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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (13)
  • 1980-1984  (4)
  • 1965-1969  (6)
  • 1950-1954  (3)
  • New York :[publisher not identified],  (13)
  • Biographical sources  (12)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)  (3)
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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (13)
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    Camp of Gurs - Hiding - Liberation. (1984)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 2 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Gurs (Concentration camp) In art. ; Artists. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Painters, Jewish. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Gurs (France) ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: An essay by Jacob Barosin about his internment in Camp de Gurs (France) during World War II, written on occasion of an exhibition of his artwork in Kew Gardens, NY, 1984. Also included is a newspaper clipping about the exhibition.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 94 , English
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    My Family Biography. (1984)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 639 + 121 + 35 , typescript (copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Mechner family. ; Mechner, Francis. ; Mechner, Hedwig. ; Ziegler family. ; Ziegler, Lisa. ; Majdanek (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Concentration camps. ; Education, Higher ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) ; Cuba. ; Paris (France) ; Romania. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Memoir in four volumes, richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, correspondence, genealogical tables, and newspaper clippings.
    Abstract: Photocopies of family documents and photographs:
    Abstract: Detailed biographical account of Dr. Adolph Mechner, born in Czernowitz in 1897. Description of historical events together with immediate and extended family. Adolescent years in Vienna, military service in World War I; medical studies in Vienna; courtship and marriage; family; medical practice in Vienna; emigration to Paris, Cuba and finally to the United States; deportation and extermination of relatives; family life and travels; transcripts of interviews with several members of the family.
    Note: Available on microfilm: parts 1-6 on MM II 7 ; parts 7-9 on MM II 8. , English , Table of contents , Subject and name index
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    My four years of horror through the Holocaust. (1983)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 240 + 8 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Płaszów (Concentration camp) ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Treblinka (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bremen (Germany) ; Göttingen (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Sweden Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Nazi seizure of power in Goettingen; move to Hamburg; persecution of Jews in Hamburg; deportation to Minsk; experiences in Minsk ghetto and concentration camps in Treblinka, Plaszow, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen; bomb raids on Bremen; liberation in Bergen- Belsen; transfer to Sweden; contains copies of documents and photographs.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Haengt alles von der Beleuchtung ab... : (eine erzaehlte wahre Geschichte), (1982)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 153 + 219 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Brecht, Bertolt, ; Eisler, Hanns, ; Finck, Werner, ; Mehring, Walter, ; Piscator, Erwin, ; Artists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Set designers. ; Theater. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father's work as a waiter and restaurant owner; refusal to organize Bar-Mitzvah celebration; escape from parents' home at age of 17; attendance of art school and apprenticeship as painter; setting designer at Piscator's theater; work with Bertold Brecht, Walter Mehring, Hanns Eisler, Werner Finck; artist milieu in Berlin around 1930; emigration to Austria in 1933 and Switzerland in 1934; work at the Zurich "Schauspielhaus"; has to leave Switzerland and emigrates to USA in 1938; as setting designer in New York show business; visit to Europe in 1949.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Biography [of Jacob Schechter], (1967)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 20 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1967
    Keywords: Women authors. ; Voyages and travels. ; Lawyers. ; Jews, East European. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biographical sketch of American-Jewish lawyer born in Galicia; studies at New York University; travels to Europe; family life.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    War Criminals in Austria : A review of some recent cases (1966)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Jews ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; War crimes World War, 1939-1945. ; Manuscripts.
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    Erinnerungen an die Zeit des nationalsozialstischen Terrors. (1966)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland. ; Forced labor. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Musicians ; Journalists. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish life in Berlin after 1933 and activities of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" and the "Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland"; selections among Jewish community employees; bomb raids during World War II.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Zehn Jahre spaeter. (1956-1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: handwritten manuscript
    Year of publication: 1956-1965
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher Agricultural education 1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish life in small Westphalian town after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; agricultural training in Jewish school at Neuendorf; failure to obtain visa for emigration; experiences in Auschwitz; liberation in Ravensbrueck.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript; 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Manuscript; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Erinnerungen]. (1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 125 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Study and teaching. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Baden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Chapters of William Wertheimer's book "Zwischen zwei Welten; der Foerster von Brooklyn. Lebenserinnerungen des ehemaligen juedischen Lehrers in Eubigheim und Buchen in Baden, 1966:
    Abstract: Rural Jewish life in small Baden community of Hardheim at the turn of the century; preservance of Jewish rituals and customs; father was Jewish teacher and worked for insurance company; Bar Mitzvah in 1910; experiences as soldier in World War I; observance of dietary laws in German army; encounter with East European Jews; life as teacher in small Jewish schools in Eubigheim and Buchen (Baden); persecution of Jews after 1933; immigration to USA.
    Abstract: Also included are letters by Konrad Adenauer (grandson of Chancellor), Bruno Stern, Fritz Feuchtmeyer and others, and the photocopy of "Bescheinigung" of "Kriegslazarett".
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    The story of my life's joys and sorrows : 1831-1910 Austria (1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 9 + 2 + 5 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish way of life. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Literature. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in traditional Jewish atmosphere in Galicia; description of Jewish holidays; education in traditional Jewish "heder"; higher Jewish education in Kulikow (Galicia); encounter with German literature; break with orthodoxy; revolution of 1848-1849; early marriage; work at the stock exchange in Vienna.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are "A few meditations to be heeded by my children and grandchildren" in German and in English.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English and some German
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    Erinnerungen : 1875 - 4. September 1950. (1950)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Hirsch, Otto, ; Esslinger family. ; Schweitzer family. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Lawyers ; Orphanages. ; Public welfare. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Esslingen am Neckar (Germany) ; Tübingen (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Stuttgart; history of Schweizer and Esslinger families; law studies in Tuebingen; as lawyer in Stuttgart; cultural life in Stuttgart.
    Abstract: Also included is Schweizer’s account of the November pogrom 1938 in Stuttgart; his imprisonment in Welzheim; and and his immigration to USA, written in 1944 in New York City (available in DM 84).
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 68; copy on MF 164(5). , German
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    Aus meinem Leben mit Ernst Cassirer / : [1883-1948]. (1948-1950)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 332 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1948-1950
    Keywords: Cassirer, Toni Bondy, ; Cassirer, Ernst, ; Rosmer, Ernst, ; Cohen, Hermann, ; Cassirer family ; Bondy, Julie, ; Bondy, Otto, ; Bondy family. ; Antisemitism. ; Friendship. ; Marriage. ; Philosophers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of her marriage with Ernst Cassirer, his fight for a professorship in the "Kaiserreich" and his relationship to Hermann Cohen; anti-Semitic experiences in Weimar Germany; his time as the only Jewish rector of a German university; the various stages of emigration (includes photography of E. Cassirer, index and bibliography).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)
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    Unsere Familienchronik !! : geführt vom sel. Grosspapa Itzig Behrend in jüdisch-deutscher Schrift (1950)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 61 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Behrend family. ; Jacobsonschule, Seesen (1801- ) ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Rural life 19th century. ; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. ; Jews History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Textile industry. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is a transcript by Hermann Behrend of A. Berliner’s printed chronicle and its copy by Hermann Berg.
    Abstract: In part I Itzig Behrend describes rural Jewish life in the first half of the 19th century, esp. the situation during Napoleonic period and the revolutionary events of 1830. Also changes in Jewish tradition. In part II (written in 1904) Gotthelf Behrend gives a detailed account of his school years in the Jacobsohn school in Seesen . Mentions also revolutionary events of 1848 (translated from Judeo-German)
    Abstract: Contains also family tree and photocopied picture of the family's ancestors.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , German and English
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