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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (492)
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    Etwas lernen aus den 30er Jahren“ : www.1938projekt.org – neues Online-Projekt des Leo Baeck Instituts. (2018)
    Köln :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2018
    Keywords: Bistrović, Miriam. ; Mecklenburg, Frank. ; Weitzer, William H. ; Leo Baeck Institute, New York. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Austria. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Germany. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk Köln about the online project "1938 Posts from the Past" by the Leo-Baeck-Institute in New York.
    Abstract: The broadcast on April 13, 2018 was part of a series “Schalom - Jüdisches Leben heute”.
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    URL: 1938 Projekt
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    I would like the whole world to know : how, and why my dear parents died. (2017)
    [Broadstairs] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Liebenau family. ; Liebenau, Dora (née Simke), ; Liebenau, Max, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Charlottenburg (Berlin, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Richly illustrated booklet in memory of the author's parents.
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    [The life and political views of her grandfather Hermann Loeb : dedicated with love to his granddaughter Renate Simon] (2017)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 + 13 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: appendix
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Loeb, Hermann, ; Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Socialists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionists. ; Butzbach (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs of the watchmaker Hermann Loeb (1874-1948), describing his life as an active socialist (social democrat) and Zionist; his encounters with German anti-Semitism; his service in WW I; his experiences during Kristallnacht and the concentration camp Theresienstadt; and finally his immigration to the US.
    Abstract: Also included are clippings referring to Hermann Loeb from the German press in Giessen, Frankfurt and Butzbach; 2011-2013.
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    In memoriam Robert Goldschmidt : Born in Berlin 1868 - Perished in Treblinka October 1942 (2017)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 43 + 32 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Robert. ; Goldschmidt family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Country life. ; Families. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Czechoslovakia. ; Correspondence ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The bulk of the manuscript is dedicated to the letters written by Robert (“Bob”) Goldschmidt between his wife’s sudden death in August of 1941 and his deportation in May of 1942. Also included is a short biography of Robert Goldschmidt and the Goldschmidt family.
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    Refugee From Nazi Oppression. (2016)
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    Pages: 245 pages : , typescript with reproductions of photographs and documents.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Mechanics. ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1933-1945 1933-1945. ; Wigandsthal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Courtship and marriage of parents; childhood home in Luebeck; memories of nanny; memories of cousin Recha Liebenau; visit to relatives' home in Wigandsthal; school memories; Nazis come to power; summer vacation at Travemuende; origin of family name; work as apprentice machinist; account of Kristallnacht; loss of job; emigration to England; stay in camp with other boys; transfer to St. Felix School, Shaftesbury-Society-Holiday Camp, Lord Kitchener Camp; work in factory; Loughton High School For Boys; beginning of World War II; death of father; work at garage; internment on Isle of Man; deported to Canada; internment; move to Toronto.
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    Abstract: Carlebach, Ephraim; Carlebach, Felix; Carlebach, Salomon; Mansbacher family -- Genealogy; Carlebach, Simson; Ettlinger, Emmy; Ettlinger, Hanni; Ettlinger, Leopold; Falck, Abraham (Adolph) Falck, Juliane; Falck, Margarethe Babette; Fürst, Gertrud; Fürst, Henry; Hofmann, Rudi; Kantor, Fritz; Klein, Eddie; Kluver, Frieda; Liebenau, Recha; Mansbacher, Fritz Ludwig; Mansbacher, Hannah; Mansbacher, Jakob; Mansbacher, Johanna; Mansbacher, Julius; Mansbacher, Käthe; Mansbacher, Martin; Mansbacher, Peter; Mansbacher, Ursula; Mecklenburg, Hermann Marcus; Mecklenburg, Thea; Norman, Horace; Schön, Ellen; Weiss, Felix; Wreschner, Alice; Zimmer, George; Zimmer, Paula.
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    Deported by the Nazis. (2016)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , typecript.
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Alton-Tauber, Ruth, ; Tauber, Julius, ; Tauber, Michael, ; Ewer, Erna, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps Intellectual life. ; Jewish women authors ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish ghettos. ; Concentration camp inmates ; Concentration camp inmates ; Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation by Vernon Mosheim of Alton, Ruth : Deportiert von den Nazis. Seattle, Washington, 1961. ME 9
    Abstract: The memoirs begin with the family's deportation from their Berlin apartment on the evening of October 27th, 1941. They were taken to the Lewetzowstrasse synagogue and from there deported to the ghetto of Lodz (Litzmannstadt). Ruth's husband Julius (Ulli) was assigned the position of a transport supervisor, which granted them a small space to themselves. The memoir describes the living conditions, illnesses and deaths in the ghetto. She also recalls religious celebrations and cultural activities. The mass deportation of Jews from Lodz in September 1942 is described. Ruth's son Michael was exampted due to her husband's interventions. Ruth's mother, who was with them in the ghetto, died in 1943. In 1944 the famly was deported to Auschwitz and Stutthof. The living conditions of these camps are described. Ruth was transported to a work camp in Dresden, and was in the city during its destruction in February 1945. After the destruction of the city Ruth was transferred to a series of concentration camps, finally escaping on a death march. She was liberated by American soldiers in May 1945. In 1946 she was reunited with her son Michael, who had survived the Stutthof concentration camp.
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    Hein family history : A chronology with stories, 1838-2011. (2015)
    Eau Claire, WI :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 90 , Typescript (e-file).
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Hein family. ; Leser family. ; Hein, John. ; Hein, Siegfried. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Leather industry and trade 1918-1933. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Chronological history of the extended family of Friedel (Siegfried) Hein and his wife Ilse, née Mayer.
    Note: English
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    One family - one life. (2015)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 8 + 72 , pages : , bound typescript; self-published; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Deutsch family. ; Ehrenwerth family. ; Kestler family. ; Wellisch family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Mauritius. ; Moson (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is an account of the author’s life from his upbringing in Vienna, Austria to his eventful emigration to Toronto, Canada. Also included are family trees tracing the genealogy of descendents of Salamon Wellisch and Katharina Strasser from Moson, Hungary.
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    Walter Blum. (2015)
    [Mannheim] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 2
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Blum, Walter, ; Michel, Ernst. ; Monowitz (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The life history of Walter Josef Blum, who was honored with a “Stolperstein” in his hometown of Mannheim, Germany.
    Abstract: Also included is correspondence pertaining to the ceremony.
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    Our beginnings never know our ends : A Western view of some aspects of culture in Sri Lanka (2014)
    Sri Lanka :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 20 + 86 , pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Sri Lanka. ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    URL: The past is another country
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    A question of identity. (2014)
    Sri Lanka :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 45 , pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Jewish families. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Sri Lanka. ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: A question of identity
    Description / Table of Contents: A woman and her god
    Description / Table of Contents: The mood in the ghetto is rosy
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    My Story / (2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 22 + 60 + 28 + 2 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    And there is no going back : A story of patience, persistence, and perseverance (2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 340 + 6 + 5 + 5 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Shiffers, Liese. ; Shiffers, Stephan, ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    Die Menorah von Oberstein : Eine Geschichte zur Reichspogromnacht in Idar-Oberstein und Mannheim. (2013)
    [Oberhausen] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 , pages : , typescript; illustrated (efile).
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Becker, Helmut. ; Eppstein, Heinrich. ; Eppstein, Paula. ; Mayer, Johanna. ; Ostermann, Jacob. ; Jews, German Persecutions 1933-1938. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935) ; Synagogues ; Idar-Oberstein (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Account about Kristallnacht in the town of Oberstein and about the fate of families in the region in light of Nazi racial laws.
    Note: German
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    My family, the Holocaust and a bit of history / (2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 , e-file.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Mayer family. ; Mayer, Jettchen (née Rosskamm), ; Mayer, Ruth Gertrude, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay about the author’s maternal family during the Holocaust, including copies of documents.
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    Memoirs of Henri Moos : Ulm, Karlsruhe, Annecy, 1922-1946. (2012)
    Annecy, Haute Savoie, France :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 33 , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Edition: English language version.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Former Title: Itinéraire d'une famille juive
    Keywords: Moos, Salomon. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecutions 1939-1945. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Annecy (France) ; France Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: An account of Henri Moos’ family, starting with his grandfather Salomon Moos in Ulm and Henri’s mother Ruth, née Haas in Karlsruhe, and ending in Annecy, France. It also looks at survival in occupied France during WW II.
