Gabrielle Robinson: 3 books
Better Homes of South Bend
An American Story of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
In 1950, a group of African American workers at the Studebaker factory in South Bend met in secret. Their mission was to build homes away from the factories and slums where they were forced to live. They came from the South to make a better life for themselves and their children, but they found Jim Crow...
Reluctant Nazi
Searching for My Grandfather
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The author only discovered her grandfather was a Nazi when she found his diary in 2005 . A heart-rending account of what Germans faced after VE Day: starvation, disease, homelessness. An ultimately uplifting story, against all the odds. After her father, a fighter pilot in the Luftwaffe, was killed...
by Gabrielle Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2003
The story of the first German immigrants to northern Indiana is the story of the beginnings of South Bend. The predominant immigrant group from the 1840s to the 1870s, the Germans helped build South Bend from an isolated trading post into a thriving industrial city. They also played a key role in transforming...