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    [Memoirs by Peter Schrag, MD], (2005-2017)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 + 23 + 101 typescript pages + , digital files.
    Additional Material: one photograph :
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2018 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2005-2017
    Keywords: Schrag, Ilse, ; Szamatolski, Else, ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs 1918-1933. ; Manners and customs Nineteen forties. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: This is a collection of three essays by Dr. Peter Schrag about his family, documenting in selected details his family's transition from being refugees from Nazi Germany to being Americans. A short essay, “We were once refugees”, is followed by “Oma”, reminiscences about his grandmother Else Szamatolski, and by “My mother and me”, selected memories of his mother Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Breitenbach, Joseph; Brunell, Albert (born 1934 in Cologne); Brunell, Susi (1901-1986); Goldhaber, Maurice; Goldschmidt, Lucien; Goldhaber family; Lowenstein, Edith; Marum-Lunau, Elisabeth; Samton, Claude (born 1933 in Berlin); Samton, Peter (born 1935 in Berlin); Szamatolski , Albert (1868- ); Szamatolski , Hans (later Henry Samton, 1906-2003).
    Description / Table of Contents: We were once refugees : Reminiscences, family lore, reflections, and related residua.
    Description / Table of Contents: Oma
    Description / Table of Contents: My mother and me : Selected memories of my mother, Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag (1910-1997)
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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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    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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    A very beautiful voyage : The stories of my life (2017)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 78 pages : , typescript; illustrations
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2017 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Jews, German Families 1918-1933. ; Jews, German Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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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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    Interview with Edith Lenneberg. (2016)
    [Iowa City] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , typescript ; , 1 folder.
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Lenneberg family. ; Salomon family. ; Bombardment ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Germany Daily life 1945- ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of an interview conducted in Corrales, NM, July 13-14, 1995:
    Abstract: This interview details Edith's memories of her childhood in Hamburg during the 1920s, and her experience after Nazism came to power. She shares details of her family's customs and values, music, and the dismissal of her father Richard G. Salomon from the University of Hamburg. The social ambience of the Nazi period, schooling and friendships, touring and cultural attitudes are also addressed. Her immigration to the United States and the experience of landing in New York, as well as her postwar relations with her old German connection are also discussed.
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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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    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.
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    Kde domov můj ... : (Where is my home?) (2014)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 163 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Goldschmidt family. ; Heintschel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education. ; Families. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Czechoslovakia. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    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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    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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    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 Reinhard Helmut Lesser / (1987-2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: genealogical tables
    Year of publication: 1987-2013
    Keywords: Honig family. ; Lesser family. ; Architects Biography. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Poznań (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first 50 pages encompass Lesser’s memoirs from his birth to ca. 1920; his further life is then described by his daughter, Margaret Lesser Bach.
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    Alcantara : [The diary of Joseph Winn], (2013)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 160 pages : , e-file.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Winn family. ; Winn family. ; Czech literature 20th century. ; Jewish exiled authors. ; Jews ; Psychiatrists. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts. ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Diaries.
    Abstract: Annotated English translation of Joseph Winn's diary, 1962-1971, pepared from the original Czech, German, English, French, and Latin by his daughter Marie Winn in 2012-2013.
    URL: [The diary of Joseph Winn]
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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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    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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    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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    An extra-ordinary woman. (2007)
    New York, NY,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 437 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Jewish families Conduct of life 1918-1933. ; Jews Social life and customs ; Wolfenbüttel (Germany) ; Guayaquil (Ecuador) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Told by her daughter, the extraordinary woman is Ruth Spier from Wolfenbuettel in Westphalia (Germany). Her husband Alfred died at the beginning of the Nazi era and left her with two small daughters. The family emigrated to Ecuador, settling in Guayaquil, before finding their way to Washington Heights in New York City.
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    Frankenau : A 48 hour sacred moment in time. (2007)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Torah scrolls. ; Frankenau (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
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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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    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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    We came to America : Memoirs of a refugee child. (2005)
    Hartsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 + 16 + 12 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Frank, Werner L. ; Geissmar, David Jacob. ; Geissmar, Johanna, ; Oppenheimer, Clemens. ; Oppenheimer, Mina (née Adler) ; Oppenheimer, Max, ; Plotnik, Marlies (née Wolf), ; Wolf family. ; Wolf, Hermann David, ; Wolf, Paul Jacob. ; Wolf, Theodor. ; Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. ; Queen Mary (Steamship) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Lawyers. ; Leather industry and trade ; Darmstadt (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the Wolf family's arrival in New York City in February 1939, including a brief description of the ship Queen Mary. Then the memoir jumps back in time, to the year 1933:.fFamily life, their live-in maid who had to leave the family in 1937. The two older siblings Paul and Ellen were exposed to anti-Semitism in their schools, and were sent by their parents to an international boarding school and a Jewish school respectively. Marlies Plotnik then talks about her grandparents and the family's leather business, Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. She recollects the events of Kristallnacht in Darmstadt. She saw that both the conservative and orthodox synagogues were ablaze. It follows a detailed genealogical description of her family background. Then "Life in Pre-Hitler Darmstadt" is covered. Marlies Plotnik writes about the daily routine of her middle class family. Her parents attended the cultural events of Darmstadt, theater, the ball season, etc. The second part of the memoir is dedicated to the departure from Germany, the emigration via England, and the immigration into the USA. The family settled in Washington Heights, as did so many other Jewish families from Germany. Attached are family pedigrees, family photographs, passports (copies), and documents.
