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[Memoirs by Peter Schrag, MD], (2005-2017)

Schrag, Peter

New York :[publisher not identified],

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Language: English

Pages: 33 + 23 + 101 typescript pages + , digital files.

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Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2018 DigiBaeck

Year of publication: 2005-2017

Keywords: Schrag, Ilse, ; Szamatolski, Else, ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs 1918-1933. ; Manners and customs Nineteen forties. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.

Abstract: This is a collection of three essays by Dr. Peter Schrag about his family, documenting in selected details his family's transition from being refugees from Nazi Germany to being Americans. A short essay, “We were once refugees”, is followed by “Oma”, reminiscences about his grandmother Else Szamatolski, and by “My mother and me”, selected memories of his mother Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag.

Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Breitenbach, Joseph; Brunell, Albert (born 1934 in Cologne); Brunell, Susi (1901-1986); Goldhaber, Maurice; Goldschmidt, Lucien; Goldhaber family; Lowenstein, Edith; Marum-Lunau, Elisabeth; Samton, Claude (born 1933 in Berlin); Samton, Peter (born 1935 in Berlin); Szamatolski , Albert (1868- ); Szamatolski , Hans (later Henry Samton, 1906-2003).

Description / Table of Contents: We were once refugees : Reminiscences, family lore, reflections, and related residua.

Description / Table of Contents: Oma

Description / Table of Contents: My mother and me : Selected memories of my mother, Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag (1910-1997)

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„Das Erbe Leo Baecks deutlich machen“ : Zur Arbeit des neuen Berliner Büros des Leo-Baeck-Instituts (2016)

Dambitsch, David, 1959-

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Language: German

Pages: 3 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 2016

Keywords: Guttmann, Micha. ; Mecklenburg, Frank. ; Meyer, Michael A. ; Leo Baeck Institute, New York. ; Jews, German. ; Jews ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Transcript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk in Cologne, Germany about the branch of the Leo Baeck Institute in Berlin, Germany. The broadcast was part of a series “Shalom” about Jewish life in Germany today.

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Israel Kalk and offsprings of the Jewish refugees in Italy : The children of Milan and their long periods of internment from 1939-1943. (2004)

Voigt, Klaus, 1938- ; Grossmann, John.

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Language: English

Pages: 25 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 2004

Keywords: Kalk, Israel, ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecutions. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Milan (Italy) ; Italy. ; Manuscripts.

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Reply for Albert : a family chronic. (2003)

Hepner-Halberstam, Lore ; Grossmann, John.

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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 divorce of my parents ...]. (2002)

Friedländer, Margot (née Bendheim), 1921-

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Language: English

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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Momma's arc / (1999)

Schor, Julia B., 1937-

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Language: English

Pages: 7 + 94 pages : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1999

Keywords: Ensel, Judah. ; Harnish, Clara. ; Harnish, Franz. ; Leitner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Mauthner, Herbert, ; Mauthner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Weinberg family. ; Weinberg, Guy. ; Civil disobedience ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Blaricum (Netherlands) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Thuringia (Germany) ; Veszprém (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.

Abstract: Description of the author's childhood in Amsterdam. German invasion of the Netherlands in 1941. Recollections of a visit at her maternal grandparents in Groszbuch, Germany in 1942. During the Nazi occupation, Julia, her mother, and her stepfather Herbert Mauthner moved to Blaricum, a town in the Dutch countryside. Julia, protected through her Gentile mother and "unknown" father, was enrolled in the local school. Her mother was part of the Dutch Resistance. She saved 6 Jews (including her husband and her mother-in-law) and later a German Wehrmacht deserter in Blaricum by hiding them in the attic of her house. Description of the life of the people hiding in "her mother's arc" and occasional razzias by the SS. Fate of her scattered family during the Holocaust.