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    6. 9. 42 – Der letzte Transport der Judem Marburgs und Umgebung nach Theresienstadt : Erkundungsreise zu den Ursprüngen in den Dörfern Roth, Fronhausen, Lohra, Merzhausen im Land Hessen. (2011)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 22 + 25 , pages : , private print, illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2011
    Keywords: Nathan family. ; Plaut family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Hesse (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Description of a trip to the villages in Hesse, Germany, where members of the author’s family had been persecuted and deported during the Holocaust.
    Note: German and Hebrew
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    The lucky guy : Memories of Nachum Ariel, (2010)
    Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 293 pages : , bound typescript (illustrations).
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Lawyers ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
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    Among strangers : A family story. (2010)
    Northampton, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 295 , e-file.
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Fürth, Elza Roheim. ; Perl, Eva Fürth. ; Perl, George. ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecutions 1939-1945. ; Suicide. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The story of a family of Austrian-Hungarian descent, covering three generations, the Holocaust and immigration to the United States.
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    [Oma’s and Opa’s stories]. (2010)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 4 + 4 pages : , typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Marshall, Lotte. ; Marshall, Walter. ; Juedischer Jugendbund. ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Portugal Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Spain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
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    The last exile : Tapestry of a life. (2009)
    Plainsboro, NJ,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 170 pages.
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Social life and customs ; Communists ; Political refugees United States ; Foreign correspondents. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
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    Memorial to Jewish Fellow Citizens. (2009)
    Berlin-Schöneberg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 folder : , 4 bound typescripts.
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Obermayer German Jewish History Award. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust memorials ; Obermayer German Jewish History Award. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Four bound typescripts pertaining to the creation of a memorial wall on the schoolyard of the Löcknitz primary school in Berlin-Schöneberg
    Note: German and English
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    'Und dann war sie weg ...' : Das kurze Leben der Doris Katz. (2009)
    Erbach :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 27 pages : , Offprint (photocopy); illustrations
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees ; Jews History. ; Michelstadt (Germany) ; Publications.
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    My seven years under Nazi rule as a Jewish young man / (2009)
    Monroe Township, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Birkenau (Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Siegfried Line (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: English
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    Kristallnacht: November 9th, 1938 : The day the Holocaust began for me. (2008)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 7 pages : , Typescript.
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form
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    My life so far : 1930 to 2008. (2008)
    Glen Rock, NJ :Janet Isenberg,
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    Pages: 169 pages : , illustrations
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Drucker family. ; Jews Social life and customs ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Families ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiography. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Computer generated, bound and richly illustrated manuscript, documenting the author’s life and family
    Note: English
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    ‘Good Germans’ and the Holocaust : speech given to the Puget Sound Association of Phi Beta Kappa, Nov. 12, 2008. (2008)
    Seattle, WA :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Germans Attitudes 1933-1945. ; History ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: English
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    Recollections and thoughts. (2008)
    New York City :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 117 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Pilgrim Press (N.Y.) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Book collectors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Note: English
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    Die jüdischen Familien im ehemaligen Kreise Kirchhain : Beiträge zur Geschichte und Genealogie der jüdischen Familien [im Kreis Kirchhain]. (2008)
    Amöneburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 37 + 380 pages.
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Obermayer German Jewish History Award. ; Jews History ; Jews Genealogy ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Obermayer German Jewish History Award. ; Kirchhain (Hesse, Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The manuscript by Alfred Schneider about Jewish families in Kirchhain is preceded by various award materials for the Obermeyer German Jewish History Award, 2011
    Note: German and English
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    My family story, (2008)
    Poughkeepsie, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 140 pages : , illustrations
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Dahl family Genealogy. ; Oppenheim family Genealogy. ; Jews Persecutions ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish physicians ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Jews Genealogy ; Genealogy. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: The true story of Max and Gerda Dahl’s forced journey from their ancestral home in Westphalia, Germany through a 16 year haven in Shanghai and ultimately to the United States. The typewritten manuscript includes genealogical charts pertaining to the Dahl and Oppenheim families from Westphalia.
    Note: English
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    Autobiography / (2007)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish refugees ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
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    Lazar Gulkowitsch, sein Lehrstuhl fuer juedische Wissenschaft und die Universitaet Tartu : Festrede, gehalten in der Aula der Universitaet Tartu am 15. Mai 2007. (2007)
    Hamburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 36 + 4 pages.
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Gulkowitsch, Lazar, ; Tartu Riiklik Ülikool. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish college teachers. ; Judaism Study and teaching (Graduate) ; Estonia. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Laudation for Lazar Gulkowitsch, who had served as professor for Jewish Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia from 1934 to 1940.
    Note: German
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    Eva E. Newman : her story. (2007)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: viii + 296 pages +
    Additional Material: + CDROM
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The biography of Eva E. Newman, née Feilchenfeldt (1908-2007), written by her son.
    Note: English
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    Le Youpin. (2006)
    Empuré (France) :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 32 + 40 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Braunthal, Rose, ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecutions ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Rose Braunthal was deported to Drancy and was subsequently killed. Her son compiled a manuscript about her final months, based on Rose’s letters to her neighbor, Marthe Gouyon.
    Note: The French manuscript entitled “Le youpin” was written in 2004 and translated into English by Judith MacArthur in 2006. , French and English
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    9. November 1938 - 9. November 2006 - gegen das Vergessen : Materialsammlung zum Kurzvortrag im Regionalmuseum Alsfeld: ‘Der 9. November 1938, das letzte Ausrufezeichen!’. (2006)
    Alsfeld :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 + 12 pages : , clippings, print.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; Alsfeld (Germany) ; Clippings ; Publications.
    Abstract: Clippings, copied documents (correspondence, photographs, etc.) and explanatory texts commemorating “Kristallnacht’s” 68th anniversary in the town of Alsfeld in Hesse, Germany.
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    Ralph's story. (2006)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 66 pages.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Cologne Jawne (Gymnasium) ; Jews Persecutions ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish day schools ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Arnhem (Netherlands) ; Cologne (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Ralph Ermann recounts his experience growing up Jewish in Wittlich, Germany before and during the war, and his escape from Wittlich to Cologne, Amsterdam and Arnhem, and eventually to the United States. Edited by Ghilia.
    Note: English
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    Bericht ueber das Leben meines Vaters Benoit Courmont, (2005)
    Kiel :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 55 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Courmont, Frieda (nee Hanke), 1912-1983. ; Courmont, Donat, 1888-1914. ; Susmann, Gertrud, 1886-1969. ; Courmont, Peter. ; Susmann, Melanie, 1883-1944. ; Hanke, Frieda, 1899-1983. ; Courmont, Benoit, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Intermarriage. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; Persecutions. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Genealogy. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir has a very formal style. It is written in a strictly chronological way, and each year received an entry. Renate Nottrott uses letters, and many other written notes and documents of her family to reconstruct her father's life. There are also family trees attached at the end. The memoir reconstructs the life in Germany during World War 2.
    Note: German
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    Biography of Fred Blau. (2005)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 10 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Blau, Fred, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short biography of Fred Blau, based on conversations with his granddaugther Michele Glouberman who compiled this text during high school.
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    Times past, times present : A brief history of the Nussbaum, Schweizer, Friedmann, and Isler families. (2005)
    Irvington, NY :HIA Press,
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    Pages: 118 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Nusbaum family. ; Schweitzer family. ; Friedman family. ; Eilers family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Nurses. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Archival materials ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Archival materials ; Autobiography.
    Note: English
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    Bauer / Hochherr family get-together. (2005)
    New York,
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    Pages: Circa 300 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Flegenheimer, Arthur ; St. Louis (Ship) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Compilation of memoirs and essays from the family reunion held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York on July 3, 2005.
    Abstract: The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Baehr family; Chichon family; Gordon family; Joseph family; Ohringer family; Siegel family; Theiss family; Winarsky family; Bauer family; Hochherr family
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Gottlieb, Cora; Hegt, Alice; Kaufmann, Michael; Lister, Marion; Loeb, Emmy; Mailich, Isabel; Miller, Frances; Mailich, Isabel; Rhens, Lila; Salomon, Hans; Schwartz, Kurt; Wolfson, Dahlia
    Note: Available on microfilm MSF 55. , English and German
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    No stone unturned : Letters from Bamberg, (2005)
    Buckfastleigh, Devon :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 327 pages : , Private printing ; illustrations
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Kuhn family. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Jews, German Persecution ; 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Butchers ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Correspondence ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography. ; Correspondence
    Abstract: Letters from the Kuhn family in Bamberg (Germany) to Hans and Gustav Kuhn in the United States, translated and edited by Philip Kuhn.
