Manitoba town and German namesake

Usage examples of altona.

From his bag he took a fringed silk shawl, the tallith, the same kind of shawl Miller had found among the effects of the old man in Altona and had not understood.

Right down the long, broad, straight highway through Altona toward the center of Hamburg, other drivers had heard the same broadcast and were pulling in to the side of the road as if driving and listening to the radio had suddenly become mutually exclusive, which in a way they had.

The ambulance twisted into the maze of small and mean streets of Altona, leaving the Altona railway station on the left and heading down toward the river.

Miller drove back toward Altona station, picked up the main road back into the city center, and twenty minutes later swung the Jaguar into the underground garage off the Hansa Square, two hundred yards from the house where he had his penthouse apartment.

Salomon Tauber, Altona, Hamburg, November 21, 1963 Peter Miller put the diary down and lay back in his chair for a long time, staring at the ceiling and smoking.

It was not until he was back in his car and had stopped for gas close to Altona railway station that the answer came.

Miller pocketed his change, gunned the Jaguar to life, and drove to the Altona post office.

Miller, melted slightly by his companion's chirpy manner, explained his bunt so far, from the back streets of Altona to the Community Center of Munich.

Very quickly, Altona found itself well-nigh flooded with every unpopular religious group: Mennonites, Anabaptists, Jews.

The victim was one Siegfried Baum-wonderful, the lieutenant thought, a Jew-from the Altona district of Hamburg.