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  • 1
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    Memories of my teaching career. (1996)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 2 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of experiences teaching elementary school in New York City; recollections of colleagues.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    Holocaust survivor's story. (1994)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 38 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Koblenz (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Interview with Irma Meckel (née Sonnenberg) about her experiences during the Holocaust.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 3
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    [Memoirs], (1990-1993)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 12 + 82 + 27 + 23 + 24 + 15 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: correspondence
    Year of publication: 1990-1993
    Keywords: Vishniac, Roman, ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Jews Education 1871-1918. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections from the 1930s in Germany; account of experience of Kristallnacht; childhood memories of Berlin-Luisenstadt; memories of Berlin; engaged in 1922; children sent to England after 1933; emigration to Guatamala via France and England; return to Berlin in 1967; recollections of photographer Roman Wishniak.
    Description / Table of Contents: Das Jahr 1934
    Description / Table of Contents: Berlin : vorher - während - nachher
    Description / Table of Contents: "Gestern kam ein Brief ..."
    Description / Table of Contents: Über das Deutschtum
    Description / Table of Contents: "In meinem vorigen Bericht ..."
    Description / Table of Contents: Roman
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 4
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    My Memoirs. (1989)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 42 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Children. ; Jewish family. ; Women authors. ; Chemnitz (Germany) Childhood and youth. ; France. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1937. ; Saxony (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Chemnitz; emigration to Holland and USA; post-war life in USA and France; revisiting hometown of Chemnitz.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Memories of my childhood in the Holocaust. (1985)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Migration, Internal. ; Death marches. ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1939. ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family owned Kosher restaurant in Karlsbad; anti-Semitic attack in 1937; family moved to Prague in 1939; deportation to Theresienstadt; life in Theresienstadt with parents and older sister; deportation to Auschwitz; transport with mother and sister to Hamburg as slave laborers; transport to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; emigration to Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 6
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    I remember my grandfather, (1973)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Vogelstein, Heinemann, ; Vogelstein, Hermann, ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish religious education 19th century. ; Judaism Prayers and devotions. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism 19th century. ; Women authors. ; Lippe (Germany) ; Szczecin (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author Hertha Vogelstein is the grand-daughter of Heinemann Vogelstein. He was born in the rural community of Lage. Heinemann was an excellent student and was sent to the gymnasium (high school) in Detmold. Due to his outstanding talent he was granted a scholarship of the State of Lippe to study theology at the Jewish seminary in Breslau. He became a rabbi in Pilsen (in 1869) and Stettin (in 1880). Heinemann Vogelstein married his student love Rosa Kobrack in 1869. His first born son Hermann, the author's father, followed in his footsteps as a rabbi in Koenigsberg. Heinemann Vogelstein was a leading personality in liberal Judaism and among the founders of the Association of Liberal Rabbis in Germany. He faced fervent opposition by orthodox rabbis for the publication of a German translation of the Hebrew prayer book.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 7
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    Biography [of Jacob Schechter], (1967)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 20 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1967
    Keywords: Women authors. ; Voyages and travels. ; Lawyers. ; Jews, East European. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biographical sketch of American-Jewish lawyer born in Galicia; studies at New York University; travels to Europe; family life.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Aus meinen Erinnerungen. (1965)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 pages : , clippings.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Arlosoroff, Chaim, ; Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Levy, Trude. ; Pinsker, Leon, ; Thomaschewsky, Hanna (née Biram) ; Thon, Hanna Helena, ; Hotelkeepers. ; Jewish families. ; Musicians. ; Sports. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Clippings ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Newspaper clippings published in Mitteilungsblatt (MB) 23-24, June 1965.
    Abstract: Childhood and family life in Germany. She was a student at the Sophien-Lyzeum (Girl's School) in Berlin and developed an early interest in sports. Kaethe Dan-Rosen was among the founding members of the Jewish women's sports association (Ifftus). Training as a gymnastic and sports teacher. Description of the Zionist sport movement in pre World War I Germany. Emigration to Palestine in 1922. Recollections of the life in Palestine in the 1920s. First hotel projects in Safed and Tel-Aviv. Influx of German Jews in the 1930s. Memories of prominent artists and musicians who stayed as guests in her hotel.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 9
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    Zehn Jahre spaeter. (1956-1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: handwritten manuscript
    Year of publication: 1956-1965
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher Agricultural education 1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish life in small Westphalian town after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; agricultural training in Jewish school at Neuendorf; failure to obtain visa for emigration; experiences in Auschwitz; liberation in Ravensbrueck.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript; 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Manuscript; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebenserinnerungen von Ottilie Schoenewald : Fuer das Leo Baeck Institut, New York. (1961)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine. ; International Council of Jewish Women. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund von Deutschland. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Women Political activity ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bochum (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs cover 1883-1946. Childhood recollections in a well-to do Jewish household of eight children. Both her parents worked in building up their business. Tradition of charity. Ottilie's father was a member of the Jewish community executive committee. Growing up in a liberal yet religious family. Reflections on girl's education of her time. Death of her father in 1903. Marriage to the lawyer Dr. S. Schoenewald in 1905. Start of her activities in the women's movement in Germany (BDF). Ottilie Schoenewald had a leading position as a women's legal guidance counselor (Frauenrechtschutzstelle) in Bochum. She was involved in the homemaking organization during World War One. Political equality for women after the war and activities in the democratic party in Weimar Germany. In 1929 Ottilie Schoenewald was elected to be a board member of the Jewish women's movement (JFB) in Berlin. Preparations for the International Congress of Jewish women 1930 in Hamburg, which led to the formation of the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1934 she became chairwoman of the JFB. Experiences and activities during the Nazi time. Ottilie Schoenewald emigrated to England via Holland in 1939, where she continued her social activities.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    From my Family : Fiction and Truth. (1958)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript; annotated; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Berliner, Emil. ; Berliner, Gertrude, ; Waller family. ; Jews Family life. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; England. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Upper middle-class life in Vienna prior to the "Anschluss," emigration to England and the USA, covering 1900 to circa 1940.
