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    [Memoirs of Baronne Hildegard von Gumppenberg], (1942-2019)
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    Pages: 4 folders.
    Year of publication: 1942-2019
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish refugees. ; Women authors. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; France. ; Archival materials ; Biographical sources ; Manuscripts. ; Finding aids. ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Two original German manuscripts and their English translations, describing the author’s escape from Nazi Germany (written in 1942) and her subsequent life underground (written in the 1960s).
    Abstract: Also included is a report by Dominique Joliat, who’s father was a Swiss border guard, who rescued Gumppenberg’s original manuscript.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 : "[Vous êtes libre]", Macon; 1942
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 : "La vie de Mme Ducaret". Köln; 1970
    Description / Table of Contents: 3a: "Kaete Hildegard von Gumppenberg", English translation of "[Vous êtes libre]"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 3b: “My Life as Mme Ducaret : Living undercover in Cologne”, English translation of "La vie de Mme Ducaret"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 : "1942 : Baroness Von Gumppenberg and her attempted escape to Switzerland"; 2019
    Note: English translations by Gerda Loosemore-Reppen, edited by Ruth and David Geall , German and English , Finding Aid
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    Marianne : The first 30 years... (2004)
    Colchester :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: David, Bernhard. ; Great Britain. ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish way of life ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Colchester (England) ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with childhood memories - religious life in the synagogue, Marianne Geernaert's father's (Bernhard David) role in the Jewish community in Hamburg, her school life, going to summer camp with her Zionist youth organization, recollections of the rise of Nazism. Her father was appointed to oversee the clearing of a Jewish cemetery. She describes Kristallnacht when she was at a Jewish camp on the country side. Her father was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. She describes the obstacles to overcome for obtaining permission to emigrate. Brief description of their stay in Amsterdam, then the trip to Palestine, farm life in Palestine. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1943. She married her husband John, then a British army officer, shortly after the war. Soon thereafter they moved to his home town Colchester, England. Many family and personal photographs are included following the biographical information in the text.
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    Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] (2003)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 + 42 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Löbl, Friedl, ; Löbl, Sally, ; Löbl, Werner, ; Samson, Dorothee. ; Samson, Richard. ; Bunce Court School. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Kent (England) ; Quito (Ecuador) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Typed transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:
    Abstract: Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.
    Abstract: Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.
    Abstract: Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.
    Description / Table of Contents: Erika's Tagebuch
    Description / Table of Contents: In's neue Leben
    Note: German
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    If not for Hitler, (2003)
    Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 12 pages : , typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Jews History 20th century. ; Emigration and immigration ; Kristallnacht. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Women authors. ; Lerman, Anny (nee Ulmer) 1925. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the events following the German annexion of Austria in March 1938. Anny Lerman was transferred to a Jewish school, the family was evicted from their apartment. She eyewitnessed Kristallnight, the pogrom in November 1938. In February, the family decides to flee from Austria. They took a train to Mistelbach, a village close to the Czechoslovakian border, and marched to the other side of the border during night. They could stay in Brno with her father's brother, but soon went illegally to Palestine. Anny Lerman describes the daily routine on the 3-month long journey on the ship to Palestine. The final pages are dedicated to her life in Palestine.
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    History re-edited. (2003)
    Carmel, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: He, Fengshan, ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Emigration and immigration ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lotte Marcus was asked in 2002 by a friend to look for her passport from Shanghai, which brought back old memories and initiated writing this memoir. Embedded are also 2 photographs. Procedure of obtaining visas, desperate situation in Vienna, relatives deported to Dachau, visit of the daughter of the Chinese diplomat, Feng Shan Ho, who issued visas to Shanghai, China, to save refugees. By looking through her old passport's stamps, she recalls the places she passed on her journey to Shanghai.
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    [Story of Sylvia (Mahler) Cherny]. (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Mahler family. ; Mahler, Robert, ; Mahler (née Gutmann), Grete, ; Watkins, Gerald Herbert, ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Melbourne (Vic.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with Sylvia Cherny's family background, the family business, and her time in Lower Austria where her family had lived for a couple of generations. She received private tutoring, coming from a well-off family. The "Anschluss" in 1938 changed everything. The family business was taken away and Sylvia Cherny provides a short chronology of its whereabouts. Her father commited suicide after the Anschluss, fearing the Gestapo who was looking for him. Sylvia Cherny went on a Kindertransport to France, then fled via Lisbon to New York. The final pages cover the first years in Melbourne, Australia, where she had joined her mother and her stepfather.
