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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (34)
  • English  (34)
  • 1985-1989  (34)
  • 1988  (25)
  • 1987  (15)
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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: 57 , publications.
    Year of publication: 1958-2015
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Jews, German Lectures and lecturing. ; Lectures and lecturing. ; Manuscripts. ; Publications.
    Abstract: The Leo Baeck Institute was founded by representative organizations of Jews from Germany for the purpose of collecting material on and sponsoring research into the history of the Jewish community in Germany and in other German-speaking countries from the Emancipation to its dispersion. The Institute is named in honor of the man who was the last representative figure of German Jewry in Germany during the Nazi period. The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture is an annual event at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, when esteemed academics and scholars talk about various aspects of the German-Jewish experience and history, as well as to other, related topics.
    Abstract: The Leo Baeck memorial lectures
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  • 2
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    Sherman Oaks and Santa Monica, California :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 79 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1987-2013
    Keywords: Guttentag family. ; Honig family. ; Lesser family. ; Lesser, Max. ; Lesser, Siegfried. ; Lesser, Valerie (née Honig) ; Architects. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The original account covers Lesser’s life from his birth in 1913 to 1921, when the Lesser family moved from Posen (today Poznan) to Brandenburg a/d Havel. Margaret L. Bach, Reinhard Lesser’s daughter, continuous her father’s story to the end of his life in 1987.
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  • 3
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 81 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: genealogical tables
    Year of publication: 1987-2013
    Keywords: Honig family. ; Lesser family. ; Architects Biography. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Poznań (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first 50 pages encompass Lesser’s memoirs from his birth to ca. 1920; his further life is then described by his daughter, Margaret Lesser Bach.
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  • 4
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 4 , 90+107+50+39 pages.
    Year of publication: 1967-2008
    Keywords: Fourth International. ; Socialist Workers Party. ; World politics. ; Manuscripts. ; Correspondence ; Correspondence ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Collection of 151 letters written by Peter Bloch in New York to his colleague and friend Alfonso Ramirez in Venezuela. The letters, written in English, touch primarily on socialist ideological interpretations of world events, triggering commentaries about politics in North America, Europe (Germany) and Asia (mostly China). Also discussed are various aspects of the Caribbean islands and Latin America. Alfonso Ramirez’ replies in Spanish are not included.
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  • 5
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 42 + 104 + 13 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: reproductions of documents and letters.
    Year of publication: 1978-1992
    Keywords: Adler, Fritz. ; Heimerdinger family. ; Heimerdinger, Leo. ; Heiming, Henry. ; Marxsohn, Richard. ; Neukirch, Carl. ; Salfeld family. ; Salfeld, Albert. ; Salfeld, Alice. ; Salfeld, Berthold. ; Salfeld, Erich. ; Salfeld, Henry. ; Salfeld, Ludwig. ; Salfeld, Siegmund. ; Antisemitism. ; Courtship. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Universities and colleges ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 20th century. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Anecdotes concerning experienced anti-Semitism at universities; outbreak of World War I; death of father; memories of student days at University of Munich; French occupation of Wiesbaden; account of Nazi boycott of April 1, 1933 in Wiesbaden.
    Abstract: Account of arrival in USA in 1933; relationships with African-Americans; life in New York; attempts to find employment; death of family members in Holocaust; emigration of mother to USA; reflections on Jewish religion and Jewish identity; membership in various Jewish organizations.
    Abstract: Geneology of Salfeld family; rabbinical career of Siegmund Salfeld; childhood memories growing up in Wiesdbaden; lives of father and mother; father's medical practice in Wiesbaden; death of father; siblings; death of sister and her family in Holocaust; geneology of Heimerdinger family; Gymnasium; social activities as teenager in Wiesbaden; Jewish life in Wiesbaden and anti-Semitism; university study of law at Munich; life in Munich; study at Leipzig; study at Frankfurt; experience of inflation of 1923 and French occupation; work as lawyer in Frankfurt; relationionships with women; engagement and marriage to wife; loss of job following Nazi seizure of power; emigration to USA in 1933.
    Description / Table of Contents: Little stories from the past
    Description / Table of Contents: In U.S.A.
    Description / Table of Contents: The past
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  • 6
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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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  • 7
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    Seattle, Washington :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 116 + 50 pages (single space) : , typescript (bound).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Strauss, Amalie. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Uruguay Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first part deals with Stiefel's disposal of real estate in Frankfurt am Main; the November pogrom of 1938; and the immigration to USA via Russia and Japan. Also included are lists of German emigrants to Seattle via Russia and China.
