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    In memoriam Robert Goldschmidt : Born in Berlin 1868 - Perished in Treblinka October 1942 (2017)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 43 + 32 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Robert. ; Goldschmidt family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Country life. ; Families. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Czechoslovakia. ; Correspondence ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The bulk of the manuscript is dedicated to the letters written by Robert (“Bob”) Goldschmidt between his wife’s sudden death in August of 1941 and his deportation in May of 1942. Also included is a short biography of Robert Goldschmidt and the Goldschmidt family.
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    Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] (2003)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 + 42 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Löbl, Friedl, ; Löbl, Sally, ; Löbl, Werner, ; Samson, Dorothee. ; Samson, Richard. ; Bunce Court School. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Kent (England) ; Quito (Ecuador) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Typed transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:
    Abstract: Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.
    Abstract: Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.
    Abstract: Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.
    Description / Table of Contents: Erika's Tagebuch
    Description / Table of Contents: In's neue Leben
    Note: German
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    Family memories / (2002)
    Carmel, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Lieberg family. ; Lieberg, Max, ; Lieberg, Moritz. ; Country life. ; Metal trade. ; Women authors. ; Hesse (Germany) ; Kassel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English version of an original text, written in Stuttgart in 1933.
    Abstract: History of the Lieberg family and especially Erna Sander's father Moritz Lieberg who operated the metal factory 'Messinghof' near Kassel; life in Messinghof;
    Abstract: Also included are photographs taken in Messinghof in 2002.
    Note: English
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    My life. Memoirs of Irma Reiss, 1910-2000 / (2001)
    Highland Park, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Goldblum family. ; Reiss, Leonhard. ; Agudat Israel. ; Blau-Weiss Bund fuer Juedisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland (1913- ) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1986 in the USA and was edited by the author's son Nathan M. Reiss. Irma Reiss was the second child of three of Bertha and Leopold Goldblum. The family lived Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, which had a small Jewish community. Her father was a shoemaker. Description of domestic life in rural Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Recollection of Sabbath preparations in her family. Memories of school life. Hebrew lessons with her uncle Friedmann, who was the cantor and shochet of the town. Visits to relatives in Rossdorf by Darmstadt. Recollections of World War One. Her father Leopold, an Austrian citizen from Galicia, served in the Austrian Army. Celebration of the high holidays. Recollection of Irma Reiss' schooldays in Heppenheim, where she was a well-liked student. Irma and her sister were members of the local Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss". Their group leaders were Rafael and Eva Buber, children of Martin Buber, who lived in Heppenheim and was very supportive of the youth movement. At age 14 Irma was sent to her uncle's family to help taking care of the children. She took continued education classes. Afterwards she worked as a "house daughter" with a religious family in Frankfurt. Irma became a member of the Agudas Yisroel. After the Nazi take-over in Germany their American relatives provided them with affidavits to join them in the States. Growing anti-Semitism. Irma Goldblum left Germany on September 15th, 1938. Her parents stayed behind because her father, who was born in Galicia, still had to wait for his affidavit due to the Polish quota regulations. Difficulties in starting a new life in New York. Worries about her parents in Germany. During the night of the November Pogrom in 1938 her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After three weeks he was released and was able to leave together with his wife for the States. Support of their relatives to start a new life.
    Abstract: Irma Goldblum got married to Leonhard Reiss in December 1939. Thei had two sons, Nathan and Barry Reiss.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    The story of the Lindauer and Weil families / (1999)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 , typewritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: maps
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Lindauer, family. ; Weil family. ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jebenhausen (Göppingen, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of two Jewish families of cattle dealers in the small Wuerttemberg town of Jebenhausen, ca. 1750-1865; Jewish customs in rural communities; includes family tree.
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    The Frankels of Urspringen, volume I: 1680-1880 : A history of the Frankel and Dillenberger families from Lower Franconia (1999)
    Moshav Tirat Yehuda, Israel :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 133 , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Former Title: Fraenkel Family Collection, Urspringen
    Keywords: Ackerman family. ; Dillenberger family. ; Fraenkel family. ; Frankel family. ; Susser family. ; Country life. ; Farm life. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Outdoor life. ; Rural conditions. ; Sepulchral monuments. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Unterfranken (Germany) ; Urspringen (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Family tree of the Fraenkel family from Urspringen near Würzburg. The family tree was created 1927 by Clemens Fränkel in Munich, Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: This first part of the family history covers the period from 1680 to the middle of the nineteenth century, and describes the life of a rural German Jewish family.
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    Gruenspecht. (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 152 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Grünspecht family. ; Heinemann family. ; Oppenheimer family. ; Seitenbach family. ; Wuerzburg Israelistische Lehrerbildungs-Anstalt. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families. ; Butchers. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Wüstensachsen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Memoir describes Alfred Gruenspecht's childhood in Wuestensachsen (Hesse); his family members; his father's decision to immigrate to the United States in 1937; and the new beginning in the United States, where the family launched a successful butcher business. The memoir describes the fate of members of the family and is illustrated with colored family photos.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Grünspecht, Bertha (née Seitenbach); Grünspecht, David; Gundersheimer, Abraham; Goldschmidt, Ivan; Cahn, Leo; Nordhauser, Ruth; Braunschweiger, Lothar; Buchsbaum, Manfred.
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    Ludwig Levy : Biography (1998)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 80 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: documents (photocopies)
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Levy, Ludwig. ; Levy, Hertz. ; Levy, Hermann. ; Lehman, Asher. ; Stürchler, Ernst. ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Esens (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Biography of the author's father Ludwig Levy, a cattle dealer from Esens in Lower Saxony, Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: A happy life
    Description / Table of Contents: Everything changes
    Description / Table of Contents: A new life in the New World
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    Memory of an unhappy childhood. (1998)
    Lake Worth :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Children. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of childhood years in Heilbronn, 1933-1936.
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    From Vienna to Vineland : A history of the Salier Family, including the ancestors and descendants of Wulff Levin Fraenkel, during the last four hundred years (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 92 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Additional Material: geneological charts :
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Fraenkel Levin, Wulff. ; Hellendag, Eva. ; Salier family. ; Salier, Bertha. ; Salier, Eva. ; Salier, Felix. ; Salier, Frederike. ; Salier, Frieda. ; Salier, George. ; Salier, Jacob. ; Salier, Max. ; Salier, Tommy. ; Salier, Wilhelm. ; Artists. ; Country life. ; Farmers. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood home in Vineland, New Jersey; life on farm; life of parents in Berlin after 1933; father's account of family's flight from Germany in 1936; emigration of parents; family move to farm in Vineland, New Jersey; history of the Salier family; origin of family name; geneologies; bibliography.
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    Years of transition : The chronicle of how I came to America (1997)
    Sharon, Mass. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 + 5 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Marks, Charles H. ; Marx, Karl-Heinz. ; Children. ; Education. ; Engineers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Great Britain. ; Schweinfurt (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1949. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Schweinfurt (Lower Franconia); Nazi persecution; emigration to England in 1937 and life in the USA after 1947. Written in 1980, revised 1997 (printed 1999).
