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Dachau concentration camp - a memoir / (2004)

Klein, Felix, 1911-1994.

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Language: English

Pages: 29 pages : , bound typescript.

Year of publication: 2004

Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: This memoir provides a detailed description of daily life and misery in the concentration camp Dachau, May to December of 1938. The first eight chapters are missing which would cover Felix Klein's life in Vienna. The existing memoir then starts with his deportation to Dachau, and ends shortly before his transfer to Buchenwald concentration camp.

Abstract: Translated from the German by Sanda Vero.

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A Tribute to my Mother Hedwig Eyck (1888-1971). (1995)

Alexander, Eleanor, 1913-

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Language: English

Pages: 6 pages (doublespace) : , Typescript.

Year of publication: 1995

Keywords: Eyck, Erich, ; Eyck, Hedwig. ; Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Woman authors. ; Women Political activity. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Lawyers

Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander, née Eyck, born in Berlin in 1913, on her mother Hedwig Eyck including information on her involvement in the Democratic Party and her philanthropic and cultural activities, description of life in Nazi Germany, of her emigration to England, and of her experiences there.

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Gratiarum Actio : Remembering A Good Life. (1995)

Alexander, Eleanor, 1913- ; Alexander, Paul Julius,

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Language: English

Pages: 7 + 7 + 2 , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1995

Keywords: Mann, Thomas, ; Hobart College. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Historians. ; Women authors. ; Berkeley (Calif.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including description of her time in Paris and London, her emigration to the United States, information on her husband Paul and his career as a historian; foreword by Paul Alexander; addendum by their son.

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Kirche und Juden im Territorium der DDR. (1990)

Eschwege, Helmut, 1913-1992.

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Language: German

Pages: 28 pages : , annotated typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1990

Keywords: Jews ; Religions Relations. ; Germany (East) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Lecture on the relationship between Christian churches and the Jewish community in the German Democratic Republic between 1945 and 1990.

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Roots and remembrances : Accounts of escapes and leavings of the Baecher/Backer families from Czechoslovakia in 1939 and after the war with related family trees. (1989)

Backer, Ivan A., 1929-

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Language: English

Pages: 92 + 40 + 12 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1989

Keywords: Backer family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews ; Jews Genealogy. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Dobruška (Czech Republic) ; Kácov (Czech Republic) ; Roudnice nad Labem (Czech Republic) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Prepared in 1989 for the first family reunion.

Abstract: The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:

Abstract: Backer family; Baecher family; Heller family; Honig family; Hoenig family; Fleischer family; Koralek family

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German Jewish roots. (1989)

Landman, Richard.

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Language: English

Pages: 11 pages : , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1989

Keywords: Cities and towns ; Jewish families. ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Bavaria (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Communities

Abstract: Impressions of Richard Landman as a first generation American of contemporary Germany, finding all of it "Juden frei".

Abstract: The following towns are mentioned: Nuremberg, Friedberg, Uffenheim, Ermetzhofen, Hellstein, Augsburg, Garmisch.

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Dora Gross Moszkowski - Life Story : [1901-1987]. (1987)

Gross Moszkowski, Dora.

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Language: English

Pages: 66 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1987

Keywords: Moszkowski, Arthur. ; Knight, Max. ; Smolka, Maria. ; Thon, Osias. ; Wizo. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Hasidism. ; Jews ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Kraków (Poland) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoir was written in California in 1987. Description of the Jewish history in Poland in the 18th and 19th century. Childhood recollections in Cracow. Her father was an insurance broker. Her mother came from a famous family of rabbis. Childhood friends and introduction into their Hasidic life style. Wish to continue with high school (Gymnasium) met with difficulties due to the implied tuition fees for girls. Outbreak of World War One and move to Vienna. In 1916 the Russian invasion of Cracow diminished and the family returned to Poland. Her father was called to the military. With her mother's help the family found the means to enroll Dora in the Gymnasium, where she became a full-fledged student. Engaging in the Zionist movement. Speech about the role of Jewish women in society and engaging in campaigns for equal education for girls. Graduation and applying for medical school. Being a girl and Jewish she was not accepted since there was a Jewish quota at university. Death of her mother. Application at medical schools in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1920 Dora moved to Vienna where she lived with a widowed cousin and took care of his children. Difficulties to be accepted at medical school as a foreigner. Taking classes at university as an extern. Position as a Polish language tutor. Business school in order to earn a living. Outings with friends. Cultural activities and the Viennese Burgtheater. Return to Cracow and position in a export business. Acquaintance and courtship with Arthur Moszkowski, an engineer from a well-to-do family. Return to university and studies of German and Polish. Political and Zionist activities in the WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization). Graduation from university in 1925 and work on her Ph.D. with a thesis on Ibsen. Position as a German teacher and initial difficulties with the government due to her being Jewish. In 1928 her Ph.D. was accepted.

