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    I would like the whole world to know : how, and why my dear parents died. (2017)
    [Broadstairs] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Liebenau family. ; Liebenau, Dora (née Simke), ; Liebenau, Max, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Charlottenburg (Berlin, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Richly illustrated booklet in memory of the author's parents.
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    [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)
    Note: Inventory available online.
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    A very beautiful voyage : The stories of my life (2017)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 78 pages : , typescript; illustrations
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2017 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Jews, German Families 1918-1933. ; Jews, German Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    [The life and political views of her grandfather Hermann Loeb : dedicated with love to his granddaughter Renate Simon] (2017)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 + 13 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: appendix
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Loeb, Hermann, ; Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Socialists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionists. ; Butzbach (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs of the watchmaker Hermann Loeb (1874-1948), describing his life as an active socialist (social democrat) and Zionist; his encounters with German anti-Semitism; his service in WW I; his experiences during Kristallnacht and the concentration camp Theresienstadt; and finally his immigration to the US.
    Abstract: Also included are clippings referring to Hermann Loeb from the German press in Giessen, Frankfurt and Butzbach; 2011-2013.
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    Interview with Edith Lenneberg. (2016)
    [Iowa City] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , typescript ; , 1 folder.
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Lenneberg family. ; Salomon family. ; Bombardment ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Germany Daily life 1945- ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of an interview conducted in Corrales, NM, July 13-14, 1995:
    Abstract: This interview details Edith's memories of her childhood in Hamburg during the 1920s, and her experience after Nazism came to power. She shares details of her family's customs and values, music, and the dismissal of her father Richard G. Salomon from the University of Hamburg. The social ambience of the Nazi period, schooling and friendships, touring and cultural attitudes are also addressed. Her immigration to the United States and the experience of landing in New York, as well as her postwar relations with her old German connection are also discussed.
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    Hein family history : A chronology with stories, 1838-2011. (2015)
    Eau Claire, WI :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 90 , Typescript (e-file).
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Hein family. ; Leser family. ; Hein, John. ; Hein, Siegfried. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Leather industry and trade 1918-1933. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Chronological history of the extended family of Friedel (Siegfried) Hein and his wife Ilse, née Mayer.
    Note: English
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    The Nickelsburg family : A historical sketch. (2014)
    Rio de Janeiro :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 168 , privat print (digital form).
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Nickelsburg family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil. ; Koblenz (Germany) ; Mecklenburg (Germany : Region) ; United States. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: This is an illustrated history of a German Jewish family from Nikolsburg in Moravia, reaching back to ca. 1675, and following its genealogy through a number of German cities, such as Teterow, Schwerin, Gnoien, and Ribnitz in Mecklenburg; as well as Berlin and Koblenz, to the U.S. and Brazil.
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    Kde domov můj ... : (Where is my home?) (2014)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 163 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Goldschmidt family. ; Heintschel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education. ; Families. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Czechoslovakia. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Alcantara : [The diary of Joseph Winn], (2013)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 160 pages : , e-file.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Winn family. ; Winn family. ; Czech literature 20th century. ; Jewish exiled authors. ; Jews ; Psychiatrists. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts. ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Diaries.
    Abstract: Annotated English translation of Joseph Winn's diary, 1962-1971, pepared from the original Czech, German, English, French, and Latin by his daughter Marie Winn in 2012-2013.
    URL: [The diary of Joseph Winn]
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    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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    Among strangers : A family story. (2010)
    Northampton, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 295 , e-file.
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Fürth, Elza Roheim. ; Perl, Eva Fürth. ; Perl, George. ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecutions 1939-1945. ; Suicide. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The story of a family of Austrian-Hungarian descent, covering three generations, the Holocaust and immigration to the United States.
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    My seven years under Nazi rule as a Jewish young man / (2009)
    Monroe Township, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Birkenau (Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Siegfried Line (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
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    Frankenau : A 48 hour sacred moment in time. (2007)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Torah scrolls. ; Frankenau (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    URL: Digital form
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=3619071&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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    Autobiography / (2007)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish refugees ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
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    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=549213&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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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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    "Experts in misery"? : American consuls in Austria, Jewish refugees and restrictionist immigration policy, 1938-1941. (2006)
    Columbia, SC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 235 pages : , typewritten and bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Dissertation note: This was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History University of South Carolina
    Keywords: Consuls. ; Diplomatic and consular service, American ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the role that American consuls stationed in Austria had in Jewish immigration to the United States following Austria’s annexation to Germany in 1938. Building off of new research that clearly outlines the importance of consuls in the administration of visas, Melissa Jane Taylor seeks to discover whether American consuls in Austria were unique and more lenient in their application of the law than their counterparts in Greater Germany. Additionally, she questions how annexation influenced consular interpretation of restrictionist immigration law. The dissertation provides insight on interaction between the Department of State and consuls, consular interaction within Greater Germany, and the interaction between the consul and applicant.
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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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    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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    The 20th century story of Paula and Samuel Furnberg's family : from Vienna to three continents (2005)
    Portland, OR :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 274 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Fürnberg family. ; Furnberg, Fritz (Fred), ; Furnberg, Paula (née Oser), ; Furnberg, Samuel, ; Furnborough, Paul, ; Lowenstein, Gertrud (née Fürnberg), ; O’Gorman, Erna (née Fürnberg), ; Wechsler, Helen (née Fürnberg), ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families ; Jews Genealogy. ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
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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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    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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    Marianne : The first 30 years... (2004)
    Colchester :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: David, Bernhard. ; Great Britain. ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish way of life ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Colchester (England) ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with childhood memories - religious life in the synagogue, Marianne Geernaert's father's (Bernhard David) role in the Jewish community in Hamburg, her school life, going to summer camp with her Zionist youth organization, recollections of the rise of Nazism. Her father was appointed to oversee the clearing of a Jewish cemetery. She describes Kristallnacht when she was at a Jewish camp on the country side. Her father was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. She describes the obstacles to overcome for obtaining permission to emigrate. Brief description of their stay in Amsterdam, then the trip to Palestine, farm life in Palestine. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1943. She married her husband John, then a British army officer, shortly after the war. Soon thereafter they moved to his home town Colchester, England. Many family and personal photographs are included following the biographical information in the text.
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    The letters 1938-1945 : The Grunwalds' journey from oppression to freedom. (2004)
    Sacramento, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 320 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: appendix.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Sommer, Susanne (née Grunwald) ; Grunwald, Max. ; Grundwald, Marga (née Saloschin) ; Lewinson, Paul. ; Lewinson, Jean. ; Grunwald, Hugo. ; Segall, Dora (née Saloschin) ; Jewish families Correspondence. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Visas ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Philippines Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The bulk of the correspondence is between Susanne Sommer's parents, Max and Marga Grunwald, and their sponsors in the United States, Paul and Jean Lewinson. Also included are letters from Susanne Sommer's maternal grandparents prior to their deportation from Berlin in 1942 and from her paternal grandfather prior to and after his deportation from Stettin to a ghetto in Poland. Also included are a number of letters by Hugo Grunwald, Susanne Sommer's uncle, who joined the British army after his immigration to England.
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    A not so brief review of my life / (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 131 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: 1 notebook
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Jewish families ; Metallurgy. ; Metal trade. ; Voyages and travels. ; Cologne (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir describes the author’s family background; his work in Germany, 1935-1936; and his work and business activities in New York and worldwide, 1937-1982. A fourth part of this memoir, describing the author’s experience as a subject of an FBI espionage investigation, 1941-1944, may be found in the Kurt E. Reinsberg Collection, AR 11356.
    Abstract: Also included is a “compositions” notebook with handwritten analyses of metals, 1937-1940.
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    History of my family. (2004)
    Delray Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 65 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Feldman family. ; Kronenfeld family. ; Birnbaum family. ; Fuchs family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Tailors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Bad Vöslau (Austria) ; Belgium. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; France. ; Switzerland. ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with a short description of political events in Austria before the Anschluss in the 1930s. He gives an account of Hitler's welcomed arrival in Vienna in March 1938, where he observed cheering crowds close to his apartment. He talks of the background and origin of his grandparents in Zablotov, Galicia, and Witznitz, Bukowina. Alfred Fox writes about childhood memories where the family went to Prater amusement park, made trips to spas at Bad Voeslau and boat trips on the Danube. Then he writes about the Anschluss, the November Pogrom where he saw synagogues burning, and where his father was taken to Dachau concentration camp. The family's emigration was difficult because of the quota system in the USA. They decided to leave for Belgium. He describes the ride on the train from Vienna to Cologne, were denied entry at the border to Belgium close to Aachen, but were told by a German officer a way how to sneak into Belgium. His father worked in Brussels as a tailor. The family fled from the German invasion to France (Bordeaux), and stayed in the Pyrenees until spring of 1941, went to Lyon and stayed there until spring of 1942. They went over the Alps into Switzerland with smugglers. They were put into a refugee camp in Zurich. He started to attend ORT organization's trade school class in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1947, he went to the USA, with the help of his uncle. The last 25 pages cover his time in the USA since. He married his wife Susanne (Pistiner) on September 17, 1950, who was also born in Vienna, joined the US army and the Korea War. The memoir illustrates Alfred Fox's life story with many personal & family photographs as well as a map of his emigration route.
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    Visit to a Viennese cemetery / (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 + 89 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Former Title: Delusions and denials: Viennese life under the Nazis / Visit to a Viennese cemetery.