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„Die jüdische Geschichte in Deutschland ist doch nicht abgebrochen“ : Zum Engegement des Leo-Baeck-Instituts in Berlin (1999)

Dambitsch, David, 1959-

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Language: German

Pages: 1 + 7 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1999

Keywords: Blumenthal, W. Michael, ; Guttmann, Micha. ; Meyer, Michael. ; Scholem, Gershom, ; Leo Baeck Institute, New York. ; Jews ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Transcript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk in Cologne, Germany about the activities of the Leo Baeck Institute (New York) in Berlin. The broadcast was part of a series “Shalom” about Jewish life in Germany today.

Note: December 24, 1999

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Back to school - A life of our time. (1994)

Riess, Anneliese, 1910-

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Language: English

Pages: 54 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1994

Keywords: Curtius, Ludwig, ; Momigliano, Arnaldo. ; Riess, Anneliese, ; Archaeology. ; Education, Higher. ; Nurses. ; Psychologists. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Rome (Italy) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Born in Hamburg in 1910; father served in German army on eastern front in World War I; childhood memories of Hamburg; family moved to Berlin in 1921; cultural life in Berlin; schooling in Berlin; studied literature at University of Berlin and University of Freiburg; travel with boyfriend through Italy; studied archaeology in Berlin and then Italy from 1933; study at University of Rome; life in Rome; received PhD in archeology at Rome in 1936; trained as nurse in Switzerland; immigrated to USA in 1939; worked as nurse; life in New York; immigration of parents to USA; studied clinical psychology with Rene Spitz; tought psychology at City University of New York.

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From Vienna to New York : A Memoir. (1994)

Boveland, Brigitta ; Schreyer, Oscar.

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Language: English

Pages: 19 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1994

Keywords: Schreier, Erwin. ; Booksellers and bookselling. ; Industrialists. ; Jewish refugees. ; Journalists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The biography of the author's father, Oscar Schreyer, covering approx. 1905-1993.

Abstract: Father's World War I experience; early schooling; early interest in archeology; trips to Italy, Turkey and Palestine; work as journalist in Vienna; move to Berlin; friendship with Billy Wilder; return to Vienna in 1933; emigration to USA in 1939; unsuccessful business ventures; success with manufacture of decorative animal pins; later interest in book dealing.

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[Memoirs], (1990-1993)

Guggenheim, Felicia.

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Language: German

Pages: 12 + 82 + 27 + 23 + 24 + 15 pages : , handwritten manuscript +

Additional Material: correspondence

Year of publication: 1990-1993

Keywords: Vishniac, Roman, ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Jews Education 1871-1918. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Recollections from the 1930s in Germany; account of experience of Kristallnacht; childhood memories of Berlin-Luisenstadt; memories of Berlin; engaged in 1922; children sent to England after 1933; emigration to Guatamala via France and England; return to Berlin in 1967; recollections of photographer Roman Wishniak.

Description / Table of Contents: Das Jahr 1934

Description / Table of Contents: Berlin : vorher - während - nachher

Description / Table of Contents: "Gestern kam ein Brief ..."

Description / Table of Contents: Über das Deutschtum

Description / Table of Contents: "In meinem vorigen Bericht ..."

Description / Table of Contents: Roman

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When time ran out : Coming of age in the Third Reich. (1988)

Zeller, Frederic, 1924-1994.

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Language: English

Pages: 374 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1988

Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Sculptors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigrationn 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Memoir based on diaries kept by the sculptor Frederic Zeller as a boy; Nazi periods in Berlin; primary and secondary school; pogrom (November 1938); emigration to England via Holland; visit to Berlin in 1982.

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Camp of Gurs - Hiding - Liberation. (1984)

Barosin, Jacob

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Language: English

Pages: 5 + 2 , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1984

Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Gurs (Concentration camp) In art. ; Artists. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Painters, Jewish. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Gurs (France) ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: An essay by Jacob Barosin about his internment in Camp de Gurs (France) during World War II, written on occasion of an exhibition of his artwork in Kew Gardens, NY, 1984. Also included is a newspaper clipping about the exhibition.