Abstract: Official engagement with Arthur Moszkowski. Trip to the Baltic Sea and wedding in 1929. Honeymoon in Austria. Pregnancy during the time her husband lost his position due to the growing antisemitism in Poland. Birth of their daughter Dunia. Difficulties in married life due to her new duties as a housewife and mother which did not fulfill her. Renewed political engagement. Lectures and speeches. Opening of a Montessori preschool in her apartment. Dora became the chairwoman of WIZO in Katovice. Awareness of political changes due to rising National Socialism in neighboring Germany. Temporary financial difficulties. Birth of their second daughter Zosia in 1937. Influx of German Jewish refugees and relief organizations. Outbreak of World War Two. Capture of Czortkow by the Russian military and life under Russian rule. Deportation to Siberia in 1940, which in the end saved them from being taken to German extermination camps. Labor camp in Sverdlovsk. The family was set free and could travel to Uzbekistan in west central Asia. Her husband, among many Polish refugees, contracted typhus and survived through the help of a befriended physician. He was able to obtain a position in Iran and Africa with the Polish military. Affidavit for the United States from a cousin in California. Arrival in New York in 1950. Move to Berkeley and difficulties in adapting to the culture and start of a new life. Master degree in child development and work with retarded children.

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Frankfurt on the Hudson : the German-Jewish community of Washington Heights, 1933-1983, its structure and culture. (1985)

Lowenstein, Steven M., 1945-

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Language: English

Pages: 452 pages : , typescript +

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Year of publication: 1985

Keywords: Immigrants ; Jews ; Jews, German Biography. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Washington Heights (New York, N.Y.) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: History of the German-Jewish community in northern Manhattan

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A visit to Prague. (1978)

Weiner, Lewis

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Language: English

Pages: 5 , pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1978

Keywords: Rada židovských náboženských obcí (Czechoslovakia) ; Jewish communities. ; Jews ; Restitution. ; Czechoslovakia. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Description of Weiner’s visit with the Council of Jewish religious communities in Czechoslovakia.

Abstract: Part of the Prague Jewish community collection, AR 377, folder 1.

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In Memoriam Hans Maier : by Walter Friedlander. (1965)

Friedlander, Walter A. ; Lemke, Lotte‏,

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Language: English

Pages: 19 pages (single space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Grätz, Anna Margarete. ; Maier, Hans, ; Maier, Hermann. ; Maier, Max Hermann, ; Arbeiterwohlfahrt Bundesverband (Germany) ; Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Political persecution ; Politicians. ; Social workers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germay History 1871-1918. ; Germay History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Biography of Hans Maier, written by Walter Friedlander in 1965, inculding an introduction by Lotte Lemke, a foreword with information on the visit of Hans Maier's grandchildren in Germany, a bibliography of Maier's publications, and the memoir itself describing Hans Maier's childhood and schooling, his studies of law and economics at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, Marburg and Tuebingen, his marriage, his involvement in the "Freisinnige Partei," the "Deutsche Demokratische Partei" and from 1923 on in the Social Democratic Party, his teaching position at the Frankfurt Women's Seminar for Social Work, his appointment at the German Association for Public and Private Social Welfare in 1919, and as "Ministerialrat" at the Saxonian Department of the Interior in Dresden in 1923, his work for the "Arbeiterwohlfahrt," his dismissal in 1933, and his suicide in 1937.

Note: This is a translation of an article published in "Neues Beginnen", # 4 (April, 1964) pp. 49-53. , Available on microfilm , English

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[The life story of Dr. Friedel Lasch]. (1963)

Lasch, Siegfried.

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Language: English

Pages: 73 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1963

Keywords: Jews ; Jews, German Personal narratives. 20th century ; Physicians. ; Halberstadt (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Memoirs, illustrating Jewish everyday life in Germany – specifically in Halberstadt – before World War II.

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[Wir sassen im Hause Grimm]. (1954)

Janko, Leo.

Bern :[publisher not identified],

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Pages: 153 pages : , typescript (copy).

Year of publication: 1954

Keywords: Jews ; Authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Autobiography by the writer Leo Janko

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Compte-rendu d'un voyage à Berlin : [Le 24 janvier 1953] (1953)

Brassloff, Friedrich Lothar.

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Language: French

Pages: 6 , typescript.

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Year of publication: 1953

Keywords: Galinski, Heinz, ; Meyer, Julius. ; Jews ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany (East) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Report about the Jewish community in East-Berlin and in the German Democratic Republic, triggered by the defection of a high ranking official, Julius Meyer, to the West.

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Ueber die sogennante Assimilation der deutschen Juden : Eine Richtigstellung. (1952)

Bernstein, Felix, 1878-1956.

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Language: German

Pages: 5 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1952

Keywords: Acculturation. ; Assimilation Jews. ; Jews ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Essay about the historic symbioses of Jews and Gentiles in Germany that had been disrupted by the Nazis.

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Bericht ueber eine Informationsreise nach der Suedafrikanischen Union, den beiden Rhodesien und Kenya (Britisch-Ostafrika) / (1936)

Wischnitzer, Mark, 1882-1955.

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Language: German

Pages: 32 + 25 + 9 , pages : , typescript (copy).

Year of publication: 1936

Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Jews ; Rhodesia. ; Africa Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Kenya. ; South Africa. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Three reports on visit to South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya (1936), to explore possibilities for Jewish emigration from Germany.

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[Tagebuchfragment]. (1898)

Sinnreich, Jacob.

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Language: German

Pages: 84 pages : , handwritten notebook.

Year of publication: 1898

Keywords: Jews ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Diaries.

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