    Keywords: Fireside, Harvey, ; Feuerzeug family. ; Zelman, Leon, ; Zentralfriedhof (Vienna, Austria) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: "Visit to a Viennese Cemetery" is a personal reflection about Fireside's first trip back to Austria since his arrival in the USA. It was organised by the "Jewish Welcome Service" in September 2000. This trip brings forgotten memories back to life, questioning the role of Austrians in the Holocaust, and their denial afterwards. The author describes the trip, first days of sightseeing and conversations of his fellow travellers. On the last day, the group went to Zentralfreidhof, the main cemetery in Vienna.
    Abstract: The memoir "Delusions and Denials: Viennese Life under the Nazis" starts with a description of the author's family and an essay-like reflection about Austria and its role and engagement with Nazism, and soon turns to the author's own childhood in Vienna, presenting his personal memories in context of the political situation in the 1930s. In the main part of the memoir, Fireside talks at length about the immediate events leading to the "Anschluss", followed by its consecutive years, still being in Vienna. "Kristallnacht", the pogrom in November of 1938, is dealt with in detail, over 15 pages. Until their escape in April 1940, Fireside describes plenty incidents of humiliations and persecution, the process of getting affidavits for the USA, and finally his family boarding a ship in Italy and their arrival in the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Visit to a Viennese cemetery
    Description / Table of Contents: Delusions and denials: Viennese life under the Nazis
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    Memoirs of Gerhard Langer, 1923-1939 : A Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany. (2004)
    Boulder, CO :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Langer family. ; Straubel family. ; Zuckerkandl, Therese. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Hitler-Jugend. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jena (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written by Gerhard Langer in 2003 and 2004, and covers his childhood and youth years during the Nazi era in Jena, Germany, until his arrival in the US in 1939. Among the included photographs are a picture of Gerhard in Hitler Youth uniform, and a picture of Villa Zuckerkandl under construction, the family home, a famous Walter Gropius building.
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    One child's lonely passage to freedom, (2003)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages + 4 pages : , typed manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Pogroms. ; Emigration and immigration ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A short memoir that mixes personal experiences with historical facts, e.g. about Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport. Experiences made during Kristallnacht are described, followed by the ride on the Kindertransport, and Mr. Rosenbaum's arrival in Britain. He then describes the effects on him of being separated from his family, his difficulties in adapting to new circumstances in his life, mainly because of him not knowing English. Includes resume which is full of awards and affiliations.
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    Memoirs of Robert Altschuler. (2003)
    Metuchen, NJ,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Altschuler, Robert, ; Altschuler family. ; Klamper family. ; Schapira family. ; Great Britain. ; Collective settlements ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief family background, describes his home in Vienna, and early recollections as a kid (he remembers political incidences during 1934). His father had a business partner who turned out to be an illegal Nazi. They were friendly with each other which helped the family after the Anschluss when it became obvious someone was protecting them - they were warned that his father was about to be arrested, and their property was not looted. The next chapter covers his emigration to Palestine, life in the Kibbutz, his first job, and the Jewish brigade. The last page covers his student time in the US, when he met and married his wife Miriam Oppenheimer.
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    Your heritage in transition. (2003)
    Boca Raton, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Gottschalk family. ; United States. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns ; Dallas (Tex.) ; Ecuador Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 2003 in Florida, United States. Description of family history and life in an affluent assimilated German Jewish household. Hal's father was a partner in the banking firm of his father and later directed the "M. Molling" department store of his father in law. Early recollections of political unrest and inflation in the aftermath of World War One. Hal and his siblings grew up in a houshold with servants and a governess, who kept in touch even during the Nazi time. The children had piano and violin lessons and once a week gymnastic lessons with a private gym teacher, Fritz Strube, who later published a book on physical education. Summer vacations at the North Sea. Hal went to the Gymnasium (high school) where he was the only Jewish student. He became an apprentice in Krefeld with a business friend of his father in 1932. Life under the Nazis. Preparations to leave for Ecuador. Hal left Germany together with his friend Paul Klein for Guayaquil via Amsterdam and arrived in January 1936. Life in Ecuador. Excursion in the Andes. In 1938 he was granted a visa for the United States, where he arrived in September of the same year. Life in Dallas, Texas in the aftermath of the depression. His father in Germany was arrested during the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) and taken to Buchenwald. After his release the family emigrated to England. In 1944 they came to the United States. Hal enlisted in the US army in 1941 even before the United States officially entered the war. He was appointed officer and took part in the "D" Day landing on Omaha Beach in France. Hal became part of an army intelligence unit in Berlin. Return to the States after the war and live with his family in New York. Courtship and marriage with Anne Pick in 1945.
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    Gosh I'm good : Memoirs of a modest man (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 126 , self-published book.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Orsten, Hanna. ; Trader Joe’s (Firm) ; Exile armies ; Real estate agents. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) History. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Třebíč (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface by Joe Coulombe
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    A brief history of the Arnstein family : (For Katharine Arnstein) (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Arnstein family. ; Arnstein, Gustav, ; Arnstein, Leopold, ; Arnstein, Richard, ; Jewish families ; Jewish printers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Sulzbach (Saarland, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Arnstein family, dating back to Seckel Arnstein in 1751 and his ancestor Ahron Fraenkel in 1645, who established a printing press business in 1699. Seckel Arnstein continued the business of printing of Hebrew bibles, which became famous all over Central and Eastern Europe under the name “S. Arnstein & Sons”. Another predecessor, Leopold Arnstein, founded a dry goods store under the name “Leopold Arnstein & Sons”. Family history of Gustav and Richard Arnstein, the grandfather and father of the author. Gustav Arnstein was born in Sulzbach and raised his family together with his wife Nanette, née Luber, in Wertheim. Later they moved to Stuttgart. In 1907 Gustav Arnstein founded a security business (“Nachtwach- und Schliessdienst”) for local stores and factories. Assimilated life style. World War One. Marriage of the author’s parents Richard and Charlotte, née Heymann. Post-war depression and rise of Nazi movement. Immigration to the United States.
    Abstract: The following individuals are named: Arnstein, Seckel, 1751-1825 ; Auer, Ignatz ; Heymann, Berthold ; Heymann, Charlotte ; Luber, Nanette ; Spitzer, Franz.
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    [Story of Sylvia (Mahler) Cherny]. (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Mahler family. ; Mahler, Robert, ; Mahler (née Gutmann), Grete, ; Watkins, Gerald Herbert, ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Melbourne (Vic.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with Sylvia Cherny's family background, the family business, and her time in Lower Austria where her family had lived for a couple of generations. She received private tutoring, coming from a well-off family. The "Anschluss" in 1938 changed everything. The family business was taken away and Sylvia Cherny provides a short chronology of its whereabouts. Her father commited suicide after the Anschluss, fearing the Gestapo who was looking for him. Sylvia Cherny went on a Kindertransport to France, then fled via Lisbon to New York. The final pages cover the first years in Melbourne, Australia, where she had joined her mother and her stepfather.
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    History of the families Valentin-Loewen and Manheimer-Behrend. (2003)
    Los Angeles, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 83 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Abraham family. ; Behrend family. ; Loewen family. ; Manheimer family. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Translated into English by Gary Storch; transcribed and edited by Barbara Storch, published by Peter Lattey. Includes CD of Bruno Valentin's daughter, Hedi Lattey, reading the translation.
    Note: German original in LBI library (q CS 629 V25 V3) , See also Valentin Family Collection (AR 3818) , English
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    Memoirs, (2003)
    Silver Spring, MD :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Levi, Minna (née Stein) ; Bernheimer family. ; Tannhauser family. ; Weil family. ; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin (1933-1943) ; Clothing trade. ; Textile industry. ; Textile fabrics. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Buttenhausen (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Leopold Levi, translated by Werner Blumenthal.
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    The Neuberg/Aron Family Chronicle / (2003)
    Tenafly, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 157 pages : , bound typecript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Rashi, Genealogy. ; Aron family. ; Buss family. ; Gans family. ; Katzenellenbogen family. ; Neuberg family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs ; Genealogy.
    Abstract: Detailed genealogical description of the Neuburg and the Aron families, accompanied by the memoirs of the authors, Hans and Birgit (née Aron) Neuburg, originally from Hannover and Berlin, respectively. Also included are a “photo gallery” and family trees.
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    What happened to the Austrian refugee children in America? : A report from research project ‘Second Wave’ (2003)
    [Cambridge, Mass.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Assimilation (Sociology) ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Refugee children ; Refugees Economic conditions ; Refugees Social conditions ; Jewish refugees ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Report on a study about children and young adults, who immigrated to the US from Austria and Central Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
    Abstract: Based on a presentation at the international symposium : “Austria and National Socialism: implication for scientific and humanistic scholarship”, June 5-6, 2003, University of Vienna.
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    Reply for Albert : a family chronic. (2003)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Hepner, Enrique. ; Hepner, Kaethe. ; Hepner family. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jewish lawyers ; Berlin (Germany) ; Chile Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: This is the story of the Hepner family from Germany – the lawyer Enrique Hepner; Kaethe née Halberstam; and their children Klaus, Ernst and Lore – who were forced to emigrate in 1939.
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    The Bondy family of Dolni Mesto and Lipnice Bohemia. (2003)
    Fairfax, VA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 94 + 23 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Bondy family. ; Bondy, Lazar Sinek, ; Bondy, Karoline (née Fluss), ; Bondy, Adolf, ; Bondy, Gustav, ; Bondy, Ludwig, ; Kornfeld, Hermine (née Bondy), ; Bondy, Emil, ; Weiss, Ida (née Bondy), ; Jewish families. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Dolní Město (Czech Republic) ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Lipník nad Bečvou (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Family history with photographs, documents, maps, recipes, and family trees.
