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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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    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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    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
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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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    [Janik's memoirs]. (2008)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 450 + 208 + 316 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Sainz, Paco. ; Artists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Munich (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Janik Remembers - 1932-1957
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: Janik - 1960-1972
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III. Janik - Years with Paco Sainz
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    And suddenly it was over. (2008)
    Emerson, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 10 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Death march survivors ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Charles Holzer describes his survival of a death march after his imprisonment in camp Elrich near Niedersachswerfen in the Harz mountains of central Germany, April 1945.
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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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    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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    In search of Gustav : The story of the Lilienfeld (later Lynfield) family covering the last 200 years. (2005)
    Boca Raton, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 203 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Lilienfeld, Gustav, ; Diamond industry and trade. ; Jews History 19th century. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; South Africa Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is the first of three books about the history of Geoffrey Lynfield's family. It is about four Lilienfeld brothers: Geoffrey Lynfield's grandfather and his brothers. They were born in the Jewish enclave of Marburg and ended up in South Africa when and where the first diamonds were discovered. The manuscript also includes photographs and documents.
    Note: English
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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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    Our Austrian ancestors. (2005)
    Golden, CO. :[publisher not identified]
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    Language: English
    Pages: 86 pages : , typed and bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Goldberg, Julius. ; Wyman, Gusti. ; Skaters. ; Jewish women artists ; Musicians. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Colorado. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: Includes CD with portfolio of selected works (paintings). This memoir was written by Gusti Wyman at the age of 84. She begins by discussing her current life in Colorado, and then recounts her experience in Austria in 1937. Gusti Wyman had moved from Austria to America in 1938. Gusti had been trained in Austria as an ice skater. She relied on this training to carve a way for herself as a teenager starting out in the US. Gusti discusses her family and the lives they made for themselves in America. Photos accompany the text. Gusti's father, Julius Goldberg, was a musician who played with a small group in Austria, before moving to America. On page 72 there is a photo of Julius Goldberg seated with Albert Einstein and August Piccard, at a musical session in Professor Ehrenhaft's house in Vienna in 1937.
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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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    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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    Attached to „P2“, S.S. General M.C. Meigs. (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 pages : , photocopies.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Former Title: Diary entries.
    Keywords: Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Sailors. ; China History Civil War, 1945-1949. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Photocopy of diary entries between November 30, 1946, and January 18, 1947, and an explanatory letter. The entries are very brief and limited to information on port arrival and departure times. The ship sailed from San Francisco to Honolulu (Hawai), to Shanghai (China), to Hongkong (China), to Manila (Philippines), to Shanghai, and went finally back to San Francisco.
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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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    The family memories of Robert Kanfer : Vienna – London – Cheltenham - Vienna. (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 84 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Boehm family. ; Kanfer family. ; Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. ; Antisemitism ; Architects. ; Education, Higher ; Emigration and immigration ; Jews Persecutions ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Shanghai (China) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir includes a pedigree, photographs, representing the whole family, grandparents, parents, himself, in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The manuscript starts with Robert Kanfer's grandparents' background, then covers the Boehm family--his wife Susie's family. Susie's father was Jewish. Her Catholic mother helped her husband's parents to get a visa. Her grandfather was Alfred Boehm. The next chapter covers vague memories of the "Anschluss" in March 1938. Robert Kanfer's father, Max Kanfer, was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. There he spent 4 months, and 4 more in Dachau concentration camp. Robert Kanfer's mother Bertha was forced to scrub off the streets which is vividly described. He describes a few more of these cruel daily antisemitic attacks. Since the family had a very limited budget, obtaining visas became quite difficult. The family had to separate and reunite only many years later, in 1947. The father emigrated to Shanghai, Robert could escape on a Kindertransport in 1939. He would spend the coming eleven years in England. Robert's brother Fritz was eager to move back to Vienna, and wanted his family to join him. He arranged for Robert to study architecture at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, which finally convinced Robert to join his brother. So he moved back to Vienna in 1950. He started to study with famous Austrian architect Clemens Holzmeister, but later changed to the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, to study with Franz Schuster. After graduation, he soon opened his own office. Throughout his career, he designed 10 Novotel hotels in Austria. He got married to his first wife Evi, they got a son, Roland. Soon they got a divorce, and Robert married Susy who he had known for a long time.
