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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (2)
  • Amherst, Massachusetts :[publisher not identified],
  • Wien :[publisher not identified],
  • Women authors.  (2)
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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (2)
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    Sketches : [1895-1995]. (1995)
    Amherst, Massachusetts :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 52 pages : , private print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Schiffer, Ludwig, ; Schiffer, Olga, ; Schiffer family. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Lawyers. ; College teachers. ; Women authors. ; Groningen (Netherlands) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written and published in 1995. Childhood recollections of growing up in a well-to-do Jewish family in Vienna. Her father Ludwig Schiffer was a lawyer. Description of the family apartment. Private French and Piano lessons. Passion for theater. Outings to the Vienna Woods and to the skating rink. Memories of the extended family. Trips to her uncle's home in Eisenstadt. Observance of the Jewish holidays and recollections of seder celebrations at her maternal grandparents. Private lessons in French and English. Eva was enrolled in a girl's Gymnasium (high school). Exclusion from the Austrian patriotic organization "Jungvolk". Summer vacation in the Austrian Alps. Anschluss in 1938. Friends from the Netherlands convinced her parents to send her and her brother to live with them in Groningen. In Vienna her father was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Eva's mother fervently prepared their emigration, and after her husband's release they joined their children in the Netherlands. Emigration to the USA via England in September 1939. Move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father attended Law School at Harvard at age 43. Eva's mother opened a Viennese coffeehouse (the "Window shop") with her friend Alice Perutz to support the family. After her father's graduation the family moved to New York. Experiences of antisemitism. Eva enrolled at Radcliffe college. Death of her father in 1961. Studies of comparative literature at Harvard University. Eva Schiffer became a professor of German literature at the University of Massachusetts and had various visiting professorships in Germany.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
    URL: Digital form:
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    Der Zufall. : Vertreibung und Rückkehr einer Österreicherin. (1985)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 78 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Lafitte, François. ; Madritsch, Julius. ; Raitner, Michael. ; Arandora Star (Ship) ; The Internment of Aliens. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; England. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1948. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experience of Anschluss in Vienna; preparations for emigration; emigration via Trieste, Alexandria, to Palestine; life in Palestine during and after World War II; life in Israel after 1948; return to Vienna in 1955; life in Vienna and Austria after return; experience of anti-Semitism in Austria; acquaintance with Julius Madritsch.
    Abstract: In her autobiography, Anna Rattner includes a few pages from the book by François Lafitte, The internment of aliens, Penguin Books, 1940; the author tells about the sinking of the ship Arandora Star, where Anna Rattner’s father died.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form
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