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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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    A Walk Through My Life : An attempt to remember (1995-2002)
    Hanover, NH,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 217 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995-2002
    Keywords: Landmann family. ; Landmann, Siegfried. ; Hecht, Alfred. ; Rahn, Max. ; Kunreuther, Richard. ; Ollesheimer, Henry. ; Landmann, Frederick E., ; United States. ; Antisemitism. ; Brewing industry. ; Business travel ; Christmas. ; Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Jewish families 1880-1917. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; National socialism. ; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946. ; Translators. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Russia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir "A Walk Through My Life" is divided into three parts. The first section is entitled "From Birth through World War I to World War 2", part two is called "World War 2", and part three "The Years from 1946-2002". At the end is a short section - "Memorial" - which gives room to his family to honour the legacy of their grandfather and father after his death, with additional prayer texts and songs. After an introduction to the family brewing business, the memoir covers Frederick Landmann's years of education and apprenticeship, then his business travel for the family brewing supplies business to the Far East. He describes the rise of Hitler in Germany and all the obstacles and persecution this brought to his family, leading to his flight from the country in 1938. The memoir then describes New York during World War 2, and Mr. Landmann's efforts to secure his living, then talks about his time at the US Army and the War crime trials at Nuremberg. Back in the USA, he rejoins his family and continues his career in the brewing industry.
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Recollections of my life : An autobiography (1999)
    [Adelaide] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 125 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Pagel, Hans Isaac. ; Pagel, Regina. ; Tuckfield, Milton James. ; Australia. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish religious education. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Kępno (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir covers 1919 to 1999. Childhood memoirs of Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where Eva grew up as the third daughter of Hans Isaac and Regina Pagel. Her parents were highly respected members of the Jewish community as well as of the Zionist Movement. They owned a ladies' boutique and were rather affluent. Memories of Shabbat celebrations and observance of the holidays. Eva was enrolled in a Jewish public school. Hebrew school in the afternoons. At the age of eight Eva joined a Jewish youth group. Passion for books and theater. Recollections of the airship "Zeppelin Hindenburg". Trips to Berlin to visit her mother's parents. Holidays at her grandparents in Kempen (Kepno), where her father was born. After the Jewish primary school Eva attented the public girl's school (Gymnasium). Political tensions and the rise of Nazis. Emigration to Palestine via Romania, Hungary and Italy in 1932. Life in Tel Aviv, where her parents opened the first ladies' boutique "Ha Geveret". Difficulties of learning the new language (Ivrith). Member of the sport's club Maccabi, where Eva (Hava) was in the swimming team. Underground activities in the Haganah, the Israeli defense movement. Work as a photographer, in a kindergarten and in a flower shop. Recollections of the Arab uprising in 1936. Flow of new immigrants from Germany and Austria due to the dramatic political events in Europe. Outbreak of World War II. Friendship with an Australian soldier, who was stationed at Palestine. Marriage with James Tuckfield in April 1942. Difficulties with her father, who did not accept her Gentile husband. Birth of their son Raymond Gil. Emigration to Australia via Egypt and India in November 1944. Arrival in Melbourne in January 1945. Welcome by her husband's family in Adelaide, South Australia. End of the war and reunion with her husband. Birth of their daughter Judith Dawn in 1946 and move to Brownville. Birth of their son Allen David in 1948.
    Abstract: Declaration of the State of Israel. Visiting her family in Israel in 1970. Trip to Europe and Israel together with her husband in 1973. Birth of their grandchildren. Death of her husband in 1979. Various journeys to China, Cyprus, Israel and Europe.
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    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 + 34 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Altbach, Ludwig ; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) ; HIAS (Agency) ; Jews Persecutions. ; Education, Higher. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Soccer. ; Engineers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Argentina. ; Eggenburg (Austria) ; Peru. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.
    Abstract: Internment at Ellis Island and release with the support of HIAS. Arrival in Buenos Aires in October 1943 and reunition with his parents. Work for a steel company and studies of mechanical engineering at the University of La Plata. Graduation in 1949. Military coup and political instability. Walter Altbach founded his own business, which became a successful enterprise. Marriage in 1951. Move to Peru in 1967. Recollections of his first trip to Austria after his emigration in 1968.