    Abstract: Also included as an appendix is a speech by Irma Bondy, Meine Erfahrungen in Amerika, 1921/22, presented in 1923 in Vienna, Austria.
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    Stories : [ca. 1866-2001]. (2003)
    Pound Ridge, NY,
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    Pages: 290 pages : , printed and bound manuscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Jews ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Family history written for Renata Manasse Schwebel's grandchildren
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    Dreams and realities. (2002)
    Boston, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 304 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Schratter, Margarethe (née Schall), ; Schratter, Paul, ; United States. ; Business travel. ; Families ; Jewish soldiers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marketing. ; Nazis. ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews. ; Orphanages. ; Orphans. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first part of his memoir Paul Schratter describes the life of his family in Vienna and east-central Europe. He writes about the early death of his mother and his feelings. He describes his protected childhood in Vienna and surprisingly agreeable time in an orphanage. Later he describes political topics like the great depression and the beginning of Nazi activities, culminating in Hitler’s welcome to Vienna and the events of ‘Kristallnacht’. The second part of the memoir is mostly about his immigration to the US and his return to Vienna as a soldier of the U.S. Army. At the end of this chapter, he describes the early days of his marriage. The third part covers the bulk of the memoir (approximately 200 pages). He mainly describes his work in international marketing and the different countries he visited. He also includes remarks about his family, his feelings towards Germany and Austria after the World War II, and his thoughts on current politics.
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    My Jewish heritage / (2002)
    Hamden, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: circa 135 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Identity. ; Rabbis. ; Synagogues. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ahlem (Germany) History. ; Oświęcim (Poland) Description and travel. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is an illustrated travelogue, complete with a condensed family tree, photographs, ephemera and news clippings. Through these materials, Peter C. Hereld discusses the role and relevance the Jewish religion had on his life. The various synagogues Hereld attended while living in different cities are also discussed. Community bulletins, news articles and photographs of services accompany the descriptions of synagogues. In addition to histories of the cities of Ahlem and Auschwitz, Hereld includes histories of the Wolfes and Schusters families, and a section on Rabbis of influence in his life.
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    "... I want an Ocean between us!" : Letters from Samuel Kahn, devoted father of one of the thousand children brought from Germany to the United States in 1934. (2002)
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    Pages: 171 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Lindauer, Thea (née Kahn) ; Kahn, Samuel. ; Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, New York (1885- ) ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The manuscript contains letters written by Samuel Kahn to his daughter in the USA between 1934 and 1937.
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    [The divorce of my parents ...]. (2002)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Former Title: Untitled
    Keywords: Bendheim family. ; Friedländer, Adolf. ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps Intellectual life. ; Divorce. ; Dressmakers. ; Emigration and immigration Official documents. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Deggendorf (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Several short memoirs written by Margot Friedlaender. Recollections of her childhood shadowed by the divorce of her parents. School years during the Nazi time in Germany. Margot started an apprenticeship to become a dressmaker in a salon. Circumstances of life in Nazi Germany and recollections of Kristallnacht. Position with the Jewish "Kulturbund". In 1941 the "Kulturbund" was closed by the Nazi authorities and Margot was forced to work in a factory. Fervent attempts to emigrate failed. In 1943 her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz. Margot went into hiding. Experiences of life in underground. After her discovery in 1944 she was fortunate to be deported to Theresienstadt, where she met a former colleague from the Kulturbund, Adolf Friedlaender. They both managed to survive and were liberated by the Russian army. They got married in Theresienstadt in June of 1945. After a year in the DP Camp Deggendorf, they finally left for New York in June of 1946.
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    Growing up in Germany. (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Opel family. ; Liechtenstein family. ; Families ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New Zealand Emigration and immigration. ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a recorded document of an interview conducted in September 2002. Description of family background. Her father Fritz Opel was a journalist from a non-Jewish family, her mother Else, née Liechtenstein came from a large Jewish family in Berlin. Her father was killed shortly after her birth during World War One. Recollections of early childhood in Berlin, where Marianne and her older brother Fritz lived with their widowed mother in modest circumstances. Summer vaccations in the family’s country house in the Riesengebirge. Marianne attended a boarding school in Letzlingen. After her graduation she dismissed her dream to become a doctor and accepted a position as a secretary in order to help supporting her family. Rising of Nazi movement. Her brother was arrested for political activities and served three years in jail. After his release he immedeatly left Germany and escaped to Switzerland. Marianne received a permit as a domestic help for New Zealand and emigrated in 1939.
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    My life. Memoirs of Irma Reiss, 1910-2000 / (2001)
    Highland Park, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Goldblum family. ; Reiss, Leonhard. ; Agudat Israel. ; Blau-Weiss Bund fuer Juedisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland (1913- ) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1986 in the USA and was edited by the author's son Nathan M. Reiss. Irma Reiss was the second child of three of Bertha and Leopold Goldblum. The family lived Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, which had a small Jewish community. Her father was a shoemaker. Description of domestic life in rural Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Recollection of Sabbath preparations in her family. Memories of school life. Hebrew lessons with her uncle Friedmann, who was the cantor and shochet of the town. Visits to relatives in Rossdorf by Darmstadt. Recollections of World War One. Her father Leopold, an Austrian citizen from Galicia, served in the Austrian Army. Celebration of the high holidays. Recollection of Irma Reiss' schooldays in Heppenheim, where she was a well-liked student. Irma and her sister were members of the local Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss". Their group leaders were Rafael and Eva Buber, children of Martin Buber, who lived in Heppenheim and was very supportive of the youth movement. At age 14 Irma was sent to her uncle's family to help taking care of the children. She took continued education classes. Afterwards she worked as a "house daughter" with a religious family in Frankfurt. Irma became a member of the Agudas Yisroel. After the Nazi take-over in Germany their American relatives provided them with affidavits to join them in the States. Growing anti-Semitism. Irma Goldblum left Germany on September 15th, 1938. Her parents stayed behind because her father, who was born in Galicia, still had to wait for his affidavit due to the Polish quota regulations. Difficulties in starting a new life in New York. Worries about her parents in Germany. During the night of the November Pogrom in 1938 her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After three weeks he was released and was able to leave together with his wife for the States. Support of their relatives to start a new life.
    Abstract: Irma Goldblum got married to Leonhard Reiss in December 1939. Thei had two sons, Nathan and Barry Reiss.
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    Limited autobiography of Jules Wallerstein. (2001)
    Norwalk, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Wallerstein, Anton, ; Wallerstein, Paula, ; Wallerstein family. ; St. Louis (Ship) ; United States. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Cuba. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief description of orthodox family background. His mother Paula, nee Rau, was a student at Heidelberg University prior to her marriage. His parents got married in 1926. The family lived with his father's mother in a six-room apartment and kept a kosher home. The author's younger sister Edith was born in 1932. Julius attended the "Juedische Realschule" and had friendly relationships with non-Jewish children. Recollections of the Night of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. His father was forced to hand over the jewelry store of the family to Nazi authorities. Experiences of antisemitic attacks. Preparations to emigrate. The family left for Cuba on May 13, 1939 on board of the St. Louis departing from Hamburg. They were refused entry to Cuba and had to return to Europe again. They stayed in Belgium and waited for their visas to the United States. Julius attended public school and was Bar Mitzvahed in the Main Synagogue in Brussles in 1940. A month later the Germans invaded Belgium. His father was sent to Camp Les Gurs in France, and the family followed him to Vichy France through an illegal passage. They finally received visas to the United States and left Marseilles in 1941. They immigrated to the United States via Casablanca and arrived in New York in January of 1942. Life in the United States. Jules was drafted into the US army in 1945 and was sent to Germany in a Counter Intelligence Mission. Return to the States in 1947. Work in an electronic company. Marriage in 1953. Move to Connecticut in 1967. Reunions of St. Louis survivors and visits to Fuerth.
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    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Max Liebmann describes his school life and how unbearable conditions grew after Hitler was elected chancellor. One time a pupil harassed him, but he fought back. He stayed in public school until 1937, and then attended a private school. He had to leave school after “Kristallnacht”, when all Jews were excluded from non-Jewish schools. In March 1938, his father had left for Greece in order to explore new business possibilities. Max Liebmann never saw him again. With the outbreak of World War II, Max Liebmann took his grandmother, who was French Alsatian, to the Swiss border. But Switzerland did not permit her to enter the country, so she went to Nancy and later to Bordeaux. During the war discrimination increased and culminated in Max Liebmann being sent to Eastern Germany to harvest. He describes himself as one of the first slave laborers of the Reich. In 1940, Max Liebmann started to work for the “Hilfsverein”. On October 21, 1940, the “Hilfsverein” was closed and he was deported to France the next day. On October, 25, Max Liebmann arrived at the camp of Gurs in Southwestern France. He managed to get out of the camp just weeks before its closure on August 1, 1942, and the beginning of the first deportations to Auschwitz. He hid in several places in unoccupied France with the help of local residents. He later managed to escape to Switzerland with the help of a Swiss militia man. In Switzerland, he worked in a refugee camp. On February 28, 1943, his girlfriend Hanne, whom he had met in Gurs, came to Switzerland. She first lived with relatives, but left them on Christmas Eve 1944 when personal frictions became too heavy. Max Liebmann married Hanne on April 14, 1945 in Geneva. Their daughter was born on March 4, 1946. In 1948, the family left for the United States.
    Abstract: Max Liebmann ends his memoir with giving a few remarks on Swiss policy concerning Jewish immigration and also on their policy of blocking them from their money in Swiss bank accounts.