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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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    1938 : the end of the beginning (2005)
    Jamestown, RI :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 106 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Antisemitism ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution. ; Women Education. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The writing covers eight months, from February 1938 until September 15, 1938, when the family emigrated via airplane to London, England. The first chapter starts in February 1938, the day of Lisl's birthday. The author uses a fictional style throughout the memoir, naming herself Lisl instead of "I". The days following the Anschluss are described in detail: the persecution, being expelled from school, the arrest of her father--all from a child's perspective. A brief "epilogue" tells about Lisl taking pre-med classes at Canterbury College; and the family obtaining visas to the US and settling down in Los Angeles.
    Abstract: Also included are family and childhood photographs from the years in Austria and a few pictures from the time in the USA.
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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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    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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    My life's journey. (2005)
    West Newton, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Prister family. ; Schein family. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration. ; La Paz (Bolivia) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Silesia. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs with photographs and a family tree of the Schein-Prister family.
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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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    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.
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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, (2003)
    Silver Spring, MD :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Levi, Minna (née Stein) ; Bernheimer family. ; Tannhauser family. ; Weil family. ; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin (1933-1943) ; Clothing trade. ; Textile industry. ; Textile fabrics. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Buttenhausen (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Leopold Levi, translated by Werner Blumenthal.
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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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    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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    Stories : [ca. 1866-2001]. (2003)
    Pound Ridge, NY,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 290 pages : , printed and bound manuscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Jews ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Family history written for Renata Manasse Schwebel's grandchildren
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    A brief history of the Arnstein family : (For Katharine Arnstein) (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Arnstein family. ; Arnstein, Gustav, ; Arnstein, Leopold, ; Arnstein, Richard, ; Jewish families ; Jewish printers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Sulzbach (Saarland, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Arnstein family, dating back to Seckel Arnstein in 1751 and his ancestor Ahron Fraenkel in 1645, who established a printing press business in 1699. Seckel Arnstein continued the business of printing of Hebrew bibles, which became famous all over Central and Eastern Europe under the name “S. Arnstein & Sons”. Another predecessor, Leopold Arnstein, founded a dry goods store under the name “Leopold Arnstein & Sons”. Family history of Gustav and Richard Arnstein, the grandfather and father of the author. Gustav Arnstein was born in Sulzbach and raised his family together with his wife Nanette, née Luber, in Wertheim. Later they moved to Stuttgart. In 1907 Gustav Arnstein founded a security business (“Nachtwach- und Schliessdienst”) for local stores and factories. Assimilated life style. World War One. Marriage of the author’s parents Richard and Charlotte, née Heymann. Post-war depression and rise of Nazi movement. Immigration to the United States.
    Abstract: The following individuals are named: Arnstein, Seckel, 1751-1825 ; Auer, Ignatz ; Heymann, Berthold ; Heymann, Charlotte ; Luber, Nanette ; Spitzer, Franz.
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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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    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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    [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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    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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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    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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    My life. Memoirs of Irma Reiss, 1910-2000 / (2001)
    Highland Park, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 56 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Goldblum family. ; Reiss, Leonhard. ; Agudat Israel. ; Blau-Weiss Bund fuer Juedisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland (1913- ) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1986 in the USA and was edited by the author's son Nathan M. Reiss. Irma Reiss was the second child of three of Bertha and Leopold Goldblum. The family lived Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, which had a small Jewish community. Her father was a shoemaker. Description of domestic life in rural Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Recollection of Sabbath preparations in her family. Memories of school life. Hebrew lessons with her uncle Friedmann, who was the cantor and shochet of the town. Visits to relatives in Rossdorf by Darmstadt. Recollections of World War One. Her father Leopold, an Austrian citizen from Galicia, served in the Austrian Army. Celebration of the high holidays. Recollection of Irma Reiss' schooldays in Heppenheim, where she was a well-liked student. Irma and her sister were members of the local Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss". Their group leaders were Rafael and Eva Buber, children of Martin Buber, who lived in Heppenheim and was very supportive of the youth movement. At age 14 Irma was sent to her uncle's family to help taking care of the children. She took continued education classes. Afterwards she worked as a "house daughter" with a religious family in Frankfurt. Irma became a member of the Agudas Yisroel. After the Nazi take-over in Germany their American relatives provided them with affidavits to join them in the States. Growing anti-Semitism. Irma Goldblum left Germany on September 15th, 1938. Her parents stayed behind because her father, who was born in Galicia, still had to wait for his affidavit due to the Polish quota regulations. Difficulties in starting a new life in New York. Worries about her parents in Germany. During the night of the November Pogrom in 1938 her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After three weeks he was released and was able to leave together with his wife for the States. Support of their relatives to start a new life.
    Abstract: Irma Goldblum got married to Leonhard Reiss in December 1939. Thei had two sons, Nathan and Barry Reiss.
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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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    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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    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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    The Terrace memoirs. (2000)
    Laguna Beach, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 136 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Bondy, Curt, ; Warmbrunn family. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Diary from childhood to old age (as described in the biographical note), which includes a few family photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s.
