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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (20)
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  • 1975-1979  (20)
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  • 1977  (20)
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    Erlebnisse in Theresienstadt, (1946-2005)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 57 + 10 , typscript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2005
    Keywords: Epstein, P. ; Joseph, Fritz. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in German one and a half years after liberation. It has the form of a witness report, written in a clear and objective tone, but nevertheless harrowing. The content: Their is no word on their life in Amsterdam before the deportation. The memoir starts with their arrest in Amsterdam, Westerbork - the place they were deported to at first - is mentioned, but not described. Bergen-Belsen gets more attention, Fritz Joseph describes daily work routine, and living conditions in the camp. Theresienstadt comes next, and the author points out the good features as opposed to his later experiences in Auschwitz. He describes the efforts to make Theresienstadt look prettier, before the International Red Cross delegation arrived. Soon thereafter, the infamous movie documentary about Thersienstadt was shot. Firtz Joseph describes many details of the false set-up. Then he was separated from his wife and deported to Auschwitz. He describes the selection process, and many other components of the horror. He was then transferred to Buchenwald, and had to work as a forced laborer at the HASAG works (former Hugo Schneider AG) at Meuselwitz near Leipzig. In 1945, the camp was evacuated and Fritz Joseph could flee. The war ended and he got treatment for his infected leg. After a few days he could return to Amsterdam where he met his wife - she had survived as well. A 10 page long It can be found in the file as well.
    Abstract: Also included is an English language summary of the memoir by John and Eva Englander (2005).
    Note: German (original) and English (summary)
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 12 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2000
    Keywords: Tepper, Elsa, ; Tepper, Minna. ; Tepper, Wilhelm, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Salaspils (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Lauenburg (Germany) ; Rīga (Latvia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1946 in Austria, shortly after her liberation. Minna recalls her deportation in February 1942. She was taken to Riga together with her parents and her husband. Her mother was killed upon their arrival. Her father and her husband were taken to Salaspils for forced labor, where the later perished. Minna, who was pregnant with her first child, was forced to undergo an abortion. She describes her experiences of Nazi sadism in the Ghetto of Riga, especially by the Ghetto commanders Krause and Roschmann. In 1943 Minna was taken for peat cutting labor to Olaine. In November 1943 Minna and her father were reunited at the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga. From there both were taken to Spilve - a labor camp at a German air base, which was under worse conditions than the first camp. They worked in the cold without appropriate shoes and in thin clothes. Due to the exhausting conditions Minna's father Wilhelm was getting weaker and eventually was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. Minna was taken to Stutthof, which was overcrowded and in primitive conditions. They were taken to an exterior labor camp, where they had to build trenches for the German defense in the rain and cold. They suffered of constant hunger. In January 1945 the camp was dissolved and all sick and disabled were killed. They were marched under exhausting conditions in the snow and cold. For all missing women ten others were chosen randomly to be killed. After a week Minna was finally too exhausted to continue walking and stayed behind. The guard who was supposed to kill her fired the bullet over her head and left her for dead in the snow. She was rescued and brought to a house, where she was given food and a place to sleep. She was discovered by a German police officer, who was about to shoot her along with other Jewish fugitives. Minna was saved by her Viennese accent, which convinced him that she was a gentile woman.
    Abstract: She was taken to a mobile army hospital and treated for her frozen feet. In March 1945 Minna was liberated in Lauenburg, Prussia, where she was sent by German hospitals as an unidentified Jewish patient.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Nini Ungar's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1536.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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    Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 38 + 28 pages : , manuscript; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942-1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Fischer, Erwin. ; Treu family. ; Laundry. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Rheda (Harsewinkel, Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Louise Fischer's life story written by her at the Aldersbrook Hospital in England in April of 1942. Also available is an English translation by by Erwin Fischer, 1998.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English translation , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Max Knight's Lebenserinnerungen], (1909-1991)
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    Pages: 8 + 1,007 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1909-1991
    Keywords: Propper family. ; Kühnel family. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Intermarriage. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish press. ; Jewish refugees. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript is richly interwoven with photocopies of photographs and original documents.
