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    [The life and political views of her grandfather Hermann Loeb : dedicated with love to his granddaughter Renate Simon] (2017)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 + 13 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: appendix
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Loeb, Hermann, ; Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Socialists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionists. ; Butzbach (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs of the watchmaker Hermann Loeb (1874-1948), describing his life as an active socialist (social democrat) and Zionist; his encounters with German anti-Semitism; his service in WW I; his experiences during Kristallnacht and the concentration camp Theresienstadt; and finally his immigration to the US.
    Abstract: Also included are clippings referring to Hermann Loeb from the German press in Giessen, Frankfurt and Butzbach; 2011-2013.
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    Lichtvolle Rueckblicke auf die Vergangenheit der Familie Blitz : [Transcript and English translation]. (2016)
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    Pages: 14 + 4 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Blitz family. ; Blits, Yeḳutiʼel ben Yitsḥaḳ. ; Hannibal, ; Bible. Yiddish Versions. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Names in the Bible. ; Names, Personal. ; Translators. ; Bene Beraḳ (Israel) ; Wittmund (Germany)
    Abstract: History of Blitz family in Wittmund, reaching back to the 14th century; mainly on Bible translator Jekutiel Blitz, who was born in Wittmund and later moved to Amsterdam.
    Abstract: This folder contains a typed transcript of the original manuscript, written in old German script, and an English language translation.
    Note: German and English
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    Simon family of Gensingen & Bingen : Reunion - New York, October 10th & 11th 2015. (2015)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 58 , private print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Simon family. ; Simon, Seligmann. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Vintners. ; Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Gensingen (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Richly illustrated and decorated brochure dedicated to the Simon family from the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Included in this brochure’s hardcopy (but not available in its digital form) is “The Simon family descendant tree”, reaching back to the early 18th century.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included on pages 16-24 is a translation of the published brochure ‘Seligmann Simon : Weinbau u. Weingrosshandel, Bingen a.Rh.’
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    Descendants of Ruben (Klestadt). (2012)
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    Pages: 14 + 1 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Klestadt family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables ; Genealogical tables.
    Abstract: Genealogical table of the Klestadt family from Bueren, Germany containing data from the late 18th to the early 20th century.
    Abstract: The descendant tree of Ruben Klestadt from Bueren, Germany was created by Gerald Stern using data from Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen in Detmold, and information from Statdarchiv in Büren. This corrects a descendant tree published in 1995 by Heimatverein Büren in a book ‘Über die früheren Verhältnisse der Juden in Büren’ (p. 64f.) by the historian Hans Liedtke.
    Note: English and German
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    The family tree of the family Walter and Herta Nord / (2012)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 30 + 6 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Edition: Revised July 2012.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2017 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Nord family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Family tree and chart of the Nord family.
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    [Story of Sylvia (Mahler) Cherny]. (2003)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Mahler family. ; Mahler, Robert, ; Mahler (née Gutmann), Grete, ; Watkins, Gerald Herbert, ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Melbourne (Vic.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with Sylvia Cherny's family background, the family business, and her time in Lower Austria where her family had lived for a couple of generations. She received private tutoring, coming from a well-off family. The "Anschluss" in 1938 changed everything. The family business was taken away and Sylvia Cherny provides a short chronology of its whereabouts. Her father commited suicide after the Anschluss, fearing the Gestapo who was looking for him. Sylvia Cherny went on a Kindertransport to France, then fled via Lisbon to New York. The final pages cover the first years in Melbourne, Australia, where she had joined her mother and her stepfather.
    Note: English
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    Die Lebensgeschichte meiner Eltern. (2003)
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    Pages: 33 + 24 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: documents; clippings (all photocopies)
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Blum, Annelies, ; Blum, Gustav, ; Blum, Bella (née Behr), ; Jewish refugees ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lumber trade. ; Estoril (Portugal) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Portugal Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Fritz Blum mainly writes about his parents Gustav and Bella Blum (née Behr), covering approx. the years 1881-1992. He describes his father's various businesses and his family's emigration to Portugal in 1938. The bulk of the memoir deals with the family's stay in Portugal from 1938 to 1941.
