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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.
    Note: English
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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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    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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    [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.
    Note: English
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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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    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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    [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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    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.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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
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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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    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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    Once upon four decades. (1979)
    Ventura, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 76 pages : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Concentration camps. ; Jewish singers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: First part contains the fate of the author's family in Nazi Germany. In the second part the author decribes her experineces as a medical assistant with Holocaust survivors in the USA.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of photographs, documents from the Nazi period, and a map.
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    Autobiography / (1979)
    Zahala (Israel) :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , typescript (bound photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Nobel, Nehemias Anton, ; Sinzheimer, Hugo, ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jewish families. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Public welfare. ; Rabbis. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in orthodox Jewish family in Frankfurt; primary education at Jewish school "Philantropin"; no integration of Jewish students in high school; orthodox synagogue and rabbi Nehemia Anton Nobel; economic crisis and death of father; School of Social Welfare; work at the "Kinderschutz" as a social worker; emigration to Palestine.
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    Memoirs [of Lou Graumann]. (1979)
    [Topeka, Kansas] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , print; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freudenberg, Ernest. ; Graumann, Heinz. ; Suskind, Walter, ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Childbirth. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germany Social life and customs 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Fifteen Years : Lived among, with and for refugee children, (1979)
    Palo Alto :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 74 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Essinger, Anna. ; Bunce Court School. ; Schulheim Vigiljoch. ; Women authors. ; Teachers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugee children Education. ; Schools. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Hanna Bergas, written in 1979, including description of life at the school for refugee children in Bunce Court (England) and information on a similar school in Vigiljoch (Italy).
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    Autobiography by Klara Caro : written as occupational therapy at a nursing home June - September 1979. (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Caro, Klara, ; Caro, Isidor. ; Luckner, Gertrud. ; Loewe, Heinrich, ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Rabbis. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Cologne (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Zionist circles in Berlin and Cologne, Juedischer Frauenbund, years in Theresienstadt, transport to Switzerland in 1945, problems of adjusting in the US, visits in Cologne. (ME 85)
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    Life in a changing world : [1910-1975]. (1978)
    New York,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 136 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Actors. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Families. ; Pianists. ; Theater 1918-1933. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Magdeburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1978 in New York. Recollections of the author's childhood in Cologne. Hilda Albersheim was the youngest and overly protected daughter of four. Her father was a physician, who had his practice in the spacious house of the family near the center of Cologne. Description of the large household of the well-to-do family, including a governess, a chauffeur, a cook and two maids, as well as the weekly laundry woman and two seamstresses, who sew dresses for mother and Hilda. Memories of Easter celebrations. Salon of her aunt Emma, who had famous guests such as the conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler and the pianist Edwin Fischer. The family valued cultural activities highly, and the children were introduced to operas at an early age. Each of the children had piano lessons. Hilda was sent to a private school. She grew up never exposed to politics and did not know of her Jewish origin until the second year of school. Summer vacations in the mountains and at her cousins in Den Hague. Recollections of World War One and its aftermath. Hilda was enrolled in the newly established Girl's Gymnasium in Cologne. After graduation, during the peak of inflation times, she was assigned for a homemaking school in Rothenburg, where she was confronted with antisemitism for the first time. Skiing trips in the mountains. Hilda had a passion for theatre from an early age on. Her father especially opposed the idea, as he feared the vicissitudes of the profession. Fencing lessons at the club of university students. Private instructions from an assistant of Max Reinhardt. Engagement at the Salzburg Reinhardt Festival in "Jedermann" ["Everyman"], where she was among famous actors such as Alexander Moissi. Apprenticeship at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Encounter with the famous Russian-Jewish theatre troupe "Habima" during an engagement in Constance. Solidarity and intrigues among actors.
    Abstract: Rise of national socialism. Dismissal of the Jewish theater director and growing awareness of the political threat in Germany. Rejection of further engagements. Affidavit from her brother in New York, who had recognized the danger of National Socialism in time. Emigration to the United States in 1933, where Hilda Albers-Frank worked as a piano teacher and music therapist after a brief career in acting.
