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  • 101
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    Fritz Kronenberger, ein Deutsch-Juedisches Schicksal. (1969)
    Great Neck :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1969
    Keywords: Forell, George W. ; Kronenberger, Fritz, ; Kameraden Deutschjudischer Wanderbund. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Lawyers. ; Youth movements. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish youth movement in Nuremberg; disappointment with his visit in Palestine; conversion under the influence of pastor Forell; problems of identity after conversion; influence of Martin Buber and Paul Tillich.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 102
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    Jakob Loewenberg. (1969)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 36 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1969
    Keywords: Löwenberg, Jakob, ; Antisemitism. ; Authors. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Customs and practices 1933-1945. ; Literature. ; Public welfare. ; Teachers. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of an article that appeared in "Juedisches Jahrbuch fuer Geschichte und Literatur" 29 (1931), with new notes and a postscript 1969.
    Abstract: Description of life and work of Jakob Loewenberg; childhood in small town in Westphalia; university studies and career as school teacher and director; founder of the Literary Association in Hamburg; postscript (1969)
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 103
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    Odd jobs, odd life, (1968)
    New York, N.Y. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 373 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1968
    Keywords: Employees. ; California. ; New York (N.Y.) ; South Carolina. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Tells about starting a new life as a German-Jewish immigrant in the U.S. and about his many jobs at different American cities.
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  • 104
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    German-Jewish Club of 1933, Los Angeles : Ein vergessenes Kapitel der Emigration (1966)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 33 pages : , typed, mimeographed.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: German-Jewish Club. ; Actors Nazi persecution. ; Authors Nazi persecution. ; Exiles' writings. ; Motion picture industry. ; Theater ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Radio speech on the writers, actors, artists, and others who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Los Angeles area.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 105
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    Allen Freunden : von Dr. Adolf Drucker zur Feier seines 90. Geburtstages. (1966)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 17 pages : , bound print.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Poetry. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Festschrift on occasion of Adolf Drucker's 90th birthday containing some of his poems written since the 1930s, mostly about his life in emigration.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 106
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    Ein Gedenkblatt fuer meine Eltern und alle Opfer der Tyrannei, 1933-1945. (1965)
    Somerville, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 12 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Cattle trade. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Sales personnel. ; Hesse (Germany) ; Westphalia (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Sternheim family in first third of 19th century; father was born in the Westphalian village of Ergste; he was a salesman; his brothers were cattle dealers; main part deals with parents' experience under Nazi rule; author's mother came from Bensheim (Hesse); while Hans Sternheim emigrated to the USA, his parents died of starvation in Theresienstadt and most of his relatives were killed in the Holocaust. Memoir written in 1965, Somerville, New Jersey.
    Note: This tribute to Hans Sternheim's appears on microfilm MM 75 and is duplicated on microfilm MM 133. , German , Synopsis in file
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    My life, (1964)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 309 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Shipping companies (Marine transportation) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes his childhood in Breslau, his experiences as a German officer during World War I, his business career as a shipowner, his arrest upon his arrival in Germany in 1937 and the time in prison; his founding of the American Banner Lines in the USA.
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  • 108
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    Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover, Germany : Persoenliche Erinnerungen (1963)
    [Pottstown] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 95 + 16 pages : , typescripts (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1963
    Former Title: [Memoirs].
    Keywords: Freund, Samuel, ; Tänzer, Aron, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover. ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews, East European ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Teachers. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Sermons. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs touch upon the authors experiences as a young soldier during World War I; description of his studies; description of religious life in the Hannover Jewish community; tasks as rabbi and teacher; description of synagogue service. A special section in folder 3 describes “Kristallnacht” with the destruction of the Hannover Synagogue and his arrest.