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    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
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    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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    Momma's arc / (1999)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    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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    Ibmemoirs : [The memoirs of Inge Brenner]. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 , pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Dreifus, Claudia. ; Jewish families 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In a memoir written for her daughters, Inge (Irene) Brenner recounts her family’s history, growing up in Berlin with her parents, her maternal grandfather Samuel Oppenheimer and her two sisters, Lony (born 1913) and Marianne (born 1922). She tells of the hardship that befell Jewish families after the Nazis’ rise to power. Her sister Lony left for Paris in 1933 and later worked as a secretary for the Zionist politician Vladimir Jabotinsky. Inge met her future husband Hans (Harold) Brenner in 1937 in Berlin; he was able to immigrate with the help of an American cousin and sent for Inge soon after Kristallnacht. They met in Havana, Cuba, and were married there. He returned to New York while Inge waited for her visa in Cuba, then entered the United States via Miami. Hans and Inge lived in a small apartment in Washington Heights, eventually joined by his parents as well as Inge’s parents and younger sister Marianne. When Lony and her husband Maurice arrived from Paris, they started a small business that employed several members of the family. Hans and Inge had two daughters, Barbara and Jessica; Maurice and Lony had one daughter named Linda. Inge also describes her younger sister’s life in some detail. Marianne, in an ultimately broken marriage with Henry Dreifus, gave birth to her only daughter at the age of 22. Claudia Dreifus was raised until the age of eight by her grandmother, Emma Willdorff, and later by her father and step-mother. Marianne went on to suffer a nervous breakdown, followed by a severe car accident. She spent her final years living in Reno with her second husband Aram Jorjorian. Following a second divorce, Marianne died at age 55.
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    The life and times of Joseph F. Aschner (Hietzinger Gymnasium 1932-38). (1999)
    [New York, NY],
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    Pages: 9 pages : , typescript +
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    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: College teachers. ; Divorce. ; Education, Elementary ; Education, Secondary ; Education, Higher ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; 13. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Bogotá (Colombia) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of family home in Vienna; study at Hietzinger Gymnasium in Vienna; Anschluss and aftermath; emigration to Colombia; life in Bogota; emigration to USA; high school and college in Chicago; army service during World War II; marriage and divorce; birth of daughter; remarriage; lives of relatives; life in retirement.
    Abstract: Also included are Joseph Aschner's questionnaires with the Austrian Heritage Collection.
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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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    Biblical annihilation applied to Hitler's "final solution" in the Holocaust. (1999)
    Spring Valley, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    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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    A measure of time : my family chronicle (1999)
    London,
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    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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    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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    Shulamith Ben Dror : Recollections 1919-1944. (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 22 + 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Anrooy, Peter van, ; Borchardt family. ; Borchardt, Ursula, ; Hermann, Georg, ; Heynemann, Martha, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Children of divorced parents. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Hilversum (Netherlands) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Schlierbach (Heidelberg, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a transcript of a taped conversation with Ursula Borchardt by George Rothschild in 1998. Description of her family background. Ursula lived with her parents in an apartment building in Schlierbach, near Heidelberg. She attended a private Jewish kindergarten. Ursula was frequently taken care of by relatives, since her parents were traveling a lot. After the early death of her mother, Ursula was taken care of by nannies. Friendly relations with her father’s first wife, the pianist Martha Heynemann and her half-siblings of that marriage. Trip to Holland via Cologne in 1929. In 1931 Ursula moved with her father to Berlin. Recollections of a somehow chaotic household, where she was left to herself frequently. She attended Tielien Schule. First signs of rising Nazism. Her father received a warning and fled to Holland during the elections in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power. Ursula was left to live with her father’s first wife, Martha. She joined her father in April of 1933 in Laren, Holland. She went to live with friends of her parents, the conductor Peter van Anrooy and his family in Hilversum. She learned Dutch and went to a Gymnasium in Hilversum. Language exchange trip to Paris in 1935 and London in 1937. German occupation. Marriage to Herbert Kalmann in 1940 and changing her name to Shulamith. Birth of their son Micky (Peter Kalmann) in 1941. Breakup with her husband in the same year and move in with her father. In 1943 they were forced to leave their apartment and move to Amsterdam. Deportation to Westerbork camp in June of 1943. Her father was deported to Auschwitz in November of 1943, where he died on arrival. Emergency affidavits for Shulamith, her son and her father arrived weeks after his deportation in Westerbork.
    Abstract: In 1944 Shulamit was transported with her son to Bergen-Belsen, where they waited for their exchange to Palestine. Description of the dreadful conditions of the camp. Start of the typhoid fever among camp inmates. In mid 1944 she was moved with her son to another part of the camp, where they were seperated from the main camp and lived under somehow improved circumstances, forming the Group 222 to be exchanged for German templars in Palestine. Transport to Palestine via Vienna and Turkey in June and July of 1944. Arrival in Haifa and start of a new life in a kibbutz.
    Abstract: Includes family tree of the Borchardt family.
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    [Synopsis] : Witness to the Holocaust. (1998)
    1998 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Compilation of memoirs written by Holocaust survivors and other writings related to the Holocaust: "here, in one definitive volume, are over one hundred spellbinding eyewitness accounts of a brutal period in history."
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    Austria before and after the Anschluss : Personal experiences, observations and comments (1998)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 46 + 252 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Jews Persecution 1930-1939. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Pharmacology. ; Physicians ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Sweden. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain observations and reflections on the events before and during the Nazi period in Austria (circa 1914-1994). Also included are David Lehr's CV and a bibliography of his writings.
