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  • Media Combination  (12)
  • London :[publisher not identified],  (8)
  • Berkeley :[publisher not identified],  (4)
  • Berlin : Hentrich & Hentrich
  • Women authors.  (12)
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  • 1
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    Names Calling / Prague Winter / Flight to England. (1998)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 + 31 + 9 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Chadwick, Trevor. ; Eisenberger, Erna. ; Eisenberger, Wilhelm. ; Eisenberger family. ; Stein family. ; Grocers. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Lawyers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; England Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1998. History of the Stein and Eisenberger family. The author’s mother Erna was the daughter of the well-respected solicitor Dr. Wilhelm Eisenberger. She got married to a Gentile, with whom she had a daughter, the author’s older sister Anna. After their divorce she got married to Arnold Stein, father of the author. Brief recollections of the author’s childhood. Jump to life in Karlsbad under the Nazi rule in 1938. Move to Prague. Fervent preparations in order to be able to emigrate. With the help of Trevor Chadwick Gerda was sent to England on a children’s transport in March of 1939.
    Note: English
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 2
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    Remembering the Children of Terezin : 1942-1944. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Hirsch, Robin. ; Hollis, Jim. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay about Robin Hirsch and his book ‘Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski’. Also included are poetry and images by inmates of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 3
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    A Bit of Family History. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Alexander family. ; Mauthner, Ernst. ; Mauthner, Fritz, ; Mauthner, Malvine. ; Straub, Hedwig. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including information on Fritz Mauthner and his wife Hedwig Straub, Ernst and Malvine Mauthner, and other Mauthner family members as well as the Alexander family in Hungary and Berlin, emigration to England and the United States, and description of post-war visits in Europe; xeroxes of handwritten letters by Fritz Mauthner.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 4
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    Gratiarum Actio : Remembering A Good Life. (1995)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 7 + 2 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Mann, Thomas, ; Hobart College. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Historians. ; Women authors. ; Berkeley (Calif.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including description of her time in Paris and London, her emigration to the United States, information on her husband Paul and his career as a historian; foreword by Paul Alexander; addendum by their son.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    1925-1946 told by Anita. (1989)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 97 + 104 + 2 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; France. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences of a German Jewish girl in prisons and concentration camps during World War II; failed attempt of flight to France and subsequent imprisonment in Breslau prison; deportation to Auschwitz; Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; liberation and Belsen DP-camp; emigration to England 1946.
    Abstract: Also included are letters to her eldest sister Marianne who had emigrated to London; 1939-1942, 1945.
    Description / Table of Contents: I. Family photographs
    Description / Table of Contents: II. Letters 1939-1942 and 1945-1946
    Description / Table of Contents: Postscript about visit to Bergen Belsen in 1989.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 6
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    Dora Gross Moszkowski - Life Story : [1901-1987]. (1987)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 66 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Moszkowski, Arthur. ; Knight, Max. ; Smolka, Maria. ; Thon, Osias. ; Wizo. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Hasidism. ; Jews ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Kraków (Poland) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in California in 1987. Description of the Jewish history in Poland in the 18th and 19th century. Childhood recollections in Cracow. Her father was an insurance broker. Her mother came from a famous family of rabbis. Childhood friends and introduction into their Hasidic life style. Wish to continue with high school (Gymnasium) met with difficulties due to the implied tuition fees for girls. Outbreak of World War One and move to Vienna. In 1916 the Russian invasion of Cracow diminished and the family returned to Poland. Her father was called to the military. With her mother's help the family found the means to enroll Dora in the Gymnasium, where she became a full-fledged student. Engaging in the Zionist movement. Speech about the role of Jewish women in society and engaging in campaigns for equal education for girls. Graduation and applying for medical school. Being a girl and Jewish she was not accepted since there was a Jewish quota at university. Death of her mother. Application at medical schools in Berlin and Leipzig. In 1920 Dora moved to Vienna where she lived with a widowed cousin and took care of his children. Difficulties to be accepted at medical school as a foreigner. Taking classes at university as an extern. Position as a Polish language tutor. Business school in order to earn a living. Outings with friends. Cultural activities and the Viennese Burgtheater. Return to Cracow and position in a export business. Acquaintance and courtship with Arthur Moszkowski, an engineer from a well-to-do family. Return to university and studies of German and Polish. Political and Zionist activities in the WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization). Graduation from university in 1925 and work on her Ph.D. with a thesis on Ibsen. Position as a German teacher and initial difficulties with the government due to her being Jewish. In 1928 her Ph.D. was accepted.
