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  • 1970-1974  (21)
  • Children.  (8)
  • Jewish refugees.  (8)
  • Jews, German Genealogy.
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  • 1
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    [Memoirs of Baronne Hildegard von Gumppenberg], (1942-2019)
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    Pages: 4 folders.
    Year of publication: 1942-2019
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish refugees. ; Women authors. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; France. ; Archival materials ; Biographical sources ; Manuscripts. ; Finding aids. ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Two original German manuscripts and their English translations, describing the author’s escape from Nazi Germany (written in 1942) and her subsequent life underground (written in the 1960s).
    Abstract: Also included is a report by Dominique Joliat, who’s father was a Swiss border guard, who rescued Gumppenberg’s original manuscript.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 : "[Vous êtes libre]", Macon; 1942
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 : "La vie de Mme Ducaret". Köln; 1970
    Description / Table of Contents: 3a: "Kaete Hildegard von Gumppenberg", English translation of "[Vous êtes libre]"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 3b: “My Life as Mme Ducaret : Living undercover in Cologne”, English translation of "La vie de Mme Ducaret"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 : "1942 : Baroness Von Gumppenberg and her attempted escape to Switzerland"; 2019
    Note: English translations by Gerda Loosemore-Reppen, edited by Ruth and David Geall , German and English , Finding Aid
    URL: Digital form
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6659186
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Toni Ehrlich's diaries, (1906-1996)
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    Pages: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes) : , 29 handwritten notebooks +
    Additional Material: + English summaries
    Year of publication: 1906-1996
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Education. ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: The diaries of Toni Ehrlich – 29 handwritten notebooks – document her life on an almost day to day basis, beginning on April 1, 1906 and ending with a single word (“Lo”, meaning “no” in Hebrew) on October 21, 1969. Her thoughts and observations concentrate mostly on matters and issues of art and culture, as well as – to a lesser degree – current events. Private matters, including life changing ones - like her husband’s death -, are mentioned on the side, if at all. The original diaries in old German handwriting are accompanied by detailed summaries in English and a list of names, provided by Irene Miller.
    Description / Table of Contents: Toni Ehrlich's diaries [29 volumes in Boxes ]: continuous from April 1, 1906 to August 27, 1969
    Note: German , English , Finding aid available online.
    URL: Digital form
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1209583
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    [Max Knight's Lebenserinnerungen], (1909-1991)
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    Pages: 8 + 1,007 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1909-1991
    Keywords: Propper family. ; Kühnel family. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Intermarriage. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish press. ; Jewish refugees. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript is richly interwoven with photocopies of photographs and original documents.
    Abstract: Reflections on career as editor at University of California Press; family geneology; lives of father and mother; birth in Pilsen; move to Vienna in 1910; school experiences; first publications; studied law at University of Vienna; published stories in journals and newspapers; relationships with various women; graduation with law degree; publishing of stories in London newspaper; internship as law clerk; emigration to England in 1938; emigree acquaintances in London; more writing for newspapers in London; job with the Jewish Chronicle; continued publication of stories in Germany under pseudonyms; story of brother's life; emigration of parents to England; diary written in Shanghai describing trip from England to Shanghai; voyage to Canada; train trip across Canada; boat trip to Shanghai via Japan; tour of Japan; description of arrival in Shanghai; work at newspaper in Shanghai and teaching English at University of Shanghai; emigration to USA in 1941; emigration of parents to USA; life in San Francisco; marriage to Charlotte Lowes; trips through United States; death of brother Otto in Australia; work as research assistant at Hoover Institution; graduate study in Political Science at University of California - Berkeley; letter from Harry Freud from Berlin 1945; letter from father Bernhard Kuehnel concerning restitution; letters to and from the writer Ernst Lothar.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Fabrizius, Peter; Fabry, Joseph; Freud, Harry; Freud, Sigmund; Friese, Ernst; Garrett, Joan; Gombrich, Ernst; Hoffer, Grete; Hoffer, Richa; Hoover Institution; Knight, Charlotte; Knight, Martin; Knight, Tony; Kuehnel, Bernhard; Kuehnel, Grete; Kuehnel, Margarethe; Kuehnel, Max; Kuehnel, Otto; Lieban, Ralph; Oppenheimer, Max; Propper, Laura; Rothschild, Lionel de; Sachs, Emmy; Schwarz family; Schwarz, Arthur; Schwarz, Kurt; Siebel, Max; Storfer, A. J.
