Pages:
6 + 95
,
synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
Year of publication:
1999
Keywords:
Kellner, Dora.
;
Meller, Rosza.
;
Menelik
;
Popper family
;
Popper, Friedl
;
Popper, Julius
;
Popper, Laura
;
Schanzer, Rosa
;
Weiss, Henriette
;
Weiss, Klara
;
Wolkenberg, Alfred
;
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
;
Ravensbruck (Concentration camps)
;
Antisemitism
;
Education, Secondary 1918-1938.
;
Education, Higher 1918-1938.
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Physicians.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
;
Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
;
Budapest (Hungary)
;
Innsbruck (Austria)
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs of the physician Robert Popper, interspersed with text by others, and richly illustrated with reproductions of photographs and documents.
Abstract:
Born in 1909 in Innsbruck; brief accounts of extended family members' lives; first five years spent in Innsbruck; following childhood years spent at sanitarium in Breitenstein founded by his aunt; letter from cousin Roszika Meller of 1945 relating experiences of her family in Budapest during German occupation; includes account of cousin Erna Low of her survival in Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Neustadt-Cleve; additional memoir of Erna Low about a childhood experience; translation of his mother's account traveling in England and France during the outbreak of World War I; experience of anti-Semitism in Innsbruck; becoming a physician at the sanitarium at Breitenstein; account of life after Anschluss; account of parent's experience of Kristallnacht in Innsbruck, including translated letter from mother recounting experiences on Kristallnacht; emigration to United States in 1939; emigration of brother, parents to England in 1939; medical school in the United States.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
English and German
,
Synopsis in file
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