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  • 1970-1974  (22)
  • 1940-1944  (35)
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  • المحرقة النازيّة (1939-1945)
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  • 1
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    Erlebnisse in Theresienstadt, (1946-2005)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 57 + 10 , typscript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2005
    Keywords: Epstein, P. ; Joseph, Fritz. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in German one and a half years after liberation. It has the form of a witness report, written in a clear and objective tone, but nevertheless harrowing. The content: Their is no word on their life in Amsterdam before the deportation. The memoir starts with their arrest in Amsterdam, Westerbork - the place they were deported to at first - is mentioned, but not described. Bergen-Belsen gets more attention, Fritz Joseph describes daily work routine, and living conditions in the camp. Theresienstadt comes next, and the author points out the good features as opposed to his later experiences in Auschwitz. He describes the efforts to make Theresienstadt look prettier, before the International Red Cross delegation arrived. Soon thereafter, the infamous movie documentary about Thersienstadt was shot. Firtz Joseph describes many details of the false set-up. Then he was separated from his wife and deported to Auschwitz. He describes the selection process, and many other components of the horror. He was then transferred to Buchenwald, and had to work as a forced laborer at the HASAG works (former Hugo Schneider AG) at Meuselwitz near Leipzig. In 1945, the camp was evacuated and Fritz Joseph could flee. The war ended and he got treatment for his infected leg. After a few days he could return to Amsterdam where he met his wife - she had survived as well. A 10 page long It can be found in the file as well.
    Abstract: Also included is an English language summary of the memoir by John and Eva Englander (2005).
    Note: German (original) and English (summary)
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
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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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  • 3
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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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English translation , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Max Knight's Lebenserinnerungen], (1909-1991)
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    Pages: 8 + 1,007 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1909-1991
    Keywords: Propper family. ; Kühnel family. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Intermarriage. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish press. ; Jewish refugees. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript is richly interwoven with photocopies of photographs and original documents.
    Abstract: Reflections on career as editor at University of California Press; family geneology; lives of father and mother; birth in Pilsen; move to Vienna in 1910; school experiences; first publications; studied law at University of Vienna; published stories in journals and newspapers; relationships with various women; graduation with law degree; publishing of stories in London newspaper; internship as law clerk; emigration to England in 1938; emigree acquaintances in London; more writing for newspapers in London; job with the Jewish Chronicle; continued publication of stories in Germany under pseudonyms; story of brother's life; emigration of parents to England; diary written in Shanghai describing trip from England to Shanghai; voyage to Canada; train trip across Canada; boat trip to Shanghai via Japan; tour of Japan; description of arrival in Shanghai; work at newspaper in Shanghai and teaching English at University of Shanghai; emigration to USA in 1941; emigration of parents to USA; life in San Francisco; marriage to Charlotte Lowes; trips through United States; death of brother Otto in Australia; work as research assistant at Hoover Institution; graduate study in Political Science at University of California - Berkeley; letter from Harry Freud from Berlin 1945; letter from father Bernhard Kuehnel concerning restitution; letters to and from the writer Ernst Lothar.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Fabrizius, Peter; Fabry, Joseph; Freud, Harry; Freud, Sigmund; Friese, Ernst; Garrett, Joan; Gombrich, Ernst; Hoffer, Grete; Hoffer, Richa; Hoover Institution; Knight, Charlotte; Knight, Martin; Knight, Tony; Kuehnel, Bernhard; Kuehnel, Grete; Kuehnel, Margarethe; Kuehnel, Max; Kuehnel, Otto; Lieban, Ralph; Oppenheimer, Max; Propper, Laura; Rothschild, Lionel de; Sachs, Emmy; Schwarz family; Schwarz, Arthur; Schwarz, Kurt; Siebel, Max; Storfer, A. J.
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 23: parts 1-4
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 24: parts 5-6
    Note: Available on microfilm , English with German and Chinese , Synopsis in file
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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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  • 6
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    Tolle Jahre : Lebenserinnerungen (Teile III, VI). (1971-1981)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 83 + 55 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971-1981
    Keywords: Sternberger family. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1870-1918. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism ; Textile industry. ; Tobacco industry. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Israel. ; Munich (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Merchants
    Abstract: Childhood in Munich; soldier in World War I; orthodox Jewish milieu in Munich; mostly anecdotal account of his life in Munich and Israel.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 3: 'Was habe ich verkehrt gemacht?'
