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  • 1940-1944  (13)
  • Jews, German Genealogy.
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  • 1
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    [Max Knight's Lebenserinnerungen], (1909-1991)
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    Pages: 8 + 1,007 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1909-1991
    Keywords: Propper family. ; Kühnel family. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Intermarriage. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish press. ; Jewish refugees. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript is richly interwoven with photocopies of photographs and original documents.
    Abstract: Reflections on career as editor at University of California Press; family geneology; lives of father and mother; birth in Pilsen; move to Vienna in 1910; school experiences; first publications; studied law at University of Vienna; published stories in journals and newspapers; relationships with various women; graduation with law degree; publishing of stories in London newspaper; internship as law clerk; emigration to England in 1938; emigree acquaintances in London; more writing for newspapers in London; job with the Jewish Chronicle; continued publication of stories in Germany under pseudonyms; story of brother's life; emigration of parents to England; diary written in Shanghai describing trip from England to Shanghai; voyage to Canada; train trip across Canada; boat trip to Shanghai via Japan; tour of Japan; description of arrival in Shanghai; work at newspaper in Shanghai and teaching English at University of Shanghai; emigration to USA in 1941; emigration of parents to USA; life in San Francisco; marriage to Charlotte Lowes; trips through United States; death of brother Otto in Australia; work as research assistant at Hoover Institution; graduate study in Political Science at University of California - Berkeley; letter from Harry Freud from Berlin 1945; letter from father Bernhard Kuehnel concerning restitution; letters to and from the writer Ernst Lothar.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Fabrizius, Peter; Fabry, Joseph; Freud, Harry; Freud, Sigmund; Friese, Ernst; Garrett, Joan; Gombrich, Ernst; Hoffer, Grete; Hoffer, Richa; Hoover Institution; Knight, Charlotte; Knight, Martin; Knight, Tony; Kuehnel, Bernhard; Kuehnel, Grete; Kuehnel, Margarethe; Kuehnel, Max; Kuehnel, Otto; Lieban, Ralph; Oppenheimer, Max; Propper, Laura; Rothschild, Lionel de; Sachs, Emmy; Schwarz family; Schwarz, Arthur; Schwarz, Kurt; Siebel, Max; Storfer, A. J.
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 23: parts 1-4
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 24: parts 5-6
    Note: Available on microfilm , English with German and Chinese , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 2
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    Tante Adele erzaehlt... (1929-1950)
    Vienna / New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 156 + 17 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1929-1950
    Keywords: Eisenstadt, Meïr ben Isaac, ; Kallir family. ; Kolir, Elasar, ; Landau family. ; Mises, Adele von, ; Nathanson family. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Politicians. ; Public welfare. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written between 1929 and 1931 (in Vienna). Recollections of the author's childhood in Brody, Galicia. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the grandparents Kallir. Detailed descriptions of Jewish festivals and customs. Charity traditions within the family. Domestic life and family servants. Traditions of "Kaschern" and "Chumez sales" before the Passover holidays. Description of family characters. Welfare activities of the Landau family. Recollections of the great fire in Brody (1867). Stories and anecdotes of Adele's uncle, the lawyer Dr. Joachim Landau. Outings and summer vacations in Podhorce. Description of daily life activities in the family. School system and private lessons in German and Hebrew. In 1876 the Landau family moved to Vienna. Genealogy of the Nathanson and Kallir family. Addendum: Family history by Dr. Joachim Landau. Notebook of Adele's grandmother Esther Landau with birth dates and family chronicles in the Hebrew calendar. Biographical sketches of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt (1670-1744) and Rabbi Eleasar Kallir (1739-1801). Collection of letters by Esther and Alexander Landau. Appendix: Lecture by Leopold Lourie on the "Galizischer Hilfsverein" in Vienna.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 3
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    Chronik der Familie Herz Salomon Fuld : Frankfurt am Main. (1944)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 36 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Fuld family. ; Fuld, Herz Salomon. ; Goldschmidt, Selig. ; Antique dealers. ; Jewelers. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; France. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Fuld family from Frankfurt, reaching back to the author's grandfather, Herz Salomon Fuld. Contains description of the antique business of Benjamin's uncle Selig Goldschmidt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy available on MF 85 , German
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 4
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    Mein Leben. (1944)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 102 pages : , handwritten manuscript; bound notebook.
