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  • Media Combination  (18)
  • English  (18)
  • Alexander, Eleanor,  (6)
  • Anonymous.  (6)
  • Ferrand, Pierre,  (3)
  • Grubel, Fred  (3)
  • Biographical sources  (16)
  • Jews Persecution 1933-1945.  (7)
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  • 1
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    Remembering Leo Baeck / (2002)
    Peterborough, NH :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Jewish religious education. ; Teachers. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of Leo Baeck as a teacher in religious education in Duesseldorf high school 1906-1912
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Lecture given at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. (2001)
    San Francisco :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Rathenau, Walther, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The lecture was held at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco. Description of life in Berlin in the 1920s. Childhood in an assimilated well-to-do Jewish family the Weimar Republic. Her father was a lawyer and editor of the "Vossische Zeitung", who had his office in the front part of the apartment. Her mother a devoted singer who performed occasionally at the "Singakademie". Recollections of Sunday morning walks and visits to the museum at the center of the town. Earliest memories of food shortages during World War One. Private lessons in the aftermath of the war. Summer vacations in the German and Swiss Alps. Birth of her younger brother in 1921. Visits at her grandparents together with her older sister Irene. Memories of Christmas celebrations with family gatherings. Celebration of the Jewish holidays with her maternal grandparents, who were devoted orthodox Jews. Recollection of the assassination of Walter Rathenau in 1922, which made her aware of the undercurrent antisemitism. Her father became an active member of the Democratic party and was elected alderman (Stadtrat) of the city of Berlin in 1928. Description of the vibrating cultural life of Berlin. Eleanor attended the Auguste Viktoria Realgymnasium, an all-girls school preparing for university. Recollection of teachers and schoolmates. Theater and concerts. Private dance classes. Summer vacation in England to improve her English skills in 1931. Eleanor passed her final exams in 1932 and started to study medicine at the university in Heidelberg. Rising antisemitism and political unrest. With Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933 Jewish students were soon expelled from university. Soon thereafter Eleanor left Germany for Paris.
    Note: See also "Eleanor Alexander Collection" (AR 6414), and four other memoirs by Eleanor Alexander: ME 995, Me 1071, Me 1107, Me 1113 , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 3
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    Jewish Life in the Old Austrian Emperor's Empire that Vanished (1790-1908) : Family remembrances as told to and remembered (1998)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Grubel, Fred ; Fischer, Samuel, ; Hirsch, M. ; Weinreich, Anna. ; Roth, Joseph, ; Grandparents. ; Jewish families History. ; Lawyers. ; Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 4
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    Life remembered : A home in the world - a world in the home. 1908 thru 1997 (1998)
    Riverdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 191 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Grubel, Fred ; Kreutzberger, Max ; Lessing, Fred W. ; Reinhardt, Max, ; Roth, Joseph, ; Lessing, Fred W. ; Leo Baeck Institute. ; Education, Secondary. ; Hospitals Administration. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; England. ; Europe Voyages and travels. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections on his life.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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  • 5
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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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    How funny was Schickelgruber? : A collection of jokes, anecdotes and reflections about the era of the Third Reich. (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 50 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Hitler, Adolf, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Wit and humor. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Manuscript about humor during the Third Reich.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 7
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    A Tribute to my Mother Hedwig Eyck (1888-1971). (1995)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages (doublespace) : , Typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Eyck, Erich, ; Eyck, Hedwig. ; Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Woman authors. ; Women Political activity. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Lawyers
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander, née Eyck, born in Berlin in 1913, on her mother Hedwig Eyck including information on her involvement in the Democratic Party and her philanthropic and cultural activities, description of life in Nazi Germany, of her emigration to England, and of her experiences there.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 8
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    Gratiarum Actio : Remembering A Good Life. (1995)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 7 + 2 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Mann, Thomas, ; Hobart College. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Historians. ; Women authors. ; Berkeley (Calif.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including description of her time in Paris and London, her emigration to the United States, information on her husband Paul and his career as a historian; foreword by Paul Alexander; addendum by their son.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 9
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    Courage in adversity : The creation of the Reichsvertretung. (1993)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Hahn, Hugo. ; Hahn, Hugo. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Jews Adult education 1933-1945. ; Jews Occupational retraining 1933-1945. ; Jews Occupational training 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Public welfare 1933-1945. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Hugo Hahn Memorial Lecture by Fred Grubel at Congregation Habonim in New York
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    Comparing notes. (1992)
    [Evanston, Illinois] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 + 15 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Döblin, Alfred, ; Döblin, Alfred, ; Minder, Robert. ; Jewish refugees ; Refugees. ; Cahors (France) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of the author's meeting with Alfred Doeblin in the freight car of a military transport, leaving occuppied Paris in 1940 for Cahors: information on Ferrand's family which Ferrand believes is portrayed in Doeblin's "Schicksalsreise," critical comments on Doeblin's work and character, and information on Ferrand's father's work as advisor on German Affairs for the French government and on the family's emigration to the United States.