    Abstract: Also included are photocopies of passports and other documents.
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    Toni Ehrlich's diaries, (1906-1996)
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    Pages: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes) : , 29 handwritten notebooks +
    Additional Material: + English summaries
    Year of publication: 1906-1996
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Education. ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: The diaries of Toni Ehrlich – 29 handwritten notebooks – document her life on an almost day to day basis, beginning on April 1, 1906 and ending with a single word (“Lo”, meaning “no” in Hebrew) on October 21, 1969. Her thoughts and observations concentrate mostly on matters and issues of art and culture, as well as – to a lesser degree – current events. Private matters, including life changing ones - like her husband’s death -, are mentioned on the side, if at all. The original diaries in old German handwriting are accompanied by detailed summaries in English and a list of names, provided by Irene Miller.
    Description / Table of Contents: Toni Ehrlich's diaries [29 volumes in Boxes ]: continuous from April 1, 1906 to August 27, 1969
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    How beautiful we were. (1996)
    Pittsburgh :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 112 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Adelsheim, Honey. ; Aldesheimer, Emma. ; Aldesheimer, Gustav, ; Aldesheimer, Paula, ; Bornebusch, Wolfgang. ; Eichmann, Johanna. ; Kann, Nathan. ; Silberman family. ; Silberman, Hanna, ; Silberman, Louis, ; Wagner, Gottfried. ; Weissmann Klein, Gerda. ; Zadek family. ; Zadek, Gerhard. ; Antisemitism. ; Cattle trade. ; Country life. ; Housekeepers. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lemförde (Germany) ; Schermbeck (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the author's family history. Her parents, Hanna and Louis Silberman, married in 1918. Marga was the last child of four. Recollection of her father's sudden death in 1934 due to the shock of an announced arrest by the Gestapo. Her mother had to take a job as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to Schermbeck to live with her mother's younger sister Paula and her grandparents in the countryside. Her maternal grandfather Gustav Adelsheimer was a cattle dealer and a respected member of the local Jewish community. Celebration of Jewish holidays. Disrupted education due to Nazi laws. Recollections of the terrors of Kristallnacht, when they were forced to leave their house and run for shelter in the woods. The family moved to stay with relatives in Berlin shortly thereafter. Difficult circumstances of life in Nazi Germany and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Their immigration papers arrived in May 1941, and Marga and her mother were able to immigrate to USA via Lisbon. Arrival in New York. Difficult new beginnings. Marga's mother took a position as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to live with a German-speaking foster family during the school year. Cultural and language differences. After two years her mother and sister had saved enough for an own apartment, and the family was reunited. Return to Schermbeck in 1981. Recollections of the family members who perished in the Holocaust. Reunion with her Gentile friend Irmgard in Schermbeck. Reconciliation with residents of Schermbeck. Return to Lemforde together with her sister Hilde in 1986. Reflections on her frequent reconciliation meetings in Germany and her effort to commemorate the Holocaust.
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    Es war einmal. (1995)
    Guatemala :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 65 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Divorce. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Growing up in Berlin; attended Jewish language and art schools; emigration to Guatemala; life in Guatemala; immigration to USA in 1946; marriage in 1947; life and work in New York; birth of sons; return to Guatemala in 1949; travels; children and friends; divorce.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Berndt, Richard; Berndt, Ruth Rose; Berndt, Siegismund; Bernhardt, Carlos; Bernhardt, Inge; Dreyfuss, Ilse; Fischer, Siegfried; Gort, Erich; Hochfelder, Irene; Landsberger, Elfie; Landsberger, Mutz; Levy, Claude; Levy, Michael; Levy, Ruth; Levy, Wolfgang; Meyer, Anneliese; Rathenau, Josfine; Reider, Ana-Luise; Reider, Rudi; Sachs, Inge; Sello, Erich; Sello, Lise.
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    Through the eyes of a child. (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Plaut, Werner. ; Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of childhood after 1933; life in Duesseldorf, Stuttgart; immgiration to USA; problems coping with emigration, adjusting to life in USA; encounters with anti-Semitism; visit to Yad Vashem; reflections on Holocaust, God.
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    Memories of Nelly Levy Berg : Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948 (1995)
    Houston, Texas :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Dannenbaum family. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Schneidemuhl (Pila) ; Houston (Tex.) ; Piła (Poland) ; Trzcianka (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in Behle in 1910, Nelly Levy Berg moved with her family to Schoenlanke in 1913; detailed description of home in Schoenlanke; Jewish life in Schoenlanke; move to grandparents' house in Schrotz after World War I; geneology of the Dannenbaum family; childhood memories; after death of father in 1929, move to Schneidemuehl; meets husband Siegfried; move to Berlin in 1933; immigration to USA in 1938; life and work in Houston; immigration of family members to USA; marriage in 1939; birth of children; list of family members who died in the Holocaust; Lorraine Wulfe's account of trip to Schoenlanke and Schneidemuehl in 1975; map of Schoenlanke in 1920's.
    Abstract: The text is interspersed with reproductions of photographs; a map and a family tree; and a glossary of German terms.
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    Shalom, Chaverim. (1994)
    New Paltz, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 224 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish farmers. ; Jews 1933-1945. ; Marriage. ; Refugees. ; Sex. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Haifa (Israel) ; Munich (Germany) ; Nahariyah (Israel) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945-1955. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Emigration to Palestine from Germany in 1936; parents' establishment of chicken farm in Nahariyah; encounters with Germans in Palestine; Arab terrorism and riots; learning how to farm; letters from author's grandmother; courtship and marriage; farming with husband; birth of daughter; fate of friends and relatives in Europe during World War II; life in Palestine during World War II; death of grandmother; acquaintance with Arabs during the war; birth of son; end of war; immigration to USA; establishment of farm in upstate New York; life since immigration.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Apfelbaum, Paul; Hermann, Hannah; Klopfer, Theodor; Kronheimer, Maurizio; Löwy, Joseph; Löwy, Paul; Mayer, Peter; Pauker, Jacob; Reich, Simon; Salomon, Robert; Weiler, Max; Windmüller, Salo; Wolf, Herbert.
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    Notes from an extinct species / (1993)
    [New Paltz, N.Y.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 278 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Kronheimer family. ; Weiler family. ; Werkleute, Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend. ; Country life. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Hops industry. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Munich (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Maternal grandmother's life; marriage of maternal grandmother; early life of mother; family of father in Noerdlingen; father's education; courtship of parents; lives of parents' families; marriage of parents; father volunteers for service in World War I; father's experiences on eastern front; revolution in Munich; earliest memories; relationship with grandparents; death of grandfather; trip to Italy; early schooling and gymnasium; Nazi seizure of power; membership in Bund Deutsch-Juedischer Jugend; summer vacation in Eichenhausen; arrest of father; father's prison experience; emigration to Palestine in 1936; family tree; maps.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Kronheimer, Bella; Kronheimer, Maurizio; Margulies, Jerda; Margulies, Ludwig; Peck, Alfred; Peck, Elsie; Peck, Geda; Piotti, Louis; Piotti, Teresa; Warschauer, Caroline; Wassermann, Bella; Wassermann, David; Wassermann, Jacobine; Weiler, Abraham; Weiler, David; Weiler, Jacobine; Weiler, Johanna; Weiler, Ludwig; Weiler, Regina; Wolf, Herbert.