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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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    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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    [Memoirs of Henry Salfeld], (1978-1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 42 + 104 + 13 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: reproductions of documents and letters.
    Year of publication: 1978-1992
    Keywords: Adler, Fritz. ; Heimerdinger family. ; Heimerdinger, Leo. ; Heiming, Henry. ; Marxsohn, Richard. ; Neukirch, Carl. ; Salfeld family. ; Salfeld, Albert. ; Salfeld, Alice. ; Salfeld, Berthold. ; Salfeld, Erich. ; Salfeld, Henry. ; Salfeld, Ludwig. ; Salfeld, Siegmund. ; Antisemitism. ; Courtship. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Universities and colleges ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 20th century. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Anecdotes concerning experienced anti-Semitism at universities; outbreak of World War I; death of father; memories of student days at University of Munich; French occupation of Wiesbaden; account of Nazi boycott of April 1, 1933 in Wiesbaden.
    Abstract: Account of arrival in USA in 1933; relationships with African-Americans; life in New York; attempts to find employment; death of family members in Holocaust; emigration of mother to USA; reflections on Jewish religion and Jewish identity; membership in various Jewish organizations.
    Abstract: Geneology of Salfeld family; rabbinical career of Siegmund Salfeld; childhood memories growing up in Wiesdbaden; lives of father and mother; father's medical practice in Wiesbaden; death of father; siblings; death of sister and her family in Holocaust; geneology of Heimerdinger family; Gymnasium; social activities as teenager in Wiesbaden; Jewish life in Wiesbaden and anti-Semitism; university study of law at Munich; life in Munich; study at Leipzig; study at Frankfurt; experience of inflation of 1923 and French occupation; work as lawyer in Frankfurt; relationionships with women; engagement and marriage to wife; loss of job following Nazi seizure of power; emigration to USA in 1933.
    Description / Table of Contents: Little stories from the past
    Description / Table of Contents: In U.S.A.
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    Resistance : Recollections from the Nazi Years. (1979)
    1979 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 273 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Bry family. ; Bry, Gerhard. ; Eliasberg, George, ; Gumbel, Emil Julius, ; American Friends of German Freedom. ; Gruppe Neu Beginnen. ; Anti-Nazi movement ; Communism. ; Economists. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Political participation. ; Socialism. ; World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes mainly his experiences in Nazi Germany and the resistance activities of the socialist organization he had joined. Second part concentrates on his life in England and the U.S. (written in 1979)
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    Autobiography by Klara Caro : written as occupational therapy at a nursing home June - September 1979. (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Caro, Klara, ; Caro, Isidor. ; Luckner, Gertrud. ; Loewe, Heinrich, ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Rabbis. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Cologne (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Zionist circles in Berlin and Cologne, Juedischer Frauenbund, years in Theresienstadt, transport to Switzerland in 1945, problems of adjusting in the US, visits in Cologne. (ME 85)
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    Once upon four decades. (1979)
    Ventura, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 76 pages : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Concentration camps. ; Jewish singers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: First part contains the fate of the author's family in Nazi Germany. In the second part the author decribes her experineces as a medical assistant with Holocaust survivors in the USA.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of photographs, documents from the Nazi period, and a map.
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    [This is Fred Wolf reporting]. (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: clipping
    Year of publication: 1979
    Former Title: No Title (On Emigration)
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; Soap trade. ; Schlüchtern (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Fritz (Fred) Wolf was born in 1898 in Schluechtern, Germany, where he took over his family's soap business. He had to sell it in 1938 and immigrated to the United States.
    Abstract: Also included is a clipping, mentioning the 1235 blood libel accusation in Schlüchtern.
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    Autobiography / (1979)
    Zahala (Israel) :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , typescript (bound photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Nobel, Nehemias Anton, ; Sinzheimer, Hugo, ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jewish families. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Public welfare. ; Rabbis. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in orthodox Jewish family in Frankfurt; primary education at Jewish school "Philantropin"; no integration of Jewish students in high school; orthodox synagogue and rabbi Nehemia Anton Nobel; economic crisis and death of father; School of Social Welfare; work at the "Kinderschutz" as a social worker; emigration to Palestine.
