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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (17)
  • Moses Mendelssohn Center
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  • New York :[publisher not identified],  (11)
  • [New York] :[publisher not identified],  (6)
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.  (11)
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  • 1
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Pages: 4 + 4 pages : , typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Marshall, Lotte. ; Marshall, Walter. ; Juedischer Jugendbund. ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Portugal Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Spain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
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  • 2
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 46 + 252 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Jews Persecution 1930-1939. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Pharmacology. ; Physicians ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Sweden. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain observations and reflections on the events before and during the Nazi period in Austria (circa 1914-1994). Also included are David Lehr's CV and a bibliography of his writings.
    Abstract: Early childhood recollections during World War One. Detailed account of the fate of his uncles as soldiers during the war. Experiences of antisemitism during David Lehr's schoolyears at Gymnasium and anti-Jewish riots at university. Detailed account of his years as a medical student and his internship in the Wiedner hospital. Friendship with the Gentile family of Alma N. Graduation from Medical School in May 1935. David obtained a position as a faculty member of the Pharmacological Institute of the Vienna University. Recollections of the civil war of 1934 and the declaration of the autocratic Christian Democratic regime. His plans to leave Austria as early as in 1937 were met with discouragement in his family. Quotations of contemporary literature on Austria's history during the Nazi period and critical remarks. Recollections of the "Anschluss" in 1938. David was expelled from his position at the faculty soon thereafter. Detailed account of life in Nazi-Vienna. Arrest of his father and uncle. Experience at the Gestapo headquaters in an attempt to free his father. David was rounded up by SA stormtroups in the streets and forced to clean streets, but was released due to his professsion. He worked as a volunteer in the Rothschildspital (Jewish hospital). Recollections of a Goebbles speach in Vienna.
    Abstract: With the help of a former colleague in Sweden, Maya Stroemberg-Grossman, David received an official invitation from the Medical School in Lund. Detailed account of the procedures to obtain his papers. He emigrated to Sweden in July 1938 and came to the United States after the war. Addendum: Reflections on post-war Austria and its reluctant dealing with its Nazi past. Fiftieth "Matura" anniversary with his classmates from Gymnasium 1979 in Vienna and reflections on their different biographies. Extensive thoughts about anti-semitism in Austria.
    Abstract: The following individuals and families are mentioned:
    Abstract: Bauer, Richard; Brueck family; Eiselsberg, Anton; Finsterer, Otto; Goebbels, Joseph; Gold, Ernst; Grossmann, Stefan; Prof. Hochstetter; Hohenberg, Erich; Loewenherz, Richard; Pick, Ernst Peter; Scherf, David; Schnitzler, Julius; Sternberg, Carl; Tandler, Julius; Dr. Trevani; Unna, Klaus; Unna, Paul Gerson; Weill, Kurt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 3
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    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Simon, Fred. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Pirmasens (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Political background to rise of Nazis in Pirmasens; account of Kristallnacht in Pirmasens; expulsion of Jewish men from Pirmasens to France; forced return to Germany; march from the town of Schweix to Pirmasens; deportation to Dachau via Ludwigshafen; arrival in Dachau; life in the camp; death of father at Dachau; release from Dachau with brother.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 4
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 12 + 82 + 27 + 23 + 24 + 15 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: correspondence
    Year of publication: 1990-1993
    Keywords: Vishniac, Roman, ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Jews Education 1871-1918. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections from the 1930s in Germany; account of experience of Kristallnacht; childhood memories of Berlin-Luisenstadt; memories of Berlin; engaged in 1922; children sent to England after 1933; emigration to Guatamala via France and England; return to Berlin in 1967; recollections of photographer Roman Wishniak.
    Description / Table of Contents: Das Jahr 1934
    Description / Table of Contents: Berlin : vorher - während - nachher
    Description / Table of Contents: "Gestern kam ein Brief ..."
    Description / Table of Contents: Über das Deutschtum
    Description / Table of Contents: "In meinem vorigen Bericht ..."
    Description / Table of Contents: Roman
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 5
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    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript; annotated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Mayer, Leopold. ; Mayer, Amalie. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Chemnitz (Germany) ; Tachov (Czech Republic : Okres) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs written in the USA in 1989-1990.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copy on MF 503 , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 6
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 374 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Sculptors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigrationn 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir based on diaries kept by the sculptor Frederic Zeller as a boy; Nazi periods in Berlin; primary and secondary school; pogrom (November 1938); emigration to England via Holland; visit to Berlin in 1982.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 7
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    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 134 + 35 + 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Gumpert, Bertha (Tannenbaum) ; Gumpert, Sally. ; Preuss, Erich, ; Sass, Jacob, ; Sass, Rosa (Gumpert), ; Sass family. ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Geneva (Switzerland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Netherlands. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of Ruth Glaser's childhood in a well-to-do Düsseldorf family. Her maternal grandfather was the founder of the family realty business S. Gumpert, where her father was the co-owner. Recollections of the family's extensive household. Family vacations in the mountains. Musical activities within the family. Visits to the synagogue together with her maternal grandmother Bertha, a pious woman who kept a kosher home. Celebration of Jewish holidays. In 1930 Ruth was enrolled in the Auguste-Victoria girl's school. Rise of Nazism. Awareness of growing danger. Ruth experienced alienation from classmates, who joined the Hitler youth and ceased socializing with her. Nuremberg laws and their impact on the life of the family. Celebration of Ruth's bat mitzvah at the Düsseldorf temple. Social life focusing on the Cafe Marcus. Confrontation with the Nazi ideology in history and biology lessons at school. Ruth's growing desire to leave the country. Graduation from Auguste-Victoria school in 1936 and training as a baby nurse in Geneva. Reluctance of her parents to leave Germany. Acquaintance of her future-husband Erich Preuss. Engagement and plans to leave for Palestine. Ruth worked in Geneva and worried about her parents in Nazi Germany. Emigration to Palestine. Improvised wedding with friends. Early life in Palestine and struggles to make a living. Solidarity and friendship with fellow German emigres in Tel Aviv. Cultural activities. News about her parent's refuge in Holland. Difficulties between the Jewish and Arab population. Outbreak of the war. Air raids in Tel Aviv and worries about Ruth's parents in Holland. Restrictive immigration policy under the British mandate. Ruth found a position as a baby nurse in a befriended family. News about Ruth's parents, who were taken to Westerbork. Fervent attempts to arrange them certificates for Palestine. End of the war and tragic news of her parents fate.