    Abstract: Also included in folder 1 is the draft for a treatise about the essence of Judaism and of its responsibilities as an organized religion, as experienced during the author’s residence in Hannover, Germany before the Holocaust. Folder 4 holds copies of original documents and clippings.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Beitrag zu einer Geistesgeschichte der juedischen Gemeinde in Hannover : Einleitung; undated
    Description / Table of Contents: 2: Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover. Persoenliche Erinnerungen von Rabbiner Dr. Emil Schorsch
    Description / Table of Contents: 3: Wie es zum Ende kam : Erinnerungen an die “Kristallnacht” vom 9. zum 10. November 1938 in Hannover
    Description / Table of Contents: 4: Documents, clippings
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    The story of my family. (1961)
    Oakland, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 122 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Feitelberg family. ; Hope, Fritz. ; Children. ; Economists. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Courland (Latvia) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Traditional Jewish upbringing of author's father in Latvia (Kurland) in 1870s; father came to Berlin in order to study at university; father's work at chamber of commerce; both parents were active Zionists; childhood in middle-class Berlin Jewish family; university studies in Freiburg and Munich; emigration and new life in USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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    Lebenserinnerungen / (1961)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Geiger, Hermann ; Geiger, Rudolf. ; Geiger family. ; Kullmann family ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Composers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961 in the United States. Genealogical background of the Kullmann and Geiger families going back to the 15th and 16th century in Frankfurt/Main. Her father's sister Elise St. Goer, nee Kullmann was one of the first feminists in Germany. Early discovery of Rosy Kullmann's musical talents. Sunday outings with the family. Catholic nanny who contributed to the confusion of her religious identity. Journey to Innsbruck and Switzerland with her parents. Death of her father in 1899. Rosy was granted piano lessons with Carl Friedberg, who had started his career as a student of Clara Schumann. Concert evenings of Hugo Wolf. First compositions of Rosy Kullmann at age 13. Summer vacations with her mother in Madonna di Campiglio and in the Black Forrest. Private English lessons. Remarriage of her mother and birth of her half-sister Erna Levy. Rosy was enrolled at the higher-daughter's "Elisabethinenschule" in Frankfurt. The first performance of one of Rosy Kullmann's compositions took place in 1902. Friendship with Willy Dreyfus and the young composer Max Wolff. Various concerts visits in Frankfurt. Summer vacations with relatives in England. Voice lessons with Margarete Dessof. Studies with Carl Schuricht. Engagement and marriage with Dr. Rudolf Geiger, grandson of Dr. Abraham Geiger, in 1906. Genealogy of the Geiger and Auerbach family. Birth of their son Hermann in 1907. Military service of the author's husband and his brother during World War One. Continuation of the musical career of Rosy Geiger-Kullmann. Compositions to poems by Hans Muehlestein. Birth of her daughter Ruth in 1914. Teaching position during World War One. Musical talent of her son Hermann, who became a musical stage director for operas. 1916 performance of Geiger-Kullmann's first orchestral compositions with Carl Schuricht in Wiesbaden. Work on her first operas and the oratorio "Moses".
    Abstract: Rising of National Socialism and increasing of anti-Jewish laws. Establishment of the Jewish "Tonkuenstler-Verein" by Arthur Holde. Continuation of her compositions and several performances by the "Kulturbund" in various synagogues. Night of the November pogrom 1938 and arrest of her husband Rudolf Geiger. Affidavits from their relatives in New York and release of her husband. Emigration to the USA via Cuba in April of 1939. Arrival in New York in September of 1940. Continuation of her work in the United States.
