Tag: german
Rose’s Notebook – Jan. 1st, 1917
May 9th, 2017 by Rose Dubois
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 …
Rose’s Notebook – Nov. 21th, 1916
April 10th, 2017 by Rose Dubois
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 …
Rose’s Notebook – Feb. 25th, 1916
March 11th, 2017 by Rose Dubois
February 25, 1916 Dear Diary, I haven’t had the urge to write for the last few days, but perhaps now the spark of hope has been relit. As I mentioned, I asked our newspaper’s editor about the prospect of joining the growing group of overseas journalists like Alice Rohe and Mary Roberts Rinehart, whose incredible book Kings, Queens and Pawns …
Rose’s Notebook – Dec. 21th, 1915
January 11th, 2017 by Rose Dubois
December 21, 1915 Dear Diary, Some Canadian pride this week as our men in the skies are beginning to show their strength. There is a rumour that a Canadian fighter pilot named M.M. Bell-Irving has been responsible for downing a German plane in the skies over Europe. I wonder if there are any other young pilots in our military that …
Rose’s Notebook – April 25th, 1915
November 11th, 2016 by Rose Dubois
Dear Diary, I could not be more proud of our fine Canadian soldiers, nor more disgusted with the Germans. Based on dispatches arriving from across the ocean, it seems increasingly clear that the Germans are using poisonous gas against the Allies on the Western Front. After this appalling tactic, I have to believe that the Allies will redouble their commitment …