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    Memoirs [of Lou Graumann]. (1979)
    [Topeka, Kansas] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , print; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freudenberg, Ernest. ; Graumann, Heinz. ; Suskind, Walter, ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Childbirth. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germany Social life and customs 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Fifteen Years : Lived among, with and for refugee children, (1979)
    Palo Alto :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 74 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Essinger, Anna. ; Bunce Court School. ; Schulheim Vigiljoch. ; Women authors. ; Teachers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugee children Education. ; Schools. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Hanna Bergas, written in 1979, including description of life at the school for refugee children in Bunce Court (England) and information on a similar school in Vigiljoch (Italy).
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    [Memoir of Service in US Army During World War II]. (1979)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages. (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Göring, Hermann, ; Ribbentrop, Joachim von, ; United States. ; Soldiers. ; War criminals ; World War, 1939-1945. ; National socialism. ; France. ; Italy. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report mainly on interrogations of German Nazi officers and politicians, including Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop.
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    Vignettes of my Life : [1899-1979] (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages (double space) : , 98 pages (double space) : , bound typescript. , Typewritten manuscript (bound)
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freud, Martin. ; Flöge, Emilie Louise, ; Freud, Ernestine Drucker. ; Freud, Anna, ; Freud, Sigmund, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Divorce. ; National socialism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Actors. ; Lawyers. ; Speech therapists. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Casablanca (Morocco) ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1979 in the United States. Esti Freud was the first born daughter of a Viennese Jewish lawyer. Her mother was a passionate singer whose career was prevented by her early marriage. Childhood memories and recollection of summer vacations. Confusion of religious identity due to her pious Catholic nanny. Private tutoring and attending "Schwarzwaldschule", a highly esteemed girl's school. Her plans to study at university were inhibited by her mother, who feared her to become hunchbacked. Instead she was offered speech lessons to become an actress. Outings to the mountains with her father. Confrontation with stereotypical perceptions of a young woman's reputation. Outbreak of World War One. Volunteering as a nurse. Recollections of the flow of refugees in Vienna and the scarceness of food. Various public poetry recitation in Vienna and Prague. Courtship and marriage to Martin Freud. Recollections of the Freud family and the "Herr Professor" Freud himself. Difficulties to start a household in postwar Austria. Martin, who had studied law, obtained a position as a clerk in a bank. Difficulties of married life. Birth of her children Walter (1921) and Sophie (1924). Starting a career in speech therapy. Training at the clinic for speech and voice disorders of Dr. Froeschel. Memories of the worker's uprise in 1927. Position as a lecturer in speech therapy at the Vienna University in 1932. Political instability due to the rise of fascism in Europe. "Anschluss" in 1938 and the sudden reality of Nazi terror. Preparation to emigrate. Estrangement and separation from her husband. The Freud family left for England, whereas Esti and her daughter emigrated to France. New life in Paris. German occupation of France. Esti and her daughter Sophie escaped to Casablanca. Emigration to the United States and starting a new career in New York.
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    On Being a Survivor. (1979)
    Cincinatti :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Holland (Netherlands : Province) Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; reflections on behavior of camp survivors.
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    Thoughts and observations : Glimpses of Europe from August, 1939 to the present. (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Aliens. ; Concentration camps. ; Jewish refugees. ; Bermuda Islands. ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of Harry Hans Schiffman’s personal experiences March 1939 to August 1940, which he wrote down in 1940 during his detention in Bermuda on the way to the USA.
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    How we got out, and why, perhaps, some others didn't. (1979)
    [Berkeley] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short account of last years in Vienna before emigration to Shanghai in 1940.
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    Reiss (Reese) roots / (1979)
    [Calgary, Alberta] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 116 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Berger family. ; Fischer family. ; Gold family. ; Jackson family. ; Kohn family. ; Liftschitz family. ; Reiss, David. ; Reiss, Joseph. ; Reiss, Moritz. ; Reiss family. ; United States. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Hops industry. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish way of life ; Jews Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Žatec (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author's aim is to provide a chronicle of the Reiss family and other related families, many of them killed in the Holocaust. There is a large family photograph on the cover page. The memoir starts with a short history of Jewish life in Bohemia where John Reese's family comes from, then moves on to detailed descriptions of the lives of family members, sometimes enriched by personal anecdotes. In the second half John Reese turns to his close family, his family hop business, childhood memories from Bohemia, and his education. In 1938 his family escaped to North America, he started a new life and took part in World War II. The memoir follows roughly a chronological order.
