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    My recollections : 1872-1962 (2014)
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    Pages: 50 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Königshöfer, Meier, ; Child welfare. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish merchants. ; Orphanages. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers 1871-1914. ; Textile industry. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of 'Meine Erinnerungen 1872-1962' by the author's grandnephew, Leon Chameides.
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    And there is no going back : A story of patience, persistence, and perseverance (2013)
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    Pages: 340 + 6 + 5 + 5 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Shiffers, Liese. ; Shiffers, Stephan, ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    My Story / (2013)
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    Pages: 22 + 60 + 28 + 2 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    Memoirs of Reinhard Helmut Lesser / (1987-2013)
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    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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    falk valentin grinfeld v’mapel hiio. (2012)
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    Language: Hebrew
    Pages: 36 , digital file.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Grünfeld, Falk Valentin, ; Grünfeld, Heinrich, ; Friendship. ; Industrialists Biography. ; Textile industry. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Kamienna Góra (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Hebrew translation of “Falk Valentin Gruenfeld und sein Werk” from a privately printed edition, Berlin 1934, by Joel Freudenberg.
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    Dachau concentration camp - a memoir / (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir provides a detailed description of daily life and misery in the concentration camp Dachau, May to December of 1938. The first eight chapters are missing which would cover Felix Klein's life in Vienna. The existing memoir then starts with his deportation to Dachau, and ends shortly before his transfer to Buchenwald concentration camp.
    Abstract: Translated from the German by Sanda Vero.
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    A brief history of the Arnstein family : (For Katharine Arnstein) (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Arnstein family. ; Arnstein, Gustav, ; Arnstein, Leopold, ; Arnstein, Richard, ; Jewish families ; Jewish printers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Sulzbach (Saarland, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Arnstein family, dating back to Seckel Arnstein in 1751 and his ancestor Ahron Fraenkel in 1645, who established a printing press business in 1699. Seckel Arnstein continued the business of printing of Hebrew bibles, which became famous all over Central and Eastern Europe under the name “S. Arnstein & Sons”. Another predecessor, Leopold Arnstein, founded a dry goods store under the name “Leopold Arnstein & Sons”. Family history of Gustav and Richard Arnstein, the grandfather and father of the author. Gustav Arnstein was born in Sulzbach and raised his family together with his wife Nanette, née Luber, in Wertheim. Later they moved to Stuttgart. In 1907 Gustav Arnstein founded a security business (“Nachtwach- und Schliessdienst”) for local stores and factories. Assimilated life style. World War One. Marriage of the author’s parents Richard and Charlotte, née Heymann. Post-war depression and rise of Nazi movement. Immigration to the United States.
    Abstract: The following individuals are named: Arnstein, Seckel, 1751-1825 ; Auer, Ignatz ; Heymann, Berthold ; Heymann, Charlotte ; Luber, Nanette ; Spitzer, Franz.
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    Gosh I'm good : Memoirs of a modest man (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 126 , self-published book.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Orsten, Hanna. ; Trader Joe’s (Firm) ; Exile armies ; Real estate agents. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) History. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Třebíč (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface by Joe Coulombe
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    World War II through my eyes : An Austrian refugee in the United States army (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 229 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: United States. ; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives. ; California. ; England. ; France. ; Germany (West) ; Autobiographies ; Correspondence ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edited letters sent to his family while he served with the US Army in the US and in Europe from Oct. 1941 to Oct. 1945. The letters had originally been written in German during 1941 and then in English. Stewart describes his experiences in wartime California, fearing a Japanese invasion; in wartime England; in recently liberated France and Belgium; and in occupied Germany.
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    Die Lebensgeschichte meiner Eltern. (2003)
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    Pages: 33 + 24 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: documents; clippings (all photocopies)
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Blum, Annelies, ; Blum, Gustav, ; Blum, Bella (née Behr), ; Jewish refugees ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lumber trade. ; Estoril (Portugal) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Portugal Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Fritz Blum mainly writes about his parents Gustav and Bella Blum (née Behr), covering approx. the years 1881-1992. He describes his father's various businesses and his family's emigration to Portugal in 1938. The bulk of the memoir deals with the family's stay in Portugal from 1938 to 1941.
    Abstract: Photocopies of certificates, correspondence, photographs, and other archival materials are interspersed with the German text in folder 1.
    Abstract: Also included is a brochure of an exhibition about refugees in Portugal at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt in 1997.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Memoir in German
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Memoir in English
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Exhibition material
    Note: German and English
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    [Story of Sylvia (Mahler) Cherny]. (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Mahler family. ; Mahler, Robert, ; Mahler (née Gutmann), Grete, ; Watkins, Gerald Herbert, ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Melbourne (Vic.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with Sylvia Cherny's family background, the family business, and her time in Lower Austria where her family had lived for a couple of generations. She received private tutoring, coming from a well-off family. The "Anschluss" in 1938 changed everything. The family business was taken away and Sylvia Cherny provides a short chronology of its whereabouts. Her father commited suicide after the Anschluss, fearing the Gestapo who was looking for him. Sylvia Cherny went on a Kindertransport to France, then fled via Lisbon to New York. The final pages cover the first years in Melbourne, Australia, where she had joined her mother and her stepfather.
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    Diaries, (2002)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 100 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: 37 pages typescript
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels ; Women authors. ; Germany History Nineteen thirties. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 5 diaries written by Margaret Kahn's mother, Lisbeth Schmidt. Most of her early writings refer to travelling across Europe. A brief description is provided of events in 1933 when Nazis took over power in Germany. During Kristallnacht, her husband Fritz is taken to the police. They are able to leave Germany, first to Holland, then to the USA where they settle in New York. From 1950 on, all entries were written in English. Enclosed is also a letter from her parents to her daughter Margrit for her birthday, dated January 16, 1941, Amsterdam.
