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  • 101
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    Spring Journey 1940.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Hospitals. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Breda (Netherlands) ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report of the evacuation of the Dutch city of Breda in 1940 and the return to Breda; contains police document from La Panne (in French) and Nazi document allowing Czellitzer to use public transportation (1940).
    Abstract: English translation by Horst A. Reschke.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 102
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    Escape from Vienna.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 pages.
    Keywords: Blau-Weiss (Youth movement) ; Handelsschule Allina. ; Cabinetmakers. ; Designers. ; Military service. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Youth movements. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Canada Emigration and immigration after 1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of emigration from Vienna to Palestine, military service there, emigration to Canada in 1951.
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  • 103
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    Safari on four continents.
    New York, NY. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 58 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Children. ; Education. ; Emigration and immigration. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Buenos Aires (Argentina) ; England. ; Montevideo (Uruguay) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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  • 104
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    Twice a New Citizen : Reminiscences 1895-1948
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 + 167 , annotated typescript.
    Keywords: Kimmel, Hans, ; Kimmel, Emmy. ; Bar Kochba Verein (Vienna, Austria) ; Jewish National Fund. ; Neues Wiener Tagblatt. ; Antisemitism. ; Assimilation. ; East Europeans. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Theater. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Yiddish newspapers. ; Zionism. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Monastyrysʹka (Ukraine) ; Vatra Dornei (Romania) ; Sydney (N.S.W.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written after the war and contain detailed biographic reminiscences. Move to the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1899 from Monasterzyska in eastern Galicia. The Kimmel family settled in the second district (Leopoldstadt). Hans was enrolled at the Jewish Talmud Thorah day school. Difficult beginnings for the family to make a living. After the death of his younger sister parts of the family returned to Galicia. With the help of the "Kultusgemeinde" (Jewish community) Hans was to continue his education at the Sophiengymnasium in Vienna and stayed with a benefactor, the painter David Kohn. Overcoming language difficulties due to his Yiddish accent. Position as a tutor to save money for his family in Galicia. Awareness of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews. Interest in the Zionist movement. Recollections of antisemitic demonstrations fueled by politicians such as the Viennese mayor Karl Lueger. Aftermath of the Hilsner bloodlibel trial. Interest in the Social democratic movement. Description of cultural and political life in Vienna. In 1907, after passing the final examinations, Hans Kimmel enrolled at the University of Vienna as a student of law. Meetings with National Jewish Students at Cafe Boerse. Continuation of his lessons as a tutor in order to make a living. Member of the Bar Kochba association. Visits to his family in Monasterzyska and description of Jewish life in the village. Vaccation at the summer ressort of Dorna Watra, Bukowina. Recollections of his famous teachers at university. Graduation from law school and work as a court practitioner. Beginning of career as lawyer.
    Abstract: Outbreak of World War One. His family had to leave their home in Galicia and escaped to Vienna. His younger sister was accepted at the Dr. Krueger girl's home. Hans Kimmel was summoned to serve in the military during the war, but due to his illness he was considered unfit. Difficult circumstances in the aftermath of the war. Attempt to establis a newspaper in Vienna. Return to practice of law. Situation of Jewish war refugees from the East in Vienna, who were now considered stateless. Engagement with Emmy Berger and marriage in 1921. Detailled account of post-war Austrian politics and turmoil. Birth of their son in 1925. Recollections of the events preceding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Despair of Austrian Jews after the Nazi-takeover. Fervent endeavors to emigrate. In 1939 Hans Kimmel finally succeeded in obtaining an exit permit for Australia and left with his family on the last boat before the outbreak of the war. Difficulties in starting a new life in Sydney. Conditions of Jewish refugees in Australia. Position at the "Australian Jewish Forum", a monthely edited by Dr. I. N. Steinberg. Work at the "Jewish People's Relief Fund". Description of the cultural life of the emigres in Australia, including the founding of the "Wiener Buehne" and various Yiddish theater groups. Description of various Jewish philanthropic organizations and religious life in Austrialia. Cultural institutions, Jewish education and various women's organizations. Death of his son Frederick Kimmel, who was a corporal in the airforce. Reflections on Jewish politics, Australian Zionism and the foundation of the State of Israel.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Adler, Victor; Austerlitz, Friedrich; Bernatzik, Edmund; Bierer, Paul; Bittman, Hans; Boehm-Bawerk, Eugen von; Chajes, Hirsch Perez; Gelber, Adolf; Gross, Walter; Guttmann, Alfred; Feuchtwang, David; Herzl, Theodor; Hussarek, Max, Freiherr von Heinlein; Klein, Franz; Kohn, Gustav; Kraus, Karl; Krieger, S. W.; Mirel, Szymon; Pernerstorfer, Engelbert; Philippovich, Eugen Freiherr von Philippsberg; Renner, Karl; Steigrad, Silva; Steinberg, I. N.; Stricker, Robert; Stuergkh, Karl Graf; Weisslitz, Jacob; Wlassak, Moriz; Wolf, Bruno.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 105
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    The life and happenings of Alfred Unger.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 36 , typescript.