    Abstract: The second part is the family's history: Amelie Strauss' family background in the Palatinate; her marriage to Siegfried Strauss and move to Frankfurt am Main; Nazi persecution; emigration to Uruguay; and restitution. Also included are a list of descendants and a family tree.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: The story of my emigration, 1938-1940
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Our grandmother Amalie Strauss, 1862-1949
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 8
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    Cheadle, Cheshire :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 9
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    Easton/Pennsylvania :[publisher not identified],
    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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 10
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    Middle Village, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Preuss, Frieda. ; Mothers. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life in Tel Aviv until 1948; immigration to the USA in 1948; description of her mother-in-law Frieda Preuss, born Schaeler.
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  • 11
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    Boston :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , newspaper article (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: St. Louis (Ship) ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Cuba. ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Clippings ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences in Austria after "Anschluss"; suicide of father; on board of the "St.Louis"; first two war years in France; emigration to USA.
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  • 12
    Language: English
    Pages: 3 pages , typescript (single space).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Former Title: Report about Experiences in Auschwitz and Stutthof Concentration Camp
    Keywords: Cohn, Erna. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Schwelm (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences in Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps, 1944-1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM II 1.
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  • 13
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    Toronto, Ontario :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 275 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Schönmann family. ; Schönmann, Julius, ; Strauss family. ; Strauss, Ernest. ; Strauss, Sigmund. ; Strauss, Walter. ; Antisemitism. ; Soldiers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Darmstadt (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Kassel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Dorothea (Doris) Strauss combines memoirs by her father Julius Schönmann with the WW I memoirs of her sons Ernest and Walter Strauss and their father Sigmund Strauss.
    Abstract: Speeches given by Julius Schoenmann at cultural club of which he was president in Darmstadt in 1905-6; farewell speech at Darmstadt club in 1911; exchange of letters between Julius Schoenmann and Franz Hellwich; address given by Schoenmann at wedding of Eugen and Henny Sander; speech given at Bar Mitzvah of Ernst Wolff in 1911; 'journal' of Ernst Nathan Strauss written from perspective of his parents; family events and political events in pre-World War I years; outbreak of World War I; diary accounts of first months of war; life during wartime; revolution; life after the war; family travels in Bavaria and Austria.
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  • 14
    Language: English
    Pages: 137 + 38 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Morgan, Max. ; Snyder (Schneider) family. ; Thomas, Gordon, ; Walter, Bruno, ; Weissel, George. ; Antisemitism. ; Engineers. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Socialism. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Reflections
    Description / Table of Contents: Appendix
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  • 15
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 21 + 44 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: off-print
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Freemasons. ; Antisemitism. ; Jews Emancipation ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay on the attempt of German Jewry to attain social emancipation, which was a utopian dream.
    Abstract: Also included are the English translation of Jacob Katz’s Hebrew book ‘Yahadut Germaniyah [German Jewry] / [Israel] : Matkal , 1959, together with an offprint of the original. The book is also available in the LBI Library, call number DS 135 G33 K375 1959.
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    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 28 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Dissertation note: Thesis for the Degree "Doctor of philosophy["] submitted to the senate of the Hebrew University on July 1988
    Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Jews Migration. ; Germany Jews 1918-1933. ; History ; Germany Jews 1933-1945. ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Abstract of a Hebrew language thesis with the author's hand written dedication to Dr. Paucker
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  • 17
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    London :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 118 , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Ehrlich, Eva Edith. ; Nelki family. ; Nelki, Wolfgang. ; Russo family. ; Communism. ; Dentists. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Socialism. ; Students' societies. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Belgium. ; France. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Nelki and Russo families in Berlin; concentrates mainly on first half of the 20th century; most members of the family were physicians; persecution in Nazi period; emigration to England; attached is the story of Eva Edith Ehrlich who survived the war years in Berlin in hiding.
