List of Figures

All images used with permission

FIG. 2.1 The author and her partner (l & r center) at their wedding ceremony, August 12, 2018. © William Davis.

FIG. 4.1 Free books in Kendall Square micro-library kiosk, Cambridge, MA. © 2019 Martina S. Anderson.

FIG. 4.2 Collage © 2020 Martina S. Anderson. [Collage of letter salutations from Julius to Lilli Seligsohn, 1939–1941; ink stamp from envelope addressed to Lilli Seligsohn, Amsterdam, from Julius Seligsohn, postmarked January 9, 1940, Berlin-Charlottenburg 2; photograph of Lilli Seligsohn, c. 1970].

FIG. 4.3 “Das Kloster Wienhausen bei Celle, Ansicht des vormaligen Nonnenchors” (Wienhausen Abbey near Celle, view of the former nun’s choir loft). Archiv für Niedersachsens Kunstgeschichte: eine Darstellung mittel-alterlicher Kunstwerke in Niedersachsen und nächster Umgebung, edited by Hector Wilhelm Heinrich Mithoff, Hannover, 1849-62, https://digi.ub.uni-heidel-berg.de/diglit/ank [Public Domain].

FIG. 4.4 Photograph in photo album (group of girls), 1920s. © 2020 Martina S. Anderson.

FIG. 4.5 Page from photo album (Kochstunde, Eβzimmer/cooking lesson, dining room), 1920s. © 2020 Martina S. Anderson.

FIG. 4.6 “Fröhliche Sportgruppe” (Joyful sporting group), Winter 1935. Reproduced from the author’s photo collection.

FIG. 7.1 Dissertation Writing Group, c. 1999. Back row (right to left): Beth Ann Muellner, Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres; front row (right to left): Lorna Sopcak, Brigetta M. Abel, Rebecca Raham, Martina S. Anderson. © Pascale Bos.

FIG. 8.1 Cover page of “Autobiographical Writings of German Women,” Mittman/Roetzel Course Syllabus, Summer 1987 © Elizabeth Mittman and Lisa Roetzel.

FIG. 8.2 Excerpt from “Self-Preservation as Political Action,” Mittman/Roetzel unpublished paper, Spring 1986. © Elizabeth Mittman and Lisa Roetzel.

FIG. 8.3 “Schon wieder in Holland, Rotkäppchen?” (In Holland Again, Little Red Riding Hood?), by Lisa Roetzel, Women in German Newsletter, no. 54, March 1991, p. 8.

FIG. 8.4 “Dancing Through the Minefield,” by Lisa Roetzel, Women in German Newsletter, no. 55, August 1991, front cover.

FIG. 8.5 “Landing Party from the Planet Herstra,” by Lisa Roetzel, Women in German Newsletter, no. 57, March 1992, p. 8.

FIG. 11.1 Shawn Jarvis with Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres at her PhD defense celebration luncheon, Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1990. © Shawn Jarvis.

FIG. 12.1 Sarah Stephens and Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres, MA celebration, June 2008. © Sara Stephens.