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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (34)
  • 1980-1984  (13)
  • 1955-1959  (13)
  • 1945-1949  (11)
  • New York :[publisher not identified],  (19)
  • Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],  (5)
  • [New York] :[publisher not identified],  (5)
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    Leo Baeck memorial lectures, (1958-2015)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 57 , publications.
    Year of publication: 1958-2015
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Jews, German Lectures and lecturing. ; Lectures and lecturing. ; Manuscripts. ; Publications.
    Abstract: The Leo Baeck Institute was founded by representative organizations of Jews from Germany for the purpose of collecting material on and sponsoring research into the history of the Jewish community in Germany and in other German-speaking countries from the Emancipation to its dispersion. The Institute is named in honor of the man who was the last representative figure of German Jewry in Germany during the Nazi period. The Leo Baeck Memorial Lecture is an annual event at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, when esteemed academics and scholars talk about various aspects of the German-Jewish experience and history, as well as to other, related topics.
    Abstract: The Leo Baeck memorial lectures
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    Letters from Peter Bloch to Alfonso Ramirez, (1967-2008)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 , 90+107+50+39 pages.
    Year of publication: 1967-2008
    Keywords: Fourth International. ; Socialist Workers Party. ; World politics. ; Manuscripts. ; Correspondence ; Correspondence ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Collection of 151 letters written by Peter Bloch in New York to his colleague and friend Alfonso Ramirez in Venezuela. The letters, written in English, touch primarily on socialist ideological interpretations of world events, triggering commentaries about politics in North America, Europe (Germany) and Asia (mostly China). Also discussed are various aspects of the Caribbean islands and Latin America. Alfonso Ramirez’ replies in Spanish are not included.
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    Erlebnisse in Theresienstadt, (1946-2005)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 57 + 10 , typscript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2005
    Keywords: Epstein, P. ; Joseph, Fritz. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in German one and a half years after liberation. It has the form of a witness report, written in a clear and objective tone, but nevertheless harrowing. The content: Their is no word on their life in Amsterdam before the deportation. The memoir starts with their arrest in Amsterdam, Westerbork - the place they were deported to at first - is mentioned, but not described. Bergen-Belsen gets more attention, Fritz Joseph describes daily work routine, and living conditions in the camp. Theresienstadt comes next, and the author points out the good features as opposed to his later experiences in Auschwitz. He describes the efforts to make Theresienstadt look prettier, before the International Red Cross delegation arrived. Soon thereafter, the infamous movie documentary about Thersienstadt was shot. Firtz Joseph describes many details of the false set-up. Then he was separated from his wife and deported to Auschwitz. He describes the selection process, and many other components of the horror. He was then transferred to Buchenwald, and had to work as a forced laborer at the HASAG works (former Hugo Schneider AG) at Meuselwitz near Leipzig. In 1945, the camp was evacuated and Fritz Joseph could flee. The war ended and he got treatment for his infected leg. After a few days he could return to Amsterdam where he met his wife - she had survived as well. A 10 page long It can be found in the file as well.
    Abstract: Also included is an English language summary of the memoir by John and Eva Englander (2005).
    Note: German (original) and English (summary)
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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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    Düsseldorf revisited / (1984)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 134 + 35 + 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Gumpert, Bertha (Tannenbaum) ; Gumpert, Sally. ; Preuss, Erich, ; Sass, Jacob, ; Sass, Rosa (Gumpert), ; Sass family. ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Geneva (Switzerland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Netherlands. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of Ruth Glaser's childhood in a well-to-do Düsseldorf family. Her maternal grandfather was the founder of the family realty business S. Gumpert, where her father was the co-owner. Recollections of the family's extensive household. Family vacations in the mountains. Musical activities within the family. Visits to the synagogue together with her maternal grandmother Bertha, a pious woman who kept a kosher home. Celebration of Jewish holidays. In 1930 Ruth was enrolled in the Auguste-Victoria girl's school. Rise of Nazism. Awareness of growing danger. Ruth experienced alienation from classmates, who joined the Hitler youth and ceased socializing with her. Nuremberg laws and their impact on the life of the family. Celebration of Ruth's bat mitzvah at the Düsseldorf temple. Social life focusing on the Cafe Marcus. Confrontation with the Nazi ideology in history and biology lessons at school. Ruth's growing desire to leave the country. Graduation from Auguste-Victoria school in 1936 and training as a baby nurse in Geneva. Reluctance of her parents to leave Germany. Acquaintance of her future-husband Erich Preuss. Engagement and plans to leave for Palestine. Ruth worked in Geneva and worried about her parents in Nazi Germany. Emigration to Palestine. Improvised wedding with friends. Early life in Palestine and struggles to make a living. Solidarity and friendship with fellow German emigres in Tel Aviv. Cultural activities. News about her parent's refuge in Holland. Difficulties between the Jewish and Arab population. Outbreak of the war. Air raids in Tel Aviv and worries about Ruth's parents in Holland. Restrictive immigration policy under the British mandate. Ruth found a position as a baby nurse in a befriended family. News about Ruth's parents, who were taken to Westerbork. Fervent attempts to arrange them certificates for Palestine. End of the war and tragic news of her parents fate.