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 6: 'Geschichterln, nicht Geschichten'
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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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.
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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.
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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
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    Meine Memoiren : [1863-1940]. (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Unger, Adolf, ; Clothing trade. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Tailors. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Adolf Unger was born on July 6, 1863 in Enying, Hungary. His parents were Nathan Unger who was born in Burgenland, Austria, and Julie Deutsch, nee Deutsch, born in Goerbe, Hungary. In 1874, the family moved to Vienna, and young Adolf had to learn German. He was dropping out of school at age 14, and started an apprenticeship as tailor. He soon became a salesperson for his uncle’s store “Ignaz Weisz”. After his uncle died, he took over his business. After a few years, he changed the name to “Alfred Unger, master tailor”. The store which was located at Rochusgasse in the third Viennese district, grew bigger and bigger, and its name was changed again, “Kleiderhaus Monopol”. His brother Ludwig became a tailor and worked for him until December 1938, when his trade certificate was taken away by the Nazis. Only a few days before World War 2 broke out, on August 16, 1939, Adolf Unger could flee to London, England, with his wife, where he died in 1941.
    Note: German
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    My darling daughter. (1971)
    Cardiff :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Pregnancy. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Letter written by Eva Clarke's mother to her daughter describing her life following her deportation in 1941.
    Abstract: Eva Clarke's mother lived in Prague. Her husband was sent to Theresienstadt on November 28, 1941; she was sent a few weeks later. In September 1943 she became pregnant. In December, her parents were sent to the East and never returned. In February 1944, her child, a boy called Dan, was born, but he died after two month of pneumonia. In 1944, they received the news that the Allied Forces were moving across France. In July 1944, she became again pregnant. Her husband was sent away on September 28, she followed on October 1. She never saw her husband again, he was shot during the evacuation of Auschwitz on January 18, 1945. After a short stop in Dresden, she was also sent to Auschwitz. Her parents, sisters and Peter ended in the gas chamber. She and her unborn baby only survived because there were not enough workers, so she was used for slave labor. Dr. Mengele selected her with the words “This time a very good quality”. Shortly afterwards, she was again sent away in a freight train, this time to Freiberg/Saxony, where she manufactured V-1s. When it became obvious in January 1945 that she was pregnant, it was too late to send her back to Auschwitz, so she went to Mauthausen and was brought there with dying women to a camp hospital. During this trip she got her baby. The Americans were not far away, so the Germans were more frightened than she was and the gas chamber of Mauthasen had been blown up only one day before. She and her baby, a girl who first was mistakenly described as a boy, survived the Shoah. She left Czechoslovakia together with her new husband in 1948 and settled in Great Britain.
    Note: English
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    [Mona Spiegel-Adolf's diaries], (1903-1971)
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    Pages: 3 notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1903-1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Diseases. ; Teenagers. ; Physicians ; Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 1: 1903-1905 (German)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 2: 1907-1908 (English)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 3 1936-1952, 1971 (English)
    Note: The diaries are also available in the Mona Spiegel-Adolf Collection, AR 5321 / folder 12. , German and English
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    Memoirs. (1971)
    Tacoma, WA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 24 pages (1 1/2 space).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Bakers. ; Gardeners. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1927. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Bakers ; Gardeners
    Abstract: Family history in Charlottenburg and Berlin; emigration to USA in 1927; first job in bakery in New York; work as a gardener.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    A letter to Michael from his Uncle Martin, (1971)
    Belmont, Mass. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 38 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Morton, Michael. ; Strauss, Isaak. ; Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft zu Frankfurt a.M. (Germany) ; Butchers (Persons) ; Jewish families ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Butchers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short account of family history in Frankfurt am Main up to immigration to USA; the family belonged to the orthodox "Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft"; its intolerant orthodoxy led to the author's break with the that congregation; Martin's father was the kosher butcher of the "Religionsgesellschaft"; an aunt's husband, Isaak Strauss, was district rabbi of Rothenburg.
    Note: Available on microfilm. , English
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    The Moses Isaac Family Trust : Its history and significance, (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 + 7 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Moses Issac, ; Friedrick II ; Assimilation. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jewish minters. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Trusts. ; Dobiegniew (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Warren Cohen, a descendant of Moses Isaac, reconstructs the history of the Moses Israel Family trust through the centuries. Since all of Moses Israel's direct descendents were baptized, only the descendents of his sister benefited from this endowment.