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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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    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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    Two families. (1999)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 + xiii + 79 + viii pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Baschwitz family. ; Herzberg family. ; Schiff family. ; Wolfsohn family. ; Goldmann, Nahum, ; Art appreciation. ; Assimilation Jews. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Music appreciation. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Wuppertal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of the related Wolfsohn and Schiff families, covering 1776-1982.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Mordehai Akdon; Prince Czartoryski; Andrea Guarneri, 1626-1698; Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, 1687-1742; Leopold Krakauer, 1890-1954; Arturo Toscanini, 1867-1957; Richard Wagner 1813-1883
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 1: The Wolfsohn family
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 2: The Schiff family
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    Where the wolves say goodnight : Memoirs of a mother Hitler couldn't catch (1999)
    La Quinta, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 153 pages : , typescript, photocopy.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Abraham, Walter. ; Fromm, Frieda. ; Fromm, Meyer. ; Nickel, Maria. ; Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, Berlin (1933-1941) ; Antisemitism. ; Dressmakers. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1918 ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lubawa (Poland) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1999 in California. Memories of Ruth Abraham's childhood in Löbau, West Prussia. She grew up in an orthodox family. Her father, Meyer Fromm, was a wealthy merchant. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish holidays. Relationship between the Jewish and Christian community. Antisemitism after World War One, when Löbau became Polish. Rumors of pogroms in Russia. Opting for German citizenship and move to Allenstein near Koenigsberg in 1921. Early interest in dressmaking. Ruth was enrolled in the Luisen Schule, a homemaking school for girls. Private Religion and Hebrew classes at home. Importance of family ties. Increasing encounters of alienation with non-Jewish friends, who stopped associating with her. Rising Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism. Apprenticeship at the family's dressmaker. First signs of the growing danger in Germany. In 1932 her sister Betty left for Palestine. Move to Berlin, where she stayed at her sisters' houses, who were both married to affluent business men and led the lives of comfortable middle class wives. Fascinating cultural life in Berlin. Working with various dressmakers. Jewish life slowly disappeared into private life due to fears of stirring attention. Increasing persecution and awareness of permanent danger. Zionist lectures and activities. Trip to Italy and Palestine to visit her sister in February 1938. Witnessing the terror of the "Kristallnacht" (November Pogrom). Attending performances of the Kulturbund (Jewish arts society) to escape the dreadful reality. Engagement with Walter Abraham. Fervent attempts to arrange an exit visa for the family. First deportations of relatives to camps in Poland. Forced labor in a pharmacy corporation. In 1942 Ruth became pregnant. Deportation of her parents. Encounter with a German woman, Maria Nickel, who offered her help. Birth of their daughter Reha and life in hiding in the countryside. Escape from a SS raid. Hiding in Berlin and life on the streets.
    Abstract: False identity and hiding place in the countryside. Liberation by the Russian army. Imprisonment of her husband accused of being a Nazi spy. Return to Berlin and liberation by the Americans.
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    A measure of time : my family chronicle (1999)
    London,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 216 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Jacobus, Jackie, ; Rosenthal family. ; Heymann, Lila, ; Melchior, Moses, ; Heymann, Georg, ; Eichenberg, Ausguste Elisabeth, ; Schwarzschild family. ; Picard, Henny, ; Picard, Lucien, ; Alexander, Alfred, ; Alexander family. ; Families 19th century. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Lawyers. ; Nurses. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: John Alexander describes the family history - reaching back to ancestors in the early 16th century. The author's paternal grandfather Alfred Alexander, born 1880 in Bamberg, was a physician. In 1909 he married Henny Picard, daughter of the well known banker Lucien Picard and his wife Amalie Schwarzschild. Schwarzschild family tree with ancestors traced back to the 16th century. Alfred and Henny Alexander had 4 children - the youngest two were the twins Hanns and Paul, born 1917 in Berlin. They were living in an elegant apartment, which also contained the consultation room of Alfred Alexander's office. In 1923 Alfred founded a clinic for leukaemia patients, which acquired excellent reputation. In 1936 they emigrated to England, where Alfred continued to practice. His sons Hanns and Paul Alexander volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and fought against the Germans in France and Belgium.
    Abstract: The appendix contains journal excerpts from Alfred Alexander and Lucien Picard.
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    Lebos / (1998)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 92 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Pick family. ; Pick, Otto, ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Sports. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sudetenland (Czech Republic) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Oskar Pick written in 1998; description of family life in the Sudeten area of Bohemia; memories of the family estate and textile industry; recollections of his upbringing, which involved his resolute grandmother and various nannies; member of the Jewish sport's club "Makabi"; his father's journey to purchase land in Palestine in the 1930s; nervous disposition of his father due to a head injury of World War I; participation at the Makabiade in Zilina, Slovakia in 1936; escapades of his school time; after a certain incident Oskar was sent to a sport's boarding school near the Austrian border; in 1938 the school was transferred to Salzburg, Austria; ski trips; after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 the entire school was ordered back immediately; annexion of the Sudetenland area; the entire family had to flee to Prague; first confrontation with antisemitism; his father was offered a job in Egypt, where he tried to get "Palestine" affidavits for his family; occupation of Prague; Oskar's mother took refuge with her sons in Italy; they managed to get their affidavits for Palestine; arrival and reunition with their father in Tel Aviv in 1939; Oskar started an apprenticeship at "Mercedes Benz" in Israel; member of the organization "Blau-Weiss"; end of World War II; facing the tragedy of the loss of their entire family in the Holocaust; encounters with survivors; marriage to his fiance "Ande" in 1947; declaration of the state of Israel in 1948; activities in the emerging military; victim of meningitis epidemic; war with Egypt; six-days-war; career at BMW; job offer in Kaiserslauten, Germany; cultural differences in the mentality of the local inhabitants; move to Cologne with his family from Israel, where Oskar Pick still lives today.
