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Hebrew books from the Harvard College Library (1991-)

Harvard College Library ; Berlin, Charles

München : Saur

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ISBN: 3598412002 , 359841160X

Language: Hebrew

Year of publication: 1991-

Keywords: Quelle ; Judentum

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Memoirs of Reinhard Helmut Lesser / (1987-2013)

Lesser, Reinhard Helmut, 1913-1987. ; Bach, Margaret

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Language: English

Pages: 81 , bound typescript; illustrated +

Additional Material: genealogical tables

Year of publication: 1987-2013

Keywords: Honig family. ; Lesser family. ; Architects Biography. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Poznań (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The first 50 pages encompass Lesser’s memoirs from his birth to ca. 1920; his further life is then described by his daughter, Margaret Lesser Bach.

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Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)

Ungar, Nini, 1917-

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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.

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Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)

Fischer, Louise

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Language: German

Pages: 38 + 28 pages : , manuscript; typescript.

Year of publication: 1942-1998

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Keywords: Fischer, Erwin. ; Treu family. ; Laundry. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Rheda (Harsewinkel, Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Louise Fischer's life story written by her at the Aldersbrook Hospital in England in April of 1942. Also available is an English translation by by Erwin Fischer, 1998.

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Family histories : A collaborative enterprise. (1996)

Warmbrunn, Werner, 1920- ; Warmbrunn family.

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Language: English

Pages: 67 + 5 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1996

Keywords: Warmbrunn, Reni (née Rewald) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Family reunions. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Education ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: This memoir started as a "family history" project for a planned family reunion. Contributions have been made by Olga Warmbrunn, Reni Rewald, Margaret Mehler, Clara Waldeck, Arlene Saxonhouse, and Suzanne Mehler Whiteley, and by Werner Warmbrunn, who also put the contributions together. They write about their family background, their education, their living conditions in Germany, and their emigration, mostly to the United States, but also to England and to the Netherlands.

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Thankfully yours, Lisa Leist Seiden : 1929-1946. (1996)

Seiden, Lisa (née Leist), 1929-

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Language: English

Pages: 66 pages : , Typed and bound manuscript.

Year of publication: 1996

Keywords: Leist, Friedrich. ; Leist, Peter. ; Antisemitism. ; Women authors. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs Children ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996 at Lisa Seiden's home. The main time covered is her childhood in Vienna and her stay in Bath, England, during the war. Lisa Seiden describes daily life for a child in Vienna--the type of dolls she had, activities on a cold winter day, vaccations on the countryside. In 1938, she was not allowed to go to school anymore. She remembers many details during that time of horros--the anxious expressions in her parents' faces, the constant fear they had while being in the apartment. One day, the Gestapo was looking for her father, Friedrich Leist, but he was warned and did not return home. He had a hise-out and Lisa brought him food. It did not help--a few days later, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. On December 17, 1938, Lisa and her brother Peter were sent via Kindertransport to England. Since their parents did not get visas for England, they emigrated to Argentine where an uncle lived. Lisa Seiden writes about her time in Englad, her foster parents, schooling, and air raids. In May of 1946, a ship takes Lisa and Peter to their parents in Buenos Aires, Argentine. The memoir includes copies of photographs showing family members, herself, her doll's house, and vaccation trips etc. There also many letters included, as well as bits of Lisa Seiden's brother's (Peter Leist) dairy.

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The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)

Fliegel, Hans R., 1920- ; Fliegel, Fred.

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Language: English

Pages: 7 + 60 + 32 , typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 1996

Keywords: Blau, Bertha. ; Blau family. ; Dollfuss, Engelbert, ; Drucker, Kurt. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Fliegel, Hans Robert, ; Fliegel, Julius, ; Fliegel, Otto, ; Fliegel, Rosa, ; Fliegel, Wilhelm, ; Fliegel family. ; Grunwald, Max, ; Haber, Georg. ; Levi, Alice. ; Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah, ; Waldheim, Kurt. ; Dachau (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.

Description / Table of Contents: Also included are reproductions of documents.

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Memoir. (1996)

Keil, Jack Baruch, 1926-

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Language: English

Pages: 17 pages : , typescript (copies).

Year of publication: 1996

Keywords: Keil, Samuel, ; Antisemitism ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History 1934-1938. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Jarosław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Jack Baruch Keil starts his memoir with a brief description of his family's roots in Jaroslav, Poland. His parents had hardly any money, and moved to Berlin in the 1920s, where his father started a business, selling eggs. He was quite successful, even under the severe economic conditions in Berlin. There was also time for young Jack to go on vacations to the Baltic Sea. In 1933, things changed drastically. Nazis devastated his father's store, the eggs were an easy target for causing damage. The family decided to emigrate to Austria where they had relatives, in order to avoid the Nazi threat. His father managed to build up a new business, and young Jack enjoyed the widened family. The memoir also briefly mentioned the political situation in Austria during the 1930s when Austria's governing party suspended the parliament, the Nazis assassinated the chancelor Dollfuss, and when the Nazis annexed Austria in March 1938. Again, the family was persecuted and had to leave. But the family did not even have passports which made it even more complicated to get a visa for emigration. Finally, they all ended up in Belgium, although only his mother had a visa.

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Mein Leben : geschrieben 1982-1985, (1996)

Hirschberg, Lotte, 1898-1993.

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Pages: 24 pages : , typed manuscript.

Year of publication: 1996

Keywords: Hirschberg, Lotte, née Krieg, ; Intermarriage. ; Greek letter societies 1918-1933. ; Germany History 1800-1933. ; Chile Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.

Abstract: Written in the years 1982-1985, the memoirs start with a description of the area where she was born, Silesia. A large part is reserved for student fraternities during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933).

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Bertha Knispel : Homage to "our Bertchen". (1996)

Riess, Anneliese, 1910-

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Language: English

Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1996

Keywords: Knispel, Bertha. ; Families 1918-1933. ; Household employees. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: Story about Riess's housemaid in Berlin in the 1920s.

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Notgemeinschaft deutscher Wissenschaftler im Ausland : Erinnerungen (1996)

Schwartz, Philipp, 1894-

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Pages: 29 + 25 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy) +

Additional Material: documents

Year of publication: 1996

Keywords: Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. ; Authors, Exiled. ; College teachers. ; Exiles ; Jewish scholars. ; Physicians. ; Scholars, German. ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration. ; Turkey Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Emigration to Switzerland in 1933; activities of the "Notgemeinschaft"; employment of 40 German university teachers at Turkish universities; includes photos of documents concerning employment of German university teachers at Turkish universities.

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