Ludwig's Mother Remembers

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December 05, 2005

Ludwig's Mother Remembers
B.K. Marcus

While looking up the names of some of Mises's relatives, I came upon this piece of personal history at JewishGen® ShtetLinks:

Adele Mises Remembers . . .

A Day in the House of My Parents

(Mrs. Adele Mises dictated her reminiscences to a relative around 1929. Born in 1858, she was a granddaughter of Moses Kallir, grandniece of Mayer Kallir, prominent citizens of Brody, a city then in Austrian Galicia, now in Ukraine.)

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I especially enjoyed Adele's description of the "potato raffle."

Posted by B.K. Marcus at December 5, 2005 12:30 PM