    Abstract: Memoir by Oskar Pick written in 1998; description of family life in the Sudeten area of Bohemia; memories of the family estate and textile industry; recollections of his upbringing, which involved his resolute grandmother and various nannies; member of the Jewish sport's club "Makabi"; his father's journey to purchase land in Palestine in the 1930s; nervous disposition of his father due to a head injury of World War I; participation at the Makabiade in Zilina, Slovakia in 1936; escapades of his school time; after a certain incident Oskar was sent to a sport's boarding school near the Austrian border; in 1938 the school was transferred to Salzburg, Austria; ski trips; after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 the entire school was ordered back immediately; annexion of the Sudetenland area; the entire family had to flee to Prague; first confrontation with antisemitism; his father was offered a job in Egypt, where he tried to get "Palestine" affidavits for his family; occupation of Prague; Oskar's mother took refuge with her sons in Italy; they managed to get their affidavits for Palestine; arrival and reunition with their father in Tel Aviv in 1939; Oskar started an apprenticeship at "Mercedes Benz" in Israel; member of the organization "Blau-Weiss"; end of World War II; facing the tragedy of the loss of their entire family in the Holocaust; encounters with survivors; marriage to his fiancee "Ande" in 1947; declaration of the state of Israel in 1948; activities in the emerging military; victim of meningitis epidemic; war with Egypt; six-days-war; career at BMW; job offer in Kaiserslauten, Germany; cultural differences in the mentality of the local inhabitants; move to Cologne with his family from Israel.
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    The diary of Else Pintus : The story of a Holocaust survivor (1998)
    Seattle :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 58 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Pintus, Clara. ; Pintus, Else. ; Pintus, Heinz. ; Pintus, Richard. ; Pintus, Max. ; Pintus family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Kartuzy (Poland) ; Poland History 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Outbreak of World War II in Karthaus (Kartuzy); German invasion; seizure of brother; move to Danzig; attempts to contact brother; life in Danzig; work in old-age home after deportation of most Jews from Danzig; flight after threat of deportation; return to Karthaus; hides in friend's house attic; life in hiding; liberation and trials under Russian occupation; life in immediate post-war years.
    Abstract: Outbreak of World War II in Karthaus, Pomerania (today Kartuzy, Poland); German invasion; seizure of brother; move to Danzig; attempts to contact brother; life in Danzig; work in old-age home after deportation of most Jews from Danzig; flight after threat of deportation; return to Karthaus; hides in friend's house attic; life in hiding; liberation and trials under Russian occupation; life in immediate post-war years.
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    Names Calling / Prague Winter / Flight to England. (1998)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 + 31 + 9 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Chadwick, Trevor. ; Eisenberger, Erna. ; Eisenberger, Wilhelm. ; Eisenberger family. ; Stein family. ; Grocers. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Lawyers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; England Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1998. History of the Stein and Eisenberger family. The author’s mother Erna was the daughter of the well-respected solicitor Dr. Wilhelm Eisenberger. She got married to a Gentile, with whom she had a daughter, the author’s older sister Anna. After their divorce she got married to Arnold Stein, father of the author. Brief recollections of the author’s childhood. Jump to life in Karlsbad under the Nazi rule in 1938. Move to Prague. Fervent preparations in order to be able to emigrate. With the help of Trevor Chadwick Gerda was sent to England on a children’s transport in March of 1939.