    Abstract: Photocopies of certificates, correspondence, photographs, and other archival materials are interspersed with the German text in folder 1.
    Abstract: Also included is a brochure of an exhibition about refugees in Portugal at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt in 1997.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Memoir in German
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Memoir in English
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Exhibition material
    Note: German and English
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    Diaries, (2002)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 100 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: 37 pages typescript
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels ; Women authors. ; Germany History Nineteen thirties. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 5 diaries written by Margaret Kahn's mother, Lisbeth Schmidt. Most of her early writings refer to travelling across Europe. A brief description is provided of events in 1933 when Nazis took over power in Germany. During Kristallnacht, her husband Fritz is taken to the police. They are able to leave Germany, first to Holland, then to the USA where they settle in New York. From 1950 on, all entries were written in English. Enclosed is also a letter from her parents to her daughter Margrit for her birthday, dated January 16, 1941, Amsterdam.
    Note: English translation , German
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    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Max Liebmann describes his school life and how unbearable conditions grew after Hitler was elected chancellor. One time a pupil harassed him, but he fought back. He stayed in public school until 1937, and then attended a private school. He had to leave school after “Kristallnacht”, when all Jews were excluded from non-Jewish schools. In March 1938, his father had left for Greece in order to explore new business possibilities. Max Liebmann never saw him again. With the outbreak of World War II, Max Liebmann took his grandmother, who was French Alsatian, to the Swiss border. But Switzerland did not permit her to enter the country, so she went to Nancy and later to Bordeaux. During the war discrimination increased and culminated in Max Liebmann being sent to Eastern Germany to harvest. He describes himself as one of the first slave laborers of the Reich. In 1940, Max Liebmann started to work for the “Hilfsverein”. On October 21, 1940, the “Hilfsverein” was closed and he was deported to France the next day. On October, 25, Max Liebmann arrived at the camp of Gurs in Southwestern France. He managed to get out of the camp just weeks before its closure on August 1, 1942, and the beginning of the first deportations to Auschwitz. He hid in several places in unoccupied France with the help of local residents. He later managed to escape to Switzerland with the help of a Swiss militia man. In Switzerland, he worked in a refugee camp. On February 28, 1943, his girlfriend Hanne, whom he had met in Gurs, came to Switzerland. She first lived with relatives, but left them on Christmas Eve 1944 when personal frictions became too heavy. Max Liebmann married Hanne on April 14, 1945 in Geneva. Their daughter was born on March 4, 1946. In 1948, the family left for the United States.
    Abstract: Max Liebmann ends his memoir with giving a few remarks on Swiss policy concerning Jewish immigration and also on their policy of blocking them from their money in Swiss bank accounts.
    Note: English
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    Two families. (1999)
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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
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    The Jewish Community of Sugenheim / (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 133 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Jewish communities ; Jews History. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Bavaria (Germany) ; Sugenheim. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The history of the Jewish community of Sugenheim
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    The past is indestructible : my childhood memoirs including a history of the Wertheim family. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 69 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Wertheim family. ; Zimmt family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families ; Cologne (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A bound typescript of memoirs and the family’s history circa 1700 to 1999. Also included are a map of Germany and a family tree.
    Abstract: Memoir by Claus Albert Wertheim, written in May 1999. He describes his childhood and family background, his life in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. In a postscript he summarizes the fate of family members and friends. He finishes his memoirs with a brief note about the history of the Wertheim family.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    The story of the Lindauer and Weil families / (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 , typewritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: maps
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Lindauer, family. ; Weil family. ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jebenhausen (Göppingen, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of two Jewish families of cattle dealers in the small Wuerttemberg town of Jebenhausen, ca. 1750-1865; Jewish customs in rural communities; includes family tree.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Kaffruse Marx Freiberg : A family history (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: circa 62 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Marx family. ; Freiberg family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews History. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Family history of the Marx/Freiberg and other families with general information about Jews in the Northern Palatinate.