    Abstract: Early childhood recollections during World War One. Detailed account of the fate of his uncles as soldiers during the war. Experiences of antisemitism during David Lehr's schoolyears at Gymnasium and anti-Jewish riots at university. Detailed account of his years as a medical student and his internship in the Wiedner hospital. Friendship with the Gentile family of Alma N. Graduation from Medical School in May 1935. David obtained a position as a faculty member of the Pharmacological Institute of the Vienna University. Recollections of the civil war of 1934 and the declaration of the autocratic Christian Democratic regime. His plans to leave Austria as early as in 1937 were met with discouragement in his family. Quotations of contemporary literature on Austria's history during the Nazi period and critical remarks. Recollections of the "Anschluss" in 1938. David was expelled from his position at the faculty soon thereafter. Detailed account of life in Nazi-Vienna. Arrest of his father and uncle. Experience at the Gestapo headquaters in an attempt to free his father. David was rounded up by SA stormtroups in the streets and forced to clean streets, but was released due to his professsion. He worked as a volunteer in the Rothschildspital (Jewish hospital). Recollections of a Goebbles speach in Vienna.
    Abstract: With the help of a former colleague in Sweden, Maya Stroemberg-Grossman, David received an official invitation from the Medical School in Lund. Detailed account of the procedures to obtain his papers. He emigrated to Sweden in July 1938 and came to the United States after the war. Addendum: Reflections on post-war Austria and its reluctant dealing with its Nazi past. Fiftieth "Matura" anniversary with his classmates from Gymnasium 1979 in Vienna and reflections on their different biographies. Extensive thoughts about anti-semitism in Austria.
    Abstract: The following individuals and families are mentioned:
    Abstract: Bauer, Richard; Brueck family; Eiselsberg, Anton; Finsterer, Otto; Goebbels, Joseph; Gold, Ernst; Grossmann, Stefan; Prof. Hochstetter; Hohenberg, Erich; Loewenherz, Richard; Pick, Ernst Peter; Scherf, David; Schnitzler, Julius; Sternberg, Carl; Tandler, Julius; Dr. Trevani; Unna, Klaus; Unna, Paul Gerson; Weill, Kurt.
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    Marianne Lieberman's memoirs, (1998)
    Charlotte, NC,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 + 14 pages.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Euthanasia ; Vienna (Austria) ; Yugoslavia Emigration and immigration. ; Archival materials ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Manuscripts
    Abstract: In the first part of her memoir, Marianne Lieberman describes her flight from the Nazis to Maribor and further on to Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. She then writes about her return to Vienna, Austria. – In the second part she documents the life story of her schizophrenic aunt Hedwig, who was killed in the course of the Euthanasia project "T4".
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Charlotte
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: Hedwig's story
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    Through hell with a guardian angel : [1900-1998] (1998)
    Haifa,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 69 , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Hacker, Edith, ; Mengele, Josef, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camps) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Guben (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Israel Emigration and immigration after 1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Yugoslavia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoires by Dr. Ruth Gutman, written June-August 1998 in Haifa, describing mainly her family's history in Bosnia and Austria, her experiences in Yugoslavia during World War II, and her survival of Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
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    Memoirs : [1931-1998]. (1998)
    Netanya :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 54 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Drachsler family. ; Mandelstam, Lucy, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Death marches. ; Families ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first few pages describe Lucy Mandelstam's family life in Vienna, Austria. The Anschluss markes a turning point in their lives. Pages 6-24 detail her family's persecution through the Nazis, the horror of the concentration camps. The second half of the memoir details the post-war era, DP camps and her way to Palestine. The last pages summarize family events up to today.
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    Experiences of Albert Gompertz : from Nazi Germany to America. (1998)
    Palm Beach, Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 172 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Gompertz family. ; Gompertz, Leo. ; Rohrbach, Henny. ; Fur trade. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American. ; Gelsenkirchen (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography and family history of Alfred Gompertz
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    Back to the camps / (1997)
    Kailua :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 38 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Plaut family. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Voyages and travels. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Journey to the sites of former concentration camps in Poland, Germany and Austria.
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    A Bit of Family History. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Alexander family. ; Mauthner, Ernst. ; Mauthner, Fritz, ; Mauthner, Malvine. ; Straub, Hedwig. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including information on Fritz Mauthner and his wife Hedwig Straub, Ernst and Malvine Mauthner, and other Mauthner family members as well as the Alexander family in Hungary and Berlin, emigration to England and the United States, and description of post-war visits in Europe; xeroxes of handwritten letters by Fritz Mauthner.
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    My Pre-American History. (1997)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 62 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Buchbinder family. ; Israel. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Germans Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; England. ; Isle of Man. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author’s father Dr. Leon Buchbinder was a lawyer and veteran officer of World War One. He got married to Toni Hernes in 1919. After the birth of their son Martin they moved to Vienna. The author grew up in an enlightened Jewish family, celebrating the Jewish holidays. His father was a Social Democrat. Martin attended Gymnasium. Recollection of anti-Semitic remarks among his fellow students. He joined the Boy Scouts. Memories of the social democratic government In Vienna. Civil war in February of 1934 and banning of the social democratic party. Rising of National Socialism in times of unemployment and poverty. Recollections of Anschluss to Nazi Germany. Martin was forced to leave his school and enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium. Description of frequent round-ups and humiliation by Nazi troops.