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    Pelzhandelsfirma Leopold J. Cohn : Erinnerungen. (1960)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 pages (double space) : , typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Fur trade. ; Fur trade ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of fur business in Leipzig and the dominant role played by Jews. The firm "Leopold J. Cohn" was founded by Cohn-Grosz's father in 1872 and led by Cohn-Grosz until his emigration from Nazi Germany.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Aus zwei Jahrhunderten : Lebenserinnerungen (1960)
    Roslyn Heights, New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 235 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Bab, Julius, ; Families 19th century. ; Authors 20th century. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers ; Theater History 20th century. ; Universities and colleges ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bonn (Germany) ; France World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Elisabeth Bab née Loos recollects her childhood as the only child of an affluent Protestant family in Kiel. She was later enrolled in a girls school in Berlin. She describes her teacher, the women's activist Helene Lange. Attending the Lehrerinnenseminar (teacher's seminary), she became increasingly interested and involved in the women’s movement. Upon graduation she found a teaching position in London. She describes her experience working as an educator in an aristocratic family. She next took a teaching position in Potsdam. Following this, she moved to Bonn to complete her university studies. She describes university life in Bonn, including social aspects. Due to the tight financial situation in her family her dream to study medicine could not be fulfilled. Her father died in 1904. Elisabeth moved to Berlin to continue her studies. She met Julius Bab through literary events in Berlin and a courtship ensued. She describes the reaction of the Bab family to their son marrying a gentile. After their wedding Elizabeth found a position as a teacher in a private school and Julius worked as a dramatic adviser in a theater. Both continued their studies at the Berlin University. She describes the birth and raising of her three children. She also describes her social and professional life as part of the literary, theatrical, and artistic community that existed in Berlin during this time. After describing life during World War One, she discusses the continued social and familial events in her life amid the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. The Babs became involved in the foundation of the “Kulturbund Deutscher Juden.” As Nazi persecution increased the family sought exist visas to leave. The Babs managed to emigrate to Paris in 1939.
    Abstract: At the outbreak of World War II, Julius Bab was interred by the French authorities as an enemy alien. Elisabeth describes the subsequent German occupation of France in 1940, and the methods in which the Bab’s managed to make it to New York in the same year.
    Abstract: The following persons are mentioned: Collin, Ernst, 1882-1953; Dumont, Louise, 1862-1932; Harlan, Walter; Hauptmann, Gerhard, 1862-1946; Lange, Helene, 1848-1930; Lilienthal, Leo; Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Mauthner, Fritz, 1849-1923; Simmel, Ernst, 1882-1947; Wentscher, Dora.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Lebenserinnerungen : vom 24/11. 1897 bis 24/11. 1957. (1957)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 104 pages (single space) : , typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Carlebach, Joseph, ; Rosenak, Leopold. ; Hevrat dorshe leshon `Ever. ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Marriage. ; Rabbis. ; Public welfare. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Bremen (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Social workers
    Abstract: Circumstances of the marriage to Leopold Rosenak, social and welfare activities in the Bremen Jewish community and "Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden," visit to the U.S. and death of Leopold Rosenak on the way back (1923), first years of Nazi rule in Bremen, immigration to the U.S.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    You shall never forget : [1900-1945]. (1956)
    Denver, Colorado :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 326 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Public welfare. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Lʹviv (Ukraine) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Erna Segal spent her childhood years with her grandparents in Lwow, where she attended a Jewish school and spoke mainly Yiddish. At the age of six she joined her parents in Vienna, where her father was an orthodox rabbi and cantor. Cultural differences and difficulties to adapt into a new environment. Strong impressions of anti-Semitism during her schoolyears and growing awareness of political unrest and pogroms in Eastern Europe. Reverence for the Kaiser. Outbreak of World War One. Situation of Galician refugees and increasing anti-Semitism in Vienna. End of the war and collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which left her family worried for their future. Awaking interest for Zionism. Work in a fur buisness. Marriage in 1920. Her husband, a merchent from Lemberg, had a lumber export business in Styria. Birth of their son Herschi in 1921, who developed a remarkable artistic talent. Birth of their daughter in 1924. Move to Berlin. Rising National Socialism. Erna became aware of the dangers and tried to convince her husband to emigrate already in 1927. Work in the Jewish welfare and youth center of the community. First incidents with Nazis in 1932. Nazi take-over in 1933. Life in Nazi-Germany. Anti-Jewish boycotts and regulations. Experiences of discrimination. Erna's children were forced to leave their schools and proceeded in Jewish schools. Encounters with the Gestapo. Protection due to their Austrian citizenship until 1938. Olympic Games 1936 in Berlin. Exhibition of her son's work in 1937. He was accepted at an art school in Switzerland, yet after the Austrian anexion in 1938 he was refused an exit permit. Night of the November pogrom. Exit permit for Chile. Death of her father and news of deportations to concentration camps in Poland.