    Abstract: The follwing family names are mentioned: Strauss, Garon, Dreyfus, Gutmann, Hahn, Straus, Deutsch, Tuteur, Kahn, Dornhardt, Löb, Wolf.
    Abstract: The follwing communities are mentioned: Marienthal, Sohren, Steinbach, Rockenhausen, Kirchheimbolanden, Göllheim, Winnweiler.
    Note: English
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    Sipurai savta vesaba: korot haim ( = Stories of grandmother and grandfather: readings of life. Hebrew). (1998)
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    Language: Hebrew
    Pages: 39 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Nizav family. ; Sämann family, Sugenheim. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Regensburg (Germany) ; Sugenheim. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of the Nizav family, circa 1754-1998
    Note: Available on microfilm , Hebrew
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    The Wolff Family of Muenstereifel. (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 126 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Wolff family. ; Family reunions. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Bad Münstereifel (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Adelheid, Emma; Bromet, Eva; Gottschalk, August; Gottschalk, Caroline; Gottschalk, Jedula; Heilbron, Max; Heilbronn, Ille; Heiman, Edgar; Heiman, Freddy; Heiman, Julehen; Herman, David; Horn, Eduard; Horn, Ernestine Sofia; Horn, Lutz; Horn, Rosad; Isenberg, Janet Bernd; Isaac, Else; Katz, Margo; Orfinger, Lucien; Orfinger, Pierre Nenette; Raber, Dan; Voss, Rosalie; Wolff, Abraham; Wolff, Adelheid; Wolff, Aron; Wolff, Benjamin; Wolff, Bernhard; Wolff, Berta; Wolff, Clara; Wolff, David; Wolff, Eva; Wolff, Heinrich; Wolff, Hugo; Wolff, Judula; Wolff, Moses; Wolff, Rosalie; Wolff, Simon; Wolff, Susmann.
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    Three branches of our family : 1850-1997 (1997)
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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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    A patchwork of memories. (1994)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 binders : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Blau family. ; Hertz family. ; Levison, William (1908-1961) ; Levison, Wilhelm (1876-1941) ; Levison family. ; Elisabethenschule (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Au pairs. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Intermarriage. ; International travel. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Nurses. ; Manners and customs. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Leubsdorf (Linz am Rhein, Germany) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir describes her life in Germany, her decision to leave Germany after the death of her parents, and to work in the United States in 1934. Detailed description of every day life in Germany after World War I and in the United States, and later of various travels all over the world. Also mentions her German-Jewish ancestors on her maternal side (great-great-grandparents: Moritz and Fanny Hertz, great-grandmother: Helene Hertz née Orthenberger), who had a textile business.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: 1911-1937
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: 1937-1961
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 3: 1961-1997
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    Memories of Emanuel Herzberger / (1994)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 + 2 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Herzberger, Emanuel, ; Herzberger family. ; Herzberger, Jacob, ; Rosenthal family. ; Rosenstraus, Paula. ; Speyer, Ester. ; Speyer, Jeannette, ; Germany. ; Education before 1870. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Wool industry. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Berlin (Germany) Intellectual life. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Forst (Brandenburg, Germany) ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Haltern in Westfalen (Germany) ; Krefeld (Germany) ; Reims (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The original diary was written between 1925 and 1931. It was translated by his grandson Ernest L. Rosenthal and contains also a family tree of the Herzberger's and Rosenthal's.
