Extracts from Frei’s Autobiographical NotesYDS 27-335

Extracts from Frei’s Autobiographical Notes
YDS 27-335

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“Four decisive moments in lived experience:
(1) Picture of Jesus -> Christian, nothing to do with going to Church
(2) Oscar Jaeger (Liberation war against Napoleon, American: George Washington -> Lincoln; my father’s war pictures? – politicization [elsewhere Frei writes: ‘Oscar Jaeger at 8’]
(3) 30 Jan., 1933 -> Kudamm, ‘Das Angriff’
(4) Quakers in Berlin -> U-Bahn
(5) Jobotinski? Zionists -> 1935″

“England Jan 35 – August 38 … John Palmer and Victorians?”

“America … Textiles -> shroud of Turin (no Haverford), shoe shine”