    Abstract: Outbreak of World War Two and impossibility to emigrate. Forced labor. Encounter with a German soldier who warned Erna imploringly about the horrific circumstances of Polish concentration camps. Desicion to lead a life in hiding. Help of gentiles and constant fear of discovery. Refuge in a cloister. Escape from Nazi spies. Survival during last years of the war. Immigration to USA after World War II.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Es war einmal : Erinnerungen (1952)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 43 + 35 pages : , reprint; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1952
    Keywords: B'nai B'rith. ; Antisemitism. ; Banks and banking. ; Draft World War, 1914-1918. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Insurance agents. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs ca. 1882-1952: Childhood in Stuttgart; schooling in Stuttgart, Frankfurt; apprenticeship at father's bank in Stuttgart; aprenticeship at stockbroker in London; work in Paris; mililtary service; takeover of father's banking business upon death of father in 1905; involvement in B'nai B'rith lodge of Stuttgart; World War I experiences on various fronts; marriage and family; activities in banking during 1920's and 1930's; emigration to New York 1937; experiences in New York finding work. (Original in German; English translation by Liane Gutman)
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Einstein, Albert; Gutmann, Alice; Gutmann, Moritz; Hollander, Hermann; Joseph, Adolf; Lehrberger, Berthold; Strauss, Lewis; Warburg, Max.
    Description / Table of Contents: Original German text
    Description / Table of Contents: English translation 'Once upon a time' by Liane Gutman
    Note: Available on microfilm , English and German , Synopsis in file
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    Yankees from the Rhine : How Americans start. (1951)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 161 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1951
    Keywords: Roosevelt College of Chicago. ; Acculturation. ; College teachers. ; Historians. ; Journalists. ; Universities and colleges. ; Chicago (Ill.) ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Helmut Hirsch (born 1907 in Wuppertal-Barmen) emigrated with his wife to France in 1933; work as a journalist in France; immigration to the USA during World War II; university study in Chicago and new career as history professor at Roosevelt College, Chicago. Hirsch also discusses the American university system and historic political problems, such as the Saar question.
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    Aus meinem Leben mit Ernst Cassirer / : [1883-1948]. (1948-1950)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Erinnerungen : 1875 - 4. September 1950. (1950)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1950
    Keywords: Hirsch, Otto, ; Esslinger family. ; Schweitzer family. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Lawyers ; Orphanages. ; Public welfare. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Esslingen am Neckar (Germany) ; Tübingen (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Stuttgart; history of Schweizer and Esslinger families; law studies in Tuebingen; as lawyer in Stuttgart; cultural life in Stuttgart.
    Abstract: Also included is Schweizer’s account of the November pogrom 1938 in Stuttgart; his imprisonment in Welzheim; and and his immigration to USA, written in 1944 in New York City (available in DM 84).
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 68; copy on MF 164(5). , German
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    My dream ? : as told to Technical Sergeant A. W. Schenk (1946)
    c. 1946 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Birkenau (Concentration camp) ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences in Birkenau concentration camp; death of family members; evacuation of Birkenau and transport through Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia; last months of war in Oranienburg, Flossenbuerg and Grauwinkel (Thuringia) concentration camps; liberation in Buchenwald; emigration to USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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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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    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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    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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    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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    [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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    The first "Blitz", (1938)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 611 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1938
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Sales personnel. ; Suicide. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Novels. ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiographical account in form of a novel: experiences as soldier in World War I; reaction to census of Jewish soldiers; antisemitism among soldiers; social barriers between Jews and Christians in school; daily life of a Jewish salesman in Weimar years; social contacts with Jews and non-Jews; changes in 1933; marriage with non-Jewish woman; persecutions in Nazi Germany; immigration to USA; daughter followed later; wife committed suicide.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English prologue , German
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    A born refugee. (1933)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 153 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1933
    Keywords: Barth, Renée ; Communists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Alsace (France) ; France. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945. ; Martinique. ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Renée Barth including information on her grandparents' lives in Alsace; her father Rene leaving Germany for Switzerland during World War I because he was a pacifist; her early years in Switzerland; her and her mother's involvement in the communist movement in Weimar Germany; their arrestation after the Nazi seizure of power; Barth's emigration to Switzerland, return to Germany, life as a refugee in Paris; her emigration to the United States via Casablanca and Martinique; and on her career as a social worker and her family life.