    Abstract: Recollections of Emanuel Herzbergers family in the early 19th century. His grandmother Ester Speyer was a devout woman, who lost her husband at an early age. Her daughter Jeanette Speyer married Jacob Herzberger in 1855. Emanuel was their first-born son. Recollections of Emanuel's childhood in Haltern and Crefeld, where his father started a raw product and dry good business, which later on developed into a wool firm. Life in Imperial Germany and description of his father's patriotism. Liberal Judaism. Emanuel attented the Gymnasium (high school). Trips to relatives in Amsterdam. Recollections of the Franco/Prussian war. Military service and apprenticeship at a wool firm in Duesseldorf. Opening of a branch of his father's company in Berlin. Cultural life in the cafes and theaters of Berlin. Business trips with his father to to the wool auctions in London. Apprenticeship in Reims, France. In 1886 marriage with Paula Rosenstraus, who was an aspiring singer. She had come with her family from Russia to Germany. Life in Forst (Lausitz). Financial difficulties due to his brother's speculations. Birth of Emanuel and Paula's daughter Nenny in 1894. Reflections on the technical and historical changes he witnessed within less than a century.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Chronicle of the Esberg/Meyerstein/Pohly families under the Holocaust. (1993)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , bound typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Esberg family. ; Meyerstein family. ; Pohly family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Holocaust victims. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables ; Genealogy
    Abstract: In addition to the Esberg/Meyerstein/Pohly families, the text also mentions the Cohn, Doblin, Eisenstein, Kaufman and Steiner families.
    Note: English
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    Growing up in Vienna, (1990)
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    Pages: 8 pages : , typewritten manuscript, photocopies.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Blank, Helen, 1919. ; Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; National socialism. ; Antisemitism. ; Socialism. ; Violin. ; Women authors. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written for a lecture at the New School in 1990. Reflections on Vienna and its culture and mentality. Helen Blank was born 1917 in Vienna, briefly before the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She grew up in a bourgeois family in the working-class neighborhood of Ottakring and had private violin lessons. During the depression her father lost his business and the family had to cope with a meager income. Achievements of the Social democratic policy in Vienna. Helen attended summer camps organized by the Social democrats. Reflections on antisemitism in Austria before and after 1938. School system in Vienna. Helen Blank attended an experimental school and was promoted to a upper-class Gymnasium, the former Officer's Daughter's Institute. Helen continued her violin lessons and became a promising protege. She also joined the Socialist Student movement (Sozialistische Mittelschueler). Recollections of Schattendorf and the massacre on demonstrating workers. Civil War in 1934. Underground meetings of the Socialist Youth. Nazi-takeover in 1938. Description of life in Nazi-Austria. Helen and her family were granted affidavits by their relatives in the United States. Helen got a teaching position at the Thalmud Thora School in Vienna and worked in the organization of the "Kindertransport". Recollections of the morning after the November pogrom in 1938, where Helen was rounded up by the SS with her fellow teachers at the Thalmud Thora School. She left Austria for the United States on January 12, 1939. During her time in New York she was a member of several organizations in New York, e.g. the Austrian Forum, the Austrian American Federation, and the Free Austrian Youth.
    Note: see also: "Helen Blank Collection" (AR 11286) , English , Synopsis in file
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    Searching for the almost forgotten : the Straus family before America. (1990)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25+17 , bound manuscripts (photocopies); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Straus family. ; Straus, Lazarus, ; Macy's (Department store) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Otterberg (Germany) ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Worms (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Thomas Randolph Selden travelled to the Palatinate in Germany in search of his roots.
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    9. November 1938 : Ich erinnere mich. (1988)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 pages. (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Witten (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of November pogrom 1938 in Witten.