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    Memoirs of Moses Porges : (from the original Gothic German handwritten document, in posession of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York) (1993)
    Paris :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 20 + 22 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Frank, Jacob, ; Porgès family Biography. ; Children. ; Frankists. ; Jewish religious education before 1871. ; Voyages and travels. ; Offenbach am Main (Germany) ; Prague. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of „Die Geschichte meines Grossonkels und meines Grossvaters“ in the LBI Memoir collection, ME 795, including French translation:
    Abstract: Childhood and education in Prague; introduction into Frankist circle through author's father; journey to Offenbach; detailed description of Jakob Frank's "court" in Offenbach.
    Abstract: Also included are “Porgès’ bibliography” (containing citations of published works by authors named Porgès) and “Porgès’ biographies” (containing biographical abstracts from various publications), both compiled by Antoine F. Porgès, Paris, 1993, 8 pages each.
    Note: German and French
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    Lucky to be here / (1993)
    Brussels :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 273 pages : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Children. ; Jewish musicians Fiction. ; Jewish refugees Fiction. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Fictionalized biography of an 8-year-old boy from Cologne, Germany, living with his parents as Jewish refugees in Toledo, Ohio during WW II.
    Abstract: Also included is a curriculum vitae of Herbert L. Kaufman.
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    Zuhause bei Kallmanns : Eine Schoeneberger Familie in den Dreissiger Jahren. (1993)
    Ottawa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Kallmann, Arthur. ; Kallmann, Eva. ; Kallmann, Fanny. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Jewish families. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Schöneberg (Berlin, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Childhood memories growing up in Berlin-Schoeneberg; recollections of family members, friends and household help; account of emigration; excerpts from diaries; fate of family members in the Holocaust; survivors' accounts of parents' and sister's last days in Berlin and Theresienstadt.
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    Memories from our childhood, (1984-1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 20 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984-1992
    Keywords: Klauber family. ; Industrialists. ; Cigarette industry. ; Country life. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Lace and lace making. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of lace-making industry (Kloeppel industry) in Schwanenbrueckl, Bohemia; mushroom picking in Schwanenbrueckl; description of local fire brigade, general store; description of farm and farm life; medical treatments in the village; description of local school; religious instruction; description of house garden; description of food and diet; wedding at synagogue in Pilsen; honeymoon trip in Prague, Vienna, Poertschach; settled in Munich; birth of daughter; move to Czechoslovakia in 1937; flight to Prague in 1938; emigration to USA in 1939.
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    Gertrud Dann. (1992)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 20 + 5 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Dann, Elisheva. ; Dann, Sophie, ; Freud, Anna, ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Preschool teachers. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Gertrud Dann including recollections of her childhood; youth; schooling and her training as kindergarten teacher; of her emigration to England; of her working as a nurse with Anna Freud during World War II; of her experiences as a social worker with child survivors from concentration camps after the war; of her work as a librarian; of her travels to Rome, Germany and Israel; and of her moving to a nursing home with her sister Sophie; as well as information on her sisters Elisheva and Sophie.
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    [Memoirs] : [1909-1998]. (1991)
    Ramat Chen,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 145 , annotated typescript; illustrated (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Altmann, Elsie ; Altmann family ; Friedjung, Joseph, ; Loos, Adolf, ; Marcus family ; Neumann, Paula ; Robert, Hans ; Thomsen, Carl ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Christmas. ; Manners and customs. ; Music. ; Musicians. ; Nazis. ; Socialism. ; Tailors. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1933-1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are composed of various autobiographical tales, poems and photos. Anny Roberts grew up in an assimilated Jewish family. Her mother came from Olmoucz and her father from Vienna. Childhood recollections. Stories about her extended family. Recollections of the famous pediatrician Joseph Friedjung, who was a friend of the family. Experiences of antisemitism. Recollections of the depriviations during World War One and the depression in the aftermath. Anny was sent to Denmark with a special children's recreation program for malnourished Viennese children. She stayed with the widower Carl Thomsen in Aarhus, where she was well taken care of. Influence of Adolf Loos, who married her cousin Elsie Altmann and became a dear friend of the family. Friendship with Paula Neumann and her cousin Hilde. Importance of music and opera in her family. Piano lessons. Description of family characters. Interest in Socialism. Awareness of the rising nationalist movements in Austria and Germany. Anny attended a school to become a tailor and started her own "Salon" (business). Relationship with the musician Robert Chajet, who changed his name to Hans Robert. Civil marriage and move to Palestine in 1934. Initial difficulties and cultural differences. Life of emigrants in Palestine. Anny started to work in her profession and established a small business. Marriage difficulties. Journeys to Jerusalem and Haifa.
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    Heimatlos : Abschlussarbeit des Projekts Zweites Waisenhaus der Juedischen Gemeinde in Pankow. (1991)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Makower family. ; Garbaty-Rosenthal family. ; Gruenwald family. ; Mosse, Albert, ; Mecklenburg, Ludwig. ; Hirschfeld, David. ; Grundwald, Isidor. ; Jüdisches Waisenhaus (Pankow, Berlin, Germany)‏. ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Children. ; Children Institutional care. ; Jewish orphanages. ; Orphanages. ; Pankow (Berlin, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Students' class project about the history of the second orphanage of the Jewish Community in Berlin-Pankow.
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    [Reflections of an immigrant] : [1920-1991]. (1991)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 45 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Frank, Anne. ; Woods, Irene. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Various short essays on the following subjects: chronicle of childhood and school years in Berlin; persecution in Nazi Germany; memories of author's father and grandparents; November pogrom 1939; reflections of an immigrant to USA; World War II; reunion of former schoolmates in New York 1989; journey to Vienna; revisiting Berlin in 1990; German-Jewish dialogue; reflections on Anne Frank exhibit
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    A Berlin Childhood ca. 1900. (1990)
    Yellow Springs, Ohio :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 112 + 3 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Benjamin, Walter, ; Benjamin, Walter, Childhood and youth. ; Authors, German Biography 20th century ; 20th century. ; Children. ; Authors, German Biography. 20th century ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: English translation of "Berliner Kindheit um 1900" by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, following Benjamin's final version from 1938, published in Bibliothek Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1989.
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    Max Landenberger 1882-1972 : Erinnerungen des Gruenders der Medicus-Schuhfabrik (1990)
    Fürth, Bayern :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish families. ; Merchants. ; Shoe industry. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Publications. ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish community of Demmelsdorf; apprenticeship in shoe business; expansion of family's shoebusiness; emigration and life in South Africa.
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    Die Geschichte der Judenfamilien Winterberger aus Winterberg. (1990)
    Medebach :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 219 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Bloch family. ; Frankenberg family. ; Nordwald family. ; Schoenthal family. ; Winterberger family. ; Country life. ; Jewish cemeteries. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews History ; Jews, German Genealogy. Genealogy ; Real property. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Arnsberg (Germany) ; Medebach (Germany) ; Winterberg (Arnsberg, Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Contains family trees and copies of documents.
