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Frida Englander Flick World War I Journals
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Frida Englander Flick was born in 1903 in Vienna, Austria. She fled the country in 1939 with her husband, and they arrived in the United States in 1940, with the help of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, settling in in Philadelphia. Frida worked as a garment worker until her retirement and passed away in October 1991 at the age of 98.
These journals were written by Frida Englander Flick in Vienna, Austria, as school assignments during the First World War. Flick wrote these between the ages of eleven and fourteen years of age. Each entry details the day's events of the war. The journals also give accounts of how Flick's life as a Viennese child was impacted by the war, and they provide a child's view of the war.
Each notebook contains daily entries in which Frida details the day's events in the war that was detailed in newspapers, on the radio, or through word of mouth. Within each notebook are pieces of ephemera including halftone postcards of government officials and warzone scenes, silver gelatin photographic postcards, unused ration cards, and newspaper clippings. Also included in the notebooks is a state-issued map from 1915 that includes descriptions of each party in the war with two announcements from Franz Joseph, as well as a ribbon from the Red Cross.
Folder 1: Journal I, February 19, 1915-August 30, 1915
Folder 2: Journal II, August 31, 1915-December 7, 1915
Folder 3: Journal III, December 8, 1915-April 11, 1916
Folder 4: Journal IV, July 28, 1914-December 15, 1914, April 12, 1916-November 4, 1916
Folder 5: Journal V, December 7, 1916-July 8, 1917
Collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared in June 2022 by Sarah DeRupo, Project Archivist.
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- Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
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- Sarah DeRupo, Project Archivist
- Finding Aid Date
- June 2022
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Collection is open for research.
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The Frida Englander Flick Journals are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. The creator/donor has assigned their rights to Temple University Libraries. Other creators' intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to them or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.
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