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    A short walk through the twentieth century : 1920-1991. (2005)
    Brooklyn :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 147 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; College teachers Nineteen fifties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Theresienstaedter Tagebuch (Diary). (2005)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 57 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Geissmar, Elisabeth. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish lawyers ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judges ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation by John and Eva Englander of a lyrical diary in verse, chronicling Geissmar's imprisonment in Theresienstadt, July to December 1943.
    Note: Translation not microfilmed.
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    Incredible but true : A collection of recollections. (2005)
    Neenah, Wisconsin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 188 pages : , typescript; bound, illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Concentration camps. ; Refugees. ; Forced labor ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Jews Persecutions ; Austria History 20th century. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A collection of various, all but two previously published, essays and articles which cover different aspects of Brown's life. They are organized in 4 main chapters, "From cradle to crash" (1921-1938), "Exile and Exhaustion" (1938-47), "Life and Liberty" (1947-87), and "Retired and Retried" (1987-2005). As . Brown states, his stories are "true in essence but not in form".
    Abstract: Copies of personal photographs and school documents are also included.
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    Vom Fanal zum Inferno : Juden in Haigerloch 1938 bis 1942. (2005)
    Haigerloch :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 22 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Gabeli, Helmut. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews History. ; Haigerloch (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Lecture in Haigerloch’s city hall on November 9, 2005 about the Holocaust in this Swabian town.
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    The forgetting of being. (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 193 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Dancers ; Photographers ; Israel Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Typescript with Peter Paz's memoirs, edited by Beverly Pimsleur
    Note: English
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    Die Leere in Slonim. (2005)
    Dortmund :Internationales Bildungs- und Begegnungswerk,
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    ISBN: 3-935950-08-X
    Pages: 72 pages (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Archival materials ; Manuscripts. ; Archival materials
    Note: German
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    9. November 1938 - 9. November 2005 - gegen das Vergessen : Materialsammlung zur Gespraechsrunde im Regionalmuseum Alsfeld. (2005)
    Alsfeld :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 46 pages : , clippings, print.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Synagogues ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; Alsfeld (Germany) ; Clippings ; Publications.
    Abstract: Clippings, copied documents (correspondence, photographs, etc.) and explanatory texts commemorating “Kristallnacht’s” 67th anniversary in the town of Alsfeld in Hesse, Germany.
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    My lives from the stork to cyberspace, (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 61 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish women artists Biography ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Note: English
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    Zivi story : (Journey to America). (2005)
    Freeport, NY,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Weil, Edgar. ; Zivi, Hugo, ; Zivi, Louis, ; Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France. ; Müllheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This brief memoir starts with a description of family background and childhood experiences in Germany. After things got worse in Germany, Ralph's parents decided to send their children away. In June 1939, they came to France, in order to live with Edgar and Alice Weil, a cousin of his father. After the outbreak of World War 2, they moved on to the Pyrenees, not far from Ralph's parents, who had been transferred to St. Cyprien internment camp. Finally the family received visas for the USA, and they managed to get a ship to Casablanca, Morocco, before boarding the ship "Guinee" to New York. Ralph arrived in the USA in April 1942. His parents quickly found temporary jobs in New York.
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    Dachau concentration camp - a memoir / (2004)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir provides a detailed description of daily life and misery in the concentration camp Dachau, May to December of 1938. The first eight chapters are missing which would cover Felix Klein's life in Vienna. The existing memoir then starts with his deportation to Dachau, and ends shortly before his transfer to Buchenwald concentration camp.
    Abstract: Translated from the German by Sanda Vero.
    Note: English
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    Marianne : The first 30 years... (2004)
    Colchester :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: David, Bernhard. ; Great Britain. ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish way of life ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Colchester (England) ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with childhood memories - religious life in the synagogue, Marianne Geernaert's father's (Bernhard David) role in the Jewish community in Hamburg, her school life, going to summer camp with her Zionist youth organization, recollections of the rise of Nazism. Her father was appointed to oversee the clearing of a Jewish cemetery. She describes Kristallnacht when she was at a Jewish camp on the country side. Her father was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. She describes the obstacles to overcome for obtaining permission to emigrate. Brief description of their stay in Amsterdam, then the trip to Palestine, farm life in Palestine. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1943. She married her husband John, then a British army officer, shortly after the war. Soon thereafter they moved to his home town Colchester, England. Many family and personal photographs are included following the biographical information in the text.
    Note: English
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    Visit to a Viennese cemetery / (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 + 89 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Former Title: Delusions and denials: Viennese life under the Nazis / Visit to a Viennese cemetery.
    Keywords: Fireside, Harvey, ; Feuerzeug family. ; Zelman, Leon, ; Zentralfriedhof (Vienna, Austria) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: "Visit to a Viennese Cemetery" is a personal reflection about Fireside's first trip back to Austria since his arrival in the USA. It was organised by the "Jewish Welcome Service" in September 2000. This trip brings forgotten memories back to life, questioning the role of Austrians in the Holocaust, and their denial afterwards. The author describes the trip, first days of sightseeing and conversations of his fellow travellers. On the last day, the group went to Zentralfreidhof, the main cemetery in Vienna.
    Abstract: The memoir "Delusions and Denials: Viennese Life under the Nazis" starts with a description of the author's family and an essay-like reflection about Austria and its role and engagement with Nazism, and soon turns to the author's own childhood in Vienna, presenting his personal memories in context of the political situation in the 1930s. In the main part of the memoir, Fireside talks at length about the immediate events leading to the "Anschluss", followed by its consecutive years, still being in Vienna. "Kristallnacht", the pogrom in November of 1938, is dealt with in detail, over 15 pages. Until their escape in April 1940, Fireside describes plenty incidents of humiliations and persecution, the process of getting affidavits for the USA, and finally his family boarding a ship in Italy and their arrival in the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Visit to a Viennese cemetery
    Description / Table of Contents: Delusions and denials: Viennese life under the Nazis
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    Memoirs of Gerhard Langer, 1923-1939 : A Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany. (2004)
    Boulder, CO :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Langer family. ; Straubel family. ; Zuckerkandl, Therese. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Hitler-Jugend. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jena (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written by Gerhard Langer in 2003 and 2004, and covers his childhood and youth years during the Nazi era in Jena, Germany, until his arrival in the US in 1939. Among the included photographs are a picture of Gerhard in Hitler Youth uniform, and a picture of Villa Zuckerkandl under construction, the family home, a famous Walter Gropius building.
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    History of my family. (2004)
    Delray Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 65 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Feldman family. ; Kronenfeld family. ; Birnbaum family. ; Fuchs family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Tailors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Bad Vöslau (Austria) ; Belgium. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; France. ; Switzerland. ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with a short description of political events in Austria before the Anschluss in the 1930s. He gives an account of Hitler's welcomed arrival in Vienna in March 1938, where he observed cheering crowds close to his apartment. He talks of the background and origin of his grandparents in Zablotov, Galicia, and Witznitz, Bukowina. Alfred Fox writes about childhood memories where the family went to Prater amusement park, made trips to spas at Bad Voeslau and boat trips on the Danube. Then he writes about the Anschluss, the November Pogrom where he saw synagogues burning, and where his father was taken to Dachau concentration camp. The family's emigration was difficult because of the quota system in the USA. They decided to leave for Belgium. He describes the ride on the train from Vienna to Cologne, were denied entry at the border to Belgium close to Aachen, but were told by a German officer a way how to sneak into Belgium. His father worked in Brussels as a tailor. The family fled from the German invasion to France (Bordeaux), and stayed in the Pyrenees until spring of 1941, went to Lyon and stayed there until spring of 1942. They went over the Alps into Switzerland with smugglers. They were put into a refugee camp in Zurich. He started to attend ORT organization's trade school class in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1947, he went to the USA, with the help of his uncle. The last 25 pages cover his time in the USA since. He married his wife Susanne (Pistiner) on September 17, 1950, who was also born in Vienna, joined the US army and the Korea War. The memoir illustrates Alfred Fox's life story with many personal & family photographs as well as a map of his emigration route.
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    A historical autobiography. (2004)
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    Pages: 161 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Kremski family. ; Cohen family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Food engineers. ; Chile Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogical tables.
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    Die Lebensgeschichte meiner Eltern. (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 33 + 24 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: documents; clippings (all photocopies)
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Blum, Annelies, ; Blum, Gustav, ; Blum, Bella (née Behr), ; Jewish refugees ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lumber trade. ; Estoril (Portugal) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Portugal Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Fritz Blum mainly writes about his parents Gustav and Bella Blum (née Behr), covering approx. the years 1881-1992. He describes his father's various businesses and his family's emigration to Portugal in 1938. The bulk of the memoir deals with the family's stay in Portugal from 1938 to 1941.
