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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
    URL: Digital form
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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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
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)
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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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English translation , German , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Toni Ehrlich's diaries, (1906-1996)
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    Pages: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes) : , 29 handwritten notebooks +
    Additional Material: + English summaries
    Year of publication: 1906-1996
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Education. ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: The diaries of Toni Ehrlich – 29 handwritten notebooks – document her life on an almost day to day basis, beginning on April 1, 1906 and ending with a single word (“Lo”, meaning “no” in Hebrew) on October 21, 1969. Her thoughts and observations concentrate mostly on matters and issues of art and culture, as well as – to a lesser degree – current events. Private matters, including life changing ones - like her husband’s death -, are mentioned on the side, if at all. The original diaries in old German handwriting are accompanied by detailed summaries in English and a list of names, provided by Irene Miller.
    Description / Table of Contents: Toni Ehrlich's diaries [29 volumes in Boxes ]: continuous from April 1, 1906 to August 27, 1969
    Note: German , English , Finding aid available online.
    URL: Digital form
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1209583
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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
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Erich Drucker collection : diaries, essays, memoirs and poems, (1918-1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 linear foot : , 22 folders.
    Year of publication: 1918-1980
    Keywords: Mühsam, Erich, ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Anti-Nazi movement. ; Apartment houses. ; Bookstores. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Poetry. ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. ; Youth movements. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lisbon (Portugal) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vermont. ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Various manuscripts by Erich Drucker from the Erich Drucker Collection and the LBI Memoirs Collection
    Note: Microfilmed on MM 18, MM 19, MM 20 , German , Finding aid available online.
    URL: Digital form:
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    Michel Oppenheim collection. (1941-1977)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 31 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1941-1977
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The collection holds the photocopy of a diary documenting the persecution of Jews in Mainz, 1941-1943. Also included are clippings about the importance of this diary and its author.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Diary (Mainz, 1941-1943)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Clippings concerning Michel Oppenheim's diary; 1966-1977
    Note: The diary is microfilmed on MM 127 , The original German-language inventory is available in the folder.
    URL: Digital form:
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
    URL: Digital form:
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    Walter Breslauer papers, (1928-1970)
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    Pages: 5
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2018 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 1928-1970
    Keywords: Breslauer, Bernhard. ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. ; Vereinigung für das Liberale Judentum in Deutschland. ; Jewish leadership. ; Reform Judaism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Clippings ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: The bulk of this collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and clippings that were written and collected by Walter Breslauer in London, touching on his personal and professional memories as an administrative director of the Berlin Jewish community. Also included are items related to Walter Breslauer’s father, Bernhard Breslauer. The papers had been sent to the Leo Baeck Institute New York in 1970.
    Abstract: Also mentioned are Ismar Freund; Georg Kareski; Leo Lilienthal; Abraham Margaliot; Heinrich Stern and others.
    Note: Available also on microfilms MM 12, MM 13, MM 95 , German and some English , Finding aid available online.
    URL: Digital form
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    Zehn Jahre spaeter. (1956-1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: handwritten manuscript
    Year of publication: 1956-1965
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher Agricultural education 1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish life in small Westphalian town after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; agricultural training in Jewish school at Neuendorf; failure to obtain visa for emigration; experiences in Auschwitz; liberation in Ravensbrueck.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript; 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Manuscript; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
    URL: Digital form:
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    Manuscripts from the Arthur Propp Collection. (1946-1962)
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    Pages: 17 + 3 + 65 + 177 , typescripts (copies).
    Year of publication: 1946-1962
    Keywords: Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1950. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biographies: Primary and secondary education in Koenigsberg; apprenticeship in wood business; military service; independent sawmill business in Eastern Prussia; military service in World War I; second part mainly on friends and employees and their changes after 1933; emigration and life in Bolivia.
