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I have mentioned that my best friend and seatmate was Sonja Schönfeld, whose parents had migrated to Germany after wandering all over Europe while she had been just a baby. She claimed her family were descendants of the tribe of the Levites and were orthodox Jews, though I don’t believe that Sonja was.
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[Max Schmeling (1905–2005) fought in Berlin on January 6, 1928, against Michele Bonaglia, the Italian light heavyweight champion, who he knocked out in the first round. Schmeling became the first European to become the world heavyweight champion (1930–1932) and he knocked out African American boxer Joe Louis in a 1936 fight in New York, and this success was appropriated into Hitler’s Nazi propaganda. Louis easily defeated him in a rematch in 1938. For comments on Schmeling by Fatima Massaquoi’s nephew, see Hans Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (London: HarperCollins, 2001), pp. 91–95. Eds.]
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© 2013 Fatima Massaquoi, Vivian Seton, Konrad Tuchscherer and Arthur Abraham
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Massaquoi, F., Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (2013). The “Invincibles,” and My Departure for Switzerland. In: Seton, V., Tuchscherer, K., Abraham, A. (eds) The Autobiography of an African Princess. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137102508_14
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