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    My family history / (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 386 , 386 pages + 13 page index : , bound typescript, illustrations, portraits , bound typescript, illustrations, portraits
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Rideamus, ; Meyer (Family : ; Oliven (Family : ; Reifen (Family : ; Schottländer (Family : ; Textile industry History. ; Grain trade History. ; Zionism History ; Hannover (Germany) ; Silesia. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; History ; Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Chronicle divided into sections on the Oliven, Schottländer, and Meyer families from the 18th through the 20th centuries as well as an autobiographical memoir by Klaus Oliven.
    Abstract: The manuscript is richly illustrated in full color, including several family photographs and portraits as well as reproductions of documents. The manuscript is divided into sections on each family, and then further subdivided into topical headings and short biographies of individual family members; some family tree diagrams are also included. For the most part the tone is rather more like a memoir, as Oliven offers his recollections of anecdotes from the lives of members of his extended family. Longer sections are devoted to Klaus Oliven's immediate family, including his father Fritz Oliven, who was known as the humorist and librettist Rideamus. There is also a section on the family of his wife Seldi Reifen.
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    [Speeches and memories], (1997-2001)
    [New Orleans] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 4 + 5 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1997-2001
    Keywords: Levy family. ; Levy, Leo, ; Weil, Leo. ; Weil, Liselotte L. (née Levy), ; United States. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Reform Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Neuwied (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were comprised as speeches from 1997-2001. Brief description of family history. Recollections of the Neuwied Reformed Jewish community. Liselotte attended the Jewish school. Description of domestic life with a nanny and religious traditions. Nazis and preparation of their parents for the children's emigration. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom 1938 (Kristallnacht). The family was arrested and their father beaten up so brutally that he died two weeks later. Liselotte and her younger brother Leo were sent to relatives in the US in 1939. Her brother joined the US army. Their mother and sister stayed in Germany and probably perished during the Holocaust. Description of life with relatives in the United States. Courtship and marriage to Leo Weil.
    Description / Table of Contents: Talk given by Liselotte Weil, July 9, 1997 [in New Orleans]; 5 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sermon by Liselotte Weil at Temple Sinai, New Orleans, on Dec. 7, 2001; 4 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: In memory of my brother, Aug. 19, 1998; 5 pages.
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    Poldi's memoirs : [1883-1958]. (2001)
    Maplewood, N.J. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 73 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Moskiewicz, Else, ; Hirschfeld, Rahel. ; Hirschfeld family. ; Samolewitz, Moritz (Moshe), ; Samolewitz, Leopold, ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Families. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Antisemitism. ; Social classes. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Translation from the original German by Leopold's son Harvey W. Samo, formerly Hans Werner Samolewitz, and his wife Eva Samo, née Isaac-Krieger.
    Abstract: The memoirs of Leopold Samolewitz were written during 1956 to 1958 in Jerusalem. Reflections on the author's identity as a German-Jewish emigre. Description of life in Imperial Germany at the turn-of-the century. Relationship between social classes and gender roles. Reflections on the Jewish community in Berlin and the differences between Eastern and Western Jews. Jewish influence on the cultural life in Berlin. Reflections on antisemitism. German Jewish life in a Christian surroundings. Reflections on his religious standing. History of German Jews and emancipation.
    Abstract: Description of his father's orthodox family background. Moritz Samolewitz was born 1840 in Gollub, a small town between Russia and Poland, where Jewish life was restricted. He moved to Berlin with his wife Rahel and they struggled to make a living. Birth of their children Isidor, Georg, Martha and Leopold. Description of the author's childhood in an orthodox Jewish home. His parents established a shoe and clothing business. Recreation at the spas of Bad Teplitz and Bad Kissingen. Living conditions in a working-class neighborhood. At age 6 Leopold attended the religious school of Israel Hildesheimer. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah. He was enrolled in the Humbold Gymnasium. After some antisemitic incidents as the only Jewish student at school Leopold transferred to the Sophien Gymnasium, where he graduated in 1902. He enrolled at university as a law student. Recollections of the author's encounter with antisemitism as a student. He was a member of the student fraternity "Freie Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung". Military service with the "Garde Regiment" in Bavaria. In 1912 he married his fiance Else Moskiewicz, who was a passionate art collector. The couple had two sons. Leopold served and was wounded during World War One. During his thriving career as a lawyer he was offered a position as a judge on the condition to be baptized, which he refused. During the night of the November pogrom in 1938 he was hidden with his wife at the house of a German family and spared deportation. In 1939 he left Germany with his wife and they emigrated to Palestine, where their son Kurt had established himself. Leopold Samolewitz took classes in Hebrew, English as well as British and Jewish law and passed the bar examination to start working again at age 58. Addendum: Completions of his son Harvey W. Samo (Hans Werner Samolewitz) on his father's life.
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    The day Frau Svoboda played god / A Hole In The Ground. (2001)
    Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 4 , typecripts, copies.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after the "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
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    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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    Family saga, (2000)
    Scarsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 114 pages + appendix : , typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Ripp, Norbert. ; Ripp, Herbert. ; Geller, Regina, 1898- ; Ripp, Paul, 1898- ; Geller, Benno (Ben Zion) ; Atran, Frank. ; Ripp, Joseph, ; Ripp family. ; United States. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Saint Paul (Minn.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In his memoir, Joseph Ripp decribes "some of the events that drove them out of Europe and brought them to safety in the United States". He describes the fate of each family member, and their later lives in the United States. Then Joseph Ripp focuses on the time of persecution thorugh the Nazis. In school they were taught the discriminatory racial doctrines, in the outside world his father's business suffered from all different kinds of assaults on his property. It became clear that they had to emigrate. In 1938, young Joseph could take part in a small program sponsered by the American Jewish community which enabld a few hundred children from Germany to escape. He was about to end up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that, they made a stop in New York, where he stayed with his aunt Bertha Geller. He describes how impressed he was by all the new things he got to see in New York. After his arrival, he took on several jobs to help his family survive the struggles of war. The memoir moves back to Nazi-Germany and its persecution of Jews. There is an account of Kristallnight and Joseph Ripp's brothers' escape to Holland and England. His parents are dispersed over Europe, his father being held at St. Cyprien internment camp in France, his mother stuck in Antwerp, Belgium. Finally there is a family re-union in the USA. Joesph Ripp then writes about his family's fate in the US. He joins the army and combats in Europe. He receives education from Columbia University, and then meets his future wife, Mimi, a refugee child as well. Both go back to Europe in the 1950s. Joseph Ripp accepted a job offer in Brussels, Belgium, from his wife's uncle. The memoir closes with the upbringing of the next generation. There are several family photos and documents included in the appendix.
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    Escape from the Holocaust. (2000)
    Charleston, SC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript, copies.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Antisemitism History 20th century. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir was written for a Holocaust Survivors' Webpage for people who went to Hunter College High School, New York City, NY. Lisa F. Barclay's memoir is short and concise. She talks briefly about her family's background and her childhood in pre-war Vienna. The "Anschluss" of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938 changed everything. The family was forced to emigrate. Her parents were a mixed couple - the father Jewish, the mother a Catholic. They got help from a number of Catholic friends, which gave them a few more options than a Jewish family. They got the US affidavit through an American relative, but had to wait long for the actual visas, since her father was born in Hungary and therefore considered under the quota for Hungarian citizens. After leaving Austria in 1938, they temporarliy lived in Paris, France, and Lisbon, Portugal. The memoir ends with a description of the living conditions after their arrival in New York.
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    The Terrace memoirs. (2000)
    Laguna Beach, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 136 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Bondy, Curt, ; Warmbrunn family. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Diary from childhood to old age (as described in the biographical note), which includes a few family photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s.
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    My life : [1927-1990]. (2000)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Rothstein, Esther. ; Storch, Baruch. ; Storch family. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Textile industry. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in Israel in the 1990s. Phillippe Storch's father Baruch was born 1887 in Galicia. He came to Hannover at age 13 and started his own business in 1907. His ready-made men's clothing had great success and expanded within the years. He met his future wife Deborah, née Horowitz in Hannover, where she had moved with her father from Galicia. They married in 1912. Phillippe was the youngest of four children. His father Baruch, an orthodox Jew, was a strict but a just and kind-hearted man. He was a fervent German patriot and an admirer of German culture, which left him blind folded to the events of the Nazi era and ultimately led to his end in Auschwitz. The children were brought up with German education. Phillippe's older brother Sally was a member of Agudat Yisroel and prepared himself for emigration to Palestine (hakhsharah), which their father strongly opposed. Despite the anti-Jewish boycott the business still continued to do well until 1938. With the "Kristallnacht" on November 9th 1938 things deteriorated rapidly. The family, who had been granted German citizenship, became stateless. During "Kristallnacht" the entire apartment and their shop were devastated. In 1939 Phillippe joined a children's transport to the Netherlands. 1940 the Germans entered the Netherlands. Phillippe's brother Sally and his sister Martha crossed the border illegally to Belgium, where Sally contracted TB and died shortly after the Germans entered the country. Through the help of the "Resistence" Phillippe was reunited with his sister and mother in Antwerp, Belgium. They managed to get to Southern France, where their mother died of exhaustion. Through adventurous circumstances Phillippe managed to cross the border to Switzerland together with his sister and her husband.