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    Susie's story. (1978)
    [Catskills, New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Weinberg, Susie. ; Children. ; Foster parents. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A mother's story how her daughter was hidden and saved in the Netherlands during World War II and reunited with her parents; life of daughter after immigration to the USA after 1945.
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    Life in a changing world : [1910-1975]. (1978)
    New York,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 136 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Actors. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Families. ; Pianists. ; Theater 1918-1933. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Magdeburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1978 in New York. Recollections of the author's childhood in Cologne. Hilda Albersheim was the youngest and overly protected daughter of four. Her father was a physician, who had his practice in the spacious house of the family near the center of Cologne. Description of the large household of the well-to-do family, including a governess, a chauffeur, a cook and two maids, as well as the weekly laundry woman and two seamstresses, who sew dresses for mother and Hilda. Memories of Easter celebrations. Salon of her aunt Emma, who had famous guests such as the conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler and the pianist Edwin Fischer. The family valued cultural activities highly, and the children were introduced to operas at an early age. Each of the children had piano lessons. Hilda was sent to a private school. She grew up never exposed to politics and did not know of her Jewish origin until the second year of school. Summer vacations in the mountains and at her cousins in Den Hague. Recollections of World War One and its aftermath. Hilda was enrolled in the newly established Girl's Gymnasium in Cologne. After graduation, during the peak of inflation times, she was assigned for a homemaking school in Rothenburg, where she was confronted with antisemitism for the first time. Skiing trips in the mountains. Hilda had a passion for theatre from an early age on. Her father especially opposed the idea, as he feared the vicissitudes of the profession. Fencing lessons at the club of university students. Private instructions from an assistant of Max Reinhardt. Engagement at the Salzburg Reinhardt Festival in "Jedermann" ["Everyman"], where she was among famous actors such as Alexander Moissi. Apprenticeship at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Encounter with the famous Russian-Jewish theatre troupe "Habima" during an engagement in Constance. Solidarity and intrigues among actors.
    Abstract: Rise of national socialism. Dismissal of the Jewish theater director and growing awareness of the political threat in Germany. Rejection of further engagements. Affidavit from her brother in New York, who had recognized the danger of National Socialism in time. Emigration to the United States in 1933, where Hilda Albers-Frank worked as a piano teacher and music therapist after a brief career in acting.
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    Memoirs : To my children, grandchildren, etc. …. (1977)
    Portland, Ore :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 169 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Families. ; Fascism ; Nazis ; Opticians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Naples (Italy) ; Tyrol (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 1916-1980. Family background; childhood and private school in Naples; apprenticeship as optician in Tyrol; Italian Fascism; influence of Nazi Germany in Northern Italy; move to Milano and return to Naples; marriage and immigration to USA; military service in American army during World War II; post-war life in USA.
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    The sad little painter : The diary of David Ottenseeser 1838-1842 when he studied painting in Munich and Dresden (1977)
    Zion. Ill. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 64 , typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Painters. ; Country life. ; Families. ; Synagogues. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Dresden (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diary of David Ottensooser, during the time in which he studied painting in Munich and Dresden (translation from original German); contains visit to church; theater and opera visits; synagogue services on holidays in rural communities of Franconia (Baiersdorf, Uhlfeld, Ottensoos); mostly on private and family life (contains photograph of David Ottensooser and his wife).
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    Recollections from my life. (1977)
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    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.
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    Memoirs of L.A. Freund. (1977)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 74 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Business enterprises. ; Country life. ; Education 19th century. ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Burgkunstadt (Germany) ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Mitwitz (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1870-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Copy of L.A. Freund’s memoir, originally written in the winter of 1899/1900 and presented to his daughter, Mrs. Waldstein on August 3rd, 1912:
    Abstract: Childhood in Mitwitz (Upper Franconia); school years in Burgkunstadt; anti-Jewish riots of 1848 which caused many Jews to take refuge in Bamberg; immigration to the USA where Freund founded an import business.