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    The emigration of two generations.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 260 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Griesheim (Hesse, Germany) ; Hesse (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal reminiscences ca. 1900-1938 of the life of a small town physician in Hesse; participation in WW I; rural Jewish life before and after 1933, immigration to the US. Contains also family history back to 1499.
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    [Memoiren].
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 + 24 + 16 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: documents (photocopies); notes; musical scores.
    Keywords: Gruenspecht, Julie. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Synagogue music. ; Butchers. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Wüstensachsen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of anti-Jewish terror in the small Hesse town of Wuestensachsen during the first years of Nazi rule; also contains short biographies of Gruenspecht's relatives who were murdered during the Holocaust, copies of Nazi documents concerning Jewish cattle dealers, and list of Western Yiddish proverbs.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Brungässer, Bertha; Brungaesser, Josef; Buchsbaum, Max; Gaertner, Bella; Gold, Theobald; Grünspecht, Julie; Gundersheim, Gitta; Heinemann, Fritz; Juengster, Horst; Juengster, Leo; Juengster, Lina; Nordhauser, Jonas; Nordhauser, Nathan; Oppenheimer, Ernestine; Schulmann, Hedwig; Sichel, Otto; Sichel, Irma (nee Gruenewald); Weinberger, Jakob; Weinberger, Max; Weinberger, Siegfried.
    Abstract: Also included are traditional Jewish melodies of the Wuestensachsen Jewish community.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Memoir; handwritten notes; photocopies of Nazi documents; and lists of victims of the Holocaust.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Hebräische Melodien aus Synagoge und Haus der Jüdischen Gemeinde Wüstensachsen bei Fulda (Hessen) vorgesungen von dem Mitglied der Gemeinde David Grünspecht
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Berthold and Johanna Rosenthal's memoirs].
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    Language: German
    Pages: 20 + 35 pages (single space) : , typescript (copy).
    Keywords: Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Teachers. ; Historians. ; Jewish way of life. ; Marriage. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Omaha (Neb.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of general economic situation in Germany and of Jewish life in Berlin in 1940, shortly before Berthold Rosenthal's immigration to the United States.
    Abstract: Description of the lives of Berthold and of Johanna Rosenthal; especially on Berthold Rosenthal's activities as geneaologist and historian of Baden Jewry; Jewish communal life in Hamburg and Mannheim.
    Description / Table of Contents: Rosenthal, Berthold, Wie ich Deutschland verliess, c. 1941
    Description / Table of Contents: Rosenthal, Johanna, Einiges aus unserem gemeinsamen Leben : Berthold Rosenthal und Johanna, gb. Benzian, 9. Juli 1914 - 16. Dezember 1957
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 64. Berthold Rosenthal's memoir also available on MF 240. , German
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    [Memoirs],
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    Pages: 52 pages : , xerox of handwritten text.
    Keywords: Wolfe family Genealogy. ; Loeb family Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht. ; Women authors. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Wolff, Hedwig. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of life in Sobernheim; home life; vacations in Cassel; boarding school in Wiesbaden;World War I and French occupation; marriage to husband; honeymoon in Baden-Baden; settled in Neustadt (Palatinate); birth of daughters; life in Neustadt; Nazi seizure of power; daughter sent to school in Switzerland; other daughter sent to Jewish boarding school in Berlin; Kristallnacht in Berlin; Kristallnacht in Neustadt; transport of daughter to London; move to Mannheim; emigration to England; life in London; husband sent to internment camp; emigration to USA without husband; arrival in New York; move to Andover, MA; move to Lawrence, MA; emigration of relatives; move to Andover; list of relatives' birth dates, children, and death dates.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    The roots of Alex Bauer : A German-born 20th century Jew.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 90 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Keywords: Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Engineers. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Zionism. ; Ermreuth (Germany) ; Erlangen (Germany) ; Franconia (Germany) ; Germany History. ; Michelbach an der Lücke (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ancestors from Ermreuth and Michelbach (Franconia); move to Erlangen in 1880s; youth and school years in Erlangen; student life in Munich; working as an engineer in coal-mining; member of Zionist organization; immigration to the USA in 1938.
