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  • 1980-1984  (12)
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    1938: Jugenderinnerungen. (1984)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 pages : , off-print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Kuhn, Erna. ; Metzger, Kurt L., ; Scharff, Alfred. ; Scharff, Erna. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Publications. ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Published in Die Pfalz am Rhein, March 1984, pages 12-16.
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Landau before 1933; life in Landau after 1933; Kristallnacht; flight to Mannheim; return to Landau in 1961.
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    Memoirs & reminiscences : [1898-1985]. (1984)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 248 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Fischer family Genealogy. ; Universität Wien. ; College teachers. ; Jewish way of life. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Geographers. ; Teachers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1919. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Vienna; description of family; primary and secondary education; description of teachers and schoolmates; military service in Austrian army in World War I; student life at the university in Vienna; Revolution of 1918-1919; Austria in inter-war period; Jewish life in Vienna; description of school system and teacher colleagues in inter-war Vienna; hikes and travels; Nazi takeover and November Pogrom in 1938; emigration to Palestine and USA; new jobs as university teacher and political geographer.
    Abstract: Contains a biography of Eric Fischer by Michael M.J. Fischer and a bibliography of his publications.
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    Erlebnisse als juedischer Arzt und Sozialist in Deutschland / (1979-1984)
    [Amherst] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 84 + 27 + 26 + 5 + 6 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979-1984
    Former Title: Erlebnisse als Jude in Deutschland
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Verein Sozialistischer Ärzte (Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Socialists. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) ; La Paz (Bolivia) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes Jewish life in Leipzig and anti-Semitism before 1933; description of Blumberg's activities in the "Verein Sozialistischer Aerzte," his attempts to regain his permission to practice after 1933, experiences in Buchenwald.
    Abstract: Various postscripts describe chapters and experiences in the author’s life, such as “Meine Jugend in Deutschland 1895-1914”; “[unser Leben in Charobamba]”; and others
    Abstract: Also available are copies of documents and newspaper clippings on physicians in Nazi Germany.
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    The Ninth of November - Crystal Night : 45 years later. (1983)
    Flossmoor, Illinois,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: photograph (photocopy)
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Głogów (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of November pogrom 1938 in Glogau, Silesia, presented at the Stone Jewish Community Center in Flossmoor, Illinois on Nov. 10, 1983.
    Abstract: Also included is a photograph (copy) of the synagogue in Glogau (today Głogów, Poland).
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    My story : [1922-1992]. (1983)
    Franklin, NC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Srulowitz family. ; Erber family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Plumbers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Manners and customs ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Belgium. ; Israel. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen fifties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the form of a reflective diary between 1983 and 1985 in the United States. Detailed and somewhat disorganized description of family background and family members until present time. His mother’s family came to Vienna during World War One. His father Osias Srulowitz served in the army and his parents got married after the war. His mother Klara Amalia Srulowitz founded the family’s knitting business during the war under her maiden name “K. Erber“. The author had an older sister (Stella), born in 1920, and a younger sister (Lotte) born in 1927. The family lived in the 9th district and had a maid and a French governess. His maternal grandparents were orthodox and had a lasting impact on his life. He studied the Hebrew alphabet with his grandfather at an early age and became religious. He went to “Schubertschule“ and later on to Realschule, then he transferred to public school. At age 14 he started an apprenticeship with his uncle in the plumbing business. Recollections of the Nazi takeover and the Kristallnacht in 1938. The family business was taken away. The author crossed the border to Belgium illegally, his parents emigrated to Shanghai in 1939. Recollections of life in Belgium. He was taken to a work camp for young refugees. After his release he took various jobs and lived underground with false papers during the German occupation. Marriage to Janine De Geyter, a young Belgian woman, in 1943. Liberation by the British army in 1944. Starting of a candy business. Reunition with his grandmother from Theresienstadt and his parents from Shanghai. Emigration to Israel together with the author’s parents in 1948. Description of life and new beginnings in Israel. Birth of their daughter Tamy. Emigration to the United States via Belgium in 1953. Life in the United States and detailed description of several business endeavors.