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    My granddaughter wanted to know... (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 2 +7 + 5 + 6 , handwritten manuscript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Groszman family. ; Horthy, Miklós, ; Wallenberg, Raoul, ; Antisemitism. ; Blood accusation ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish ghettos. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1998 in Argentina. Gabriel Groszman describes the family history reaching back to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Anti-Semitism and the blood libel trial of Tisza Eszlar. His father, who was born in the Habsburg empire, fought in World War One. In 1918 counter revolution in Hungary under Admiral Horthy, who established a semi-fascist regime. Childhood memories of the Jewish life in Vamosmikola, a small Hungarian village of 1500 inhabitants and 25 Jewish families. Both of his grandparents had small stores and did fairly well. Encounters of anti-Semitism in a predominantly Catholic environment. With Hitler's rise in Germany Admiral Horthy became encouraged to reinforce Anti-Jewish regulations. Gabriel's father was forced to give up his grain-business, because agricultural related buisness was prohibited for Jews. Move to Budapest. Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944. Imi, Gabriel's 18 years old brother, was taken to a copper mine in Yugoslavia. Gabriel himself at age 14 had to clean up factories after air raids. He got a position as a messenger boy at the Jewish community committee (Judenrat). Large Jewish population in Budapest (300.000) delayed the Nazi efforts of deportation. Concentration of the Jewish population in designated houses under restricted circumstances. House searches by the Nazis. Growing danger of deportation. Raol Wallenbergs intervention with the Swedish embassy provided the family with a special document of protection. They moved to the "Swedish house". In December 1944 the Nazis did not respect any longer the immunity of the protected Jewish families and started deporting people from there as well. The Nazis established a Jewish ghetto in a district of Budapest to prepare the final deportation of the Jewish population in Budapest. Approaching Russian troops cut the roads and crossed these plans. The family of Gabriel Groszman was still able to stay in the "Swedish house", though with limited protection.
    Abstract: Mass killing of Jewish people who were taken to the river Danube and shot by Hungarian Nazis. Gabriel's father bought forged papers for the family, stating them as Eastern Hungarian refugees. They moved out of the Ghetto and the "Swedish house" to the gentile district with forged identities. Air raids and advancing Russion troops. Their landlords discovered their true identity and restrained from denouncing them. After a few weeks Budapest was liberated by the Russians. The family moved to Vienna and lived there for three years, before they emigrated to Argentina.
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    A balance sheet of life. (1998)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 256 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Karpf, Fanny, ; Rothenberg, Isaak, ; Moses, Dora, ; Moses, Israel, ; Weiss, Therese, ; Rothenberg, Heinz, ; Hannes, Annema, ; Rothenberg, Emil, ; Rothenberg family. ; Accountants. ; Education, Elementary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Frankfurt (Germany) ; London (England) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Worms (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written 1998 in London. The author describes the Rothenberg family's history going back to the late 18th century. Helmut Rothenberg's great-grandfather Emil Rothenberg was born 1853 in Goettingen. His mother died three years later, and Emil was brought up with relatives. In 1879 Emil Rothenberg married Fanny Karpf, whose ancestors came from southern Germany. Emil and Fanny lived in Nuernberg and had seven children. Their oldest son Isaak, the author's father, was born in 1880. He became a senior manager at the brass works of Aron Hirsch & Son in Halberstadt. In 1914 Isaak Rothenberg married Dora Moses, who came from a large orthodox family. Isaak and Dora Rothenberg had two sons; Helmut, born in 1915, was the oldest. His brother Karl-Heinz was born in 1917. In 1920 the family moved to Frankfurt, where Isaak Rothenberg joined a manufacturing business. Memories of the Rhineland occupation by French troops and the time of inflation after World War I. Helmut attended "Musterschule", a school based on Johann Pestalozzi's principles of education. School trip to London in 1930. Private piano lessons and growing interest in music. Rising Nazism. Helmut Rothenberg graduated in 1933, shortly after Hitler had become chancellor of Germany. A few months later he left Frankfurt for England. He stayed with friends of his father in Cheshunt, where he started to work as a chartered accountant. Helmut's brother Heinz (Henry) joined him in 1934, as the condition in his school in Frankfurt had become intolerable. Summer vocations with their parents in Suffolk. In 1939 Isaak and Dora Rothenberg were able to emigrate to England - shortly before the outbreak of war with Germany. Henry joined the Pioneer Corps in 1939, while Helmut worked for the War Office. The family moved to London in 1940. Recollection of air raids and situation as enemy aliens.
    Abstract: Helmut Rothenberg started his own business in 1945, and shortly thereafter he married his fiancée Annema Hannes. In 1946 their son John Daniel was born. Description of his professional accomplishments. Memories of colleagues and friends. Their second son Robert Michael was born in 1950.
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    My Pre-American History. (1997)
    [Long Island] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 62 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Buchbinder family. ; Israel. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Germans Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; England. ; Isle of Man. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author’s father Dr. Leon Buchbinder was a lawyer and veteran officer of World War One. He got married to Toni Hernes in 1919. After the birth of their son Martin they moved to Vienna. The author grew up in an enlightened Jewish family, celebrating the Jewish holidays. His father was a Social Democrat. Martin attended Gymnasium. Recollection of anti-Semitic remarks among his fellow students. He joined the Boy Scouts. Memories of the social democratic government In Vienna. Civil war in February of 1934 and banning of the social democratic party. Rising of National Socialism in times of unemployment and poverty. Recollections of Anschluss to Nazi Germany. Martin was forced to leave his school and enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium. Description of frequent round-ups and humiliation by Nazi troops.