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    Nothing happened to me /
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 , print.
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Graz (Austria) ; Styria (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Walter Benedict, written ca. 1942 in New York, describing the Anschluss and the persecution and humiliation of Jews in fascist Austria.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Available on microfilm; copy on MF 502 , English , Synopsis in file
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    [A condensed story].
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    Language: English
    Pages: circa 42 pages : , typescript.
    Former Title: Memoir.
    Keywords: United States. ; Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecutions ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Memoirs by Walter and Irene Friedlieb
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Und neues Leben blueht aus den Ruinen : [1895-1939].
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    Language: German
    Pages: 298 , typescript; illustrated.
    Keywords: Raab family. ; Raab, Olga. ; Raab, Richard. ; Raab, Wilhelm. ; Schnitzler family. ; Schnitzler, Hans. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Music. ; Physicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Soviet Union History 1917-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Parents; childhood memories; early education and travels; gymnasium study and independent travels; begins study of medicine in 1913; joins medical corps after outbreak of World War I; experiences during World War I service; return to Vienna after illness; resumption of military service in 1916 on eastern front; returns to Vienna after war; Vienna in the immediate post-war years; reflections on Jewish identity and Jewish life in Vienna; receives degree in medicine in 1920; work in a clinic in Prague; travels to Italy, Sweden, Russia; return to Vienna; political troubles in Vienna; year of study in USA; experiences and impressions of New York; trip to Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti; courtship and marriage to Swedish woman; trip across USA; return to Vienna with wife; political crises in Austria after 1933; birth of son; treats Hungarian minister president Gombos; various experiences as medical doctor; emigration to USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    My Life : told for my grandchildren
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Goldsmiths. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Eureka (Ill.) ; Kassel (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Apprenticeship as goldsmith; marriage in time of economic crisis (1919); persecution of Jews after 1933; November pogrom 1938 in Kassel; immigration to USA in 1940; beginnings of new life in USA.
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    With roadblocks and detours.
    La Mesa, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages (double space) : , typescript (double space).
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Social workers. ; Synagogues ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Rhodesia and Nyasaland Emigration and immigratio 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Marriage in Breslau synagogue in 1938; author's husband's imprisonment in Buchenwald in summer of 1938; November pogrom of 1938; emigration to Rhodesia and to USA.
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    From Vienna to New York : 1938 - '43.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 + 10 , typescript; illustrated (copy).
    Keywords: Kosak family Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; National socialism. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experience of the Nazi take-over of Vienna in March 1938 (Anschluss) and subsequent emigration to the United States; photocopies of photographs from the Kosak family
    Abstract: Experience of the Nazi take-over of Vienna in March 1938 (Anschluss) and subsequent immigration to the United States; photocopies of photographs from the Kosak family.
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    Brief aus Israel an meine Verwandten in Oesterreich.
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    Pages: 29 pages : , 29 pages : , Photocopy of typescript. + , Photocopy of typescript.
    Additional Material: + English translation
    Keywords: Klein, Margarete. ; Klein, Margarete. ; Klein family Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Genealogy. ; Israel Emigration and immigration 1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. 1933-1945 ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Genealogy. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir manuscript written as a letter in March 1992; family tree
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Childhood memories of Berlin, Rhineland, Holland].
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 2 + 14 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Lawyers. ; Paleontologists. ; Retail trade ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Paso Robles (California) ; Recco (Italy) ; Scheveningen (Holland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Berlin, Rhineland, Holland; emigration to United States in 1936; impressions of New York; life in Paso Robles, California; memories of his mother; reflections on life of mother.
    Abstract: Brief account of father's difficulties adjusting to life in United States.
    Abstract: Detailed calculations of great grandfather's wealth.
    Description / Table of Contents: How mother led us out of Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Father's genius.
    Description / Table of Contents: How rich was rich.