    Abstract: Photocopies of certificates, correspondence, photographs, and other archival materials are interspersed with the German text in folder 1.
    Abstract: Also included is a brochure of an exhibition about refugees in Portugal at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt in 1997.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Memoir in German
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Memoir in English
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Exhibition material
    Note: German and English
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    One child's lonely passage to freedom, (2003)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages + 4 pages : , typed manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Pogroms. ; Emigration and immigration ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A short memoir that mixes personal experiences with historical facts, e.g. about Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport. Experiences made during Kristallnacht are described, followed by the ride on the Kindertransport, and Mr. Rosenbaum's arrival in Britain. He then describes the effects on him of being separated from his family, his difficulties in adapting to new circumstances in his life, mainly because of him not knowing English. Includes resume which is full of awards and affiliations.
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    Your heritage in transition. (2003)
    Boca Raton, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Gottschalk family. ; United States. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns ; Dallas (Tex.) ; Ecuador Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 2003 in Florida, United States. Description of family history and life in an affluent assimilated German Jewish household. Hal's father was a partner in the banking firm of his father and later directed the "M. Molling" department store of his father in law. Early recollections of political unrest and inflation in the aftermath of World War One. Hal and his siblings grew up in a houshold with servants and a governess, who kept in touch even during the Nazi time. The children had piano and violin lessons and once a week gymnastic lessons with a private gym teacher, Fritz Strube, who later published a book on physical education. Summer vacations at the North Sea. Hal went to the Gymnasium (high school) where he was the only Jewish student. He became an apprentice in Krefeld with a business friend of his father in 1932. Life under the Nazis. Preparations to leave for Ecuador. Hal left Germany together with his friend Paul Klein for Guayaquil via Amsterdam and arrived in January 1936. Life in Ecuador. Excursion in the Andes. In 1938 he was granted a visa for the United States, where he arrived in September of the same year. Life in Dallas, Texas in the aftermath of the depression. His father in Germany was arrested during the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) and taken to Buchenwald. After his release the family emigrated to England. In 1944 they came to the United States. Hal enlisted in the US army in 1941 even before the United States officially entered the war. He was appointed officer and took part in the "D" Day landing on Omaha Beach in France. Hal became part of an army intelligence unit in Berlin. Return to the States after the war and live with his family in New York. Courtship and marriage with Anne Pick in 1945.
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    Jews in Italy : Deportation and resistance. (2003)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, Italian. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Government, Resistance to. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Stories of victims in the Italian Holocaust, listing deportations from Bolzano; Ferrara; Florence; Fossoli; Gubbio; Lago Maggiore; Milano; Pisa; Rome; Trieste; Verona; and other places. Also mentioned are Italian resistance fighters against fascism. The following individuals are mentioned: Matilde Bassani; Nathan Cassuto; Anna Cassuto di Gioachino; Concetto Marchesi; Bruno Segre; Enzo Sereni.
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    Daliah remembers : Her life and her adventures. (2003)
    Tallahassee, Fla. :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 110 + 59 pages.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Jews Social life and customs. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Labor Zionism. ; Rehabilitation centers Pediatrics ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Arabah Valley (Israel and Jordan) Daily life. ; Jerusalem Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Daliah remembers
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: Alyn
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    History re-edited. (2003)
    Carmel, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: He, Fengshan, ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Emigration and immigration ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lotte Marcus was asked in 2002 by a friend to look for her passport from Shanghai, which brought back old memories and initiated writing this memoir. Embedded are also 2 photographs. Procedure of obtaining visas, desperate situation in Vienna, relatives deported to Dachau, visit of the daughter of the Chinese diplomat, Feng Shan Ho, who issued visas to Shanghai, China, to save refugees. By looking through her old passport's stamps, she recalls the places she passed on her journey to Shanghai.
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    Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] (2003)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 + 42 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Löbl, Friedl, ; Löbl, Sally, ; Löbl, Werner, ; Samson, Dorothee. ; Samson, Richard. ; Bunce Court School. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Kent (England) ; Quito (Ecuador) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Typed transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:
    Abstract: Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.
    Abstract: Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.
    Abstract: Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.
    Description / Table of Contents: Erika's Tagebuch
    Description / Table of Contents: In's neue Leben
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    A chance to live. (2003)
    Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Persecution. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs by Hans Stefan Kohnstam were originally written in German in 1980; they were edited and translated into English by his son Pieter G. Kohnstam.
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    Memoirs, (2003)
    Marblehead, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 11 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Hirschkron, Robert, 1928. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Emigration and immigration ; Hirschkron family. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Originally 38 pages long, the Archives at the Leo Baeck Institute hold only the first 11 pages of the memoir which cover the time period before the Hirschkron family's emigration to the USA, and the first years thereafter. The memoir starts with brief memories about Mr. Hirschkron's paternal grandparents and the neighbourhood they were living in, which was the second district of Vienna. Just one year after his birth, the young family moves out from the grandparents' apartment to an apartment in the seventh district of Vienna, on Burggasse. The family had a house in Hinterbruehl where they used to go during holidays. Later on, they started to summer in Alt Aussee. More detailed descriptions are provided of the events during the Anschluss and the Kristallnacht, after which the family was relocated to Biberstrasse where they had to share the apartment with strangers. After their visas were granted, the family left for New York in January 1940. The last three pages talk about their arrival in New York City, difficulties with finding jobs and general living conditions for immigrants.
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    Sehr geehrte Herren!. (2003)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Untitled
    Keywords: Haber family. ; Uri family. ; Uri, Max, ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written as a letter in January of 2003. The author's grandfather was a producer of military uniforms during World War One. Max Uri attended 4 years of the Gymnasium and 4 years of business school (Handelsschule). He came from an orthodox Jewish family. Recollections of his school years and rising national socialism among his fellow students. Max was only one of 8 Jews in his class of 50 students. Memories of the author’s years at the Gymnasium, where he frequently encountered anti-Semitism due to his orthodox upbringing. Recollections of the terrors of the Kristallnacht in November of 1938, when he was arrested and beaten and only narrowly escaped transportation to Dachau concentration camp. His family managed to get the children out of the country. His sisters were sent as domestic help and his younger brother with a Kindertransport to England. Max managed to be accepted for an agricultural school in Palestine. He enrolled in the “Haganah” and became an officer. In 1941 he got married to Fritzi Haber. Their son was born in 1942. Max Uri participated in the war efforts of the Jewish Brigade and the British army during World War Two. Difficulties to establish a household in Palestine. Move to Vienna together with his family and his in-laws. Decision to leave for the United States, where Max Uri lived with his family for 10 years. He came back to Vienna to take over his father in law’s furrier business.
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    Memoirs of Robert Altschuler. (2003)
    Metuchen, NJ,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Altschuler, Robert, ; Altschuler family. ; Klamper family. ; Schapira family. ; Great Britain. ; Collective settlements ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief family background, describes his home in Vienna, and early recollections as a kid (he remembers political incidences during 1934). His father had a business partner who turned out to be an illegal Nazi. They were friendly with each other which helped the family after the Anschluss when it became obvious someone was protecting them - they were warned that his father was about to be arrested, and their property was not looted. The next chapter covers his emigration to Palestine, life in the Kibbutz, his first job, and the Jewish brigade. The last page covers his student time in the US, when he met and married his wife Miriam Oppenheimer.
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    [Story of Sylvia (Mahler) Cherny]. (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Mahler family. ; Mahler, Robert, ; Mahler (née Gutmann), Grete, ; Watkins, Gerald Herbert, ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Melbourne (Vic.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with Sylvia Cherny's family background, the family business, and her time in Lower Austria where her family had lived for a couple of generations. She received private tutoring, coming from a well-off family. The "Anschluss" in 1938 changed everything. The family business was taken away and Sylvia Cherny provides a short chronology of its whereabouts. Her father commited suicide after the Anschluss, fearing the Gestapo who was looking for him. Sylvia Cherny went on a Kindertransport to France, then fled via Lisbon to New York. The final pages cover the first years in Melbourne, Australia, where she had joined her mother and her stepfather.
