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    The Nickelsburg family : A historical sketch. (2014)
    Rio de Janeiro :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 168 , privat print (digital form).
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Nickelsburg family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil. ; Koblenz (Germany) ; Mecklenburg (Germany : Region) ; United States. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: This is an illustrated history of a German Jewish family from Nikolsburg in Moravia, reaching back to ca. 1675, and following its genealogy through a number of German cities, such as Teterow, Schwerin, Gnoien, and Ribnitz in Mecklenburg; as well as Berlin and Koblenz, to the U.S. and Brazil.
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    Our beginnings never know our ends : A Western view of some aspects of culture in Sri Lanka (2014)
    Sri Lanka :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 20 + 86 , pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Sri Lanka. ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    URL: The past is another country
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    A question of identity. (2014)
    Sri Lanka :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 45 , pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Jewish families. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Sri Lanka. ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: A question of identity
    Description / Table of Contents: A woman and her god
    Description / Table of Contents: The mood in the ghetto is rosy
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    Two families. (1999)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Sipurai savta vesaba: korot haim ( = Stories of grandmother and grandfather: readings of life. Hebrew). (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Shulamith Ben Dror : Recollections 1919-1944. (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Gruenspecht. (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Felix Rothschild. (1998)
    Erie, Pa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 + 14 + 4 pages : , typescripts +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Horovitz, Samual B. ; Levi, Ernst. ; Polligreit, Wilhelm. ; Rothschild family. ; Rothschild, Felix. ; Rothschild, Lily. ; Domestic relations courts. ; Jewish families. ; Judges. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections by Nora Rothschild about her father, Felix Rothschild (1868-1962).
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Felix Rothschild, 6 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: Father's professional activities, 14 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 3: Father's relationship with Samual B. Horovitz, 4 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 4: Notes and recollections
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    The Wolff Family of Muenstereifel. (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 126 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Wolff family. ; Family reunions. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Bad Münstereifel (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Adelheid, Emma; Bromet, Eva; Gottschalk, August; Gottschalk, Caroline; Gottschalk, Jedula; Heilbron, Max; Heilbronn, Ille; Heiman, Edgar; Heiman, Freddy; Heiman, Julehen; Herman, David; Horn, Eduard; Horn, Ernestine Sofia; Horn, Lutz; Horn, Rosad; Isenberg, Janet Bernd; Isaac, Else; Katz, Margo; Orfinger, Lucien; Orfinger, Pierre Nenette; Raber, Dan; Voss, Rosalie; Wolff, Abraham; Wolff, Adelheid; Wolff, Aron; Wolff, Benjamin; Wolff, Bernhard; Wolff, Berta; Wolff, Clara; Wolff, David; Wolff, Eva; Wolff, Heinrich; Wolff, Hugo; Wolff, Judula; Wolff, Moses; Wolff, Rosalie; Wolff, Simon; Wolff, Susmann.
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    Tall tales / (1997)
    Berlin,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 91 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: photocopied documents
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Grohmann, Beatrice ; Jewish farmers. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lumber trade. ; Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ; Sosúa (Dominican Republic) ; Tilsit (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Family histories : A collaborative enterprise. (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    The story about my family. (1996)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Levy, Philipp. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    My Grandparents. (1996)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 167 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Auskerin family. ; Auskerin, Else (née Compart) ; Auskerin, Josef. ; Lanner family. ; Lanner, Max. ; Lanner, Regina (née Pelz) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Breslau. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The richly illustrated story of the author’s grandparents – Josef and Else Auskerin and Max and Regine Lanner -, who all perished in the Holocaust. Also included are notes on the two couples’ siblings and children, who survived.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I [Maternal grandparents]
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II [Paternal grandparents]
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III Deportation
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV Siblings and offsprings
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    The suitcase in the garage : Letters and photographs of a German Jewish family, 1800-1950. (1996)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 380 pages : , bound private print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Ambrose family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; Stettin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Kenneth Ambrose's family from Stettin. Also mentioned are the following families: Abrahamsohn ; Buss ; Cronbach ; Waldauer.
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    My family. (1996)
    Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Nohel, Emil. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Univerzita Karlova. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria)
    Abstract: Family history circa 1890-1944: Speculation on origin of family name; story of life of great grandfater, grandfather; father's study in Prague; father's work as assistant to Albert Einstein; description of childhood home in Vienna; childhood friends; summer vacations with family; Anschluss; emigration to Palestine in 1938; death of family members in Holocaust.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Kellner, Victor; Mahler, Max; Mahler, Ottla; Mautner, Fritz; Nohel, Adolf; Nohel, Elias; Nohel, Heinrich; Nohel, Julie; Nohel, Karl; Nohel, Yeshayahu; Pelzer, Fritz; Pelzer, Heinz; Pelzer, Robert; Pelzer, Wilhelm; Spitzner, Anna; Spitzner, Bertha; Spitzner, Clara; Spitzner, Hannah; Spitzner, Johanna; Spitzner, Joseph; Spitzner, Karl; Spitzner, Paul.