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    Diary of Friedel Stern Weil : 1886-1970.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 45 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Keywords: Stern, Ludwig. ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish refugees ; Women authors. ; Dominican Republic Ethnic relations. ; Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vichy (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Friedel Stern, née Weil, covering approx. 1938-1940. Recollections of her husband's arrest and incarceration in a French internment camp; of his release and their move to Vichy; of both of their arrest and transport to Gurs; of her experiences in the internment camp of Gurs; of her return to Vichy where she rejoined her husband; of their escape over the Spanish border via Marseilles; of their passage to the United States via Barcelona, Madrid and Lisbon; of the reunion with their children in New York; of their stay in Santo Domingo where they waited for their visas; and of their immigration to New York.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    [Diary Feb. 1938 - Dec. 1939].
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    Pages: 57 + 57 , typescripts.
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Jewish families ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Linz (Austria) ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This diary tells about a Jewish family – husband, wife, and two children – who leave Linz, Austria, to move to Vienna and manage to send the children to England. When the war breaks out in September 1939 the parents manage to immigrate to the US, settling in Los Angeles in late 1939. The diary ends here, without ever mentioning the children after their arrival in England.
    Abstract: An English translation is followed by the original's German language transcript.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English , Synopsis in file
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    Diary, World War I,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 0.25
    Keywords: Bardach, Bernhard. ; Bardach, Olga. ; Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) Description and travel. ; Volhynia (Ukraine) Ethnic relations. ; Italy. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Diaries. ; Physicians
    Abstract: Memoir written in Galicia, Wolhynien (Volhynia) and Italy between 1914-1918.
    Description / Table of Contents: The diary is Series II of the Bernhard Bardach Collection
    Description / Table of Contents: 2/1 Diary World War I // Aug. - Nov. 1914
    Description / Table of Contents: 2/2 Diary World War I // Nov. 1914 - Aug. 1915
    Description / Table of Contents: 2/3 Diary World War I // Aug. 1915 - June 1916
    Description / Table of Contents: 2/4 Diary World War I // June 1916 - July 1917
    Description / Table of Contents: 2/5 Diary World War I // July 1917 - Feb. 1918
    Description / Table of Contents: 2/6 Diary World War I // March 1918 - Jan. 1919
    Note: Available on microfilm and digital form , German , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form of Bardach's WW I diary
    URL: Synopsis
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    Antler family history : 1938-1945.
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    Pages: 333 pages : , bound typescript; privately published; illustrations
    Keywords: Antler family. ; Antler, Isaak. ; Antler, Rosa. ; Antler, Eric. ; Antler, Lizzi. ; Antler, Anne. ; Friedrichs, Rosa. ; Jews Correspondence. Families ; Jews Persecutions 1938-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Correspondence ; Correspondence
    Abstract: The preface to the manuscript describes the Antler family history beginning with Isaak Antler (born 1879 in Buczacz) and his wife, Rosa Seidler (born 1889 in Vienna); it contains reproductions of family photographs in Europe and in the USA. The bulk of the manuscript contains the correspondence of Rosa and Isaak Antler, their children, Eric, Anne, and Felicia (Lizzi), as well as of other relatives, documenting the family’s perils under Nazi rule and their immigration to the US. Letters and postcards are reproduced from the originals and translated into English. The correspondence is interspersed with documents, such as ID cards, immigration papers, and school reports.
    Note: German and English
    URL: Digital form
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    Escape into fear : An Austrian Jew's odyssey.
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    Pages: 66 + 7 , typescript.
    Keywords: Kriegsfeld, family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Kaerntner Heimatschutz. ; Vaterländische Front (Austria) ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Rabbis. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Klagenfurt (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief account of the years growing up in Klagenfurt. His parents had spent some years prior to his birth in the United States, where his sister was born. Due to his father's ill health they returned to Klagenfurt. His mother operated a clothing store. Recollections of the border dispute in the aftermath of World War One and the author's proud support for the "Kaerntner Heimatschutz". In 1930 Max Kriegsfield moved to his sister in Vienna, where he started to work in a manufacturing business. He became a member of a literary and social club and took leading parts in an amateur theater. Outings to Vienna woods. Rise of National Socialism in Austria. Max joined the youth auxiliary of a paramilitary group commemorating Jewish veterans of World War One. Encounters with illegal Nazi groups. Recollections of the "Anschluss" to Nazi Germany in 1938. Precautions due to his activities in the Jewish veteran organization. Preparations to emigrate to the United States. Due to his sister's American birth cerificate the parents of Max received preferential quota numbers. In order to escape arrest and possible deportation Max Kriegsfield ventured an illegal entry into Belgium via Germany. Arrival in Brussels and life as a refugee. Position as a registrar at the Jewish Aid Comittee. Brief imprisonment. Illegal trip to see his parents in Paris. Max Kriegsfield finally received his visa and left for the United States in December 1939. Arrival in Hoboken and reunition with his family.
