

l-Letter ending volume

1.7: VOLUME 6---MARRIED LIFE IN GERMANY (1925-1932)

a-Letter introducing volume

b-Ch 11: Our social life in Berlin

c-Ch 12: Raising a happy family as though there were no clouds on the horizon

d-Ch 13: Short trips & long journeys

e-Ch 14: The clouds on the horizon grew darker

f-Ch 15: 1931-32, The years of rising tension

1.8: VOLUME 7---MARRIED LIFE IN GERMANY (1933)

a-Ch 16: 1933 has a deceptive beginning

b-Ch 17: Exploring beautiful Tyrol

c-Ch 18: Dreadful news reaches our Shangri la

d-Ch 19: We leave Tyrol

e-Ch 20: A rough awakening

f-Ch 21: Facing decisions

g-Ch 22: The Palestine option

h-Ch 23: Belonging nowhere on this planet

1.9: VOLUME 8---FROM ONE PROMISED LAND TO ANOTHER (1933)

a-Ch 1: Alvin gets us settled in Alsace, France

b-Ch 2: Preparation for a tougher life

c-Ch 3: Alvin explores Palestine

d-Ch 4: No cure for impatience

e-Ch 5: Interlude in Berlin

f-Ch 6: Our journey from Muenster to Tel Aviv as told by Erika, age 16

g-Ch 7: My memory scraps of our journey

h-App A: Description & map of Muenster, France

I-App B: Map showing our way from Muenster to Haifa

m-App C: Map of northern Palestine

1.10: VOLUME 9--FROM ONE PROMISED LAND TO ANOTHER (1934-1937)

a-Ch 8: Friends & relaions

b-Ch 9: Our life in Tel Aviv

c-Ch 10: Omi's arrival

d-Ch 11: Ramal Gan

e-Ch 12: Becoming somewhat attuned to our new country

f-Ch 13: A serious disappointment & its consequences

g-Ch 14: Two unforgettable days

h-Ch 15: A fateful year begins

i-Ch 16: The desert wind & other tribulations

j-Ch 17: Alvin returns with tentative plans

k-Ch 18: A great surprise

l-App. A: Map of Tel Aviv & Ramat Gan

m-App. B: Uri's painting of Rachel's tomb

1.11: VOLUME 10-FROM ONE PROMISED LAND TO ANOTHER (1938)

a-Ch 19: Into an uncertain future

b-Ch 20: Finding the place to relax

c-Ch 21: Intermezzo in Yugoslavia

d-Ch 22: A rocky road to Amsterdam

e-Ch 23: The friendly Dutch

f-Ch 24: The miracle of a set of postage stamps