    Keywords: Unger, Bernhard, ; Unger family. ; Bear family. ; Bauml family. ; Betar. ; Kinderfreunde (Organization) ; Rote Falken Österreichs‏. ; Antisemitism. ; Carpenters. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Socialism. ; Youth movements. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Dominican Republic Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Przemyśl (Poland) ; San Fernando Valley (Calif.) ; Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ; Sosúa (Dominican Republic) ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs (ca. 1920-1948) were written in the United States. Description of family history. His father was born in 1888 in Przemysl, Poland. He trained to be a carpenter in Germany and was a veteran of World War One. After the war he moved to Vienna, where he opened a cabinet shop. He got married to Hermine Bauml in 1919. The author’s maternal family came from Czechoslowakia. Alfred Unger and his younger brother Eddie were members of the Socialdemocratic childrens' organization “Kinderfreunde”. He also attended lessons in Hebrew and Torah at an early age. First experience of antisemitism during a children’s summer camp in Italy. After finishing highschool Alfred became an apprentice at his father’s shop. He joined a Zionist organization (Betar) and was torn between his Socialist and Zionist interest. Description of the political tensions and the rising National Socialist movement prior to the Anschluss. Recollections of the Anschluss. His father and brother escaped to Czechoslowakia, where Bernhard Unger worked for a Zionist organization as an instructor of carpentry for young people preparing for their emigration to Palestine. Alfred started preparations for his emigration. Description of attacks by Nazi hords and looting of the family business. In July of 1938 he took a train to Constance together with his cousin Karl Pick and they crossed the border to Switzerland with the help of a Jewish contact. Support of the Jewish community in the refugee housing in Buchberg. Work camps with minimal pay in Felsberg and Satteleck. His parents parished in the Holocaust. His brother Eddie escaped Brno in time and went to Palestine, where he fought in the Jewish Bregarde under General Alexander in the British Army. Alfred got an affidavit of support from his aunt in New York and prepared his emigration, which was declined. In autumn of 1940 he emigrated to the Dominican Republic via France, Spain, Portugal and the United States.