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Bodenheimer, Edgar, ; Bodenheimer family. ; Goldschmidt, Jakob, ; Darmstädter und Nationalbank‏. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Banks and banking. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the political and economical conditions in Germany from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1930s.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 5
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    My autobiography. (1943)
    [Cleveland] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 , handwritten manuscript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Children 1933-1945. ; Jewish physicians. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir of an immigrant child from Germany written in English class in Collinwood High School, Cleveland, Ohio.
    Note: English
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  • 6
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    Geschichte meiner Familie. (1942)
    Tilburg in Noord Brabant :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 121 + 7 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: addendum
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Czellitzer family. ; Schlesinger family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Detailed history of the families Czellitzer and Schlesinger reaching back to 17th century (contains pictures, family trees and index).
    Abstract: Also included is a booklet by Arthur Czellitzer: Mein Stammbaum, Philo-Verlag, Berlin, 1934 (available in LBI library, CS 14 C99 M4).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 7
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    Citizenship: None. (1942)
    [Cleveland, Ohio] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Leufer, Eva. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Girls ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Trips and voyages. ; Women authors. ; Ashtabula County (Ohio) ; Cleveland (Ohio) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Anne Koppel, including information on the background of her parents and recollections of her childhood and schooling in Cologne; of life in Germany before and after 1933; of the detention of her father in Dachau after the 1938 November Pogrom; of her emigration to England and to the United States; and of her experiences in Ashtabula and in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Abstract: The essay was written in Anne Koppel’s 11A English class at East High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Note: English
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  • 8
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    Geschichte des Geschlechts Warburg / (1942)
    Stockholm :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 300 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Warburg family ; Warburg, Aby, ; Warburg, Max M., ; Art historians. ; Bankers. ; Banks and banking. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Hamburg-Altona (Hamburg, Germany) ; Hesse (Germany) ; Kassel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short history of Jews in Hamburg and Altona; move of Simon von Cassel to Warburg in 1542; move from Warburg to Hamburg in 1627; history of the Warburg banking house in Hamburg in 19th and 20th centuries; contains information on the banker Max Moritz Warburg (1867-1949), the art historian Aby Moritz Warburg (1866-1929) and other members of the Warburg family.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 79; copies on MF 41(1) & MF 59(1). , German
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  • 9
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    Lebenserinnerungen. (1941)
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    Pages: 3 folders.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Banks and banking. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Suicide. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Aschersleben (Germany) ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Hannover (Germany) ; Hildesheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of Julius Kohsen’s life, including a family tree. Also available are two translations by his grandchildren, Monica Schubert (ME 939) and Gunther Steinberg (ME 1611).
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned:
    Abstract: Bamberger, Georg; Berger, Anna; Cohen, Jacob Salmon; Dux, August; Dux, Henriette; Dux, Wolf; Grolman, Wilhelm von; Gruenfeld, Heinrich; Kohen, Elsbeth (Else); Kohen, Ludwig; Kohen, Otto; Kohen, Therese; Kohen, Wilhelm; Kohsen, Henriette (Hetty); Kohsen, Walter; Lapp, Heinrich; Marcuse, Marcelle; Oppenheimer, Alexander; Regan, Charles; Rubensohn, Rudolf; Steinberg, Gunter; Steinberg, Henriette (Hetty); Steinberg, Herbert; Unger, Elisabeth; Unger, Gustav; Unger, Richard.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Lebenserinnerungen von Julius Israel Kohsen Berlin 1941: photocopy of the original typescript, 37 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Memories of my life by Julius Israel Kohsen, Berlin / Edited and translated by his granddaughter Monica Schubert in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1992, 5 + 90 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Remembrances of my life : [Lebenserinnerungen] / by Julius Jacob (Israel) Kohsen: illustrated and bound translation by Julius Kohsen's grandson Gunther Steinberg, 49 pages. Gunther Steinberg’s translation also includes replicas and translations of Julius Kohsen’s last letters to his daughter Hetty and to his late wife’s cousin, Dr. Otto Rubensohn in Basel.