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    The life, labours, joys and sorrows of B.L. Monasch : bookbinder, printer, publisher and inn-keeper of Krotoschin in the province of Posen (1977)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Bookbinders ; Country life. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Hotelkeepers. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Literature. ; Marriage. ; Printers ; Publishers and publishing. ; Germany History Revolution, 1848-1849. ; Krotoszyn (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of an original German manuscript, written in Ostrowo in 1855:
    Abstract: Apprenticeship as bookbinder at age of 14 in the town of Militsch (Posen); work in father's bookbinder's business; nightly study sessions with father, first in traditional Jewish learning, later in German literature; illness and loss of his job as court-file binder, the first in a series of misfortune; falling in love and marriage (1823); setting up marriage-contract; establishment of grocery store; fire destroyed his house and all its contents (1827); did not receive any compensation; had to supply large household (mother-in-law, brother, sisters, brothers-in-law and children); part of the family emigrated to USA and to Australia; only two children out of ten stayed in Posen; outbreak of cholera epidemic in Krotoschin; supervising construction of new synagogue; establishment of printing press; among his publications was Pentateuch in Hebrew with Johlson's German translation; employment of private tutor for Jewish education of his children; marriage of second daughter to the historian Heinrich Graetz five years after engagement, since Graetz did not find a suitable position earlier; marriage contract for Graetz; illness and economic ruin; revolution of 1848; opened tavern in addition to printing-press.
    Abstract: Also included is a copy of his last will (1865).
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    Multa multum : ["much of much"]. (1976)
    New York City :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 207 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Bach, Hans. ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Children. ; Education. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Quality of life. ; Textile industry. ; Berlin. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir by Rudi Bach includes genealogical information along with a description of his own life from his childhood in Stuttgart before World War I up to his life in New York after his immigration to the United States in 1947. He discusses his youth and education, a business apprenticeship in Stuttgart, and his eventual move to Berlin where he worked in the textile business. In Berlin he married and had children. He describes the atmosphere of Nazism and its effect on the Jewish community of Berlin, on his family's emigration to Palestine in 1936, and the further immigration the family undertook to the United States in 1947, and on his family life and successful business in New York.
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    What I remember. (1976)
    [Berkeley, California)] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages : , typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Numismatics. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Hamburg, experiences during World War I; business career as a banker; Nazi years and immigration to the USA.
    Abstract: Pages 83-98, "The history of a collection of ancient seals", were written as a suppement to the memoirs.
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    We kept our heads : Personal memories of being Jewish in Nazi Germany and making a new home in England (1976)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 111 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Liebmann, Dodo, ; Aliens. ; Communism. ; Jewish refugees ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Physicists. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Isle of Man. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Upbringing in Berlin Jewish middle-class family; primary and secondary education; university studies at Berlin and Heidelberg; member of Communist party in 1933; Ph.D. in 1934; work in factories; emigration to England in 1936; internment on Isle of Man during World War II; death of husband in 1956; compensation from Germany.
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    Jakob Ostwald's autobiography / (1976)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 131 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1976
    Former Title: Autobiography
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Blood accusation. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Country life 19th century. ; Education, Primary before 1871. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish teachers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Butchers. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Witten (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The original memoir was written in Berlin in 1913 by Jakob Ostwald, a teacher in Westphalia.
    Abstract: Life of father as slaughterer and butcher; childhood in rural Jewish community of Lichtenau; Jewish elementary school in Lichtenau; Christian- Jewish relations; accusation of ritual murder; at teacher's seminary in Muenster; teacher and cantor in Luedge, Huesten and Witten (Westphalia); communal strife in Witten; private Jewish school becomes public school.
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    Opus One. (1976)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 83 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Rosenthal, Bernhard. ; Stöcker, Adolf, ; Strauss, Jacob. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1931. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Nora Rosenthal, written 1973-1976 in London, including some genealogical information and recollections of her childhood: domestic life; her musical education; her married life; persecutions in Nazi Germany; her emigration to England after her husband's suicide; and her experiences in England during the war.
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    Retrospect and reflections : (My life and my times). (1976)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 275 + 19 pages (double space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Goldstein, Elsa Ruth (née Oppenheimer) ; Mosbacher, I.Z. ; Antisemitism. ; Economists. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Music Instruction and study. ; Outfitting industry. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Aachen (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Munich (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States History 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Kurt Goldstein, completed in 1976, including information on his grandparents; his childhood and his secular, Jewish and musical education in Nuremberg; World War I; his experience with anti-Semitism in the 1920s; his university studies and his studies in England; his apprenticeship of the production of cloth in Aachen; and his joining the family's business in 1929. Recollections of political, social and cultural life in Weimar Germany; the increasingly difficult situation after 1933 in Stuttgart; a trip to Palestine in 1935; his imprisonment after the 1938 November Pogrom; his emigration to the United States via England; his life, diverse jobs and business enterprises in Buffalo; his courtship and marriage to Elsa; and their family life and children.