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    The Holocaust, collective memory and Jewish cultural heritage in America. (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 47 pages : , Printed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Leo Baeck Institute Archives. Archives ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Archival materials. ; Judaism History. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Includes interviews with LBI archivists
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    Die Entziehung juedischen Vermoegens im Rahmen der "Aktion Gildemeester" : eine empirische Studie ueber Organisation, Form und Wandel von "Arisierung" und juedischer Auswanderung in Oesterreich 1938-1941. (2002)
    Vienna :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 470 pages.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Fürnberg, Hermann. ; Aktion Gildemeester. ; Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Migrations 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: Also available online at http://www.historikerkommission.gv.at/pdf/INTEGILDEMEESTER.pdf. , See also Hermann Fuernberg Collection (AR 7194) , German
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    Holocaust and redemption. (2002)
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    Pages: 17 + 56 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Grese, Irma ; Treuer family ; Treuer, Fritz, ; Treuer, Mia (née Weil) ; Antisemitism. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Families ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first chapter, “Holocaust and I”, Robert Treuer describes his youth in Vienna/Austria, how he grew up and how the anti-Semitism became more and more apparent in Austria. After the Anschluss, his father decided for him and his mother to leave the country. They emigrated to England where his mother worked as a housekeeper. Robert Treuer was separated from his mother, because the employer did not want another child in the house. His father was still in Austria. After being abused at school, his uncle took him away and brought him to a nearby tent camp in London. After a while, his father got the chance to escape from Austria and came to England as well. Although Robert Treuer’s father wrote letters to many countries to immigrate, only the United States allowed them to enter. Together with his parents he immigrated to the United States on February 9, 1939. In the second chapter, “Redemption. Searching for Trude and Irma”, Robert Treuer returned for a trip to Germany with two of his children and visited some of the concentration camps. During his stay in Germany, all the memories of the cruelty of the Nazi regime came back. He also talks about his cousin Erika and her family in Vienna and Hohenau. She was sent to England with the Kindertransport and never saw any member of his family again.
    Abstract: Also included are Robert Treuer's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection and a curriculum vitae.
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    Diaries, (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 100 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: 37 pages typescript
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels ; Women authors. ; Germany History Nineteen thirties. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 5 diaries written by Margaret Kahn's mother, Lisbeth Schmidt. Most of her early writings refer to travelling across Europe. A brief description is provided of events in 1933 when Nazis took over power in Germany. During Kristallnacht, her husband Fritz is taken to the police. They are able to leave Germany, first to Holland, then to the USA where they settle in New York. From 1950 on, all entries were written in English. Enclosed is also a letter from her parents to her daughter Margrit for her birthday, dated January 16, 1941, Amsterdam.
    Note: English translation , German
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    Dreams and realities. (2002)
    Boston, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 304 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Schratter, Margarethe (née Schall), ; Schratter, Paul, ; United States. ; Business travel. ; Families ; Jewish soldiers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marketing. ; Nazis. ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews. ; Orphanages. ; Orphans. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first part of his memoir Paul Schratter describes the life of his family in Vienna and east-central Europe. He writes about the early death of his mother and his feelings. He describes his protected childhood in Vienna and surprisingly agreeable time in an orphanage. Later he describes political topics like the great depression and the beginning of Nazi activities, culminating in Hitler’s welcome to Vienna and the events of ‘Kristallnacht’. The second part of the memoir is mostly about his immigration to the US and his return to Vienna as a soldier of the U.S. Army. At the end of this chapter, he describes the early days of his marriage. The third part covers the bulk of the memoir (approximately 200 pages). He mainly describes his work in international marketing and the different countries he visited. He also includes remarks about his family, his feelings towards Germany and Austria after the World War II, and his thoughts on current politics.
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    [The divorce of my parents ...]. (2002)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Former Title: Untitled
    Keywords: Bendheim family. ; Friedländer, Adolf. ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps Intellectual life. ; Divorce. ; Dressmakers. ; Emigration and immigration Official documents. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Deggendorf (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Several short memoirs written by Margot Friedlaender. Recollections of her childhood shadowed by the divorce of her parents. School years during the Nazi time in Germany. Margot started an apprenticeship to become a dressmaker in a salon. Circumstances of life in Nazi Germany and recollections of Kristallnacht. Position with the Jewish "Kulturbund". In 1941 the "Kulturbund" was closed by the Nazi authorities and Margot was forced to work in a factory. Fervent attempts to emigrate failed. In 1943 her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz. Margot went into hiding. Experiences of life in underground. After her discovery in 1944 she was fortunate to be deported to Theresienstadt, where she met a former colleague from the Kulturbund, Adolf Friedlaender. They both managed to survive and were liberated by the Russian army. They got married in Theresienstadt in June of 1945. After a year in the DP Camp Deggendorf, they finally left for New York in June of 1946.
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    Limited autobiography of Jules Wallerstein. (2001)
    Norwalk, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Wallerstein, Anton, ; Wallerstein, Paula, ; Wallerstein family. ; St. Louis (Ship) ; United States. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Cuba. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief description of orthodox family background. His mother Paula, nee Rau, was a student at Heidelberg University prior to her marriage. His parents got married in 1926. The family lived with his father's mother in a six-room apartment and kept a kosher home. The author's younger sister Edith was born in 1932. Julius attended the "Juedische Realschule" and had friendly relationships with non-Jewish children. Recollections of the Night of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. His father was forced to hand over the jewelry store of the family to Nazi authorities. Experiences of antisemitic attacks. Preparations to emigrate. The family left for Cuba on May 13, 1939 on board of the St. Louis departing from Hamburg. They were refused entry to Cuba and had to return to Europe again. They stayed in Belgium and waited for their visas to the United States. Julius attended public school and was Bar Mitzvahed in the Main Synagogue in Brussles in 1940. A month later the Germans invaded Belgium. His father was sent to Camp Les Gurs in France, and the family followed him to Vichy France through an illegal passage. They finally received visas to the United States and left Marseilles in 1941. They immigrated to the United States via Casablanca and arrived in New York in January of 1942. Life in the United States. Jules was drafted into the US army in 1945 and was sent to Germany in a Counter Intelligence Mission. Return to the States in 1947. Work in an electronic company. Marriage in 1953. Move to Connecticut in 1967. Reunions of St. Louis survivors and visits to Fuerth.
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    "Bergemolo" : Before and thereafter - the way it was. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Hartmayer, Manya. ; Revolutionaere Sozialisten Oesterreichs. ; Anti-fascist movements. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1939. ; Italy. ; Nice (France) ; Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    The day Frau Svoboda played god / A Hole In The Ground. (2001)
    Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 4 , typecripts, copies.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after the "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
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    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Max Liebmann describes his school life and how unbearable conditions grew after Hitler was elected chancellor. One time a pupil harassed him, but he fought back. He stayed in public school until 1937, and then attended a private school. He had to leave school after “Kristallnacht”, when all Jews were excluded from non-Jewish schools. In March 1938, his father had left for Greece in order to explore new business possibilities. Max Liebmann never saw him again. With the outbreak of World War II, Max Liebmann took his grandmother, who was French Alsatian, to the Swiss border. But Switzerland did not permit her to enter the country, so she went to Nancy and later to Bordeaux. During the war discrimination increased and culminated in Max Liebmann being sent to Eastern Germany to harvest. He describes himself as one of the first slave laborers of the Reich. In 1940, Max Liebmann started to work for the “Hilfsverein”. On October 21, 1940, the “Hilfsverein” was closed and he was deported to France the next day. On October, 25, Max Liebmann arrived at the camp of Gurs in Southwestern France. He managed to get out of the camp just weeks before its closure on August 1, 1942, and the beginning of the first deportations to Auschwitz. He hid in several places in unoccupied France with the help of local residents. He later managed to escape to Switzerland with the help of a Swiss militia man. In Switzerland, he worked in a refugee camp. On February 28, 1943, his girlfriend Hanne, whom he had met in Gurs, came to Switzerland. She first lived with relatives, but left them on Christmas Eve 1944 when personal frictions became too heavy. Max Liebmann married Hanne on April 14, 1945 in Geneva. Their daughter was born on March 4, 1946. In 1948, the family left for the United States.
    Abstract: Max Liebmann ends his memoir with giving a few remarks on Swiss policy concerning Jewish immigration and also on their policy of blocking them from their money in Swiss bank accounts.
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    Gedenkbuch fuer Werner Gruenewald. (2001)
    Arnsberg-Hüsten :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 110 + 18 pages : , typescript (PDF); illustrations +
    Additional Material: + CD-ROM
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Grünewald, Werner. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Childhood and youth 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Elementary schools. ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Memorial book for a German Jewish boy, Werner Gruenewald, who was murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.
    Abstract: A short account about the project and about Werner Gruenewald is followed by a chapter “Materials”, consisting of reproductions of original documents, correspondence, and photographs. The final chapter, “Comments” includes reviews, honors and clippings.