    Note: English
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    [The divorce of my parents ...]. (2002)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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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.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Growing up in Germany. (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Opel family. ; Liechtenstein family. ; Families ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New Zealand Emigration and immigration. ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a recorded document of an interview conducted in September 2002. Description of family background. Her father Fritz Opel was a journalist from a non-Jewish family, her mother Else, née Liechtenstein came from a large Jewish family in Berlin. Her father was killed shortly after her birth during World War One. Recollections of early childhood in Berlin, where Marianne and her older brother Fritz lived with their widowed mother in modest circumstances. Summer vaccations in the family’s country house in the Riesengebirge. Marianne attended a boarding school in Letzlingen. After her graduation she dismissed her dream to become a doctor and accepted a position as a secretary in order to help supporting her family. Rising of Nazi movement. Her brother was arrested for political activities and served three years in jail. After his release he immedeatly left Germany and escaped to Switzerland. Marianne received a permit as a domestic help for New Zealand and emigrated in 1939.
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  • 9
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    Diaries, (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 100 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: 37 pages typescript
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels ; Women authors. ; Germany History Nineteen thirties. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 5 diaries written by Margaret Kahn's mother, Lisbeth Schmidt. Most of her early writings refer to travelling across Europe. A brief description is provided of events in 1933 when Nazis took over power in Germany. During Kristallnacht, her husband Fritz is taken to the police. They are able to leave Germany, first to Holland, then to the USA where they settle in New York. From 1950 on, all entries were written in English. Enclosed is also a letter from her parents to her daughter Margrit for her birthday, dated January 16, 1941, Amsterdam.
    Note: English translation , German
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    Family memories / (2002)
    Carmel, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Lieberg family. ; Lieberg, Max, ; Lieberg, Moritz. ; Country life. ; Metal trade. ; Women authors. ; Hesse (Germany) ; Kassel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English version of an original text, written in Stuttgart in 1933.
    Abstract: History of the Lieberg family and especially Erna Sander's father Moritz Lieberg who operated the metal factory 'Messinghof' near Kassel; life in Messinghof;
    Abstract: Also included are photographs taken in Messinghof in 2002.
    Note: English
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    [Speeches and memories], (1997-2001)
    [New Orleans] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 4 + 5 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1997-2001
    Keywords: Levy family. ; Levy, Leo, ; Weil, Leo. ; Weil, Liselotte L. (née Levy), ; United States. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Reform Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Neuwied (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were comprised as speeches from 1997-2001. Brief description of family history. Recollections of the Neuwied Reformed Jewish community. Liselotte attended the Jewish school. Description of domestic life with a nanny and religious traditions. Nazis and preparation of their parents for the children's emigration. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom 1938 (Kristallnacht). The family was arrested and their father beaten up so brutally that he died two weeks later. Liselotte and her younger brother Leo were sent to relatives in the US in 1939. Her brother joined the US army. Their mother and sister stayed in Germany and probably perished during the Holocaust. Description of life with relatives in the United States. Courtship and marriage to Leo Weil.