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    My life / (2002)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Schiff, Alice, ; Actors Motion picture industry. ; Jewish families ; Jewish physicians Biography. ; Jewish physicians Biography. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript with the memoirs of the pediatrician Alice Schiff follows her notes that she assembled throughout her retirement.
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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.
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    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Max Liebmann describes his school life and how unbearable conditions grew after Hitler was elected chancellor. One time a pupil harassed him, but he fought back. He stayed in public school until 1937, and then attended a private school. He had to leave school after “Kristallnacht”, when all Jews were excluded from non-Jewish schools. In March 1938, his father had left for Greece in order to explore new business possibilities. Max Liebmann never saw him again. With the outbreak of World War II, Max Liebmann took his grandmother, who was French Alsatian, to the Swiss border. But Switzerland did not permit her to enter the country, so she went to Nancy and later to Bordeaux. During the war discrimination increased and culminated in Max Liebmann being sent to Eastern Germany to harvest. He describes himself as one of the first slave laborers of the Reich. In 1940, Max Liebmann started to work for the “Hilfsverein”. On October 21, 1940, the “Hilfsverein” was closed and he was deported to France the next day. On October, 25, Max Liebmann arrived at the camp of Gurs in Southwestern France. He managed to get out of the camp just weeks before its closure on August 1, 1942, and the beginning of the first deportations to Auschwitz. He hid in several places in unoccupied France with the help of local residents. He later managed to escape to Switzerland with the help of a Swiss militia man. In Switzerland, he worked in a refugee camp. On February 28, 1943, his girlfriend Hanne, whom he had met in Gurs, came to Switzerland. She first lived with relatives, but left them on Christmas Eve 1944 when personal frictions became too heavy. Max Liebmann married Hanne on April 14, 1945 in Geneva. Their daughter was born on March 4, 1946. In 1948, the family left for the United States.
    Abstract: Max Liebmann ends his memoir with giving a few remarks on Swiss policy concerning Jewish immigration and also on their policy of blocking them from their money in Swiss bank accounts.
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    "Bergemolo" : Before and thereafter - the way it was. (2001)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Hartmayer, Manya. ; Revolutionaere Sozialisten Oesterreichs. ; Anti-fascist movements. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1939. ; Italy. ; Nice (France) ; Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    "... und half mir mit Gottes Hilfe selbst" : ein Lebensbericht von Erna Huth (2001)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 69 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Böhm, Agnes. ; Böhm, Alexander. ; Neumann, Erna. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Secretaries. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Erna Huth were recorded by her nephew Michael Weber in 1993. Childhood in an assimilated Jewish family. Erna Huth's father was an architect who made his living as a journalist and writer. Recollections of Christmas celebrations. Erna graduated from Lyceum (high school) in 1911. Her plans to continue her studies were not granted. She started to work in her father's publishing company. Death of her mother in 1928. Nazi-takeover in Germany in 1933. Sudden dismissal from her position as a secretary due to her Jewish heritage. Increasing discrimination by former colleagues and acquaintances. Difficulties of her father to continue his profession as a journalist and editor. Emigration of her younger brothers Gerhard and Georg. Attempts to obtain exit permits for the United States and England, which only arrived after the beginning of the war. Erna and her sister Agnes were stuck in Berlin together with their father. Erna started to work at the Jewish welfare and youth department of the Jewish community. Position at an insurance company. Increased anti-Jewish regulations and the constraint to wear the yellow star. Erna's sister Agnes worked as a housekeeper at a Jewish family. Marriage of Agnes with the considerably older Alexander Boehm in 1941. Deportation of Agnes and Alexander Boehm to the Ghetto of Lodz. Diminishment of Erna's friends and relatives, who either emigrated or were subject to deportation. Support of her superior. Life in hiding. Refuge at houses of friends. Constant fear of discovery. Difficulties to obtain food stamps. Position as a nurse for an elderly lady provided her with a new identity and a place to stay. End of the war and liberation. Reunion with her relatives.
    Abstract: Addendum: Reflections by Michael Weber, Documents, Letters, Historic Chronology, Family Tree, Bibliography
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    Unique times : Chasali 1947/49. (2000)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 369 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Personal narratives. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Daily journal of Israel's war of independence, written February 2, 1948 till July 20, 1949
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    How we survived : Chronicles of our families. (2000)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: David, Frank. ; Dreyfuss, Albert, ; Dreyfuss family. ; Dreyfuss, Franziska (née Grünbaum), ; Dreyfuss, Fritz. ; Oppenheimer, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir contains the first chapter of Luise David's autobiography. Recollections of her mother Franziska Gruenbaum, who - after a love affair to an unsuitable partner - was married to the physician Albert Dreyfuss in 1908. The couple had two children, Fritz and Luise. Her husband served in World War One. After years of depression and frequent sojourns in different sanatoria, Franziska Dreyfuss commited suicide in 1919. Luise was sent to her father's family in Landau. The family was reunited again a year later, when Albert Dreyfuss married his second wife Alice Oppenheimer in 1920. Celebration of holidays at the Dreyfuss family in Landau. Weekend outings in the countryside. Recollection of the author's childhood with various nannys and governesses. Early interest in dress making and clothing. Awareness of her different status as the daughter of the town's physician and as a Jewish girl. Encounters with anti-Semitism. Luise was enrolled in the "lyceum" (girl's school), where she became an excellent student. Rising Nazi movement. Her brother Fritz emigrated to Switzerland in 1933.