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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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    My Life : by Rudolf Apt (1882-1978) (1982)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 43 + 6 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Apt, Frieda (née Aron) ; Apt family. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Metal trade. ; Dresden (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Rudolf Apt, compiled by his daughter Alice Apt in 1982, including extensive genealogical data reaching back to the Hasidic Rabbi of Apt (1700-80) and recollections of Rudolf Apt's childhood; of his schooling and his religious upbringing in Dresden; of his work in the family's metal business; of his marriage to Frieda Aron (died in 1922); of his involvement in Jewish organizations and politics in Weimar Germany; of his incarceration in Buchenwald after the November Pogrom; of release and emigration to England, and of his life in London.
    Abstract: Also included is a letter by the violinist Heinz Meyer from Paris (1945) describing life in Dresden in the Nazi period with details on forced labor camps, his activities in the Juedische Kulturbund in Berlin, and the fate of other Dresden Jews who were deported to Riga, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German letter , Synopsis in file
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    Selma's saga : [1916-1948]. (1982)
    Sydney,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 271 pages (3 folders) : , typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Oppenheim, Benjamin, ; Oppenheim, Anna, ; Oppenheim family. ; Kahane, Arnold ; Betar. ; Antisemitism. ; Christmas. ; Families 20th century. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecutions. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; National socialism. ; Jews Education. ; Jews Holidays and festivals. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Brisbane (Qld.) ; England. ; Grado (Italy) ; Hornchurch (London, England) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1982 in Sydney, Australia and include excerpts of letters from various relatives during the years 1938-1941. Early childhood recollections of World War One. The family was living in the 6th district of Vienna. Description of domestic life with maids, laundresses and a French governess. Death of her mother in 1918. Trip with her stepmother Ida Plohn to Prague. Recollections of a stay in the countryside at their maid's family, where Selma and her older sister Martha awaited the birth of their younger sister Trude. Memories of Christmas celebrations. Summer vacations in the mountains. Description of the extended family. Inflation and economic depression in the 1920s. Strict upbringing by her stepmother. Children recreation trip to Grado, Italy in 1925. Selma was accepted at the "Bundeserziehungsanstalt" for gifted students. Only few fellow Jewish students. Religious education with beloved rabbi Diamant. Recovery from tonsilitis in a senatorium in Aflenz, Austria. Celebration of Jewish holidays and visits at the Synagogue on Yom Kippur. Transfer to Realschule. Due to a sudden onset of various illnesses Selma was unable to continue school and had put an end to her father's dream of an university education for her. Difficult to find a position in the depression times of the early 1930s. Only few working options for a Jewish woman. Position as a secretary in a Jewish firm. Outings in the Vienna Woods. Membership in the Zionist group Betar.
    Abstract: Plans to emigrate to Palestine through marriage of convenience shattered by her orthodox parents. Signs of rising National Socialism and political unrest in Austria. Recollections of the civil war in February of 1934. Selma joined a Jewish club. Outings and skiing trips. First courtships. Marriage of her sister Martha. Awareness of the dangers of National Socialism. Detailed recollections on the time before and during the the Anschluss. Preparation for her emigration. Position as a domestic servant in England. Departure on November 2nd 1938, few days before the "Kristallnacht". Adjusting to her new life with a family in Hornchurch, in England. Attempts to find positions for family members and friends. Brief reunion with her fiance Arnold in London prior to his departure to Australia in Febrary of 1939. In March of 1939 her sister Trude was finally able to join her in England. Fervent endeavors to obtain entry permits for her parents. Preparations for Selma's emigration to Australia, in order to join her fiance, were finally granted in October of 1939. Delayment of her passage until May of 1940. Arrival in Capetown, Australia on June 9th of 1940. Reunition with her fiance in Brisbane and new life with future husband in Ravenshoe. Difficulties in obtaining a marriage licence. Wedding in August of 1940. The couple started to run a bording house. Birth of their daughter Marie in June of 1941. Their son Ronny was born in September of 1942. Dreadful news from Europe. Birth of daughter Sylvia in 1945. Letters from her sister Martha, who survived the concentration camp. In 1948 she finally was able to join Selma in Australia.
