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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (13)
  • New York :[publisher not identified],  (6)
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  • 1999 :[publisher not identified],  (1)
  • Vienna (Austria)  (13)
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    Kde domov můj ... : (Where is my home?) (2014)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 163 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Goldschmidt family. ; Heintschel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education. ; Families. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Czechoslovakia. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Vienna Childhood Memoirs : [circa 1920-1938]. (1999)
    1999 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 26 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Stewart, John Gideon. ; Wampach family. ; Weiser, Benno. ; Blau-Weiss (Youth movement) ; Herzl Klub. ; Terry's Montessori School. ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1918-1933. ; Jewish converts. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; College teachers. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Döbling (Vienna, Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of building and Doebling neighborhood in Vienna; description of home; family life; father's Zionist activity; parent's families; primary schooling at a Montessori school; Gymnasium; recreation; family members' health problems; father's education; membership in Zionist youth group Blau Weiss.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Adler, Alfred; Brod, Max; Feuchtwanger, Lion; Glaser, Kurt; Herman, Hugo; Kohn, Hans; Mahler, Gustav; Murmelstein, Benjamin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in File.
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    Trudi Jeremias; New York : [1925-1998]. (1998)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 + 6 , synopsis; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Stammtisch (New York, NY) ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Airlines Employees. ; Jewelry Design. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in 1925, family immigrated to USA from Vienna in 1939; family settled in New York; life in New York; education in high school and college at Alfred University in New York state; work for Sabena airlines; engagement to Swiss man; lived in Vienna for three years, work in record shop in Vienna; life in New York; reflections on identity as Austrian/Jew/American.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    From Vienna to New York : A Memoir. (1994)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Schreier, Erwin. ; Booksellers and bookselling. ; Industrialists. ; Jewish refugees. ; Journalists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The biography of the author's father, Oscar Schreyer, covering approx. 1905-1993.
    Abstract: Father's World War I experience; early schooling; early interest in archeology; trips to Italy, Turkey and Palestine; work as journalist in Vienna; move to Berlin; friendship with Billy Wilder; return to Vienna in 1933; emigration to USA in 1939; unsuccessful business ventures; success with manufacture of decorative animal pins; later interest in book dealing.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Three bouts with death : and here to tell the story. (1994)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Jaffin, Kathryn (Kitty), ; Antisemitism ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written by Kathryn R. Jaffin. Recollections of the time prior to the "Anschluss" in Austria. Kathryn's mother was aware of the approaching danger and left for Switzerland at the beginning of March 1938. The night before the "Anschluss" the family left Austria with a train to Italy and were therefore able to escape in time.
    Abstract: Also included is additional information by Kathryn Jaffin's daughter, Madeleine Jaffin Kania.
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    Steps of stone. (1990)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 168 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Jewish refugees Fiction. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A fictionalized autobiography.
    Note: English
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    Who are we and why we are here. (1990)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript; annotated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Mayer, Leopold. ; Mayer, Amalie. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Chemnitz (Germany) ; Tachov (Czech Republic : Okres) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs written in the USA in 1989-1990.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copy on MF 503 , English , Synopsis in file
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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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    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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    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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    The Viennese Municipal Service 1933 to 1950 : A case study in bureaucratic resiliency. (1964)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 330 pages.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Civil service. ; Municipal government. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Austria Officials and employees. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) Politics and government. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: PhD thesis at New York University, 1964, Department of Public Administration:
    Abstract: The civil service in the municipality of Vienna, Austria under the Austro-fascist rule 1933-1938; under Nazi rule 1938-1945; and in the Second Austrian Republic after 1945.
    Abstract: Also included in the appendix are copies of some original documents from Vienna.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , See table of contents
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    A life in focal points of our time : Vienna – Berlin – New York, Gustav Stolper 1888-1947. (1960)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 260 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Stolper, Gustav, ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The book by Toni Stolper about her husband Gustav Stolper, first published in 1960, has been translated from the German original with annotations, by Max A. Stolper.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Austria-Hungary
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: German Austria
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: In the Weimar Republic
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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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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