    Abstract: Also included is a family tree of the descendents of Isaac Eisik Halevy Segal in Schönfliess, circa 1680.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    [Literarischer Nachlass], (1971)
    Tuebingen,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 95 pages : , typescripts +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Germany. ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews Identity. ; Soldiers. ; Poetry. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A collection of letters, manuscripts, poems, and clippings from the estate of Julius Fuerst (1896-1918), transcribed by his sister, Dr. Kaete Pulewka-Fuerst.
    Description / Table of Contents: Die Pflichten des Kompagniefuehrers im Felde; 1918, 15 pages : a description of the tasks of the military leaders in war time.
    Description / Table of Contents: "Jude" und Jude; undated, 17 + 4 pages : a treatise on 3 different kinds of Jews in Germany: "Eastern European Zionists", "uprooted assimilationists" and "national-German Jews" with which the author identifies. Fuerst refers especially to his experiences in the "Wandervogel" - youth movement. Also included is an answer to this letter by Lieutenant Ludwig Zeise, who describes himself as strongly influenced by anti-Semitism.
    Description / Table of Contents: Two war letters by Fuerst to his friends; 1916-1918, 10 + 8 pages, partly published in "Das Reich", Juli 1916 (vol.2).
    Description / Table of Contents: Transcript of a letter from Lieutenant Zeise to Fuerst's girl-friend Trude K. in, informing her about Fuerst's death; 1918, 3 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Poems by Julius Fuerst; undated, 32 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Printed reactions to an article by Fuerst in "Fuehrerzeitung fuer die deutschen Wandervogelfuehrer"; 1916.
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Aus meinem Leben : [1891-1963]. (1966-1971)
    Vienna :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 201 pages : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1966-1971
    Keywords: Safar, Karl, ; Friedjung, Joseph, ; Girardi, Alexander, ; Jagic, Nikolaus, ; Landauer, Gustav Eugen, ; Landau family ; Meller, Josef, ; Scheuch family. ; Schwarzwald, Eugenie, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Coffeehouses. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Interfaith marriage. ; National socialism. ; Ophthalmologists. ; Pediatricians. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century. ; Vienna (Austria) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written between 1966 and 1971. Genealogical tables and reflections on her mixed heritage as a child of an assimilated Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Description of life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turn-of-the-century. Childhood in Salzburg, Cilli (Slovenia) and Trieste. Move to Vienna in 1907. Vinca was enrolled in the "Schwarzwaldschule", one of the few girl's schools in Vienna who provided higher education for women. Preparation for University. Memories of the celebrations due to the 60th year anniversary of Kaiser Franz- Joseph's accession. Cultural life in Vienna. In 1911 Vinca Landauer started her studies of medicine at the Vienna University. Acquaintance with her colleague and future-husband Karl Safar. Differences between the directors of the two anatomic institutes (Julius Tandler and Professor Hochstetter). Outings in the mountains. Outbreak of World War One. Vinca volunteered as a physician in a hospital. Marriage in 1917. Graduation from university. Difficult start after the end of the war and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Karl Safar specialized on ophthalmology with Professor Meller and Vinca started to work as a pediatrician with the Social Democrat Professor Friedjung in a working-class neighborhood. Confrontation with the misery of the unemployed. Travels to Egypt and Italy. Antisemitism in Austria. Nazi-take over and experiences of discrimination. Karl Safar lost his position at university due to his non-Aryan wife Vinca. The couple managed with some difficulties to stay during the Nazi time in Vienna. Especially their children were exposed to discrimination. Recollections of the time during World War II. Post-war life in Vienna. Appendix: Obituaries of Karl Safar in various medical journals.
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    My first 12 years / (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Remseck am Neckar (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1971 in New York. The author describes her childhood in the tiny village Hochberg on the river Neckar at the end of the 19th century. Recollection of the rural environment and its simple living conditions. Description of the inhabitants of the village, including a night watchman who called out the time in the streets. Alice grew up speaking German and French at home. Her mother was a well-educated woman who had lived in Paris for some time. Her father was a business man. The Jewish community in Hochberg was small, but it had its own synagogue. Memories of family Seder celebrations at her grandparents' home. Recollection of her time at the Alexandrina Kindergarten, where Alice was the only Jewish child. Christmas celebrations at nursery school. Birth of her sister. In 1899 Alice Ottenheimer was enrolled in the local primary school. Private Hebrew lessons with the cantor of the nearby city. Summer vacations at her mother's birthplace in Ichenhausen. In 1905 the family moved from the countryside to Ludwigsburg.
