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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (21)
  • New York :[publisher not identified],  (21)
  • Jews Persecution 1933-1945.  (12)
  • Vienna (Austria)  (6)
  • World War, 1914-1918.  (6)
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  • 1
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 33 + 23 + 101 typescript pages + , digital files.
    Additional Material: one photograph :
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2018 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2005-2017
    Keywords: Schrag, Ilse, ; Szamatolski, Else, ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs 1918-1933. ; Manners and customs Nineteen forties. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: This is a collection of three essays by Dr. Peter Schrag about his family, documenting in selected details his family's transition from being refugees from Nazi Germany to being Americans. A short essay, “We were once refugees”, is followed by “Oma”, reminiscences about his grandmother Else Szamatolski, and by “My mother and me”, selected memories of his mother Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Breitenbach, Joseph; Brunell, Albert (born 1934 in Cologne); Brunell, Susi (1901-1986); Goldhaber, Maurice; Goldschmidt, Lucien; Goldhaber family; Lowenstein, Edith; Marum-Lunau, Elisabeth; Samton, Claude (born 1933 in Berlin); Samton, Peter (born 1935 in Berlin); Szamatolski , Albert (1868- ); Szamatolski , Hans (later Henry Samton, 1906-2003).
    Description / Table of Contents: We were once refugees : Reminiscences, family lore, reflections, and related residua.
    Description / Table of Contents: Oma
    Description / Table of Contents: My mother and me : Selected memories of my mother, Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag (1910-1997)
    Note: Inventory available online.
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  • 2
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 80 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: documents (photocopies)
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Levy, Ludwig. ; Levy, Hertz. ; Levy, Hermann. ; Lehman, Asher. ; Stürchler, Ernst. ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Esens (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Biography of the author's father Ludwig Levy, a cattle dealer from Esens in Lower Saxony, Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: A happy life
    Description / Table of Contents: Everything changes
    Description / Table of Contents: A new life in the New World
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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  • 3
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 38 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Koblenz (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Interview with Irma Meckel (née Sonnenberg) about her experiences during the Holocaust.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 4
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 5
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Hahn, Hugo. ; Hahn, Hugo. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Jews Adult education 1933-1945. ; Jews Occupational retraining 1933-1945. ; Jews Occupational training 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Public welfare 1933-1945. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Hugo Hahn Memorial Lecture by Fred Grubel at Congregation Habonim in New York
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  • 6
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 374 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Sculptors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigrationn 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir based on diaries kept by the sculptor Frederic Zeller as a boy; Nazi periods in Berlin; primary and secondary school; pogrom (November 1938); emigration to England via Holland; visit to Berlin in 1982.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 7
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 8
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 9
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Offenbacher, Kurt. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Fuerth in orthodox atmosphere; university studies (medicine) in Erlangen, Wuerzbug, Strasbourg, Munich and Berlin; among his teachers were Konrad Roentgen and Rudolf Virchow; medical officer in World War I; work in Jewish Hospital Berlin under Prof. Hermann Strauss and return to Fuerth; mostly on professional career as physician; immigration to USA; beginnings of new life in New York where he practiced as a physician until the age of 84; epilogue contains reflections on world history and memory of the author's departed son Kurt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 10
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 11
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 125 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Country life. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Study and teaching. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Baden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Chapters of William Wertheimer's book "Zwischen zwei Welten; der Foerster von Brooklyn. Lebenserinnerungen des ehemaligen juedischen Lehrers in Eubigheim und Buchen in Baden, 1966:
    Abstract: Rural Jewish life in small Baden community of Hardheim at the turn of the century; preservance of Jewish rituals and customs; father was Jewish teacher and worked for insurance company; Bar Mitzvah in 1910; experiences as soldier in World War I; observance of dietary laws in German army; encounter with East European Jews; life as teacher in small Jewish schools in Eubigheim and Buchen (Baden); persecution of Jews after 1933; immigration to USA.
    Abstract: Also included are letters by Konrad Adenauer (grandson of Chancellor), Bruno Stern, Fritz Feuchtmeyer and others, and the photocopy of "Bescheinigung" of "Kriegslazarett".
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 12
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine. ; International Council of Jewish Women. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund von Deutschland. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Women Political activity ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bochum (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs cover 1883-1946. Childhood recollections in a well-to do Jewish household of eight children. Both her parents worked in building up their business. Tradition of charity. Ottilie's father was a member of the Jewish community executive committee. Growing up in a liberal yet religious family. Reflections on girl's education of her time. Death of her father in 1903. Marriage to the lawyer Dr. S. Schoenewald in 1905. Start of her activities in the women's movement in Germany (BDF). Ottilie Schoenewald had a leading position as a women's legal guidance counselor (Frauenrechtschutzstelle) in Bochum. She was involved in the homemaking organization during World War One. Political equality for women after the war and activities in the democratic party in Weimar Germany. In 1929 Ottilie Schoenewald was elected to be a board member of the Jewish women's movement (JFB) in Berlin. Preparations for the International Congress of Jewish women 1930 in Hamburg, which led to the formation of the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1934 she became chairwoman of the JFB. Experiences and activities during the Nazi time. Ottilie Schoenewald emigrated to England via Holland in 1939, where she continued her social activities.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 13
    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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  • 14
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 15
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 16
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 17
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Hirsch, Otto, ; Esslinger family. ; Schweitzer family. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Lawyers ; Orphanages. ; Public welfare. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Esslingen am Neckar (Germany) ; Tübingen (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Stuttgart; history of Schweizer and Esslinger families; law studies in Tuebingen; as lawyer in Stuttgart; cultural life in Stuttgart.
    Abstract: Also included is Schweizer’s account of the November pogrom 1938 in Stuttgart; his imprisonment in Welzheim; and and his immigration to USA, written in 1944 in New York City (available in DM 84).
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 68; copy on MF 164(5). , German
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  • 18
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 19
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Pages: 1 folder.
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Eight typescripts by anonymous authors, describing their first-hand experiences of Nazi anti-Semitism.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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  • 20
    Language: German
    Pages: 25 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of the 1938 November Pogrom, arrestation and experiences in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 6 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short account of Jewish life in Mannheim during Nazi period; November pogrom 1938 in Mannheim; immigration to USA after outbreak of war.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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