    Abstract: He was taken to a military camp near Zurich. It was in poor conditions, but they had a rich cultural life due to many famous inmates such as the singer Josef Schmidt and the writer Manes Sperber. Transfer to a family camp in Morgin, where he got married to his inmate Esther Rothstein. Post-war life in France. 1946 birth of his oldest son Sami in Lyon. French citizenship in 1949. Emerging textile business. Business travels to Israel. Emigration to Brazil in 1952. Export business with his friend Shloyme Draenger.
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    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
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    Pages: 98 + 34 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Altbach, Ludwig ; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) ; HIAS (Agency) ; Jews Persecutions. ; Education, Higher. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Soccer. ; Engineers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Argentina. ; Eggenburg (Austria) ; Peru. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.
    Abstract: Internment at Ellis Island and release with the support of HIAS. Arrival in Buenos Aires in October 1943 and reunition with his parents. Work for a steel company and studies of mechanical engineering at the University of La Plata. Graduation in 1949. Military coup and political instability. Walter Altbach founded his own business, which became a successful enterprise. Marriage in 1951. Move to Peru in 1967. Recollections of his first trip to Austria after his emigration in 1968.
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    Two families. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 + xiii + 79 + viii pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Baschwitz family. ; Herzberg family. ; Schiff family. ; Wolfsohn family. ; Goldmann, Nahum, ; Art appreciation. ; Assimilation Jews. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Music appreciation. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Wuppertal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of the related Wolfsohn and Schiff families, covering 1776-1982.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Mordehai Akdon; Prince Czartoryski; Andrea Guarneri, 1626-1698; Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, 1687-1742; Leopold Krakauer, 1890-1954; Arturo Toscanini, 1867-1957; Richard Wagner 1813-1883
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 1: The Wolfsohn family
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 2: The Schiff family
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    Berlin stories. (1999)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 13 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Willdorff family. ; Apartments. ; Journalists. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    A measure of time : my family chronicle (1999)
    London,
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    Pages: 216 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Jacobus, Jackie, ; Rosenthal family. ; Heymann, Lila, ; Melchior, Moses, ; Heymann, Georg, ; Eichenberg, Ausguste Elisabeth, ; Schwarzschild family. ; Picard, Henny, ; Picard, Lucien, ; Alexander, Alfred, ; Alexander family. ; Families 19th century. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Lawyers. ; Nurses. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: John Alexander describes the family history - reaching back to ancestors in the early 16th century. The author's paternal grandfather Alfred Alexander, born 1880 in Bamberg, was a physician. In 1909 he married Henny Picard, daughter of the well known banker Lucien Picard and his wife Amalie Schwarzschild. Schwarzschild family tree with ancestors traced back to the 16th century. Alfred and Henny Alexander had 4 children - the youngest two were the twins Hanns and Paul, born 1917 in Berlin. They were living in an elegant apartment, which also contained the consultation room of Alfred Alexander's office. In 1923 Alfred founded a clinic for leukaemia patients, which acquired excellent reputation. In 1936 they emigrated to England, where Alfred continued to practice. His sons Hanns and Paul Alexander volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and fought against the Germans in France and Belgium.
    Abstract: The appendix contains journal excerpts from Alfred Alexander and Lucien Picard.
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    Where the wolves say goodnight : Memoirs of a mother Hitler couldn't catch (1999)
    La Quinta, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 153 pages : , typescript, photocopy.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Abraham, Walter. ; Fromm, Frieda. ; Fromm, Meyer. ; Nickel, Maria. ; Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, Berlin (1933-1941) ; Antisemitism. ; Dressmakers. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1918 ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lubawa (Poland) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1999 in California. Memories of Ruth Abraham's childhood in Löbau, West Prussia. She grew up in an orthodox family. Her father, Meyer Fromm, was a wealthy merchant. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish holidays. Relationship between the Jewish and Christian community. Antisemitism after World War One, when Löbau became Polish. Rumors of pogroms in Russia. Opting for German citizenship and move to Allenstein near Koenigsberg in 1921. Early interest in dressmaking. Ruth was enrolled in the Luisen Schule, a homemaking school for girls. Private Religion and Hebrew classes at home. Importance of family ties. Increasing encounters of alienation with non-Jewish friends, who stopped associating with her. Rising Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism. Apprenticeship at the family's dressmaker. First signs of the growing danger in Germany. In 1932 her sister Betty left for Palestine. Move to Berlin, where she stayed at her sisters' houses, who were both married to affluent business men and led the lives of comfortable middle class wives. Fascinating cultural life in Berlin. Working with various dressmakers. Jewish life slowly disappeared into private life due to fears of stirring attention. Increasing persecution and awareness of permanent danger. Zionist lectures and activities. Trip to Italy and Palestine to visit her sister in February 1938. Witnessing the terror of the "Kristallnacht" (November Pogrom). Attending performances of the Kulturbund (Jewish arts society) to escape the dreadful reality. Engagement with Walter Abraham. Fervent attempts to arrange an exit visa for the family. First deportations of relatives to camps in Poland. Forced labor in a pharmacy corporation. In 1942 Ruth became pregnant. Deportation of her parents. Encounter with a German woman, Maria Nickel, who offered her help. Birth of their daughter Reha and life in hiding in the countryside. Escape from a SS raid. Hiding in Berlin and life on the streets.
    Abstract: False identity and hiding place in the countryside. Liberation by the Russian army. Imprisonment of her husband accused of being a Nazi spy. Return to Berlin and liberation by the Americans.
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    Rosemarie : A memoir (1999)
    West Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 96 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Deutschland family. ; Joseph, Hans. ; Land family. ; Bloomsbury House. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Medical technology. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; England. ; Lake Carmel (N.Y.) ; West Palm Beach (Fla.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the life of Rosemarie L. Joseph from her happy childhood in Germany, the danger during the Nazi Regime, the immigration to the USA, until her retirement in Florida, narrated in 11 chapters and illustrated with photographs and figures showing family members and documents.
    Abstract: Rosemarie Joseph describes her family and their life in Berlin. The father was a businessman, dealing with women’s clothes. The author writes about her years at a public school, where she met anti-Semitism for the first time. Later she went to a private school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The memoir deals with the upcoming Nazi Regime and describes how the family experienced anti-Semitism, the terror, despair and confusion; especially the events of the “Reichskristallnacht” and the efforts to emigrate are described. Eventually Rosemarie was able to go to London, which was made possible by the Bloomsbury House, which offered older children, who were not eligible for the “Kindertransport”, to escape to Great Britain. The memoir tells about the escape of Rosemarie’s parents. Her father was born in Danzig, which was considered a free State by Hitler after the war began. Therefore Hartwig Deutschland received a “Danzig Quota” number 7 for travel to America and the couple left Germany immediately and soon arrived in New York. Shortly afterwards Rosemarie got a visa to enter the USA, too.
    Abstract: The memoir tells about her first years in the USA, her job as a pediatrics nurse at the Israel Zion Hospital, her job caring for a small child, her years studying at Hunter College, her job at the Blood Bank at University Hospital as well as how she met her husband Hans Joseph. She was lucky to get a grant of $1,800.00 from the Educational Foundation for Jewish Girls and so she was able to enroll at the Polyclinic Hospital and Medical School for one year. After passing the Registry Exam she was allowed to work as a Medical Technologist of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Her first job then was at a private medical laboratory in Brooklyn. 1952 she started to work part time at the Jewish Memorial Hospital, which soon turned into a full time job. She worked there until 1982. Furthermore Rosemarie writes about her struggle to get a child. Finally the couple adopted two boys, Claude and Andrew. The memoir gives account of the family’s decision to buy a house at Lake Carmel in Putnam county, N.Y., their animals, the family life, how Rosemarie started oil painting, her retirement, her voluntary work at the Residential Treatment Center for autistic children, the death of her husband, a new relationship; and finally her move to West Palm Beach, Florida and her life there, together with a lot of volunteer activities, music and trips to several places in the USA and Europe. Finally, the memoir includes a paragraph about Rosemarie’s contribution to the Shoa Foundation with Steven Spielberg as a chairman plus a copy of the letter that Spielberg sent to Rosemarie, saying thank you for her help.
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    An act of courage. (1999)
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    Pages: 7 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Seeck, Frieda. ; Wollstein, Gerhard. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Ethnic relations. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Frieda Seek was a concierge in Berlin-Charlottenburg, when she hid the Jew Gerhard Wollstein in her attic from 1939 to 1945.
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    My story : [1915-1999]. (1999)
    Cadwell, NJ,
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    Pages: 101 pages.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Gutmann, Jakob, ; Pick, Margarethe, ; Pick family ; Rothberger, Bertha ; Rothberger family ; Schulhof family ; Weil family ; United States. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Engineers. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Families 20th century. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Ohio. ; Vienna (Austria) ; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army.
    Abstract: He served in England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.