    Description / Table of Contents: Gedenkbuch
    Description / Table of Contents: English translation
    Description / Table of Contents: CD-ROM, containing the full text of the memorial book, additional materials and Power-Point presentations.
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    Schicksale juedischer Mitbuerger in Huesten zwischen 1930 und 1945. (2001)
    [Arnsberg-Hüsten] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript (PDF); illustrations
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Grünewald, Werner. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay about Jews in the town of Huesten in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) before and during the Holocaust.
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    Das Schicksal der Familie Brueg aus Gera und ihre Beziehungen zu Leipzig. (2001)
    Newtown, Connecticut :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 26 pages : , Photocopies of letters and documents.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Brüg family. ; Gillis, Siegfried. ; Sanderson, Arthur. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; England Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Gera (Germany) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A compilation of documents pertaining to Guy Bishop’s (formerly Guenter Brueg’s) years in Gera, Germany and his escape to England.
    Abstract: A short typescript is accompanied by photocopies of letters, documents and family photos. Also included are published materials about the history of the Jewish community in Gera; the "Kindertransport" rescue mission; and the fate of the Brueg family during the Holocaust.
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    [Speeches and memories], (1997-2001)
    [New Orleans] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 4 + 5 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1997-2001
    Keywords: Levy family. ; Levy, Leo, ; Weil, Leo. ; Weil, Liselotte L. (née Levy), ; United States. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Reform Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Neuwied (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were comprised as speeches from 1997-2001. Brief description of family history. Recollections of the Neuwied Reformed Jewish community. Liselotte attended the Jewish school. Description of domestic life with a nanny and religious traditions. Nazis and preparation of their parents for the children's emigration. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom 1938 (Kristallnacht). The family was arrested and their father beaten up so brutally that he died two weeks later. Liselotte and her younger brother Leo were sent to relatives in the US in 1939. Her brother joined the US army. Their mother and sister stayed in Germany and probably perished during the Holocaust. Description of life with relatives in the United States. Courtship and marriage to Leo Weil.
    Description / Table of Contents: Talk given by Liselotte Weil, July 9, 1997 [in New Orleans]; 5 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sermon by Liselotte Weil at Temple Sinai, New Orleans, on Dec. 7, 2001; 4 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: In memory of my brother, Aug. 19, 1998; 5 pages.
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    Froehlich-Schipper family history. (2001)
    [New Jersey] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 36 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: 21 pages of illustrations (copies)
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Froehlich, Andreas. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; Rescue. ; Netherlands Ethnic relations. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The story of surviving the Holocaust in North-Holland from mid-1943 to May 1945 with the Dutch underground, as told 53 years later by Sabine Schipper, née Froehlich to her daughter.
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    Poldi's memoirs : [1883-1958]. (2001)
    Maplewood, N.J. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 73 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Moskiewicz, Else, ; Hirschfeld, Rahel. ; Hirschfeld family. ; Samolewitz, Moritz (Moshe), ; Samolewitz, Leopold, ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Families. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Antisemitism. ; Social classes. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Translation from the original German by Leopold's son Harvey W. Samo, formerly Hans Werner Samolewitz, and his wife Eva Samo, née Isaac-Krieger.
    Abstract: The memoirs of Leopold Samolewitz were written during 1956 to 1958 in Jerusalem. Reflections on the author's identity as a German-Jewish emigre. Description of life in Imperial Germany at the turn-of-the century. Relationship between social classes and gender roles. Reflections on the Jewish community in Berlin and the differences between Eastern and Western Jews. Jewish influence on the cultural life in Berlin. Reflections on antisemitism. German Jewish life in a Christian surroundings. Reflections on his religious standing. History of German Jews and emancipation.
    Abstract: Description of his father's orthodox family background. Moritz Samolewitz was born 1840 in Gollub, a small town between Russia and Poland, where Jewish life was restricted. He moved to Berlin with his wife Rahel and they struggled to make a living. Birth of their children Isidor, Georg, Martha and Leopold. Description of the author's childhood in an orthodox Jewish home. His parents established a shoe and clothing business. Recreation at the spas of Bad Teplitz and Bad Kissingen. Living conditions in a working-class neighborhood. At age 6 Leopold attended the religious school of Israel Hildesheimer. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah. He was enrolled in the Humbold Gymnasium. After some antisemitic incidents as the only Jewish student at school Leopold transferred to the Sophien Gymnasium, where he graduated in 1902. He enrolled at university as a law student. Recollections of the author's encounter with antisemitism as a student. He was a member of the student fraternity "Freie Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung". Military service with the "Garde Regiment" in Bavaria. In 1912 he married his fiance Else Moskiewicz, who was a passionate art collector. The couple had two sons. Leopold served and was wounded during World War One. During his thriving career as a lawyer he was offered a position as a judge on the condition to be baptized, which he refused. During the night of the November pogrom in 1938 he was hidden with his wife at the house of a German family and spared deportation. In 1939 he left Germany with his wife and they emigrated to Palestine, where their son Kurt had established himself. Leopold Samolewitz took classes in Hebrew, English as well as British and Jewish law and passed the bar examination to start working again at age 58. Addendum: Completions of his son Harvey W. Samo (Hans Werner Samolewitz) on his father's life.
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    My life : [1927-1990]. (2000)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Rothstein, Esther. ; Storch, Baruch. ; Storch family. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Textile industry. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in Israel in the 1990s. Phillippe Storch's father Baruch was born 1887 in Galicia. He came to Hannover at age 13 and started his own business in 1907. His ready-made men's clothing had great success and expanded within the years. He met his future wife Deborah, née Horowitz in Hannover, where she had moved with her father from Galicia. They married in 1912. Phillippe was the youngest of four children. His father Baruch, an orthodox Jew, was a strict but a just and kind-hearted man. He was a fervent German patriot and an admirer of German culture, which left him blind folded to the events of the Nazi era and ultimately led to his end in Auschwitz. The children were brought up with German education. Phillippe's older brother Sally was a member of Agudat Yisroel and prepared himself for emigration to Palestine (hakhsharah), which their father strongly opposed. Despite the anti-Jewish boycott the business still continued to do well until 1938. With the "Kristallnacht" on November 9th 1938 things deteriorated rapidly. The family, who had been granted German citizenship, became stateless. During "Kristallnacht" the entire apartment and their shop were devastated. In 1939 Phillippe joined a children's transport to the Netherlands. 1940 the Germans entered the Netherlands. Phillippe's brother Sally and his sister Martha crossed the border illegally to Belgium, where Sally contracted TB and died shortly after the Germans entered the country. Through the help of the "Resistence" Phillippe was reunited with his sister and mother in Antwerp, Belgium. They managed to get to Southern France, where their mother died of exhaustion. Through adventurous circumstances Phillippe managed to cross the border to Switzerland together with his sister and her husband.
    Abstract: He was taken to a military camp near Zurich. It was in poor conditions, but they had a rich cultural life due to many famous inmates such as the singer Josef Schmidt and the writer Manes Sperber. Transfer to a family camp in Morgin, where he got married to his inmate Esther Rothstein. Post-war life in France. 1946 birth of his oldest son Sami in Lyon. French citizenship in 1949. Emerging textile business. Business travels to Israel. Emigration to Brazil in 1952. Export business with his friend Shloyme Draenger.
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 12 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2000
    Keywords: Tepper, Elsa, ; Tepper, Minna. ; Tepper, Wilhelm, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Salaspils (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Lauenburg (Germany) ; Rīga (Latvia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1946 in Austria, shortly after her liberation. Minna recalls her deportation in February 1942. She was taken to Riga together with her parents and her husband. Her mother was killed upon their arrival. Her father and her husband were taken to Salaspils for forced labor, where the later perished. Minna, who was pregnant with her first child, was forced to undergo an abortion. She describes her experiences of Nazi sadism in the Ghetto of Riga, especially by the Ghetto commanders Krause and Roschmann. In 1943 Minna was taken for peat cutting labor to Olaine. In November 1943 Minna and her father were reunited at the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga. From there both were taken to Spilve - a labor camp at a German air base, which was under worse conditions than the first camp. They worked in the cold without appropriate shoes and in thin clothes. Due to the exhausting conditions Minna's father Wilhelm was getting weaker and eventually was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. Minna was taken to Stutthof, which was overcrowded and in primitive conditions. They were taken to an exterior labor camp, where they had to build trenches for the German defense in the rain and cold. They suffered of constant hunger. In January 1945 the camp was dissolved and all sick and disabled were killed. They were marched under exhausting conditions in the snow and cold. For all missing women ten others were chosen randomly to be killed. After a week Minna was finally too exhausted to continue walking and stayed behind. The guard who was supposed to kill her fired the bullet over her head and left her for dead in the snow. She was rescued and brought to a house, where she was given food and a place to sleep. She was discovered by a German police officer, who was about to shoot her along with other Jewish fugitives. Minna was saved by her Viennese accent, which convinced him that she was a gentile woman.
