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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (11)
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  • English  (11)
  • 1955-1959  (5)
  • 1950-1954  (6)
  • Autobiographies  (11)
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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (11)
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  • 1
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    Oh life of joy and sorrow : Laughter and tears (1959)
    Portland, Oregon :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 195 + 193 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1959
    Former Title: World Was Mine
    Keywords: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camps) ; United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. ; Westerbork (Concentration camps) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Refugees. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Africa. ; Australia. ; Berlin (Germany) ; China. ; England. ; Germany. ; Jordan. ; Mexico. ; Netherlands. ; Palestine. ; South Africa. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Berlin; church visits with nanny every Sunday; early death of mother; study at Alice Salomon's "Soziale Frauenschule"; extended journeys to England, Africa and Palestine; move to Holland; encounter with Zionism; activities as social worker and engagement in various refugee organizations in Holland; assistance for German-Jewish immigrants after 1933; experiences in concentration camps of Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen; transfer to Palestine in 1944; work for UNRRA in China and for Joint in Australia; contains preface by Frank Waters.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: The world was mine
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: no title
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    From my Family : Fiction and Truth. (1958)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript; annotated; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Berliner, Emil. ; Berliner, Gertrude, ; Waller family. ; Jews Family life. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; England. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Upper middle-class life in Vienna prior to the "Anschluss," emigration to England and the USA, covering 1900 to circa 1940.
    Abstract: Contains photos, documents and drawings by the author and a family tree.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 3
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    My war and peace with the United States. (1958)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Chemists, Jewish. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1937. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Emigration to USA in 1937; military service in Middle East during World War II; career as chemist in post-war USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 4
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    The story of the Buchheim family. (1957)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 + 18 + 4 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Buchheim family. ; Boeckl, Otto. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Hesse (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short survey of family history reaching back to 1780. Describes Otto Boeckel's anti-Semitism campaign in Northern Hesse and anti-Semitism in the German army. Includes detailed family tree and statistical information about 460 descendants of the Buchheim family.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    One life is not enough : Autobiographical vignettes [1890-1920] (1956)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 105 + 203 , 105 , bound typescripts. , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Busoni, Ferruccio, ; Hofer, Andreas. ; Meitner, Lise, ; Renner, Karl, ; Robert, Richard. ; Shapira, Vera. ; Szell, Georg. ; Bader, Edwin. ; Stern'sche Mädchen- Lehr- und Erziehungsanstalt (Vienna, Austria) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Teplice (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Lillian Bader describing in great detail life in Vienna, including information on her grandparents and parents, her childhood in Vienna and Teplitz (now Teplice, Czechoslovakia), her education and studies, domestic life, World War I, politics and social issues, her mother's work as a piano teacher and as the director of a girls' boarding school, her husband's encounter with one incident of antisemitism in the Austrian army. The memoir ends with the first years of her marriage in the early 1920ies.
    Description / Table of Contents: The paper version contains a second, illustrated typescript.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , The memoir was removed from the Bader Collection.
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    History of our family. (1952)
    Berkely, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 pages : , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1952
    Keywords: Seligsohn, Albert, ; Seligsohn family. ; Université de Paris. ; Draft 1870-1918. ; Industrialists. ; Lumber trade. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir is a short but still detailed and compact personal life history. There is no particular time focus, but each chapter in his life as described in the biography section is dealt with equallity.
    Note: English
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    Memoirs. (1952)
    Paramus, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1952
    Keywords: Sternberg family. ; Ullmann, Fanny. ; United States. ; Agricultural colonies ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Higher. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Buenos Aires (Argentina) ; Colonia Avigdor (Argentina) ; Dieburg (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in Paramus, New Jersey in 1952. Description of the author's childhood in a small town near Frankfurt am Main, where his parents Max and Ida Sternberg (née Fuchs) had a textile business. Recollections of World War One and the family's move to his maternal grandparents in Dieburg, Hessen. His grandfather was a founder of the local "Turn-Verein" and an influential member of the Jewish congregation. During the war Fred was enrolled in a primary school. At age 14 he was sent to live with his grandparents again to attend to Gymnasium in Dieburg, which was part of a local convent. After graduation in 1928 he started an apprenticeship in a furnishing store in Frankfurt am Main and attended evening lectures at the Goethe University at the same time. Rising Nazism and decision to leave the country. Training at a agricultural farm in Fuertenwalde to prepare for his emigration to the Baron de Hirsch settlement in Argentina. Fred Sternberg left Germany in August 1936 for Buenos Aires. Work and living conditions at the "Colonia Avigdor". Move back to Buenos Aires. After the release of his father from Buchenwald, his family received their visas for the United States. Reuniting with his family in New York in 1941. In 1942 Fred joined the US Army and was sent to the Pacific and the Philippines. Marriage to Fanny Ullmann in November 1945; they settled in Paramus, New Jersey.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Yankees from the Rhine : How Americans start. (1951)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 161 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1951
    Keywords: Roosevelt College of Chicago. ; Acculturation. ; College teachers. ; Historians. ; Journalists. ; Universities and colleges. ; Chicago (Ill.) ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Helmut Hirsch (born 1907 in Wuppertal-Barmen) emigrated with his wife to France in 1933; work as a journalist in France; immigration to the USA during World War II; university study in Chicago and new career as history professor at Roosevelt College, Chicago. Hirsch also discusses the American university system and historic political problems, such as the Saar question.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    To my grandchildren : John Paul and Jacqueline Diane. (1951)
    [Basel] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 34 + 6 pages : , private printing.
    Year of publication: 1951
    Former Title: Meine Lebensgeschichte
    Keywords: Benario family. ; Mosse (Rudolf) Buchverlag, Berlin. ; Advertising Management. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Swabia (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in orthodox Jewish family in Fellheim and Wertheim; work for Mosse publishing house in Berlin and Zuerich.
    Abstract: Also available is a family tree of the Benario family from Wertheim (Baden).
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Memories of my childhood and early married life. (1951)
    Lausanne :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: ii + 85 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: family tree
    Year of publication: 1951
    Keywords: Female author. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Autobiography / (1950)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 278 + 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Gumpert, Martin, ; Assimilation. ; Dermatologists. ; Education, Higher. ; Hospitals. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Youth in Berlin; beginnings of his career as a writer; first publication in 1917; medical assistant in World War I; university studies in Heidelberg; as a physician during the Weimar years; Nazi terror and emigration; new life in the USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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