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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (5)
  • 1980-1984  (5)
  • [New York] :[publisher not identified],  (4)
  • Franklin, NC :[publisher not identified],  (1)
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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (5)
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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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    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 story : [1922-1992]. (1983)
    Franklin, NC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Srulowitz family. ; Erber family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Plumbers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Manners and customs ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Belgium. ; Israel. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen fifties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the form of a reflective diary between 1983 and 1985 in the United States. Detailed and somewhat disorganized description of family background and family members until present time. His mother’s family came to Vienna during World War One. His father Osias Srulowitz served in the army and his parents got married after the war. His mother Klara Amalia Srulowitz founded the family’s knitting business during the war under her maiden name “K. Erber“. The author had an older sister (Stella), born in 1920, and a younger sister (Lotte) born in 1927. The family lived in the 9th district and had a maid and a French governess. His maternal grandparents were orthodox and had a lasting impact on his life. He studied the Hebrew alphabet with his grandfather at an early age and became religious. He went to “Schubertschule“ and later on to Realschule, then he transferred to public school. At age 14 he started an apprenticeship with his uncle in the plumbing business. Recollections of the Nazi takeover and the Kristallnacht in 1938. The family business was taken away. The author crossed the border to Belgium illegally, his parents emigrated to Shanghai in 1939. Recollections of life in Belgium. He was taken to a work camp for young refugees. After his release he took various jobs and lived underground with false papers during the German occupation. Marriage to Janine De Geyter, a young Belgian woman, in 1943. Liberation by the British army in 1944. Starting of a candy business. Reunition with his grandmother from Theresienstadt and his parents from Shanghai. Emigration to Israel together with the author’s parents in 1948. Description of life and new beginnings in Israel. Birth of their daughter Tamy. Emigration to the United States via Belgium in 1953. Life in the United States and detailed description of several business endeavors.
    Note: English
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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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