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in the United States. Description of family history. His father was born in 1888 in Przemysl, Poland. He trained to be a carpenter in Germany and was a veteran of World War One. After the war he moved to Vienna, where he opened a cabinet shop. He got married to Hermine Bauml in 1919. The author’s maternal family came from Czechoslowakia. Alfred Unger and his younger brother Eddie were members of the Socialdemocratic childrens' organization “Kinderfreunde”. He also attended lessons in Hebrew and Torah at an early age. First experience of antisemitism during a children’s summer camp in Italy. After finishing highschool Alfred became an apprentice at his father’s shop. He joined a Zionist organization (Betar) and was torn between his Socialist and Zionist interest. Description of the political tensions and the rising National Socialist movement prior to the Anschluss. Recollections of the Anschluss. His father and brother escaped to Czechoslowakia, where Bernhard Unger worked for a Zionist organization as an instructor of carpentry for young people preparing for their emigration to Palestine. Alfred started preparations for his emigration. Description of attacks by Nazi hords and looting of the family business. In July of 1938 he took a train to Constance together with his cousin Karl Pick and they crossed the border to Switzerland with the help of a Jewish contact. Support of the Jewish community in the refugee housing in Buchberg. Work camps with minimal pay in Felsberg and Satteleck. His parents parished in the Holocaust. His brother Eddie escaped Brno in time and went to Palestine, where he fought in the Jewish Bregarde under General Alexander in the British Army. Alfred got an affidavit of support from his aunt in New York and prepared his emigration, which was declined. In autumn of 1940 he emigrated to the Dominican Republic via France, Spain, Portugal and the United States.
    Abstract: Cabinet Shop in Sosua and Ciudad Trujillo (Santo Domingo). Emigration to the United States in 1947. Move to California and marriage to Mira Unger in 1948. The couple lived in San Fernando Valley and had a son.
    Abstract: The memoir mixes text with documentation material. It includes copies of a birth certificate, a "Heimatschein" (citizenship document / naturalization paper), an official apprenticeship contract, a work reference, documents needed for obtaining a US visa (stating he did not have a police record), photographs of family members and of his stays in Switzerland and the Dominican Republic.
    Note: English
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  • 106
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    Because you wanted to know.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 136 + 3 pages. (single space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: bound copy (148 pages)
    Keywords: Fleischer family. ; Oestreicher family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Israel Emigration and immigration 1948. ; Israel. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs, circa 1925-1950.
    Abstract: Childhood in Vienna; emigration to England in 1939; war years in England; preparation for emigration to Israel; aliyah and life in a Kibbutz after 1948.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Bound copy
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 107
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    The words of our mouths : 1900-1990.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 368 pages : , 368 pages : , typescript with reproductions of photographs and documents. , Ttypescript with reproductions of photographs and documents
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Identity. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Kibbutzim. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Reform Judaism. ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France History. ; Germany History. ; Palestine. ; Russia History 1880-1917. ; Soviet Union History 1917-1933. ; United States History. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history; excerpts from interviews of various family members on a variety of subjects including emigration, Jewish life and Jewish identity, anti-Semitism, occupations and professions, World War II, the arab-Israeli wars, the Vietnam War, and the Holocaust.
    Abstract: The following families and individuals are mentioned in this memoir:
    Abstract: Beer family; Bernstein, Rose Ribak; Boruchowitz, Julius; Dalberg, Eugenie; Dalberg, Robert; Engelman, Rebecca; Goldfinger, Leo; Goldstein, Pauline Kaufman; Goss family; Goss, Harry; Heuman, Selma; Heuman, Walter; Heumann, Alfred; Heumann, Wilhelmina Kohn; Katz family; Katz, Max; Katz, Nathan; Kauffman, Jim; Kaufman family; Kaufman, Philip; Kishony, Marga Heineberg Spiegel; Kohan family; Lasner family; Lobbenburg, Otto; Miller, Abe; Neuburger, Gertrude; Resnick, Israel; Ribak family Ribak, Gidon; Riebak, Mendel; Rosenstein family; Rosenstein, Bernhard; Rosenstein, Louis; Rosenstein, Siegmund; Rosenzweig, Bernard; Schleyer, Gershon; Sweeney, Miriam Rosenstein; Sweetkind, Betty Kaufman; Tepper, Saul; Tepper, Sophie Fischer; van Wien, Marianne Kohn; Weiner family; Weiner, Dora; Weiner, Hyman; Weiner, Nathan; Weiner, Paul; Weiner, Sarah Kaufman; Willner, Eva Gans; Willner, Otto; Wittenberg, Abe; Yasgoor family; Zimel, Sidney.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Available on microfilm MM II 5. , English , Synopsis in file
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    In lieux of a title - Motto : 'Love is the ultimate human answer to the ultimate human questions.' Keats.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Keywords: Jewish refugees ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences of German-Jewish emigrant in France during World War II, June-July 1940; flight from Paris and rescue of author's child in a French hospital.
