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Alfred Hübner presents in a dramatic tale the story of the Austrian, Emma Bar-
ta-Mikl (1908-1993). The daughter of an unmarried mother, she was adopted by
a family with whom she had a turbulent relationship. She married very young and
had a son. When her husband died, she had already developed her passion in
reading and books, her main intellectual interest for the rest of her life. She then
married a Jew, whom she and her son accompanied in Argentine exile. Before
emigrating, she had published a novel. Her second husband could not bear the
climate in Buenos Aires and moved on to Mendoza, dying there in 1948. She
earned a living by working in various occupations, as well as being supported at
some moment by Isabel Reinke (cf. Spitta). She formed a circle of young emigrés,
who shared an enthusiasm for literature. She worked for several years at the
Pigmalion Bookshop, specializing in English books. Around 1960 she left this
occupation and went to live in Peru. There she worked in the ABC Bookshop,
before eventually returning to Buenos Aires to found the ABC Bookshop in Bue-
nos Aires together with her friend Horst Stephan. She retired in 1975 and died
1993 in Villa General Belgrano, in Córdoba Province.

Ana María de Mena has written about the life of Charlotte Thumann, née
Fröhlich (1917-2009), a renowned photographer who lived most of her life in
San Martín de los Andes, in Neuquén Province. Born and raised in Cologne,
Germany, a promise of marriage brought her to Misiones, Argentina. She did
exchange vows in Misiones, but it was her betrothed’s brother whom she mar-
ried. The couple lived for several years in Paraguay, then returned to the city of
Eldorado in Misiones and finally settled in San Martín de los Andes in northern
Patagonia. There they began to work as photographers, having learned photo-
graphy earlier as a hobby. When her husband later moved east to Junín de los
Andes, Charlotte continued the photography business with her children. She left
an interesting photographic oevre about the Andean zone and its inhabitants,
which is dispersed among various publications.

María Cecilia Gallero has contributed an account of her former German teacher,
Rotraud Wieland, née Connert, who was born in Transylvania (settled in the
Middle Ages by Germans) and lived in Württemberg after World War II. At the
beginning of the war she met her husband Kurt Wieland, a young man who
belonged to a group of Germans who had lived in Palestine since the late nine-
teenth century. The couple married and had their first son before the end of the
conflict. Wieland survived several years at the front, and after the war relatives
invited them to emigrate to Argentina. The trip had to be postponed for several
years due to health reasons, but they arrived in Misiones in 1952 and initially
subsisted as pioneers in Laharrague. Years later, they moved to Puerto Espe-
ranza, where Rotraud Wieland lives now. The family’s multilayered migratory
background is rescued in this article.