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 12 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2000
    Keywords: Tepper, Elsa, ; Tepper, Minna. ; Tepper, Wilhelm, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Salaspils (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Lauenburg (Germany) ; Rīga (Latvia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1946 in Austria, shortly after her liberation. Minna recalls her deportation in February 1942. She was taken to Riga together with her parents and her husband. Her mother was killed upon their arrival. Her father and her husband were taken to Salaspils for forced labor, where the later perished. Minna, who was pregnant with her first child, was forced to undergo an abortion. She describes her experiences of Nazi sadism in the Ghetto of Riga, especially by the Ghetto commanders Krause and Roschmann. In 1943 Minna was taken for peat cutting labor to Olaine. In November 1943 Minna and her father were reunited at the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga. From there both were taken to Spilve - a labor camp at a German air base, which was under worse conditions than the first camp. They worked in the cold without appropriate shoes and in thin clothes. Due to the exhausting conditions Minna's father Wilhelm was getting weaker and eventually was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. Minna was taken to Stutthof, which was overcrowded and in primitive conditions. They were taken to an exterior labor camp, where they had to build trenches for the German defense in the rain and cold. They suffered of constant hunger. In January 1945 the camp was dissolved and all sick and disabled were killed. They were marched under exhausting conditions in the snow and cold. For all missing women ten others were chosen randomly to be killed. After a week Minna was finally too exhausted to continue walking and stayed behind. The guard who was supposed to kill her fired the bullet over her head and left her for dead in the snow. She was rescued and brought to a house, where she was given food and a place to sleep. She was discovered by a German police officer, who was about to shoot her along with other Jewish fugitives. Minna was saved by her Viennese accent, which convinced him that she was a gentile woman.
    Abstract: She was taken to a mobile army hospital and treated for her frozen feet. In March 1945 Minna was liberated in Lauenburg, Prussia, where she was sent by German hospitals as an unidentified Jewish patient.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Nini Ungar's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1536.
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    The story of the Lindauer and Weil families / (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 , typewritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: maps
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Lindauer, family. ; Weil family. ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jebenhausen (Göppingen, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of two Jewish families of cattle dealers in the small Wuerttemberg town of Jebenhausen, ca. 1750-1865; Jewish customs in rural communities; includes family tree.
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    A train to tomorrow: A Jewish child's odyssey of survival. (1999)
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    Pages: 10 pages : , typed and bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kindertransports (Resü operations) ; Women authors. ; Tepper, Gertrude (nee Zell) 1923. ; Zell, Paul. ; Kindertransports (Resue operations) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A small booklet containing memoirs of Ms. Tepper and her brother Paul Zell, as well as 4 photographic prints of Ms. Tepper and her family members. The booklet was published by the Temple Adath Yeshurun in Syracuse, NY, 09/20/1999.
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    The past is indestructible : my childhood memoirs including a history of the Wertheim family. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 69 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Wertheim family. ; Zimmt family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families ; Cologne (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A bound typescript of memoirs and the family’s history circa 1700 to 1999. Also included are a map of Germany and a family tree.
    Abstract: Memoir by Claus Albert Wertheim, written in May 1999. He describes his childhood and family background, his life in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. In a postscript he summarizes the fate of family members and friends. He finishes his memoirs with a brief note about the history of the Wertheim family.
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    Our family history / (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Rotholz family. ; Rotholz, Marianne, née Taussky, ; Rotholz, Marie. ; Rotholz, Max, ; Taussky, Adolf. ; Taussky, Fanny. ; Jewish families ; Jewish merchants ; Jews History. ; Secondhand trade. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history with photographs. The memoir starts with Lotte Bondy's grandparents from Hungary, Max and Marie Rotholz, and a description of her father's (Max Rotholz) youth in Vienna. Her mother was Marianne Rotholz, née Taussky, came from a Moravian family. Her parents married in 1905, and her father opened a successful store for second-hand goods at Lerchenfelderstrasse 48 in Vienna which she describes in detail. He also became an Authorised Valuer. The store became well known for its Persian carpets. The memoir with a note at the beginning of chapter four, "to be continued".
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    Ibmemoirs : [The memoirs of Inge Brenner]. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 , pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Dreifus, Claudia. ; Jewish families 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In a memoir written for her daughters, Inge (Irene) Brenner recounts her family’s history, growing up in Berlin with her parents, her maternal grandfather Samuel Oppenheimer and her two sisters, Lony (born 1913) and Marianne (born 1922). She tells of the hardship that befell Jewish families after the Nazis’ rise to power. Her sister Lony left for Paris in 1933 and later worked as a secretary for the Zionist politician Vladimir Jabotinsky. Inge met her future husband Hans (Harold) Brenner in 1937 in Berlin; he was able to immigrate with the help of an American cousin and sent for Inge soon after Kristallnacht. They met in Havana, Cuba, and were married there. He returned to New York while Inge waited for her visa in Cuba, then entered the United States via Miami. Hans and Inge lived in a small apartment in Washington Heights, eventually joined by his parents as well as Inge’s parents and younger sister Marianne. When Lony and her husband Maurice arrived from Paris, they started a small business that employed several members of the family. Hans and Inge had two daughters, Barbara and Jessica; Maurice and Lony had one daughter named Linda. Inge also describes her younger sister’s life in some detail. Marianne, in an ultimately broken marriage with Henry Dreifus, gave birth to her only daughter at the age of 22. Claudia Dreifus was raised until the age of eight by her grandmother, Emma Willdorff, and later by her father and step-mother. Marianne went on to suffer a nervous breakdown, followed by a severe car accident. She spent her final years living in Reno with her second husband Aram Jorjorian. Following a second divorce, Marianne died at age 55.
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    Two families. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 + xiii + 79 + viii pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Baschwitz family. ; Herzberg family. ; Schiff family. ; Wolfsohn family. ; Goldmann, Nahum, ; Art appreciation. ; Assimilation Jews. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Music appreciation. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Wuppertal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of the related Wolfsohn and Schiff families, covering 1776-1982.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Mordehai Akdon; Prince Czartoryski; Andrea Guarneri, 1626-1698; Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, 1687-1742; Leopold Krakauer, 1890-1954; Arturo Toscanini, 1867-1957; Richard Wagner 1813-1883
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 1: The Wolfsohn family
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 2: The Schiff family
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    Gruenspecht. (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 152 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Grünspecht family. ; Heinemann family. ; Oppenheimer family. ; Seitenbach family. ; Wuerzburg Israelistische Lehrerbildungs-Anstalt. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families. ; Butchers. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Wüstensachsen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Memoir describes Alfred Gruenspecht's childhood in Wuestensachsen (Hesse); his family members; his father's decision to immigrate to the United States in 1937; and the new beginning in the United States, where the family launched a successful butcher business. The memoir describes the fate of members of the family and is illustrated with colored family photos.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Grünspecht, Bertha (née Seitenbach); Grünspecht, David; Gundersheimer, Abraham; Goldschmidt, Ivan; Cahn, Leo; Nordhauser, Ruth; Braunschweiger, Lothar; Buchsbaum, Manfred.