    Abstract: The letter to the Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld concerns economic reconstruction of Palestine; memories of common experiences in Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript 'Etwas ueber Schema und Zukunft der Wirtschaft, und unsere spaeteren Anlagemoeglichkeiten' (Economic plan for future of Palestine, 17 p.) and a letter to Kurt Blumenfeld; 1946
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typescript (German) 'Biography Complete to Armistice 1918', Gibsons (Canada), 65 p.; 1962
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Typescript (German) 'Biography to the End of the Stay in Sucre', Gibsons (Canada), 177 p.; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , see also AR 6846 (audio)
    URL: Digital form:
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    Die Arbeit der offenen juedischen Fuersorge in Frankfurt/Main, 1919-1939. (1960)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 46 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Jüdische Notstandsküche. ; Jüdische Winterhilfe. ; Jüdische Wohlfahrtspflege. ; Public welfare 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of welfare activities in the Frankfurt Jewish community, 1919-1939.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    A life in focal points of our time : Vienna – Berlin – New York, Gustav Stolper 1888-1947. (1960)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 260 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Stolper, Gustav, ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The book by Toni Stolper about her husband Gustav Stolper, first published in 1960, has been translated from the German original with annotations, by Max A. Stolper.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Austria-Hungary
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: German Austria
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: In the Weimar Republic
    URL: Digital form:
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    Tagebuch einer deutschen Frau in Paris von 1939-1944, (1939-1960)
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    Pages: 130 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: addenda; letters; clipping
    Year of publication: 1939-1960
    Keywords: Bamberger-Beyfus, Max. ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Germany. ; Querqueville (Internment camp) ; Interfaith marriage. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives. ; France History German occupation, 1940-1945. ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diary of war years in Paris; frequent interviews with Gestapo officials in Paris; internment and death of her husband in internment camp.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Manuscript “Befreiung von Paris’ with notes, correspondence, addresses, and a genealogical table; 1944 - 1961
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Letters; March 9, 1944 - May 31, 1943
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Original diary of a German woman in Paris; 1940-1944
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Printed synopsis in: Merkur, v. 14, no. 5, May 1960
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and French
    URL: Digital form:
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    Aus zwei Jahrhunderten : Lebenserinnerungen (1960)
    Roslyn Heights, New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 235 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Bab, Julius, ; Families 19th century. ; Authors 20th century. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers ; Theater History 20th century. ; Universities and colleges ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bonn (Germany) ; France World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Elisabeth Bab née Loos recollects her childhood as the only child of an affluent Protestant family in Kiel. She was later enrolled in a girls school in Berlin. She describes her teacher, the women's activist Helene Lange. Attending the Lehrerinnenseminar (teacher's seminary), she became increasingly interested and involved in the women’s movement. Upon graduation she found a teaching position in London. She describes her experience working as an educator in an aristocratic family. She next took a teaching position in Potsdam. Following this, she moved to Bonn to complete her university studies. She describes university life in Bonn, including social aspects. Due to the tight financial situation in her family her dream to study medicine could not be fulfilled. Her father died in 1904. Elisabeth moved to Berlin to continue her studies. She met Julius Bab through literary events in Berlin and a courtship ensued. She describes the reaction of the Bab family to their son marrying a gentile. After their wedding Elizabeth found a position as a teacher in a private school and Julius worked as a dramatic adviser in a theater. Both continued their studies at the Berlin University. She describes the birth and raising of her three children. She also describes her social and professional life as part of the literary, theatrical, and artistic community that existed in Berlin during this time. After describing life during World War One, she discusses the continued social and familial events in her life amid the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. The Babs became involved in the foundation of the “Kulturbund Deutscher Juden.” As Nazi persecution increased the family sought exist visas to leave. The Babs managed to emigrate to Paris in 1939.
    Abstract: At the outbreak of World War II, Julius Bab was interred by the French authorities as an enemy alien. Elisabeth describes the subsequent German occupation of France in 1940, and the methods in which the Bab’s managed to make it to New York in the same year.
    Abstract: The following persons are mentioned: Collin, Ernst, 1882-1953; Dumont, Louise, 1862-1932; Harlan, Walter; Hauptmann, Gerhard, 1862-1946; Lange, Helene, 1848-1930; Lilienthal, Leo; Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Mauthner, Fritz, 1849-1923; Simmel, Ernst, 1882-1947; Wentscher, Dora.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Pelzhandelsfirma Leopold J. Cohn : Erinnerungen. (1960)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 pages (double space) : , typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Fur trade. ; Fur trade ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of fur business in Leipzig and the dominant role played by Jews. The firm "Leopold J. Cohn" was founded by Cohn-Grosz's father in 1872 and led by Cohn-Grosz until his emigration from Nazi Germany.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebenserinnerungen eines deutschen Juden und Paedagogen. (1941-1956)
    Rio de Janeiro :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 283 , typescript (carbon copy) +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1941-1956