    Abstract: Emigration to the United States in 1947, where Ruth and Erich started a business in interior decorating. Death of her husband Erich in 1969. Frequent visits to Germany between 1958-1988.
    Abstract: Addenda: Reflections on the past during Ruth Glasers visits in Germany in 1988 and 1989. Xerox copies of the "Juedische Gemeindeblatt" in 1938 and various documents.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    A Short History of My Life, (1984)
    [London] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 41 +8 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Jacob, Ernst M ; Aliens ; Education, Secondary. ; Metal trade. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Orphanages. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Dinslaken (Germany) ; Gladbeck (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Gladbeck and Dinslaken; Jewish orphanage in Dinslaken; apprenticeship in metal business in Cologne; working in metal business under the Nazis; emigration to England; internment in Isle of Man and army service; life in post-war England as a metal merchant.
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    Dr. Frederick Lehmann : Oral history (1983)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 63 + 4 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Bernstein, Heschel. ; Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographies ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Private and professional experiences of a Jewish physician in Germany and in the USA.
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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.
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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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    Theodor Fontane : The philosemitic antisemite. (1981)
    [London] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1981
    Keywords: Fontane, Theodor, ; Antisemitism. ; Authors, German Biography. 19th century ; German literature. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Exploration and explantion of anti-Semitism in the life and writings of Theodor Fontane.
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    Juden im Oeffentlichen Leben Deutschlands : Revolution und Weimarer Republik : Waehler und Regierungsmitglieder 1918-1933 (1980)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 631 pages : , typescript; handwritten annotations.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Jews in public life ; Public officers. ; Voting ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Draft for a book about Jews in public life in Germany between 1918 and 1933, concentrating on Jewish voters and members of the government.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Reichstagsbrandt. (1980)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 58 + 2 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1980
    Former Title: Memoiren (Diary)
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short introduction containing childhood in Laupheim (Wuerttemberg), university studies in Heidelberg and Munich, move to Berlin, and life as a physician in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. The main part in form of a diary from the burning of the German parliament in 1933 to 1939 describes persecutions after 1933; life as a Jewish physician in Nazi Germany; the November pogrom of 1938; imprisonment of Erich Nathorff in concentration camp; immigration to USA. An epilogue describes new beginnings in USA after the emigration.
    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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    Juedische Privatbanken. (1959)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 113 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1959
    Former Title: Juedische Bankiers.
    Keywords: Bankers. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish bankers. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Ladenburg (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: A series of short articles about German-Jewish bankers in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the banking firms Darmstädter Bank; Erlanger & Söhne; Hirschland; Jacob S.H. Stern; Lazard Speyer-Ellissen; M. M. Warburg & Co; Mendelssohn & Co.; Rothschild; Sal Oppenheim Jr. et Cie.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Aufhäuser, Heinrich; Bamberger, Ludwig, 1823-1899; Bleichröder, Samuel; Hirsch, Jacob; Hirsch, Moritz; Mendelssohn, Jos. (Joseph), 1817-1856; Warburg, Gerson; Warburg, Moses Marcus.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Hermann Cohens Elternhaus. (1959)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 , manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Cohen, Hermann, ; Jews Families 19th century. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Manuscript about the family and the upbringing of the philosopher Hermann Cohen, founder of the Marburg School of Neo-Kantianism.
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    [Die Memoiren von Hermann Perutz]. (1959)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jewish way of life. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Sales personnel. ; Ballenstedt (Germany) ; Halberstadt (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of town and Jewish community of Ballenstedt (Harz); rural Jewish life; move to Halberstadt after death of his father; after Bar Mitzvah apprenticeship as merchant in Hamburg; salesman and independent merchant in Hamburg; orthodox Jewish life.
    Abstract: Transcript of Hermann Perutz's original manuscript (circa 1915) by his granddaughter, Hanna Deborah Leopold-Knight, New York 1959.