    Abstract: Also included is a newspaper clipping from 1991 with Ferrand's letter to the editor on Frederick the Great.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 11
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    Unbidden Guest : [A memoir of an Odyssey to Ellis Island]. (1988)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 503 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Friedland, Bertha. ; Friedland, Hermann. ; Friedland, Rolf Erich Hermann. ; Fry, Varian, ; Kaplun, Sol. ; Ullmann family. ; Warburg, Max. ; Warburg, Paul. ; Anti-fascist movements 1918-1933. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees ; Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immgiration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Pierre Ferrand, written in 1988, published in an abridged and changed version as "A Question of Allegiance." Including information on his grandparents, some of which emigrated in the 1840s from Gailingen to the United States while others came from Eastern Europe to Germany; on the history of Hamburg Jewry; on politics in Weimar Germany; on Ferrand's father, his business in radio advertising and his anti-fascist politics; on political repression and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany; and on American immigration laws. - Recollections of his childhood; of the family's emigration in 1933; of his schooling in France; of the emigrant milieu in Paris; of the Ferrand family's journey from Paris to Southern France, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal to the United States in 1940; of their extended stay at Ellis Island and Ferrand's friendship with Sol Kaplun from Poland; and on the family's adjustment to life in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM2 reel 12 (parts I-II) and MM2 reel 13 (part III). , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 12
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    Stories of My Life. (1986)
    Berkeley, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 131 , print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Alexander, Paul. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Washington (D.C.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Eleanor Alexander including description of her childhood, medical school, emigration to Paris, London, Rolandia (Brazil), and Boston, marriage to Paul Alexander, information on their life in Washington DC and Princeton.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Recollections from my life. (1977)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 + 4 pages : , typescript (photocopy) +
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    Year of publication: 1977
    Former Title: Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben
    Keywords: Strauss, Fanny (née Schwab) ; Strauss, Isaac. ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jewish way of life 19th century. ; Orthodox Judaism ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Offenbach am Main (Germany) ; Uehlfeld (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The English translation of Josef Schwab’s short autobiography about his childhood in the rural Jewish community of Uehlfeld and his life as a merchant in Frankfurt and in Offenbach is accompanied by an account of the lives of Schwab’s daughter Fanny and her husband, Rabbi Isaac Strauss. Also included are German transcripts of Hebrew gravestone inscriptions for Josef Schwab and his wife Mile; an article in "Frankfurter Zeitung" (Oct. 12, 1900) on occasion of Schwab’s 100th birthday; and a transcript of Schwab’s autobiography in the original German.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    [Translation]. (1946)
    [Bad Nauheim?] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Weiss family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; Jews, Hungarian 1933-1945. ; Arad (Romania) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report of an anonymous woman, wife of a Hungarian Jew (Ignaz Weiss?), about surviving the Holocaust in Germany (Frankfurt) and in Romania (Arad).
    Note: English
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    Bergen-Belsen : [1944]. (1946)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 + 20 , synopsis; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; National socialism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1935-1945) ; Netherlands. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of the experiences of a group of Dutch Jews in Nazi concentration camps including description of transport from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen, experiences in Bergen-Belsen, and transport to Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Lest we forget!.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jewish leadership. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: An account of Kristallnacht (“the Sicilian Vespers for Jews”) in a letter by an unnamed young woman, secretary of a Jewish congregation in Germany. Rendered into English by Ernest I. Jacob.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    My journey to hell and back.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 75 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Birkenau (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Trzebinia (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Chrzanów (Poland) ; France. ; Warsaw (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Drancy internment camp; deportation to Trzebinia concentration camp (Poland); experiences in Chrzanov (Krenau) ghetto; deportation to Birkenau; description of camp-life in Birkenau and Auschwitz; forced labor in former Jewish ghetto of Warsaw; stance of Polish and Lithuanian population; "death march" to Dachau and Landsberg; liberation in Southern Bavaria; return to France; general discussion about Holocaust and rejection of German collective guilt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    No title.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 560 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Folklore ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Hasidism. ; Hotelkeepers. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Hungary. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Slovakia. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs start at the "Hotel Vienna" in New York, where the author starts his reflection on his childhood in Vamia, a small Hungarian-Slovak town. Predominance of Hungarian and Magyar culture within the official institutions and schools. German and Yiddish were the main languages for the Hasidic Jewish community besides knowledge of Hungarian, Slovak and Hebrew. Superstition and mysticism within the general populace. Business connection with Vienna, the capital of the monarchy. Description of the Hasidic Jewish community and its members. Jewish education and studies with the well-respected Rabbi Shloimo Gasser. Reflection on Jewish traditions and circumcision rites. Description of certain characters in the community. Recollections of Jewish wedding ceremonies and engagement traditions. Celebration of Jewish holidays within the family and the Jewish community. Detailed portrayal of ritual and liturgy. Description of the synagogue's interior and its functions for the celebration of the holidays. Reflection on the Jewish history throughout the centuries. Rich recollection of stories and myths in the Hasidic tradition. Description of certain food customs and clothing traditions. Trip with the author's grandfather to Belz, where they spend Yom Kippur at the Belz wonder rabbi (Tzadik). Detailed description of prayers and the encounter with the Tzadik at the Kol Nidre night.
    Abstract: Changing scene to the "Cafe Zentral" in Vienna, the meeting place of intellectuals. The author studied at the Vienna Theological Seminary and composed short stories for newspapers. Story about the fate of two female Jewish protagonists (Sonya and Katya). Recollections of World War One. Detailed description of a Sabbath celebrations and scholastic discussions. Reflection on "eshes chayil". The author emigrated with his wife to the United States. They settled in New York, where he took over the management of the "Hotel Vienna". Recollections of the World Congress of Jewish Women in New York. Description of the spas in Bohemia.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file, table of contents
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