    Note: German
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    Childhood Memoirs of World War II. (1990)
    Lawrence, Ks :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: iv + 29 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Longeray, Claudius, ; Catholic Church. ; Children. ; Jewish refugees ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; Annecy (France) ; Calvisson (France) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Paris (France) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    My Memoirs. (1989)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 42 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Children. ; Jewish family. ; Women authors. ; Chemnitz (Germany) Childhood and youth. ; France. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1937. ; Saxony (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Chemnitz; emigration to Holland and USA; post-war life in USA and France; revisiting hometown of Chemnitz.
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    Mein Name ist Claire Bacharach Dratch, (1989)
    [Seligenstadt] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1989
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Children. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Seligenstadt (Hesse, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of childhood in small Hessian town of Seligenstadt; changes after Nazi takeover, presented to a school in Seligenstadt.
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    Reminiscences of a Frankfurt childhood : [1924-1933]. (1989)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Rosenzweig, Franz, ; Baeck, Leo, ; Women authors. ; Public welfare. ; Child welfare. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Children. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Frankfurt am Main; father provided assistance to Bertha Pappenheim's home for unwed mothers and their children; visits of Leo Baeck and Martin Buber in parents' home; after World War I Franz Rosenzweig lived for a while with author's parents.
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    [Emigration]. (1988)
    Cheadle, Cheshire :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 58 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1937. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Excerpts of childhood memoirs. Contains two chapters on school years in Berlin and on emigration to England.
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    When time ran out : Coming of age in the Third Reich. (1988)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    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.
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    Comments at Kristallnacht Service : 11 November 1988 (1988)
    Easton/Pennsylvania :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Children. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of November pogrom 1938 in Franfurt am Main.
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    Sophie Dann. (1986)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Dann, Gertrud, ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish communities. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; Nurses. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Social workers. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Youth movements. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Sophie Dann, including description of her childhood in Augsburg; of her secular and Jewish education; of her experiences during World War I; of her involvment in and exclusion from the youth group "Wandervogel"; of her training as a teacher and a nurse; of her employment as a nurse in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Fuerth; of her work for the Augsburg Jewish community after 1933; of life in Nazi Germany and her parents leaving for Palestine; of her emigration to England with her sister; of her work as a domestic and a nurse there; of her life in post-war England and restitution payments from Germany; and of her work in Freud's library, information on her parents moving to England, and their life there.
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    On a slow boat to America : A family and life story for our children and grandchildren. (1986)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages (single spaced) : , typewscript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Esslinger family. ; Children. ; Education. ; Merchants. ; Textile industry. ; Konstanz (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history 1870-1937: childhood and youth in Constance; commercial apprenticeship in Nuremberg and Bochum; working in his father's shirt business; persecutions of Jews after 1933; emigration to Palestine and the USA.
    Abstract: The memoir was originally written in German as "Auf Umwegen nach Amerika".
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    Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben / (1983)
    Bochum :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 52 + 6 pages : , typescript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: 3 handwritten pages (photocopies)
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Hauser, Ludwig, ; Hauser, Rosalie, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; College teachers ; Country life. ; Folklore. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Household employees 19th century. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Rust (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of two handwritten notebooks, originally written in Strassburg 1910 and Freiburg 1922 respectively.
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish community of Rust (Baden); revolution of 1848-1849; Franco-Prussian War; relations between Jews and Christians.
    Abstract: Also included is a short account of the life of Ludwig Hauser (1882-1951), professor at the "Staatstechnikum" in Karlsruhe, mainly on his time in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, 1944-1945 (poem on Theresienstadt).
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    Via Albania. (1983)
    Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 107 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (bound photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Gerechter, Alice Esther (née Schickler) ; Gerechter, Siegbert. ; Children. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Albania Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Durrës (Albania) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Nazi Germany; November pogrom of 1938 in Hamburg; emigration to Albania in 1939; life in Albania during World War II; German occupation of Albania; immigration to USA via Italy.
    Abstract: Also included are four genealogical tables and a map of Albania.
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    [Synopsis] : The lost generation: children of the Holocaust. (1982)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 , handwritten.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Synopsis of a book edited by Azriel Louis Eisenberg, The Lost generation: children of the Holocaust, New York Pilgrim Press, 1982. LBI Library D 810 J4 L68
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    Grandma, times have changed. (1982)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 101 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Cuba Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in wealthy Berlin family; high school and university study; marriage to the lawyer Alfred Gerstel; decision to build a new house in 1935; persecutions in Nazi Germany; Pogrom November 1938; immigration and life in the USA.
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    Ein Aufsatz ueber die Vorkommnisse meines Lebens. (1981)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 84 + (72 + 9) pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: typed transcript
    Year of publication: 1981
    Keywords: Baths Therapeutic use. ; Children. ; Diseases. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Merchants. ; Stepparents. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Essen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Essen; apprenticeship as merchant; family life; autodidactic studies.
    Abstract: Also included is a typed transcript by Ray Wolff; 1981.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Handwritten manuscript
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typed transcript
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Erinnerungen von Valerie und Andrea Wolffenstein]. (1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 200 pages (double space) : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Wolffenstein, Valerie, ; Children. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in fin-de-siecle Berlin; visits at mother's family in Vienna; main part on persecution under Nazi rule and assistance by non-Jewish friends.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Valerie bis 1945
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Andrea 1938-1945
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    Susie's story. (1978)
    [Catskills, New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Weinberg, Susie. ; Children. ; Foster parents. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A mother's story how her daughter was hidden and saved in the Netherlands during World War II and reunited with her parents; life of daughter after immigration to the USA after 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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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.
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    Memoirs of L.A. Freund. (1977)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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.
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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).
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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).
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    Multa multum : ["much of much"]. (1976)
    New York City :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 207 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Bach, Hans. ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Children. ; Education. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Quality of life. ; Textile industry. ; Berlin. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir by Rudi Bach includes genealogical information along with a description of his own life from his childhood in Stuttgart before World War I up to his life in New York after his immigration to the United States in 1947. He discusses his youth and education, a business apprenticeship in Stuttgart, and his eventual move to Berlin where he worked in the textile business. In Berlin he married and had children. He describes the atmosphere of Nazism and its effect on the Jewish community of Berlin, on his family's emigration to Palestine in 1936, and the further immigration the family undertook to the United States in 1947, and on his family life and successful business in New York.
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    What I remember. (1976)
    [Berkeley, California)] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages : , typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Numismatics. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Hamburg, experiences during World War I; business career as a banker; Nazi years and immigration to the USA.
    Abstract: Pages 83-98, "The history of a collection of ancient seals", were written as a suppement to the memoirs.
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    Dear Family : Memoirs (1976)
    Flushing :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: approximately 585 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Schönbach family. ; Magnus family. ; Children. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Munster, France (Haut-Rhin) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ten volumes of Lotte Fairbrook's memoirs, covering 1792-1938:
    Abstract: Childhood and background; adolescence and young womanhood; married life in Germany; five years in four countries.; the first years in the United States of America.