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    Wanderer in drei Kontinenten. (1987)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 + 55 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Banks and banking. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Fraternal organizations. ; Jewish leadership. ; Lawyers. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Bremen (Germany) ; Chile Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1971. ; Santiago (Chile) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories growing up in Bremen; secular and religious education; experiences during World War I in Bremen; revolution in Bremen; decision to study law; study at University of Heidelberg; experience of anti-Semitism; membership in Jewish student fraternity; study at University of Berlin, University of Goettingen; work as lawyer in Bremen; vacations sailing; loss of law practice after 1933; decision to emigrate to Chile in 1934; emigration to Chile in 1936; description of sea journey to Chile; arrival in Chile; émigré life in Chile; work as leather manufacturer; birth of children; post-war visits to Germany; life in post-war Santiago; work as lawyer dealing with restitution claims; emigration to Germany in 1971; work for bank in Bremen; activity in Bremen Jewish community and Zentralrat der Deutschen Juden; immigration to USA; death of wife; remarriage.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Feyer, Walter; Goldberger, Paul; Hirschfeld, Emil; Katz, Karl; Kiefer, Leo; Lehmann, Claudio; Lehmann, Hilde; Lehmann, Irene; Levy family; Schwabe, Ida; Schumacher, Hans; Straus, Hilde; Seide, Hans; Wolff, Martin.
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    The old order changeth : Memoirs of persecution and emigration (1987)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 173 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Drews family. ; Ettlinger family. ; Mainzer family. ; Nachmann family. ; Wormser family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Rastatt (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Ettlinger, Mainzer, Wormser, Drews and Nachmann families from Rastatt (Baden) and Frankfurt between 1933 and 1945; emigration to France and illegal crossing of borders to Switzerland; immigration to USA.
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    [Autobiography] : [1913-1941]. (1986)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 487 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Benedikt family. ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Neue Freie Presse, Vienna. ; Authors. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of family home in Vienna; early study of music; relationship with piano teacher; relationship with brother; family life and problematic relationship with father; treatment of domestic servants in parents' home; gymnastics classes; experience of revolution in November 1918; early summer vacations in Bad Ischl; early trip to Berlin and Baltic coast; mother's affair with Adolf Reich; first experiences with anti-Semitism; description of father's textile factory; illness of father; death of father; relationship with Adolf Reich; Gymnasium in Doebling; mother's relationship with Reich; bankruptcy of mother; suicide of Reich; friendship with Wolfgang Foges; academic problems at school; circle of friends; work as Hofmeister at residence; loss of job; work at cotton dealer; enters essay competition sponsored by wealthy publisher; meets owner and editor of Neue Freie Presse, Ernst Benedikt; begins writing for Neue Freie Presse; political upheavals in Austria in 1934; friendship with Egon Friedell; decision to study law; friendship with Charlotte and Fritz Vering; attempted suicide of Gerda Benedikt; work for newspaper owned by Wolfgang Foges; end of relationship with Gerda Benedikt; acqaintanceship with colleague Willibald von Strieberny; Strieberny's takeover of paper after Anschluss; plans to emigrate to USA; flight to Holland; internment in Holland; forced return to Vienna; emigration to USA via Switzerland, England in 1939; emigration of brother to USA; arrival in New York; move to live with relatives in Ohio; work as door-to-door salesman; relationship with Jews in USA; work as roofer; other brief jobs; attempt to help liberate brother from concentration camp Gurs in France.
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    The Levison family of Siegburg and related families. (1985)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 186 pages : , 186 pages : , Typewritten manuscript (bound photocopy). , Typewritten manuscript (bound photocopy)
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Levison, Wilhelm, ; Abraham family. ; Buerger family. ; Feith family. ; Gidion family. ; Goldschmidt family. ; Gumbel family. ; Kiefe family. ; Leubsdorf family. ; Levison family. ; May family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Genealogy. ; Siegburg (Germany) ; Neuwied (Germany) ; Rhine River Valley. ; Simmertal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Levison, Buerger and Feith families in Siegburg since 17th century and of the May, Leubsdorf, Gidion and Goldschmidt families from Neuwied, Leubsdorf and Simmern; English (translated from the German by Nina Morris-Farber)
    Abstract: Addenda: Abraham, Kiefe and Gumbel families
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    Our lives. (1985)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Bamberger family. ; Metzger family. ; Brown, Eva Metzger. ; Metzger, Ernest. ; Amputation. ; Associations, institutions, etc. ; Brewing industry. ; Conservative Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; France. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history, circa 1905-1985: courtship and marriage; birth of daughter; Kristallnacht; emigration to France; injury in bombing of Angers at start of World War II; injury of daughter; amputation of leg; immigration to USA; life in New York; marriage of daughter; birth of grandchildren; activity in Hadassah.