    Note: The translations are also available on microfilms MM II 19 (Monica Schubert) and MM IV 8 (Gunther Steinberg) , Finding aid available online
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  • 10
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    [Tagebuch von Dr. Th. Rosenthal]. (1941)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 78 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Rosenthal family. ; Timendorfer family. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Universitaet Breslau (Breslau) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Gynecologists. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father was rabbi in Beuthen; father's first marriage and children; family history; father's education and background; earliest memories of Beuthen; father's activities as rabbi in Breslau; brother's education; education of sisters; Jewish life in Breslau; experiences as student at University of Breslau; study of medicine; experience in student fraternity; life in Breslau and Heidelberg; military service as doctor on eastern front in World War I; experiences of Jewish life in Poland during military service; injury at the front; meets future wife in Berlin; transfer to western front; taken prisoner; establishment of medical practice in Breslau after the war; death of father; birth of children; Jewish life in Breslau in 1920's; death of wife's parents; medical practice after 1933; arrest after Kristallnacht and transport to Buchenwald; experience at Buchenwald; release from Buchenwald and emigration in 1939 to England; life in Leicester; emigration to Palestine; arrival in Palestine.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Baeck, Leo; Cohn, Fritz; David, Jacob Julius; Kaufmann, David; Korn, Alfred; Rosenthal, Felix; Rosenthal, Hans; Rosenthal, Werner; Timendorfer, Berthold; Timendorfer, Margot.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 11
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    Zwei Jahre Frankreich und die damit verbundenen Erlebnisse. (1941)
    Santo Domingo :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 95 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; France History German occupation, 1940-1945. ; Dominican Republic Ethnic relations. ; Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Emigration to France in 1938; internment in Gurs; emigration to USA via Lisbon and Dominican Republic.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 2, copy on MM 73 , German
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  • 12
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    Mein Leben : Erinnerungen eines Grossvaters (1941)
    [London] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 161 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Cohen, Hermann, ; Graetz, Heinrich, ; Hildesheimer, Ezriel, ; Katzenellenbogen family. ; Montefiore, Claude G., ; Pappenheim, Bertha, ; Wahl, Saul ben Judah, ; Zunz, Leopold, ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Vereinigung für das liberale Judentum. ; B'nai B'rith ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; B'nai B'rith ; Antisemitism. ; Cholera ; Education before 1871. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Soldiers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Kaiserslautern (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Caesar Seligmann, written between 1934-1941 in Frankfurt and London; description of Jewish life in Landau in the 19th century; early memories of his Jewish childhood and family life; recount of the Landau rabbinate elections in 1836 and the defeat of Seligmann's father, who later on became an instructor at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Kaiserslautern; genealogical account reaching back to Katzenellenbogen family and Saul Wahl, the "Jewish king of Poland"; childhood and school in Landau; memories of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871); university studies in Munich and Breslau; anti-Semitic movement of Adolf Stoecker (1835-1909) and the Rohling affair in Austria; Juedisch-theologisches Seminar in Breslau; student associations (Liwiath Chen, Amicitia); descriptions of Heinrich Graetz, Leopold Zunz and Esriel Hildesheimer; assembly of German rabbis in Breslau in 1887; military service in 1887/88; graduating at the theological seminary in 1888; rabbi in Hamburg; lectures and research about the history of Judaism; religious education for the youth; marriage in 1892; cholera epidemic in Hamburg; rabbinic position in Frankfurt am Main in 1902; acquaintance with Bertha Pappenheim and encouraging the activities of Jewish women's organizations; Jewish dominated free masons' lodge (Bne Briss); crisis of liberal Judaism; internal conflicts between orthodox and liberal Judaism; reform of synagogue service and prayer book; new curriculum for Jewish schools; organization "Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum"; recollections of World War I; persecution of Jews in Frankfurt after 1933; November pogrom of 1938.
    Abstract: Also included are an incomplete list of Seligmann's publications and a German translation of the last will of his great grandfather's father-in-law, rabbi Seligmann Puettlingen (-1767).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 70 and MF 93 , German , Synopsis in file
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    [The diaries of Dr. Rudolf Katz], (1933-1940)
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    Pages: 193 pages : , 2 notebooks +
    Additional Material: photocopies
    Year of publication: 1933-1940
    Former Title: Rudolf Katz Collection
    Keywords: Germany. ; Jewish lawyers ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; History ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1945- ; History ; Archival materials ; Photographs. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs.
    Abstract: Diary beginning in Altona on April 1, 1933 with his immigration to New York City
    Abstract: A few other items are filed in a separate folder, all are low-quality photocopies. These include a photograph of Katz as a soldier during the first World War and a few photographs of Katz later in life, often with politicians. The remaining items are clippings and a photocopy of the statement released by the Bundesverfassungsgericht upon Katz's death.
    Note: All items other than the diaries are low-quality photocopies, legibility is not optimal.
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