    Abstract: Official engagement with Arthur Moszkowski. Trip to the Baltic Sea and wedding in 1929. Honeymoon in Austria. Pregnancy during the time her husband lost his position due to the growing antisemitism in Poland. Birth of their daughter Dunia. Difficulties in married life due to her new duties as a housewife and mother which did not fulfill her. Renewed political engagement. Lectures and speeches. Opening of a Montessori preschool in her apartment. Dora became the chairwoman of WIZO in Katovice. Awareness of political changes due to rising National Socialism in neighboring Germany. Temporary financial difficulties. Birth of their second daughter Zosia in 1937. Influx of German Jewish refugees and relief organizations. Outbreak of World War Two. Capture of Czortkow by the Russian military and life under Russian rule. Deportation to Siberia in 1940, which in the end saved them from being taken to German extermination camps. Labor camp in Sverdlovsk. The family was set free and could travel to Uzbekistan in west central Asia. Her husband, among many Polish refugees, contracted typhus and survived through the help of a befriended physician. He was able to obtain a position in Iran and Africa with the Polish military. Affidavit for the United States from a cousin in California. Arrival in New York in 1950. Move to Berkeley and difficulties in adapting to the culture and start of a new life. Master degree in child development and work with retarded children.
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    Studying psychology in turbulent times. (1984)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Psychologists. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Geneva (Switzerland) ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Paris (France) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiographical account of psychology studies in various place including Prague, Vienna, Paris, Geneva, Brussels and London, 1937-1940. She later practiced psychology in London.
    Abstract: Autobiographical account of psychology studies in various places including Prague, Vienna, Paris, Geneva, Brussels and London, 1937-1940. She later practiced psychology in London.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    We kept our heads : Personal memories of being Jewish in Nazi Germany and making a new home in England (1976)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 111 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Liebmann, Dodo, ; Aliens. ; Communism. ; Jewish refugees ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Physicists. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Isle of Man. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Upbringing in Berlin Jewish middle-class family; primary and secondary education; university studies at Berlin and Heidelberg; member of Communist party in 1933; Ph.D. in 1934; work in factories; emigration to England in 1936; internment on Isle of Man during World War II; death of husband in 1956; compensation from Germany.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Opus One. (1976)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 83 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Rosenthal, Bernhard. ; Stöcker, Adolf, ; Strauss, Jacob. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1931. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Nora Rosenthal, written 1973-1976 in London, including some genealogical information and recollections of her childhood: domestic life; her musical education; her married life; persecutions in Nazi Germany; her emigration to England after her husband's suicide; and her experiences in England during the war.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Familienchronik der Familie Weil, Gutmann, Einstein / (1962)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 102 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Former Title: Chronik der Familien Weil, Gutmann und Einstein
    Keywords: Einstein family. ; Gutmann family. ; Weil, Sigmund. ; Weil family. ; Jewish orphanages. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jewish physicians ; Public welfare ; Women authors. ; Esslingen am Neckar (Germany) ; Württemberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Weil, Einstein and Gutmann families from Wuerttemberg, reaching back to 18th century; biography of the physician Sigmund Weil and his activities in Jewish public welfare, especially the Jewish orphanage in Esslingen.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Tagebuch oder Erinnerungen : an meine Orientfahrt im August 1900 (1957)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: iii + 24 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Lieberman family. ; Zander, Kurt, ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Bosporus (Turkey) ; Istanbul (Turkey) ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of a diary describing the author’s voyage from Berlin to visit her children in Istanbul, Turkey, August to October 1900.
    Abstract: In his introduction, Theodor Zondek - Hedwig Simon’s nephew, who transcribed the diary - writes about the renowned Liebermann family from Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 72 and MF 120. , German
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    Alte Geschichten : Erinnerungen (1953)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 217 + 97 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1953
    Keywords: Sander family. ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Families 19th century. ; Intellectuals ; Marriage. ; Musicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Liège (Belgium) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history, circa 1871-1905: Grandparents came from Koblenz region and were small merchants; attendance of Philantropin school in Frankfurt am Main; social and cultural life in Liege and Cologne at the turn of the 20th century; travels to Spa (Belgium); description of sister's marriage; domestic life. Also included is a photograph of the author.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1 (on MM 66): Typescript
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2 (on MM 67): Bound typescript (single space)
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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