Language:
English
Pages:
614 pages :
,
typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
Year of publication:
1964
Keywords:
Sternthal family.
;
Tachau family.
;
Tachau, Paul.
;
Tachau, Ilse (née Sternthal)
;
Jüdischer Kulturbund.
;
Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
;
Samsonschule (Wolfenbüttel, Germany)
;
Education.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Musicians.
;
Physicians.
;
Voyages and travels.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
;
United States Emigration and immigration.
;
Wolfenbüttel (Germany)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Family history of Tachau, Frankenstein, Seckel, Herxheimer, Loewenstein and Sternthal families.
Abstract:
Among ancestors were Rabbi Salomon Herxheimer, professor Levy Rubens and Julius von Reuter; author's father, Ludwig Tachau, was a teacher at the Philantropin school in Frankfurt am Main and became the director of the Samson school in Wolfenbuettel in 1888; childhood in Wolfenbuettel; primary and secondary education; university studies in Goettingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Heidelberg; activities as musician; experiences as young physician in Zurich and Strasbourg; military service in World War I; marriage and move to Braunschweig and Breslau; return to Wolfenbuettel; recreational travels to Switzerland and Italy; persecution of Jews after 1933; anti-Jewish boycott of April 1933; ousted from the Society of Natural Science in Braunschweig shortly after being reelected as its president in March 1933; playing in string quartet of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" in Hanover; emigration to USA; career as physician in USA; contains reviews of publications and numerous photos of Sternthal and Tachau families (19th and 20th centuries) and of Samson school in Wolfenbuettel.
Note:
Available on memoir microfilm reels # 76, 77
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English
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