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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (8)
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  • Kadimah Bund Juedischer Pfadfinder.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938
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    We came to America : Memoirs of a refugee child. (2005)
    Hartsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 + 16 + 12 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Frank, Werner L. ; Geissmar, David Jacob. ; Geissmar, Johanna, ; Oppenheimer, Clemens. ; Oppenheimer, Mina (née Adler) ; Oppenheimer, Max, ; Plotnik, Marlies (née Wolf), ; Wolf family. ; Wolf, Hermann David, ; Wolf, Paul Jacob. ; Wolf, Theodor. ; Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. ; Queen Mary (Steamship) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Lawyers. ; Leather industry and trade ; Darmstadt (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the Wolf family's arrival in New York City in February 1939, including a brief description of the ship Queen Mary. Then the memoir jumps back in time, to the year 1933:.fFamily life, their live-in maid who had to leave the family in 1937. The two older siblings Paul and Ellen were exposed to anti-Semitism in their schools, and were sent by their parents to an international boarding school and a Jewish school respectively. Marlies Plotnik then talks about her grandparents and the family's leather business, Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. She recollects the events of Kristallnacht in Darmstadt. She saw that both the conservative and orthodox synagogues were ablaze. It follows a detailed genealogical description of her family background. Then "Life in Pre-Hitler Darmstadt" is covered. Marlies Plotnik writes about the daily routine of her middle class family. Her parents attended the cultural events of Darmstadt, theater, the ball season, etc. The second part of the memoir is dedicated to the departure from Germany, the emigration via England, and the immigration into the USA. The family settled in Washington Heights, as did so many other Jewish families from Germany. Attached are family pedigrees, family photographs, passports (copies), and documents.
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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.
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    [Memoir]. (1995)
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    Language: Swedish
    Pages: 71 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Löllbach family. ; Hechaluz. ; Jewish Agency for Israel. ; Kadimah Bund Juedischer Pfadfinder. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Denmark. ; Essen (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sweden. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography of Gert Loellbach in Swedish with expanded family history, circa 1932-1947.
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    Chance or destiny? (1990)
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    Language: English
    Pages: typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Neu, Rosa. ; Britain Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) ; Art Study and teaching. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Occupational therapy. ; Textile designers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belfast (Northern Ireland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manchester (England) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Trude Neu Lindsey recalls her life in Nazi Germany. Trude Neu had been accepted at the Nuremberg Art Academy in 1930. Her training was interrupted and she was expelled from the school due to the Nazi takeover. Her father lost his factory and soon after contracted diabetes. He died in 1936. In 1938 the family was forced to leave their appartment in Petzoldstrasse in Nuremberg. Recollection of the street terror in the November pogrom in 1938. The family made arrangement to leave the country. Trude was accepted at the German-Jewish refugee commitee in Northern Ireland, where she found a position in a houshold. She left Germany in June 1939. The committee was administered by the Quakers, who organized meetings for the refugees. Trude tried fervently to get papers for her mother and grandmother to leave Germany. Only her mother's papers worked out. Rosa Neu was on the last train leaving Germany in September 1939. They lived at a tight budget but were happy to be reunited. They worked together as a cook and chambermaid in two households. In her sparetime Trude worked on several sketches of the beautiful landscape. Trude and her mother Rosa moved to Belfast and lived in a small apartment. Trude started producing her own collection of painted dolls in different costumes, which she sewed herself (Trude Neu Toy). The Womens' Institute showed interest in her work, and Trude was invited to give speaches. Trude took classes at the Belfast Art Academy in textile design and printing. Her mother worked as a dressmaker and made the acquaintance of the wife of the parliamentary secretary, Sir Harry Mulholland. Trude was offered a job as a textile designer at the York Street Flax Spinning Mills.
    Abstract: She designed also furniture and worked on her sketches. After the war she was transfered to the branch in Manchester. In 1946 Trude had her first exhibition at a gallery in Manchester. Her textile designs were exhibited as well. In 1948 Trude started her training as an occupational therapist and taught art to older pupils. She was sent to Germany under the auspices of the International Refugee Organization as a therapist. She worked in a sanatorium in Heilborn for three months. Trude Neu continued her work as a qualified occupational therapist back in England until her retirement in 1973.