    Abstract: Addenda: Update of the first volume, Childhood and background.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 1-11
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 12-17
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 1-5
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 6-14
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 1-10
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 11-15
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 16-23
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 1-7
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 8-18
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 10: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 19-24
    Note: Available on microfilm and on CDROM , MM2 reel 21: parts 1-2 , MM2 reel 22: parts 3-5 , English
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    Ferne Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugend und Alter. (1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 123 + 75 + 205 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Amann, Dora (née Israel), ; Amann, Paul, ; Israel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Families. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Music. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Dora Amann including family history reaching back to her grandparents, recollection of her childhood in Vienna, and information on her own and her brother's schooling, on changing family customs, on her musical education, on World War I, on antisemitism and political life in Europe before and during Nazi rule, on the fate of the different family members, on her emigration to France and to the United States via Lisbon, and on her life in America.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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    Die Geschichte der Familien Lindauer und Weil / (1975)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 25 pages. (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Lindauer, family. ; Weil family. ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jebenhausen (Göppingen, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of two Jewish families of cattle dealers in the small Wuerttemberg town of Jebenhausen, ca. 1750-1865; Jewish customs in rural communities; includes family tree.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    The Apartment. (1973)
    [Oceanside, Calif.],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 + 39 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Beer, Otto ; Beer Ritter, Frieda ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Jews Persecution. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Joelle Beer: description of her childhood in Vienna, persecution of Jews under Nazi rule, her family's immigration to the United States, information on her life in California and New York, recollections of her aunt Frieda Beer Ritter, who lived on a farm in Czechoslovakia and died in Theresienstadt.
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    Ha'Autobiografia shel Abraham Greenbaum. (1973)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: Hebrew
    Pages: 15 pages. (1 1/2 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Voyages and travels. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Schwabach (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Wiesenfeld; orthodox Jewish education; visit to Palestine; orthodox Jewish life in Schwabach and Nuremberg.
    Abstract: The autobiography was originally written in German. It was first translated into English and from the English version into Hebrew.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Hebrew
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    A Recent History of the Frankel Family. (1973)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 30 + 18 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Frankel, Justin, ; Blood accusation. ; Country life. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish families. ; Jews Cultural assimilation ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Teachers. ; Cincinnati (Ohio) ; Erlangen (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edward Frankel tells about his grandfather Justin Frankel who was born in Obbach (Lower Franconia) in 1896. He was a teacher in Erlangen until his dismissal by the Nazis in 1933. In 1937, he was briefly arrested and accused of having committed a ritual murder in 1929. In 1938 the family immigrated to the USA. In the second part, Edwin Frankel depicts immigrant life in Avondale (Ohio) where his grandfather founded an orthodox German-Jewish congregation and worked as a ritual slaughterer.
    Abstract: Also included are correspondence and notes, 1937-1965, pertaining to Justin Frankel.
    Note: Available on microfilm. , English
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    [Mona Spiegel-Adolf's diaries], (1903-1971)
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    Pages: 3 notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1903-1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Diseases. ; Teenagers. ; Physicians ; Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 1: 1903-1905 (German)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 2: 1907-1908 (English)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 3 1936-1952, 1971 (English)
    Note: The diaries are also available in the Mona Spiegel-Adolf Collection, AR 5321 / folder 12. , German and English
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    My first 12 years / (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Remseck am Neckar (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1971 in New York. The author describes her childhood in the tiny village Hochberg on the river Neckar at the end of the 19th century. Recollection of the rural environment and its simple living conditions. Description of the inhabitants of the village, including a night watchman who called out the time in the streets. Alice grew up speaking German and French at home. Her mother was a well-educated woman who had lived in Paris for some time. Her father was a business man. The Jewish community in Hochberg was small, but it had its own synagogue. Memories of family Seder celebrations at her grandparents' home. Recollection of her time at the Alexandrina Kindergarten, where Alice was the only Jewish child. Christmas celebrations at nursery school. Birth of her sister. In 1899 Alice Ottenheimer was enrolled in the local primary school. Private Hebrew lessons with the cantor of the nearby city. Summer vacations at her mother's birthplace in Ichenhausen. In 1905 the family moved from the countryside to Ludwigsburg.
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    Rueckblick, Erinnerungen und Gedankensplitter einer alten Mannheimerin. (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution ; 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; France. ; Germany Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Mannheim; education as a musician; Gurs internment camp; liberation and life in France after the war.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Aus deutsch-juedischen Kindheitserinnerungen. (1970)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    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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    Begegnung mit der Vergangenheit. (1970)
    Zürich :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 + 9 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Wallach family. ; Country life. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Merchants. ; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. ; Ziegenhain (Schwalmstadt, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Exact account of robbery in home of Wallach's great-grandparents in Ziegenhain (Hesse) in 1808 during the Napoleonic Wars, based on Hebrew notes which were found by Alfred Wallach in the 1920s; history of Wallach family in Ziegenhain (Hesse) reaching back to 18th century.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Memoirs]. (1969)
    Atlanta :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 377 pages : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1969
    Keywords: Wolf, Victoria, ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Industrialists. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Textile industry. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Boston (Mass.) ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; Les Milles (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcripts of Alfred Wolf’s reading of his own autobiography, edited by his cousin, Dr. Julius Held:
    Abstract: Genealogy reaching back to 18th century; childhood and school years in Heilbronn; volunteering at the age of 17 for World War I; World War I - experiences; university studies; marriage to the writer Trudel Victor (= Victoria Wolff) whose novels were published by Paul Zsolnay; trips to many parts of Europe between 1924 and 1933; persecution under Nazi rule; humiliation of Wolf's children in school; emigration to Austria in 1936; employment in real estate business; move to France and internment in Les Milles and in Manosque; immigration and new beginnings in the USA.
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    Der Stahlpalast. (1968)
    [1968] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: clipping
    Year of publication: 1968
    Keywords: Genovese, Kitty, ; Children. ; Murder. ; New Jersey. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The murder of Eddy, the son of Veronica and Emilio Castaldo in New Jersey, is investigated by the journalist Joe Coppersmith.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Jugenderinnerungen von Flora Goldschmidt geb. Rother : Auszüge aus ihren Reisebriefen, biographische Notizen über Siegfried und Flora Goldschmidt (1967)
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    Pages: 49 + 21 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1967
    Former Title: Jugenderinnerungen - Memories of my Youth
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rother, Ida. ; Rother, Robert. ; Children. ; Education, Primary before 1871. ; Education, Secondary before 1871. ; Families 19th century. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir written in the early 20th century; childhood in 19th century Germany; secondary education girls' school ("Hoehere Toechterschule"); memories of the Franco-Prussian War (1870); cultural life (piano and dancing lessons, visits to museums); trips to Prague and Dresden; courtship and marriage; journeys to India (1907), Egypt (1909), China, Japan and the United States (1910).