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    My granddaughter wanted to know... (1998)
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    Pages: 2 +7 + 5 + 6 , handwritten manuscript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Groszman family. ; Horthy, Miklós, ; Wallenberg, Raoul, ; Antisemitism. ; Blood accusation ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish ghettos. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1998 in Argentina. Gabriel Groszman describes the family history reaching back to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Anti-Semitism and the blood libel trial of Tisza Eszlar. His father, who was born in the Habsburg empire, fought in World War One. In 1918 counter revolution in Hungary under Admiral Horthy, who established a semi-fascist regime. Childhood memories of the Jewish life in Vamosmikola, a small Hungarian village of 1500 inhabitants and 25 Jewish families. Both of his grandparents had small stores and did fairly well. Encounters of anti-Semitism in a predominantly Catholic environment. With Hitler's rise in Germany Admiral Horthy became encouraged to reinforce Anti-Jewish regulations. Gabriel's father was forced to give up his grain-business, because agricultural related buisness was prohibited for Jews. Move to Budapest. Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944. Imi, Gabriel's 18 years old brother, was taken to a copper mine in Yugoslavia. Gabriel himself at age 14 had to clean up factories after air raids. He got a position as a messenger boy at the Jewish community committee (Judenrat). Large Jewish population in Budapest (300.000) delayed the Nazi efforts of deportation. Concentration of the Jewish population in designated houses under restricted circumstances. House searches by the Nazis. Growing danger of deportation. Raol Wallenbergs intervention with the Swedish embassy provided the family with a special document of protection. They moved to the "Swedish house". In December 1944 the Nazis did not respect any longer the immunity of the protected Jewish families and started deporting people from there as well. The Nazis established a Jewish ghetto in a district of Budapest to prepare the final deportation of the Jewish population in Budapest. Approaching Russian troops cut the roads and crossed these plans. The family of Gabriel Groszman was still able to stay in the "Swedish house", though with limited protection.
    Abstract: Mass killing of Jewish people who were taken to the river Danube and shot by Hungarian Nazis. Gabriel's father bought forged papers for the family, stating them as Eastern Hungarian refugees. They moved out of the Ghetto and the "Swedish house" to the gentile district with forged identities. Air raids and advancing Russion troops. Their landlords discovered their true identity and restrained from denouncing them. After a few weeks Budapest was liberated by the Russians. The family moved to Vienna and lived there for three years, before they emigrated to Argentina.
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    "Luckily" / (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 189 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Education. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Klagenfurt (Austria) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 38 + 28 pages : , manuscript; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942-1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Fischer, Erwin. ; Treu family. ; Laundry. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Rheda (Harsewinkel, Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Louise Fischer's life story written by her at the Aldersbrook Hospital in England in April of 1942. Also available is an English translation by by Erwin Fischer, 1998.
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    Lebos / (1998)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 92 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Pick family. ; Pick, Otto, ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Sports. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sudetenland (Czech Republic) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Oskar Pick written in 1998; description of family life in the Sudeten area of Bohemia; memories of the family estate and textile industry; recollections of his upbringing, which involved his resolute grandmother and various nannies; member of the Jewish sport's club "Makabi"; his father's journey to purchase land in Palestine in the 1930s; nervous disposition of his father due to a head injury of World War I; participation at the Makabiade in Zilina, Slovakia in 1936; escapades of his school time; after a certain incident Oskar was sent to a sport's boarding school near the Austrian border; in 1938 the school was transferred to Salzburg, Austria; ski trips; after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 the entire school was ordered back immediately; annexion of the Sudetenland area; the entire family had to flee to Prague; first confrontation with antisemitism; his father was offered a job in Egypt, where he tried to get "Palestine" affidavits for his family; occupation of Prague; Oskar's mother took refuge with her sons in Italy; they managed to get their affidavits for Palestine; arrival and reunition with their father in Tel Aviv in 1939; Oskar started an apprenticeship at "Mercedes Benz" in Israel; member of the organization "Blau-Weiss"; end of World War II; facing the tragedy of the loss of their entire family in the Holocaust; encounters with survivors; marriage to his fiance "Ande" in 1947; declaration of the state of Israel in 1948; activities in the emerging military; victim of meningitis epidemic; war with Egypt; six-days-war; career at BMW; job offer in Kaiserslauten, Germany; cultural differences in the mentality of the local inhabitants; move to Cologne with his family from Israel, where Oskar Pick still lives today.
    Abstract: Memoir by Oskar Pick written in 1998; description of family life in the Sudeten area of Bohemia; memories of the family estate and textile industry; recollections of his upbringing, which involved his resolute grandmother and various nannies; member of the Jewish sport's club "Makabi"; his father's journey to purchase land in Palestine in the 1930s; nervous disposition of his father due to a head injury of World War I; participation at the Makabiade in Zilina, Slovakia in 1936; escapades of his school time; after a certain incident Oskar was sent to a sport's boarding school near the Austrian border; in 1938 the school was transferred to Salzburg, Austria; ski trips; after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 the entire school was ordered back immediately; annexion of the Sudetenland area; the entire family had to flee to Prague; first confrontation with antisemitism; his father was offered a job in Egypt, where he tried to get "Palestine" affidavits for his family; occupation of Prague; Oskar's mother took refuge with her sons in Italy; they managed to get their affidavits for Palestine; arrival and reunition with their father in Tel Aviv in 1939; Oskar started an apprenticeship at "Mercedes Benz" in Israel; member of the organization "Blau-Weiss"; end of World War II; facing the tragedy of the loss of their entire family in the Holocaust; encounters with survivors; marriage to his fiancee "Ande" in 1947; declaration of the state of Israel in 1948; activities in the emerging military; victim of meningitis epidemic; war with Egypt; six-days-war; career at BMW; job offer in Kaiserslauten, Germany; cultural differences in the mentality of the local inhabitants; move to Cologne with his family from Israel.