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    German-Jewish immigrants to the United States during the Hitler period. (1976)
    Los Angeles, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 128 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: College teachers. ; Economists. ; Jews, German. ; Jewish refugees ; Journalists. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Work as journalist in Frankfurt; move to Switzerland; contacts with international politicians; immigration to USA; general reflections on German-Jewish immigrants and their relations to Judaism, Israel, and Germany; contains bibliography of author's publications.
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    Dear Family : Memoirs (1976)
    Flushing :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: approximately 585 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Schönbach family. ; Magnus family. ; Children. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Munster, France (Haut-Rhin) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ten volumes of Lotte Fairbrook's memoirs, covering 1792-1938:
    Abstract: Childhood and background; adolescence and young womanhood; married life in Germany; five years in four countries.; the first years in the United States of America.
    Abstract: Addenda: Update of the first volume, Childhood and background.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 1-11
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 12-17
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 1-5
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 6-14
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 1-10
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 11-15
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 16-23
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 1-7
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 8-18
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 10: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 19-24
    Note: Available on microfilm and on CDROM , MM2 reel 21: parts 1-2 , MM2 reel 22: parts 3-5 , English
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    [Autobiographical sketch]. (1976)
    [Sydney] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; Jewish physicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Sydney (N.S.W.) ; Switzerland. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Translation of an article by Dr. Edith Kramer, containing her recollection of her youth in Koenigsberg; her life in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s; the Holocaust in concentration camps; her escape to Switzerland; and her emigration to Australia in 1948.
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    Reflexions on my life and related matters. (1976)
    1976 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , private printing.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Charité (Hospital : Berlin, Germany) ; College teachers. ; Hospitals Employees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Military service in World War I; university studies in Munich; medical career at the Charité Hospital in Berlin; persecutions after 1933; immigraton and life in USA.
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    My first fifty years. (1976)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Levinger, Bill. ; Jewish women. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Panama Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of a German Jewish woman. During World War I she abandoned her studies and worked in a "Kriegskindergarten." In 1915, when the day care closed down, she finished school and passed her "Abitur." After the war, she studied law in Marburg and Bern/Switzerland and then moved to Berlin where she married and had children. In 1937, she emigrated to England, where, in 1940, her husband was interned as an enemy alien. They left England via Panama, Guatemala and Mexico for the United States.
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    A Seder night to remember. (1976)
    Palisades,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Passover Customs and practices. ; Seder. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Seder night in Theresienstadt, 1943.
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    [A documentary]. (1975)
    Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 34 + 3 , typescript (incomplete).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Hess, Charles. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Social conditions 20th century. ; World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance ; War crime trials 1946. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Netherlands. ; Tröbitz (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The “documentary” is based on Charles (Karl) Hess’s letters to relatives in the United States in 1945, describing his experiences in Holland (1940-1943); Westerbork (1943/44); Bergen-Belsen (1944/45); at the liberation in Tröbitz in 1945; and at the Belsen war crime trial in Lüneburg in 1946.
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    Ubi Bene Ibi Patria : or: Peregrinations. (1975)
    Christiansted, St. Croix :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 63 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: United States. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Palestine. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brager's experiences in school during the 1920s, his emigration to the U.S. through Switzerland, Cyprus and Palestine, immigrant life in New York, his return to Hamburg and other German cities after World War II.
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    65 Years devoted to the study and practice of medicine / (1975)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Offenbacher, Kurt. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Fuerth in orthodox atmosphere; university studies (medicine) in Erlangen, Wuerzbug, Strasbourg, Munich and Berlin; among his teachers were Konrad Roentgen and Rudolf Virchow; medical officer in World War I; work in Jewish Hospital Berlin under Prof. Hermann Strauss and return to Fuerth; mostly on professional career as physician; immigration to USA; beginnings of new life in New York where he practiced as a physician until the age of 84; epilogue contains reflections on world history and memory of the author's departed son Kurt.