    Description / Table of Contents: Talk given by Liselotte Weil, July 9, 1997 [in New Orleans]; 5 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sermon by Liselotte Weil at Temple Sinai, New Orleans, on Dec. 7, 2001; 4 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: In memory of my brother, Aug. 19, 1998; 5 pages.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    The rise of Nazism before World War II : Memories of Germany (2001)
    Seattle, WA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 52 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Birnbaum, Hilde (née Merzbach), ; Merzbach family. ; Heim family. ; Seligmann, Caesar, ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Nazis. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Limburg an der Lahn (Germany) ; London (England) ; Palestine. ; Seattle (Wash.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir is a transcript of an interview with Hilde Birnbaum from June to August of 1999, conducted by Judith Bendor in Seattle, Washington. Description of the Frankfurt Jewish community, where Hilde’s father was the leader of the Gemeinde. Hilde had private lessons in Hebrew with the rabbi Caesar Seligmann. Hilde reflects on the time leading up to the rise of Nazism in Germany. She was a law student and was already very aware of the dangers of National Socialism prior to 1933 due to her frequent travels abroad. In 1931 she worked in an internship at a law firm in London. After the overwhelming success of the Nazis at the elections she decided not to return to Germany, since she did not see a future for herself as a woman and a Jew. Her father convinced her to finish her studies in Germany. Continuation of studies in Freiburg and encounter with Nazi student groups as a member of the social-democratic student faction. Graduation and Referendar position in Limburg in 1932. In March of 1933 she left Germany with her sister Edith for England, being warned by colleagues at court of the anti-Jewish boycot. They crossed the Dutch border and waited for invitations from relatives in London in order to get an entry permit for England. They were warmly received by the Heim family and settled in London. Difficulties of finding work. Hilde was introduced to influential British journalists and politicians, who disregarded her concerns of the possible dangers of Nazi Germany.
    Abstract: The following years she travelled frequently to Germany to convince her parents and friends to leave the country, until she was declared an enemy of the Reich and lost her German citizenship. Her mother started preparations to leave without the knowledge of her husband. Observations about life in Nazi Germany. Trip to Palestine in 1936. In 1938, only weeks before “Kristallnacht”, Hilde’s parents joined her in London, before they went to the United States. Her sister Edith had already left with her husband for Seattle in 1936. Preperations for Hilde’s emigration to the United States. She arrived in Seattle in the winter of 1938.
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    My life. Memoirs of Irma Reiss, 1910-2000 / (2001)
    Highland Park, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Goldblum family. ; Reiss, Leonhard. ; Agudat Israel. ; Blau-Weiss Bund fuer Juedisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland (1913- ) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1986 in the USA and was edited by the author's son Nathan M. Reiss. Irma Reiss was the second child of three of Bertha and Leopold Goldblum. The family lived Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, which had a small Jewish community. Her father was a shoemaker. Description of domestic life in rural Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Recollection of Sabbath preparations in her family. Memories of school life. Hebrew lessons with her uncle Friedmann, who was the cantor and shochet of the town. Visits to relatives in Rossdorf by Darmstadt. Recollections of World War One. Her father Leopold, an Austrian citizen from Galicia, served in the Austrian Army. Celebration of the high holidays. Recollection of Irma Reiss' schooldays in Heppenheim, where she was a well-liked student. Irma and her sister were members of the local Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss". Their group leaders were Rafael and Eva Buber, children of Martin Buber, who lived in Heppenheim and was very supportive of the youth movement. At age 14 Irma was sent to her uncle's family to help taking care of the children. She took continued education classes. Afterwards she worked as a "house daughter" with a religious family in Frankfurt. Irma became a member of the Agudas Yisroel. After the Nazi take-over in Germany their American relatives provided them with affidavits to join them in the States. Growing anti-Semitism. Irma Goldblum left Germany on September 15th, 1938. Her parents stayed behind because her father, who was born in Galicia, still had to wait for his affidavit due to the Polish quota regulations. Difficulties in starting a new life in New York. Worries about her parents in Germany. During the night of the November Pogrom in 1938 her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After three weeks he was released and was able to leave together with his wife for the States. Support of their relatives to start a new life.
    Abstract: Irma Goldblum got married to Leonhard Reiss in December 1939. Thei had two sons, Nathan and Barry Reiss.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Lecture given at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. (2001)
    San Francisco :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Rathenau, Walther, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The lecture was held at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco. Description of life in Berlin in the 1920s. Childhood in an assimilated well-to-do Jewish family the Weimar Republic. Her father was a lawyer and editor of the "Vossische Zeitung", who had his office in the front part of the apartment. Her mother a devoted singer who performed occasionally at the "Singakademie". Recollections of Sunday morning walks and visits to the museum at the center of the town. Earliest memories of food shortages during World War One. Private lessons in the aftermath of the war. Summer vacations in the German and Swiss Alps. Birth of her younger brother in 1921. Visits at her grandparents together with her older sister Irene. Memories of Christmas celebrations with family gatherings. Celebration of the Jewish holidays with her maternal grandparents, who were devoted orthodox Jews. Recollection of the assassination of Walter Rathenau in 1922, which made her aware of the undercurrent antisemitism. Her father became an active member of the Democratic party and was elected alderman (Stadtrat) of the city of Berlin in 1928. Description of the vibrating cultural life of Berlin. Eleanor attended the Auguste Viktoria Realgymnasium, an all-girls school preparing for university. Recollection of teachers and schoolmates. Theater and concerts. Private dance classes. Summer vacation in England to improve her English skills in 1931. Eleanor passed her final exams in 1932 and started to study medicine at the university in Heidelberg. Rising antisemitism and political unrest. With Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933 Jewish students were soon expelled from university. Soon thereafter Eleanor left Germany for Paris.