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    Erlebnisse 1933-1943 in England und Australien. (1981)
    Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 37 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1981
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Aliens. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Zionism. ; Australia. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1943. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Emigration from Germany; internment camps in England and Australia; emigration to Palestine.
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    Reichstagsbrandt. (1980)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 58 + 2 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1980
    Former Title: Memoiren (Diary)
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short introduction containing childhood in Laupheim (Wuerttemberg), university studies in Heidelberg and Munich, move to Berlin, and life as a physician in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. The main part in form of a diary from the burning of the German parliament in 1933 to 1939 describes persecutions after 1933; life as a Jewish physician in Nazi Germany; the November pogrom of 1938; imprisonment of Erich Nathorff in concentration camp; immigration to USA. An epilogue describes new beginnings in USA after the emigration.
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    All our hopes are you : A true story about a great woman and her compassion for strangers in need …. (1980)
    Glencoe, Ill. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 65 pages (single space) : , bound typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Hamilton, Augusta, D.R. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Concentration camps. ; Hildesheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In memory Augusta Dotty Rahr Hamilton, April 12 1893 – April 30 1966.
    Abstract: Encounter with Augusta D.R. Hamilton during her visit to Germany; Mrs. Hamilton's assistance in Shurman's immigration to the USA; November pogrom of 1938 in Hildesheim; imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp; immigration to USA in 1940; contains exchange of letters between author and Augusta Hamilton.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of awards to the author.
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    Der eiserne Steg : Ein Beitrag zum Haus der Diaspora in Tel Aviv (1980)
    Hod Hasharon, Israel,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 237 pages (single space) : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Reis, Arthur. ; Blau-Weiss (Youth movement) ; Universität München. ; Antisemitism. ; Architects. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Furniture industry and trade. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Zionism. ; Chicago (Ill.) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Arthur Reis, written in 1980 in Hod Hasharon, Israel, including information on the history of Jews in Heilbronn reaching back to the Middle Ages, recollections of his childhood in an observant family in Heilbronn, of Jewish cultural and religious life in Heibronn before World War I, of the founding of the Orthodox congregation "Adass Jeschurun" in 1911, of his schooling in Heilbronn and Heidelberg, of his experiences in the Zionist youth organization "Blau-Weiss," of his studies in Stuttgart and Munich and his involvement in Orthodox and Zionist Jewish life there, of his encounters with anti-Semitism, of his emigration to Chicago and his return to Heilbronn, of his experiences in Nazi Germany, of his emigration to Palestine, and of life in Palestine.
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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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    A few days of my life. (1963-1965)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 40 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1963-1965
    Keywords: Oppenheimer, Siegfried. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish leadership. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Persecution in Nazi Germany; visit to Palestine in 1937; November pogrom 1938 in Frankfurt; author's children were sheltered by a Christian family; her husband was deported to Buchenwald; author emigrated through Switzerland to Palestine, where she was joined by her husband.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs of the author's husband; gravestones; and the Frankfurt synagogue.
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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
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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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    Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover, Germany : Persoenliche Erinnerungen (1963)
    [Pottstown] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 95 + 16 pages : , typescripts (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1963
    Former Title: [Memoirs].
    Keywords: Freund, Samuel, ; Tänzer, Aron, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover. ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews, East European ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Teachers. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Sermons. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs touch upon the authors experiences as a young soldier during World War I; description of his studies; description of religious life in the Hannover Jewish community; tasks as rabbi and teacher; description of synagogue service. A special section in folder 3 describes “Kristallnacht” with the destruction of the Hannover Synagogue and his arrest.