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    Memoirs & reminiscences : [1898-1985]. (1984)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 248 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Fischer family Genealogy. ; Universität Wien. ; College teachers. ; Jewish way of life. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Geographers. ; Teachers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1919. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Vienna; description of family; primary and secondary education; description of teachers and schoolmates; military service in Austrian army in World War I; student life at the university in Vienna; Revolution of 1918-1919; Austria in inter-war period; Jewish life in Vienna; description of school system and teacher colleagues in inter-war Vienna; hikes and travels; Nazi takeover and November Pogrom in 1938; emigration to Palestine and USA; new jobs as university teacher and political geographer.
    Abstract: Contains a biography of Eric Fischer by Michael M.J. Fischer and a bibliography of his publications.
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    Lachman family album. (1984)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 53 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Eltzbacher family. ; Lachman family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France. ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: The Lachman-Eltzbacher and the Rabinerson-Halperin family trees, including copies of photographs and short chapters describing some family members.
    Abstract: Abraham Lachman (1794-1871); Salomon Lachman (1823-1893); Gustav Eltzbacher (1832-1901); Sophie Eltzbacher (1845-1900); Edmund Lachman (1853-1909); Sigismond Rabinerson (1864-1924); Moses (1850-1928) and Sophie Halperin (1852-1928); Johann Zaitzoff; Israel and Jacob Jossif Halperin; the Baal Shem Tov and RaSHI.
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    Grandma, times have changed. (1982)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 101 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Cuba Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in wealthy Berlin family; high school and university study; marriage to the lawyer Alfred Gerstel; decision to build a new house in 1935; persecutions in Nazi Germany; Pogrom November 1938; immigration and life in the USA.
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    A Modern Odyssee : The account of the Steinlein and Kaufmann families and their descendants from Franconia. (1981)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 158 pages : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: genealogical tables
    Edition: Third Edition.
    Year of publication: 1981
    Keywords: Kaufmann family. ; Steinlein family. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Franconia (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Genealogical tables ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Family history, including family trees, maps and index of last names.
    Abstract: The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Reis family; Katz family; Neuburger family; Reinemund family; Loewenbach family; Ullmann family; Arnstein family; Einhorn family; Sahlmann family; Dessauer family; Kaufmann family; Steinlein family
    Abstract: The following locations are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Huettenbach; Altschoenbach; Weimersheim; Berlichingen; Munich; Sulzbach; Fuerth; Diespeck; Burghaslach; Bamberg; Demmelsdorf; Franconia; Bavaria
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    Our family's history : The Dispekers. (1980)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Dispeker Family. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews History. ; Diespeck (Germany) ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Recollections and history of a family from the town of Fuerth and the village of Diespeck. Also included is history of the Jewish community in Fuerth from the Middle Ages to the 1930s.
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    Retrospect and reflections : (My life and my times). (1976)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 275 + 19 pages (double space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Goldstein, Elsa Ruth (née Oppenheimer) ; Mosbacher, I.Z. ; Antisemitism. ; Economists. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Music Instruction and study. ; Outfitting industry. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Aachen (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Munich (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States History 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Kurt Goldstein, completed in 1976, including information on his grandparents; his childhood and his secular, Jewish and musical education in Nuremberg; World War I; his experience with anti-Semitism in the 1920s; his university studies and his studies in England; his apprenticeship of the production of cloth in Aachen; and his joining the family's business in 1929. Recollections of political, social and cultural life in Weimar Germany; the increasingly difficult situation after 1933 in Stuttgart; a trip to Palestine in 1935; his imprisonment after the 1938 November Pogrom; his emigration to the United States via England; his life, diverse jobs and business enterprises in Buffalo; his courtship and marriage to Elsa; and their family life and children.