    Note: See also "Eleanor Alexander Collection" (AR 6414), and four other memoirs by Eleanor Alexander: ME 995, Me 1071, Me 1107, Me 1113 , English , Synopsis in file
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    La Partida (The Departure) / (2000)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 42 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Wohlmuth family. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of Tony Wohlmuth's memoir "La Partida" by John Grossmann
    Abstract: This book is based on Tony Wohlmuth's experiences during the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany and her father’s healthy premonition of danger to leave the country as soon as possible. In 1937 the whole family were allowed to enter Argentina where they tried to build a new life. Inspired by her father’s education she supported the “Theodor Herzl group” and the “Zionist movement” and helped to train people who wanted to immigrate to Palestine living in a Kibbutz.
    Abstract: In another part of the book Tony Wohlmuth introduces into the genealogy of her family and describes also the feelings for her relatives.
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    From Berlin to Ecuador : (1940-1941) (2000)
    Austin, TX :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 82 pages : , bound typescript; maps
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Hias-Ica Emigration Association. ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; South America. ; Japan. ; Korea. ; Soviet Union. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of a four months long journey (October 1941-January 1941) from Frankfurt via Soviet Union, Korea, Japan to South America. Very detailed description of countryside, people and mores of the places she encountered.
    Abstract: English translation by Miguel Bamberger, juxtaposed with a German transcript and maps
    Note: German and English
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 12 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2000
    Keywords: Tepper, Elsa, ; Tepper, Minna. ; Tepper, Wilhelm, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Salaspils (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Lauenburg (Germany) ; Rīga (Latvia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1946 in Austria, shortly after her liberation. Minna recalls her deportation in February 1942. She was taken to Riga together with her parents and her husband. Her mother was killed upon their arrival. Her father and her husband were taken to Salaspils for forced labor, where the later perished. Minna, who was pregnant with her first child, was forced to undergo an abortion. She describes her experiences of Nazi sadism in the Ghetto of Riga, especially by the Ghetto commanders Krause and Roschmann. In 1943 Minna was taken for peat cutting labor to Olaine. In November 1943 Minna and her father were reunited at the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga. From there both were taken to Spilve - a labor camp at a German air base, which was under worse conditions than the first camp. They worked in the cold without appropriate shoes and in thin clothes. Due to the exhausting conditions Minna's father Wilhelm was getting weaker and eventually was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. Minna was taken to Stutthof, which was overcrowded and in primitive conditions. They were taken to an exterior labor camp, where they had to build trenches for the German defense in the rain and cold. They suffered of constant hunger. In January 1945 the camp was dissolved and all sick and disabled were killed. They were marched under exhausting conditions in the snow and cold. For all missing women ten others were chosen randomly to be killed. After a week Minna was finally too exhausted to continue walking and stayed behind. The guard who was supposed to kill her fired the bullet over her head and left her for dead in the snow. She was rescued and brought to a house, where she was given food and a place to sleep. She was discovered by a German police officer, who was about to shoot her along with other Jewish fugitives. Minna was saved by her Viennese accent, which convinced him that she was a gentile woman.