    Description / Table of Contents: Synopsis in file
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  • 18
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 19
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 14 , re-print.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Restitution. ; Women authors. ; Freiburg (Germany) ; Germany History 20th century. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Publications. ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1988 and published in the "Journal of Progressive Human Service, Vol. 6 (2) 1995", pages 59-72. Miriam Stein is the daughter of German-Jewish parents, who came to the United States. She reconstructs her mother's biography upon a mutual visit to Germany in 1988, when they were invited as honored guests by the Freiburg community. Reflections on contemporary Germany and its way to take responsibility for the past.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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  • 20
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 28 + 40 pages : , Bound typescripts and photocopies.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Conduct of life. ; Ethics. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: English
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  • 21
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 108 + 119 pages : , typescript (2 volumes) (copy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Caro family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Genealogical tables ; Manuscripts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Vol. I: Notes, indicies, tables A & B
    Description / Table of Contents: Vol. II: Tables M & S1 - S8
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  • 22
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    Portola Valley, CA :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 90 , typed and bound manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Hertzmann family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 503 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Friedland, Bertha. ; Friedland, Hermann. ; Friedland, Rolf Erich Hermann. ; Fry, Varian, ; Kaplun, Sol. ; Ullmann family. ; Warburg, Max. ; Warburg, Paul. ; Anti-fascist movements 1918-1933. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees ; Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immgiration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Pierre Ferrand, written in 1988, published in an abridged and changed version as "A Question of Allegiance." Including information on his grandparents, some of which emigrated in the 1840s from Gailingen to the United States while others came from Eastern Europe to Germany; on the history of Hamburg Jewry; on politics in Weimar Germany; on Ferrand's father, his business in radio advertising and his anti-fascist politics; on political repression and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany; and on American immigration laws. - Recollections of his childhood; of the family's emigration in 1933; of his schooling in France; of the emigrant milieu in Paris; of the Ferrand family's journey from Paris to Southern France, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal to the United States in 1940; of their extended stay at Ellis Island and Ferrand's friendship with Sol Kaplun from Poland; and on the family's adjustment to life in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM2 reel 12 (parts I-II) and MM2 reel 13 (part III). , English , Synopsis in file
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    Washington D.C. :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 520 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Koch family. ; Antisemitism. ; Assimilation Jews. ; College teachers. ; Education, Primary before 1871. ; Education, Secondary before 1871. ; Education, Higher. ; Families. ; Jews Cultural assimilation 19th century. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Medicine. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Soviet Union Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is the translation of Richard Koch's memoir which was originally written in German by his daughter Naomi Laqueur. According to her epilogue, Richard Koch wrote these memoirs until shortly before he died, probably without ever having revised them. She shortened some parts of the original. Originally, the manuscript was handwritten, and then copied by his wife on a very old-fashioned typewriter.
    Abstract: Family history reaching back to early 19th century; most family members came from Frankfurt am Main and Bockenheim; domestic life; childhood in well-to-do Frankfurt Jewish family; reflections on antisemitism and assimilation in 19th century; celebration of Christmas and Jewish holidays; primary and secondary education; university studies in Munich and Berlin; reflections on prostitution.
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  • 25
    Language: English
    Pages: 22 pages.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Schutzjuden. ; Jews Ethnic Relations. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: A free translation (by Harry H. Kahn?) of an article by Karlheinz Geppert, published in vol. 32 (1988) of 'Der Suelchgau'.
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    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 66 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Moszkowski, Arthur. ; Knight, Max. ; Smolka, Maria. ; Thon, Osias. ; Wizo. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Hasidism. ; Jews ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Kraków (Poland) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in California in 1987. Description of the Jewish history in Poland in the 18th and 19th century. Childhood recollections in Cracow. Her father was an insurance broker. Her mother came from a famous family of rabbis. Childhood friends and introduction into their Hasidic life style. Wish to continue with high school (Gymnasium) met with difficulties due to the implied tuition fees for girls. Outbreak of World War One and move to Vienna. In 1916 the Russian invasion of Cracow diminished and the family returned to Poland. Her father was called to the military. With her mother's help the family found the means to enroll Dora in the Gymnasium, where she became a full-fledged student. Engaging in the Zionist movement. Speech about the role of Jewish women in society and engaging in campaigns for equal education for girls. Graduation and applying for medical school. Being a girl and Jewish she was not accepted since there was a Jewish quota at university. Death of her mother. Application at medical schools in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1920 Dora moved to Vienna where she lived with a widowed cousin and took care of his children. Difficulties to be accepted at medical school as a foreigner. Taking classes at university as an extern. Position as a Polish language tutor. Business school in order to earn a living. Outings with friends. Cultural activities and the Viennese Burgtheater. Return to Cracow and position in a export business. Acquaintance and courtship with Arthur Moszkowski, an engineer from a well-to-do family. Return to university and studies of German and Polish. Political and Zionist activities in the WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization). Graduation from university in 1925 and work on her Ph.D. with a thesis on Ibsen. Position as a German teacher and initial difficulties with the government due to her being Jewish. In 1928 her Ph.D. was accepted.