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    Rueckblick, Erinnerungen und Gedankensplitter einer alten Mannheimerin. (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution ; 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; France. ; Germany Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Mannheim; education as a musician; Gurs internment camp; liberation and life in France after the war.
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    My Story, (1971)
    Croton-on-Hudson :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 74 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Soldiers. ; Marriage. ; Menders, Fred (=Fritz Adolf Mendershausen) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Sales personnel ; Rabbis
    Abstract: Education in Brunswick at the beginning of the century; antisemitic remark by school teacher who was replaced after protest of the local rabbi; antisemitic incidents in school and military service during World War I; revolution of 1918-19 in Berlin; organizing food after World War I; work as a salesman for AEG; move to Vienna after marriage; life in Vienna in 1930s; emigration to USA in 1939; revisiting Germany after World War II
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    Franz Rosenzweig and the Men of the Frankfort Lehrhaus 1921/22 / (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Buber, Martin, ; Nobel, Nehemias Anton, ; Rosenzweig, Franz, ; Strauss, Eduard, ; Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Jews Education 1918-1933. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the Ahrens' experiences at the "Freies Jüdisches Lehrhaus" in Frankfurt and biographical sketches of Martin Buber, Nehemias Anton Nobel, Franz Rosenzweig, and Eduard Strauss.
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    Erlebnisse in der Gefangenschaft : [April 1917 - January 1920]. (1920-1970)
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    Pages: 92 + 160 , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1920-1970
    Former Title: Diaries April 1917 - January 1920.
    Keywords: Prisoners of war. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report of a German soldier's internment in France during WW I. The author wrote it in German after his liberation and translated it into English 50 years later.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: German
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: English
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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    Meine Lebenserinnerungen : geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919. (1919-1962)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 + 13 pages : , manuscript + transcript. +
    Additional Material: 11 pages typescript + clippings.
    Year of publication: 1919-1962
    Former Title: Lebenserinnerungen
    Keywords: Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Pharmacists. ; Shehitah. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Butchers. ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Maier Rosenthaler’s memoirs (original handwritten manuscript + typed transcript), written during the ceasefire following WW I in Strasbourg; January 1919:
    Abstract: Rural Jewish life in Wuerttemberg; unsuccessful search for employment as ritual slaughterer in Frankfurt am Main; return to Heilbronn as ritual slaughterer and butcher; providing good education for seven children; one son became editor-in-chief of the "Strassburger Neue Zeitung"; Strasbourg in World War I.
    Abstract: Also included are memoirs by his son Leopold (childhood in rural Jewish atmosphere; education and apprenticeship as a pharmacist) and Leopold Rosenthaler's obituary.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Rosenthaler, Leopold : Lebenserinnerungen, Heilbronn, 1920, 11 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen, geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, handwritten manuscript, 19 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, typed transcript, 13 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Offprint: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Leopold Rosenthaler, 1875-1962 , in: Schweizerische Apotheker-Zeitung 100 (1962), pages 577-583.
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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
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    Ich bin ein Mensch gewesen. (1935-1956)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2,173 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1935-1956
    Keywords: Mühsam, Erich, ; Mühsam, Hans. ; Silbergleit, Arthur, ; Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft. ; Antisemitism. ; Authors. ; Education, Higher. ; Lawyers. ; Jewish families ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Red Cross and Red Crescent. ; Students' societies. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Brandenburg (Germany) ; Chemnitz (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Görlitz (Görlitz, Germany) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Zittau (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history: father opened clothing store in Brandenburg; bankruptcy and move to Chemnitz where father opened shoe store; visits to uncle in Luebeck; helps in his father's store; move to Zittau (Saxony); description of small orthodox Jewish community of Zittau; anti-Semitism in school; limits of social integration of Jews; Christmas celebration at home; university studies in Freiburg, Munich and Leipzig; Max Weber among his professors; member of "Sozial-wissensschaftliche Vereinigung" and the primarily Jewish student fraternity "Thuringia"; his cousins, the writer and anarchist Erich Muehsam, and the Zionist Hans Muehsam; apprenticeship as lawyer in Mittenwalde; lawyer in Goerlitz; Jewish community of Goerlitz; moves only in Jewish circles; beginnings of his literary career; with beginning of World War I Muehsam became pacifist; in "Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft" and International Red Cross; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Martin Buber and Stefan Zweig; Revolution of 1918-19 and political events of Weimar Germany; after World War I considered himself primarily a writer; literary circles of Weimar Germany; friendship with the writer Arthur Silbergleit; emigration and life in Palestine; last volume on death of his wife and continuation of literary work in Israel.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: vol. 1 (pp. 1-560)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: vol. 2 (pp. 1-400)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: vol. 2 (pp. 401-811, index)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: vol. 3 (pp. 1-539); vol. 4 (pp. 1-121)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 5: vol. 5 (pp. 1-130)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 6: Digest version in 7 parts (162 pages); bibliography of books by Paul Muehsam
    Note: Available on microfilm , Vol. 1 on MM 58 , Vol. 2 on MM 55 - MM 56 , Vol. 3 on MM 56 , Vol. 4 on MM 56 , Vol. 5 on MM 58 , Digest on MM 57 , German , Synopsis in file
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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.