    Abstract: Also included is an English language translation.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English , Synopsis in file
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    Anshej Rhenus : A chronicle of Jewish life by the Rhine (1967)
    Santa Rosa, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 + 19 + 1 pages (single space) : , bounf typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1967
    Keywords: Aberle family. ; Joseph family. ; Kaufmann family. ; Lehmann family. ; Sandel family. ; Sternheimer family. ; Wolf family. ; Cattle trade. ; Country life. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1925. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Viernheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Chronicle of Kaufmann and Sternheimer families of Viernheim, Wolf family of Rohrbach, Regensburger family of Eppingen, Joseph family of Reichelsheim, Sandel family of Hirschhorn, Lehmann family in Lengfeld and Aberle family in Mannheim, reaching back to 17th century; most members of these families were cattle dealers in rural communities in the Kurpfalz (Electorate of the Palatine); many of them immigrated in the second half of the 19th century to the USA; the author emigrated to Palestine in 1925; Jewish life in Viernheim in early 20th century; visit to Viernheim in 1965.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Jugenderinnerungen an Bruno Schlesinger - Walter. (1967)
    Muralto/Locarno :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1967
    Keywords: Walter, Bruno, ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memoirs of Bruno Walter in Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Aus meinem Leben : [1885-1966]. (1966)
    Brno :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 183 + 19 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Country life. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution. ; Jews History. ; Jews Education 1918-1938. ; Jewish families. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; Jewish engineers. ; Brno (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Leipnik (Moravia); rural Jewish life in Moravia; domestic life; primary and secondary education; university study; military service in World War I; prisoner-of-war in Sibiria; work as engineer in inter-war Brno; persecution of Jews after occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939; imprisonment in various concentration camps 1942-1945; re-establishment of Brno Jewish community in 1945; Jewish life in post-war Czechoslovakia.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Bildnis eines Knaben. (1965)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Former Title: Gestalten.
    Keywords: Art appreciation. ; Children. ; Death. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Story about the painter Martin Drost and the painting of his son, Lolo.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    The story of my life's joys and sorrows : 1831-1910 Austria (1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 9 + 2 + 5 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish way of life. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Literature. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in traditional Jewish atmosphere in Galicia; description of Jewish holidays; education in traditional Jewish "heder"; higher Jewish education in Kulikow (Galicia); encounter with German literature; break with orthodoxy; revolution of 1848-1849; early marriage; work at the stock exchange in Vienna.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are "A few meditations to be heeded by my children and grandchildren" in German and in English.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English and some German
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    [Erinnerungen]. (1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 125 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Study and teaching. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Baden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Chapters of William Wertheimer's book "Zwischen zwei Welten; der Foerster von Brooklyn. Lebenserinnerungen des ehemaligen juedischen Lehrers in Eubigheim und Buchen in Baden, 1966:
    Abstract: Rural Jewish life in small Baden community of Hardheim at the turn of the century; preservance of Jewish rituals and customs; father was Jewish teacher and worked for insurance company; Bar Mitzvah in 1910; experiences as soldier in World War I; observance of dietary laws in German army; encounter with East European Jews; life as teacher in small Jewish schools in Eubigheim and Buchen (Baden); persecution of Jews after 1933; immigration to USA.
    Abstract: Also included are letters by Konrad Adenauer (grandson of Chancellor), Bruno Stern, Fritz Feuchtmeyer and others, and the photocopy of "Bescheinigung" of "Kriegslazarett".
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Zehn Jahre spaeter. (1956-1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    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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    Die verlorene Heimat. (1964)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Stein, Herbert. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Home economics. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Wolfratshausen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.
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    The story of my family. (1963)
    Oakland, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 152 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Hope family. ; Hope, Jenny. ; Hope, Josef. ; Hope, Otto. ; Country life. ; Household employees 19th century. ; Jewish families ; Jews Genealogy. ; Mental illness. ; Physicians. ; England. ; Prussia, West (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1937. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: First part contains translation of family story as narrated by author's uncle Otto Hope in 1930; ancestors emigrated from Poland to Verl (Westphalia) in 17th century; grandmother Jenny Hope from Geseke (Westphalia); domestic life among 19th century rural Jews; mental illness of author's aunt; author's father was physician in Detmold and Hamburg; childhood in Hamburg and fate of other family members; list of relatives who perished in the Holocaust.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Das war in Worms im Monat Mai... : [1886-1900]. (1962)
    Nahariya, Israel :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Jewish way of life. ; Children. ; Worms (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Worms and description of Worms Jewish community in late 19th century; contains 2 ink line drawings of Worms cathedral and of Jerusalem (removed to art collection)
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    Memoir of childhood. (1962)
    [Place of publication not identified] :The Jewish Spectator,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Publications.
    Abstract: Account of author's grandparents; rural orthodox Jewry in Hesse and urban community (Frankfurt am Main?); domestic life; suicide of grandfather after November pogrom 1938.
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    Die Geschichte meiner Kindheit und Jugend : 1882-1903. (1962)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 20 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Hammerschlag, Moritz, ; B'nai B'rith. ; Christmas. ; Education, Primary 19th century. ; Education, Secondary 19th century. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Jewish way of life. ; Austria. ; Prague. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1962 in Chicago. Childhood in well-to-do Jewish family. Description of turn-of-the-century Prague and its culture. Living circumstances in a bourgeois household with maids and nannies at the end of the 19th century. Lilli Hammerschlag was enrolled in a German girl's school (Maedchenlyceum), which was mainly attended by Jewish children. Excellent education. First influential friendships with schoolmates. Strict societal rules of contacts between the sexes. Cultural activities and evenings at the German theater of Prague. Summer vacations with hiking tours in the Austrian alps. Religious life limited to the high Jewish holidays, despite the fact that her father was in the executive board of the temple. Recollections of her pious maternal grandmother. Memories of Christmas celebrations with her nanny. Description of historical events such as the tragic death of crown prince Rudolph in 1889. Engagement of her sister Gertrud and romance with the brother of the groom, who became her husband in 1903.
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    Meine Lebenserinnerungen : geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919. (1919-1962)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 + 13 pages : , manuscript + transcript. +
    Additional Material: 11 pages typescript + clippings.
    Year of publication: 1919-1962
    Former Title: Lebenserinnerungen
    Keywords: Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Pharmacists. ; Shehitah. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Butchers. ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Maier Rosenthaler’s memoirs (original handwritten manuscript + typed transcript), written during the ceasefire following WW I in Strasbourg; January 1919:
    Abstract: Rural Jewish life in Wuerttemberg; unsuccessful search for employment as ritual slaughterer in Frankfurt am Main; return to Heilbronn as ritual slaughterer and butcher; providing good education for seven children; one son became editor-in-chief of the "Strassburger Neue Zeitung"; Strasbourg in World War I.
    Abstract: Also included are memoirs by his son Leopold (childhood in rural Jewish atmosphere; education and apprenticeship as a pharmacist) and Leopold Rosenthaler's obituary.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Rosenthaler, Leopold : Lebenserinnerungen, Heilbronn, 1920, 11 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen, geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, handwritten manuscript, 19 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, typed transcript, 13 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Offprint: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Leopold Rosenthaler, 1875-1962 , in: Schweizerische Apotheker-Zeitung 100 (1962), pages 577-583.