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    Erinnerungen an meinen Vater [Ludwig Haas]. (1959)
    [London] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: Circa 30 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Haas, Ludwig. ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Kartell-Convent der Verbindungen Deutscher Studenten Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish politicians ; Jews, East European. ; Lawyers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Baden (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: University studies; "Kartell-Convent" liberal Jewish student organizations; attitude toward being German and Judaism; advisor for Jewish affairs of German administration in Warsaw during World War I; in German politics in Weimar Republic.
    Abstract: Also included is correspondence from Judith Schrag-Haas (daughter of Ludwig Haas).
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    From my Family : Fiction and Truth. (1958)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript; annotated; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Berliner, Emil. ; Berliner, Gertrude, ; Waller family. ; Jews Family life. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; England. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Upper middle-class life in Vienna prior to the "Anschluss," emigration to England and the USA, covering 1900 to circa 1940.
    Abstract: Contains photos, documents and drawings by the author and a family tree.
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    Kleine Chronik fuer meine Lieben : (Anstelle einer Tischrede) im Andenken an Erich. (1958)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 pages : , Typewritten manuscript (single space).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Cahn, Wilhelm, ; Women authors. ; Civil service. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of the life of the author's father, Wilhelm Cahn (Mainz 1839 - Berlin 1920) who was a "Legationsrat" in the German Department for Foreign Affairs, the author of "Pariser Gedenkblaetter. Aufzeichnungen aus der Zeit des grossen Krieges, der Belagerung und der Commune" (Berlin 1898) and the editor of the exchange of letters between Eduard Lasker and Karl Twesten (1902).
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933. (1957)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 62 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Adult education. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Theater Production and direction. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Alsace (France) Ethnic relations. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Colmar (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was first written in 1940.
    Abstract: Childhood in assimilated Jewish family in Colmar (Alsace); relations between Germans and French in Colmar; experiences as a soldier in World War I; university study in Berlin and Cologne; activities as journalist, lecturer of German language and literature at the Berlin Volkshochschule (adult education), and as dramatic producer; violent clashes between Nazis and Communists in Berlin before 1933; exclusion from Reichskulturkammer and dismissal from job 1933; November pogrom 1938, imprisonment and emigration.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebensbild meines Vaters Isidor Stern. (1957)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 17 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Stern, Isidor, ; Industrialists Biography. ; Liquor industry. ; Public welfare. ; Germany Politics and government 1871-1918. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Business and economic activities of Isidor Stern; special interests in social welfare; friendship with Franz Oppenheimer and Friedrich Naumann.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen aus Deutschland 1923-1938. (1955)
    [Israel] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 171 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Goldberg, Adolf. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Education, Higher 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Lʹviv (Ukraine) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis with an introduction elaborating on his biography.
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    Erinnerungen eigenen Lebens. (1955)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Authors. ; Children. ; Country life. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Wangen im Allgäu (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Wangen (Baden); rural Jewish life; orthodox Jewry; Jewish festivals.
    Note: Available on microfilm , 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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    Report 1942 to 1945. (1949)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 523 + 7 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1949
    Keywords: Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Gleiwitz II (Concentration camp) ; Leonberg (Concentration camp) ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Kauveringe (Concentration camp) ; Sandau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Tailors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Germany. ; Netherlands. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir describes the personal experience of Coen Rood during the Holocaust from 1942 to 1945. The report was written from 1945 to 1949 for the War Documentation Center in Amsterdam.
    Abstract: Newspaper clippings about Coen Rood (1996); Letters by Gary Sachnowitz; Photo of Coen Rood (photocopy)
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Inventory in file
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    Bergen-Belsen : February 1944 to April 1945. (1948)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 24 + 1 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust survivors ; Slave labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account about survival in the Nazi death camp Bergen Belsen. Also included is a note about Else Reiss's family.
