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  • 1
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    Erlebnisse in Theresienstadt, (1946-2005)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 57 + 10 , typscript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2005
    Keywords: Epstein, P. ; Joseph, Fritz. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in German one and a half years after liberation. It has the form of a witness report, written in a clear and objective tone, but nevertheless harrowing. The content: Their is no word on their life in Amsterdam before the deportation. The memoir starts with their arrest in Amsterdam, Westerbork - the place they were deported to at first - is mentioned, but not described. Bergen-Belsen gets more attention, Fritz Joseph describes daily work routine, and living conditions in the camp. Theresienstadt comes next, and the author points out the good features as opposed to his later experiences in Auschwitz. He describes the efforts to make Theresienstadt look prettier, before the International Red Cross delegation arrived. Soon thereafter, the infamous movie documentary about Thersienstadt was shot. Firtz Joseph describes many details of the false set-up. Then he was separated from his wife and deported to Auschwitz. He describes the selection process, and many other components of the horror. He was then transferred to Buchenwald, and had to work as a forced laborer at the HASAG works (former Hugo Schneider AG) at Meuselwitz near Leipzig. In 1945, the camp was evacuated and Fritz Joseph could flee. The war ended and he got treatment for his infected leg. After a few days he could return to Amsterdam where he met his wife - she had survived as well. A 10 page long It can be found in the file as well.
    Abstract: Also included is an English language summary of the memoir by John and Eva Englander (2005).
    Note: German (original) and English (summary)
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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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    Tolle Jahre : Lebenserinnerungen (Teile III, VI). (1971-1981)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 83 + 55 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971-1981
    Keywords: Sternberger family. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1870-1918. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism ; Textile industry. ; Tobacco industry. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Israel. ; Munich (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Merchants
    Abstract: Childhood in Munich; soldier in World War I; orthodox Jewish milieu in Munich; mostly anecdotal account of his life in Munich and Israel.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 3: 'Was habe ich verkehrt gemacht?'
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 6: 'Geschichterln, nicht Geschichten'
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Ein verlorenes Jahrzehnt. Shanghai 1939-1949 : Tagebuchblaetter eines Heimatvertriebenen (1979)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 244 , typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; College teachers. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Translators. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1951. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of November Pogrom 1938 in Vienna, imprisonment in Dachau, emigration to Shanghai via Italy. Inserts his reminiscences of World War I when he was a prisoner of war in Siberia (and returned to Shanghai). Jewish life in Shanghai during World War II. Foundation of the New Gregg School of Business in Hongkew (1941), later Gregg School; ghettoization by Japanese, and of the war and question of repatriation; failures of attempts of direct emigration to the USA; return to a DP camp in Austria and then immigration to the USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Memoir of Service in US Army During World War II]. (1979)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages. (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Göring, Hermann, ; Ribbentrop, Joachim von, ; United States. ; Soldiers. ; War criminals ; World War, 1939-1945. ; National socialism. ; France. ; Italy. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report mainly on interrogations of German Nazi officers and politicians, including Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop.
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    Reiss (Reese) roots / (1979)
    [Calgary, Alberta] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 116 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Berger family. ; Fischer family. ; Gold family. ; Jackson family. ; Kohn family. ; Liftschitz family. ; Reiss, David. ; Reiss, Joseph. ; Reiss, Moritz. ; Reiss family. ; United States. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Hops industry. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish way of life ; Jews Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Žatec (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author's aim is to provide a chronicle of the Reiss family and other related families, many of them killed in the Holocaust. There is a large family photograph on the cover page. The memoir starts with a short history of Jewish life in Bohemia where John Reese's family comes from, then moves on to detailed descriptions of the lives of family members, sometimes enriched by personal anecdotes. In the second half John Reese turns to his close family, his family hop business, childhood memories from Bohemia, and his education. In 1938 his family escaped to North America, he started a new life and took part in World War II. The memoir follows roughly a chronological order.