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    Die Geschichte der Familien Lindauer und Weil / (1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 25 pages. (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Lindauer, family. ; Weil family. ; Cattle trade ; Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jebenhausen (Göppingen, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of two Jewish families of cattle dealers in the small Wuerttemberg town of Jebenhausen, ca. 1750-1865; Jewish customs in rural communities; includes family tree.
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    Family in war - a personal chronicle : [1938-1943]. (1973)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 106 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Weisz, Samuel, ; Weisz, Stephanie. ; Weisz, Ruth, ; Weisz, Paul B., ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Šabac (Serbia) ; Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The book contains an introduction by Paul Weisz and a collection of family letters written during World War II. The letters were written between February 1938 and September 1945. Some were translated into English and complemented by commentary by the editor, Paul Weisz. Paul Weisz' introduction is 10 pages long and serves as a short memoir by itself. He provides a family chronicle, the living circumstances of his family, and his childhood in Vienna. He ends in 1938 when the family was eager to leave Austria. The following years are covered by the various letters he brought together in this book. The authors are cousin Willie, then already in Palestine, his father Samuel, his mother Stephanie, and his sister Ruth. His father and mother fled to Belgium, but were arrested after the beginning of World War II. They were deported to internment camps in France (St. Cyprien). His sister Ruth tried to escape from Austria to Palestine via the Danube. She got stuck in Yugoslavia, and was interned in Sabac internment camp. Paul's mother died in France in 1942, his father was sent to a concentration camp in Poland and murdered. His sister Ruth was murdered in Yugoslavia. Paul was released in Canada, and was enabled to go to college. He later named his children after his family members who did not survive the Nazi terror: Stephanie, Ruth, and Samuel.
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    The Moses Isaac Family Trust : Its history and significance, (1971)
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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.
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    [Dear Aufbau], (1967)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1967
    Former Title: Story of the Jewish farm family Meinungen
    Keywords: Meinungen family. ; Jewish farmers. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Mecklenburg (Germany : Region) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In a letter to 'Aufbau', the author describes her ancestors, who moved from Meiningen to Mecklenburg in 1756, where they were farmers for many generations.
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    Erinnerungen eines alten deutschen Juden. (1965)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 117 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Friedberg, Leopold, ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Students' societies. ; France. ; Great Britain. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Karlsruhe; school time; student years in Heidelberg, Berlin and Munich; joins student organization "Freie Wissenschaftliche Verbindung"; lawyer during Weimar years; Nazi period and arrest in Dachau concentration camp; emigration to France and England; contains also diary of a cruise in 1958.
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    Die verlorene Heimat. (1964)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Stein, Herbert. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Home economics. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Wolfratshausen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.
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    Memories. (1961)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bach, Albert. ; Bach family. ; Baeck, Leo, ; Fleischhacker, Suse. ; Mayer, Ruth. ; Mayer family. ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    The story of the Buchheim family. (1957)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 + 18 + 4 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Buchheim family. ; Boeckl, Otto. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Hesse (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short survey of family history reaching back to 1780. Describes Otto Boeckel's anti-Semitism campaign in Northern Hesse and anti-Semitism in the German army. Includes detailed family tree and statistical information about 460 descendants of the Buchheim family.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Von Owos-Owosenu : Aus alten Papieren und Erinnerungen fraenkischer Juden. (1956)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 + 4 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Country life. ; Folklore ; Jews History. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Poetry. ; Ellingen (Germany) ; Forchheim (Oberfranken, Germany) ; Franconia (Germany) ; Gerolzheim (Franconia) ; Maineck (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A descendant of an old-established Franconian Jewish family recounts his family history 1800-1945 and describes the style of life of the rural Jews in Franconia; contains text of documents from the author's family and poetry in dialect.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 31 and MF 42(3) , German
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933 : [1914-1939]. (1942)
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    Pages: 44 + 6 , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Fleischer family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Deportations. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written for the Harvard University competition in 1942. Also included is an English language report "My experiences on the tenth of November, 1938."
