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  • 1
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    [Memoirs], (1990-1993)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 12 + 82 + 27 + 23 + 24 + 15 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: correspondence
    Year of publication: 1990-1993
    Keywords: Vishniac, Roman, ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Jews Education 1871-1918. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections from the 1930s in Germany; account of experience of Kristallnacht; childhood memories of Berlin-Luisenstadt; memories of Berlin; engaged in 1922; children sent to England after 1933; emigration to Guatamala via France and England; return to Berlin in 1967; recollections of photographer Roman Wishniak.
    Description / Table of Contents: Das Jahr 1934
    Description / Table of Contents: Berlin : vorher - während - nachher
    Description / Table of Contents: "Gestern kam ein Brief ..."
    Description / Table of Contents: Über das Deutschtum
    Description / Table of Contents: "In meinem vorigen Bericht ..."
    Description / Table of Contents: Roman
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    The autobiography of a Jewish refugee. (1990)
    Kent,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 169 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Hirschfeld family. ; Jacoby family. ; Liebenau family. ; Simke family. ; Moses family. ; Great Britain. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Family tree
    Description / Table of Contents: Autobiography
    Description / Table of Contents: Updated family tree
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    My life - a series of notes and observations on a sequence of improbabilities. (1990)
    Winnetka, IL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 32 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Fraenkel, Max (Sali), ; Fraenkel family. ; International Student Service. ; Bankers. ; Citizenship ; Education, Secondary 1918-1933. ; Engineers. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author describes his family history from the late 19th century; his father (Sali) Max Fraenkel was born as the youngest of four children in 1878 in Zuelz, Silesia; 1906 he moved to Berlin and became a manager in one of Berlin's larger banks (Diskonto Gesellschaft); due to the prejudiced environment Max Fraenkel could only get to a certain rank as a Jewish employee; 1916 marriage of the parents in Breslau; Stephen Fraenkel's mother was born 1888 in Kattowitz, Silesia; she was a piano teacher and very musical; the family lived in Berlin, Charlottenburg in a solid bourgeois neighborhood; summer vacation with family in Breslau and at the Baltic Sea Coast; recollections of the German inflation in the early 20s; trips to the outskirts of Berlin; liberal environment; elitist high school education (gymnasium); cultural life; depression years and unemployment; 1932 his mother died of cancer; political instability; Nazism gaining more political ground; school exchange trip to France; 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor; beginning of persecutions; 1935 his father lost his job at the bank; "Nuremberg Laws" and loss of civic rights; student exchange trip to London in 1935; Olympic games in Berlin in 1936; graduation from gymnasium; limited work or education possibilities; endangered life due to frequent personal assaults; engineering school in Hannover; in 1937 he got approved for a scholarship through the "International Student Service" which ultimately saved his life; preparations and departure; arrival in New York and Lincoln, Nebraska in January 1938.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    A Berlin Childhood ca. 1900. (1990)
    Yellow Springs, Ohio :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 112 + 3 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Benjamin, Walter, ; Benjamin, Walter, Childhood and youth. ; Authors, German Biography 20th century ; 20th century. ; Children. ; Authors, German Biography. 20th century ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: English translation of "Berliner Kindheit um 1900" by Shierry Weber Nicholsen, following Benjamin's final version from 1938, published in Bibliothek Suhrkamp, Frankfurt 1989.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in File.
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