    Keywords: Bildungsanstalt für jüdische Lehrer in Hannover. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Correspondence ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish community of Nordeck (Hesse); murder of two Nordeck Jews (1883); antisemitism; Jewish teachers' seminary in Hanover; teacher in Guntersblum (Rhineland), Sarstedt (Lower Saxony), Repzin (Pommerania), Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia) and Katowice; description of Jewish communities of Upper Silesia; soldier in World War I; teacher and headmaster in Berlin; Jewish politics and education in inter-war Berlin; reflections on Prussian Federation of Jewish Communites and Federation of Jewish Teachers; changes under Nazi rule; November pogrom 1938 in Berlin; emigration to Brazil; contains information on Georg Kareski, Michael Holzmann, Joseph Gutmann, Hermann Falkenberg, Michael Abraham, Jakob Stiebel, Leo Baeck, Ismar Freund and Meier Spanier.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Lebenserinnerungen
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Juedische Jugend im Umbruch : A collection of circa 160 letters from former students written to Stern before and after their emigration from Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine and Australia, 1937-1956.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Tante Adele erzaehlt... (1929-1950)
    Vienna / New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 156 + 17 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1929-1950
    Keywords: Eisenstadt, Meïr ben Isaac, ; Kallir family. ; Kolir, Elasar, ; Landau family. ; Mises, Adele von, ; Nathanson family. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Politicians. ; Public welfare. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written between 1929 and 1931 (in Vienna). Recollections of the author's childhood in Brody, Galicia. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the grandparents Kallir. Detailed descriptions of Jewish festivals and customs. Charity traditions within the family. Domestic life and family servants. Traditions of "Kaschern" and "Chumez sales" before the Passover holidays. Description of family characters. Welfare activities of the Landau family. Recollections of the great fire in Brody (1867). Stories and anecdotes of Adele's uncle, the lawyer Dr. Joachim Landau. Outings and summer vacations in Podhorce. Description of daily life activities in the family. School system and private lessons in German and Hebrew. In 1876 the Landau family moved to Vienna. Genealogy of the Nathanson and Kallir family. Addendum: Family history by Dr. Joachim Landau. Notebook of Adele's grandmother Esther Landau with birth dates and family chronicles in the Hebrew calendar. Biographical sketches of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt (1670-1744) and Rabbi Eleasar Kallir (1739-1801). Collection of letters by Esther and Alexander Landau. Appendix: Lecture by Leopold Lourie on the "Galizischer Hilfsverein" in Vienna.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Auszug aus dem Tagebuch], (1938-1945)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 8 + 5 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1938-1945
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Mugdan’s passages from his diaries 1938-1945 describe the November pogrom in Heidelberg and the suicide of his grandmother in order to escape deportation. The last part, written after liberation in May 1945, contains a short family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Waehrend der Studienzeit in Heidelberg, 10. November 1938 - 1. Januar 1939; English translation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Aus dem Tagebuch, August 1942.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Politischer Rueckblick, Neckargemuend, October 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy available on MF 116 , German
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    Das Calauer Judenhaus : Geschichte eines Familienhauses. (1942)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 + 36 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Jewish families. ; Merchants ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Calau (Germany : Landkreis) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the grandfather, who acquired the family house located in the vicinity of Berlin which served as a meeting point for the Ball family for four generations. The larger part of the manuscript deals with the period between 1933 and 1938.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Lecture at the genealogical society in Tel Aviv, March 16, 1942
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Reminiscences (Erinnerungen): extended version of folder 1
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Citizenship: None. (1942)
    [Cleveland, Ohio] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Leufer, Eva. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Girls ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Trips and voyages. ; Women authors. ; Ashtabula County (Ohio) ; Cleveland (Ohio) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Anne Koppel, including information on the background of her parents and recollections of her childhood and schooling in Cologne; of life in Germany before and after 1933; of the detention of her father in Dachau after the 1938 November Pogrom; of her emigration to England and to the United States; and of her experiences in Ashtabula and in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Abstract: The essay was written in Anne Koppel’s 11A English class at East High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Note: English
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    Kindheitserinnerungen / (1942)
    Haifa,
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    Language: German
    Pages: typewritten manuscript (bound).
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1942 in Haifa, Palestine. Recollection of Toni Ehrlich (née Goldschmidt)'s childhood in Breslau at the end of the 19th century (1880-1895) in an assimilated upper-class Jewish family. Her father, Siegfried Goldschmidt, was the representative of Hoechst IG Farben, the chemical industry company in eastern Europe and founded the largest soap factory in eastern Germany. In 1872 he married Flora Rother. Both her parents were fond of traveling. Her older sister Grete, born 1873, was an excellent student and very close to her. Toni Ehrlich attended the Froebel Kindergarten from age 4 to 6. Recollections of summer vacations in the countryside. Memories of Christmas celebrations and fasting on Yom Kippur. Cultural life and family meetings. Her mother encouraged toughening (Abhaertung) through physical exercises and swimming lessons for her daughters at an early age. Recollections of her elementary school and her early awareness of being different as the only Jewish student among her class amtes. Memories of Imperial Germany and patriotic celebrations of the emperor's birthday at school. Piano and dance lessons. Dream of becoming a dancer, which was impossible in her social setting. In 1891 Toni Goldschmidt was enrolled in the Augusta girl's school in Breslau, where she received Jewish religious education for the first time. Summer vacations in Tyrol and Italy. Recollections of the invention of electric light and memories of the first telephone. Private French lessons. Engagement of her sister to the lawyer Felix Abramczyk. Death of her father in 1894.