    Abstract: The family decided to leave the country and prepared their emigration. Martin joined the Zionist youth movement Makkabi Hazair and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. He was sent on Hachsharah to a chicken farm in Eichgraben, in the outskirts of Vienna, in November of 1938. During Kristallnacht, they were raided by a group of local Nazi youths and sent to a large estate (Schloss Walpersdorf), where they worked alongside non-Jewish co-workers. In April of 1939 Martin was sent to England for agricultural training. He worked in Llandegveth, in South Wales. His parents were banned to emigrate to England and went on an illegal passage to Palestine. Martin was accepted at a Youth Aliyah training center in Glamorganshire and worked on farms and as a groom for a physician in Hereford.
    Abstract: In 1940 he was arrested and interned as an "enemy alien" together with other refugees: rich cultural life among his fellow internees, who were largely intellectuals and socialists. Transport to the Isle of Man due to increased fear of a German invasion. He joined the British "Habonim" in 1942 and was sent to the "Beth-Challutz" in West Hempstead. “Blitzkrieg” and recollections of the V.E. day in London. In 1946 he joined an Israeli underground group for illegal emigration to Palestine. After some weeks at sea their ship was captured by the British and Martin and his inmates were sent to a camp in Cyprus. After 11 months he was released and was finally able to be reunited with his parents, who were living in Tel-Aviv. Martin joined the army and trained to be a radio operator. Army exchange trip to the United States. Work as an instructor in the Israeli Air Force and technical exchange trip to France, where he met his future wife Maya. Wedding in 1957 in Israel. 1961 immigration to the US to join Maya's parents. Birt oh their children Elia and Danny. Martin continued his studies at NYU, eventually settling with his family in Long Island.
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    Nuts and bolts : assembling a life. (1997)
    Wahroonga :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 166 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; England. ; Japan. ; Newcastle (N.S.W.) ; Sydney (N.S.W.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Three branches of our family : 1850-1997 (1997)
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    Pages: 159 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Backer, Ellen Wolf (Ellen Ruth Wolf) ; Desman, Lise Muller (Liesel Müller) ; Kann, Emma. ; Kratzenstein, Rachel (Rosel Mueller) ; Kratzenstein family. ; Mueller family ; Wolf family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Schwetzingen (Germany) ; Sobernheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Geneology and brief histories of the Müller/Muller, Wolf/Wolfe, and Kratzenstein/Kaye families; family history, reflections on life experiences.
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    From Nuremberg to Hadley. (1997)
    Hadley, Mass. :[publisher not identified],
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    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Bamberger family. ; Friedmann, Else (née Bacharach) ; Friedmann, Max. ; Great Britain. ; Israel. ; Interior decorators. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of Friedmann's youth in Nuremberg and his emigration to Palestine and the U.S.
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    Remembering the Children of Terezin : 1942-1944. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 15 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Hirsch, Robin. ; Hollis, Jim. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay about Robin Hirsch and his book ‘Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski’. Also included are poetry and images by inmates of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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    [Memoirs] : [1922-1996]. (1996)
    Menlo Park, CA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Porat, Etka, ; Porat, Milka, ; Porat family. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kibbutzim. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicists. ; Shtetls. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clausus for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailled acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illeagal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzwah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illeagal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clauses for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailed acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illegal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illegal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: After the end of war he learned about the fate of his family, who perished in the Holocaust. Dan rejoined the Haganah after war. He got married to his wife Frieda in 1946. Continuation of his studies. Birth of his son Uri. Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. Volunteering in the War of Independence. Scholarship to study physics at Manchester University in England. Birth of his daughters Ruthi and Naomi in England. Move to USA to work as nuclear physicist at Harvard and MIT. Position as physicist at Stanford for 26 years.
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    My Life. (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Bakers. ; Collective settlements ; Death marches. ; Ghettos. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Chayim Gefen, written in 1992, translated into English by Jacob Mueller in 1996, including recollections of life in Nazi Germany, of his family's emigration to Poland, of the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation, of the confinement of his family in the ghetto of Skelicin, of his experiences in the concentration camps of Mielece in Poland and Flossenburg in Bavaria, of the death march from Flossenburg to Neustadt (on the Waldnaab), of being liberated by the American army in Stamsried, of life as a Displaced Person in Frankfurt, of his emigration to Palestine via a transit camp in Marseilles, of his stay in camp Atlith in Palestine and in Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan, and of his visit to Flossenburg on a trip back to Germany in the 1990s.
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    [I was born in Germany in 1929]. (1996)
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    Pages: 7 + 8 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
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    Keywords: Dressmakers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Telephone. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief account of father and mother; father's internment after Kristallnacht; emigration to Shanghai; life in Shanghai.
    Abstract: Also included are two texts describing her arrival in the United States in 1947 and the description of her job as a telephone operator in the United States in 1969.
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    Family histories : A collaborative enterprise. (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 67 + 5 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Warmbrunn, Reni (née Rewald) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Family reunions. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Education ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir started as a "family history" project for a planned family reunion. Contributions have been made by Olga Warmbrunn, Reni Rewald, Margaret Mehler, Clara Waldeck, Arlene Saxonhouse, and Suzanne Mehler Whiteley, and by Werner Warmbrunn, who also put the contributions together. They write about their family background, their education, their living conditions in Germany, and their emigration, mostly to the United States, but also to England and to the Netherlands.
