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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (6)
  • English  (6)
  • Haiselden, Marianne.  (3)
  • Steiner, Brigitte,  (3)
  • Biographical sources  (6)
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    Growing up in Germany. (2002)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Opel family. ; Liechtenstein family. ; Families ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New Zealand Emigration and immigration. ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a recorded document of an interview conducted in September 2002. Description of family background. Her father Fritz Opel was a journalist from a non-Jewish family, her mother Else, née Liechtenstein came from a large Jewish family in Berlin. Her father was killed shortly after her birth during World War One. Recollections of early childhood in Berlin, where Marianne and her older brother Fritz lived with their widowed mother in modest circumstances. Summer vaccations in the family’s country house in the Riesengebirge. Marianne attended a boarding school in Letzlingen. After her graduation she dismissed her dream to become a doctor and accepted a position as a secretary in order to help supporting her family. Rising of Nazi movement. Her brother was arrested for political activities and served three years in jail. After his release he immedeatly left Germany and escaped to Switzerland. Marianne received a permit as a domestic help for New Zealand and emigrated in 1939.
    Note: English
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    A Time of Fear, (1995)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 pages : , Typed Manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Stein family. ; Steiner family. ; Antisemitism ; Interfaith marriage ; Jewish physicians. ; Germany Politics and government 20th century. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: The memoir starts in the year 1932, right before Hitler's gain of power in Germany. In the following, Brigitte Steiner heavily comments on the political situation in Germany that affected them so directly, being confronted with anti-Semitism and her husband's loss of employment. The memoir ends in the year 1935, the year of her family's emigration from Germany.
    Note: Part 1 of a 3-volume memoir , English
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    A Time of Hope, (1995)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 158 pages : , Typed Manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Stein family. ; Steiner, Brigitte, ; Steiner family. ; Steiner, Brigitte 1910. ; Jewish physicians. ; Assimilation (Sociology) ; Manners and customs ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: This is the second part of Brigitte Steiner's memoirs. It continues exactly where the first part stopped, at the moments of their departure from Germany in 1935 when the German shore disappeared from their sight. Brigitte describes her and her family's assimilation into the United States. She recounts her first experience with Americans, and her impressions and disappointments with the country's landscape. Hans, her husband, applies for his medical license, and Brigitte and her mother cares for the baby. Brigitte discusses how her life changes when her mother returns to Germany, and how Hans' profession as a doctor influences their life. The memoir ends in the year 1941.
    Note: Part 2 of a 3-volume memoir , English
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    Closing the Circle, (1995)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 99 pages : , Typed Manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Steiner, Brigitte, ; Jewish physicians. ; Assimilation (Sociology) ; Family vacations ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945 ; Interfaith marriage ; Intermarriage. ; Steiner, Brigitte 1910. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Memoir written by Brigitte Steiner, about her immigration to New York and her assimilation into American culture during World War II. The memoir details her experience with raising her family in New York, her personal relationship with her husband, and the experience of starting her own small business of printing holiday cards. After the war is over, her mother, a holocaust survivor, comes to live with her in New York, and the memoir then captures her mother's experience in Germany during the war. The family later returns to Europe on vaction, and Brigitte describes this experience in full detail.
    Note: Part 3 of a 3-volume memoir , English
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    Look back to the future : Faithful report by a contemporary, who rather endured than enjoyed the times described. (1994)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 105 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Opel, Fritz (Kaspar) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir describes Fritz Opel's experiences from 1933 to 1945. Memoir was translated by his sister Marianne Haiselden in 1994.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Journey to New Zealand : Letter from Masterton - 2 November 1939. (1993)
    [Wellingron, New Zealand] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages (single space) : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: 2nd copy
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Opel, Else (née Lichtenstein) ; Opel, Fritz. ; Refugees Personal narratives. ; Women authors. ; Colombo (Sri Lanka) ; Masterton (New Zealand) ; New Zealand Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Marianne Opel describing her emigration to New Zealand including information on her stay in London; on life on the boat; on stops in Lisbon, Tangier and Marseilles; on her experiences in Colombo, Ceylon, and her detention in an internment camp for aliens; on her arrival in Sidney; on her impressions of life in Masterton, where she worked as household help for an elderly couple; and on her brother Fritz who was imprisonned in Germany for oppositional activities and later detained in France.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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