    Abstract: Reflections on career as editor at University of California Press; family geneology; lives of father and mother; birth in Pilsen; move to Vienna in 1910; school experiences; first publications; studied law at University of Vienna; published stories in journals and newspapers; relationships with various women; graduation with law degree; publishing of stories in London newspaper; internship as law clerk; emigration to England in 1938; emigree acquaintances in London; more writing for newspapers in London; job with the Jewish Chronicle; continued publication of stories in Germany under pseudonyms; story of brother's life; emigration of parents to England; diary written in Shanghai describing trip from England to Shanghai; voyage to Canada; train trip across Canada; boat trip to Shanghai via Japan; tour of Japan; description of arrival in Shanghai; work at newspaper in Shanghai and teaching English at University of Shanghai; emigration to USA in 1941; emigration of parents to USA; life in San Francisco; marriage to Charlotte Lowes; trips through United States; death of brother Otto in Australia; work as research assistant at Hoover Institution; graduate study in Political Science at University of California - Berkeley; letter from Harry Freud from Berlin 1945; letter from father Bernhard Kuehnel concerning restitution; letters to and from the writer Ernst Lothar.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Fabrizius, Peter; Fabry, Joseph; Freud, Harry; Freud, Sigmund; Friese, Ernst; Garrett, Joan; Gombrich, Ernst; Hoffer, Grete; Hoffer, Richa; Hoover Institution; Knight, Charlotte; Knight, Martin; Knight, Tony; Kuehnel, Bernhard; Kuehnel, Grete; Kuehnel, Margarethe; Kuehnel, Max; Kuehnel, Otto; Lieban, Ralph; Oppenheimer, Max; Propper, Laura; Rothschild, Lionel de; Sachs, Emmy; Schwarz family; Schwarz, Arthur; Schwarz, Kurt; Siebel, Max; Storfer, A. J.
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 23: parts 1-4
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 24: parts 5-6
    Note: Available on microfilm , English with German and Chinese , Synopsis in file
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    [Memoirs by Marianne Berel]. (1902-1989)
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    Pages: circa 153 + 135 + 152 pages (double space) : , partially bound typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 1902-1989
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Women authors. ; Jewish refugees. ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Breslau. ; France. ; Morocco. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In 'Family fragments" Berel tells her nephew the story of her family and esp. of her sister Vera. In the form of letters, poems and photographs she reconstructs the history of the family in Germany, England and the USA. Contains original immigration documents from France, Morocco and the USA. [2 copies, one bound, one unbound]
    Abstract: 'I remember': Letters to author's mother, mostly written in Gurs internment camp; author's experiences in Gurs internment camp and emigration to New York via Nice (translated from German); Account of Berel's private life after her emigration to the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Family Fragments : compiled, written and edited by your mother's sister [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Letters to My Mother (Part I of 'I Remember') [bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: The time of adjustment : The first ten years (Part II of 'I Remember') [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , German , French , See inventory , Synopsis in file
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    Felix Deutsch Collection, (1977-1983)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 folder : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1977-1983
    Former Title: Lebenserinnerungen.
    Keywords: Deutsch, Felix, ; Rathenau, Emil, ; Electric industries. ; Industrialists Biography. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A dossier from the archives of AEG about the company’s founder, Felix Deutsch. Included are correspondence; biographical notes; index of names; family tree; clippings, etc.
    Abstract: Also included is the transcript of Felix Deutsch’s autobiography, ”Lebenserinnerungen” in 17 chapters.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Tolle Jahre : Lebenserinnerungen (Teile III, VI). (1971-1981)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 83 + 55 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971-1981
    Keywords: Sternberger family. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1870-1918. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism ; Textile industry. ; Tobacco industry. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Israel. ; Munich (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Merchants
    Abstract: Childhood in Munich; soldier in World War I; orthodox Jewish milieu in Munich; mostly anecdotal account of his life in Munich and Israel.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 3: 'Was habe ich verkehrt gemacht?'
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 6: 'Geschichterln, nicht Geschichten'
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erich Drucker collection : diaries, essays, memoirs and poems, (1918-1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 linear foot : , 22 folders.
    Year of publication: 1918-1980
    Keywords: Mühsam, Erich, ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Anti-Nazi movement. ; Apartment houses. ; Bookstores. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Poetry. ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. ; Youth movements. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lisbon (Portugal) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vermont. ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Various manuscripts by Erich Drucker from the Erich Drucker Collection and the LBI Memoirs Collection
    Note: Microfilmed on MM 18, MM 19, MM 20 , German , Finding aid available online.
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    Meine Erinnerungen an Dr. Max Plaut / (1977)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Plaut, Max, ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of Max Plaut's leadership of the Hamburg Jewish community from 1938 until 1941.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of a letter from the Gestapo to Plaut (1938); a photo of Plaut; and a farewell letter from the Hamburg Jewish community to Solmitz (1941).