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    Shulamith Ben Dror : Recollections 1919-1944. (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 + 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Anrooy, Peter van, ; Borchardt family. ; Borchardt, Ursula, ; Hermann, Georg, ; Heynemann, Martha, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Children of divorced parents. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Hilversum (Netherlands) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Schlierbach (Heidelberg, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a transcript of a taped conversation with Ursula Borchardt by George Rothschild in 1998. Description of her family background. Ursula lived with her parents in an apartment building in Schlierbach, near Heidelberg. She attended a private Jewish kindergarten. Ursula was frequently taken care of by relatives, since her parents were traveling a lot. After the early death of her mother, Ursula was taken care of by nannies. Friendly relations with her father’s first wife, the pianist Martha Heynemann and her half-siblings of that marriage. Trip to Holland via Cologne in 1929. In 1931 Ursula moved with her father to Berlin. Recollections of a somehow chaotic household, where she was left to herself frequently. She attended Tielien Schule. First signs of rising Nazism. Her father received a warning and fled to Holland during the elections in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power. Ursula was left to live with her father’s first wife, Martha. She joined her father in April of 1933 in Laren, Holland. She went to live with friends of her parents, the conductor Peter van Anrooy and his family in Hilversum. She learned Dutch and went to a Gymnasium in Hilversum. Language exchange trip to Paris in 1935 and London in 1937. German occupation. Marriage to Herbert Kalmann in 1940 and changing her name to Shulamith. Birth of their son Micky (Peter Kalmann) in 1941. Breakup with her husband in the same year and move in with her father. In 1943 they were forced to leave their apartment and move to Amsterdam. Deportation to Westerbork camp in June of 1943. Her father was deported to Auschwitz in November of 1943, where he died on arrival. Emergency affidavits for Shulamith, her son and her father arrived weeks after his deportation in Westerbork.
    Abstract: In 1944 Shulamit was transported with her son to Bergen-Belsen, where they waited for their exchange to Palestine. Description of the dreadful conditions of the camp. Start of the typhoid fever among camp inmates. In mid 1944 she was moved with her son to another part of the camp, where they were seperated from the main camp and lived under somehow improved circumstances, forming the Group 222 to be exchanged for German templars in Palestine. Transport to Palestine via Vienna and Turkey in June and July of 1944. Arrival in Haifa and start of a new life in a kibbutz.
    Abstract: Includes family tree of the Borchardt family.
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    Sipurai savta vesaba: korot haim ( = Stories of grandmother and grandfather: readings of life. Hebrew). (1998)
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    Language: Hebrew
    Pages: 39 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Nizav family. ; Sämann family, Sugenheim. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Regensburg (Germany) ; Sugenheim. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of the Nizav family, circa 1754-1998
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    [our trip to Europe]. (1997)
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    Pages: 26 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Eichenbronner, Samson. ; Levinstein, Henry, ; Levinstein, Moritz, ; Levinstein, Nanette. ; Strauss family. ; Strauss, Fred, ; Jewish cemeteries ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Germany Description and travel. ; Kitzingen (Germany) ; Themar (Germany) ; Wiesenbronn. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written after the first trip to Germany in 1996 with his wife Nina. It is a description of this visit and a reflection of the author's feelings towards Germany, and of the Holocaust and its remembrance. His stepfather Henry Levinstein and other family members would never talk about the events. Werner Kleeman was contacted to receive more information on the family roots in Germany--he was a friend of Fred Strauss from World War 2. On the trip, Robert and Nina Strauss went to Weisenbron, Germany, to visit the Jewish cemetery and finding out more about their ancestors. They encounter a woman who tells them about Samson Eichenbronner, Robert Strauss' great grandfather he did not know about. The next stop on the journey is Themar, home to Robert's stepfather Henry Levinstein. They meet a woman who not only knew members from the family, but also witnessed the persecution of Jews in this little town. They also discuss the East German past, since Themar was in former East Germany. To their surprise, people were quite nostalgic about their lives under a communist regime.
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    From St. Poelten to America : [1906-1997]. (1997)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Kubin, Rosa, ; Kubin, Ludwig. ; Lustig family. ; Mautner, Hans. ; Singer, Karl. ; Ullman, Egon. ; Chemists. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Boston (Mass.) ; Sankt Pölten (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in the United States in 1997. Childhood recollections. Ambition of Rosa's father, a leather merchant, to send his daughter to Gymnasium (high school) in order to prepare her for studies at the University. Rosa was the only female student in the local Gymnasium. Recollections of World War One. After graduation in 1924 she enrolled at the University of Vienna. Her plan to study medicine was opposed by her mother, so she registered in pharmacology and chemistry. In 1930 she became engaged with her future-husband Dr. Ludwig Kubin, specialist in dermatology. Rosa received her doctorate in chemistry in 1931. She got a position with the Austrian Chemical Works as the only female applicant among 50. Rosa and Ludwig Kubin were married in 1935. Preparations for their emigration prior to the Anschluss 1938. The couple received affidavits for the United States. They left for Portland, Oregon via Switzerland and Paris in 1938. Life as immigrants in the new country. Rosa became the breadwinner of the family as a hospital technician at the Oregon Medical School. They moved to Boston, were they both obtained positions at the Waltham hospital. Rosa became an Assistant Professor of chemistry at Middlesex University (later: Brandeis University). Sudden death of her husband in 1954. Rosa Kubin was the only women honored as a 50-year member by the American Chemical Society at Harvard in 1990.