    Abstract: She was taken to a mobile army hospital and treated for her frozen feet. In March 1945 Minna was liberated in Lauenburg, Prussia, where she was sent by German hospitals as an unidentified Jewish patient.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Nini Ungar's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1536.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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    How we survived : Chronicles of our families. (2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: David, Frank. ; Dreyfuss, Albert, ; Dreyfuss family. ; Dreyfuss, Franziska (née Grünbaum), ; Dreyfuss, Fritz. ; Oppenheimer, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir contains the first chapter of Luise David's autobiography. Recollections of her mother Franziska Gruenbaum, who - after a love affair to an unsuitable partner - was married to the physician Albert Dreyfuss in 1908. The couple had two children, Fritz and Luise. Her husband served in World War One. After years of depression and frequent sojourns in different sanatoria, Franziska Dreyfuss commited suicide in 1919. Luise was sent to her father's family in Landau. The family was reunited again a year later, when Albert Dreyfuss married his second wife Alice Oppenheimer in 1920. Celebration of holidays at the Dreyfuss family in Landau. Weekend outings in the countryside. Recollection of the author's childhood with various nannys and governesses. Early interest in dress making and clothing. Awareness of her different status as the daughter of the town's physician and as a Jewish girl. Encounters with anti-Semitism. Luise was enrolled in the "lyceum" (girl's school), where she became an excellent student. Rising Nazi movement. Her brother Fritz emigrated to Switzerland in 1933.
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    Escape from the Holocaust. (2000)
    Charleston, SC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript, copies.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Antisemitism History 20th century. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir was written for a Holocaust Survivors' Webpage for people who went to Hunter College High School, New York City, NY. Lisa F. Barclay's memoir is short and concise. She talks briefly about her family's background and her childhood in pre-war Vienna. The "Anschluss" of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938 changed everything. The family was forced to emigrate. Her parents were a mixed couple - the father Jewish, the mother a Catholic. They got help from a number of Catholic friends, which gave them a few more options than a Jewish family. They got the US affidavit through an American relative, but had to wait long for the actual visas, since her father was born in Hungary and therefore considered under the quota for Hungarian citizens. After leaving Austria in 1938, they temporarliy lived in Paris, France, and Lisbon, Portugal. The memoir ends with a description of the living conditions after their arrival in New York.
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    Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 38 + 28 pages : , manuscript; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942-1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Fischer, Erwin. ; Treu family. ; Laundry. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Rheda (Harsewinkel, Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Louise Fischer's life story written by her at the Aldersbrook Hospital in England in April of 1942. Also available is an English translation by by Erwin Fischer, 1998.
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    Toni Ehrlich's diaries, (1906-1996)
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    Pages: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes) : , 29 handwritten notebooks +
    Additional Material: + English summaries
    Year of publication: 1906-1996
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Education. ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: The diaries of Toni Ehrlich – 29 handwritten notebooks – document her life on an almost day to day basis, beginning on April 1, 1906 and ending with a single word (“Lo”, meaning “no” in Hebrew) on October 21, 1969. Her thoughts and observations concentrate mostly on matters and issues of art and culture, as well as – to a lesser degree – current events. Private matters, including life changing ones - like her husband’s death -, are mentioned on the side, if at all. The original diaries in old German handwriting are accompanied by detailed summaries in English and a list of names, provided by Irene Miller.
    Description / Table of Contents: Toni Ehrlich's diaries [29 volumes in Boxes ]: continuous from April 1, 1906 to August 27, 1969
    Note: German , English , Finding aid available online.