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Erinnerung und Dialog. (1977)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 106 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Noam, Ernst. ; Nussbaum, Max. ; Grumbach, Robert. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Lawyers. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Hanau (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1934. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is an edited (incomplete) transcript of oral history interviews with Ernst Noam (Nussbaum), conducted with his wife Lotte Noam and their children in Switzerland and in the United States, 1976-77.
    Abstract: Memories of Ernst Nussbaum's childhood in a well-to-do Jewish family in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main. His father Max Nussbaum was a lawyer. Recollections of the outbreak of World War One. His father served as a sergeant in the German army. Shortage of food and memories of air raids. Erst Nussbaum grew up in an assimilated and liberal environment. His great-uncle, the lawyer Robert Grumbach, was a Socialist, who had a great impact on him. Different world of his orthodox paternal grandparents in Fulda. His grandfather Levy Nussbaum was parness in the synagogue. Nussbaum family history going back to the 17th century in the Frankfurter Judengasse. Recollections of the Jewish community and local politics in Hanau, where Max Nussbaum, the author's father, was the leader of liberal party. Vacations with his younger sister Hilde at the Jewish children's home of Gertrud Feiertag in Norderney. Recollections of the murder of Walter Rathenau in 1922. Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish pupils in the Gymnasium (high school). Experience with antisemitism. Exclusion from the student dance formation "Schillerkraenzchen". Members of the pre-Nazi organization "Jungsturm" among the students. Encounter with Zionism and establishment of Zionist youth group ("Juedischer Wanderbund") together with Ernst Loewenstein in Hanau. Outings at the weekends. Influence of Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld. Studies of law at the universities in Frankfurt, Geneva, Freiburg, Hamburg and Berlin. Zionist student organizations. Cultural activities. After the Nazi take-over in 1933 Ernst Nussbaum went to Paris. He emigrated to Palestine in 1934, where he was reunited with his family.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    The sad little painter : The diary of David Ottenseeser 1838-1842 when he studied painting in Munich and Dresden (1977)
    Zion. Ill. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 64 , typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Painters. ; Country life. ; Families. ; Synagogues. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Dresden (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diary of David Ottensooser, during the time in which he studied painting in Munich and Dresden (translation from original German); contains visit to church; theater and opera visits; synagogue services on holidays in rural communities of Franconia (Baiersdorf, Uhlfeld, Ottensoos); mostly on private and family life (contains photograph of David Ottensooser and his wife).
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Memoirs : To my children, grandchildren, etc. …. (1977)
    Portland, Ore :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 169 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Families. ; Fascism ; Nazis ; Opticians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Naples (Italy) ; Tyrol (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 1916-1980. Family background; childhood and private school in Naples; apprenticeship as optician in Tyrol; Italian Fascism; influence of Nazi Germany in Northern Italy; move to Milano and return to Naples; marriage and immigration to USA; military service in American army during World War II; post-war life in USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Memoirs of L.A. Freund. (1977)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 74 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Business enterprises. ; Country life. ; Education 19th century. ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Burgkunstadt (Germany) ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Mitwitz (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1870-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Copy of L.A. Freund’s memoir, originally written in the winter of 1899/1900 and presented to his daughter, Mrs. Waldstein on August 3rd, 1912:
    Abstract: Childhood in Mitwitz (Upper Franconia); school years in Burgkunstadt; anti-Jewish riots of 1848 which caused many Jews to take refuge in Bamberg; immigration to the USA where Freund founded an import business.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Aus der Hoelle Minsk in das 'Paradies' Theresienstadt. (1977)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 301 + 18 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Caro, Klara, ; Edelstein, Jakob, ; Eppstein, Paul, ; Loesten, Karl, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jewish ghettos. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Detailed account of Minsk ghetto 1941/1942; transfer to Theresienstadt; account of SS camp leaders and Jewish "self-administration" in Theresienstadt; camp police; negative account of heads of the "Council of Jewish Elders" Jacob Edelstein and Paul Eppstein. These memoirs are based on notes taken during the war. They contain copies of numerous documents.