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    From Vienna to Vineland : A history of the Salier Family, including the ancestors and descendants of Wulff Levin Fraenkel, during the last four hundred years (1997)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 92 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Additional Material: geneological charts :
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Fraenkel Levin, Wulff. ; Hellendag, Eva. ; Salier family. ; Salier, Bertha. ; Salier, Eva. ; Salier, Felix. ; Salier, Frederike. ; Salier, Frieda. ; Salier, George. ; Salier, Jacob. ; Salier, Max. ; Salier, Tommy. ; Salier, Wilhelm. ; Artists. ; Country life. ; Farmers. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood home in Vineland, New Jersey; life on farm; life of parents in Berlin after 1933; father's account of family's flight from Germany in 1936; emigration of parents; family move to farm in Vineland, New Jersey; history of the Salier family; origin of family name; geneologies; bibliography.
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    Three branches of our family : 1850-1997 (1997)
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    Pages: 159 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Backer, Ellen Wolf (Ellen Ruth Wolf) ; Desman, Lise Muller (Liesel Müller) ; Kann, Emma. ; Kratzenstein, Rachel (Rosel Mueller) ; Kratzenstein family. ; Mueller family ; Wolf family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Schwetzingen (Germany) ; Sobernheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Geneology and brief histories of the Müller/Muller, Wolf/Wolfe, and Kratzenstein/Kaye families; family history, reflections on life experiences.
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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 60 + 32 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Blau, Bertha. ; Blau family. ; Dollfuss, Engelbert, ; Drucker, Kurt. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Fliegel, Hans Robert, ; Fliegel, Julius, ; Fliegel, Otto, ; Fliegel, Rosa, ; Fliegel, Wilhelm, ; Fliegel family. ; Grunwald, Max, ; Haber, Georg. ; Levi, Alice. ; Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah, ; Waldheim, Kurt. ; Dachau (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are reproductions of documents.
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    Mein Leben : geschrieben 1982-1985, (1996)
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    Pages: 24 pages : , typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Hirschberg, Lotte, née Krieg, ; Intermarriage. ; Greek letter societies 1918-1933. ; Germany History 1800-1933. ; Chile Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Written in the years 1982-1985, the memoirs start with a description of the area where she was born, Silesia. A large part is reserved for student fraternities during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933).
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    Notgemeinschaft deutscher Wissenschaftler im Ausland : Erinnerungen (1996)
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    Pages: 29 + 25 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy) +
    Additional Material: documents
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. ; Authors, Exiled. ; College teachers. ; Exiles ; Jewish scholars. ; Physicians. ; Scholars, German. ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration. ; Turkey Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Emigration to Switzerland in 1933; activities of the "Notgemeinschaft"; employment of 40 German university teachers at Turkish universities; includes photos of documents concerning employment of German university teachers at Turkish universities.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and French
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    Family histories : A collaborative enterprise. (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 67 + 5 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Warmbrunn, Reni (née Rewald) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Family reunions. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Education ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir started as a "family history" project for a planned family reunion. Contributions have been made by Olga Warmbrunn, Reni Rewald, Margaret Mehler, Clara Waldeck, Arlene Saxonhouse, and Suzanne Mehler Whiteley, and by Werner Warmbrunn, who also put the contributions together. They write about their family background, their education, their living conditions in Germany, and their emigration, mostly to the United States, but also to England and to the Netherlands.
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    Memoir. (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Keil, Samuel, ; Antisemitism ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History 1934-1938. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Jarosław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jack Baruch Keil starts his memoir with a brief description of his family's roots in Jaroslav, Poland. His parents had hardly any money, and moved to Berlin in the 1920s, where his father started a business, selling eggs. He was quite successful, even under the severe economic conditions in Berlin. There was also time for young Jack to go on vacations to the Baltic Sea. In 1933, things changed drastically. Nazis devastated his father's store, the eggs were an easy target for causing damage. The family decided to emigrate to Austria where they had relatives, in order to avoid the Nazi threat. His father managed to build up a new business, and young Jack enjoyed the widened family. The memoir also briefly mentioned the political situation in Austria during the 1930s when Austria's governing party suspended the parliament, the Nazis assassinated the chancelor Dollfuss, and when the Nazis annexed Austria in March 1938. Again, the family was persecuted and had to leave. But the family did not even have passports which made it even more complicated to get a visa for emigration. Finally, they all ended up in Belgium, although only his mother had a visa.
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    Thankfully yours, Lisa Leist Seiden : 1929-1946. (1996)
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    Pages: 66 pages : , Typed and bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Leist, Friedrich. ; Leist, Peter. ; Antisemitism. ; Women authors. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs Children ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996 at Lisa Seiden's home. The main time covered is her childhood in Vienna and her stay in Bath, England, during the war. Lisa Seiden describes daily life for a child in Vienna--the type of dolls she had, activities on a cold winter day, vaccations on the countryside. In 1938, she was not allowed to go to school anymore. She remembers many details during that time of horros--the anxious expressions in her parents' faces, the constant fear they had while being in the apartment. One day, the Gestapo was looking for her father, Friedrich Leist, but he was warned and did not return home. He had a hise-out and Lisa brought him food. It did not help--a few days later, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. On December 17, 1938, Lisa and her brother Peter were sent via Kindertransport to England. Since their parents did not get visas for England, they emigrated to Argentine where an uncle lived. Lisa Seiden writes about her time in Englad, her foster parents, schooling, and air raids. In May of 1946, a ship takes Lisa and Peter to their parents in Buenos Aires, Argentine. The memoir includes copies of photographs showing family members, herself, her doll's house, and vaccation trips etc. There also many letters included, as well as bits of Lisa Seiden's brother's (Peter Leist) dairy.
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    Erna Franck's memoirs : (1900-1981). (1995)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 61 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education 1871-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; France Politics and government 1940-1945. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Martinique. ; Morocco. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of the memoir by Erna Ferrand, written originally 1977-1979 in New York.