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    Lebenserinnerungen / (1961)
    New York :Leo Baeck Institut,
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    Language: German
    Pages: circa 2,000 pages : , heavily annotated typescript
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Tietz, Edith. ; Tietz, Hermann, ; Tietz, Oskar, ; Hermann Tietz (Firma, Berlin) ; Hertie Warenhaus und Kaufhaus. ; Department stores. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Five drafts (each approximately 267 pages) for a book by Georg Tietz, published by the Leo Baeck Institute in 1965.
    Abstract: The book tells the story of the department store "Hermann Tietz", known later as "Hertie", which was the largest company of its kind in Europe. It is also the story of the company’s two founders, Hermann and Oscar Tietz, the great uncle and father of Georg Tietz.
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    [Ancestors]. (1961)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 + 2 + 137 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Guldmann family (Harburg) ; Tuchmann family (Ühlfeld) ; Ühlfeld family (Franconia) ; Berlin family (Nuremberg) ; Josephtal family (Nuremberg) ; Metzger family (Weisenau) ; Country life. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Iron industry and trade ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Merchants. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ansbach (Germany : Landkreis) ; Franconia (Germany) ; Harburg (Schwaben, Germany) ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Swabia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Berlin, Josephtal, Guldmann, Tuchmann and Metzger families from Ansbach, Nuremberg and Weisenau (near Mainz), circa 1750 to the 1960s. Most of them were in the wine and iron trade; social rise from peddlers to successful merchants during 19th century; beginnings of Jewish community in Nuremberg; Fuerth Jewish community; law office of Berlin-Josephtal in Nuremberg; Jewish communities of Weisenau (near Mainz) and Harburg (Svabia); the iron merchants Guldmann and the "Sueddeutsche Eisengesellschaft"; origins of Tuchmann family in Floss (Bavaria); move to Uehlfeld (Franconia) and Dessau; trip to Palestine in 1934; immigration to USA.
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    The story of my family. (1961)
    Oakland, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 122 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Feitelberg family. ; Hope, Fritz. ; Children. ; Economists. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Courland (Latvia) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Traditional Jewish upbringing of author's father in Latvia (Kurland) in 1870s; father came to Berlin in order to study at university; father's work at chamber of commerce; both parents were active Zionists; childhood in middle-class Berlin Jewish family; university studies in Freiburg and Munich; emigration and new life in USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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    [Die Memoiren von Hermann Perutz]. (1959)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jewish way of life. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Sales personnel. ; Ballenstedt (Germany) ; Halberstadt (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of town and Jewish community of Ballenstedt (Harz); rural Jewish life; move to Halberstadt after death of his father; after Bar Mitzvah apprenticeship as merchant in Hamburg; salesman and independent merchant in Hamburg; orthodox Jewish life.
    Abstract: Transcript of Hermann Perutz's original manuscript (circa 1915) by his granddaughter, Hanna Deborah Leopold-Knight, New York 1959.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Familienkundliche Nachrichten ueber die Familie Probst : mit Tagebuch eines wandernden Buchbindergesellen (1959)
    Schoeningen (Braunschweig) :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 48 + 1 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Probst, David. ; Probst family. ; Bookbinders ; Country life. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; Braunschweig (Germany) ; Schöningen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Excerpts of David Probst's diary; apprenticeship as bookbinder; wanderings through Germany; description of poor Jewish population; anti-Semitism and problem of finding a job as a Jew; contains genealogical table.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Aus der Jugendzeit. (1959)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 74 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Stern, Isidor, ; Freisinnige Vereinigung. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish families Intellectual life. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Anecdotal account of youth in assimilated Berlin Jewish family; description of her father Isidor Stern, an industrialist and leading member of the liberal Freisinnige Vereinigung; cultural life in pre-World War I Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Herkunft und Erziehung. (1956)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 , typescript (carbon copy + photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Joseph, Marianne (née Klemperer), ; Klemperer family. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Zionism. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Religious background in parents' home; father went to orthodox synagogue, mother and children to Reform temple; early attachment to Zionism.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Von Owos-Owosenu : Aus alten Papieren und Erinnerungen fraenkischer Juden. (1956)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 + 4 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews History. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Poetry. ; Ellingen (Germany) ; Forchheim (Oberfranken, Germany) ; Franconia (Germany) ; Gerolzheim (Franconia) ; Maineck (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A descendant of an old-established Franconian Jewish family recounts his family history 1800-1945 and describes the style of life of the rural Jews in Franconia; contains text of documents from the author's family and poetry in dialect.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 31 and MF 42(3) , German
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    Ein Facit meiner 61 Jahre. (1955)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 152 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Children. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood and school years in Posen; university studies in Munich and Berlin; as physician in World War I; account of his work as physician during Weimar years in Halle and Munich; emigration and life in Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen eigenen Lebens. (1955)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Authors. ; Children. ; Country life. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Wangen im Allgäu (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Wangen (Baden); rural Jewish life; orthodox Jewry; Jewish festivals.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Anfang - Mitte - Ende : Versuch der Kulturgeschichte eines gewoehnlichen Lebens (1954)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 72 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1954
    Keywords: Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Children. ; Draft ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Lawyers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in traditional Jewish atmosphere; description of general and Jewish life in Frankfurt am Main; family life; education in the Jewish school "Philantropin"; university education in Heidelberg, Leipzig, Munich, Berlin and Marburg; military service prior to World War I.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen an meine Jugend : [1884-1931]. (1953)
    Ramat Gan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 85 + 14 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1953
    Keywords: Hildesheimer, Hirsch, ; Hildesheimer, Ezriel, ; Hildesheimer family. ; Hirsch family. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; College teachers. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1953 in Ramat Gan, Israel. Part One describes an orthodox Jewish childhood in the late 19th century in Berlin, including recollections of her grandfather Esriel Hildesheimer, description of the extensive household with various relatives and maids. The author's father, Hirsch Hildesheimer, was member of associations such as the "Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden", "Ezra" and a literary society ("Juedische Geschichte und Literatur"). The family was known for their charity and was involved in relief programs for Russian pogrom refugees. Hirsch Hildesheimer was also active in the fight against antisemitism. Also contains detailed descriptions of the celebration of Shabbat and Jewish holidays in the Hildesheimer family.