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    My Grandparents. (1996)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 167 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Auskerin family. ; Auskerin, Else (née Compart) ; Auskerin, Josef. ; Lanner family. ; Lanner, Max. ; Lanner, Regina (née Pelz) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Breslau. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The richly illustrated story of the author’s grandparents – Josef and Else Auskerin and Max and Regine Lanner -, who all perished in the Holocaust. Also included are notes on the two couples’ siblings and children, who survived.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I [Maternal grandparents]
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II [Paternal grandparents]
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III Deportation
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV Siblings and offsprings
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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 60 + 32 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Blau, Bertha. ; Blau family. ; Dollfuss, Engelbert, ; Drucker, Kurt. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Fliegel, Hans Robert, ; Fliegel, Julius, ; Fliegel, Otto, ; Fliegel, Rosa, ; Fliegel, Wilhelm, ; Fliegel family. ; Grunwald, Max, ; Haber, Georg. ; Levi, Alice. ; Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah, ; Waldheim, Kurt. ; Dachau (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are reproductions of documents.
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    The suitcase in the garage : Letters and photographs of a German Jewish family, 1800-1950. (1996)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 380 pages : , bound private print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Ambrose family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; Stettin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Kenneth Ambrose's family from Stettin. Also mentioned are the following families: Abrahamsohn ; Buss ; Cronbach ; Waldauer.
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    No title : [1944-1945]. (1995)
    [New York, N.Y.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Romay, Andrew. ; Balf (Concentration Camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Death marches. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Andrew Romay, written in 1995, including detailed recollections of his experience in the concentration camp of Balf near Budapest, of the death march to Mauthausen, and of the liberation of Mauthausen.
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    Personal history of Edith Strauss : [1928-1995]. (1995)
    Chicago, IL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 + 5 , typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Law, Raymond E. ; Strauss, Walter J. ; Antisemitism History 20th century. ; Intermarriage. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Chicago (Ill.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: After only two paragraphs dedicated to "Pre-Holocaust Life", Edith Strauss writes about the "Anschluss", describes incidents of persecution, and the family efforts to get out of Austria. They got an affidavit by a Catholic banker from Chicago who they did not know. They emigrated to the USA via Italy. When they arrived in Chicago, there was already a furnished appartment prepared for them. Edith Strauss got married to another refugee from Nazi Germany, Walter J. Strauss. Edith describes her further life events, her education and occupation in Chicago, and their 2 children's.
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    Munich 1933-1938. (1995)
    Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 96 + 52 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: documents (photocopies)
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Katz, Richard, ; Strasser, Gregor, ; Werkleute, Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Dominican Republic Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Lucerne (Switzerland) ; Munich (Germany) ; Sosúa (Dominican Republic) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood experiences growing up in Munich after 1933; experiences of antisemitism at school; emigration to Switzerland in 1938; life in Lucerne, boarding school in Champery; internment in Swiss camp after outbreak of war; emigration to Dominican Republic in 1940; fate of family in Germany during war; life in Dominican Republic; immigration to USA in 1946.
    Abstract: Addenda: Book II: Refugee 1938-1946
    Description / Table of Contents: [Book I]: Munich 1933-1938
    Description / Table of Contents: Book II: Refugee 1938-1946
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    Closing the Circle, (1995)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 99 pages : , Typed Manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Steiner, Brigitte, ; Jewish physicians. ; Assimilation (Sociology) ; Family vacations ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945 ; Interfaith marriage ; Intermarriage. ; Steiner, Brigitte 1910. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Memoir written by Brigitte Steiner, about her immigration to New York and her assimilation into American culture during World War II. The memoir details her experience with raising her family in New York, her personal relationship with her husband, and the experience of starting her own small business of printing holiday cards. After the war is over, her mother, a holocaust survivor, comes to live with her in New York, and the memoir then captures her mother's experience in Germany during the war. The family later returns to Europe on vaction, and Brigitte describes this experience in full detail.
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    Tilly : Her story. (1995)
    [Chevy Chase, Md.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 140 + 40 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Auerbach, Rudolph. ; Rehbock family. ; Wiesenfelder family. ; Wiesenfelder, Max. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Childbirth. ; Courtship. ; Education, Primary. ; Factories. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Scarsdale (N.Y.) ; Sweden Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is a transcript of an oral history interview with Tilly Rehbock Wiesenfelder Auerbach conducted on November 28, 1994. The interview was commissioned by Ms. Auerbach’s children, Lillian Rose Brenwasser, Leslie Hugh Wiesenfelder, and Frances Jane Queller, and conducted by Ellen Robinson Epstein of the Center for Oral History.
    Abstract: Also included are genealogical tables of the extended Rehbock and Wiesenfelder families.