    Abstract: The original German text was written In Yonkers in 1941. English translation from the original German by Lussia Neumann.
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    [Frederick Ungar].
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    Language: English
    Pages: 170 pages : , handwritten manuscript; illustrated.
    Keywords: Ungar, Ann. ; Ungar family. ; Ungar, Frederick. ; American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. ; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, New York (1885- ) ; Antisemitism. ; Cooking, Austrian. ; Dental technology. ; German language Dialects ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewelers. ; Pharmacists. ; Socialism in Austria. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Italy History 1922-1945. ; Saint Gall (Switzerland) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The handwritten memoir was written in the United States in the late 1980s. It contains reproductions of photos and includes Viennese cooking recipes. Recollections of the author's childhood in Vienna. His father was the head of the Jewish Children's Bureau at the Vienna Jewish community who organized children's exchanges to Holland and Switzerland after World War One. Frederick was sent for recuperation to St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he stayed with an orthodox Jewish foster family for a year. After his return his parents got divorced. His mother started working at the Rothschild hospital. Frederick was sent to a boarding school. Apprenticeship as a druggist. Social life and five-o'clock tea dances in Vienna. Boxing at the "Maccabi" sports club. Activities in the youth sections of the Social democrats. Summers at the Danube. Position in the gem-stone business at a family friend in Italy. Marriage with his long-time girlfriend Ann. Move to Terni, Italy. After the rising fascist movement in Europe and Hitler's rise to power Ann and Frederick Ungar moved to Milan and prepared their emigration to Shanghai. Journey with a boat from Marseille via Port Said and the Suez Canal in 1939. Impressions of Indochina, India, Ceylon and Japan. Life of Jewish refugees in Shanghai. Cultural differences. Help from the local Jewish community and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Difficulties in getting a job. Position as a pharmacy assistant. Ann Unger found work as a dental technician with a Japanese physician. Life under Japanese occupation. Birth of their daughter Eva. Frederick got a position at the statistical analysis of the "Joint" office.
    Abstract: Return to Vienna after the end of the war. Reflections on experiences with anti-Semitism in post-war Europe. Decision to immigrate to the United States. Life in Cleveland. Frederick worked as a bookseller and pharmacist. Observations during occasional visits to Austria after the war. Reflections on life in Europe compared to the United States.
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    Long journey home : A journal describing a bizzare trip through 20 countries
    Great Neck, NY. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: circa 100 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Keywords: Pius ; Israel, Wilfrid. ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps. ; Jewish refugees. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1944. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences in Oranienburg concentration camp in 1940; failure to emigrate to Palestine; journey through Balkan, Russia and Turkey to Italy; ship broke near Italian coast; audience by Pope Pius XII, together with 30 German soldiers; producing false German identity papers; emigration to Palestine via Portugal in 1944; contains synopsis (5 p.) and numerous photographs.
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    With roadblocks and detours.
    La Mesa, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages (double space) : , typescript (double space).
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Social workers. ; Synagogues ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Rhodesia and Nyasaland Emigration and immigratio 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Marriage in Breslau synagogue in 1938; author's husband's imprisonment in Buchenwald in summer of 1938; November pogrom of 1938; emigration to Rhodesia and to USA.
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    [Bitzi].
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    Language: English
    Pages: 125 pages : , typescript.
    Former Title: Untitled.
    Keywords: Hecht, family. ; Pordes, Fritz. ; Pordes, Richard, ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Families 20th century. ; Friendship. ; Kindergarten teachers. ; Manners and customs. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Social life. Relationship with Fritz Pordes. Life under Japanese occupation. Exemption for their Kindergarten, which they were able to continue outside of the designated area. Marriage to Fritz Pordes in April of 1944. End of the war. Birth of their son Richard in December of 1945.
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