    Abstract: Emigration to the United States in 1947, where Ruth and Erich started a business in interior decorating. Death of her husband Erich in 1969. Frequent visits to Germany between 1958-1988.
    Abstract: Addenda: Reflections on the past during Ruth Glasers visits in Germany in 1988 and 1989. Xerox copies of the "Juedische Gemeindeblatt" in 1938 and various documents.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 8
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    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 58 + 2 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1980
    Former Title: Memoiren (Diary)
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short introduction containing childhood in Laupheim (Wuerttemberg), university studies in Heidelberg and Munich, move to Berlin, and life as a physician in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. The main part in form of a diary from the burning of the German parliament in 1933 to 1939 describes persecutions after 1933; life as a Jewish physician in Nazi Germany; the November pogrom of 1938; imprisonment of Erich Nathorff in concentration camp; immigration to USA. An epilogue describes new beginnings in USA after the emigration.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 9
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Offenbacher, Kurt. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Fuerth in orthodox atmosphere; university studies (medicine) in Erlangen, Wuerzbug, Strasbourg, Munich and Berlin; among his teachers were Konrad Roentgen and Rudolf Virchow; medical officer in World War I; work in Jewish Hospital Berlin under Prof. Hermann Strauss and return to Fuerth; mostly on professional career as physician; immigration to USA; beginnings of new life in New York where he practiced as a physician until the age of 84; epilogue contains reflections on world history and memory of the author's departed son Kurt.
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  • 10
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 23 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Pharmacists. ; Agriculturists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Dominican Republic Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Apprenticeship as pharmacist in Berlin; November pogrom 1938 in Berlin; flight to Switzerland; emigration and life in Dominican Republic; in agricultural settlement of Sosua; marriage with Dominican; beginning of new life in New York. 1938-1975.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 11
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    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Burg, Meno, ; Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, ; Devrient, Therese, ; Lewald, Fanny, ; Lazarus, Moritz, ; Rodenberg, Julius, ; Bernstein, Julius, ; Bernstein, Eduard, ; Oppenheimer, Franz, ; Mayer, Gustav, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Salomon, Alice, ; Bonn, Moritz J. ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Rosenstein, Paul, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sinsheimer, Hermann, ; Toller, Ernst, ; Kurz, Isolde, ; Nazimova, ; Autobiographies. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Biography. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is a collection of excerpts of published memoirs on Jewish childhood in Germany during the 19th century, focusing on the experience of "being different" in a Gentile environment. The collection contains fragments of the biographies of 20 famous German- Jewish men and women, who excelled as authors, economists, historians, painters, philosophers, physicians, politicians, psychologists, surgeons, teachers, and writers.
    Abstract: Also included is an exchange of letters concerning the possibility of the manuscript's publication (1959-1973).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 21 and MM 96 , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 12
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: handwritten manuscript
    Year of publication: 1956-1965
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher Agricultural education 1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish life in small Westphalian town after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; agricultural training in Jewish school at Neuendorf; failure to obtain visa for emigration; experiences in Auschwitz; liberation in Ravensbrueck.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript; 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Manuscript; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 13
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 62 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Adult education. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Theater Production and direction. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Alsace (France) Ethnic relations. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Colmar (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was first written in 1940.
    Abstract: Childhood in assimilated Jewish family in Colmar (Alsace); relations between Germans and French in Colmar; experiences as a soldier in World War I; university study in Berlin and Cologne; activities as journalist, lecturer of German language and literature at the Berlin Volkshochschule (adult education), and as dramatic producer; violent clashes between Nazis and Communists in Berlin before 1933; exclusion from Reichskulturkammer and dismissal from job 1933; November pogrom 1938, imprisonment and emigration.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Hirsch, Otto, ; Esslinger family. ; Schweitzer family. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Lawyers ; Orphanages. ; Public welfare. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Esslingen am Neckar (Germany) ; Tübingen (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Stuttgart; history of Schweizer and Esslinger families; law studies in Tuebingen; as lawyer in Stuttgart; cultural life in Stuttgart.
    Abstract: Also included is Schweizer’s account of the November pogrom 1938 in Stuttgart; his imprisonment in Welzheim; and and his immigration to USA, written in 1944 in New York City (available in DM 84).
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 68; copy on MF 164(5). , German
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  • 15
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    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 102 pages : , handwritten manuscript; bound notebook.
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Bodenheimer, Edgar, ; Bodenheimer family. ; Goldschmidt, Jakob, ; Darmstädter und Nationalbank‏. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Banks and banking. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the political and economical conditions in Germany from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1930s.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 16
    Language: German
    Pages: 25 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of the 1938 November Pogrom, arrestation and experiences in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 6 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short account of Jewish life in Mannheim during Nazi period; November pogrom 1938 in Mannheim; immigration to USA after outbreak of war.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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