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    Susie's story. (1978)
    [Catskills, New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Weinberg, Susie. ; Children. ; Foster parents. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A mother's story how her daughter was hidden and saved in the Netherlands during World War II and reunited with her parents; life of daughter after immigration to the USA after 1945.
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    Geschichte und Erlebnisse der Familie Heinrich Bamberger, Frankfurt, waehrend der Hitler-Zeit in Deutschland. (1978)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 91 + 50 + 66 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: 2 typescripts
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Bamberger, Heinrich, ; Bamberger family. ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Jews Personal narratives, German. 1933-1945 ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Germany Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written shortly after World War II in the United States and were translated by the author's son Frank Bamberger in 1978. The history of the family is traced back to the 19th century. The memoir continues with a discussion of the fate of the extended family during the Holocaust. Elisabeth Bamberger reflects on German Jewry and their blindness towards the dangers of the rising Nazi movement. Some pre-1933 Nazi political actions are described. Elisabeth's husband Heinrich was a member of the Centralverein and became active in attracting foreign countries to the sad happenings in Germany. The memoir recounts daily life under the Nazi regime and numerous "spontaneous actions" by the police and the SS, including the anti-Jewish boycotts. Other features of life under Nazism which Elisabeth describes in her memoir include Nazis among former acquaintances and employees, experiences of denunciations, and the fear of house searches. The memoir also describes some Jewish responses to the persecution, such as the performances of the Juedische Kulturbund. Heinrich’s health worsened and he died in the 1930’s. The Bambergers' children were sent to boarding school abroad. Their son, Willi, eventually emigrated to Ecuador, while their daughter Friedel went to Rome and from there to England. Another son, Franz, immigrated to the United States in 1938. The recollections continue with the Kristallnacht of 1938, the beginning of the war, and the growing threats and rumors revolving around the idea of deportation. Plans to leave on a ship from Genoa to South America in 1940 were canceled due to Italy's entrance in the war. Elisabeth Bamberger finally managed to emigrate via Russia and Japan to Ecuador. These experiences are recorded in a separate memoir (ME 28).
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Original handwritten memoir
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: German transcript, preface by Fred S. Bamberger
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: English translation, preface by Frank J. Bamberger
    Note: Original available on microfilm MM 4; transcript available on microfilm MM 5. , English translation in folder 3 , German , Synopsis in file
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    Sogar die Lorbeerblaetter : [1939-1941]. (1976)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 31 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Women authors. ; Jews, French. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Alsace (France) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Persecution of a highly assimilated Jewish family in occupied Alsace; describes wearing of "Judenstern" and forced adoption of the name "Sara".
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    A Seder night to remember. (1976)
    Palisades,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Passover Customs and practices. ; Seder. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Seder night in Theresienstadt, 1943.
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    [Autobiographical sketch]. (1976)
    [Sydney] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; Jewish physicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Sydney (N.S.W.) ; Switzerland. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Translation of an article by Dr. Edith Kramer, containing her recollection of her youth in Koenigsberg; her life in Berlin in the 1920s and 30s; the Holocaust in concentration camps; her escape to Switzerland; and her emigration to Australia in 1948.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Dear Family : Memoirs (1976)
    Flushing :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: approximately 585 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Schönbach family. ; Magnus family. ; Children. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Munster, France (Haut-Rhin) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ten volumes of Lotte Fairbrook's memoirs, covering 1792-1938:
    Abstract: Childhood and background; adolescence and young womanhood; married life in Germany; five years in four countries.; the first years in the United States of America.