    Abstract: Description of family history. His father was a businessman who came from Budapest to Vienna in 1890. Recollections of his school years in the Gymnasium. Graduation in 1914. Philipp enrolled with classes in German and Latin at the Vienna University. In 1916 he volunteered as a soldier in World War One and was soon promoted to become an officer in the army. Disastrous aftermath of the war. Philipp returned to university to continue his studies. He became a teacher at a Gymnasium (high school). Description of political tensions in post-war Austria. Civil war of 1934. At this time he became strongly aware of the rising attraction of the National Socialist movement. Anschluss in 1938. Degrading "spontaneous actions" against the Jewish population of Vienna. Philipp Flesch lost his position and was forced to retire. He started teaching at a improvised Jewish school. Maltreatment of students by the Hitler youth. Observations of Nazi enthusiasm in the Austrian Gentile population. Occasional experiences of support by neighbors and strangers. Reflections on the Nazi ideology and hatred against Jews. Reports of the first deportations to concentration camps. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom and its aftermath 1938 in Vienna. Description of the circumstances of his arrest and the maltreatment by the Gestapo. Terror and humiliation. Release due to his achievements in World War One. Awareness of the magnitude of destruction and terror. Summons to the Gestapo headquarters. Sarcasm of Nazi bureaucracy and preparations for his emigration. Outbreak of the war. Philipp Flesch left Vienna in 1939 for the United States and emigrated via Holland to New York.
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933 : Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum. (1940)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 8 + 129 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Hitler, Adolf, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Vintners. ; Voyages and travels. ; France Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal encounter with Adolf Hitler; mainly on general aspects of social and political changes in Nazi Germany; trip through Germany in 1938; experiences in Buchenwald concentration camp (summer 1938); November pogrom in Frankfurt am Main.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Unsere Familiengeschichte : [1800-1939]. (1939)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 207 , typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Hadra family. ; Lesser family. ; Assimilation. ; Business enterprises. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Hadra and Lesser families reaching back to the 18th century; grandparents were orthodox Jews in Prenzlau (Mark Brandenburg); father was a wealthy metal merchant in Berlin; mother had to take over the business after the father's early death; the author and most of his siblings converted to Christianity; some of them married into aristocratic families; Hadra wrote this family history in September/December 1939 in Berlin for his daughter who had emigrated to the USA. Contains photographs (copies) of relatives.
    Note: Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 148 , Available on microfilm , German
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    Die Synagogen Verbrennung. (1938)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1938
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Article written 30 days after Kristallnacht
    Note: German
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    Fortsetzung : [Die Geschichte der Familie Kuhn]. (1932)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 7 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1932
    Keywords: Bethe, Hans A. ; Kuhn family. ; Metzger, Hermance, ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. ; Women authors. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Worms (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Continuation of an unknown larger work about the history of the Kuhn family from Bissersheim/Palatinate and Worms, reaching back to late 18th century.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Familientafel. (1924)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 196 pages : , handwritten notebook +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1924
    Former Title: [Family History].
    Keywords: Werner family. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) ; Memoirs ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Family history and genealogy
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    Meine Lebensgeschichte / (1906)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 75 + 166 pages : , typed transcript (carbon copy) + handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1906
    Former Title: Familiengeschichte
    Keywords: Herzfeld, Ernst, ; Children. ; Household employees. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in the province of Posen; arranged marriage to her cousin Abraham Herzfeld who became a member of the Graetz (Posen) magistrate and the chairman of the local Jewish community; chronological account of her family until 1906.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Typed transcript
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: Manuscript
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