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 23: parts 1-4
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 24: parts 5-6
    Note: Available on microfilm , English with German and Chinese , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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  • 4
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    [Memoirs by Marianne Berel]. (1902-1989)
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    Pages: circa 153 + 135 + 152 pages (double space) : , partially bound typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 1902-1989
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Women authors. ; Jewish refugees. ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Breslau. ; France. ; Morocco. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In 'Family fragments" Berel tells her nephew the story of her family and esp. of her sister Vera. In the form of letters, poems and photographs she reconstructs the history of the family in Germany, England and the USA. Contains original immigration documents from France, Morocco and the USA. [2 copies, one bound, one unbound]
    Abstract: 'I remember': Letters to author's mother, mostly written in Gurs internment camp; author's experiences in Gurs internment camp and emigration to New York via Nice (translated from German); Account of Berel's private life after her emigration to the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Family Fragments : compiled, written and edited by your mother's sister [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Letters to My Mother (Part I of 'I Remember') [bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: The time of adjustment : The first ten years (Part II of 'I Remember') [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , German , French , See inventory , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1521825&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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    Erich Drucker collection : diaries, essays, memoirs and poems, (1918-1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 linear foot : , 22 folders.
    Year of publication: 1918-1980
    Keywords: Mühsam, Erich, ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Anti-Nazi movement. ; Apartment houses. ; Bookstores. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Poetry. ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. ; Youth movements. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lisbon (Portugal) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vermont. ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Various manuscripts by Erich Drucker from the Erich Drucker Collection and the LBI Memoirs Collection
    Note: Microfilmed on MM 18, MM 19, MM 20 , German , Finding aid available online.
    URL: Digital form:
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  • 6
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    Straus genealogical miscellany. (1973-1977)
    Santa Barbara, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 1 , 2 bound manuscripts (photocopies); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1973-1977
    Keywords: Straus family. ; Straus, Lazarus, ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Otterberg (Germany) ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Two manuscripts (photocopies) describing the genealogy of the Straus family, descendents of Lazarus Straus.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of tables from a Straus family tree, based on a memorandum by Rabbi Felsenthal for the Jewish Encyclopedia, Chicago Ill., January 1905.
    Description / Table of Contents: Straus genealogical miscellany, 16 pages; 1973
    Description / Table of Contents: More Straus genealogical miscellany, 34 pages; 1977
    Note: English and German
    URL: Digital form:
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
    URL: Digital form:
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    Exil als Heimat : Deutsche Juden in New York: Beispiele intellektueller Emigrationsbewältigung. (1974)
    [Cologne] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 + 21 + 21 pages : , annotated typescript +
    Additional Material: correspondence
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Grubel, Fred ; Silberman, Curt C, ; Steinitz, Hans, ; Strauss, Herbert Arthur. ; Leo Baeck Institute. ; Jewish refugees. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Radio program with excerpts from interviews with German Jews in New York, describing how they mastered the situation with which they were confronted upon their immigration to America.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 9
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    Looking back from new horizons. (1974)
    East Hartford,
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    Pages: 39 + 34 + 35 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jewish refugees. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edited transcript and an English language translation of a memoir, originally written in German in 1941:
    Abstract: Recollections of the war years in France. Marriage with Rudolf Sachs in 1940 during the time of his internment as enemy alien. Yolla Niclas Sachs was taken to the Gurs internment camp. Escape from the camp to Oloron. Yolla lived in hiding with an elderly woman, whom she helped with the work on the fields. Search for her husband. Reunion with Rudolf Sachs at the "Centre des Isoles" (center for the dispersed soldiers) in Le Journet. Rudolf was transferred to another military camp in St. Antoine-Albi. Difficulties to obtain the exit visa to the United States, which permitted her husband to leave the camp. Yolla eventually succeeded in receiving the visa. They emigrated to the USA on board of the ship "Winnipeg", which left the harbor of Marseilles in May 1941. The ship was stopped in Martinque and all German and Austrian emigrants were taken to British internment camps in Trinidad. After their papers were checked they were permitted to continue their journey to the United States. Yolla Niclas-Sachs and Rudolf Sachs arrived in New York in June 1941.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs taken in war-time France.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: Photographs from Rueckblick und Blick in die Ferne
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    Reminiscences. (1974)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 8 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Refuge in Uruguayan embassy in The Hague; immigration to USA in 1940.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
    URL: Digital form:
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    A German-Jewish refugee : Paraphrased transcript of tape recorded interviews. (1974)
    Manchester, Conn. :Manchester Community College,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 45 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: 12 pages : synopsis
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Cohn, Oskar, ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Les Milles (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Oral histories ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The interviews have been conducted between Feb. 6 and March 5, 1974 by John F. Sutherland, Director of Institute of Local History at the Manchester Community College as part of the Institute’s oral history project.