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    In God's hands : An autobiography (1975)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 + 43 , 2 bound typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Bock family. ; Bock, Hilda. ; Freudenberg family. ; Freudenberg, Trude. ; Patek, Irma. ; Patek, Leopold. ; Patek family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1930-1939. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. ; Socialism. ; Teachers. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Beijing (China) ; China Emigration and immigration. ; Japan Emigration and immigration. ; Palo Alto (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1950s. ; Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life. ; Wiener Neustadt (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1975 in the United States. Description of the author’s family background. His father Jacob Bock was a schoolteacher, who later in life became principal of a School of Business in Wiener Neustadt. His parents converted to Catholicism shortly after they got married. Childhood memories and recollections of summer vacations in Attersee, near Salzburg. Recollection of his extended family. Scarce contact with his paternal grandmother, who did not approve of her son’s conversion. Rudolf grew up in a family, where religion was hardly mentioned. His father was an outspoken Socialist. First awareness of his Jewish background at age 16. Rising antisemitism in Austria, which also influenced the atmosphere at his school. Student exchange to France in 1931. After graduation he started medical school at the Vienna University in 1933. Description of cultural life in Vienna. The author describes the atmosphere among his family and friends, who, like him, underestimated the dangers of Nazism. Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life under National socialism and help from Aryan friends to continue his studies. Recollections of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. Rudolf was not permitted to take his final medical exams and started preparations for his emigration. In 1939 he joined his brother Kurt in Zagreb, where they found support in the local Jewish community. Plan to emigrate to Japan, where their uncle worked as an engineer. Journey to China and Japan. Admission to Peking Union Medical College (PUMUC) founded by the Rockerfeller Foundation, where Rudolf was able to finish his medical training. Description of life in Peking. He graduated in 1941 and specialized in ophthalmology. In the meantime his mother and grandparents arrived in Japan and lived with his brother Kurt. His sister went to England with a children’s transport. His father, who was unfit for travel at that time, died in Vienna in 1941.
    Abstract: Pearl Harbor and closing of the hospital. Rudolf was interrogated because he was believed to be a spy due to his correspondence with his family in Japan. In 1942 his mother joined him in Peking. Primitive living conditions. Growing friendship with his future wife Trude. They got married in September of 1944. Work in the Methodist Eye Hospital. Recollections of the end of the war. In September 1946 their daughter Marianne was born. Preparations to leave China. They left Peking for Shanghai in December of 1946. Arrival in Marseille on March 4th, 1947. Move to Geneva, Switzerland, where Trude’s parents were living. Delays in their immigration to the United States. Plans to settle in Europe. Trip to Austria, where he met with former friends and witnessed the post-war destruction. Position at the Eye clinic in Geneva and completion of his medical degree at the University of Vienna. They were almost ready to settle in Austria when finally his immigration papers for the U.S came through in the fall of 1950. They left for the United States soon after and arrived in New York in March of 1951. Trude and their daughters went to Berkeley to stay with Rudolf’s brother Kurt, while the author prepared for the Medical State Board exam in New York. He got a research position at Stanford. In July of 1951 their son Michael was born. The family settled in Paolo Alto, where Rudolf Bock started his own practice.
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    Vienna to Montreal - A personal history : [1922-1942]. (1975)
    Schenectady, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 36 + 43 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Architects. ; National socialism. ; Intellectual life ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish refugees ; Zionism. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Montréal (Québec) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir consists of a bound typescript, enriched with photocopies of photographs, documents, and letters.
    Abstract: The elaborate and thoughtful text contains many personal memories that exceed mere family life. Eric C. Fisher writes about Viennese neighborhoods, life in school, and religious differences between "assimilated" and "orthodox" Jews. Generally, it provides an account of Viennese cultural life between the wars. Fisher writes about his time with a Zionist youth organization; as well as family summer vacations in Croatia and Italy. He recalls the events of March 1938, and the beginning persecution of Jews in Austria. In spring 1939, he was incarcerated by the SS; he and other younger boys were released, but men (among them his father) were taken away. Later the family got transit visas to England, were he lived as a refugee and was interned as an enemy alien. Fisher describes in detail his transfer to Canadian camps and ends with his release in 1942, and the beginning of a new life in Montreal, Canada.
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