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    Jugenderinnerungen aus Hessischen Judengemeinden. (1948)
    [Israel] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 45 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Breuer, Solomon, ; Wormser, Seckel, ; Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft zu Frankfurt a.M. (Germany) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jewish teachers. ; Jews Liturgy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Zionism. ; Bad Hersfeld (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Hesse (Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Schenklengsfeld (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Salomon Spiro's grandfather, a student at the Yeshiva of Rabbi Seckel Wormser, was a well-respected Jewish scholar and teacher at a Jewish elementary school. His son, Salomon's father, followed him in this position. Description of rural Jewish life in Northern Hesse. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish festivals and rituals. Antisemitism of the environment. The author describes the difficult relationship with his father due to his ambition to have his son become a Jewish scholar. Reinforced Jewish education. Brief career in the synagogue chorus and as an auxiliary cantor. Salomon attended the humanistic high school (Gymnasium) in Hersfeld, a town known for the antisemitic attitudes of its inhabitants. Incidents of discrimination and assaults at school. Strict observance of Jewish rites under the supervision of the leading rabbi in the Jewish community of Fulda. Opposition to Zionist activities. After graduation in 1904 Salomon Spiro attended the Breuer Yeshiva of the Frankfurt "Austrittsgemeinde". He quit his studies at the yeshiva after a short time due to the strict orthodox environment and its intolerance of liberal developments. Beginnings of university studies in Wuerzburg.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copies on MF 83(4) & MF 87(25) , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Meine Erlebnisse waehrend der nationalsozialistischen Zeit]. (1948)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 + 4 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Forced labor. ; Education, Higher Languages 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal experiences in Nazi Germany, especially about hiding in Berlin between 1942 and 1945.
    Abstract: Also included are two letters to Dr. Kreutzberger containing additional information (1967).
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Bergen-Belsen : [1944]. (1946)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 + 20 , synopsis; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; National socialism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1935-1945) ; Netherlands. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of the experiences of a group of Dutch Jews in Nazi concentration camps including description of transport from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen, experiences in Bergen-Belsen, and transport to Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    The Sane Asylum, (1946)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 145 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Aliens ; Concentration camps. ; World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German. ; Kluczbork (Poland) ; Spittal an der Drau (Austria) ; Toszek (Poland) ; Manuscripts. ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: The manuscript is an account of Alfred Bruck’s six years spent in Nazi internment camps during World War II with anecdotes and thoughts about his life.
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    [Aufzeichnungen]. (1946)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 41 + 6 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Heymanns, Rosa. ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Jewish councils. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish refugees ; Prisoners. ; Prisons. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Kleve (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: German invasion of Netherlands; life in occupied Amsterdam; prison in Amsterdam; relations with cell mate and prison commander; transport to prison in Kleve; life in the Kleve prison; release from prison and return to parents in Amsterdam; goes into hiding in small fishing village; life in hiding; return to Amsterdam; return to the countryside; life in hiding until end of the war.
    Abstract: The diary was written retrospectively, first while he lived underground from June 1, 1942 until the liberation of Holland, and then after the liberation in Amsterdam.
    Abstract: Also included are reproductions of photographs and documents.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Die Familie Stein : und mein Vater. (1945)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 10 + 6 + 269 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1945
    Former Title: Lebenserinnerungen
    Keywords: Stein, Alexander, ; Straus family. ; Baden Grossherzoglicher Oberrat der Israeliten. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Baden Grossherzoglicher Oberrat der Israeliten. ; Bankers. ; College teachers. ; Lawyers. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis ; Zionism. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history starting with father Alexander Stein who was a rabbi in Worms; childhood in traditional Jewish atmosphere; primary and secondary education; university studies in Berlin, Strasbourg and Giessen; legal apprenticeship; marriage to Recha Straus, the daughter of an orthodox Jewish banker in Karlsruhe; domestic life in orthodox Jewish family; children became Zionists and went to Palestine; Jewish communal activities; professional career and contacts with German politicians and church representatives; friendship with Alfred Neumayer and Otto Hirsch and southern German Jewish communal politics; beginnings of Reichsvertretung; visit to Palestine in 1934; emigration to Switzerland.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben : [1866-1941]. (1945)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 238 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1945
    Keywords: Kastein, Josef, ; Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, ; Landauer, Gustav, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sternheim, Carl, ; Eranos Foundation. ; Anarchism. ; Authors Meetings. ; Country life. ; Jews, German Intellectual life. ; Merchants. ; Socialism. ; Soldiers 1871-1914. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ascona (Switzerland) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Hunsrück (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish milieu; apprenticeship as merchant at age of 14 in Simmern; description of daily life in Hunsrueck village of Laufensweiler, in Simmern and Saargemuend; move to Aachen; military service; employee for a large fur business in Brussel; friendship with anarchist Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer; in circles of Russian anarchists and revolutionaries; visits to Russia and Palestine; description of visits to USA, Egypt, Spain and Switzerland; literary circle in Ascona; "Eranos" - conferences in Ascona; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Carl Sternheim and Josef Kastein; emigration to USA; literary emigre circle in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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