    Abstract: Official engagement with Arthur Moszkowski. Trip to the Baltic Sea and wedding in 1929. Honeymoon in Austria. Pregnancy during the time her husband lost his position due to the growing antisemitism in Poland. Birth of their daughter Dunia. Difficulties in married life due to her new duties as a housewife and mother which did not fulfill her. Renewed political engagement. Lectures and speeches. Opening of a Montessori preschool in her apartment. Dora became the chairwoman of WIZO in Katovice. Awareness of political changes due to rising National Socialism in neighboring Germany. Temporary financial difficulties. Birth of their second daughter Zosia in 1937. Influx of German Jewish refugees and relief organizations. Outbreak of World War Two. Capture of Czortkow by the Russian military and life under Russian rule. Deportation to Siberia in 1940, which in the end saved them from being taken to German extermination camps. Labor camp in Sverdlovsk. The family was set free and could travel to Uzbekistan in west central Asia. Her husband, among many Polish refugees, contracted typhus and survived through the help of a befriended physician. He was able to obtain a position in Iran and Africa with the Polish military. Affidavit for the United States from a cousin in California. Arrival in New York in 1950. Move to Berkeley and difficulties in adapting to the culture and start of a new life. Master degree in child development and work with retarded children.
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    [Garches] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 3 + 20 + 251 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Biennale di Venezia. ; Art dealers. ; Artists. ; Artists ; Artists ; Art museums. ; Celebrities. ; Music trade. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; France Emigration and immigration. ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Desription of his life in Vienna, in the United States and later in Europe as an art dealer and writer of lyrics. Account of his personal philosophy.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 114 + 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Aliberti, Gianni. ; Berneis, Hans. ; Dann, Gertrud. ; Dann, Lotte. ; Dann, Sophie. ; Schiff, Otto. ; Schönberger, Martin. ; Treves, Paolo. ; Treves, Claudio. ; Treves, Lotte (Dann), ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Education, Higher 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945 ; Physicians. ; Socialism. ; Translators. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Germany History 20th century. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; Italy Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Italy Politics and government. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Lotte Treves including description of her childhood and her schooling in Augsburg; her medical studies; her emigration to England and work in various hospitals; her return to Italy and of her trips to the United States, Israel and Germany; information on Gianni Aliberti's experiences in the concentration camp Mauthausen; Lotte Treves' marriage to Paolo Treves; their children and grand-children; Paolo Treves' career and his political activities as a social democrat; Lotte Treves' work as a translator; her sisters Elisheva, Gertrud and Sophie.
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    Salt Lake City :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 24 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Leo Baeck Institute, New York. ; Wiener Library. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Entry on Jewish genealogical research in Germany in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, submitted by Horst A. Reschke.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 25 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Fett, Ben Zion. ; Treuer, Fritz, ; Musicians. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; Women in education. ; Families 20th century. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This small booklet contains the transcripts of tape recordings of Mia Treuer's life story. The main speech was given before a Unitarian congregation in Bloomington, Minnesota, in 1967.
    Note: English
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 119 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Ehrenteil, Emanuel. ; Ehrentheil, Moritz. ; Fischer, Josephine. ; Perutz, Ada. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Physicians. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Trieste (Italy) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Otto Ehrenteil, completed in 1987, including genealogical information and family history reaching back to the generation of his grandparents in Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary, description of his childhood in Trieste and Vienna, of his schooling in Vienna, of Jewish life in Vienna before and after 1938, of his marriage to Josephine Fischer, of their family life, of their emigration to the USA via Italy and France and adjustment to life in America, of his efforts to help other Nazi victims, and of his post-War academic career.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 173 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Drews family. ; Ettlinger family. ; Mainzer family. ; Nachmann family. ; Wormser family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Rastatt (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Ettlinger, Mainzer, Wormser, Drews and Nachmann families from Rastatt (Baden) and Frankfurt between 1933 and 1945; emigration to France and illegal crossing of borders to Switzerland; immigration to USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Baltimore, MD :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Hamburger, Gretl. ; Spanier, Gretl. ; Wilmersdorfer, Anne. ; Wilmersdorfer, Siegfried. ; Wilmersdorfer family. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Leather industry and trade. ; Textile industry. ; Baltimore (Md.) ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Wallerstein (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Education in Wallerstein, Noerdlingen, and Munich; work in family's textile store in Wallerstein; death of father; move to Munich in 1938; fate of relatives during Holocaust; immigration to US in November 1938; settled in Baltimore, set up business in leather goods.
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    Salt Lake City :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Former Title: Arthur Czellitzer
    Keywords: Czellitzer, Arthur, ; Czellitzer family. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Entry on Dr. Arthur Czellitzer in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, submitted by Horst A. Reschke.
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