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    [Memoirs by Marianne Berel]. (1902-1989)
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    Pages: circa 153 + 135 + 152 pages (double space) : , partially bound typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 1902-1989
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Women authors. ; Jewish refugees. ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Breslau. ; France. ; Morocco. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In 'Family fragments" Berel tells her nephew the story of her family and esp. of her sister Vera. In the form of letters, poems and photographs she reconstructs the history of the family in Germany, England and the USA. Contains original immigration documents from France, Morocco and the USA. [2 copies, one bound, one unbound]
    Abstract: 'I remember': Letters to author's mother, mostly written in Gurs internment camp; author's experiences in Gurs internment camp and emigration to New York via Nice (translated from German); Account of Berel's private life after her emigration to the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Family Fragments : compiled, written and edited by your mother's sister [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Letters to My Mother (Part I of 'I Remember') [bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: The time of adjustment : The first ten years (Part II of 'I Remember') [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , German , French , See inventory , Synopsis in file
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    The story that Blanche told / (1974)
    Los Angeles, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 64 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Baer, Sabina. ; Dahlmann, Bertha. ; Gradwohl, Abraham. ; Gradwohl family. ; Roth family. ; Roth, Blanche. ; Roth, Sabina, ; Roth, Simon, ; Wise, Leo. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews, German ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Marriage. ; Women Education. ; Women authors. ; Cincinnati (Ohio) ; Spokane (Wash.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871. ; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history reaching back to Simon Roth, born in 1838 in Duesseldorf, and Sabina Baer, born in 1844 in Frankfurt: Information on their immigration to the United States; on Roth's serving in the Civil War; on Baer's and Roth's marriage 1865 in Cincinnati; on childhood, schooling and youth of their children, including Blanche Roth; on Abraham Gradwohl, born in 1870 in Washington, D.C.; on his marriage to Blanche; on their life in Spokane; and on the life of Bertha Dahlman, born in Cincinnati to German-Jewish parents.
    Abstract: Also included are genealogical tables as well as reproductions of documents and clippings.
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    Looking back from new horizons. (1974)
    East Hartford,
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    Pages: 39 + 34 + 35 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jewish refugees. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edited transcript and an English language translation of a memoir, originally written in German in 1941:
    Abstract: Recollections of the war years in France. Marriage with Rudolf Sachs in 1940 during the time of his internment as enemy alien. Yolla Niclas Sachs was taken to the Gurs internment camp. Escape from the camp to Oloron. Yolla lived in hiding with an elderly woman, whom she helped with the work on the fields. Search for her husband. Reunion with Rudolf Sachs at the "Centre des Isoles" (center for the dispersed soldiers) in Le Journet. Rudolf was transferred to another military camp in St. Antoine-Albi. Difficulties to obtain the exit visa to the United States, which permitted her husband to leave the camp. Yolla eventually succeeded in receiving the visa. They emigrated to the USA on board of the ship "Winnipeg", which left the harbor of Marseilles in May 1941. The ship was stopped in Martinque and all German and Austrian emigrants were taken to British internment camps in Trinidad. After their papers were checked they were permitted to continue their journey to the United States. Yolla Niclas-Sachs and Rudolf Sachs arrived in New York in June 1941.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs taken in war-time France.
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    Das Dreimaederlhaus. (1974)
    [Yarmouth, Mass.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 99 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Grunwald, Clara, ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Montessori method of education. ; Preschool teachers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Story of three woman friends who lived together and worked in a Montessori nursery school in Berlin; their professionsal activities in Germany and immigration to USA; mental illness and death of the author's two friends.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs of Dr. Maria Montessori and her children's home in Rapallo, Italy.
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    I remember my grandfather, (1973)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Vogelstein, Heinemann, ; Vogelstein, Hermann, ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish religious education 19th century. ; Judaism Prayers and devotions. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism 19th century. ; Women authors. ; Lippe (Germany) ; Szczecin (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author Hertha Vogelstein is the grand-daughter of Heinemann Vogelstein. He was born in the rural community of Lage. Heinemann was an excellent student and was sent to the gymnasium (high school) in Detmold. Due to his outstanding talent he was granted a scholarship of the State of Lippe to study theology at the Jewish seminary in Breslau. He became a rabbi in Pilsen (in 1869) and Stettin (in 1880). Heinemann Vogelstein married his student love Rosa Kobrack in 1869. His first born son Hermann, the author's father, followed in his footsteps as a rabbi in Koenigsberg. Heinemann Vogelstein was a leading personality in liberal Judaism and among the founders of the Association of Liberal Rabbis in Germany. He faced fervent opposition by orthodox rabbis for the publication of a German translation of the Hebrew prayer book.
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    The Apartment. (1973)
    [Oceanside, Calif.],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 + 39 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Beer, Otto ; Beer Ritter, Frieda ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Jews Persecution. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Joelle Beer: description of her childhood in Vienna, persecution of Jews under Nazi rule, her family's immigration to the United States, information on her life in California and New York, recollections of her aunt Frieda Beer Ritter, who lived on a farm in Czechoslovakia and died in Theresienstadt.