    Abstract: She was taken to a mobile army hospital and treated for her frozen feet. In March 1945 Minna was liberated in Lauenburg, Prussia, where she was sent by German hospitals as an unidentified Jewish patient.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Nini Ungar's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1536.
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    Escape from the Holocaust. (2000)
    Charleston, SC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript, copies.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Antisemitism History 20th century. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir was written for a Holocaust Survivors' Webpage for people who went to Hunter College High School, New York City, NY. Lisa F. Barclay's memoir is short and concise. She talks briefly about her family's background and her childhood in pre-war Vienna. The "Anschluss" of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938 changed everything. The family was forced to emigrate. Her parents were a mixed couple - the father Jewish, the mother a Catholic. They got help from a number of Catholic friends, which gave them a few more options than a Jewish family. They got the US affidavit through an American relative, but had to wait long for the actual visas, since her father was born in Hungary and therefore considered under the quota for Hungarian citizens. After leaving Austria in 1938, they temporarliy lived in Paris, France, and Lisbon, Portugal. The memoir ends with a description of the living conditions after their arrival in New York.
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    Family saga, (2000)
    Scarsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 114 pages + appendix : , typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Ripp, Norbert. ; Ripp, Herbert. ; Geller, Regina, 1898- ; Ripp, Paul, 1898- ; Geller, Benno (Ben Zion) ; Atran, Frank. ; Ripp, Joseph, ; Ripp family. ; United States. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Saint Paul (Minn.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In his memoir, Joseph Ripp decribes "some of the events that drove them out of Europe and brought them to safety in the United States". He describes the fate of each family member, and their later lives in the United States. Then Joseph Ripp focuses on the time of persecution thorugh the Nazis. In school they were taught the discriminatory racial doctrines, in the outside world his father's business suffered from all different kinds of assaults on his property. It became clear that they had to emigrate. In 1938, young Joseph could take part in a small program sponsered by the American Jewish community which enabld a few hundred children from Germany to escape. He was about to end up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that, they made a stop in New York, where he stayed with his aunt Bertha Geller. He describes how impressed he was by all the new things he got to see in New York. After his arrival, he took on several jobs to help his family survive the struggles of war. The memoir moves back to Nazi-Germany and its persecution of Jews. There is an account of Kristallnight and Joseph Ripp's brothers' escape to Holland and England. His parents are dispersed over Europe, his father being held at St. Cyprien internment camp in France, his mother stuck in Antwerp, Belgium. Finally there is a family re-union in the USA. Joesph Ripp then writes about his family's fate in the US. He joins the army and combats in Europe. He receives education from Columbia University, and then meets his future wife, Mimi, a refugee child as well. Both go back to Europe in the 1950s. Joseph Ripp accepted a job offer in Brussels, Belgium, from his wife's uncle. The memoir closes with the upbringing of the next generation. There are several family photos and documents included in the appendix.
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    Mi ultimo testimonio. (2000)
    Santiago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 16 + 16 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Seelenberger, Albert, ; Seelenberger, Martha, ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Furniture industry and trade. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Chile Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Grünstadt (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain recollections of the Nazi terror during the November pogrom night of 1938. The author's father Albert Seelenberger was the owner of a large furniture factory. After the take-over by the Nazis Albert and his wife Martha were detained for the first time in 1934 in order to force them to give up their property. Description of Nazi laws and anti-Jewish regulations. Impact of the Nuremberg laws on the Seelenberger family. Albert Seelenberger was arrested in the night of the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) and deported together with his son Gustav to Dachau concentration camp. Description of torture and abuse and the agonizing circumstances of life in the camp. After their release the family tried to organize exit visas. Gustav Seelenberger emigrated to Chile in June 1939. His parents, who were to follow shortly thereafter, were deported to Auschwitz and Majdanek, where they perished.
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    Survival : 1933-1945. (2000)
    Rockville, MD :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 193 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Kaufmann family. ; Moritz, Klara Kaufmann. ; Moritz, Ludwig David, ; Moritz family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Les Milles (Concentration camp) ; Œuvre de secours aux enfants (France) ; Antisemitism. ; Education 1933-1945. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Becherbach (Germany) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Issoudun (France) ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography in German, French and English with illustrations by the author and reproductions of photos and documents.
    Abstract: Family history in Becherbach, Germany going back to the 18th century. The author's father Ludwig David Moritz served in World War One. He got married to Klara Kaufmann in 1929. Birth of their sons Alfred and Ernst. Rise of Nazism. In 1936 Alfred was enrolled in the public school of Becherbach. Confrontation with anti-Jewish laws and regulations. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the maternal Kaufmann family in Cologne. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and arrest of his father. Ludwig Moritz was taken to Dachau concentration camp, where he was interned for three months. His sons Alfred and Ernst were taken to safety by their uncle Hermann Wolf in Luxemburg. His parents followed after the release of their father from Dachau. German invasion of Belgium, Luxemburg and France in 1940. Escape to Southern France. Ludwig Moritz was interned in the camp Les Milles near Aix en Provence. Alfred and Ernst were enrolled in the local public school in St. Lizaigne. Life in hiding in Issoudun, where their father's brother had a clothes business. Alfred and Ernst were sent to the Jewish children relief organization OSE (Oeuvre de Secours de l'Enfance). With support of the French resistence movement new identity cards were issued for the two siblings, which stated them being of French descendent. Life in hiding in the countryside of Vernoux/Vivarais. They were enrolled in a public school and in the local Catholic sunday school of Vernoux. End of the war and final reunion with their parents.
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    Gehen, Bleiben, Schreiben : - eine Korrespondenzanalyse zur Flucht deutscher Juden aus NS-Deutschland. (2000)
    Osnabrueck :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 302 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Block family. ; Höxter family. ; Klein family. ; Klee family. ; Lowenstein family. ; Sichel family. ; Stern family. ; Weil family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees Correspondence. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Dissertation, University of Osnabrueck, 2000. Analysis of correspondence of various German Jewish families during the Nazi regime regarding the decision process for emigration or flight.
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    "Was wir zur Nazizeit erlebt haben, war grausam" : Flucht vor dem Holocaust, exemplarisch dargestellt an ehemaligen juedischen Mitbuergern der Stadt Schweinfurt. (1999)
    Schweinfurt :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 32 + 4 pages : , typescript (photocopies); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Janai, Ilse. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945 ; Schweinfurt (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Term paper for a history class at the German high school Olympia-Morata Gymnasium in Schweinfurt: history of the Nazi time and the life of surviving Jewish citizens of Schweinfurt.
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    A measure of time : my family chronicle (1999)
    London,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 216 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Jacobus, Jackie, ; Rosenthal family. ; Heymann, Lila, ; Melchior, Moses, ; Heymann, Georg, ; Eichenberg, Ausguste Elisabeth, ; Schwarzschild family. ; Picard, Henny, ; Picard, Lucien, ; Alexander, Alfred, ; Alexander family. ; Families 19th century. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Lawyers. ; Nurses. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: John Alexander describes the family history - reaching back to ancestors in the early 16th century. The author's paternal grandfather Alfred Alexander, born 1880 in Bamberg, was a physician. In 1909 he married Henny Picard, daughter of the well known banker Lucien Picard and his wife Amalie Schwarzschild. Schwarzschild family tree with ancestors traced back to the 16th century. Alfred and Henny Alexander had 4 children - the youngest two were the twins Hanns and Paul, born 1917 in Berlin. They were living in an elegant apartment, which also contained the consultation room of Alfred Alexander's office. In 1923 Alfred founded a clinic for leukaemia patients, which acquired excellent reputation. In 1936 they emigrated to England, where Alfred continued to practice. His sons Hanns and Paul Alexander volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and fought against the Germans in France and Belgium.
    Abstract: The appendix contains journal excerpts from Alfred Alexander and Lucien Picard.
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    Momma's arc / (1999)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 94 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Ensel, Judah. ; Harnish, Clara. ; Harnish, Franz. ; Leitner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Mauthner, Herbert, ; Mauthner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Weinberg family. ; Weinberg, Guy. ; Civil disobedience ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Blaricum (Netherlands) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Thuringia (Germany) ; Veszprém (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.