    Abstract: The family decided to leave the country and prepared their emigration. Martin joined the Zionist youth movement Makkabi Hazair and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. He was sent on Hachsharah to a chicken farm in Eichgraben, in the outskirts of Vienna, in November of 1938. During Kristallnacht, they were raided by a group of local Nazi youths and sent to a large estate (Schloss Walpersdorf), where they worked alongside non-Jewish co-workers. In April of 1939 Martin was sent to England for agricultural training. He worked in Llandegveth, in South Wales. His parents were banned to emigrate to England and went on an illegal passage to Palestine. Martin was accepted at a Youth Aliyah training center in Glamorganshire and worked on farms and as a groom for a physician in Hereford.
    Abstract: In 1940 he was arrested and interned as an "enemy alien" together with other refugees: rich cultural life among his fellow internees, who were largely intellectuals and socialists. Transport to the Isle of Man due to increased fear of a German invasion. He joined the British "Habonim" in 1942 and was sent to the "Beth-Challutz" in West Hempstead. “Blitzkrieg” and recollections of the V.E. day in London. In 1946 he joined an Israeli underground group for illegal emigration to Palestine. After some weeks at sea their ship was captured by the British and Martin and his inmates were sent to a camp in Cyprus. After 11 months he was released and was finally able to be reunited with his parents, who were living in Tel-Aviv. Martin joined the army and trained to be a radio operator. Army exchange trip to the United States. Work as an instructor in the Israeli Air Force and technical exchange trip to France, where he met his future wife Maya. Wedding in 1957 in Israel. 1961 immigration to the US to join Maya's parents. Birt oh their children Elia and Danny. Martin continued his studies at NYU, eventually settling with his family in Long Island.
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    A child of the twentieth century : My journey to America. (1997)
    Bloomington, Indiana :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Blume, Grete. ; Gordon, Ruth. ; Jacubeit family. ; Lechner, Alfred. ; Makower, Gerhard. ; Neuweg, Arthur. ; Neuweg, Kurt. ; Rackwitz family. ; Antisemitism. ; Dentists, Jewish. ; Families. ; Forced labor. ; Intermarriage. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Landsberg an der Warthe (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family background; parents; childhood memories; vacations with family; family experience after 1935; move to Berlin; life in Berlin; start of World War II; forced labor in Berlin; experiences during bombing of Berlin; end of war; enters Humbold Univeristy in 1946; experiences of Jacubeit family, Rackwitz family; emigration to USA; military service in US Army in Japan; entrance to Harvard University; graduate school at Harvard; meets wife; move to Bloomington, Indiana.
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    Three branches of our family : 1850-1997 (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 159 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Backer, Ellen Wolf (Ellen Ruth Wolf) ; Desman, Lise Muller (Liesel Müller) ; Kann, Emma. ; Kratzenstein, Rachel (Rosel Mueller) ; Kratzenstein family. ; Mueller family ; Wolf family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Schwetzingen (Germany) ; Sobernheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Geneology and brief histories of the Müller/Muller, Wolf/Wolfe, and Kratzenstein/Kaye families; family history, reflections on life experiences.
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    From St. Poelten to America : [1906-1997]. (1997)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Kubin, Rosa, ; Kubin, Ludwig. ; Lustig family. ; Mautner, Hans. ; Singer, Karl. ; Ullman, Egon. ; Chemists. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Boston (Mass.) ; Sankt Pölten (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in the United States in 1997. Childhood recollections. Ambition of Rosa's father, a leather merchant, to send his daughter to Gymnasium (high school) in order to prepare her for studies at the University. Rosa was the only female student in the local Gymnasium. Recollections of World War One. After graduation in 1924 she enrolled at the University of Vienna. Her plan to study medicine was opposed by her mother, so she registered in pharmacology and chemistry. In 1930 she became engaged with her future-husband Dr. Ludwig Kubin, specialist in dermatology. Rosa received her doctorate in chemistry in 1931. She got a position with the Austrian Chemical Works as the only female applicant among 50. Rosa and Ludwig Kubin were married in 1935. Preparations for their emigration prior to the Anschluss 1938. The couple received affidavits for the United States. They left for Portland, Oregon via Switzerland and Paris in 1938. Life as immigrants in the new country. Rosa became the breadwinner of the family as a hospital technician at the Oregon Medical School. They moved to Boston, were they both obtained positions at the Waltham hospital. Rosa became an Assistant Professor of chemistry at Middlesex University (later: Brandeis University). Sudden death of her husband in 1954. Rosa Kubin was the only women honored as a 50-year member by the American Chemical Society at Harvard in 1990.