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    [Die Tagebuecher von Martin Hauser], (1929-1951)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1,602 pages : , handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1929-1951
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Great Britain. ; World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations ; World War, 1939-1945 Civilian relief. ; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives. ; Zionism German. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Israel History. ; Palestine. ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 11 diaries of Martin Hauser. Description of his life in Berlin and in Palestine where he arrived in 1933. He writes about the history of the founding of Israel. The focus of the diaries are events which happened during World War 2.
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch I, 1929
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch II, 1930 (2 vols.)
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch III, 1931 (2 vols.)
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch IV, 1932-1934
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch V, 1934-1940
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch VI, 1940-1942
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch VII, 1942-1943
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuch VIII, 1943-1944 in German; 1946-1951 in English
    Note: 1946-1951 in English
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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.
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    Vierzehn Jahre Not und Schrecken : [Zur Geschichte der Reichsvertretung, 1933-1947]. (1933-1947)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 120 pages (double space) / 19 pages + 37 pages (single space) : , typewritten (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1933-1947
    Keywords: Jüdisches Krankenhaus (Berlin, Germany) ; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin (1933-1943) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives ; Hospitals. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: After describing his life in Berlin until 1935 and his emigration to Prague, Blau gives a detailed account of the Jewish hospital in Berlin during the last war years. He also mentions the last remnants of Jewish life in Germany and the fate of some members of the Reichsvertretung.
    Abstract: Account of establishment and internal conflicts of the Reichsvertretung; contains numerous copies of official letters and minutes.
    Note: Available also on microfilm MF 39 , German
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    [Diaries of Hans Jacoby], (1938-1946)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 7 folders : , handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1938-1946
    Keywords: Artists. ; Jews, German Refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Hoek van Holland (Netherlands) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1940. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences of German Jewish refugee in Shanghai during World War II
    Description / Table of Contents: Diaries:
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Aus meinem Tagebuch in Holland: Abreise aus Holland, Maerz 1940, 83 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 2: Diary beginning March 1943, 145 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 3: Diary beginning January 1945, 79 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 4: Diary beginning April 1945
    Description / Table of Contents: 5: Addenda to diaries, 1938-1946
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    [Essays and fragments], (1900-1945)
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    Pages: 6 , circa 320 pages annotated typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1900-1945
    Keywords: Rolland, Romain, ; Zweig, Stefan, ; Authors. ; Translators. ; Concentration camps. ; Friendship. ; College teachers. ; Soldiers. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Les Sables-d’Olonne (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: various essays and fragments
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Composition des détenus de Camp, 1940-1945.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Dated notebooks and diary fragments, 1939-1950.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Oberst von Lukas, 1914-1918.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Von der Hässlichkeit der Menschenmenge.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 5: Mon ami Romain Rolland, 1900-1930.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 6: Queer recollections on Stefan Zweig, 1910-1920.
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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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    Memorabilien, (1937-1944)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 50 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript + handwritten manuscript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1937-1944
    Keywords: Deutsch, Hugo. ; Deutsch, Emanuel Oscar Menahem. ; Böhm, Gustav. ; Böhm, Simon. ; Deutsch family. ; Boehm family ; Preuss, Hugo, ; Gesellschaft der Freunde (Berlin, Germany) ; Draft before 1871. ; Grain trade. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Lawyers. ; Orientalists. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Simon Boehm grain trade; short biographies of orientalist Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch and Gustav Boehm and information on other members of Deutsch-Boehm families; Gustav Boehm's business and his engagement in "Gesellschaft der Freunde"; obituary of Hugo Deutsch by Hugo Preuss.