    Abstract: Description of the author's childhood in Amsterdam. German invasion of the Netherlands in 1941. Recollections of a visit at her maternal grandparents in Groszbuch, Germany in 1942. During the Nazi occupation, Julia, her mother, and her stepfather Herbert Mauthner moved to Blaricum, a town in the Dutch countryside. Julia, protected through her Gentile mother and "unknown" father, was enrolled in the local school. Her mother was part of the Dutch Resistance. She saved 6 Jews (including her husband and her mother-in-law) and later a German Wehrmacht deserter in Blaricum by hiding them in the attic of her house. Description of the life of the people hiding in "her mother's arc" and occasional razzias by the SS. Fate of her scattered family during the Holocaust.
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    My story : [1915-1999]. (1999)
    Cadwell, NJ,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 101 pages.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Gutmann, Jakob, ; Pick, Margarethe, ; Pick family ; Rothberger, Bertha ; Rothberger family ; Schulhof family ; Weil family ; United States. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Engineers. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Families 20th century. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Ohio. ; Vienna (Austria) ; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army.
    Abstract: He served in England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.
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    Where the wolves say goodnight : Memoirs of a mother Hitler couldn't catch (1999)
    La Quinta, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 153 pages : , typescript, photocopy.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Abraham, Walter. ; Fromm, Frieda. ; Fromm, Meyer. ; Nickel, Maria. ; Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, Berlin (1933-1941) ; Antisemitism. ; Dressmakers. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1918 ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lubawa (Poland) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1999 in California. Memories of Ruth Abraham's childhood in Löbau, West Prussia. She grew up in an orthodox family. Her father, Meyer Fromm, was a wealthy merchant. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish holidays. Relationship between the Jewish and Christian community. Antisemitism after World War One, when Löbau became Polish. Rumors of pogroms in Russia. Opting for German citizenship and move to Allenstein near Koenigsberg in 1921. Early interest in dressmaking. Ruth was enrolled in the Luisen Schule, a homemaking school for girls. Private Religion and Hebrew classes at home. Importance of family ties. Increasing encounters of alienation with non-Jewish friends, who stopped associating with her. Rising Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism. Apprenticeship at the family's dressmaker. First signs of the growing danger in Germany. In 1932 her sister Betty left for Palestine. Move to Berlin, where she stayed at her sisters' houses, who were both married to affluent business men and led the lives of comfortable middle class wives. Fascinating cultural life in Berlin. Working with various dressmakers. Jewish life slowly disappeared into private life due to fears of stirring attention. Increasing persecution and awareness of permanent danger. Zionist lectures and activities. Trip to Italy and Palestine to visit her sister in February 1938. Witnessing the terror of the "Kristallnacht" (November Pogrom). Attending performances of the Kulturbund (Jewish arts society) to escape the dreadful reality. Engagement with Walter Abraham. Fervent attempts to arrange an exit visa for the family. First deportations of relatives to camps in Poland. Forced labor in a pharmacy corporation. In 1942 Ruth became pregnant. Deportation of her parents. Encounter with a German woman, Maria Nickel, who offered her help. Birth of their daughter Reha and life in hiding in the countryside. Escape from a SS raid. Hiding in Berlin and life on the streets.
    Abstract: False identity and hiding place in the countryside. Liberation by the Russian army. Imprisonment of her husband accused of being a Nazi spy. Return to Berlin and liberation by the Americans.
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    Rosemarie : A memoir (1999)
    West Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 96 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Deutschland family. ; Joseph, Hans. ; Land family. ; Bloomsbury House. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Medical technology. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; England. ; Lake Carmel (N.Y.) ; West Palm Beach (Fla.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the life of Rosemarie L. Joseph from her happy childhood in Germany, the danger during the Nazi Regime, the immigration to the USA, until her retirement in Florida, narrated in 11 chapters and illustrated with photographs and figures showing family members and documents.
    Abstract: Rosemarie Joseph describes her family and their life in Berlin. The father was a businessman, dealing with women’s clothes. The author writes about her years at a public school, where she met anti-Semitism for the first time. Later she went to a private school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The memoir deals with the upcoming Nazi Regime and describes how the family experienced anti-Semitism, the terror, despair and confusion; especially the events of the “Reichskristallnacht” and the efforts to emigrate are described. Eventually Rosemarie was able to go to London, which was made possible by the Bloomsbury House, which offered older children, who were not eligible for the “Kindertransport”, to escape to Great Britain. The memoir tells about the escape of Rosemarie’s parents. Her father was born in Danzig, which was considered a free State by Hitler after the war began. Therefore Hartwig Deutschland received a “Danzig Quota” number 7 for travel to America and the couple left Germany immediately and soon arrived in New York. Shortly afterwards Rosemarie got a visa to enter the USA, too.
    Abstract: The memoir tells about her first years in the USA, her job as a pediatrics nurse at the Israel Zion Hospital, her job caring for a small child, her years studying at Hunter College, her job at the Blood Bank at University Hospital as well as how she met her husband Hans Joseph. She was lucky to get a grant of $1,800.00 from the Educational Foundation for Jewish Girls and so she was able to enroll at the Polyclinic Hospital and Medical School for one year. After passing the Registry Exam she was allowed to work as a Medical Technologist of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Her first job then was at a private medical laboratory in Brooklyn. 1952 she started to work part time at the Jewish Memorial Hospital, which soon turned into a full time job. She worked there until 1982. Furthermore Rosemarie writes about her struggle to get a child. Finally the couple adopted two boys, Claude and Andrew. The memoir gives account of the family’s decision to buy a house at Lake Carmel in Putnam county, N.Y., their animals, the family life, how Rosemarie started oil painting, her retirement, her voluntary work at the Residential Treatment Center for autistic children, the death of her husband, a new relationship; and finally her move to West Palm Beach, Florida and her life there, together with a lot of volunteer activities, music and trips to several places in the USA and Europe. Finally, the memoir includes a paragraph about Rosemarie’s contribution to the Shoa Foundation with Steven Spielberg as a chairman plus a copy of the letter that Spielberg sent to Rosemarie, saying thank you for her help.
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    Biblical annihilation applied to Hitler's "final solution" in the Holocaust. (1999)
    Spring Valley, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 254 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Bible. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Judaism Doctrines. ; Theology. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Dissertation (PhD in Theology) submitted to Trinity Theological Seminary in 1999: The historical-hermeneutical study examines the relationship between the biblical use of the concept of annihilation (the elimination of people or nations because of who they are or because of their refusal to obey and worship God) and the Nazis' use of the concept of annihilation in the "Final Solution".
    Abstract: Also included are a curriculum vitae, copy of PhD degree and photo of Hannah M. Plaut.
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    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 + 34 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Altbach, Ludwig ; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) ; HIAS (Agency) ; Jews Persecutions. ; Education, Higher. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Soccer. ; Engineers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Argentina. ; Eggenburg (Austria) ; Peru. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.
    Abstract: Internment at Ellis Island and release with the support of HIAS. Arrival in Buenos Aires in October 1943 and reunition with his parents. Work for a steel company and studies of mechanical engineering at the University of La Plata. Graduation in 1949. Military coup and political instability. Walter Altbach founded his own business, which became a successful enterprise. Marriage in 1951. Move to Peru in 1967. Recollections of his first trip to Austria after his emigration in 1968.
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    Austrian memories. (1999)
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    Pages: 6 + 95 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Kellner, Dora. ; Meller, Rosza. ; Menelik ; Popper family ; Popper, Friedl ; Popper, Julius ; Popper, Laura ; Schanzer, Rosa ; Weiss, Henriette ; Weiss, Klara ; Wolkenberg, Alfred ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbruck (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism ; Education, Secondary 1918-1938. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Innsbruck (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of the physician Robert Popper, interspersed with text by others, and richly illustrated with reproductions of photographs and documents.
    Abstract: Born in 1909 in Innsbruck; brief accounts of extended family members' lives; first five years spent in Innsbruck; following childhood years spent at sanitarium in Breitenstein founded by his aunt; letter from cousin Roszika Meller of 1945 relating experiences of her family in Budapest during German occupation; includes account of cousin Erna Low of her survival in Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Neustadt-Cleve; additional memoir of Erna Low about a childhood experience; translation of his mother's account traveling in England and France during the outbreak of World War I; experience of anti-Semitism in Innsbruck; becoming a physician at the sanitarium at Breitenstein; account of life after Anschluss; account of parent's experience of Kristallnacht in Innsbruck, including translated letter from mother recounting experiences on Kristallnacht; emigration to United States in 1939; emigration of brother, parents to England in 1939; medical school in the United States.
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