    Abstract: World War I; law studies; economic instability 1923/24; political attachment to Social Democrats; work with Social Democratic and Zionist lawyer Oskar Cohn; antisemitism before 1933; emigration to France; Les Milles internment camp; author's wife was in Gurs internment camp; emigration and new beginnings in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: A German-Jewish refugee
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Synopsis of 8 audio tapes
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
    URL: Digital form:
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  • 12
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    The Apartment. (1973)
    [Oceanside, Calif.],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 + 39 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Beer, Otto ; Beer Ritter, Frieda ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Jews Persecution. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Joelle Beer: description of her childhood in Vienna, persecution of Jews under Nazi rule, her family's immigration to the United States, information on her life in California and New York, recollections of her aunt Frieda Beer Ritter, who lived on a farm in Czechoslovakia and died in Theresienstadt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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    Feist-Belmont History. (1973)
    [Liverpool] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 67 + 54 + 75 , 3 bound typescripts; illustrated +
    Additional Material: transcribed correspondence
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Brach family. ; Brach, Rudolph. ; Feist-Belmont family. ; Simon, Isaac. ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jews Banks and banking. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: History and development of the Feist-Belmont family originally from Frankfurt/Main with some historical background. Members of the family worked in the wine and metal business and in banking. Branches of the family spread to London, Paris, US, and Mexico. Also included are transcripts of letters pertaining to the family.
    Abstract: The following families are mentioned in these manuscripts:
    Abstract: Aahousen; Adler; Alvensleben; Bamberger; Bayer von; Becke von der; Begrow; Bellmann; Belmont; Berendt; Berg; Berlet; Bethmann; Beyer von; Birkenstock von; Bischoffsheim; Bishoff; Blum; Boch; Bohl; Brach; Brafoot; Buhlmann; Cadenbach; Cahen; Calderwell; Cana; Coster; Crevenna; Dresden; Dulong; Eggers; Ellison; Ellissen; Engelhardt; Ephraim; Erlanger von; Faerber; Faure; Feist; Fischer; Flavigny; Fleischel; Fluerscheim; Fluersheim; Fraenkel; Frankenberg von; Friedenthal; Fuld; Gabel; Gallifet; Gambetta; Gebhardt; Geiger; Getz; Godsche; Goldschmidt; Golliers; Goodridge; Gottheil; Graubner; Hammelbacher; Hanau; Heidelberger; Henoul; Henriques; Henschel; Hernsheim; Herz; Heyman; Hirsch; Hirschfeld; Hohenemser; Honey; Horschitz; Hummel; Igel; Jacobson; Jacoby; Jeramel; Jessel; Johannsen von; Koch; Koenigswarter; Koerbchen; Ladenburg; Lengerke; Leopold; Leunig; Levysohn; Lewes; Lieben; Liebeschuetz; Liebmann; Linnemann; Loldner; Lomas; Loos; Maass; Malzahn; Manskosch; Mappes; Mayer; Merton; Meyer-Berendt; Miederhofheim; Model von; Moller; Moltke von; Montefiore; Morpurgg; Mortiz; Mumm; Nathan; Oesterley; Offenbach von; Oppenheim; Oswald; Passavant; Pavlow; Peters; Petry; Philippart; Picard; Pini; Plaut; Pless; Prennen; Proudfoot; Reichenheim; Reinach von; Reiss; Rinz; Robertson; Roederer; Roosen; Sabel; Saling; Sanders; Sappus; Schackmayer; Schenk von; Schestowitz; Schiller; Schloss; Schoen; Schoenfeld; Schuback; Schulz; Schuster; Seligmann; Senden von; Simon; Speyer; Spiess; Stanley; Steffani; Stern; Stiebel; Stucken; Treitschke; Wachtel; Wahlendorff von; Walb; Weismann; Weisweiler; Winter; Wolff; Wollheim; Wuppermann; Ziegler; Zitschmann; Zueschen von.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: 1775-1877
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: 1842-1859
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: 1775-1882
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Ha'Autobiografia shel Abraham Greenbaum. (1973)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: Hebrew
    Pages: 15 pages. (1 1/2 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Voyages and travels. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Schwabach (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Wiesenfeld; orthodox Jewish education; visit to Palestine; orthodox Jewish life in Schwabach and Nuremberg.