    Note: Translated by David Green from the book "Flucht, Vertreibung, Exil, Asyl, Nuernberg, 1990." , English , Synopsis in file
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    Eleven days in the concentration-camp Buchenwald.
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Hertz, Joseph H. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Rabbis. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Magdeburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: November pogrom 1938 in Magdeburg; imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp; emigration to England with assistance of British Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz.
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    Dad.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 + 96 , typescript.
    Former Title: Memoir
    Keywords: Malecki, Alfred, ; Maletzki family. ; Kulturbund (Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Families 20th century. ; Farmers. ; Jazz. ; Jews Education. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration. ; Cochabamba (Bolivia) ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; La Paz (Bolivia) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Hannover (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Oruro (Bolivia) ; Paris (France) ; Poland. ; Santiago (Chile) ; United States Emigration and immigration after 1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United States. Family Genealogy. Alfred's father David (Gustav) Maletzki was born in Poland and was the oldest of nine siblings. He was a businessman who had spent his apprenticeship in Berlin, Paris and in the United States. The author's mother Dora Lea Maletzki, nee Schauber was born in Hannover. Childhood recollections. Description of family life and their affinity for music. Youth group activities with the Zionists and a German-Jewish formation. Life under National Socialism. Creation of the "Kulturbund", which provided art for a Jewish audience. Activities in a Jewish sport's club. Alfred attented a Jewish high school, where he had Jewish and non-Jewish teachers, some of them orthodox. The Maletzki family belonged to a liberal congregation. Recollections of Alfred's Bar Mitzwa in 1934. Vacations near Danzig. Alfred and his friends had a passion for Jazz. Recollections of the forced repatriation of Polish Jews in October 1938. The Maletzki family was considered Polish as well and escaped deportation due to a fortunate incident. Escape to Switzerland failed. Alfred's parents went to Paris, whereas he had to return to Leipzig. Terror of the November pogrom. Alfred took refuge in the Polish consulate and escaped deportation to the concentration camp. Shortly thereafter he was provided with his Bolivian exit visa and left for France to join his parents. A few weeks later the family boarded a British ship in La Rochelle and started their journey to South America. They arrived in La Paz in January 1939. Life in Bolivia. Cultural and language differences. The family moved to Cochambamba. Experiences of antisemitism. Growing number of Jewish immigrants. Alfred joined some refugee friends in a entrepreneurial farming project in the tropical lands. Difficulties due to the extreme conditions and help from the native population.
    Abstract: After the failure of the farming venture Alfred worked in various jobs until he got a position as an office employee at the Hochschild Mining company in Oruro. Position at the Bolivian Development Corporation. In 1946 Alfred moved to La Paz. He became a member of the Polish-Jewish Club, where he met his future-wife Zenia, who was a holocaust survivor from Vilna. Description of the political situation in Bolivia. Marriage of Alfred and Zenia Malecki in 1948. Honeymoon in Santiago, Chile. Birth of their daughter Sophie in 1950. Business trip to New York. Political revolutions in Bolivia. Alfred Malecki moved with his family to the United States in 1953.
    Abstract: Also included is the “Genealogy of the Malecki (Maletzki) and Schauber families”.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Viennese memoirs : [1930-1939].
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Children ; Families ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United States. The author describes her life in a well-to-do family prior to the annexing of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. Melitta's father was born in Vienna and owned a haberdasher store. Her mother came to Vienna from Poland during World War One. Memories of her schoolmates and afternoons with her mother in Viennese coffeehouses or at the ice skating rink. Weekend outings with the maternal grandparents to the outskirts of Vienna. Summer vacation in Unterach, a lake district in the Salzburg region. Celebration of Jewish holidays at the temple in Seitenstettengasse. With Hitler's taking over Austria the world suddenly changed for Melitta and her family. They were subsequently excluded from their surroundings. Her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. Recollections of the November pogrom ("Kristallnacht"). Lining up for hours and days in order to receive exit visas. In 1939 her father finally was released from Dachau and the family left for the United States.
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    My Kristallnacht.
    Armidale, NSW. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Loewald family. ; Education, Secondary. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir describes the events from the November pogrom 1938 to Klaus Loewald's emigration from Berlin to Great Britain.
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