    Abstract: Genealogical information on her family; recollections of her childhood and her schooling in Hamburg; marriage during World War I and life during the war, the revolution and in the Weimar Republic; her husband's activities as a radio advertiser; the family's emigration to France and her experiences in Paris; the family's evacuation from Paris and their crossing into Spain; their experiences in North Africa; their immigration in the United States and life in New York.
    Abstract: The folowing persons are mentioned: Ballin, Albert; Blaich, Emil; Delatour, Salomon; Doeblin, Alfred; Friedland, Jacques (Jakob); Gottheil, Richard; Hagenow, Walter; Karlweis, Oscar; Karpell, Hans; Levy, Benno; Mann, Thomas; Mehring, Franz; Richter, Erich; Wohlgemuth, Martin.
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    8. Mai 1945 : Erlebnisse, Taetigkeiten und Erfahrungen 1945-1949. (1995)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 + 32 , synopsis; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Universität Göttingen. ; College administrators. ; College teachers. ; Journalists. ; Universities and colleges 1945- ; Germany History 1945- ; Göttingen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Goldschmidt's recollections of the immediate post-war years in Germany and his work at Göttinger Universitätszeitung.
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    Through the eyes of a child. (1995)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Plaut, Werner. ; Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of childhood after 1933; life in Duesseldorf, Stuttgart; immgiration to USA; problems coping with emigration, adjusting to life in USA; encounters with anti-Semitism; visit to Yad Vashem; reflections on Holocaust, God.
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    Es gab juedischen Widerstand. (1995)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 35 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Masur, Norbert. ; 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: The memoir starts with the death of Gert Loellbach’s parents in a ship accident in 1932. Gert was sent to live with his aunt in Kreuznach and was suddenly confronted with rising antisemitism due to Nazi propaganda. In Kreuznach he suddenly belonged to a visible minority at school, whereas in Berlin half of the students had been Jewish. Orthodox Jewish life at his aunt’s house. Gert had been brought up in an assimilated Jewish family. He was forced to leave school before taking the final exams (Abitur) and started to work in a wood trading company of his father’s friend. Soon thereafter the company was confiscated. Gert belonged to the Jewish sports group "Kadimah". Zionist activities and agricultural education in preparation for Palestine. Incidents and threats by Nazi groups. Gert became a youth leader for the district of Essen. Preparation for the members to emigrate. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and his arrest. He was spared deportation to a concentration camp and was freed due to the intervention of the rabbi of his home town. After his release he made his way to Berlin with the help of a nun. Endeavors to free his colleagues from the concentration camp. Difficulties to obtain visas. Plans to bring members of the Zionist groups to Palestine. Gert Loellbach’s activities were made known to the Gestapo and he had to leave the country. Exit permit for Sweden. Gert left Germany in time and started to prepare young "Hechaluzim" in Sweden for their emigration to Palestine - a program started by Emil Glueck. The outbreak of the war inhibited their further emigration. Fear of invasion of Nazi Germany in South Sweden. He worked together with the Jewish Agency and corresponded with various inmates of concentration camps, which meant a certain degree of protection for them. In 1940 Gert organized an initiative to rescue members of the Youth Aliyah and the Jewish population in Denmark after the German invasion.
    Abstract: A camp for the Jewish refugees was established near the Swedish port of Helsingborg. Difficulties to find work for the refugees. Gert was sent to Stockholm to represent the Hechaluz organization and open a "Palestinabuero" for the Jewish Agency. Reports of the fate of other refugees. Norbert Masur and the Bernadotte-Aktion to free 28.000 inmates in concentration camps in 1944.
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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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    About my family : [1892-1940]. (1969)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1969
    Keywords: Bach, family. ; Grunfeld family. ; Kary family. ; Hat trade. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Czechoslovakia. ; England. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written In 1969. Genealogy of the Boehm family, dating back to the 18th century. The author's great-grandparents came from Nikolsburg, Moravia, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They emigrated to the capital Vienna In 1840, where the widowed greet grandmother opened a business with raw materials, which later on was developed into a hat factory. Family history of the Bach and Grunfeld family. Description of domestic life and family activities, like Sunday “jours”. Description of gender difference in education end upbringing. Family apartment house in Vienna, Mariahilferstrasse. Summer vacations In the family country house In Baden. His brother Victor showed an early talent for technical studies, but was not able to attend university, because he was needed in the family business. He continued his studies privately. The author finished Handels•Akadomie and joined the family business as well. Recollections of the enthusiasm end patriotism In the first days after the declaration of the war In 1914. The author and his brother Victor proudly volunteered In the Austro-Hungarian Army. Description of the terrors of the war. End of the war and collapse of the empire. Inflation and difficulties to keep up their business. Difficulties in the exchange of goods between the family factories in Czechoslovakia and Vienna. Expanding business. Recollections of Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Immediate awareness of approaching dangers and concentrating efforts on liquidating business and getting family members out of the country. Difficulties in obtaining immigrations visas. The family dispersed in different countries.
    Abstract: The author and his brother Victor escaped with their families to Czechoslovakia in September of 1938, when the German troops were already occupying the northern parts of the country. They had to leave within a short time and obtained visas for Belgium with the help of their business friendFritz Feldheim, who had connections with the embassy. In January of 1939 they emigrated to England, where they successfully started a hat factory. In 1940 their status as “enemy aliens” became more and more restrictive, and they were informed about their possible internment in a camp on the Isle of Man. They sold their factory and with help of their American visas, which had arrived in the meantime, proceeded their immigration to the United States in June and July of 1940.
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    Jakob Loewenberg. (1969)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 36 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1969
    Keywords: Löwenberg, Jakob, ; Antisemitism. ; Authors. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Customs and practices 1933-1945. ; Literature. ; Public welfare. ; Teachers. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of an article that appeared in "Juedisches Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte und Literatur" 29 (1931), with new notes and a postscript 1969.
