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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (9)
  • Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
  • Wien :[publisher not identified],  (7)
  • Chicago :[publisher not identified],  (2)
  • Vienna (Austria)  (9)
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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (9)
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  • 1
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    Sehr geehrte Herren!. (2003)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Untitled
    Keywords: Haber family. ; Uri family. ; Uri, Max, ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written as a letter in January of 2003. The author's grandfather was a producer of military uniforms during World War One. Max Uri attended 4 years of the Gymnasium and 4 years of business school (Handelsschule). He came from an orthodox Jewish family. Recollections of his school years and rising national socialism among his fellow students. Max was only one of 8 Jews in his class of 50 students. Memories of the author’s years at the Gymnasium, where he frequently encountered anti-Semitism due to his orthodox upbringing. Recollections of the terrors of the Kristallnacht in November of 1938, when he was arrested and beaten and only narrowly escaped transportation to Dachau concentration camp. His family managed to get the children out of the country. His sisters were sent as domestic help and his younger brother with a Kindertransport to England. Max managed to be accepted for an agricultural school in Palestine. He enrolled in the “Haganah” and became an officer. In 1941 he got married to Fritzi Haber. Their son was born in 1942. Max Uri participated in the war efforts of the Jewish Brigade and the British army during World War Two. Difficulties to establish a household in Palestine. Move to Vienna together with his family and his in-laws. Decision to leave for the United States, where Max Uri lived with his family for 10 years. He came back to Vienna to take over his father in law’s furrier business.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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    Paul Amann - Leben und Werk : Ein Leben in zwei Welten. (1995)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 193 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Amann, Paul, ; Authors. ; Authors, Exiled Biography. 20th century ; Jewish refugees. ; Publishers and publishing. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: MA thesis about the life and work of Paul Amann.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Der Zufall. : Vertreibung und Rückkehr einer Österreicherin. (1985)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 78 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Lafitte, François. ; Madritsch, Julius. ; Raitner, Michael. ; Arandora Star (Ship) ; The Internment of Aliens. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; England. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1948. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experience of Anschluss in Vienna; preparations for emigration; emigration via Trieste, Alexandria, to Palestine; life in Palestine during and after World War II; life in Israel after 1948; return to Vienna in 1955; life in Vienna and Austria after return; experience of anti-Semitism in Austria; acquaintance with Julius Madritsch.
    Abstract: In her autobiography, Anna Rattner includes a few pages from the book by François Lafitte, The internment of aliens, Penguin Books, 1940; the author tells about the sinking of the ship Arandora Star, where Anna Rattner’s father died.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Dr. Fritz L. Brassloff : Interview: 12.10.1984, Pension Nossek, Wien (1984)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 7 + 46 + 3 , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Former Title: Interview with Friedrich L. Brassloff
    Keywords: Steinitz, Heinrich. ; Republikanischer Schutzbund. ; Sozialistische Partei Österreichs. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish lawyers. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The bulk of the manuscript consists of a transcribed interview with Friedrich L. Brassloff, touching on his secondary education; his studies at the university in Vienna and the political atmosphere among students; his political engagement with the Social Democratic Party; and his internship in the law practice of Heinrich Steinitz.
    Abstract: Also included are a biographical abstract about F.L. Brassloff, as well as his own autobiographical fragment, "Herzlich unwillkommen."
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Ein verlorenes Jahrzehnt. Shanghai 1939-1949 : Tagebuchblaetter eines Heimatvertriebenen (1979)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 244 , typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; College teachers. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Translators. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1951. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of November Pogrom 1938 in Vienna, imprisonment in Dachau, emigration to Shanghai via Italy. Inserts his reminiscences of World War I when he was a prisoner of war in Siberia (and returned to Shanghai). Jewish life in Shanghai during World War II. Foundation of the New Gregg School of Business in Hongkew (1941), later Gregg School; ghettoization by Japanese, and of the war and question of repatriation; failures of attempts of direct emigration to the USA; return to a DP camp in Austria and then immigration to the USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    No title. (1961)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Fur trade. ; Brno (Czech Republic) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Jewish fur dealers in Leipzig between 1902 and 1904.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebens-Erinnerungen : [1870-1959]. (1959)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 135 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Schwarz, Emil. ; Frankl, Paul. ; Bund österreichischer Frauenvereine. ; Neuer Frauenklub (Wien) ; Families 19th century. ; Feminism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Physicians. ; Public welfare. ; Socialism. ; Social workers. ; Teachers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women Employment. ; Women Education. ; Women authors. ; Women Political activity. ; Palestine. ; Prague. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1959 in Chicago. Memories of the author's childhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Prague in the 1870s. Her maternal grandfather was a highly esteemed lawyer in the German-Jewish society of Prague. Early awakening of social and feminist interest. Cultural and literary interests. Criticism on women's upbringing in bourgeois society and the taboos and morals of her time. Move to Vienna in 1898. Marriage with the physician Emil Schwarz in 1899. Olly Schwarz participated in the establishing of the "Athenaeum", an association providing higher education for women. She was a founding member of the "Neue Wiener Frauenklub" and inspired the physicist Dr. Olga Steindler to establish the "Handelsakademie", a girl's school for higher education in economy. Olly Schwarz pursued her interest in women's education and established a center for career counseling in female professions. Participation at the International Congress of the World Women's League in Rome. During World War One Olly Schwarz worked as a nurse and was a member of several welfare organizations. Political activities and cooperation with Social Democratic women's organizations. Description of domestic life activities. Several journeys to Russia, India and the Near East. Detailed description of an official visit to Palestine in 1930. Experiences after the Nazi take-over in Austria. Emigration to the United States and difficulties of starting a new life. The couple lived in Chicago, where Emil Schwarz had a position at the institute of hematology at the Michael Reese Hospital. Olly Schwarz was active in the settlement movement and other fields of social work.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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    Stammbaum : [Theodor Herzl]. (1938)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 2 pages.
    Year of publication: 1938
    Keywords: Herzl, Theodor, ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Genealogical tables ; Genealogical tables ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Family tree of Theodor Herzl since 1761
    Note: German and Hungarian
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    Julius Ofner : Ein Kaempfer fuer Recht und Gerechtigkeit. (1932)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 365 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1932
    Keywords: Ofner, Julius, ; Lawyers. ; Austria. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: A biography.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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