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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 24 June 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Travels" 2007.06.23 (06) [E]
</span><br><br><div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Beste
Reinhardt,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">as a
Hamburgish local patriot ;-) you proudly mention the new project
<em>'Ballin-Stadt' </em>and forget to tell about the really great
<strong>'Deutsches Auswanderer-Haus'</strong> ( English homepage: <a href="http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/hauptseite_e.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/hauptseite_e.html
</a> )
in <strong>Bremerhaven</strong>, which also deals with the same,
the emigration of continental Europeans to abroad.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">I've made a visit there last year and was
deeply impressed. Before you're allowed to enter the inner rooms of the museum
you will be asked if you really want to leave your homeland, and then you'll
feel as if you're going aboard of one of those sailing- or steaming
vessels which were specialised for emigrants- the slight movement of a ship
lying at a pier included. You'll get a real passenger's identity out of
their great archieves and can make yourself familiar with her/his faith from
birth to (sometimes) dead.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">We met a
lot of American citizens there who fascinated followed the tracks of their
ancestors (or even found their own ones) and dealt with the very
informative material (films and documentations) the museum can
offer.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">If any
American is interested in her/his 'oldies' I just recommend to
make a visit there- in the public archieves, called <strong>'Forum
Migration'</strong> you could find your own ancestors'
names...</font></span></div><div> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Allerbest!</font></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Jonny Meibohm</font></div><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Travels</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks, Jonny.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Well, the topic of my piece (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/ballin-stadt.php">lowlands-l.net/travels/ballin-stadt.php</a>) is "Ballin-Stadt," so it's specific to Hamburg and the new project.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It is true, though, that in it I mentioned Triest (for the Austro-Hungarian Empire), and for that reason I've now added one to Bremerhaven as well.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There are differences, though. The new museum in Bremerhaven (for which I suggest a separate brief article) is the Deutsches Auswanderhaus (German Emigrants' House) which seems to be focused on
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">German</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> Emigrants. The Hamburg facilities served not only German emigrants but also those from other countries, especially from Eastern Europe. Those folks had already left their respective native countries by the time they arrived at the Veddel.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Interestingly, the Bremerhaven museum's focus is on emigration from Germany to America. I was under the impression that many or most German emigrants bound for Australia and New Zealand sailed from there as well. Generally speaking, I find it interesting that in Germany mention of historic emigration tends to mention only the USA. It is true that it was the main destination (and a very large percentage of US citizens today are of at least part German descent), but there was also a lot of emigration to Canada, Latin America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks again (also for consistently adding a "t" to my name)!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br>
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