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My four years of horror through the Holocaust. (1983)

Rosenberg, Heinz

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Language: English

Pages: 240 + 8 pages : , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1983

Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Płaszów (Concentration camp) ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Treblinka (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bremen (Germany) ; Göttingen (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Sweden Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Nazi seizure of power in Goettingen; move to Hamburg; persecution of Jews in Hamburg; deportation to Minsk; experiences in Minsk ghetto and concentration camps in Treblinka, Plaszow, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen; bomb raids on Bremen; liberation in Bergen- Belsen; transfer to Sweden; contains copies of documents and photographs.

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Haengt alles von der Beleuchtung ab... : (eine erzaehlte wahre Geschichte), (1982)

Roth, Wolfgang

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Language: German

Pages: 153 + 219 , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1982

Keywords: Brecht, Bertolt, ; Eisler, Hanns, ; Finck, Werner, ; Mehring, Walter, ; Piscator, Erwin, ; Artists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Set designers. ; Theater. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Father's work as a waiter and restaurant owner; refusal to organize Bar-Mitzvah celebration; escape from parents' home at age of 17; attendance of art school and apprenticeship as painter; setting designer at Piscator's theater; work with Bertold Brecht, Walter Mehring, Hanns Eisler, Werner Finck; artist milieu in Berlin around 1930; emigration to Austria in 1933 and Switzerland in 1934; work at the Zurich "Schauspielhaus"; has to leave Switzerland and emigrates to USA in 1938; as setting designer in New York show business; visit to Europe in 1949.

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Apropos Erinnerungen. (1979)

Sonnenfeldt, Hans J.

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Language: German

Pages: 27 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1979

Keywords: Stahl, Heinrich, ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Draft ; Economic assistance, Domestic ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Social conditions. ; Lawyers. ; Students. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Military service in World War I; university education and student organizations; Revolution of 1918-1919; as lawyer in Berlin during Weimar years; loss of work under Nazi rule; social welfare activities of Berlin Jewish community during Nazi years; financial scandal of Iwria-Bank; immigration to USA.

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[Memoir of Service in US Army During World War II]. (1979)

Wilheim, Robert K.

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Language: English

Pages: 15 pages. (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1979

Keywords: Göring, Hermann, ; Ribbentrop, Joachim von, ; United States. ; Soldiers. ; War criminals ; World War, 1939-1945. ; National socialism. ; France. ; Italy. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Report mainly on interrogations of German Nazi officers and politicians, including Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop.

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Reminiscences. (1974)

Ibson, Kurt, 1909-

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Language: English

Pages: 8 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1974

Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Refuge in Uruguayan embassy in The Hague; immigration to USA in 1940.

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[Memoirs] : [1900-1970]. (1970)

Kahn, Liselotte

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Language: English

Pages: 163 pages (double space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1970

Keywords: Müller, Ernst. ; Architects. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Korean War, 1950-1953. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Athens (Greece) ; Greece Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in well-to-do Nuremberg Jewish family; persecution under Nazi rule in Nuremberg; emigration to Greece; cultural life in Athens; friendship with violinist Bronislaw Hubermann; flight from Greece in World War II; emigration to USA via Palestine; new life in New York; career as architect; death of son in Korean War; death of husband and remarriage.

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Mein Weg von Bruessel nach Havanna : 10. Mai 1940 - 8. Januar 1942 (1970)

Simon, Ernst

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Language: German

Pages: 20 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript.

Year of publication: 1970

Keywords: Concentration camps. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Cuba Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: World War II in Belgium; internment camp of St. Cyprien (France); emigration to Cuba.

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Erinnerungen an die Zeit des nationalsozialstischen Terrors. (1966)

Misch, Ludwig, 1887-1967.

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Language: German

Pages: 14 pages (double space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1966

Keywords: Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland. ; Forced labor. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Musicians ; Journalists. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Jewish life in Berlin after 1933 and activities of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" and the "Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland"; selections among Jewish community employees; bomb raids during World War II.

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"Erst ein Deutscher und dann ein Jude?" : Leben und Werk eines vergessenen Dichters. (1965)

Stern, Fred B, 1895-1983.

