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  • 1985-1989  (5)
  • [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],  (5)
  • Jewish families.  (5)
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    My First 6701 Days : July 31 1921 to December 1939 (1989)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 76 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Schaffir, Charlotte Lola, ; Schaffir, Leo, ; Schaffir, Walter B., ; Heijplaat (Refugee camp) ; Education. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees Personal narratives. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Baden (Austria) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain photocopies of documents and photos as well as extracts from letters and were written in October 1989 in the United States. Description of life in Baden, a famous health resort near Vienna. The family lived in Vienna in the second district (Leopoldstadt). Recollections of schoolteachers and childhood friends. Occasional Friday night services in the Leopoldstadt temple. Theater and opera visits and cultural life in Vienna. Private piano and music lessons. Description of the family apartment and Jewish life in the Leopoldstadt. The family celebrated Christmas and observed the high Jewish holidays. Recollections of the author's bar mitzvah celebration. His mother Charlotte, nee Schwadron, was an artistic woman, who studied painting at the Frauenakademie with Tina Blau. Walter's father Leo Schaffir was born in Byalistock, Russia and studied in Berlin. He was a travelling businessmen. His family lived in Lemberg, Galicia. Leo and Charlotte Schaffir got married in 1919 in Vienna by rabbi Dr. Grunwald. Recollections of a family trip to Poland and to the World Fair in Posen in 1930. Suicide of the author's father due to business failure in 1930. Schaffir and Schwadron family history. Both families originated in Galicia, Poland. Family and social life. Summer vacation at the Semmering. Austrian politics in the 1930's and rising National Socialism. Life in Vienna after the "Anschluss" in 1938. Walter had to leave school and took lessons in graphic arts with the artist Heinrich Koerner. Preparations to emigrate. Walter was picked up in the streets in the days after Kristallnacht and released due to his mother's intervention. He was sent with his brother Kurt on a "Kindertransport" to Holland. They were sent to a quarantine camp at Heyplaat. Reunition with their mother in the United States in December 1939. Reflections on life as an emigre.
    Abstract: The following families are mentioned here:
    Abstract: Brassloff ; Goldstein ; Heublum ; Hoffman ; Koditschek ; Schaffir ; Schwadron ; Thorn ; Wertheim.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    German Jewish roots. (1989)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Cities and towns ; Jewish families. ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Bavaria (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Communities
    Abstract: Impressions of Richard Landman as a first generation American of contemporary Germany, finding all of it "Juden frei".
    Abstract: The following towns are mentioned: Nuremberg, Friedberg, Uffenheim, Ermetzhofen, Hellstein, Augsburg, Garmisch.
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Unbidden Guest : [A memoir of an Odyssey to Ellis Island]. (1988)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 503 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Friedland, Bertha. ; Friedland, Hermann. ; Friedland, Rolf Erich Hermann. ; Fry, Varian, ; Kaplun, Sol. ; Ullmann family. ; Warburg, Max. ; Warburg, Paul. ; Anti-fascist movements 1918-1933. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees ; Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immgiration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Pierre Ferrand, written in 1988, published in an abridged and changed version as "A Question of Allegiance." Including information on his grandparents, some of which emigrated in the 1840s from Gailingen to the United States while others came from Eastern Europe to Germany; on the history of Hamburg Jewry; on politics in Weimar Germany; on Ferrand's father, his business in radio advertising and his anti-fascist politics; on political repression and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany; and on American immigration laws. - Recollections of his childhood; of the family's emigration in 1933; of his schooling in France; of the emigrant milieu in Paris; of the Ferrand family's journey from Paris to Southern France, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal to the United States in 1940; of their extended stay at Ellis Island and Ferrand's friendship with Sol Kaplun from Poland; and on the family's adjustment to life in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM2 reel 12 (parts I-II) and MM2 reel 13 (part III). , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Sophie Dann. (1986)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
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    Keywords: Dann, Gertrud, ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish communities. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; Nurses. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Social workers. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Youth movements. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Sophie Dann, including description of her childhood in Augsburg; of her secular and Jewish education; of her experiences during World War I; of her involvment in and exclusion from the youth group "Wandervogel"; of her training as a teacher and a nurse; of her employment as a nurse in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Fuerth; of her work for the Augsburg Jewish community after 1933; of life in Nazi Germany and her parents leaving for Palestine; of her emigration to England with her sister; of her work as a domestic and a nurse there; of her life in post-war England and restitution payments from Germany; and of her work in Freud's library, information on her parents moving to England, and their life there.
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    Our lives. (1985)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Bamberger family. ; Metzger family. ; Brown, Eva Metzger. ; Metzger, Ernest. ; Amputation. ; Associations, institutions, etc. ; Brewing industry. ; Conservative Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; France. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history, circa 1905-1985: courtship and marriage; birth of daughter; Kristallnacht; emigration to France; injury in bombing of Angers at start of World War II; injury of daughter; amputation of leg; immigration to USA; life in New York; marriage of daughter; birth of grandchildren; activity in Hadassah.
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