Farewell, my homeland
Bags packed. Ready to go. Hugs, and tears and kisses all around. “I’ll write as soon as I can,” Lisi says to her father, sisters and brother. “Safe journey,” they say. “Come back to us.” “We’ll miss you so.” I [...]
The Highest Recommendation
Mrs. Berta Jickeli, center in black (Lisi’s employer who wrote her therecommendation (Zeugnis-below), and her household help.Lisi is seated 2nd from left.The little girl she cared for, Berta’s daughter, Lisbeth, is at washtub, right. Dec.,1910. The above photograph [...]
When a resumé worked as passport
Lisi’s “Passport” Traveling sure was different 100 years ago. My grandmother, Lisi Ebner had to get all her papers in order to travel to America. I found her “passport” among the artifacts she left behind. She had actually written on [...]
Are we going there to stay?
June 7, 1911, postcard from Lisi to Josef. The two love-birds in a heart of roses, the clasped hands, and the forget-me-not blue flowers speak of love without saying a word. Lisi has made up her mind! One [...]
I will come
The blue flowers are “forget-me-nots” Josef’s long, heartfelt letter of May 25th, 1911, (click: If you love me…) could not yet have reached Lisi in Transylvania when she picked out this sweet postcard and wrote to him on May 30th. [...]