Tag: Elisabeth

  April 6, 1917, Dear Diary, There is news today that the United States has finally decided to enter the war. Although its troops may not be on the ground for weeks or months, many believe that this will be a turning point in the conflict. I feel, at times, as if we are hoping against hope that some moment, …

Dear Diary, Another year begins, and again my life moves in directions I never could have imagined. Unexpectedly, Elisabeth Von Werdenberg did more than just prepare a passport for me: she made arrangements to chaperone me directly into Germany. Elisabeth and Ernst with Sigmund Freud And I am quite sure that without her help I might not have made it …

November 21, 1916 Dear Diary, Grüß dich — Hello, diary. What a difficult few months it has been. I cannot believe that I am writing these words in a news office in Vienna, Austria. War makes strange bedfellows, and so here I sit, in a small room at the back of the Social Democratic Arbeiter-Zeitung (Workers’ Newspaper). Arbeiter-Zeitung newspaper I …