    Abstract: Part Two was written after the death of Henriette Hirsch's husband in Israel. Description of Henriette's childhood in the large Hildesheimer houshold, which housed the rabbinic seminary and a synagogue established by her grandfather. Esriel Hildesheimer was the founder of the seperate congregation "Adass Jisroel". Her father Hirsch Hildesheimer was a professor of Jewish History in the rabbinic seminary and founder of the newspaper "Die Juedische Presse". He was a student of Theodor Mommsen at the University of Berlin. Description of the author's wealthy maternal family with her ancestors Salomon and Fanny Hirsch. Recollections of various maids, nannies, wetnurses and seamstresses in the Hildesheimer houshold. Reverence for the royal family in Imperial Germany. Theater visits and cultural life. Numerous guests and visitors of her father in the Hildesheimer household. Henriette's mother Therese Hildesheimer was a member of the "Hausfrauen Verein". Weekend outings and summer vacations in the seaside resort Heringsdorf. Summer holidays at the maternal Hirsch family near Eberswalde. After a few years at a private institute for girls Henriette was enrolled in a public school ("Hoehere Toechterschule"), where she experienced the feeling of being different due to her orthodox upbringing for the first time. Limited education options for girls at that time. Private piano lessons and attending "Religionsschule". Henriette persued her wish to become a teacher at the "Lehrerinnen Seminar", where she was the only Jewish student. Due to state regulations she was only allowed to teach private lessons. In 1907 she married her long-time fiance Remy Hirsch.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy available on MF 42 , German , Synopsis in file
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    Es war einmal. (1950)
    Rosarion, Argentinien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 81 pages (single space) : , typescript (low quality photocopy) +
    Additional Material: correspondence
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Children. ; Dermatologists. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Marriage. ; Poetry. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Berlin; cultural life in fin-de-siècle Berlin; voyages and travels; marriage with physician Ernst Gustav Levin.
    Abstract: Included are 7 poems on family and life experience by Dora Levin's husband, the dermatologist Ernst Gustav Levin (Berlin 1866-Buenos Aires 1943).
    Abstract: Also available is correspondence pertaining to Dora Levin’s mother Hermine Lesser née Philipp (born circa 1853 in Berlin, died 1943 in Theresienstadt), who was highly active in public welfare in Berlin (Berliner Wohlfahrtspflege).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Die Familie Kohn aus Wassertruedingen. (1948)
    Paris,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 50 + 28 + 2 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Cohn family. ; Hirsch, Samson Raphael, ; Kohn family. ; Michael, Jacob. ; Banks and banking. ; Bankers. ; Country life. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Wassertrüdingen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Kohn, Marx and Michael families of Wassertruedingen (Franconia) and Munich reaching back to 1690; rural Jewish life; one of his ancestors was married to a son of Samson Raphael Hirsch; another member of the family, Jacob Michael, owned the bank and insurance company Michael & Co.
    Abstract: Also included is a copy of the testament of Haenlein Salomon Kohn.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 45; copy of part 1 on MF 42(15)
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    Versuch einer Sammlung von Memoiren aus einem jüdischen Elternheim. (1948)
    Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Former Title: Meine Kindheit
    Keywords: Jüdisches Elternheim Haifa. ; Children. ; Jews, German. ; Jews, East European. ; Public welfare. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish way of life. ; Międzyrzecz (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories in pre-World War II Germany by seven old age home residents in Haifa, Israel. The authors are Adolf Peritz, Koenigsberg i. Pr.; Rosa David, Breslau; Frau Joseph Bachrack, née Nathan, Berlin; anonymous; Hedwig Wolfenstein (Muehsam); Frau Hirschkowitz, Klausenburg.
    Abstract: The main account by Adolf Peritz tells of his childhood in Meseritz (Posen). There are also accounts of East European Jews who returned from visits to Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 61; copy on MF 59 , German
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    Jugenderinnerungen aus Hessischen Judengemeinden. (1948)
    [Israel] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 45 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Breuer, Solomon, ; Wormser, Seckel, ; Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft zu Frankfurt a.M. (Germany) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jewish teachers. ; Jews Liturgy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Zionism. ; Bad Hersfeld (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Hesse (Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Schenklengsfeld (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Salomon Spiro's grandfather, a student at the Yeshiva of Rabbi Seckel Wormser, was a well-respected Jewish scholar and teacher at a Jewish elementary school. His son, Salomon's father, followed him in this position. Description of rural Jewish life in Northern Hesse. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish festivals and rituals. Antisemitism of the environment. The author describes the difficult relationship with his father due to his ambition to have his son become a Jewish scholar. Reinforced Jewish education. Brief career in the synagogue chorus and as an auxiliary cantor. Salomon attended the humanistic high school (Gymnasium) in Hersfeld, a town known for the antisemitic attitudes of its inhabitants. Incidents of discrimination and assaults at school. Strict observance of Jewish rites under the supervision of the leading rabbi in the Jewish community of Fulda. Opposition to Zionist activities. After graduation in 1904 Salomon Spiro attended the Breuer Yeshiva of the Frankfurt "Austrittsgemeinde". He quit his studies at the yeshiva after a short time due to the strict orthodox environment and its intolerance of liberal developments. Beginnings of university studies in Wuerzburg.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copies on MF 83(4) & MF 87(25) , German , Synopsis in file
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    Teilmemoiren. (1947)
    Kfar Bialik :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 42 pages : , typescript (bad photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1947
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Jewish families. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Poverty. ; Bielefeld (Germany) ; Lage (Lippe, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in rural orthodox atmosphere in Lage (Lippe); twofold humiliations as Jew and as being poor; move to Bielefeld; living in a workhouse.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Jugenderinnerungen : 1876-1904. (1947)
    Glasgow :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 139 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1947
    Keywords: Heine, Wolfgang. ; Rehfues family. ; Rosenberg, Neumann. ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews, East European ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Lawyers. ; Socialism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in assimilated Jewish family in Berlin; traditional Jewish life in mother's family of East European background in Leipzig; primary and secondary education; law studies in Berlin and Freiburg; apprenticeship with Social Democratic lawyer Wolfgang Heine; sympathy for Social Democracy and labor unions.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of family trees, family coats of arms; and "Buergerbrief".
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Geschichte der Familie Hess aus Aufhausen / (1946)
    [Naharyya] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 185 , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Hess family. ; Jews History ; Country life. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; Israel Emigration and immigration. ; Württemberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Jewish life in Aufhausen, a village near the Bavarian-Wuerttemberg border; history of Hess family from 1685.
    Note: Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 164 , Available on microfilm MM 35; copy on MF 74(10) , German
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    [Theresienstadt, Böhmen]. (1945)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 45 , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1945
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Diary of an 11 year old German Jewish boy who was deported to Theresienstadt from Wiesbaden on Feb. 14, 1945. While his gentile mother, Margot, stayed in Wiesbaden, his Jewish father was imprisoned in Auschwitz, from where he returned to Wiesbaden in 1947.
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    Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben : [1866-1941]. (1945)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 238 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1945
    Keywords: Kastein, Josef, ; Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, ; Landauer, Gustav, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sternheim, Carl, ; Eranos Foundation. ; Anarchism. ; Authors Meetings. ; Country life. ; Jews, German Intellectual life. ; Merchants. ; Socialism. ; Soldiers 1871-1914. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ascona (Switzerland) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Hunsrück (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish milieu; apprenticeship as merchant at age of 14 in Simmern; description of daily life in Hunsrueck village of Laufensweiler, in Simmern and Saargemuend; move to Aachen; military service; employee for a large fur business in Brussel; friendship with anarchist Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer; in circles of Russian anarchists and revolutionaries; visits to Russia and Palestine; description of visits to USA, Egypt, Spain and Switzerland; literary circle in Ascona; "Eranos" - conferences in Ascona; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Carl Sternheim and Josef Kastein; emigration to USA; literary emigre circle in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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