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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (4)
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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  • Jewish refugees.  (4)
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    [Memoirs of Baronne Hildegard von Gumppenberg], (1942-2019)
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    Pages: 4 folders.
    Year of publication: 1942-2019
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish refugees. ; Women authors. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; France. ; Archival materials ; Biographical sources ; Manuscripts. ; Finding aids. ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Two original German manuscripts and their English translations, describing the author’s escape from Nazi Germany (written in 1942) and her subsequent life underground (written in the 1960s).
    Abstract: Also included is a report by Dominique Joliat, who’s father was a Swiss border guard, who rescued Gumppenberg’s original manuscript.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 : "[Vous êtes libre]", Macon; 1942
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 : "La vie de Mme Ducaret". Köln; 1970
    Description / Table of Contents: 3a: "Kaete Hildegard von Gumppenberg", English translation of "[Vous êtes libre]"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 3b: “My Life as Mme Ducaret : Living undercover in Cologne”, English translation of "La vie de Mme Ducaret"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 : "1942 : Baroness Von Gumppenberg and her attempted escape to Switzerland"; 2019
    Note: English translations by Gerda Loosemore-Reppen, edited by Ruth and David Geall , German and English , Finding Aid
    URL: Digital form
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    A chance to live. (2003)
    Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Persecution. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs by Hans Stefan Kohnstam were originally written in German in 1980; they were edited and translated into English by his son Pieter G. Kohnstam.
    Note: English
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    The story of my family & my life as I remember it. (2003)
    Hamilton, Ontario :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 137 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Eisler family. ; Krakauer family. ; Krakauer, Gertrude. ; Great Britain. ; Cytologists. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Mikulov (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Krakauer was born and grew up in Nikolsburg, Bohemia (today Mikulov, Czech Republic). In March of 1939 he and his brother Hans started their emigration to Palestine with the help of a Zionist organization. 1942-1945 he served with the British army in Palestine, fighting in World War II in Egypt and then moving on to France before being discharged in Czechoslovakia. He continued his studies in Prague, before returning to Israel in 1949. In 1956 he settled in Canada, where he finished his medical studies and settled as cytologist in Hamilton, Ontario.
    Note: English
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    Vignettes from my early life : Remembered fifty+ years later (2003)
    Livonia, Michigan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 146 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Bach family. ; Boehm family. ; Boehm, Gertrude, ; Boehm, Victor, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Czechoslovakia. ; London (England) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Uruguay. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written between 1998 and 2000. Description of family apartment house built by his grandfather in Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna’s 6th district. The family lived in the penthouse designed by the Viennese architect Ernst Plischke. The Boehm family was the owner of textile factories in Bohemia. They had a governess and a English language tutor. The family was one of the few in Vienna to own a car. Their mother Gertrude was a passionate driver, who participated in various Road Rallies. She was a university graduate and had earned a PhD in chemistry in 1921. Their father was a war veteran of World War One. Summer vacations in Italy and Czechoslovakia. They also spent a few summers in a rented villa in the outskirts of Vienna. On Christmas vacations the family went skiing in St. Anton. In 1935 Heinrich Boehm was enrolled in the “Theresianum”, an elite private school in Vienna. Plans to become a physicist with the encouragement of the author’s mother. In 1937 he contracted Legg-Perthes disease and was sent to a Sanatorium to recover. Private tutoring. Very first encounter with antisemitism at the sanatorium in February of 1938. Transfer back to Vienna. Recollections of the weeks leading up to Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life in Nazi Austria and preparations for their emigration. Conversion in order to assimilate better in their emigration. The family was able to leave the country in September of 1938 for Czechoslovakia. Henry’s sisters were placed to boarding schools in Great Britain with the help of their father’s uncle Frederick Bach, who resided in England. From Czechoslovakia they immigrated to Belgium, where Henry was enrolled in school again. In February of 1939 they left for Great Britain. Life of émigrés in London. Recollections of wartime England. Passport procedures and visa preparations.
    Abstract: Detailed description of the family’s departure from Great Britain to the United States via Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo on board of the “Andalusia Star” in 1941. The “Andalusia Star” was sunk a few months after their arrival in the United States. Recollections of their stay in Brazil and Uruguay. Detailed description of the German submarine war. Arrival in New York on April 7th 1941, where the family was reunited with their father.
    Note: English
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