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    Vignettes of my Life : [1899-1979] (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages (double space) : , 98 pages (double space) : , bound typescript. , Typewritten manuscript (bound)
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freud, Martin. ; Flöge, Emilie Louise, ; Freud, Ernestine Drucker. ; Freud, Anna, ; Freud, Sigmund, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Divorce. ; National socialism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Actors. ; Lawyers. ; Speech therapists. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Casablanca (Morocco) ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1979 in the United States. Esti Freud was the first born daughter of a Viennese Jewish lawyer. Her mother was a passionate singer whose career was prevented by her early marriage. Childhood memories and recollection of summer vacations. Confusion of religious identity due to her pious Catholic nanny. Private tutoring and attending "Schwarzwaldschule", a highly esteemed girl's school. Her plans to study at university were inhibited by her mother, who feared her to become hunchbacked. Instead she was offered speech lessons to become an actress. Outings to the mountains with her father. Confrontation with stereotypical perceptions of a young woman's reputation. Outbreak of World War One. Volunteering as a nurse. Recollections of the flow of refugees in Vienna and the scarceness of food. Various public poetry recitation in Vienna and Prague. Courtship and marriage to Martin Freud. Recollections of the Freud family and the "Herr Professor" Freud himself. Difficulties to start a household in postwar Austria. Martin, who had studied law, obtained a position as a clerk in a bank. Difficulties of married life. Birth of her children Walter (1921) and Sophie (1924). Starting a career in speech therapy. Training at the clinic for speech and voice disorders of Dr. Froeschel. Memories of the worker's uprise in 1927. Position as a lecturer in speech therapy at the Vienna University in 1932. Political instability due to the rise of fascism in Europe. "Anschluss" in 1938 and the sudden reality of Nazi terror. Preparation to emigrate. Estrangement and separation from her husband. The Freud family left for England, whereas Esti and her daughter emigrated to France. New life in Paris. German occupation of France. Esti and her daughter Sophie escaped to Casablanca. Emigration to the United States and starting a new career in New York.
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    Fluechtling in Shanghai : 1940-45. (1977)
    [Miami Beach, Florida] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 443 + 8 pages : , typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Palick, Richard. ; Tonn, Willy. ; Jewish artists Biography. ; Jewish refugees ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1940. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences of a German Jewish refugee in Shanghai during World War II.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs and clippings.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Memoirs : To my children, grandchildren, etc. …. (1977)
    Portland, Ore :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 169 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Families. ; Fascism ; Nazis ; Opticians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Naples (Italy) ; Tyrol (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 1916-1980. Family background; childhood and private school in Naples; apprenticeship as optician in Tyrol; Italian Fascism; influence of Nazi Germany in Northern Italy; move to Milano and return to Naples; marriage and immigration to USA; military service in American army during World War II; post-war life in USA.
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    Opus One. (1976)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 83 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Rosenthal, Bernhard. ; Stöcker, Adolf, ; Strauss, Jacob. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1931. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Nora Rosenthal, written 1973-1976 in London, including some genealogical information and recollections of her childhood: domestic life; her musical education; her married life; persecutions in Nazi Germany; her emigration to England after her husband's suicide; and her experiences in England during the war.