    Abstract: Second part of the memoirs (German): Account of family history. The author's parents were born in Czernowitz, Bukowina and emigrated to the United States, where they got married in 1902. Their daughter was born in 1904 in Newark, New Jersey. They returned to Czernowitz and settled in Klagenfurt in 1909. Recollections of the author's childhood during World War One. Description of the Klagenfurt Jewish community, where his father Nathan Kriegsfeld served as a president. Jewish life and history in Klagenfurt and Kaernten. Encounters of antisemitism. Fate of the Klagenfurt Jewish community during National Socialism.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned:
    Abstract: Babad, Josef; Blitz, Margot; Kalinsky, Jan; Kriegsfeld, Nathan; Kriegsfield, Max; Lewitt, Albert.
    Abstract: The following places are mentioned:
    Abstract: Aachen; Austria; Belgium; Brussels; Bukowina; Cologne; Czernowitz; Hoboken; Krumpendorf; New York; Paris; Vienna.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Escape into fear.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: Ein Schicksal ohne Tragoedie. Die Geschichte einer Klagenfurter juedischen Familie
    Note: Available on microfilm , English and German , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    The Memoirs of Rudolph Stahl /
    [New York City] ; : [publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 76 pages : , bound typescript.
    Keywords: Buber, Martin, ; Hindemith, Paul, ; Rosenzweig, Franz, ; Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Kameraden Deutsch-Jüdischer Wanderbund. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Zionism. ; Bad Nauheim (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in Friedberg, moves with parents to Bad Nauheim; background of parents; father's acquaintance with Stefan George; parents' courtship in Darmstadt; growing up in Bad Nauheim; music lessons with Paul Hindemith; involvement with Wandervogel youth movement; study at University of Frankfurt; military service in World War I; impact of count of Jewish soldiers; interest in Judaism and Jewish culture after the war; joined Jewish youth group Kameraden; continuation of study of law at University of Munich; completion of studies at University of Giessen; friendships with Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig; work and study at the Freies Juedisches Lehrhaus in Frankfurt; excerpts from correspondence between Stahl and Rosenzweig; becomes executive secretary of Lehrhaus; work as legal apprentice in Darmstadt; courtship and marriage; move to Bad Nauheim; deaths of father and grandfather in 1929; end of law career after 1933; work for Reichsvertretung re-training Jews for emigration; work with Martin Buber; immigration to USA; family connections in USA; synagogue membership in New York; training and work as accountant; move to house in Queens, New York; artistic activities; death of wife; activities after death of wife.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Borchard, Fred; Ehrenberg family; George, Stefan; Hallo, Gertrude; Hallo, Rudy; Hartmann, Fritz; Nicholas I, Czar; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Rubensohn, Ernst; Rubensohn, Gertrude; Scholem, Gershom; Schulteiss, Alice; Schulteiss, Karl; Stahl, Abraham; Stahl, Arthur; Stahl, Hannah; Stahl, Hans; Stahl, Hedwig; Stahl, Moritz; Stahl, Paula; Stahl, Rudolph; Strauss, Eduard; Trier family; Trier, Edgar; Trier, Ferdinand; Trier, Paula; Trier, Robert; Wolf, Franz; Wolfflin, Heinrich.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Im Café Continental : Auch eine Emigrantengeschichte
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    Language: German
    Pages: 20 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Keywords: Restaurants. ; Restaurateurs. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Saint Louis (Mo.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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    Prelude to the Holocaust : Excerpts from Clara Plaut’s diaries
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ruminations on life after Nazi seizure of power; premature birth of son; loss of business and home; plans to emigrate to Netherlands; immigration to USA in 1938.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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