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    Recollections of my life : An autobiography (1999)
    [Adelaide] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 125 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Pagel, Hans Isaac. ; Pagel, Regina. ; Tuckfield, Milton James. ; Australia. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish religious education. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Kępno (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir covers 1919 to 1999. Childhood memoirs of Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where Eva grew up as the third daughter of Hans Isaac and Regina Pagel. Her parents were highly respected members of the Jewish community as well as of the Zionist Movement. They owned a ladies' boutique and were rather affluent. Memories of Shabbat celebrations and observance of the holidays. Eva was enrolled in a Jewish public school. Hebrew school in the afternoons. At the age of eight Eva joined a Jewish youth group. Passion for books and theater. Recollections of the airship "Zeppelin Hindenburg". Trips to Berlin to visit her mother's parents. Holidays at her grandparents in Kempen (Kepno), where her father was born. After the Jewish primary school Eva attented the public girl's school (Gymnasium). Political tensions and the rise of Nazis. Emigration to Palestine via Romania, Hungary and Italy in 1932. Life in Tel Aviv, where her parents opened the first ladies' boutique "Ha Geveret". Difficulties of learning the new language (Ivrith). Member of the sport's club Maccabi, where Eva (Hava) was in the swimming team. Underground activities in the Haganah, the Israeli defense movement. Work as a photographer, in a kindergarten and in a flower shop. Recollections of the Arab uprising in 1936. Flow of new immigrants from Germany and Austria due to the dramatic political events in Europe. Outbreak of World War II. Friendship with an Australian soldier, who was stationed at Palestine. Marriage with James Tuckfield in April 1942. Difficulties with her father, who did not accept her Gentile husband. Birth of their son Raymond Gil. Emigration to Australia via Egypt and India in November 1944. Arrival in Melbourne in January 1945. Welcome by her husband's family in Adelaide, South Australia. End of the war and reunion with her husband. Birth of their daughter Judith Dawn in 1946 and move to Brownville. Birth of their son Allen David in 1948.
    Abstract: Declaration of the State of Israel. Visiting her family in Israel in 1970. Trip to Europe and Israel together with her husband in 1973. Birth of their grandchildren. Death of her husband in 1979. Various journeys to China, Cyprus, Israel and Europe.
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    Ibmemoirs : [The memoirs of Inge Brenner]. (1999)
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    Pages: 26 , pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Dreifus, Claudia. ; Jewish families 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In a memoir written for her daughters, Inge (Irene) Brenner recounts her family’s history, growing up in Berlin with her parents, her maternal grandfather Samuel Oppenheimer and her two sisters, Lony (born 1913) and Marianne (born 1922). She tells of the hardship that befell Jewish families after the Nazis’ rise to power. Her sister Lony left for Paris in 1933 and later worked as a secretary for the Zionist politician Vladimir Jabotinsky. Inge met her future husband Hans (Harold) Brenner in 1937 in Berlin; he was able to immigrate with the help of an American cousin and sent for Inge soon after Kristallnacht. They met in Havana, Cuba, and were married there. He returned to New York while Inge waited for her visa in Cuba, then entered the United States via Miami. Hans and Inge lived in a small apartment in Washington Heights, eventually joined by his parents as well as Inge’s parents and younger sister Marianne. When Lony and her husband Maurice arrived from Paris, they started a small business that employed several members of the family. Hans and Inge had two daughters, Barbara and Jessica; Maurice and Lony had one daughter named Linda. Inge also describes her younger sister’s life in some detail. Marianne, in an ultimately broken marriage with Henry Dreifus, gave birth to her only daughter at the age of 22. Claudia Dreifus was raised until the age of eight by her grandmother, Emma Willdorff, and later by her father and step-mother. Marianne went on to suffer a nervous breakdown, followed by a severe car accident. She spent her final years living in Reno with her second husband Aram Jorjorian. Following a second divorce, Marianne died at age 55.
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    The life and times of Joseph F. Aschner (Hietzinger Gymnasium 1932-38). (1999)
    [New York, NY],
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    Pages: 9 pages : , typescript +
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    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: College teachers. ; Divorce. ; Education, Elementary ; Education, Secondary ; Education, Higher ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; 13. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Bogotá (Colombia) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of family home in Vienna; study at Hietzinger Gymnasium in Vienna; Anschluss and aftermath; emigration to Colombia; life in Bogota; emigration to USA; high school and college in Chicago; army service during World War II; marriage and divorce; birth of daughter; remarriage; lives of relatives; life in retirement.
    Abstract: Also included are Joseph Aschner's questionnaires with the Austrian Heritage Collection.
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    Experiences of Albert Gompertz : from Nazi Germany to America. (1998)
    Palm Beach, Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 172 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Gompertz family. ; Gompertz, Leo. ; Rohrbach, Henny. ; Fur trade. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, American. ; Gelsenkirchen (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography and family history of Alfred Gompertz
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    Gruenspecht. (1998)
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    Pages: 152 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Grünspecht family. ; Heinemann family. ; Oppenheimer family. ; Seitenbach family. ; Wuerzburg Israelistische Lehrerbildungs-Anstalt. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families. ; Butchers. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Wüstensachsen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Memoir describes Alfred Gruenspecht's childhood in Wuestensachsen (Hesse); his family members; his father's decision to immigrate to the United States in 1937; and the new beginning in the United States, where the family launched a successful butcher business. The memoir describes the fate of members of the family and is illustrated with colored family photos.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Grünspecht, Bertha (née Seitenbach); Grünspecht, David; Gundersheimer, Abraham; Goldschmidt, Ivan; Cahn, Leo; Nordhauser, Ruth; Braunschweiger, Lothar; Buchsbaum, Manfred.
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    "Luckily" / (1998)
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    Pages: 189 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Education. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Klagenfurt (Austria) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Austria before and after the Anschluss : Personal experiences, observations and comments (1998)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 46 + 252 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Jews Persecution 1930-1939. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Pharmacology. ; Physicians ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Sweden. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain observations and reflections on the events before and during the Nazi period in Austria (circa 1914-1994). Also included are David Lehr's CV and a bibliography of his writings.
    Abstract: Early childhood recollections during World War One. Detailed account of the fate of his uncles as soldiers during the war. Experiences of antisemitism during David Lehr's schoolyears at Gymnasium and anti-Jewish riots at university. Detailed account of his years as a medical student and his internship in the Wiedner hospital. Friendship with the Gentile family of Alma N. Graduation from Medical School in May 1935. David obtained a position as a faculty member of the Pharmacological Institute of the Vienna University. Recollections of the civil war of 1934 and the declaration of the autocratic Christian Democratic regime. His plans to leave Austria as early as in 1937 were met with discouragement in his family. Quotations of contemporary literature on Austria's history during the Nazi period and critical remarks. Recollections of the "Anschluss" in 1938. David was expelled from his position at the faculty soon thereafter. Detailed account of life in Nazi-Vienna. Arrest of his father and uncle. Experience at the Gestapo headquaters in an attempt to free his father. David was rounded up by SA stormtroups in the streets and forced to clean streets, but was released due to his professsion. He worked as a volunteer in the Rothschildspital (Jewish hospital). Recollections of a Goebbles speach in Vienna.
    Abstract: With the help of a former colleague in Sweden, Maya Stroemberg-Grossman, David received an official invitation from the Medical School in Lund. Detailed account of the procedures to obtain his papers. He emigrated to Sweden in July 1938 and came to the United States after the war. Addendum: Reflections on post-war Austria and its reluctant dealing with its Nazi past. Fiftieth "Matura" anniversary with his classmates from Gymnasium 1979 in Vienna and reflections on their different biographies. Extensive thoughts about anti-semitism in Austria.
    Abstract: The following individuals and families are mentioned:
    Abstract: Bauer, Richard; Brueck family; Eiselsberg, Anton; Finsterer, Otto; Goebbels, Joseph; Gold, Ernst; Grossmann, Stefan; Prof. Hochstetter; Hohenberg, Erich; Loewenherz, Richard; Pick, Ernst Peter; Scherf, David; Schnitzler, Julius; Sternberg, Carl; Tandler, Julius; Dr. Trevani; Unna, Klaus; Unna, Paul Gerson; Weill, Kurt.
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    Autobiography of Lisel Salzer. (1998)
    Seattle, WA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 , bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Salzer, Lisel. ; Dubrowsky, Joseph ; Ehrlich, Bettina ; Ehrlich, Georg ; Grom-Rothmeyer, Abdul Hamid ; Grossmann, Frederick M. ; Salzer, Hermann ; Seligman, Otto ; Spiral, Hilde ; Weil, Lisl. ; Zeisl, Erich ; Artists. ; Families 20th century. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women artists. ; Women authors. ; Women Education 1871-1918. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History. ; Seattle (Wash.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States History 1945- ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Early childhood memories; family apartments; Gymnasium; art school; art study in Paris; establishment as professional artist in Vienna; circle of friends in Vienna; emigration to New York; work in New York as fashion illustrator; exhibitions; painted portrait of Grandma Moses; a year with husband on Indian reservations; travels in western United States; move to Seattle; life in Seattle; work as portrait artist; death of husband; acquisition of piano; founding of art galleries in Seattle; surgery for bladder cancer; travels and artistic activities; work for Adlai Stevenson campaign; friends in Seattle over the years.
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    Memoirs : [1931-1998]. (1998)
    Netanya :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 54 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Drachsler family. ; Mandelstam, Lucy, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Death marches. ; Families ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first few pages describe Lucy Mandelstam's family life in Vienna, Austria. The Anschluss markes a turning point in their lives. Pages 6-24 detail her family's persecution through the Nazis, the horror of the concentration camps. The second half of the memoir details the post-war era, DP camps and her way to Palestine. The last pages summarize family events up to today.
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    Trip to Berlin : May 4-12, 1998. (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 67 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) History. ; Jews History. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Recollections from a trip to Berlin (May 1998); thoughts about the Holocaust and 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung'.
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    A personal memoir of Kristallnacht. (1998)
    [Ann Arbor] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Synagoge Fasanenstrasse (Berlin, Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ernest Fontheim's account of November 10, 1938, the day after Kristallnacht, in Berlin; eyewitness account of Fasanenstrasse synagogue burning, and anti-Semitic violence at the scene of the fire. Includes short translation of article from Berliner Tageblatt, August 26, 1912, covering dedication of Fasanenstrasse synagogue in Berlin.