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    In God's hands : An autobiography (1975)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 + 43 , 2 bound typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Bock family. ; Bock, Hilda. ; Freudenberg family. ; Freudenberg, Trude. ; Patek, Irma. ; Patek, Leopold. ; Patek family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1930-1939. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. ; Socialism. ; Teachers. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Beijing (China) ; China Emigration and immigration. ; Japan Emigration and immigration. ; Palo Alto (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1950s. ; Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life. ; Wiener Neustadt (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1975 in the United States. Description of the author’s family background. His father Jacob Bock was a schoolteacher, who later in life became principal of a School of Business in Wiener Neustadt. His parents converted to Catholicism shortly after they got married. Childhood memories and recollections of summer vacations in Attersee, near Salzburg. Recollection of his extended family. Scarce contact with his paternal grandmother, who did not approve of her son’s conversion. Rudolf grew up in a family, where religion was hardly mentioned. His father was an outspoken Socialist. First awareness of his Jewish background at age 16. Rising antisemitism in Austria, which also influenced the atmosphere at his school. Student exchange to France in 1931. After graduation he started medical school at the Vienna University in 1933. Description of cultural life in Vienna. The author describes the atmosphere among his family and friends, who, like him, underestimated the dangers of Nazism. Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life under National socialism and help from Aryan friends to continue his studies. Recollections of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. Rudolf was not permitted to take his final medical exams and started preparations for his emigration. In 1939 he joined his brother Kurt in Zagreb, where they found support in the local Jewish community. Plan to emigrate to Japan, where their uncle worked as an engineer. Journey to China and Japan. Admission to Peking Union Medical College (PUMUC) founded by the Rockerfeller Foundation, where Rudolf was able to finish his medical training. Description of life in Peking. He graduated in 1941 and specialized in ophthalmology. In the meantime his mother and grandparents arrived in Japan and lived with his brother Kurt. His sister went to England with a children’s transport. His father, who was unfit for travel at that time, died in Vienna in 1941.
    Abstract: Pearl Harbor and closing of the hospital. Rudolf was interrogated because he was believed to be a spy due to his correspondence with his family in Japan. In 1942 his mother joined him in Peking. Primitive living conditions. Growing friendship with his future wife Trude. They got married in September of 1944. Work in the Methodist Eye Hospital. Recollections of the end of the war. In September 1946 their daughter Marianne was born. Preparations to leave China. They left Peking for Shanghai in December of 1946. Arrival in Marseille on March 4th, 1947. Move to Geneva, Switzerland, where Trude’s parents were living. Delays in their immigration to the United States. Plans to settle in Europe. Trip to Austria, where he met with former friends and witnessed the post-war destruction. Position at the Eye clinic in Geneva and completion of his medical degree at the University of Vienna. They were almost ready to settle in Austria when finally his immigration papers for the U.S came through in the fall of 1950. They left for the United States soon after and arrived in New York in March of 1951. Trude and their daughters went to Berkeley to stay with Rudolf’s brother Kurt, while the author prepared for the Medical State Board exam in New York. He got a research position at Stanford. In July of 1951 their son Michael was born. The family settled in Paolo Alto, where Rudolf Bock started his own practice.
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    Ubi Bene Ibi Patria : or: Peregrinations. (1975)
    Christiansted, St. Croix :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 63 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: United States. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Palestine. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brager's experiences in school during the 1920s, his emigration to the U.S. through Switzerland, Cyprus and Palestine, immigrant life in New York, his return to Hamburg and other German cities after World War II.
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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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    Reminiscences. (1974)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 8 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Refuge in Uruguayan embassy in The Hague; immigration to USA in 1940.
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    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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    Family in war - a personal chronicle : [1938-1943]. (1973)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 106 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Weisz, Samuel, ; Weisz, Stephanie. ; Weisz, Ruth, ; Weisz, Paul B., ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Šabac (Serbia) ; Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The book contains an introduction by Paul Weisz and a collection of family letters written during World War II. The letters were written between February 1938 and September 1945. Some were translated into English and complemented by commentary by the editor, Paul Weisz. Paul Weisz' introduction is 10 pages long and serves as a short memoir by itself. He provides a family chronicle, the living circumstances of his family, and his childhood in Vienna. He ends in 1938 when the family was eager to leave Austria. The following years are covered by the various letters he brought together in this book. The authors are cousin Willie, then already in Palestine, his father Samuel, his mother Stephanie, and his sister Ruth. His father and mother fled to Belgium, but were arrested after the beginning of World War II. They were deported to internment camps in France (St. Cyprien). His sister Ruth tried to escape from Austria to Palestine via the Danube. She got stuck in Yugoslavia, and was interned in Sabac internment camp. Paul's mother died in France in 1942, his father was sent to a concentration camp in Poland and murdered. His sister Ruth was murdered in Yugoslavia. Paul was released in Canada, and was enabled to go to college. He later named his children after his family members who did not survive the Nazi terror: Stephanie, Ruth, and Samuel.