    Abstract: Description of life and work of Jakob Loewenberg; childhood in small town in Westphalia; university studies and career as school teacher and director; founder of the Literary Association in Hamburg; postscript (1969)
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    [Account of his life to 1920]. (1968)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 236 + 118 pages : , handwritten manuscript; typescript +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1968
    Keywords: Börner, Wilhelm, ; Courtship. ; Draft. ; Education, Higher. ; Intellectual life 20th century. ; Jewish families. ; Personal narratives. ; Textile industry. ; Textile schools. ; Voyages and travels. ; War wounds. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons, Russian. ; Austria History 1789-1900. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Liberec (Czech Republic) ; South America Description and travel. ; Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Arthur Wolf’s autobiography in English written during the last years of his life, based on his German diaries. The diaries are available as part of the Arthur Wolf papers, AR 25270.
    Abstract: Arthur Wolf mentions the sentencing of the writer and philosopher Wilhelm Börner for heresy in 1911 on page 54 of the original manuscript; clippings pertaining to this sentence are available in folder 2.
    Abstract: Also available is a typed transcript that was reviewed by Arthur’s nephew, Peter Wolf, but some words or names could not be deciphered. Arthur Wolf’s life and movements are marked in bold.
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    [Herr Plaut ...]. (1968)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 18 + 6 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1968
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Lowenthal, Ernst G., ; Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland. ; Concentration camps. ; Jewish communities. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish way of life 1939-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Interview on Plaut's activities as last chair of the Greater Hamburg Jewish community; Jewish organizational life in World War II; liberation of Jews from concentration camps in 1944.
    Abstract: Also included is correspondence with E.G. Lowenthal.
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    [Dear Aufbau], (1967)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1967
    Former Title: Story of the Jewish farm family Meinungen
    Keywords: Meinungen family. ; Jewish farmers. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Mecklenburg (Germany : Region) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In a letter to 'Aufbau', the author describes her ancestors, who moved from Meiningen to Mecklenburg in 1756, where they were farmers for many generations.
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    Familien-Chronik. (1967)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 24 + 15 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1967
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Luckner, Gertrud. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Sinsheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs 1887-1938: Experiences of her father as teacher in Sinsheim (Baden); anecdotal accounts of relatives, some of them converted to Christianity; encounter with Zionism; life in Germany 1933; boycott of Jewish stores in April 1933; praise for the Catholic Gertrud Luckner who rescued Jewish children during the Nazi rule; emigration to Palestine in November 1938.
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    Auswanderung : Erinnerungen 1933-1947. (1967)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 20 + 3 + 5 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1967
    Keywords: Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden. ; Jews Perseuction 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Württemberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Organization of emigration from Wuerttemberg, 1933-1941.
    Abstract: Also included are corrections by Hans George Hirsch and four original documents pertaining to the author.
    Note: Available on microfilm , contains some English , German and some English
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    Die Feuerkugel. (1966)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 , typescript, double space (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Armenians. ; Armenian massacres, 1915-1923. ; Jews Identity. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short account of encounters with Jews and Armenians, circa 1930-1970; identification of non-Jewish author with Armenians and Jews.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM II 1. , German
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    Für Marie-Louise, so unbedeutend es auch ist. (1966)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Braun, Heinrich, ; Braun, Julie (Vogelstein), ; Trott zu Solz, Adam von, ; Vogelstein, Heinemann, ; Vogelstein, Ludwig, ; Art historians. ; Feminism. ; Journalists. ; Marranos. ; Sephardim. ; Spies. ; Women authors. ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Szczecin (Poland) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Julie Braun-Vogelstein including information on her parents, her brother Ludwig Vogelstein, Lily and Heinrich Braun, and the Jewish community of Stettin, recollections of her visit in Budapest, an encounter with a Marrano in Toledo, of feminism in the United States, and of her arrest as an alleged Nazi spy during World War II. The typescript carries a handwritten dedication and the autor's signature.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Erinnerungen eines alten deutschen Juden. (1965)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 117 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Friedberg, Leopold, ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Students' societies. ; France. ; Great Britain. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Karlsruhe; school time; student years in Heidelberg, Berlin and Munich; joins student organization "Freie Wissenschaftliche Verbindung"; lawyer during Weimar years; Nazi period and arrest in Dachau concentration camp; emigration to France and England; contains also diary of a cruise in 1958.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    In Memoriam Hans Maier : by Walter Friedlander. (1965)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Grätz, Anna Margarete. ; Maier, Hans, ; Maier, Hermann. ; Maier, Max Hermann, ; Arbeiterwohlfahrt Bundesverband (Germany) ; Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Political persecution ; Politicians. ; Social workers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germay History 1871-1918. ; Germay History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biography of Hans Maier, written by Walter Friedlander in 1965, inculding an introduction by Lotte Lemke, a foreword with information on the visit of Hans Maier's grandchildren in Germany, a bibliography of Maier's publications, and the memoir itself describing Hans Maier's childhood and schooling, his studies of law and economics at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Berlin, Marburg and Tuebingen, his marriage, his involvement in the "Freisinnige Partei," the "Deutsche Demokratische Partei" and from 1923 on in the Social Democratic Party, his teaching position at the Frankfurt Women's Seminar for Social Work, his appointment at the German Association for Public and Private Social Welfare in 1919, and as "Ministerialrat" at the Saxonian Department of the Interior in Dresden in 1923, his work for the "Arbeiterwohlfahrt," his dismissal in 1933, and his suicide in 1937.
    Note: This is a translation of an article published in "Neues Beginnen", # 4 (April, 1964) pp. 49-53. , Available on microfilm , English
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    Es geschah bei uns im Muensterland : Der Leidensweg einer juedischen Familie 1939-1945 (1965)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 17
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Ahlen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Clippings ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs of Jewish woman from Ahlen (Westphalia) on her survival in hiding during the last years of World War II, published in serials in a German newspaper in 1965.
    Abstract: Memoirs of Jewish woman from Ahlen (Westphalia) on her survival in hiding during the last years of World War II.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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