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Dunkelstein - pp 81
Czerninplatz. Früher Morgen. Kleine Grünanlage mit Plantagen. Hinter dem Stamm eine kleine Öffnung, ein toter Briefkasten. Edith Gold kommt herbeigestöckelt, ein bisschen auf leichtes Mädchen. Sie hat sich bei ihrem Begleiter untergehakt.
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"Damit war eine ursprüngliche multifunktionale Armen- und Alten-Versorgungseinrichtung in eine Medizinische Institution umgewandelt worden. im gleichen Jahr wurde daneben ein Gebär- und Findelhaus errichtet, das der Eindämmung des von Aufklärern heftig kritisierten Kindesmords dienen sollte. Die ledigen, überwiegend armen Mütter konnten hier ihre Kinder anonym zur Welt bringen. Ebenfalls 1748 wurde in Wien ein "Irrenhaus", das im sogenannten "Narrenturm" untergebracht war, seiner Bestimmung übergeben"
pp 105 from Armut und Reichtum in der Geschichte Österreichs by
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Then one morning I found my employers' newspaper and in it an advertisement for a seamstress in the teeming textile quarter north of the Hohermarkt.
I worked for Jasha Jacobson for three years. He came from Russian Poland and ran a typical sweat shop - overcrowded, noisy, ill-ventilated. I knew nothing about Jews: their religion, their habits - being there was as strange to me as if I'd gone to work in an Arabian souk. We worked unbelievably long hours and my pay was low, but I've never ceased to be grateful for my time there. I learnt everything there was to know about tailoring: choosing the cloth, cutting, repairing the ancient, rattling machines. At first I was a freak - a schickse set down in the midst of this close knit immigrant community - but gradually, I became a kind of mascot. People passing smiled and waved at the blonde girl sitting in the window beside the cross-legged men sewing their button holes. And I was never molested - I might have been a girl of their own faith by the care they took of me.
pp 63-64 from Madensky Square by
I worked for Jasha Jacobson for three years. He came from Russian Poland and ran a typical sweat shop - overcrowded, noisy, ill-ventilated. I knew nothing about Jews: their religion, their habits - being there was as strange to me as if I'd gone to work in an Arabian souk. We worked unbelievably long hours and my pay was low, but I've never ceased to be grateful for my time there. I learnt everything there was to know about tailoring: choosing the cloth, cutting, repairing the ancient, rattling machines. At first I was a freak - a schickse set down in the midst of this close knit immigrant community - but gradually, I became a kind of mascot. People passing smiled and waved at the blonde girl sitting in the window beside the cross-legged men sewing their button holes. And I was never molested - I might have been a girl of their own faith by the care they took of me.