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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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    [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.
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    Von den Meinen und mir : niedergeschrieben als Familiengeschichte in Jahren meiner Ruhe zu Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe 1930-1933. (1930-1941)
    Bad Homburg; Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 87 + 1 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1930-1941
    Keywords: Wilmersdörfer family. ; Country life. ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jewish teachers ; Marriage. ; Hasidism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Bavaria (Germany) ; Hesse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Simon Spier started to write his memoirs in Bad Homburg in 1931 and continued in Haifa in 1941. The memoirs are followed by a short obituary, written in Haifa in 1951.
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish atmosphere of Zwesten; early death of father; education as teacher; travels in various parts of Germany; marriage to brother's sister-in-law from Weiden (Bavaria); domestic life of Spier, Wilmersdoerfer families in Wesel, Gambach (Hesse), Hoechst (Hesse), Weiden and Nabburg (Bavaria); move to Homburg (Hesse); visit of Belzer Rebbe in Homburg; emigration and life in Palestine.
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    [Tagebuch von Dr. Th. Rosenthal]. (1941)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 78 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Rosenthal family. ; Timendorfer family. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Universitaet Breslau (Breslau) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Gynecologists. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father was rabbi in Beuthen; father's first marriage and children; family history; father's education and background; earliest memories of Beuthen; father's activities as rabbi in Breslau; brother's education; education of sisters; Jewish life in Breslau; experiences as student at University of Breslau; study of medicine; experience in student fraternity; life in Breslau and Heidelberg; military service as doctor on eastern front in World War I; experiences of Jewish life in Poland during military service; injury at the front; meets future wife in Berlin; transfer to western front; taken prisoner; establishment of medical practice in Breslau after the war; death of father; birth of children; Jewish life in Breslau in 1920's; death of wife's parents; medical practice after 1933; arrest after Kristallnacht and transport to Buchenwald; experience at Buchenwald; release from Buchenwald and emigration in 1939 to England; life in Leicester; emigration to Palestine; arrival in Palestine.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Baeck, Leo; Cohn, Fritz; David, Jacob Julius; Kaufmann, David; Korn, Alfred; Rosenthal, Felix; Rosenthal, Hans; Rosenthal, Werner; Timendorfer, Berthold; Timendorfer, Margot.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Curriculum Vitae, (1941)
    Port Erin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Painters. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: English
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    Meine Erlebnisse ab 22. Oktober 1940. (1941)
    New York, USA :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 17 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: 10 pages typescript
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Navemare (ship) ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Photocopy of German original manuscript and English typed translation of Clara Suess's diary.
    Abstract: The diary was written during September 1941 on board of the ship Navemare which transported refugees from Spain to New York City. On October 22, 1940, Clara Suess and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo at their home in Mannheim, Germany. The very next day, they found themselves on a train to France. The journey ended at the French internment camp Gurs, close to the Spanish border. They received an invitation to appear at the American consulate in Marseille, France, in February 1941. So they were released from Gurs. On May 16, 1941, they were notified that their visas were granted. Their children, who were already in the USA paid for the passage. They took the train to Spain where they boarded the ship Navemare. On September 12, 1941, they arrived in New York City.
    Note: German and English
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    Dr. Jenny Barth Bornstein (1859-1951) : Memoir. From German handwriting to typewritten text (1941)
    Herrin, Illinois :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 90 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Jewish families 1870-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jenny Barth Bornstein's memoir covers the years 1859-1879, the years of her infancy, girlhood and adolescence.
    Note: German
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    Notes on my life : dedicated to my children. (1941)
    Mitcham (Surrey, England) :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 40 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jewish families ; Jews ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Soldiers. ; Antisemitism. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Limburg an der Lahn (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs and family history, written in Mitcham (Surrey, England) 1941. Emphasis on experiences in World War I.
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    Lebenserinnerungen. (1941)
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    Pages: 3 folders.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Banks and banking. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Suicide. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Aschersleben (Germany) ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Hannover (Germany) ; Hildesheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of Julius Kohsen’s life, including a family tree. Also available are two translations by his grandchildren, Monica Schubert (ME 939) and Gunther Steinberg (ME 1611).