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    Geschichte der Familien Liepmann und Hamburger / (1972)
    Sao Paolo :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: ix + 202 + 34 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1972
    Keywords: Liepmann, Hugo Paul. ; Liepmann, Louis, ; Bleichröder, Julius. ; Liepmann, family. ; Bleichröder family. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism. ; Marriage. ; Neurologists. ; Physicians. ; Textile industry. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Germany History Kapp Putsch, 1920. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Genealogy; domestic life 19th century; cousin Adda Plaut converted to Catholicism and became a nun; cousin Rudi Liepmann participated in Kapp revolt of 1920 and was involved in the murder of Karl Liebknecht; biography of neurologist Hugo Paul Liepmann; excerpts of his letters; biography of grandfather Julius Bleichroeder; marriage of his daughter Agathe with Hugo Paul Liepmann; mainly excerpts of letters of Hugo Paul and Agathe Liepmann; appendage contains list of Hugo Paul Liepmann's works and obituaries by Kurt Hildebrandt, R.Gaupp and Hermann Goldschmidt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Two memoirs]. (1972)
    Sydney :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 38 + 34 pages : , typescripts (single space).
    Year of publication: 1972
    Keywords: Göring, Hermann, ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Westphalian town of Guetersloh; Jewish communal life; domestic life; description of orthodox Jewish household; family and Jewish community during World War I; 2 brothers died in World War I
    Abstract: Argument with Hermann Goering during a train ride in 1924; move from Guetersloh to nearby Harsewinkel; anti-Jewish persecutions after 1933 in small town of Harsewinkel; November pogrom 1938; emigration to Australia in 1939; new beginnings in Sydney.
    Description / Table of Contents: Die Geschichte einer juedischen Familie in einer kleinen Stadt in Westfalen, 1886-1918.
    Description / Table of Contents: To my Descendants, 1924-1950
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    Rueckblick, Erinnerungen und Gedankensplitter einer alten Mannheimerin. (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution ; 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; France. ; Germany Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Mannheim; education as a musician; Gurs internment camp; liberation and life in France after the war.
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    Aus meinem Leben : [1891-1963]. (1966-1971)
    Vienna :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 201 pages : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1966-1971
    Keywords: Safar, Karl, ; Friedjung, Joseph, ; Girardi, Alexander, ; Jagic, Nikolaus, ; Landauer, Gustav Eugen, ; Landau family ; Meller, Josef, ; Scheuch family. ; Schwarzwald, Eugenie, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Coffeehouses. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Interfaith marriage. ; National socialism. ; Ophthalmologists. ; Pediatricians. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century. ; Vienna (Austria) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written between 1966 and 1971. Genealogical tables and reflections on her mixed heritage as a child of an assimilated Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Description of life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turn-of-the-century. Childhood in Salzburg, Cilli (Slovenia) and Trieste. Move to Vienna in 1907. Vinca was enrolled in the "Schwarzwaldschule", one of the few girl's schools in Vienna who provided higher education for women. Preparation for University. Memories of the celebrations due to the 60th year anniversary of Kaiser Franz- Joseph's accession. Cultural life in Vienna. In 1911 Vinca Landauer started her studies of medicine at the Vienna University. Acquaintance with her colleague and future-husband Karl Safar. Differences between the directors of the two anatomic institutes (Julius Tandler and Professor Hochstetter). Outings in the mountains. Outbreak of World War One. Vinca volunteered as a physician in a hospital. Marriage in 1917. Graduation from university. Difficult start after the end of the war and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Karl Safar specialized on ophthalmology with Professor Meller and Vinca started to work as a pediatrician with the Social Democrat Professor Friedjung in a working-class neighborhood. Confrontation with the misery of the unemployed. Travels to Egypt and Italy. Antisemitism in Austria. Nazi-take over and experiences of discrimination. Karl Safar lost his position at university due to his non-Aryan wife Vinca. The couple managed with some difficulties to stay during the Nazi time in Vienna. Especially their children were exposed to discrimination. Recollections of the time during World War II. Post-war life in Vienna. Appendix: Obituaries of Karl Safar in various medical journals.
