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Ein Lied geht um die Welt (A Song Goes Around the World) / Die tote Stadt op. 12 – Glück, das mir verblieb (The dead city – Joy, that remained to me)
Hans May (music), Ernst Neubach (text) / Erich Wolfgang Korngold (music), Paul Schott (text) / Richard Resch (tenor), Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau (piano)
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How did a German Emigrant find his Way in Eastern Europe at the Beginning of the 19th Century?
How someone finds their way in a foreign country can be explored in different ways. In the case of Franz Xaver Bronner's travels from Switzerland to Kazan in 1810, and his return in 1817, a geographical approach is used to provide a fact-based foundation.
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Summer 1941: Jews from the Baltic States flee for their lives
The long shadow of the past. Only a few Jews from Lithuania and Latvia managed to escape the Holocaust in the Baltics. Here are some of their accounts and the reasons for their difficult escape.
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The longed for destination is America
Latvian Pēteris Plostiņš kept a detailed diary about the relief situation in the displaced persons camp in Kleinklötz (Bavaria) as well as about preparations for emigration to America.
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Two German-Baltic noblemen and a Polish coachman fleeing from Wartheland to Hesse, early 1945
A typewritten report from the refugee journey, several letters and a general map give an insight into how the noblewomen Irmela von Manteuffel, Adline von Campenhausen and their coachman Johann Borowczyk fled westward from the Soviet Army in early 1945.