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In memoriam Robert Goldschmidt : Born in Berlin 1868 - Perished in Treblinka October 1942 (2017)

Propper de Callejón, Renata.

[New York] :[publisher not identified],

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Language: English

Pages: 43 + 32 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.

Year of publication: 2017

Keywords: Goldschmidt, Robert. ; Goldschmidt family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Country life. ; Families. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Czechoslovakia. ; Correspondence ; Manuscripts.

Abstract: The bulk of the manuscript is dedicated to the letters written by Robert (“Bob”) Goldschmidt between his wife’s sudden death in August of 1941 and his deportation in May of 1942. Also included is a short biography of Robert Goldschmidt and the Goldschmidt family.

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Theresienstaedter Tagebuch (Diary). (2005)

Geissmar, Jakob, 1868-1943. ; Englander, Eva. ; Englander, John.

[New York] :[publisher not identified],

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Language: English

Pages: 57 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 2005

Keywords: Geissmar, Elisabeth. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish lawyers ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judges ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: English translation by John and Eva Englander of a lyrical diary in verse, chronicling Geissmar's imprisonment in Theresienstadt, July to December 1943.

Note: Translation not microfilmed.

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My trip to Karlsruhe, Germany : My original hometown - Oct. 9 to 16, 1988. (1989)

Ettlinger-Cohen, Marianne.

Bronx, NY :[publisher not identified],

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Language: English

Pages: 11 + 1 pages : , manuscript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1989

Keywords: Seidler, Gerhard. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Report about a visit to the city of Karlsruhe, following an official invitation.

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Ada, Karl und Ellen : Eine Auschwitz Tragoedie (1979)

Salfeld, Henry.

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Language: German

Pages: 7 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1979

Keywords: Marxsohn, Ada. ; Marxsohn, Ellen. ; Marxsohn, Karl. ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Deportation. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; France. ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Short account of last years of author's sister's family before their deportation from Mainz to the internment camp of Drancy (France) and their subsequent deportation to Auschwitz.

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Meine Erlebnisse waehrend der nationalsozialistischen Zeit. (1965)

Abraham, Ruth

[New York] :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 17 pages : , typescript (copy).

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Describes mainly her experiences between 1933 and 1945. Ruth Abraham succeeded in getting her uncle out of prison and her father-in-law out of the Dachau concentration camp. After the start of the deportations in Berlin she went into hiding. A German woman provided her with identity papers. Ruth, her husband and her daughter - born in 1943 - survived the war and were liberated by the Russians. After the liberation the Russians compelled Ruth's husband to forced labor.

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Memoiren von Karl Gerstenberg. (1965)

Gerstenberg, Karl.

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Language: German

Pages: 468 pages : , typescript.

Year of publication: 1965

Keywords: AEG-Telefunken. ; Gruschwitz Textilwerke Aktiengesellschaft, Neusalz (Oder)‏. ; Directors of corporations. ; Jewish families ; Jews Legal status, laws, etc. ; Textile industry. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Nowa Sól (Poland) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: The memoirs mend the author’s personal history – his upbringing and professional development – with the historic events from 1908 to 1936.

Abstract: Mentioned are Chancellor von Bülow; the German revolution 1918-1919; Kapp Putsch; the Barmat Scandal in 1924; Chancellor Gustav Stresemann; inflation; President Paul von Hindenburg; the Great Depression; Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; and the Nuremberg Race Laws.

Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file

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Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben : [1866-1941]. (1945)

Mayer, Bernhard

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Language: German

Pages: 238 , typescript (photocopy).

Year of publication: 1945

Keywords: Kastein, Josef, ; Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, ; Landauer, Gustav, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sternheim, Carl, ; Eranos Foundation. ; Anarchism. ; Authors Meetings. ; Country life. ; Jews, German Intellectual life. ; Merchants. ; Socialism. ; Soldiers 1871-1914. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ascona (Switzerland) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Hunsrück (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish milieu; apprenticeship as merchant at age of 14 in Simmern; description of daily life in Hunsrueck village of Laufensweiler, in Simmern and Saargemuend; move to Aachen; military service; employee for a large fur business in Brussel; friendship with anarchist Kropotkin and Gustav Landauer; in circles of Russian anarchists and revolutionaries; visits to Russia and Palestine; description of visits to USA, Egypt, Spain and Switzerland; literary circle in Ascona; "Eranos" - conferences in Ascona; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Carl Sternheim and Josef Kastein; emigration to USA; literary emigre circle in New York.

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Von den Meinen und mir : niedergeschrieben als Familiengeschichte in Jahren meiner Ruhe zu Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe 1930-1933. (1930-1941)

Spier, Simon.

Bad Homburg; Haifa :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 87 + 1 , typescript (carbon copy).

Year of publication: 1930-1941

Keywords: Wilmersdörfer family. ; Country life. ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jewish teachers ; Marriage. ; Hasidism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Bavaria (Germany) ; Hesse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Simon Spier started to write his memoirs in Bad Homburg in 1931 and continued in Haifa in 1941. The memoirs are followed by a short obituary, written in Haifa in 1951.

Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish atmosphere of Zwesten; early death of father; education as teacher; travels in various parts of Germany; marriage to brother's sister-in-law from Weiden (Bavaria); domestic life of Spier, Wilmersdoerfer families in Wesel, Gambach (Hesse), Hoechst (Hesse), Weiden and Nabburg (Bavaria); move to Homburg (Hesse); visit of Belzer Rebbe in Homburg; emigration and life in Palestine.

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[Transcript of grandmother's diary].

Anonymous. ; Jalon, Cyril.

Basel :[publisher not identified],

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Language: German

Pages: 20 pages (single space) : , typescript.

Keywords: Household employees 20th century. ; Jewish way of life. ; Marriage. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Basel (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs

Abstract: Diary circa 1917-1922 of private events in a Basel Jewish family; description of weddings and family life; contains also short account on speech of Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner in Basel in 1919.

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