    Abstract: Also included in folder 1 is the draft for a treatise about the essence of Judaism and of its responsibilities as an organized religion, as experienced during the author’s residence in Hannover, Germany before the Holocaust. Folder 4 holds copies of original documents and clippings.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Beitrag zu einer Geistesgeschichte der juedischen Gemeinde in Hannover : Einleitung; undated
    Description / Table of Contents: 2: Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover. Persoenliche Erinnerungen von Rabbiner Dr. Emil Schorsch
    Description / Table of Contents: 3: Wie es zum Ende kam : Erinnerungen an die “Kristallnacht” vom 9. zum 10. November 1938 in Hannover
    Description / Table of Contents: 4: Documents, clippings
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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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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    Manuscripts from the Arthur Propp Collection. (1946-1962)
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    Pages: 17 + 3 + 65 + 177 , typescripts (copies).
    Year of publication: 1946-1962
    Keywords: Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1950. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biographies: Primary and secondary education in Koenigsberg; apprenticeship in wood business; military service; independent sawmill business in Eastern Prussia; military service in World War I; second part mainly on friends and employees and their changes after 1933; emigration and life in Bolivia.
    Abstract: The letter to the Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld concerns economic reconstruction of Palestine; memories of common experiences in Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript 'Etwas ueber Schema und Zukunft der Wirtschaft, und unsere spaeteren Anlagemoeglichkeiten' (Economic plan for future of Palestine, 17 p.) and a letter to Kurt Blumenfeld; 1946
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typescript (German) 'Biography Complete to Armistice 1918', Gibsons (Canada), 65 p.; 1962
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Typescript (German) 'Biography to the End of the Stay in Sucre', Gibsons (Canada), 177 p.; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , see also AR 6846 (audio)
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    Memories. (1961)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bach, Albert. ; Bach family. ; Baeck, Leo, ; Fleischhacker, Suse. ; Mayer, Ruth. ; Mayer family. ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Lebenserinnerungen / (1961)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Geiger, Hermann ; Geiger, Rudolf. ; Geiger family. ; Kullmann family ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Composers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961 in the United States. Genealogical background of the Kullmann and Geiger families going back to the 15th and 16th century in Frankfurt/Main. Her father's sister Elise St. Goer, nee Kullmann was one of the first feminists in Germany. Early discovery of Rosy Kullmann's musical talents. Sunday outings with the family. Catholic nanny who contributed to the confusion of her religious identity. Journey to Innsbruck and Switzerland with her parents. Death of her father in 1899. Rosy was granted piano lessons with Carl Friedberg, who had started his career as a student of Clara Schumann. Concert evenings of Hugo Wolf. First compositions of Rosy Kullmann at age 13. Summer vacations with her mother in Madonna di Campiglio and in the Black Forrest. Private English lessons. Remarriage of her mother and birth of her half-sister Erna Levy. Rosy was enrolled at the higher-daughter's "Elisabethinenschule" in Frankfurt. The first performance of one of Rosy Kullmann's compositions took place in 1902. Friendship with Willy Dreyfus and the young composer Max Wolff. Various concerts visits in Frankfurt. Summer vacations with relatives in England. Voice lessons with Margarete Dessof. Studies with Carl Schuricht. Engagement and marriage with Dr. Rudolf Geiger, grandson of Dr. Abraham Geiger, in 1906. Genealogy of the Geiger and Auerbach family. Birth of their son Hermann in 1907. Military service of the author's husband and his brother during World War One. Continuation of the musical career of Rosy Geiger-Kullmann. Compositions to poems by Hans Muehlestein. Birth of her daughter Ruth in 1914. Teaching position during World War One. Musical talent of her son Hermann, who became a musical stage director for operas. 1916 performance of Geiger-Kullmann's first orchestral compositions with Carl Schuricht in Wiesbaden. Work on her first operas and the oratorio "Moses".
    Abstract: Rising of National Socialism and increasing of anti-Jewish laws. Establishment of the Jewish "Tonkuenstler-Verein" by Arthur Holde. Continuation of her compositions and several performances by the "Kulturbund" in various synagogues. Night of the November pogrom 1938 and arrest of her husband Rudolf Geiger. Affidavits from their relatives in New York and release of her husband. Emigration to the USA via Cuba in April of 1939. Arrival in New York in September of 1940. Continuation of her work in the United States.
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