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Language: German

Pages: 207 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Jacobowski, Ludwig, ; Poets, German. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Jewish poetry. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Life and work of a Jewish writer in Berlin, 1868-1900.

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Die Erlebnisse der Juden in Shanghai unter der japanischen Besetzung im 2.Weltkrieg, (1963)

Kauffmann, Fritz, b., 1904.

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Pages: 10 pages + 3 pages. (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1963

Keywords: Jewish way of life. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Kauffmann, Fritz. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Merchants

Abstract: Jewish life in Shanghai under Japanese occupation in World War II; description of the various groups of Jews in Shanghai; also contains newspaper clippings (translation of English lecture given in the Shanghai Tiffin Club in New York, 1963)

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Im Schatten einer endlosen grossen Zeit : Erinnerungen aus einem langen Leben fuer meine Kinder, jungen Freunde und Studenten. (1962)

Salomon, Albert, 1891-1966.

New York :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 13 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1962

Keywords: College teachers. ; Education, Higher. ; Editors. ; Jewish sociologists. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1935. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Draft, covering circa 1891-1935.

Abstract: University studies in Berlin and Heidelberg; among Salomon's teachers were Adolf von Harnack, Georg Simmel, Karl Jaspers and Max Weber; activities in Social Democratic Party; relationship with finance minister Rudolf Hilferding and with Theodor Heuss.

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Lebenserinnerungen von Ottilie Schoenewald : Fuer das Leo Baeck Institut, New York. (1961)

Schoenewald, Ottilie.

New York :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 22 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1961

Keywords: Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine. ; International Council of Jewish Women. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund von Deutschland. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Women Political activity ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bochum (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs cover 1883-1946. Childhood recollections in a well-to do Jewish household of eight children. Both her parents worked in building up their business. Tradition of charity. Ottilie's father was a member of the Jewish community executive committee. Growing up in a liberal yet religious family. Reflections on girl's education of her time. Death of her father in 1903. Marriage to the lawyer Dr. S. Schoenewald in 1905. Start of her activities in the women's movement in Germany (BDF). Ottilie Schoenewald had a leading position as a women's legal guidance counselor (Frauenrechtschutzstelle) in Bochum. She was involved in the homemaking organization during World War One. Political equality for women after the war and activities in the democratic party in Weimar Germany. In 1929 Ottilie Schoenewald was elected to be a board member of the Jewish women's movement (JFB) in Berlin. Preparations for the International Congress of Jewish women 1930 in Hamburg, which led to the formation of the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1934 she became chairwoman of the JFB. Experiences and activities during the Nazi time. Ottilie Schoenewald emigrated to England via Holland in 1939, where she continued her social activities.

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A life in focal points of our time : Vienna – Berlin – New York, Gustav Stolper 1888-1947. (1960)

Stolper, Toni ; Stolper, Max A.

New York :[publisher not identified],

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Language: English

Pages: 260 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1960

Keywords: Stolper, Gustav, ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: The book by Toni Stolper about her husband Gustav Stolper, first published in 1960, has been translated from the German original with annotations, by Max A. Stolper.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Austria-Hungary

Description / Table of Contents: Part II: German Austria

Description / Table of Contents: Part III: In the Weimar Republic

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Aus der Jugendzeit. (1959)

Levinger, Charlotte.

New York, NY :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 74 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1959

Keywords: Stern, Isidor, ; Freisinnige Vereinigung. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish families Intellectual life. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Anecdotal account of youth in assimilated Berlin Jewish family; description of her father Isidor Stern, an industrialist and leading member of the liberal Freisinnige Vereinigung; cultural life in pre-World War I Berlin.

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Braunschweiger Erinnerungen. (1958)

Heinemann, Walter, 1883-

New York, NY :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 140 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1958

Keywords: Heinemann, Walter, ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Braunschweig (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1935. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Primary and secondary education; university studies in Munich and Berlin; experiences as a physician in Berlin and Braunschweig; working under Robert Koch; military service; Jewish life in Braunschweig; Braunschweig during the Third Reich; emigration to USA.