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933 : [1914-1939]. (1942)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 44 + 6 , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Fleischer family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Deportations. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written for the Harvard University competition in 1942. Also included is an English language report "My experiences on the tenth of November, 1938."
    Abstract: Description of family history. His father was a businessman who came from Budapest to Vienna in 1890. Recollections of his school years in the Gymnasium. Graduation in 1914. Philipp enrolled with classes in German and Latin at the Vienna University. In 1916 he volunteered as a soldier in World War One and was soon promoted to become an officer in the army. Disastrous aftermath of the war. Philipp returned to university to continue his studies. He became a teacher at a Gymnasium (high school). Description of political tensions in post-war Austria. Civil war of 1934. At this time he became strongly aware of the rising attraction of the National Socialist movement. Anschluss in 1938. Degrading "spontaneous actions" against the Jewish population of Vienna. Philipp Flesch lost his position and was forced to retire. He started teaching at a improvised Jewish school. Maltreatment of students by the Hitler youth. Observations of Nazi enthusiasm in the Austrian Gentile population. Occasional experiences of support by neighbors and strangers. Reflections on the Nazi ideology and hatred against Jews. Reports of the first deportations to concentration camps. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom and its aftermath 1938 in Vienna. Description of the circumstances of his arrest and the maltreatment by the Gestapo. Terror and humiliation. Release due to his achievements in World War One. Awareness of the magnitude of destruction and terror. Summons to the Gestapo headquarters. Sarcasm of Nazi bureaucracy and preparations for his emigration. Outbreak of the war. Philipp Flesch left Vienna in 1939 for the United States and emigrated via Holland to New York.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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    [My Mother's diary], (1920-1942)
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    Pages: 3 + 84 + 35 + 6 , synopsis; handwritten manuscript (copy); typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1920-1942
    Former Title: Diary of My Mother
    Keywords: Pick, Leopold. ; Pick, Ruzena. ; Pick, Vilem. ; Neurath, Regina. ; Rosenbaum, Jonas. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Education. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1938. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ella Pick’s handwritten diary that describes mainly her son’s upbringing is followed by Rudolph Pick’s English translation of his mother’s diary. Also included is Rudolph Pick’s short typescript about his and his own family’s survival of the Holocaust (in German).
    Abstract: The diary was written between 1920 and 1942. Description of the birth of the author’s son Rudolph on January 3, 1920 and his first childhood illnesses. Milestones and accidents. Summer holidays with the author’s extended family. Visits at her husband’s home in Cetno. Appendicitis operation and recovery stay in Grado, Italy. Rudolph is enrolled at grade school in 1925. Summer in Baden and more illnesses. First sign of the swastika during the summer holidays in Bohemia in 1929. Rudi enters “Realschule”. Subtle Anti-Semitism at school. Anti-Semitic encounter during the summer holidays in Carinthia in 1930. Bar mitzvah celebration in 1933. Rudi joins the Jewish Boy Scouts. Hitch-hike trip to Paris. In 1937 he enrolls at the Vienna Technical University. Anschluss in 1938 and move to Prague. After the German occupation of Prague in March of 1939, Rudolph Pick leaves for Paris.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English , synopsis in file
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    Tagebuch, (1940-1942)
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    Pages: 100 , Photocopy of autograph (clear handwriting in modern script).
    Year of publication: 1940-1942
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camps) ; Concentration camps. ; Funeral rites and ceremonies Jews. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Religious life. ; Women authors. ; France History 1933-1945. ; Les Milles (France) Concentration camps. ; Cuba Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diary by Rosa Traub, written between 1940 to 1942. The first entry dates from November 20, 1940, written in Gurs internment camp in France, and recollects the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, and the effects on school children, businesses, cultural life etc. She herself was a witness to the burning of books. Her business had to be sold, and their goods were stolen. On October 21, 1940, all Jews were deported from Baden and the surrounding region to France. Rosa describes in detail when the Gestapo came to their apartment to arrest them. She was put on a train to Orleans, France, where she had to wait several days on the train until the internment camp in Gurs was set up for the new prisoners. She then describes the conditions and her experiences at Gurs in detail. At first, there were still some Spanish prisoners (Spanish Republicans). In February of 1941, her sister Bertha dies at Gurs. In October 1941, visas to get to the USA via Cuba arrive for Rosa and her family. They depart from Gurs on October 23, 1941, to Marseilles, where they board a ship in February (after many difficulties). On Rosa's last entry in her diary, dated from February 12, 1941, she decribes the trip on the ship which made stops at Casablanca, Morocco, and Bermuda, before arriving in Cuba. They were told to stay in Cuba until the end of the war.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English , Synopsis in file
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