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned:
    Abstract: Bamberger, Georg; Berger, Anna; Cohen, Jacob Salmon; Dux, August; Dux, Henriette; Dux, Wolf; Grolman, Wilhelm von; Gruenfeld, Heinrich; Kohen, Elsbeth (Else); Kohen, Ludwig; Kohen, Otto; Kohen, Therese; Kohen, Wilhelm; Kohsen, Henriette (Hetty); Kohsen, Walter; Lapp, Heinrich; Marcuse, Marcelle; Oppenheimer, Alexander; Regan, Charles; Rubensohn, Rudolf; Steinberg, Gunter; Steinberg, Henriette (Hetty); Steinberg, Herbert; Unger, Elisabeth; Unger, Gustav; Unger, Richard.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Lebenserinnerungen von Julius Israel Kohsen Berlin 1941: photocopy of the original typescript, 37 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Memories of my life by Julius Israel Kohsen, Berlin / Edited and translated by his granddaughter Monica Schubert in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1992, 5 + 90 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Remembrances of my life : [Lebenserinnerungen] / by Julius Jacob (Israel) Kohsen: illustrated and bound translation by Julius Kohsen's grandson Gunther Steinberg, 49 pages. Gunther Steinberg’s translation also includes replicas and translations of Julius Kohsen’s last letters to his daughter Hetty and to his late wife’s cousin, Dr. Otto Rubensohn in Basel.
    Note: The translations are also available on microfilms MM II 19 (Monica Schubert) and MM IV 8 (Gunther Steinberg) , Finding aid available online
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    [Encore du passé]. (1941)
    Kerrom :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: French
    Pages: 60 pages : , bound typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Ephrussi family. ; Fould family. ; Families. ; Voyages and travels. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The bound, typewritten memoirs were written in France from July 28 1940 to March 1941; they are addressed to the author’s nephew, Max Robert and tell the family’s history from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 to her present time during World War II.
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    Mein Leben. (1941)
    Mauritius, Beau Bassin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 53 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Inflation (Finance) ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish refugees ; Families 19th century. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Marriage. ; Paper industry ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Mauritius. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of an originally handwritten memoir.
    Abstract: In this memoir Max Meyer Aronsohn describes his life from childhood through his emigration from Germany and imprisonment in an internment camp in Mauritius. Memories include descriptions of growing-up in Koenigsberg, his marriage and family life, his life as a merchant in the paper business, and his experiences as a soldier in World War I. The memoir continues describing events in his life through the years of the Weimar Republic, and the events surrounding the Nazi seizure of power and his ultimate emigration from Germany in 1940. He then describes his internment in the camp in Mauritius.
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    Aus meinem Leben : Erinnerungen, (1921-1941)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 139 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1921-1941
    Keywords: Hospitals. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Ophthalmologists. ; Physicians. ; Students' societies. ; Voyages and travels. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Breslau, student in Breslau and Munich, assistant in Paris, Heidelberg, and Strasbourg.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebenserinnerungen. (1941)
    Dixville Notch, N.H. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 37 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Stern, Olga (née Fraenkel) ; Stern, Rosalie (née Herzfeld) ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Liquor industry. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Textile industry. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Early childhood recollections. Isidor Sterns father had a textile store in Graetz. Memories of his maternal grandfather, who was an assistant of the famous rabbi Elias Gutmacher. Orthodox upbringing. Description of his devoted mother, who was a loving and pious woman. High esteem for German culture and literature, above all works by Goethe and Schiller. Isidor Stern was enrolled in the Jewish elementary school at the age of six years. In 1868 he was sent for further studies to his uncle in Pyritz, where he attended the local Gymnasium (high school). Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah in 1870. Rebellion against the rigid laws of orthodox Judaism. Continuation of his education at a Catholic Gymnasium in Schrimm, where he experienced antisemitism and left the school. Work in a bank in Berlin. Relationship to his younger siblings. Work in a spirit producing company. Socialist activities. In 1879 his house was raided and he had to leave his job due to his political affiliations. He got a position for his company in Spain in 1880. Due to his growing competence he was ordered back to Posen and became one of the directors in 1886. Isidor Stern abandoned his political activities and expanded the company to Berlin. Technical and social reforms. Expansion of the technical use of spirit. Detailed description of professional life. Marriage with Olga Fraenkel in 1888. Birth of his sons Fritz and Walter. Move to Berlin in 1896. Birth of his daughter Charlotte. Both his sons served in World War One. Social concerns within the business world. Friendship with the political reformer Friedrich Naumann and engaging in liberalism. Membership in the "Freisinnige Vereinigung", a liberal party. Influence of the economic reform ideas of Franz Oppenheimer. Friendship with the politician Theodor Barth, editor of the paper "Die Nation". Relationship with Paul Nathan, co-founder of the "Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden".