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    The Family History of Nicholas Paul Alexander / (1973)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 34 + 25 , typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Skaller, Ulrich. ; Goldstein family. ; Perl family. ; Kohl family. ; Lebenheim family. ; Alexander family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews 1933-1945. ; Jews, East European. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood of Ulrich Skaller in Galicia; World War II in Russia; history of Alexander, Goldstein, Perl, Skaller, Brandt, Ament, Kohl, Kalahora and Lebenheim families in Galicia and Russia; contains family trees; translations of scholarly articles on Polish Jewry.
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    Nizza 1942 : Ein Monat Lageraufenthalt (in der Kaserne Auvare) (1973)
    Paris :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 12 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Imprisonment. ; Jewish physicians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Nice (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal reminiscences of the author about his imprisonment by French authorities in Nice in 1942.
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    The Philippe Halsmann Affair : [1918-1973]. (1973)
    [Melrose, Massachusetts],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 66 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Halsman, Philippe. ; Dreyfus, Alfred, ; Ross, Martin H., ; Ruzicka, Ernst, ; Halsmann, Morduch Max, ; Ruzicka family. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Anschluss movement, 1918-1938. ; Antisemitism 1918-1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; Tyrol (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in the 1970s in the United States. Description of family background. His father Dr. Ernst Ruzicka came from an assimilated Jewish family in Vienna, whereas his mother was born to an orthodox Jewish family in Galicia, Eastern Europe. The marriage only lasted a few years. Martin was raised by a Catholic governess, who contributed to his confusion in religious matters. He was enrolled in a local Gymnasium, and later on continued his studies at the Vienna University.The main part of the memoir concentrates on a detailed reflection and description of the “Halsman-trial” in 1928, where a young Jewish man from Latvia was charged with the murder of his father during an alpine tour in Tyrol. This trial contributed to an open outburst of anti-Semitism in Austria and even received international attention, comparable to the Dreyfus scandal in France a few decades earlier. The author reflects on the different stages of the trial and the increasing anti-Semitism during that process. He also describes the effect on his assimilated paternal family, who expressed their identification with the young Phillippe Halsmann as well as their worries about the injustice done. The father of the author published various articles in the “Neue Freie Presse” about the case and was involved in the trial regarding a crucial witness of the defence. He eventually wrote a book about the Halsman case, which was published in 1930.
    Abstract: On the day of the Anschluss in March of 1938, the author left Austria together with his brother and eventually emigrated to the United States. His father originally disapproved of their decision, assuming nobody would dare to lay a finger on the family of a World War One veteran. He later on was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, where he perished in 1941.
    Abstract: The memoirs end with a reflection on the parallels between the lives of Halsman's and his own family during a trip to Austria in 1973. It includes a petition to the Austrian president Franz Jonas to reverse the verdict in the Halsman case in order to remove a stigma not only from Halsman, but also from Austria.
