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My Memoirs : From our family chronicle (Paul Tachau and Ilse Sternthal Tachau) (1964)

Tachau, Paul.

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Language: English

Pages: 614 pages : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.

Year of publication: 1964

Keywords: Sternthal family. ; Tachau family. ; Tachau, Paul. ; Tachau, Ilse (née Sternthal) ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Samsonschule (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) ; Education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wolfenbüttel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Family history of Tachau, Frankenstein, Seckel, Herxheimer, Loewenstein and Sternthal families.

Abstract: Among ancestors were Rabbi Salomon Herxheimer, professor Levy Rubens and Julius von Reuter; author's father, Ludwig Tachau, was a teacher at the Philantropin school in Frankfurt am Main and became the director of the Samson school in Wolfenbuettel in 1888; childhood in Wolfenbuettel; primary and secondary education; university studies in Goettingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Heidelberg; activities as musician; experiences as young physician in Zurich and Strasbourg; military service in World War I; marriage and move to Braunschweig and Breslau; return to Wolfenbuettel; recreational travels to Switzerland and Italy; persecution of Jews after 1933; anti-Jewish boycott of April 1933; ousted from the Society of Natural Science in Braunschweig shortly after being reelected as its president in March 1933; playing in string quartet of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" in Hanover; emigration to USA; career as physician in USA; contains reviews of publications and numerous photos of Sternthal and Tachau families (19th and 20th centuries) and of Samson school in Wolfenbuettel.

Note: Available on memoir microfilm reels # 76, 77 , English

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My life, (1964)

Bernstein, Arnold, 1888-1971.

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Language: English

Pages: 309 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1964

Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Shipping companies (Marine transportation) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Describes his childhood in Breslau, his experiences as a German officer during World War I, his business career as a shipowner, his arrest upon his arrival in Germany in 1937 and the time in prison; his founding of the American Banner Lines in the USA.

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Die verlorene Heimat. (1964)

Stein-Pick, Charlotte.

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Language: German

Pages: 82 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1964

Keywords: Stein, Herbert. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Home economics. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Wolfratshausen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.

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Memories. (1961)

Bach, Bertha, 1879-

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Language: English

Pages: 23 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1961

Keywords: Bach, Albert. ; Bach family. ; Baeck, Leo, ; Fleischhacker, Suse. ; Mayer, Ruth. ; Mayer family. ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.

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Marie Munk memoirs. (1961)

Munk, Marie, 1885-1978.

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Language: English

Pages: 378 pages (double space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1961

Keywords: Salomon, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher 1870-1918. ; Feminism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage counseling. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History. ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Memoir by Marie Munk, written in 1961. Recollections of her childhood; her Christian upbringing; her schooling; her training at Alice Salomon's Groups of Social Work in Berlin; life in Imperial Germany; anti-Semitism; her experiences during World War I; her law studies at the universities of Freiburg and Bonn; her career in law including her work in a legal aid clinic for women in Munich; her admittance to the bar as the first woman in Germany; her work as an attorney in Berlin; her teaching social work and her involvment in the women's movement; the impact of 1933 on feminist organizations; her experiences in Nazi Germany; her travels and later her immigration to the United States; her various jobs in New York State, Philadelphia, Maryland, Northampton (MA), Toledo (Ohio) and Cambridge (MA); her interest in juvenile delinquence; her work as a marriage counsellor; her work as an attorney; her trips to Hawai, Mexico and Asian and European countries where she attended women's conferences; and her impressions in post-war Germany and Berlin.

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Gedenken und Gedanken aus dem Leben eines Musikers : [1883-1960]. (1960)

Eisner, Bruno

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Language: German

Pages: 180 pages (double space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1960

Keywords: Einstein, Albert, ; Viertel, Salka. ; Freemasons. ; Antisemitism. ; Bookkeepers. ; Jewish families ; Jewish musicians. ; Music. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women dressmakers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Memoir by Bruno Eisner, written in 1960, including description of Leopoldstadt (the Jewish quarter in Vienna) and of Vienna at large, information on his parents and grandparents from Hungary and Moravia, recollections of antisemitism in Vienna, of his childhood, of his schooling, of his musical education and his career as a musician, his membership in a Masonic lodge, his move to Berlin, his marriage to Salka Steuermann, his experience as a musician in the Austrian army during World War I and after the war, his travels to Palestine and Italy, his friendship with Albert Einstein, his immigration to the United States with the help of an affidavit by Einstein, and his life there.

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Abstract: Altenberg, Peter; Bruckner, Anton; Kargeorgevitch, Prince Bojidar; Nordau, Max; Rathenau, Walter; Twain, Mark.

Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file

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Aus der Zeit meines Lebens : Erinnerungen (1960)

Lieben, Fritz, 1890-1966.

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Language: German

Pages: 3 + 291 , bound typescript.

Year of publication: 1960

Keywords: Chemists. ; Concentration camps. ; Soldiers. ; National socialism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Vienna (Austria) Emigration and immigration 1953. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Youth in Vienna; high school and university study; parental house with many famous visitors; soldier in World War I; years between the war; Nazi Anschluss of Austria; emigration to France and internment camp of St.Cyprien; emigration to the USA via Portugal; return to Austria.

Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Lieben, Adolf; Boystein, Leon; Eigner, Katharina; Freud, Sigmund; Grillparzer, Franz; Hopkins, Frederick Gowland; Lieben, Anna; Saar, Ferdinand von; Spizer, Leo; Warburg, Max; Wertheimstein, Franziska von.

Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file

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