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Sehr geehrte Herren!. (2003)

Uri, Max.

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Language: German

Pages: 11 , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 2003

Former Title: Untitled

Keywords: Haber family. ; Uri family. ; Uri, Max, ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs were written as a letter in January of 2003. The author's grandfather was a producer of military uniforms during World War One. Max Uri attended 4 years of the Gymnasium and 4 years of business school (Handelsschule). He came from an orthodox Jewish family. Recollections of his school years and rising national socialism among his fellow students. Max was only one of 8 Jews in his class of 50 students. Memories of the author’s years at the Gymnasium, where he frequently encountered anti-Semitism due to his orthodox upbringing. Recollections of the terrors of the Kristallnacht in November of 1938, when he was arrested and beaten and only narrowly escaped transportation to Dachau concentration camp. His family managed to get the children out of the country. His sisters were sent as domestic help and his younger brother with a Kindertransport to England. Max managed to be accepted for an agricultural school in Palestine. He enrolled in the “Haganah” and became an officer. In 1941 he got married to Fritzi Haber. Their son was born in 1942. Max Uri participated in the war efforts of the Jewish Brigade and the British army during World War Two. Difficulties to establish a household in Palestine. Move to Vienna together with his family and his in-laws. Decision to leave for the United States, where Max Uri lived with his family for 10 years. He came back to Vienna to take over his father in law’s furrier business.

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Tacheles Reden : oder Entstehung eines Theaterstueckes aus dem heutigen juedischen Berlin. (1987)

Lowien, Merve ; Neiman, Susan.

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Language: German

Pages: 57 , bound typescript (photocopies).

Year of publication: 1987

Keywords: Jews Drama. ; Nineteen eighties. ; Theater. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Script of theater play, first performed on Nov. 6, 1987 at Literaturhaus Berlin.

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Der Zufall. : Vertreibung und Rückkehr einer Österreicherin. (1985)

Rattner, Anna, 1912-

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Language: German

Pages: 78 , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1985

Keywords: Lafitte, François. ; Madritsch, Julius. ; Raitner, Michael. ; Arandora Star (Ship) ; The Internment of Aliens. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; England. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1948. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Experience of Anschluss in Vienna; preparations for emigration; emigration via Trieste, Alexandria, to Palestine; life in Palestine during and after World War II; life in Israel after 1948; return to Vienna in 1955; life in Vienna and Austria after return; experience of anti-Semitism in Austria; acquaintance with Julius Madritsch.

Abstract: In her autobiography, Anna Rattner includes a few pages from the book by François Lafitte, The internment of aliens, Penguin Books, 1940; the author tells about the sinking of the ship Arandora Star, where Anna Rattner’s father died.

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Dr. Fritz L. Brassloff : Interview: 12.10.1984, Pension Nossek, Wien (1984)

Brassloff, Friedrich Lothar. ; Kaiser, Konstantin.

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Language: German

Pages: 1 + 7 + 46 + 3 , typescripts.

Year of publication: 1984

Former Title: Interview with Friedrich L. Brassloff

Keywords: Steinitz, Heinrich. ; Republikanischer Schutzbund. ; Sozialistische Partei Österreichs. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish lawyers. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The bulk of the manuscript consists of a transcribed interview with Friedrich L. Brassloff, touching on his secondary education; his studies at the university in Vienna and the political atmosphere among students; his political engagement with the Social Democratic Party; and his internship in the law practice of Heinrich Steinitz.

Abstract: Also included are a biographical abstract about F.L. Brassloff, as well as his own autobiographical fragment, "Herzlich unwillkommen."

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Der Aussenseiter. (1969)

Gersten, Walter.

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Language: German

Pages: 30 pages (single space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1969

Keywords: Banks and banking. ; Bank employees. ; Concentration camps. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1949. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Dismissal as a bank employee; denial of visa and emigration; main part covers war time in Belgium; return to Germany after World War II.

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Das fatale Loch in der Berliner Theatergeschichte : lecture ueber Persoenlichkeiten des Berliner Theaterlebens und ihre NS-Vergangenheit (1966)

Wicclair, Walter

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Language: German

Pages: 34 , typescript (copy).

