A Joyful Pilgrimage

Pilgrimage My Life in Community EMMY ARNOLD i Please share a link to this e-book with your friends. Feel free to post and share links to this e-book, or you may e-mail or print this book in its entirety or in part, but please do not alter it in any way, and please do not post or offer copies of this e-book for download on another website or through another Internet-based download service. If you wish to make multiple hard copies for wider distribution, or to reprint portions in a newsletter or periodical, please observe the following restrictions: • You may not reproduce it for commercial gain. • You must include this credit line: “Copyright 2011 by The Plough Publishing House. Used with permission.” This e-book is a publication of The Plough Publishing House, Rifton, NY 12471 USA (www.plough.com) and Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5DR, UK (www.ploughbooks.co.uk) Copyright © 2011 by Plough Publishing House Rifton, NY 12471 USA A Joyful Pilgrimage Contents Contents Origins 1 Seeking 22 The Wind Blows 36 Beginning at Sannerz 57 Crisis 90 A New Start 109 The Rhön Bruderhof 126 American Journey 152 Between Time and Eternity 175 Before the Storm 189 Conflict with Hitler’s State 196 Eberhard’s Last Struggle 219 The Fight Goes On 232 Postscript 257 iii Editor’s Note It was only natural that as the sole co-founder of the Bruderhof still alive after World War II, Emmy Arnold would one day be asked to tell her story. She was already in her seventies when she began the project, but the details she recounted were as alive for her as if they had happened the day before. The original, handwritten German manuscript for A Joyful Pilgrimage evolved from the author’s notes, some made as early as the 1930s. By the 1960s there were several bound volumes of these. “I don’t want these events and people to be forgotten,” she would say. In 1964, a book-length manuscript was prepared, translated, and published as Torches Together. For this new edition, aside from making revisions and factual corrections, new details and anecdotes have been incorporated. Though some are the result of recent research, most of them come from an unpublished diary of the author’s, Das Geschlossene Buch, and from other personal papers. iv ... - tailieumienphi.vn