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    Sketches : [1895-1995]. (1995)
    Amherst, Massachusetts :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 52 pages : , private print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Schiffer, Ludwig, ; Schiffer, Olga, ; Schiffer family. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Lawyers. ; College teachers. ; Women authors. ; Groningen (Netherlands) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written and published in 1995. Childhood recollections of growing up in a well-to-do Jewish family in Vienna. Her father Ludwig Schiffer was a lawyer. Description of the family apartment. Private French and Piano lessons. Passion for theater. Outings to the Vienna Woods and to the skating rink. Memories of the extended family. Trips to her uncle's home in Eisenstadt. Observance of the Jewish holidays and recollections of seder celebrations at her maternal grandparents. Private lessons in French and English. Eva was enrolled in a girl's Gymnasium (high school). Exclusion from the Austrian patriotic organization "Jungvolk". Summer vacation in the Austrian Alps. Anschluss in 1938. Friends from the Netherlands convinced her parents to send her and her brother to live with them in Groningen. In Vienna her father was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Eva's mother fervently prepared their emigration, and after her husband's release they joined their children in the Netherlands. Emigration to the USA via England in September 1939. Move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father attended Law School at Harvard at age 43. Eva's mother opened a Viennese coffeehouse (the "Window shop") with her friend Alice Perutz to support the family. After her father's graduation the family moved to New York. Experiences of antisemitism. Eva enrolled at Radcliffe college. Death of her father in 1961. Studies of comparative literature at Harvard University. Eva Schiffer became a professor of German literature at the University of Massachusetts and had various visiting professorships in Germany.
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    Memories of Nelly Levy Berg : Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948 (1995)
    Houston, Texas :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Dannenbaum family. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Schneidemuhl (Pila) ; Houston (Tex.) ; Piła (Poland) ; Trzcianka (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in Behle in 1910, Nelly Levy Berg moved with her family to Schoenlanke in 1913; detailed description of home in Schoenlanke; Jewish life in Schoenlanke; move to grandparents' house in Schrotz after World War I; geneology of the Dannenbaum family; childhood memories; after death of father in 1929, move to Schneidemuehl; meets husband Siegfried; move to Berlin in 1933; immigration to USA in 1938; life and work in Houston; immigration of family members to USA; marriage in 1939; birth of children; list of family members who died in the Holocaust; Lorraine Wulfe's account of trip to Schoenlanke and Schneidemuehl in 1975; map of Schoenlanke in 1920's.
    Abstract: The text is interspersed with reproductions of photographs; a map and a family tree; and a glossary of German terms.
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    Through the eyes of a child. (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Plaut, Werner. ; Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of childhood after 1933; life in Duesseldorf, Stuttgart; immgiration to USA; problems coping with emigration, adjusting to life in USA; encounters with anti-Semitism; visit to Yad Vashem; reflections on Holocaust, God.
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    Everyone has a story to tell - This is mine, (1995)
    Houston, TX,
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    Pages: 67 pages : , Typed manuscript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Liebenthal, Edith (née Friedler) ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Women authors. ; Vienna (Austria) ; England Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edith Liebenthal starts her memoir with description of Vienna where she was born. She describes famous buildings, and buildings that were important to her personally. She states that "living in Vienna and attending school there imbued me with a sense of pride, even love, for the city and country of my birth". She discusses art in Austria which she thinks of as the greatest source of pride. Her family had a clear bourgeois background, being involved in Vienna's rich cultural life. The family went on summer vacations, and during winter had skiing vacations in the Alps. Her harmonic childhood but suddenly disrupted by the Anschluss. Her father lost his job and her mother lost her customers. They had no friends in the US to get an affidavit, but a childhood friend of her father's finally guaranteed for them. Edith escaped on a Kindertransport to England, where she stayed with the Kingdon family in Bristol. Her parents managed to get domestic visas in England. Although only staying in England for 15 months, this period of time had the greatest impact on her life, as Ms. Liebenthal notes in her memoir. She writes about her days at school, different eating habits in Britain, the outbreak of the war, and a temporary reunion with her parents. After the outbreak of World War 2, she had to leave Bristol within 3 days, because it was declared an "alien protected area". Still, she could graduate from high school. Then the visas arrived, and after some obstacles they made it to New York on the liner "Cameronia". She found a job immediately, through a girl she had befriended on the ship. During the first weeks she sustained the family financially. However, it was difficult for her to befriend new people. In March 1947, she met Kurt, her future husband. They married one year later. The remaining chapters cover the first years of marriage, her job as social security administrator, her retirement years in Houston, Texas.
    Abstract: The memoir ends with a portrait of the Friedler family and includes a pedigree on the last page.
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    Exclusion, dispersal, extermination : Jews in Schwerin 1933-1945. (1995)
    Schwerin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 35 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Schwerin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: History of Jews in Schwerin 1933-1945, translated by Rolf Meyersohn.
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    A Time of Fear, (1995)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 pages : , Typed Manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Stein family. ; Steiner family. ; Antisemitism ; Interfaith marriage ; Jewish physicians. ; Germany Politics and government 20th century. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: The memoir starts in the year 1932, right before Hitler's gain of power in Germany. In the following, Brigitte Steiner heavily comments on the political situation in Germany that affected them so directly, being confronted with anti-Semitism and her husband's loss of employment. The memoir ends in the year 1935, the year of her family's emigration from Germany.
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    Look back to the future : Faithful report by a contemporary, who rather endured than enjoyed the times described. (1994)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 105 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Opel, Fritz (Kaspar) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir describes Fritz Opel's experiences from 1933 to 1945. Memoir was translated by his sister Marianne Haiselden in 1994.
