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  • Media Combination  (7)
  • English  (7)
  • 2010-2014  (2)
  • 1960-1964  (5)
  • World War, 1914-1918.  (7)
  • 1
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    Memoirs of Reinhard Helmut Lesser / (1987-2013)
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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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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    [Autobiographical abstract]. (2012)
    Kibbutz Tzuba :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Haganah (Organization) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. ; France Emigration and immigration. ; Spain Emigration and immigration. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: After introducing his family in Germany since early modern times, Joel Dorkam describes “Life in France” (1933-1942) and “Life in Spain” (1942-1944). He then moves on to Palestine and tells about his education and his participation in the Israeli war of independence as a soldier in the Haganah.
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    My life, (1964)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 309 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Shipping companies (Marine transportation) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes his childhood in Breslau, his experiences as a German officer during World War I, his business career as a shipowner, his arrest upon his arrival in Germany in 1937 and the time in prison; his founding of the American Banner Lines in the USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    My Memoirs : From our family chronicle (Paul Tachau and Ilse Sternthal Tachau) (1964)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 614 pages : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Sternthal family. ; Tachau family. ; Tachau, Paul. ; Tachau, Ilse (née Sternthal) ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Samsonschule (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) ; Education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wolfenbüttel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of Tachau, Frankenstein, Seckel, Herxheimer, Loewenstein and Sternthal families.
    Abstract: Among ancestors were Rabbi Salomon Herxheimer, professor Levy Rubens and Julius von Reuter; author's father, Ludwig Tachau, was a teacher at the Philantropin school in Frankfurt am Main and became the director of the Samson school in Wolfenbuettel in 1888; childhood in Wolfenbuettel; primary and secondary education; university studies in Goettingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Heidelberg; activities as musician; experiences as young physician in Zurich and Strasbourg; military service in World War I; marriage and move to Braunschweig and Breslau; return to Wolfenbuettel; recreational travels to Switzerland and Italy; persecution of Jews after 1933; anti-Jewish boycott of April 1933; ousted from the Society of Natural Science in Braunschweig shortly after being reelected as its president in March 1933; playing in string quartet of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" in Hanover; emigration to USA; career as physician in USA; contains reviews of publications and numerous photos of Sternthal and Tachau families (19th and 20th centuries) and of Samson school in Wolfenbuettel.
    Note: Available on memoir microfilm reels # 76, 77 , English
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    The Morgenroth's : [1883-1930]. (1963)
    1963 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Bernhard, Max. ; Dessauer, Carl Emmanuel. ; Dessauer, Sigmund. ; Ehrlich, Fritz. ; Federlein, Max. ; Gerst, Otto. ; Haas, Ernest. ; Heidenheimer family. ; Hessberg, Max. ; Kahn, Otto. ; Lessing, Fred. ; Morgenroth family. ; Morgenroth, Alice. ; Morgenroth, Ludwig. ; Morgenroth, Max. ; Morgenroth, Sigmund. ; Rosenstern, Otto. ; Salomon, Felix. ; Scharlach, Robert. ; Warburg, Paul M. ; Warburg, Max M., ; Hops industry. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jewish merchants. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Germany History 1789-1918. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history: description of father's business selling hops; memories of childhood in Bamberg; move to Leipzig to study at Handelshochschule; apprenticeship in Hamburg; work in Hamburg at export-import firm; work in New York; return to Bamberg to work in father's hops business; death of father; return to Hamburg to work in export-import business; outbreak of World War I; move to Berlin after war; marriage.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Marie Munk memoirs. (1961)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 378 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Salomon, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher 1870-1918. ; Feminism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage counseling. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History. ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Marie Munk, written in 1961. Recollections of her childhood; her Christian upbringing; her schooling; her training at Alice Salomon's Groups of Social Work in Berlin; life in Imperial Germany; anti-Semitism; her experiences during World War I; her law studies at the universities of Freiburg and Bonn; her career in law including her work in a legal aid clinic for women in Munich; her admittance to the bar as the first woman in Germany; her work as an attorney in Berlin; her teaching social work and her involvment in the women's movement; the impact of 1933 on feminist organizations; her experiences in Nazi Germany; her travels and later her immigration to the United States; her various jobs in New York State, Philadelphia, Maryland, Northampton (MA), Toledo (Ohio) and Cambridge (MA); her interest in juvenile delinquence; her work as a marriage counsellor; her work as an attorney; her trips to Hawai, Mexico and Asian and European countries where she attended women's conferences; and her impressions in post-war Germany and Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Memories. (1961)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bach, Albert. ; Bach family. ; Baeck, Leo, ; Fleischhacker, Suse. ; Mayer, Ruth. ; Mayer family. ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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