    Abstract: Also included is a letter by Klara Caro (1977, 2 pages) in which she objects to Loewenstein's treatment of Edelstein and Eppstein.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Memoiren des Ken C. Baumann : (frueher Kurt Baumann). (1977)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 126 pages (double space) : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1977
    Former Title: Memoiren
    Keywords: Baumann, Ken (Kurt) ; Cornell University. ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Jews History 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jewish arts History 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Ithaca (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir was written by Ken Baumann in 1977 for the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. He describes his youth, education, and his work at the opera in Berlin. The bulk of the manuscript deals with the history of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden. He immigrated to the United States in 1939.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Bab, Julius; Baeck, Leo; Dressel, Erwin; Ebert, Carl; Frommelt, Erwin; Gluck, Alma; Gregory, Ferdinand; Hauptmann, Gerhart; Herrmann, Max; Hinkel, Hans; Hoerth, Franz Ludwig; Jedzeg, Klaus; Jehuda ben Halevy; Levie, Werner; Loeb, Sylvia; Loewenstein, Susanne; Paechter, Heinz; Pachter, Henry M.; Piscator, Erwin; Rosenstock, Joseph; Stein, Susanne; Sten-Taubmann, Suzanne; Singer, Kurt; Tauber, Richard; Warburg, Irene; Zorn, Peter.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synospsis in file
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    Michel Oppenheim collection. (1941-1977)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 31 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1941-1977
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The collection holds the photocopy of a diary documenting the persecution of Jews in Mainz, 1941-1943. Also included are clippings about the importance of this diary and its author.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Diary (Mainz, 1941-1943)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Clippings concerning Michel Oppenheim's diary; 1966-1977
    Note: The diary is microfilmed on MM 127 , The original German-language inventory is available in the folder.
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    Fluechtling in Shanghai : 1940-45. (1977)
    [Miami Beach, Florida] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 443 + 8 pages : , typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Palick, Richard. ; Tonn, Willy. ; Jewish artists Biography. ; Jewish refugees ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1940. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences of a German Jewish refugee in Shanghai during World War II.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs and clippings.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    The life, labours, joys and sorrows of B.L. Monasch : bookbinder, printer, publisher and inn-keeper of Krotoschin in the province of Posen (1977)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Bookbinders ; Country life. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Hotelkeepers. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Literature. ; Marriage. ; Printers ; Publishers and publishing. ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Krotoszyn (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of an original German manuscript, written in Ostrowo in 1855:
    Abstract: Apprenticeship as bookbinder at age of 14 in the town of Militsch (Posen); work in father's bookbinder's business; nightly study sessions with father, first in traditional Jewish learning, later in German literature; illness and loss of his job as court-file binder, the first in a series of misfortune; falling in love and marriage (1823); setting up marriage-contract; establishment of grocery store; fire destroyed his house and all its contents (1827); did not receive any compensation; had to supply large household (mother-in-law, brother, sisters, brothers-in-law and children); part of the family emigrated to USA and to Australia; only two children out of ten stayed in Posen; outbreak of cholera epidemic in Krotoschin; supervising construction of new synagogue; establishment of printing press; among his publications was Pentateuch in Hebrew with Johlson's German translation; employment of private tutor for Jewish education of his children; marriage of second daughter to the historian Heinrich Graetz five years after engagement, since Graetz did not find a suitable position earlier; marriage contract for Graetz; illness and economic ruin; revolution of 1848; opened tavern in addition to printing-press.
    Abstract: Also included is a copy of his last will (1865).
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Recollections from my life. (1977)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 + 4 pages : , typescript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: clipping
    Year of publication: 1977
    Former Title: Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben
    Keywords: Strauss, Fanny (née Schwab) ; Strauss, Isaac. ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jewish way of life 19th century. ; Orthodox Judaism ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Offenbach am Main (Germany) ; Uehlfeld (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The English translation of Josef Schwab’s short autobiography about his childhood in the rural Jewish community of Uehlfeld and his life as a merchant in Frankfurt and in Offenbach is accompanied by an account of the lives of Schwab’s daughter Fanny and her husband, Rabbi Isaac Strauss. Also included are German transcripts of Hebrew gravestone inscriptions for Josef Schwab and his wife Mile; an article in "Frankfurter Zeitung" (Oct. 12, 1900) on occasion of Schwab’s 100th birthday; and a transcript of Schwab’s autobiography in the original German.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
    URL: Digital form:
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    Erinnerungen an die juedische Gemeinde Beuthen O/S. (1977)
    Forest Hills, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 7 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Jewish communities. ; Jewish way of life. ; Lawyers. ; Bytom (Poland) ; Silesia, Upper (Poland and Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Jewish life in Beuthen, Upper Silesia, 1912-1941; contains also short autobiographical account.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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