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    Fifty Women in a Room / (1994)
    [Vienna] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 + 300 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Niedermeier, Erna. ; Niedermeier, Max. ; Niedermeier, Heinz. ; Niedermeier, Maria. ; Polizeigefängnis Hahngasse. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women prisoners. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A slightly fictionalized account, written originally 1939 in Dovercourt, England, about Erna Niedermeier’s (later Nydon) internment in a prison in Vienna.
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    As I remember my father’s life. (1994)
    West Hartford, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 10 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Bronner, Maurice. ; Businessmen. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Scholars. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Biography of Maurice Bronner and his family, focusing on their flight from the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria to the United States.
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    Deportation vers l'est. (1994)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: French
    Pages: 5 + 131 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Marseille (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs describing the deportation from France to Auschwitz, introduced by a Curriculum vita of Jean Heinemann.
    Note: Available on microfilm , French
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    Chronicle of the Esberg/Meyerstein/Pohly families under the Holocaust. (1993)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , bound typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Esberg family. ; Meyerstein family. ; Pohly family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Holocaust victims. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables ; Genealogy
    Abstract: In addition to the Esberg/Meyerstein/Pohly families, the text also mentions the Cohn, Doblin, Eisenstein, Kaufman and Steiner families.
    Note: English
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    My life story. (1993)
    [San Francisco],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 174 pages : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: 4 pages family trees
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Gutfeld family. ; Hirschfeld family. ; Hirschfeld, Inge (née Korach) ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Gleiwitz II (Concentration camp) ; Jaworzno (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Accountants. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; San Francisco (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration after 1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lives of parents; childhood memories growing up in Berlin; Gymnasium in Berlin; studies at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Universities of Berlin, Goettingen, Koenigsberg; work at a Jewish orphanage in Koenigsberg; work as teacher in Jewish school in Berlin; travels in Europe; marriage to Inge Korach; work as a furniture handler in Berlin during deportations; recollections of Leo Baeck; deportation to Theresienstadt in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; work in camps at Gleiwitz and Jaworzno; return to Berlin May 1945; life in Berlin after the war; teaching in girls' school in Berlin; experience of wife, Inge, in Auschwitz and Merzdorf; immigration to USA; settled in San Francisco; birth of son; studied accounting; work as accountant; Jewish life in San Francisco.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Alt, Robert ; Fabian, Hans Erich ; Gutfeld, Alexander ; Hirschfeld, Erna ; Hirschfeld, Lucia ; Hirschfeld, Robert ; Schulz, Heinrich ; Torczyner, Harry.
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    The family of Joseph and Marie Adler : Jews in Germany, German Jews in America. (1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 109 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Adler family. ; Schnee family. ; Schwelm family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Wannsee-Konferenz ; Antisemitism. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Joseph Theo Adler, including family history reaching back to David Schwelm in 16th-century Frankfurt/Main, information on his family, his fighting in World War I, comments on German politics with a focus on antisemitism especially after 1933, and report on his internment in Dachau and emigration to the United States.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:
    Abstract: Adler, Marie; Baeck, Leo; Beechem, Richard; Bischheim, Simon; Ehrlich Paul; Einstein, Albert; Erzberger, Mathias; Eschelbacher, Rabbi; Ettlinger, Rolf; Feinberg, Charles; Finger, Johannes; Geisenheimer, Sigmund; Grotwohl, Abraham; Grushow, Sam; Hirsch, Emil; Hirsch, Otto; Hoffman, Hans; Jacobson, Hilde; Jacobson, Hilde; Juchacz, Lotte; Karski, Jan; Kirdorf, Emil; Levy, Rudolph; Levy, Rudolph; Long, Beckman; Metz, Theo; Mileston, Samuel; Rosskamp, Jettchen; Salomon, Elsa; Salomon, Ernst; Salomon Marie; Salomon, Martha; Salomon, Paula; Scheuer, Abraham; Schoenhof, Helene; Seligsohn, Julius; Stobbe, Horst; Toller, Ernst; Zunz, Bessle
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    [Memoirs]. (1992)
    Bronxville, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 + 9 + 5 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Adelsberger, Lucie, ; Jacubowska, Wanda. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Birkenau (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Death marches. ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Forced labor at factory; transport to Birkenau; transfer to Rajsko, near Birkenau; death march in January 1945; arrival in Ravensbruck, Malchow, Leipzig; liberation by Americans west of Elbe river; work for Americans; meets future husband; emigration to USA in 1946; description of experimental plant farm ("Kommando Pflanzenzucht") at Rajsko and inmates; description of life in camp; liquidation of camp.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    The diary of a survivor / (1992)
    Philadelphia, PA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 40 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Reichstein, Samson. ; Reichstein, Käthe. ; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish ghettos. ; Jewish refugees. ; Operation Poland, 1938 ; Translators. ; Voyages and travels. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Hannover (Germany) ; Ternopilʹ (Ukraine) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of life and death of Samson Reichstein and his wife Kaethe. Born in Tarnopol in Galicia, Austria, they moved via Vienna and Italy to Hanover, Germany. Marriage in Germany in 1918. October 1938 expulsion from Hanover due to Polish citizenship and return to Tarnopol. Atrocities by Ukrainians. Description of life in the ghetto. His wife died in the ghetto, but he managed to escape. He survived by claiming to be German. After the defeat of Nazi Germany he was employed as an interpreter by the Russians. Arrival at an UNRRA camp in Germany. Reunion with his son.
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