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Note: From her biography (loosely translated with help of Google translate): Her parents immigrated a few years ago from Brody, a Galician/Russian border station. One grandfather was a rabbi. [her] father was a merchant and had a textile warehouse “selbstandiger” in the free port, where he employed three employees. He himself was very often on the road for purchasing. He was never political and did not participate in the elections as a foreigner. About her education Frieda Duwell explained that Hamburg had better schools than Prussia, especially for boys. For girls there were only elementary schools that were also more comfortable than the Prussian, they provided English language teaching, and also all children learned to swim. She attended one of these private schools for girls under state supervision. Her mother, who had big plans for her three girls, wanted them to attend the best of these schools. Her father sat on the board of the big Jewish community, and the whole living of the family was particularly ritualistic. Frieda had painted as a child on a Friday night with her fingers by the misted windowpane. For this serious violation of the Sabbath commandment she was punished severely. She had to spend three hours standing in the a dark corner, and her Father himself fasted for three days to reconcile this huge violation by his child. From the library entry described below: “At age 17, Frieda Duewell, became a member of Verband fuer Frauenstimmrecht led by Anita Augspurg and Gustava Heymann; Duewell left Jewish congregation and became Zionist; training and work as a teacher; in 1905 she became a member of the Social Democratic Party; 1906 she married the journalist Eugen Prager who worked for the Offenbacher Abendblatt; 1907 move to Cologne and later to Berlin; separation from Prager and dedication to working for the party, in part with Rosa Luxemburg; married Wilhelm Duewell in 1917; same year Frieda Duewell was founding member of left-wing splinter group, the Unabhaengige sozialdemokratische Partei (USPD); November 1918 to February 1919 work in newly founded newspaper "Rote Fahne", member of worker and soldier council (Arbeit und Soldaten Rat); later in 1919 work for newspaper "Die Freiheit"; 1921 travel to Moscow to founding meeting for international trade union (Gewerkschaftsinternationale, PROFINTERN) and meeting of international women's conference; subsequent travel through the Soviet Union; 1928 return to Berlin and work with the central committee of the Communist Party." There are further references in the notes to her having met with Trotsky in Russia at the foregoing meeting. --From the Information of the Master Catalogue of Leo Baeck Institute (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) Collection: Archives Call No.: ME 859; MM II 10 Call No. Berlin: LBIJMB MM II 10 Location: Memoir Collection; Microfilm Cabinets Duewell, Frieda; Orchudesch, Frieda , compiled by: Duewell, Frieda, Orchudesch, Frieda. Erinnerungen. Memoirs, Microfilms; 1884-1928; 23 pages (single space) Photocopy; German. - Translated from Ilse Fischer and Rüdiger Zimmermann "Unsere Sehnsucht in Worte kleiden“ Eugen Prager (1876-1942)": Frieda Orchudesch, m. Prager, m. Düwell, born 11.30.1884 in Hamburg, died 14/03/1962. Parents: Oscar and Rosalie Orchudesch,born Herschel. The father was a self-employed businessman, had aTextile warehouse in the free port of Hamburg and was a member of the Boardthe Jewish community. To the details in the following: "Memoirsof Frieda Orchudesch ", p 2-52, microfilm archive of the JewishMuseum, Berlin, LBIJMBMM II 10 (copy from the LeoBaeck Institute). Date of death according to the information to: Carl-Erich Vollgraf:Stalinism and the end of the first Marx-EngelsComplete Edition (1931-1941). Documents on the political purgesthe Marx-Engels Institute in 1931 and for the enforcement ofStalin's line on the United Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute inCentral Committee of the CPSU, Hamburg 2001 (Contributions to the Marx-EngelsResearch: Special Issue; N.F., Vol 3), p 405 For a biography seeDFD also official questionnaire, pp. 61 - 62, CV, pp. 67-68,"My jobs", pp. 72, Bundesarchiv Berlin, SAPMOArchiv,NY 4151, vol I, Frieda Düwell estate.
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