    Abstract: Addenda: Update of the first volume, Childhood and background.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 1-11
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 12-17
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 1-5
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 6-14
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 1-10
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 11-15
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 16-23
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 1-7
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 8-18
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 10: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 19-24
    Note: Available on microfilm and on CDROM , MM2 reel 21: parts 1-2 , MM2 reel 22: parts 3-5 , English
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    We kept our heads : Personal memories of being Jewish in Nazi Germany and making a new home in England (1976)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 111 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Liebmann, Dodo, ; Aliens. ; Communism. ; Jewish refugees ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Physicists. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Isle of Man. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Upbringing in Berlin Jewish middle-class family; primary and secondary education; university studies at Berlin and Heidelberg; member of Communist party in 1933; Ph.D. in 1934; work in factories; emigration to England in 1936; internment on Isle of Man during World War II; death of husband in 1956; compensation from Germany.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    My first fifty years. (1976)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Levinger, Bill. ; Jewish women. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Panama Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of a German Jewish woman. During World War I she abandoned her studies and worked in a "Kriegskindergarten." In 1915, when the day care closed down, she finished school and passed her "Abitur." After the war, she studied law in Marburg and Bern/Switzerland and then moved to Berlin where she married and had children. In 1937, she emigrated to England, where, in 1940, her husband was interned as an enemy alien. They left England via Panama, Guatemala and Mexico for the United States.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file, 1998
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    Ferne Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugend und Alter. (1975)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 123 + 75 + 205 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Amann, Dora (née Israel), ; Amann, Paul, ; Israel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Families. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Music. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Dora Amann including family history reaching back to her grandparents, recollection of her childhood in Vienna, and information on her own and her brother's schooling, on changing family customs, on her musical education, on World War I, on antisemitism and political life in Europe before and during Nazi rule, on the fate of the different family members, on her emigration to France and to the United States via Lisbon, and on her life in America.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Meine beiden 40 Jahre. (1975)
    Nathanya :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 252 + 9 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Freudenthal, Berthold, ; Groener, Wilhelm, ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Assimilation. ; Education, Higher. ; Marriage. ; Sociologists ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Israel. ; Speyer (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in assimilated Jewish family in Speyer; remnants of Jewish traditions; family left Jewish community; primary and secondary education; excerpts of diaries from author's husband, Berthold Freudenthal; encounter with writer Jacob Wassermann; excerpts of letters by General Groener to author's husband; studies in Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg and Berlin; marriage to 22-year older physician; second university studies; doctorate in sociology; encounter with Zionism and renewed interest in Judaism; emigration to Palestine; life in Israel after independence.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Hugo Carl Plaut. (1975)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 69 + 125 pages (double space) : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Former Title: H.C. Plaut
    Keywords: Oppenheim family Genealogy. ; Plaut, Gustav, ; Plaut, Hugo Carl, ; Universität Hamburg. ; Jewish communities ; Alcoholism. ; Antisemitism. ; Bankers. ; Biologists. ; Clinical medicine. ; College teachers. ; Depression. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Physicians. ; Revolution, 1918-1919. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biography of Hugo Carl Plaut, written by his daughter, Rahel Liebeschuetz:
    Abstract: Vol. 1 inculdes family history reaching back to Herz Cusel Plaut from Reichensachsen in Prussia and to the family Oppenheim in Leipzig and Hamburg; description of Hugo Carl Plaut's childhood and schooling in Leipzig; his training in agriculture near Arnstadt and in Jena; his studies in veterinary science, botany, and medicine at the university in Leipzig; antisemitism in Leipzig; Hugo Plaut's marriage with Adele Brach and details on her background.
    Abstract: Vol. 2 includes information on his work as a mykologist and bacteriologist at the Hygienische Institut in Leipzig; his medical practice; his involvement against acoholism and antisemitism; his move to Hamburg; his depression; his activities in the Jewish community especially in relation to refugees from Eastern Europe and Jewish education; his experience during World War I and the revolution in Hamburg; and his career as a professor at the university in Hamburg. Also included is a family tree.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: 1858-1890
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: 1890-1928
    Note: Part I has a handwritten dedication: “Dr. Robert Weltsch verehrungsvoll gewidmet von Rahel Liebeschütz, geb. Plaut. Dez. 1975.“ , Available on microfilm
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