    Abstract: The autobiography was originally written in German. It was first translated into English and from the English version into Hebrew.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Hebrew
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    Geschichte der Familien Liepmann und Hamburger / (1972)
    Sao Paolo :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: ix + 202 + 34 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1972
    Keywords: Liepmann, Hugo Paul. ; Liepmann, Louis, ; Bleichröder, Julius. ; Liepmann, family. ; Bleichröder family. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism. ; Marriage. ; Neurologists. ; Physicians. ; Textile industry. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Germany History Kapp Putsch, 1920. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Genealogy; domestic life 19th century; cousin Adda Plaut converted to Catholicism and became a nun; cousin Rudi Liepmann participated in Kapp revolt of 1920 and was involved in the murder of Karl Liebknecht; biography of neurologist Hugo Paul Liepmann; excerpts of his letters; biography of grandfather Julius Bleichroeder; marriage of his daughter Agathe with Hugo Paul Liepmann; mainly excerpts of letters of Hugo Paul and Agathe Liepmann; appendage contains list of Hugo Paul Liepmann's works and obituaries by Kurt Hildebrandt, R.Gaupp and Hermann Goldschmidt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    My first 12 years / (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Remseck am Neckar (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1971 in New York. The author describes her childhood in the tiny village Hochberg on the river Neckar at the end of the 19th century. Recollection of the rural environment and its simple living conditions. Description of the inhabitants of the village, including a night watchman who called out the time in the streets. Alice grew up speaking German and French at home. Her mother was a well-educated woman who had lived in Paris for some time. Her father was a business man. The Jewish community in Hochberg was small, but it had its own synagogue. Memories of family Seder celebrations at her grandparents' home. Recollection of her time at the Alexandrina Kindergarten, where Alice was the only Jewish child. Christmas celebrations at nursery school. Birth of her sister. In 1899 Alice Ottenheimer was enrolled in the local primary school. Private Hebrew lessons with the cantor of the nearby city. Summer vacations at her mother's birthplace in Ichenhausen. In 1905 the family moved from the countryside to Ludwigsburg.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    [Mona Spiegel-Adolf's diaries], (1903-1971)
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    Pages: 3 notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1903-1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Diseases. ; Teenagers. ; Physicians ; Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 1: 1903-1905 (German)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 2: 1907-1908 (English)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 3 1936-1952, 1971 (English)
    Note: The diaries are also available in the Mona Spiegel-Adolf Collection, AR 5321 / folder 12. , German and English
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    The Moses Isaac Family Trust : Its history and significance, (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 + 7 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Moses Issac, ; Friedrick II ; Assimilation. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jewish minters. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Trusts. ; Dobiegniew (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Warren Cohen, a descendant of Moses Isaac, reconstructs the history of the Moses Israel Family trust through the centuries. Since all of Moses Israel's direct descendents were baptized, only the descendents of his sister benefited from this endowment.
    Abstract: Also included is a family tree of the descendents of Isaac Eisik Halevy Segal in Schönfliess, circa 1680.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Rueckblick, Erinnerungen und Gedankensplitter einer alten Mannheimerin. (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution ; 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; France. ; Germany Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Mannheim; education as a musician; Gurs internment camp; liberation and life in France after the war.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Begegnung mit der Vergangenheit. (1970)
    Zürich :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 + 9 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Wallach family. ; Country life. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Merchants. ; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. ; Ziegenhain (Schwalmstadt, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Exact account of robbery in home of Wallach's great-grandparents in Ziegenhain (Hesse) in 1808 during the Napoleonic Wars, based on Hebrew notes which were found by Alfred Wallach in the 1920s; history of Wallach family in Ziegenhain (Hesse) reaching back to 18th century.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Aus deutsch-juedischen Kindheitserinnerungen. (1970)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Burg, Meno, ; Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, ; Devrient, Therese, ; Lewald, Fanny, ; Lazarus, Moritz, ; Rodenberg, Julius, ; Bernstein, Julius, ; Bernstein, Eduard, ; Oppenheimer, Franz, ; Mayer, Gustav, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Salomon, Alice, ; Bonn, Moritz J. ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Rosenstein, Paul, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sinsheimer, Hermann, ; Toller, Ernst, ; Kurz, Isolde, ; Nazimova, ; Autobiographies. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Biography. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is a collection of excerpts of published memoirs on Jewish childhood in Germany during the 19th century, focusing on the experience of "being different" in a Gentile environment. The collection contains fragments of the biographies of 20 famous German- Jewish men and women, who excelled as authors, economists, historians, painters, philosophers, physicians, politicians, psychologists, surgeons, teachers, and writers.
    Abstract: Also included is an exchange of letters concerning the possibility of the manuscript's publication (1959-1973).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 21 and MM 96 , German , Synopsis in file
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