Year of publication: 1966

Keywords: Frenzel, Herbert A. ; Goetz, Wolfgang, ; Knudsen, Hans, ; Freie Universität Berlin. ; Actors. ; Theaters ; Theatrical producers and directors. ; National socialism. ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Manuscript: "Das fatale Loch in der Berliner Theatergeschichte". Speech exploring the burdens placed on scholarship and the students of the Theatrical Institute of the Free University of Berlin by the presence of professors who were compromised by their activities during the Nazi era.

Abstract: Manuscript of a speech, exploring the burdens placed on scholarship and the students of the Theatrical Institute of the Free University of Berlin by the presence of professors who were compromised by their activities during the Nazi era.

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Erinnerungen. (1963)

Mosse, Martha.

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Language: German

Pages: 13 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy) +

Additional Material: accompanying documents (photocopies), mainly 1946-1948.

Year of publication: 1963

Keywords: Mosse, Albert, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Civil service. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in well-to-do Berlin Jewish family; recollections of father Albert Mosse; career in welfare office; imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp; contains report on deportations of Jews from Berlin during World War II; contains also copy of document concerning Albert Mosse's mission in Japan.

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No title. (1961)

Troller, Karl

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Language: German

Pages: 6 , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1961

Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Fur trade. ; Brno (Czech Republic) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Description of Jewish fur dealers in Leipzig between 1902 and 1904.

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Lebensgeschichte des Moses Röhmann : Märk. Friedland 1815 - Berlin 1895. (1937)

Röhmann, Moses.

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Language: German

Pages: 157 pages (double space) : , bound typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1937

Keywords: Röhmann, Moses. ; Country life. ; Merchants. ; Public welfare. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Pomerania (Poland and Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Transcript of an original text, written 1881-1895.

Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish atmosphere; apprenticeship as merchant; move to Berlin; independent merchant; comments on political events (Revolution of 1848-1849, Franco-Prussian War); detailed descriptions of journeys to France, Switzerland and Italy; contributions to Jewish social welfare.

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Die Freiherren Popper von Podhrágy : Stammtafel und Lebensbilder einer Familie (1936)

Blaschek, Wilhelm von.

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Language: German

Pages: 127 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1936

Keywords: Aristocracy (Social class) ; Aristocracy (Social class) Genealogy. ; Slovakia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The manuscript describes the genealogy and some biographies of an aristocratic family originating in Slovakia.

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Legende zum Stammbaum der Familien Hamburger-Singer / (1928)

Hamburger, Karl.

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Language: German

Pages: 29 + 2 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1928

Keywords: Hamburger family. ; Singer family. ; Singer, Mordechai. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Austria. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Incomplete typescript. Also included is a letter by Charlotte Singer née Bodlaender about the typescript’s provenance.

Abstract: History of the Hamburger-Singer families reaching back to the late 18th century when Mordechai Singer moved from Hamburg to Prossnitz (Moravia) and adopted the name Hamburger; his descendants lived in Austria and Moravia under the names Singer and Hamburger as merchants, industrials, physicians and lawyers; some assimilated and converted to Christianity, one of them becoming a monk; among the descendants of Mordechai Singer was Gertrud Schlesinger, the wife of the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

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Kinderjahre, (1897)

Bornstein, Arthur

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Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1897

Keywords: Jewish families 1870-1918. ; Bornstein, Jenny Barth. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.

Abstract: Transcript of the original handwritten manuscript about growing up in Berlin in a Jewish household, rooted in tradition but on its way to assimilation.

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Aufzeichnungen von Isaac Bernstein. (1870)

Bernstein, Isaac, 1824-

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Language: German

Pages: 15 , typed transcript.

Year of publication: 1870

Keywords: Jewish religious education. ; Jews Family life 19th century. ; Merchants. ; Germany History 1848-1849. ; Poznań (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs.

Abstract: Memoirs for 1824-1859: traditional childhood in Posen, revolutionary events of 1848, difficulties after emigration to the USA and return to Germany.

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[Lebenslauf], (1824)

Löwen, Samuel Liepmann.

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Language: German

Pages: 14 + 5 + 2

Year of publication: 1824

Keywords: Itzig, Daniel, ; Itzig family. ; Valentin, Rosa. ; Bankers. ; Banks and banking. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The handwritten memoirs describe his education and career as a banker, mainly as an employee of the Itzig banking house in Koenigsberg and Berlin.

Abstract: Also contains abridged version and remarks by Siegfried Ascher.

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