1. Else Ury was a German-Jewish novelist and children's book author.
19 Facts About Else Ury
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Else Ury was pulled between patriotic German citizenship and Jewish cultural heritage.
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In 1943, Else Ury was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where she was murdered upon her arrival.
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Else Ury was born in Berlin on 1 November 1877, into a family of Jewish merchants.
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Else Ury despite attending the Lyzeum Konigliche Luisenschule, chose not to pursue a profession.
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Else Ury started writing, under a pen name, for the Vossische Zeitung.
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Else Ury sent her stories to acquaintances in London, among them her 20-year-old nephew Klaus Heymann, who had immigrated to England because he was not allowed to study in Germany.
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Else Ury's works have not been translated into English, although there are French, Dutch, and Norwegian editions.
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Else Ury wrote to Kohner, referring to his Berlin address, "because of the mail censor, please only write in terms that cannot be misunderstood".
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Else Ury indicated that she had included volume 4, Nesthakchen and the World War, and she described in general terms the contents of the other volumes.
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Else Ury suggested that the lead role in volume 6, Nesthakchen Flies From the Nest, could be played by a big girl; a child star could take the role of Nesthakchen's daughter in volume 7, Nesthakchen and Her Chicks.
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Else Ury suggested her book Baumeisters Rangen that, in her opinion, would make a good film story.
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Else Ury promised to send the books to Kohner's agency, and gave the address of her brother Ludwig as her business correspondent.
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Memorials to Else Ury have been placed in Berlin and Karpacz.
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Else Ury describes in Nesthakchen and the World War the experiences of Annemarie Braun, who is eleven years old when the story begins and thirteen when it ends.
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Else Ury was patriotic toward Germany, and her descriptions of the events in and around the First World War were classified by the control boards as glorifying Germany's war.
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Else Ury wrote other books and stories, primarily for girls and young women.
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Else Ury intended to end the Nesthakchen series with volume 6, Nesthakchen Flies From the Nest.
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Usually, the children are different in character and temperament, and Else Ury uses the duplication for various mix-up anecdotes.