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    Glad, mighty glad, to be British : The memoirs of Dr. John Abels. (1996)
    Billingham, England :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 280 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish physicians. ; Swim teams. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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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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    The Weiser family : A history of a German-Jewish family ... (1995)
    [Forest Hills] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 75 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Weiser family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fur trade. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Personal stories of various family members during the 1930s and 1940s, experiencing emigration, war, the Holocaust and resettlement. The material was collected through oral history and personal archives.
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    Reflections and musings by a nonagenarian, reflecting on events during the years 1910-1921 : Before, during and after World War I. (1995)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Education. ; Jewish families. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Drohobych (Ukraine) ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by David Berger including historical information on Galicia; description of his family's life in pre-WWI Galicia; his family's fleeing to Drohobycz in order to escape the Russian army during WWI; their abandonning Jewish observance during that time; their relocation to Nicholsburg and Troppau; Berger's schooling in different locations; his and his family's immigration to the United States, where other family members had already established themselves earlier.
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    Es war einmal. (1995)
    Guatemala :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 65 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Divorce. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Growing up in Berlin; attended Jewish language and art schools; emigration to Guatemala; life in Guatemala; immigration to USA in 1946; marriage in 1947; life and work in New York; birth of sons; return to Guatemala in 1949; travels; children and friends; divorce.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Berndt, Richard; Berndt, Ruth Rose; Berndt, Siegismund; Bernhardt, Carlos; Bernhardt, Inge; Dreyfuss, Ilse; Fischer, Siegfried; Gort, Erich; Hochfelder, Irene; Landsberger, Elfie; Landsberger, Mutz; Levy, Claude; Levy, Michael; Levy, Ruth; Levy, Wolfgang; Meyer, Anneliese; Rathenau, Josfine; Reider, Ana-Luise; Reider, Rudi; Sachs, Inge; Sello, Erich; Sello, Lise.
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    Memories of Nelly Levy Berg : Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948 (1995)
    Houston, Texas :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Dannenbaum family. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Schneidemuhl (Pila) ; Houston (Tex.) ; Piła (Poland) ; Trzcianka (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in Behle in 1910, Nelly Levy Berg moved with her family to Schoenlanke in 1913; detailed description of home in Schoenlanke; Jewish life in Schoenlanke; move to grandparents' house in Schrotz after World War I; geneology of the Dannenbaum family; childhood memories; after death of father in 1929, move to Schneidemuehl; meets husband Siegfried; move to Berlin in 1933; immigration to USA in 1938; life and work in Houston; immigration of family members to USA; marriage in 1939; birth of children; list of family members who died in the Holocaust; Lorraine Wulfe's account of trip to Schoenlanke and Schneidemuehl in 1975; map of Schoenlanke in 1920's.
    Abstract: The text is interspersed with reproductions of photographs; a map and a family tree; and a glossary of German terms.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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    [Friendship books of Gertrud Feigel and of her daughter Vera], (1911-1939)
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    Pages: 2 bound notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1911-1939
    Keywords: Feigel, Vera. ; Children. ; Friendship. ; Jewish families. ; Klatovy (Czech Republic) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Two libri amicorum (friendship books) belonging to Gertrud Feigel née Mandler and to her daughter Vera. Autographs for Gertrud are all in German, written mostly in Prague, 1911-1918. The autographs for her daughter Vera are written in Czech, mostly in the town of Klatovy (formerly Klattau).
    Note: German and Czech
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    Mein Leben. (1928)
    Königsberg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 485 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1928
    Keywords: Jewish families. ; Textile industry. ; Giżycko (Poland) ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs covering circa 1886-1928: description of childhood in Loetzen; textile firm worker in Koenigsberg.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Die Geschichte und der Stammbaum der Familie Michael]. (1927)
    Hamburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 25 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1927
    Former Title: Geschichte des Hauses Michael in Hamburg, 1683 bis 1893.
    Keywords: Michael family. ; Citizenship. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Hamburg-Altona (Hamburg, Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Gravestone inscriptions and short biographical sketches of orthodox Hamburg Michael family; contains copy of "Buergereid".
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 55 and MF 83(22) , with some Hebrew , German
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    Mein Lebenslauf. (1927)
    Lüneburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1927
    Keywords: Heinemann, Betty. ; Jacobsohn, Anselm. ; Jacobsohn, Bertha. ; Jacobsohn family. ; Jacobsohn, Friederike. ; Jacobsohn, Sara. ; Jacobsohn, Sophie. ; Prussia (Germany). ; Banks and banking. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 Personal narratives. ; Jewish families. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Lüneburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Moritz Mendel Jacobsohn was born in Nienburg in 1831. He grew up and was educated in Lueneburg; service in Prussian army; account of experiences in Franco-Prussian War; work in bank; marriage and family; death of son; service of other son in World War I.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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