While the Lichtensteins endured a dramatic series of travails, the Fuhr family in Ohio underwent their own. A 10-month rest there led to a post for the former judge at St. Rushing through Spain and Portugal, they landed in New York, where American Quakers sent the Lichtensteins to the Scattergood Hostel near Iowa City. In June 1940 the family fled again, this time on foot to Limoges, pushing a doll’s baby carriage with their remaining worldly possessions.Īfter Edith’s father landed in concentration camps in the “free” South of France, a Swiss family donated its life savings to buy passage to “ Amerika” for the Lictensteins. Only a child, Edith - for one - watched as Hitler’s Brown Shirt regime imprisoned her father numerous times for alleged “crimes” and fled with him, her Bavarian-Lutheran-born mother and newborn brother first to Switzerland, then to France. Additional exhibits await viewers at various GRRL libraries: details are at The programming as well as the speakers viewed Minnesotans’ experiences of the Second World War from diverse perspectives. The project features a 32-community tour of the BUS- eum, a mobile museum featuring Behind Barbed Wire: Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany, an exhibit that includes the stories of Minnesota soldiers and airmen held in the Third Reich. They spoke in Central Minnesota as part of a special TRACES-organized Midwest narrative-history WWII project, War and the North Star: Minnesotans Experience WWII. This programming was made possible by a Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant awarded to the Great River Regional Library system.īoth Edith and Eb have lived in Minnesota, and still have relatives here. That day-long event launched an extensive, two-week exhibit and speaking tour around Central Minnesota. Cloud, from 10am-5pm Saturday, April 3rd. They also appeared at the Great River Regional Library in St. Cloud State University’s Atwood Memorial Center, 720 4th Av S and Eb from 7-9pm Thursday, April 1st, in the Atwood Center’s Voyageurs South Room on the SCSU campus. Eb was available via phone, pre-program, as well.īoth visitors appeared at several local venues: Edith from 7-9pm Wednesday, March 31st, in the Ballroom of St. Cloud-metro area for a week beginning March 29th to speak about their varied experiences, and lessons they have learned from them.Įdith made herself available to meet with interested media from 1-2pm Monday, March 29th, in Conference Room M69 at the co-sponsoring Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, on the Barry Family Campus, 4330 S Cedar Lake Rd, St Louis Park, MN 55416. Now respectively a retired educator and former business person, Edith Lichtenstein Morgan and Eberhard Fuhr visited the Twin Cities and St. Although both German-born, the perspectives from which these later-American youth, Edith and Eb, saw the rise of Hitler’s dictatorship and the subsequent global war it spawned, could hardly have been more different. His father emigrated to Cincinnati, and baked bread. Her Jewish father served as a judge in the pre-Nazi Weimar Republic. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION PROGRAM SCHEDULE interview with EdithĮdith Lichtenstein (holding kitten) sits with her brother Louis and two other child refugees at Scattergood Hostel, circa 1942. Two WWII “Witnesses” Return to Minnesota to Tell Their Stories Mobile Exhibit about Midwest POWs in Nazi Germany tours Central Minnesota 29 March-19 April 2010 - various times & locations, Twin Cities/Saint Cloud Metro Areas & Central Minnesota
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