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    Liebe, Hass und Krieg - oder die verwogenen Wellen. (1997)
    Launceston, Tasmania :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 138 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Dvorsky, Otto, ; Dvorsky, Theresa (Weiss) ; Courtship. ; Deportation. ; Desertion, Military. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945 Eastern front. ; Amstetten (Austria) ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir 1908-1947 by Ingeborg Fischer-Dvorsky, describing the life of her parents in a fictional and sentimental style. Otto Dvorsky was descendant of a Polish aristrocratic family. Detailled description of his courtship with his future-wife Theresa during the war, where Otto served as a lieutenant in the German army hospital. Marriage and birth of their daughter Ingeborg. Account of Otto Dvorsky's experience in the "Wehrmacht". Air raids in Vienna and experiences during World War II. Otto's desertion and his affair with a woman called Julia. Penal transfer to the Eastern front. Theresa lost their second child. Interrogation by the Gestapo due to her husband's Jewish descent. With the support of a local Gestapo officer her deportation to Auschwitz could be posponed. Liberation by the Russian army. Emigration to Australia.
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    [Memoirs] : [1922-1996]. (1996)
    Menlo Park, CA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Porat, Etka, ; Porat, Milka, ; Porat family. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kibbutzim. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicists. ; Shtetls. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clausus for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailled acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illeagal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzwah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illeagal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clauses for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailed acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illegal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illegal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: After the end of war he learned about the fate of his family, who perished in the Holocaust. Dan rejoined the Haganah after war. He got married to his wife Frieda in 1946. Continuation of his studies. Birth of his son Uri. Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. Volunteering in the War of Independence. Scholarship to study physics at Manchester University in England. Birth of his daughters Ruthi and Naomi in England. Move to USA to work as nuclear physicist at Harvard and MIT. Position as physicist at Stanford for 26 years.
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    My Life. (1996)
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    Pages: 21 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Bakers. ; Collective settlements ; Death marches. ; Ghettos. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Chayim Gefen, written in 1992, translated into English by Jacob Mueller in 1996, including recollections of life in Nazi Germany, of his family's emigration to Poland, of the outbreak of World War II and the German occupation, of the confinement of his family in the ghetto of Skelicin, of his experiences in the concentration camps of Mielece in Poland and Flossenburg in Bavaria, of the death march from Flossenburg to Neustadt (on the Waldnaab), of being liberated by the American army in Stamsried, of life as a Displaced Person in Frankfurt, of his emigration to Palestine via a transit camp in Marseilles, of his stay in camp Atlith in Palestine and in Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan, and of his visit to Flossenburg on a trip back to Germany in the 1990s.
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    Glad, mighty glad, to be British : The memoirs of Dr. John Abels. (1996)
    Billingham, England :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 280 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish physicians. ; Swim teams. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    How beautiful we were. (1996)
    Pittsburgh :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 112 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Adelsheim, Honey. ; Aldesheimer, Emma. ; Aldesheimer, Gustav, ; Aldesheimer, Paula, ; Bornebusch, Wolfgang. ; Eichmann, Johanna. ; Kann, Nathan. ; Silberman family. ; Silberman, Hanna, ; Silberman, Louis, ; Wagner, Gottfried. ; Weissmann Klein, Gerda. ; Zadek family. ; Zadek, Gerhard. ; Antisemitism. ; Cattle trade. ; Country life. ; Housekeepers. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lemförde (Germany) ; Schermbeck (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the author's family history. Her parents, Hanna and Louis Silberman, married in 1918. Marga was the last child of four. Recollection of her father's sudden death in 1934 due to the shock of an announced arrest by the Gestapo. Her mother had to take a job as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to Schermbeck to live with her mother's younger sister Paula and her grandparents in the countryside. Her maternal grandfather Gustav Adelsheimer was a cattle dealer and a respected member of the local Jewish community. Celebration of Jewish holidays. Disrupted education due to Nazi laws. Recollections of the terrors of Kristallnacht, when they were forced to leave their house and run for shelter in the woods. The family moved to stay with relatives in Berlin shortly thereafter. Difficult circumstances of life in Nazi Germany and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Their immigration papers arrived in May 1941, and Marga and her mother were able to immigrate to USA via Lisbon. Arrival in New York. Difficult new beginnings. Marga's mother took a position as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to live with a German-speaking foster family during the school year. Cultural and language differences. After two years her mother and sister had saved enough for an own apartment, and the family was reunited. Return to Schermbeck in 1981. Recollections of the family members who perished in the Holocaust. Reunion with her Gentile friend Irmgard in Schermbeck. Reconciliation with residents of Schermbeck. Return to Lemforde together with her sister Hilde in 1986. Reflections on her frequent reconciliation meetings in Germany and her effort to commemorate the Holocaust.