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    Memory of an unhappy childhood. (1998)
    Lake Worth :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Children. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of childhood years in Heilbronn, 1933-1936.
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    Shulamith Ben Dror : Recollections 1919-1944. (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 + 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Anrooy, Peter van, ; Borchardt family. ; Borchardt, Ursula, ; Hermann, Georg, ; Heynemann, Martha, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Children of divorced parents. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Hilversum (Netherlands) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Schlierbach (Heidelberg, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a transcript of a taped conversation with Ursula Borchardt by George Rothschild in 1998. Description of her family background. Ursula lived with her parents in an apartment building in Schlierbach, near Heidelberg. She attended a private Jewish kindergarten. Ursula was frequently taken care of by relatives, since her parents were traveling a lot. After the early death of her mother, Ursula was taken care of by nannies. Friendly relations with her father’s first wife, the pianist Martha Heynemann and her half-siblings of that marriage. Trip to Holland via Cologne in 1929. In 1931 Ursula moved with her father to Berlin. Recollections of a somehow chaotic household, where she was left to herself frequently. She attended Tielien Schule. First signs of rising Nazism. Her father received a warning and fled to Holland during the elections in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power. Ursula was left to live with her father’s first wife, Martha. She joined her father in April of 1933 in Laren, Holland. She went to live with friends of her parents, the conductor Peter van Anrooy and his family in Hilversum. She learned Dutch and went to a Gymnasium in Hilversum. Language exchange trip to Paris in 1935 and London in 1937. German occupation. Marriage to Herbert Kalmann in 1940 and changing her name to Shulamith. Birth of their son Micky (Peter Kalmann) in 1941. Breakup with her husband in the same year and move in with her father. In 1943 they were forced to leave their apartment and move to Amsterdam. Deportation to Westerbork camp in June of 1943. Her father was deported to Auschwitz in November of 1943, where he died on arrival. Emergency affidavits for Shulamith, her son and her father arrived weeks after his deportation in Westerbork.
    Abstract: In 1944 Shulamit was transported with her son to Bergen-Belsen, where they waited for their exchange to Palestine. Description of the dreadful conditions of the camp. Start of the typhoid fever among camp inmates. In mid 1944 she was moved with her son to another part of the camp, where they were seperated from the main camp and lived under somehow improved circumstances, forming the Group 222 to be exchanged for German templars in Palestine. Transport to Palestine via Vienna and Turkey in June and July of 1944. Arrival in Haifa and start of a new life in a kibbutz.
    Abstract: Includes family tree of the Borchardt family.
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    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
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    From St. Poelten to America : [1906-1997]. (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Kubin, Rosa, ; Kubin, Ludwig. ; Lustig family. ; Mautner, Hans. ; Singer, Karl. ; Ullman, Egon. ; Chemists. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Boston (Mass.) ; Sankt Pölten (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in the United States in 1997. Childhood recollections. Ambition of Rosa's father, a leather merchant, to send his daughter to Gymnasium (high school) in order to prepare her for studies at the University. Rosa was the only female student in the local Gymnasium. Recollections of World War One. After graduation in 1924 she enrolled at the University of Vienna. Her plan to study medicine was opposed by her mother, so she registered in pharmacology and chemistry. In 1930 she became engaged with her future-husband Dr. Ludwig Kubin, specialist in dermatology. Rosa received her doctorate in chemistry in 1931. She got a position with the Austrian Chemical Works as the only female applicant among 50. Rosa and Ludwig Kubin were married in 1935. Preparations for their emigration prior to the Anschluss 1938. The couple received affidavits for the United States. They left for Portland, Oregon via Switzerland and Paris in 1938. Life as immigrants in the new country. Rosa became the breadwinner of the family as a hospital technician at the Oregon Medical School. They moved to Boston, were they both obtained positions at the Waltham hospital. Rosa became an Assistant Professor of chemistry at Middlesex University (later: Brandeis University). Sudden death of her husband in 1954. Rosa Kubin was the only women honored as a 50-year member by the American Chemical Society at Harvard in 1990.
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    My Pre-American History. (1997)
    [Long Island] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 62 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Buchbinder family. ; Israel. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Germans Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; England. ; Isle of Man. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author’s father Dr. Leon Buchbinder was a lawyer and veteran officer of World War One. He got married to Toni Hernes in 1919. After the birth of their son Martin they moved to Vienna. The author grew up in an enlightened Jewish family, celebrating the Jewish holidays. His father was a Social Democrat. Martin attended Gymnasium. Recollection of anti-Semitic remarks among his fellow students. He joined the Boy Scouts. Memories of the social democratic government In Vienna. Civil war in February of 1934 and banning of the social democratic party. Rising of National Socialism in times of unemployment and poverty. Recollections of Anschluss to Nazi Germany. Martin was forced to leave his school and enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium. Description of frequent round-ups and humiliation by Nazi troops.
    Abstract: The family decided to leave the country and prepared their emigration. Martin joined the Zionist youth movement Makkabi Hazair and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. He was sent on Hachsharah to a chicken farm in Eichgraben, in the outskirts of Vienna, in November of 1938. During Kristallnacht, they were raided by a group of local Nazi youths and sent to a large estate (Schloss Walpersdorf), where they worked alongside non-Jewish co-workers. In April of 1939 Martin was sent to England for agricultural training. He worked in Llandegveth, in South Wales. His parents were banned to emigrate to England and went on an illegal passage to Palestine. Martin was accepted at a Youth Aliyah training center in Glamorganshire and worked on farms and as a groom for a physician in Hereford.
    Abstract: In 1940 he was arrested and interned as an "enemy alien" together with other refugees: rich cultural life among his fellow internees, who were largely intellectuals and socialists. Transport to the Isle of Man due to increased fear of a German invasion. He joined the British "Habonim" in 1942 and was sent to the "Beth-Challutz" in West Hempstead. “Blitzkrieg” and recollections of the V.E. day in London. In 1946 he joined an Israeli underground group for illegal emigration to Palestine. After some weeks at sea their ship was captured by the British and Martin and his inmates were sent to a camp in Cyprus. After 11 months he was released and was finally able to be reunited with his parents, who were living in Tel-Aviv. Martin joined the army and trained to be a radio operator. Army exchange trip to the United States. Work as an instructor in the Israeli Air Force and technical exchange trip to France, where he met his future wife Maya. Wedding in 1957 in Israel. 1961 immigration to the US to join Maya's parents. Birt oh their children Elia and Danny. Martin continued his studies at NYU, eventually settling with his family in Long Island.
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    The rise and fall of the house of Ullstein. (1997)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Ullstein GmbH. ; Springer-Verlag. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Lecture presented at the Chicago chapter of LBI about the Ullstein newspaper and publishing company from the 19th century to the Nazi era.
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    Siegmund Forst: A lifetime in arts & letters / (1997)
    New York :Yeshiva Univesity Museum,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 76 , print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Forst, Siegmund. ; Calligraphy. ; Illustration of books. ; Jewish artists Exhibitions. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecutions ; Austria. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Publications.
    Abstract: "This catalogue accompanies the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition "Siegmund Forst : a lifetime in arts & letters", September 21, 1997-July 31, 1998.
    Abstract: Contents articles by Sylvia Herskowitz, Max Eisler and Cynthia Elyce Rubin.
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    From Nuremberg to Hadley. (1997)
    Hadley, Mass. :[publisher not identified],
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    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Bamberger family. ; Friedmann, Else (née Bacharach) ; Friedmann, Max. ; Great Britain. ; Israel. ; Interior decorators. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of Friedmann's youth in Nuremberg and his emigration to Palestine and the U.S.
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    A child of the twentieth century : My journey to America. (1997)
    Bloomington, Indiana :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 31 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Blume, Grete. ; Gordon, Ruth. ; Jacubeit family. ; Lechner, Alfred. ; Makower, Gerhard. ; Neuweg, Arthur. ; Neuweg, Kurt. ; Rackwitz family. ; Antisemitism. ; Dentists, Jewish. ; Families. ; Forced labor. ; Intermarriage. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Landsberg an der Warthe (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family background; parents; childhood memories; vacations with family; family experience after 1935; move to Berlin; life in Berlin; start of World War II; forced labor in Berlin; experiences during bombing of Berlin; end of war; enters Humbold Univeristy in 1946; experiences of Jacubeit family, Rackwitz family; emigration to USA; military service in US Army in Japan; entrance to Harvard University; graduate school at Harvard; meets wife; move to Bloomington, Indiana.
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    Reminiscences of Ruth Middelmann : for Robert and his family; (1994-1997)
    [Rondebosch, South Africa].
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    Pages: 108 + 3 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: obituary
    Year of publication: 1994-1997
    Keywords: Hinrichsen family. ; Middelmann family. ; Botanists. ; Music. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cape Town (South Africa) ; Germany History 20th century. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Johannesburg (South Africa) ; South Africa Emigration and immigration 1935. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Parents' family background; early childhood memories; death of father at Eastern Front in World War I; move to Aachen; re-marriage of mother, move to Hamburg; school in Hamburg; attended music school in Cologne; engagement; music teacher at Quaker camp for Jewish children in Holland; termination of engagement; plans for emigration; emigration to South Africa; marriage to Walter Middelmann; birth of son; end of war; life in South Africa; work as professional botanist; death of parents; trip to Middle East; trip to USA to meet with botanists; trip to Australia; further trips to Europe, Asia; trip to Germany in 1990; final entries after suffering from a mild stroke in 1994.