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    My darling daughter. (1971)
    Cardiff :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Pregnancy. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Letter written by Eva Clarke's mother to her daughter describing her life following her deportation in 1941.
    Abstract: Eva Clarke's mother lived in Prague. Her husband was sent to Theresienstadt on November 28, 1941; she was sent a few weeks later. In September 1943 she became pregnant. In December, her parents were sent to the East and never returned. In February 1944, her child, a boy called Dan, was born, but he died after two month of pneumonia. In 1944, they received the news that the Allied Forces were moving across France. In July 1944, she became again pregnant. Her husband was sent away on September 28, she followed on October 1. She never saw her husband again, he was shot during the evacuation of Auschwitz on January 18, 1945. After a short stop in Dresden, she was also sent to Auschwitz. Her parents, sisters and Peter ended in the gas chamber. She and her unborn baby only survived because there were not enough workers, so she was used for slave labor. Dr. Mengele selected her with the words “This time a very good quality”. Shortly afterwards, she was again sent away in a freight train, this time to Freiberg/Saxony, where she manufactured V-1s. When it became obvious in January 1945 that she was pregnant, it was too late to send her back to Auschwitz, so she went to Mauthausen and was brought there with dying women to a camp hospital. During this trip she got her baby. The Americans were not far away, so the Germans were more frightened than she was and the gas chamber of Mauthasen had been blown up only one day before. She and her baby, a girl who first was mistakenly described as a boy, survived the Shoah. She left Czechoslovakia together with her new husband in 1948 and settled in Great Britain.
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    My first 12 years / (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Remseck am Neckar (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1971 in New York. The author describes her childhood in the tiny village Hochberg on the river Neckar at the end of the 19th century. Recollection of the rural environment and its simple living conditions. Description of the inhabitants of the village, including a night watchman who called out the time in the streets. Alice grew up speaking German and French at home. Her mother was a well-educated woman who had lived in Paris for some time. Her father was a business man. The Jewish community in Hochberg was small, but it had its own synagogue. Memories of family Seder celebrations at her grandparents' home. Recollection of her time at the Alexandrina Kindergarten, where Alice was the only Jewish child. Christmas celebrations at nursery school. Birth of her sister. In 1899 Alice Ottenheimer was enrolled in the local primary school. Private Hebrew lessons with the cantor of the nearby city. Summer vacations at her mother's birthplace in Ichenhausen. In 1905 the family moved from the countryside to Ludwigsburg.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    La vie de Mme Ducaret. (1970)
    Köln :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir describes the life of Hildegard Gumppenberg, aka Maguerite Ducaret, in France from 1942 until 1945. She had many friends who helped her to get out of Germany. In France she lived dangerously with a fake French identity. She describes her work for the Germans and the Renault company, her life in hiding and the help she gave and got. The memoir also describes her many arrests, first by the Germans, then by the French. The memoir ends with the happy reunion with her family against great odds in Germany.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Aus deutsch-juedischen Kindheitserinnerungen. (1970)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Burg, Meno, ; Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, ; Devrient, Therese, ; Lewald, Fanny, ; Lazarus, Moritz, ; Rodenberg, Julius, ; Bernstein, Julius, ; Bernstein, Eduard, ; Oppenheimer, Franz, ; Mayer, Gustav, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Salomon, Alice, ; Bonn, Moritz J. ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Rosenstein, Paul, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sinsheimer, Hermann, ; Toller, Ernst, ; Kurz, Isolde, ; Nazimova, ; Autobiographies. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Biography. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is a collection of excerpts of published memoirs on Jewish childhood in Germany during the 19th century, focusing on the experience of "being different" in a Gentile environment. The collection contains fragments of the biographies of 20 famous German- Jewish men and women, who excelled as authors, economists, historians, painters, philosophers, physicians, politicians, psychologists, surgeons, teachers, and writers.
    Abstract: Also included is an exchange of letters concerning the possibility of the manuscript's publication (1959-1973).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 21 and MM 96 , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Geschichte der Befreiung aus Theresienstadt] : [February - March 1945]. (1970)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 19 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Spitzer, Federica, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of transport from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Switzerland in February 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Memoirs] : [1900-1970]. (1970)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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