    Abstract: Contact to the left with Eduard David and Albert Sydekum. "Gesellschaft fuer ethische Kultur" in Berlin. Political diversion and instability in post-war Germany. Economic political activities and suggestions to improve the situation for the unemployed. Business endeavors. Sunday soirees at Olga and Isidor Stern's new apartment. Summer vacations in the Swiss alps. Travels to Italy, Spain and Morocco. Death of his wife Olga in 1928. Isidor Stern donated a house for less privileged Jewish women in the memory of his wife. The "Olga-Stern-house" was opened by the "Juedische Frauenbund" in 1930. After Hitler's being appointed chancellor of Germany Isidor Stern left Germany together with his daughter for France. From 1934-1939 he lived in Zuerich. His children emigrated to London, Switzerland and the USA. In October 1939 Isidor Stern emigrated to New York.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned:
    Abstract: Barth, Theodor; David, Eduard; Förster, Wilhelm; Gutmacher, Elias; Guttmann, Albrecht; Herzfeld family; Hindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934; Katzenellenbogen, Ludwig; Lewin, Leopold; Mommsen, Carl; Nathan, Paul, 1857-1927; Naumann, Friedrich, 1860-1919; Oppenheimer, Franz, 1864-1943; Schrader, Karl; Stern, Bernhard; Sydekum, Albert.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Zwei Jahre Frankreich und die damit verbundenen Erlebnisse. (1941)
    Santo Domingo :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 95 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; France History German occupation, 1940-1945. ; Dominican Republic Ethnic relations. ; Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Emigration to France in 1938; internment in Gurs; emigration to USA via Lisbon and Dominican Republic.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 2, copy on MM 73 , German
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    Für meine Kinder und Enkel. (1941)
    Bruxelles :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 156 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1941
    Former Title: No Title
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Jews 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Law studies in Berlin, Munich and Bonn; experiences as lawyer in Imperial and Weimar Germany; dismissal and emigration to Belgium.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein Leben : Erinnerungen eines Grossvaters (1941)
    [London] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 161 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Cohen, Hermann, ; Graetz, Heinrich, ; Hildesheimer, Ezriel, ; Katzenellenbogen family. ; Montefiore, Claude G., ; Pappenheim, Bertha, ; Wahl, Saul ben Judah, ; Zunz, Leopold, ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Vereinigung für das liberale Judentum. ; B'nai B'rith ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; B'nai B'rith ; Antisemitism. ; Cholera ; Education before 1871. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Soldiers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Kaiserslautern (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Caesar Seligmann, written between 1934-1941 in Frankfurt and London; description of Jewish life in Landau in the 19th century; early memories of his Jewish childhood and family life; recount of the Landau rabbinate elections in 1836 and the defeat of Seligmann's father, who later on became an instructor at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Kaiserslautern; genealogical account reaching back to Katzenellenbogen family and Saul Wahl, the "Jewish king of Poland"; childhood and school in Landau; memories of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871); university studies in Munich and Breslau; anti-Semitic movement of Adolf Stoecker (1835-1909) and the Rohling affair in Austria; Juedisch-theologisches Seminar in Breslau; student associations (Liwiath Chen, Amicitia); descriptions of Heinrich Graetz, Leopold Zunz and Esriel Hildesheimer; assembly of German rabbis in Breslau in 1887; military service in 1887/88; graduating at the theological seminary in 1888; rabbi in Hamburg; lectures and research about the history of Judaism; religious education for the youth; marriage in 1892; cholera epidemic in Hamburg; rabbinic position in Frankfurt am Main in 1902; acquaintance with Bertha Pappenheim and encouraging the activities of Jewish women's organizations; Jewish dominated free masons' lodge (Bne Briss); crisis of liberal Judaism; internal conflicts between orthodox and liberal Judaism; reform of synagogue service and prayer book; new curriculum for Jewish schools; organization "Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum"; recollections of World War I; persecution of Jews in Frankfurt after 1933; November pogrom of 1938.
    Abstract: Also included are an incomplete list of Seligmann's publications and a German translation of the last will of his great grandfather's father-in-law, rabbi Seligmann Puettlingen (-1767).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 70 and MF 93 , German , Synopsis in file
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