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Wie ich mein Leben vor den Nazis rettete. (1957)

Leffmann, Melanie.

New York, NY :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 7 pages (double space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1957

Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Account of surviving as a Jew in Cologne during Second World War.

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Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933. (1957)

Goldberg, Frederick G., 1898-

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Language: German

Pages: 2 + 62 , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1957

Keywords: Adult education. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Theater Production and direction. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Alsace (France) Ethnic relations. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Colmar (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoir was first written in 1940.

Abstract: Childhood in assimilated Jewish family in Colmar (Alsace); relations between Germans and French in Colmar; experiences as a soldier in World War I; university study in Berlin and Cologne; activities as journalist, lecturer of German language and literature at the Berlin Volkshochschule (adult education), and as dramatic producer; violent clashes between Nazis and Communists in Berlin before 1933; exclusion from Reichskulturkammer and dismissal from job 1933; November pogrom 1938, imprisonment and emigration.

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Aus meinem Leben mit Ernst Cassirer / : [1883-1948]. (1948-1950)

Cassirer, Toni Bondy, 1883-

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Language: German

Pages: 332 , bound typescript.

Year of publication: 1948-1950

Keywords: Cassirer, Toni Bondy, ; Cassirer, Ernst, ; Rosmer, Ernst, ; Cohen, Hermann, ; Cassirer family ; Bondy, Julie, ; Bondy, Otto, ; Bondy family. ; Antisemitism. ; Friendship. ; Marriage. ; Philosophers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Description of her marriage with Ernst Cassirer, his fight for a professorship in the "Kaiserreich" and his relationship to Hermann Cohen; anti-Semitic experiences in Weimar Germany; his time as the only Jewish rector of a German university; the various stages of emigration (includes photography of E. Cassirer, index and bibliography).

Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)

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[Meine Erlebnisse waehrend der nationalsozialistischen Zeit]. (1948)

Weichmann, Hildegard.

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Language: English

Pages: 13 + 4 , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1948

Keywords: Forced labor. ; Education, Higher Languages 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Personal experiences in Nazi Germany, especially about hiding in Berlin between 1942 and 1945.

Abstract: Also included are two letters to Dr. Kreutzberger containing additional information (1967).

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Ein Mensch wie ich / (1948)

Goldstein, Moritz, 1880-1977.

New York, NY :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 227 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1948

Keywords: Vossische Zeitung. ; Assimilation. ; Drama. ; Editors. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish question. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Literature. ; Poets, German. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in assimilated middle class Jewish family in Berlin; school years and university study in Berlin and Munich; failure of his play "Gabe Gottes"; debate on his article "Deutsch-juedischer Parnass"; experiences as editor of the Vossische Zeitung.

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1940. (1940)

Lust, Franz, 1895-

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Language: English

Pages: 103 , notebook; clippings.

Year of publication: 1940

Keywords: Physicians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Diaries ; Biographical sources

Abstract: Handwritten diary of the physician Dr. Franz Lust, written July 25 – Sep. 18, 1940, in New York with his observations on the war in Europe, the US economy and other issues of the day.

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Erlebnisse eines "Schutzhaeftlings" in einem Konzentrationslager des Dritten Reichs waehrend der Monate November-Dezember 1938. / (1939)

Jutro, Kurt, 1905-

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Language: German

Pages: 25 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1939

Keywords: Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Recollection of the 1938 November Pogrom, arrestation and experiences in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen.

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From Berlin to Ellis Island. (1933)

Cohn, Siegmund.

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Language: English

Pages: 10 , typescript.

Year of publication: 1933

Keywords: Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigratio 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

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Marianne Salinger.

Salinger, Marianne.

New York :[publisher not identified],

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Pages: 4 pages.

Keywords: Salinger, Marianne. ; Ginsburg, Selma. ; Ginsburg, Albert. ; Ginsburg, Lotte. ; Ginsburg family. ; Art and design. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: A short family history and memoir, written as an introduction to Marianne Salinger’s archival collection at LBI New York

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