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  • Media Combination  (6)
  • 1955-1959  (2)
  • 1945-1949  (4)
  • [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],  (6)
  • Voyages and travels.  (4)
  • Education, Higher.  (3)
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  • 1
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    So habe ich es erlebt : [1939-1958]. (1958)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 72 , incomplete typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Ritter, Gladys. ; Diseases. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Hospitals. ; Jews Persecution. ; Physicians. ; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; China History 1937-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; Singapore. ; Venezuela. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Wenzhou Shi (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1958 in Austria. The physician Ernst Ritter describes his emigration to India and Shanghai in 1939. He was able to obtain a visa to India through the Austro-Indian Society, who conciliated physician exchanges to India. Ernst Ritter was offered a position as an assistant in a private hospital in Bombay. He left together with his wife for India via Denmark in April 1939. The British immigration office in Singapore regarded them as German spies and denied their visa for India. The only possibility for them was to go to Shanghai. Cultural differences and a high concentration of people in the city. With the help of a befriended Viennese physician he became a member of the Shanghai Medical Board. Network of German and Austrian refugee physicians and lawyers. Position in a hospital. Primitive circumstances. Confrontation with tropical illnesses. Fraud and crimes. Political tensions between China and Japan. Position in a Catholic missionary hospital in Wenchow, Central China, which was cut off from Shanghai due to the Japanese occupation of the coast. Confrontation with Trachom, the Egyptian eye disease and Bilharzia infection, an illness common among the Chinese rice-farmers. Orphanage of "unwanted female babies" at the missionary. Hygienic and nutrition insufficiencies among the Chinese inhabitants. Exit visa for Venezuela from his brother. Preparations for their immigration and language studies in Spanish. Journey to Venezuela via Japan and Los Angeles. Arrival in Caracas in September 1940. Difficulties in obtaining a position as a physician. In 1941 Ernst Ritter was offered the position of a "country physician" in Libertad in the Andes. Work under primitive circumstances in the midst of the jungle. Tropical climate and vegetation. Diseases due to nutrition insufficiencies. Confrontation with superstition and charlatans among the inhabitants. Position in Ospino and fight against a Malaria epidemic.
    Abstract: Position as a head physician at a rubber plantation in Orinocco in the midst of the tropical jungle. From 1945 to 1958 Ernst Ritter dedicated his work to the cure and research of the Bilharzia infection. He returned to Austria in 1958.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 2
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    Vater und Sohn im Zarenreich 1859-1914 / (1956)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 50 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Lessing, Adolf. ; Lessing, Anneliese. ; Lessing, Anton. ; Lessing, Fred. ; Lessing, Lydia. ; Lessing, Walter. ; Sack, Anneliese. ; Schwanenbach, Peter von. ; Struve, Amand von. ; Struve, Gustav von. ; Vitte, S. I︠U︡. ; Diplomats. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Industrialists. ; Railroads. ; Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. ; Soldiers. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Russia History 1880-1917. ; Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of father Anton's business activities in Russia, building railroads and factories; relationships with Russian and German businessmen and statesmen; education of son Walter in Germany; Walter's arrival in Russia 1904; eyewitness account of 1905 Revolution in St. Petersburg; work in father's factory in Kolomna; military service; business activities in Russia; business activities in Siberia; outbreak of war in 1914 in St. Petersburg; return to Oberlahnstein; World War I service as officer on eastern front (Bulgaria); service at embassy in Moscow in 1918 after armistice; witness to assasination of German ambassador Mirbach; survives assassination attempt on his own life; 1919 return to Berlin; work in ministry of war; participation in anti-revolutionary activities in Berlin: "Liga zum Schutz der deutschen Kultur"; post-war diplomatic and political activities; decision to settle in Berlin; Ludwig von Mies van der Rohe contracted to design house, but plan rejected by author; decision to move back to Oberlahnstein; reflections on fate of Germans living in Russia; brief account of inter-war, World War II, and post-war experiences.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 3
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    Heimann, Hugo : 1777-1933. (1949)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 47 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1949
    Former Title: Vom taetigen Leben
    Keywords: Heimann, Hugo, ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Education. ; Jews Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Politicians ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1871-1918. ; Government ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; India Description and travel. ; Könitz (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short family history; journey to India in 1893/94; political and educational activities (educational committee of the SPD; honorary citizen of Berlin (1926); persecution under Nazi rule and immigration to the USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 4
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    Die Geschichte der Schule Reimann : Ein Rechenschaftsbericht als Beitrag zu Deutschland's Kulturgeschichte in der ersten Haelfte des XX. Jahrhunderts. (1949)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 89 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1949
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Artists 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Schools ; Sculptors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Apprenticeship as sculptor; attending academy for arts and crafts in Berlin; history of Reimann's school from its beginnings in plastic art to its expansion to various fields in arts and crafts; dismissal of Reimann in 1935 and takeover by Nazis.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 5
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    Meine Erinnerungen 1865/1947. (1948)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 142 pages : , handwritten notebook (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Charité (Hospital : Berlin, Germany) ; College teachers. ; Education, Higher. ; Hospitals. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Son of Jewish grain dealer from Poland; primary and secondary education in Berlin; Jewish religious education; university studies in medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin, Tuebingen and Leipzig; assistant professor in Berlin; move to Frankfurt am Main and Strasbourg; journeys to France, Russia and America; work at Friedrichshain and Charité hospitals in Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , The paper collection contains an English summary.
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  • 6
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    Autobiographische Skizze. (1946)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946
    Keywords: Authors Biography. ; Critics. ; Education, Higher. ; German literature. ; Bern (Switzerland) ; Kraków (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiographical abstract
    Note: German
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