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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    The suitcase in the garage : Letters and photographs of a German Jewish family, 1800-1950. (1996)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 380 pages : , bound private print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Ambrose family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; Stettin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Kenneth Ambrose's family from Stettin. Also mentioned are the following families: Abrahamsohn ; Buss ; Cronbach ; Waldauer.
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    Es gab juedischen Widerstand. (1995)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 35 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Masur, Norbert. ; Hechaluz. ; Jewish Agency for Israel. ; Kadimah Bund Juedischer Pfadfinder. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Denmark. ; Essen (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sweden. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the death of Gert Loellbach’s parents in a ship accident in 1932. Gert was sent to live with his aunt in Kreuznach and was suddenly confronted with rising antisemitism due to Nazi propaganda. In Kreuznach he suddenly belonged to a visible minority at school, whereas in Berlin half of the students had been Jewish. Orthodox Jewish life at his aunt’s house. Gert had been brought up in an assimilated Jewish family. He was forced to leave school before taking the final exams (Abitur) and started to work in a wood trading company of his father’s friend. Soon thereafter the company was confiscated. Gert belonged to the Jewish sports group "Kadimah". Zionist activities and agricultural education in preparation for Palestine. Incidents and threats by Nazi groups. Gert became a youth leader for the district of Essen. Preparation for the members to emigrate. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and his arrest. He was spared deportation to a concentration camp and was freed due to the intervention of the rabbi of his home town. After his release he made his way to Berlin with the help of a nun. Endeavors to free his colleagues from the concentration camp. Difficulties to obtain visas. Plans to bring members of the Zionist groups to Palestine. Gert Loellbach’s activities were made known to the Gestapo and he had to leave the country. Exit permit for Sweden. Gert left Germany in time and started to prepare young "Hechaluzim" in Sweden for their emigration to Palestine - a program started by Emil Glueck. The outbreak of the war inhibited their further emigration. Fear of invasion of Nazi Germany in South Sweden. He worked together with the Jewish Agency and corresponded with various inmates of concentration camps, which meant a certain degree of protection for them. In 1940 Gert organized an initiative to rescue members of the Youth Aliyah and the Jewish population in Denmark after the German invasion.
    Abstract: A camp for the Jewish refugees was established near the Swedish port of Helsingborg. Difficulties to find work for the refugees. Gert was sent to Stockholm to represent the Hechaluz organization and open a "Palestinabuero" for the Jewish Agency. Reports of the fate of other refugees. Norbert Masur and the Bernadotte-Aktion to free 28.000 inmates in concentration camps in 1944.
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    [Memoir]. (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: Swedish
    Pages: 71 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Löllbach family. ; Hechaluz. ; Jewish Agency for Israel. ; Kadimah Bund Juedischer Pfadfinder. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Denmark. ; Essen (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sweden. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography of Gert Loellbach in Swedish with expanded family history, circa 1932-1947.
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    The Fountain. (1995)
    San Francisco, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 220 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: synopsis; photographs and documents
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Cramer family. ; Gumbel, Josef. ; Gumbel, Max. ; Gumbel, Melanie. ; Gumbel family. ; Gümbel family. ; United States. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Grain trade. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Africa, North. ; Cuba. ; France. ; Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Circa 1878-1995: Family background; experience of French occupation, 1918; arrest and incarceration in concentration camp 1933; flight to Switzerland, France, Algeria, Spanish Morocco, Casablance, Cuba, USA; experiences during Spanish Civil War in Morocco; experience in US Army; military service in England; return to Albisheim and Germany after war with US Army; work in US Army intelligence after war, helping to investigate I. G. Farben; experiences of parents in Germany after 1933, including Kristallnacht; emigration of parents to USA, via England, in 1940; account written by father Josef Gumbel of Kristallnacht; father's experiences in USA after emigration; marriage in 1950.
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    Hans Martin Grossmann. (1995)
    [New York],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Jewish refugees. ; Revolutions. ; Sports. ; Textile industry. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Buenos Aires (Argentina) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Montevideo (Uruguay) ; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) ; Trieste (Italy) ; Uruguay Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1992. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Grossmann began to write his memoirs in Montevideo in 1990. The present draft touches on his life in Vienna; “Anschluss”; his life in Italy and in England; fighting in World War II; his emigration to South America; his work in the textile industry; and his encounters with revolutions.
