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    Memoirs of Reinhard Helmut Lesser / (1987-2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Austrian memories. (1999)
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    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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    How do you like America? : A family chronicle. (1999)
    La Jolla, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 138 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Stern, Beate Herzberg, ; Stern, Max, ; Westfeld, Max. ; Herzberg family. ; Stern family. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Jewish businesspeople. ; Jews Holidays and festivals. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Intellectual life Nineteen thirties. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Brussles (Belgium) ; Essen (Germany) ; France. ; Gelsenkirchen (Germany) ; Italy. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 2000 in California and contain some of the author's diary entries during the years of the family's emigration and reminiscences of the author's father. Detailed description of family history going back to the early 19th century. The author's grandfather Moses Stern had a rawproduct business in Gelsenkirchen, Westphalia. His father Max Stern took his graduate exam (Abitur) at the Jacobsohn boarding school in 1904 and was sent to a business school in Brussles, Belgium. Work in the family business M. Stern AG. World War One and rise of the family business with branches throughout Germany and offices in New York, London, Milan and Stockholm. Due to political unrest at the end of the war the business administration moved to Essen. Description of the family background of Beate Herzberg, the author's mother. Courtship of his parents and marriage in 1922. Birth of his sister Annelore in 1923. Martin Stern was born in 1924. Description of the family household and domestic life in a well-to-do family in the 1920s. Friday visits to the synagogue and celebration of Jewish holidays. Vacations at the Baltic Sea and skiinig in the Alps. Martin attended a Jewish elementary school. Rising Nazism. After Hitler came to power in 1933 the author's father immediately started preparations for the family's emigration, but was persuaded to stay by his family. Life under Nazi rule. Martin attended Gymnasium and was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Antisemitic incidents. Private lessons in piano and Hebrew. Bar Mitzvah in 1937. Recollections of performances of the Kulturbund.
    Abstract: Lessons in Italian and preparations for emigration. The family left Germany for Turin, Italy in 1937. Life in Italy and sign of spreading fascism and move to France in 1938. Life in Paris and lessons in French. Move to Grenoble. Description of various schools in Italy and France. German invasion in 1940. Fervent attempts to leave the country for England failed. The family escaped to Marseilles, Bordeaux and Bayonne and failed attempt to escape to Marocco. Finally the family succeeded in leaving for Algiers, where they arrived on July 4th of 1940. They went to Morocco and were granted exit permits for the United States. The family left for the United States via Portugal in August of 1940. They arrived in New York in September 1940.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    My story : [1915-1999]. (1999)
    Cadwell, NJ,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 101 pages.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Gutmann, Jakob, ; Pick, Margarethe, ; Pick family ; Rothberger, Bertha ; Rothberger family ; Schulhof family ; Weil family ; United States. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Engineers. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Families 20th century. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Ohio. ; Vienna (Austria) ; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army.
    Abstract: He served in England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.
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    Momma's arc / (1999)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 94 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Ensel, Judah. ; Harnish, Clara. ; Harnish, Franz. ; Leitner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Mauthner, Herbert, ; Mauthner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Weinberg family. ; Weinberg, Guy. ; Civil disobedience ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Blaricum (Netherlands) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Thuringia (Germany) ; Veszprém (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.
    Abstract: Description of the author's childhood in Amsterdam. German invasion of the Netherlands in 1941. Recollections of a visit at her maternal grandparents in Groszbuch, Germany in 1942. During the Nazi occupation, Julia, her mother, and her stepfather Herbert Mauthner moved to Blaricum, a town in the Dutch countryside. Julia, protected through her Gentile mother and "unknown" father, was enrolled in the local school. Her mother was part of the Dutch Resistance. She saved 6 Jews (including her husband and her mother-in-law) and later a German Wehrmacht deserter in Blaricum by hiding them in the attic of her house. Description of the life of the people hiding in "her mother's arc" and occasional razzias by the SS. Fate of her scattered family during the Holocaust.
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    Urgrossmutter Hannah Jeremias-Trietsch erzählt ihre Geschichte für ihren Nachwuchs : und für alle, die mit ihr ein Stück Leben gelebt haben. (1999)
    Nahariya :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 45 pages : , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Jeremias, Hannah, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Tomaschewsky, Emma (Esther), ; Trietsch, David, ; Trietsch family. ; Blau-Weiss Bund fuer Juedisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland (1913- ) ; Collective settlements ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Bene Beraḳ (Israel) ; Basel (Switzerland) ; Berlin (Germany) ; Givʻat Brener (Israel) ; Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) ; Nahariyah (Israel) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in Nahariya, Israel between 1998 and 1999. Family history of her father David Trietsch, who grew up in a Jewish orphanage and immigrated to the United States. He returned to Europe for the First Zionist Congress in Basel 1897 and stayed. He went to work as an economist in Palestine, where he met his future wife Emma Tomaschwsky. The couple got married in Jaffa. Move to Berlin in 1908, shortly before the birth of their first child. Hannah, born 1911, was the third child of five. She attended the Cecilienschule (girl's school). Description of a well-to-do household. Vacations at the Baltic Sea. Vague recollections of World War One and its aftermath. Financial difficulties due to the inflation. Acquaintance with Else Lasker-Schueler, who was a close friend of her girlfriend's mother. Hannah and her friend Helga were members of the Zionist Youth group "Blau-Weiss". Collecting donations for Palestine (keren kayemet le Israel). After graduation Hannah enrolled in painting classes with Dietrich Roehling. Position in a nursery at "Juedische Kinderhilfe". Preparation for her Aliya and volunteering at an alternative Jewish children's home on a farm in the Black Forest (Winkelhof). Emigration to Palestine in 1931. Arrival at the Kibbutz Giwath Brenner. Initial difficulties in adjusting to the primitive circumstances. Relationship with her future husband Benjamin Jeremias. Move to the "Kwuzath Hachugin" with Benjamin. After a short time Hannah expected a child, and the couple got married in December 1932. Hannah and Benjamin left the Kibbutz and moved to a small house in Bnei-Brak near Tel-Aviv. Birth of their daughter Ada in 1933. Move to the newly built colony of Nahariya near Akko, where Benjamin found a position as an agricultural advisor.
    Abstract: Recollections of their early life in Palestine. Incidents with the neighboring Arab community. After the birth of their second daughter Daniela in 1936, Hannah started a private nursery (Ganon) at her home. Proclamation of the state of Israel in 1948. Initiative of her husband Benjamin to start the organization "OLIVA" for cultural understanding between Jewish emigrés and young Germans. Cooperation with "Servas International". Addendum: recollections of her husband's childhood in Posen.
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