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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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    Lothar Bickel : (8. Mai 1902 - 23. April 1951). (1970)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 111 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Bickel, Lothar, ; Bickel, Shlomo, ; Brunner, Constantin, ; Kettner, Frederick, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish physicians. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Philosophers. ; Philosophy. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author describes his friendship with Lothar "Elieser" Bickel in the Zionist youth group "Hashomer Hazair", where he met him in 1919 in Czernowitz, Bukowina. Discussion of Jewish-national and social problems and studies of Hebrew. Elieser's growing interest in philosophical and socialist themes. His brother Schlomoh Bickel was a leader of the worker's movement Poale Zion. Influence of the ethic seminary by Dr. Kettner and criticism on Zionist ideals. Elieser Bickel became acquainted with the philosopher Constantin Brunner and grew to become one of his most talented students. In 1922 Elieser enrolled at the Medical School in Bucharest, where he experienced virulent anti-Semitism at the university. Disintegration of Dr. Kettner's seminary in Czernowitz. Circle around Elieser Bickel who promoted the growing importance of Brunner's philosophy. In 1926 Elieser graduated. After completing his military service he decided to move to Berlin in 1927. Czernowitz philosophy circle in Berlin and friendship with Constantin Brunner. Lectures and studies of philosophy. Work as a physician in Berlin and Prenzlau. In 1931 journey to Spain. After Hitler's takeover in 1933 he moved back to Bucharest, where Lothar Bickel became one of the most renowned gynecologists. He continued his philosophic interests and specialized in the ethic of Spinoza and Kant. Death of Constantin Brunner in 1937. Acquaintance with Maedi Moscovici. They married in 1939 in Czernowitz. Military service and growing danger of approaching Germans. Precarious situation of the Jewish population. Armistice and continuation of his philosophic work. In 1950 Lothar Bickel emigrated to Canada. He died in Toronto in 1951.
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    Mein Weg von Bruessel nach Havanna : 10. Mai 1940 - 8. Januar 1942 (1970)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 20 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Concentration camps. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Cuba Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: World War II in Belgium; internment camp of St. Cyprien (France); emigration to Cuba.
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    Autobiography of Erich Jacobs : and this is my life story (1970)
    Trenton, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 3 folders : , typescript : including index, illustrations +
    Additional Material: + CD-ROM
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Rabbis ; Jews, German. ; Cantors ; Rabbis ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Recklinghausen (Münster, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Cuba. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: Folders 1 & 2 are on MM IV 11; Folder 3 is on MM IV 12
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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.
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    The cultural baggage of the Jewish immigrant from Vienna : [1848-1938]. (1970)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 102 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Fischer, Albert, ; Fischer, Isidor. ; Fischer, Salomon. ; Fischer family. ; Polaczek family. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Jung-Wien (Literary movement) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; National socialism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Orphanages. ; College teachers. ; Historians. ; Teachers. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Vienna circle. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Austria. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Moravia (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) History 18th century. ; Vienna (Austria) History 19th century. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The manuscript was written in the United States. History of Vienna, the metropolis of the Habsburg Empire, reaching back to the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. Detailed reflections on its culture and politics, on the Empire’s national problems and the history of Jews in Austro-Hungary. Description of the Austrian school system and social reforms. Description of the Vienna University and its leading intellectual figures. History of the Fischer family, going back to the 18th century in Bohemia. The author’s grandfather was one of the first Jewish students admitted to practice for the teaching profession in a public school, which were closed to Jews up to the time after the revolution of 1848. Albert Fischer became a renowned educator and director of the Israelitische Kinderbewahranstalt, which he transformed into a Kindergarten according to the ideas of Pestalozzi and Froebel. The author’s father was a law student, who was forced to leave the German national student association due to anti-Semitism. He became a teacher and stenographer at the Austrian parliament.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Adler, Alfred, 1870-1937; Adler, Victor, 1852-1918; Federn, Paul; Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939; Friedjung, Heinrich, 1851-1920; Friedjung, Paula; Grunewald, Moritz; Hartmann, Ludo, 1865-1924; Jerusalem, Wilhelm, 1854-1923; Kaminka, Aharon; Kaminka, Irene; Kelsen, Hans, 1881-1973; Kompert, Leopold, 1822-1886; Kraus, Karl, 1874-1936; Krenberger, Salomon; Kuranda, Peter; Menger, Karl, 1902-1985; Penck, Albrecht; Poech, Rudolf; Urbach, Franz.
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