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    Dear Joel. (1995)
    Florida,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Haspel, Joseph, ; Great Britain. British Army. ; Haganah (Organization) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany Prisoners of war. ; Palestine. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen fifties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: "Dear Joel" memento (9 pages) written by J. Haspel on 3/10/1995 in Florida, containing mainly war experiences, such as his induction into the British Army (fights in North Africa and Greece), his time as POW in several camps in Germany, his escape and return to Palestine (Israel), where he became a member of the Hagana before he finally emigrated to the US in 1950
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    Munich 1933-1938. (1995)
    Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 96 + 52 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: documents (photocopies)
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Katz, Richard, ; Strasser, Gregor, ; Werkleute, Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Dominican Republic Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Lucerne (Switzerland) ; Munich (Germany) ; Sosúa (Dominican Republic) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood experiences growing up in Munich after 1933; experiences of antisemitism at school; emigration to Switzerland in 1938; life in Lucerne, boarding school in Champery; internment in Swiss camp after outbreak of war; emigration to Dominican Republic in 1940; fate of family in Germany during war; life in Dominican Republic; immigration to USA in 1946.
    Abstract: Addenda: Book II: Refugee 1938-1946
    Description / Table of Contents: [Book I]: Munich 1933-1938
    Description / Table of Contents: Book II: Refugee 1938-1946
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    Memo from Sig Rosenthal. (1995)
    Delray Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , handwritten notes.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Former Title: [Memoirs]
    Keywords: Rosenthal, Theodor. ; United States. ; Hairdressing. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Göppingen (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief account of emigration to USA; activity as hairdresser and traveling salesman after World War II; military service during World War II; liberation of Goeppingen.
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    Ein Leben in vier Welten. (1995)
    Frankfurt am Main :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 126 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Aaron family. ; Peiser family. ; Sachs family. ; Strauss family. ; Wertheim family. ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Collective settlements ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Pharmacists. ; Physicians. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History. ; Gliwice (Poland) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Poznań (Poland : Voivodeship) ; Rawicz (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written 1995 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Description of the author's family history and Jewish life in Posen. Ellen's paternal great-grandfather Raffael Loewenfeld was a friend of Leon Tolstoi, who first translated his work into German. He was the founder of the Berlin Schiller theater and participated in the foundation of the "Centralverein" (CV). Ellen Strauss' family include the physician and feminist Rahel Straus, the actress Lilli Palmer (Peiser) and the Socialist politician Jaques Servan Schreiber. The author's mother Marta Schreiber was educated in languages and literature. She married the pharmacist Georg Peiser in 1911. Description of the bourgeoise family household. Recollections of Imperial Germany. Importance of music in the family. Outbreak of World War One. Birth of her brother Hans in 1915. Aftermath of World War One. End of the German rule in Posen and move to Berlin. Impact of the inflation in 1923. Difficult new start for the family. Ellen and her brother attended one of the first co-educated schools in Germany, the "Berlin Waldschule". After graduation she enrolled in the "Frauenschule" in Dahlem, where she received a training in children's care and psychology. Decision to become a pharmacist. Rising Nazism. Death of her mother in 1933. During that time Ellen became active in a Zionist organization and took lessons in Hebrew. Journey to France in her new car. Recollections of the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Emigration to Palestine in 1938. Reunition with her brother Hans, who had already left in 1936. Life of her brother Hans (Chaim) in the kibbuz. Their father stayed in Berlin, where he got remarried, and the couple was able to leave for Argentine in 1939.
    Abstract: Ellen settled in Tel-Aviv, where she found work in a pharmacy. Courtship with Hans Strauss, who worked as a driving teacher. Marriage in September 1939. Social life. Birth of their daughter Ruth Miriam in September 1945. Arab riots. Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 and war of independence. Trip to Europe in 1956, where they visited the surviving relatives of her husband. Move to Frankfurt, Germany in 1957. Death of their daughter Ruthi at age 19 in 1964. Death of husband in 1990. Reflections on life and death.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:
    Abstract: Baer, Daniel, 1837- ; Glaser, Ruth; Goitein, Ida (Löwenfeld), 1848- ; Grünewald, Jaques ; Lowenfeld, Raffael, -1910 ; Palmer, Lilli, 1914-1986 ; Peiser, Felix ; Peiser, Georg, 1877-1964 ; Peiser, Louis, 1806-1892 ; Peiser, Marta (Schreiber), 1887-1933 ; Peiser, Milka (Löwenfeld), 1847- ; Preuss, Erich ; Preuss, Ruth ; Schreiber, Clara (Baer), 1867- ; Schreiber, Gotthold, 1857-1929 ; Schreiber, Jean Jacques Servan ; Schreiber, Philippine (Landsberger), 1820- ; Straus, Rahel, 1880-1963 ; Strauss, Ellen, 1912- ; Strauss, Hans ; Tolstoi, Leon, 1828-1910.
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