2025/12/02 by Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum
#2nd third 20th century #Agriculture (field of activity) #Alltagsgeschichte #Austria #Childhood #Cultural studies #Danube Swabians #Ethnology #Flight (human behaviour) #Germany #History #Hungary #Integration #Migration (human) #Migration history #School (Institution ) #World War II
paper · doi:10.25355/kfgv-kk80
On November 18 1944, nine-year-old Elsa Beck flees the Hungarian village of Máriakéménd with her mother and sister. Elsa's mother allows her to take with her what she can carry herself. Elsa decides to take her school suitcase. Today, it is held in the Danube Swabian Central Museum in Ulm.