    Abstract: Her husband, Walter Middelmann, added 3 pages based on her notes before she suffered her final stroke in 1996. Also included is an obituary.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Hinrichsen, Anna Karoline ; Hinrichsen, F. Willy ; Lewy, Gerda ; Lewy, Yochanan ; Middelmann, Hans ; Middelmann, Robert; von Gizycki family.
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    Three branches of our family : 1850-1997 (1997)
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    Pages: 159 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Backer, Ellen Wolf (Ellen Ruth Wolf) ; Desman, Lise Muller (Liesel Müller) ; Kann, Emma. ; Kratzenstein, Rachel (Rosel Mueller) ; Kratzenstein family. ; Mueller family ; Wolf family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Schwetzingen (Germany) ; Sobernheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Geneology and brief histories of the Müller/Muller, Wolf/Wolfe, and Kratzenstein/Kaye families; family history, reflections on life experiences.
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    Back to the camps / (1997)
    Kailua :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 38 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Plaut family. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Voyages and travels. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Journey to the sites of former concentration camps in Poland, Germany and Austria.
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    A Bit of Family History. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 28 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Alexander family. ; Mauthner, Ernst. ; Mauthner, Fritz, ; Mauthner, Malvine. ; Straub, Hedwig. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including information on Fritz Mauthner and his wife Hedwig Straub, Ernst and Malvine Mauthner, and other Mauthner family members as well as the Alexander family in Hungary and Berlin, emigration to England and the United States, and description of post-war visits in Europe; xeroxes of handwritten letters by Fritz Mauthner.
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    [Our trip to Germany and France]. (1997)
    Flushing, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 26 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Former Title: [Untitled]
    Keywords: Eichenbronner, Hannah. ; Kleeman family. ; Levinstein, Henry. ; Strauss family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews History ; Jews ; Voyages and travels. ; Gaukönigshofen (Germany) ; Unterfranken (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection from a trip to Europe, with information about the Kleeman family.
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    From Vienna to Vineland : A history of the Salier Family, including the ancestors and descendants of Wulff Levin Fraenkel, during the last four hundred years (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 92 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Additional Material: geneological charts :
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Fraenkel Levin, Wulff. ; Hellendag, Eva. ; Salier family. ; Salier, Bertha. ; Salier, Eva. ; Salier, Felix. ; Salier, Frederike. ; Salier, Frieda. ; Salier, George. ; Salier, Jacob. ; Salier, Max. ; Salier, Tommy. ; Salier, Wilhelm. ; Artists. ; Country life. ; Farmers. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood home in Vineland, New Jersey; life on farm; life of parents in Berlin after 1933; father's account of family's flight from Germany in 1936; emigration of parents; family move to farm in Vineland, New Jersey; history of the Salier family; origin of family name; geneologies; bibliography.
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    Kristallnacht in Fürth and following actions. (1997)
    [Leeds] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 8 , pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Scheidt, Salomon. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Article about the November pogrom in Fuerth and following actions, such as expropriation of Salomon Scheidt.
    Abstract: This is a partial translation of a special illustrated edition of “Fürther Freiheit – Kristallnacht in Fürth”. This article was largely based on minutes of court cases against the mayor, the chief of fire service and other Nazi officials in Fürth after the end of the war.
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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 60 + 32 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Blau, Bertha. ; Blau family. ; Dollfuss, Engelbert, ; Drucker, Kurt. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Fliegel, Hans Robert, ; Fliegel, Julius, ; Fliegel, Otto, ; Fliegel, Rosa, ; Fliegel, Wilhelm, ; Fliegel family. ; Grunwald, Max, ; Haber, Georg. ; Levi, Alice. ; Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah, ; Waldheim, Kurt. ; Dachau (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are reproductions of documents.
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    Memoir. (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Keil, Samuel, ; Antisemitism ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History 1934-1938. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Jarosław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jack Baruch Keil starts his memoir with a brief description of his family's roots in Jaroslav, Poland. His parents had hardly any money, and moved to Berlin in the 1920s, where his father started a business, selling eggs. He was quite successful, even under the severe economic conditions in Berlin. There was also time for young Jack to go on vacations to the Baltic Sea. In 1933, things changed drastically. Nazis devastated his father's store, the eggs were an easy target for causing damage. The family decided to emigrate to Austria where they had relatives, in order to avoid the Nazi threat. His father managed to build up a new business, and young Jack enjoyed the widened family. The memoir also briefly mentioned the political situation in Austria during the 1930s when Austria's governing party suspended the parliament, the Nazis assassinated the chancelor Dollfuss, and when the Nazis annexed Austria in March 1938. Again, the family was persecuted and had to leave. But the family did not even have passports which made it even more complicated to get a visa for emigration. Finally, they all ended up in Belgium, although only his mother had a visa.
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    [Memoirs] : [1922-1996]. (1996)
    Menlo Park, CA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Porat, Etka, ; Porat, Milka, ; Porat family. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kibbutzim. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicists. ; Shtetls. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clausus for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailled acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illeagal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzwah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illeagal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clauses for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailed acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illegal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illegal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: After the end of war he learned about the fate of his family, who perished in the Holocaust. Dan rejoined the Haganah after war. He got married to his wife Frieda in 1946. Continuation of his studies. Birth of his son Uri. Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. Volunteering in the War of Independence. Scholarship to study physics at Manchester University in England. Birth of his daughters Ruthi and Naomi in England. Move to USA to work as nuclear physicist at Harvard and MIT. Position as physicist at Stanford for 26 years.
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    My Grandparents. (1996)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 167 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Auskerin family. ; Auskerin, Else (née Compart) ; Auskerin, Josef. ; Lanner family. ; Lanner, Max. ; Lanner, Regina (née Pelz) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Breslau. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The richly illustrated story of the author’s grandparents – Josef and Else Auskerin and Max and Regine Lanner -, who all perished in the Holocaust. Also included are notes on the two couples’ siblings and children, who survived.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I [Maternal grandparents]
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II [Paternal grandparents]
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III Deportation
    Description / Table of Contents: Part IV Siblings and offsprings
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    Bertha Knispel : Homage to "our Bertchen". (1996)
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    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Knispel, Bertha. ; Families 1918-1933. ; Household employees. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Story about Riess's housemaid in Berlin in the 1920s.
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    On Being Jewish / (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: iii + 147 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Kelsen, Hans, ; Stross, Walter ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Identity. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Reform Judaism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1939. ; England Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Trip back to Vienna in 1965 for first time since emigration; youth in Vienna; relationship with parents; relationship to Judaism and Jewish identity as child; move to Liebauthal in Czechoslvakia in 1932; life in Liebauthal; school in Eger; religious education; move to Prague; life in Prague; memories of grandmothers; emigration to England in 1939; school in England; baptism into Church of England; emigration of parents to England; work and study in Manchester; job testing parachutes; study at Technical College in Leicester; anti-Semitism in England; victory celebration in London at end of war; death of father; life in London after war; sister's encounter with anti-Semitism in England; emgiration to USA in 1947; arrival in San Francisco; college at Berkeley; marriage and birth of children; joins synagogue congregation; death of mother; divorce, second marriage, and second divorce; trip to Germany; trip to Israel; experiences in Israel; visit to Prague and Czech Republic; visit to Theresienstadt; account of cousin's survival of the Holocaust; return to father's factory in Liebauthal; final reflections on being Jewish.
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    How beautiful we were. (1996)
    Pittsburgh :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 112 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Adelsheim, Honey. ; Aldesheimer, Emma. ; Aldesheimer, Gustav, ; Aldesheimer, Paula, ; Bornebusch, Wolfgang. ; Eichmann, Johanna. ; Kann, Nathan. ; Silberman family. ; Silberman, Hanna, ; Silberman, Louis, ; Wagner, Gottfried. ; Weissmann Klein, Gerda. ; Zadek family. ; Zadek, Gerhard. ; Antisemitism. ; Cattle trade. ; Country life. ; Housekeepers. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lemförde (Germany) ; Schermbeck (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the author's family history. Her parents, Hanna and Louis Silberman, married in 1918. Marga was the last child of four. Recollection of her father's sudden death in 1934 due to the shock of an announced arrest by the Gestapo. Her mother had to take a job as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to Schermbeck to live with her mother's younger sister Paula and her grandparents in the countryside. Her maternal grandfather Gustav Adelsheimer was a cattle dealer and a respected member of the local Jewish community. Celebration of Jewish holidays. Disrupted education due to Nazi laws. Recollections of the terrors of Kristallnacht, when they were forced to leave their house and run for shelter in the woods. The family moved to stay with relatives in Berlin shortly thereafter. Difficult circumstances of life in Nazi Germany and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Their immigration papers arrived in May 1941, and Marga and her mother were able to immigrate to USA via Lisbon. Arrival in New York. Difficult new beginnings. Marga's mother took a position as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to live with a German-speaking foster family during the school year. Cultural and language differences. After two years her mother and sister had saved enough for an own apartment, and the family was reunited. Return to Schermbeck in 1981. Recollections of the family members who perished in the Holocaust. Reunion with her Gentile friend Irmgard in Schermbeck. Reconciliation with residents of Schermbeck. Return to Lemforde together with her sister Hilde in 1986. Reflections on her frequent reconciliation meetings in Germany and her effort to commemorate the Holocaust.
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    [I was born in Germany in 1929]. (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 8 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
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    Keywords: Dressmakers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Telephone. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief account of father and mother; father's internment after Kristallnacht; emigration to Shanghai; life in Shanghai.
    Abstract: Also included are two texts describing her arrival in the United States in 1947 and the description of her job as a telephone operator in the United States in 1969.
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