    Abstract: Contains photos, documents and drawings by the author and a family tree.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 12
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    Kleine Chronik fuer meine Lieben : (Anstelle einer Tischrede) im Andenken an Erich. (1958)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 pages : , Typewritten manuscript (single space).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Cahn, Wilhelm, ; Women authors. ; Civil service. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of the life of the author's father, Wilhelm Cahn (Mainz 1839 - Berlin 1920) who was a "Legationsrat" in the German Department for Foreign Affairs, the author of "Pariser Gedenkblaetter. Aufzeichnungen aus der Zeit des grossen Krieges, der Belagerung und der Commune" (Berlin 1898) and the editor of the exchange of letters between Eduard Lasker and Karl Twesten (1902).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen an eine kleine Stadt. (1955)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Rabbis. ; Jewish leadership. ; Reform Judaism. ; Stargard Szczeciński (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the small Jewish community of Preussisch-Stargard (Western Prussia), circa 1900-1914: Religious education; conflict between Zionist rabbi and liberal community board.
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Aus meinem Leben mit Ernst Cassirer / : [1883-1948]. (1948-1950)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 332 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1948-1950
    Keywords: Cassirer, Toni Bondy, ; Cassirer, Ernst, ; Rosmer, Ernst, ; Cohen, Hermann, ; Cassirer family ; Bondy, Julie, ; Bondy, Otto, ; Bondy family. ; Antisemitism. ; Friendship. ; Marriage. ; Philosophers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of her marriage with Ernst Cassirer, his fight for a professorship in the "Kaiserreich" and his relationship to Hermann Cohen; anti-Semitic experiences in Weimar Germany; his time as the only Jewish rector of a German university; the various stages of emigration (includes photography of E. Cassirer, index and bibliography).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)
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    [Meine Erlebnisse waehrend der nationalsozialistischen Zeit]. (1948)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 + 4 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Forced labor. ; Education, Higher Languages 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal experiences in Nazi Germany, especially about hiding in Berlin between 1942 and 1945.
    Abstract: Also included are two letters to Dr. Kreutzberger containing additional information (1967).
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    Aufzeichnungen / (1939)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 40 + 23 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Dienemann, Max, ; Dienemann, Mally, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Nationaler Frauendienst (Berlin, Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Women Education ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Golub-Dobrzyń (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Racibórz (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of the author's childhood in Gollub (West Prussia) on the border to the Polish-Russian town Dobrzyn. Description of the orthodox Jewish community in Dobrzyn and the assimilated life in Gollub. Mally was enrolled in a homemaking school (Hoehere Toechternschule) and has positive recollections of the relationship with her gentile classmates. In 1900 she was sent to a girl's boarding school in Berlin, where she became involved in literary circles. Influence of the women's movement and opposition of her parents to her wish to learn a profession. In 1904 she got married to the rabbi Max Dienemann. Introduction to a new perception of Judaism. Life in Ratibor. Recollections of World War One. War relief work in a patriotic woman's organization (Nationaler Frauendienst) and confrontation with the plight of the workers' families. Spartakus revolution of 1918. Treaty of Versailles.
    Abstract: Max and Mally Dienemann moved to Offenbach in 1919. Inflation and food shortages. Lectures of her husband. Unemployment and political instability of the Weimar Republic. Rise of Nazism. Boycotts and slowly increasing persecution of Jews in Germany in 1933. Emigration of Mally's siblings and her eldest daughter to Palestine. Optimism of her husband and believe in the general decency of his fellow Germans. Arrest of Max Dienemann in December 1933 after lecturing on Herode and drawing parallels to present time. He was taken to Osthofen concentration camp and was released after a few weeks with the help of gentile friends. Censorship and anti-Jewish propaganda in the press. Discrimination of her children at school. Awareness of the growing danger of Nazi Germany. Kulturbund and Jewish cultural life. Decision to emigrate to Palestine. November pogrom in 1938. Arrest of Max Dienemann, who was taken to Buchenwald. Description of Jewish life in the midst of discrimination and persecution. Emigration to Palestine via England in December 1938.
    Description / Table of Contents: Aufzeichnungen
    Description / Table of Contents: Letters and notes
    Description / Table of Contents: Tagebuchblaetter
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 18 and MF 96(1). , German
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    Erinnerungen einer deutschen Juedin. (1934)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 12 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1934
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of life of her ancestors in Russia; childhood in Berlin and exposure to German music, literature and philosophy; confrontation with anti-Semitism and her turn towards Zionism under the influence of her son Ludwig.
    Abstract: The typescript with a short introduction by Erich Cohn served as an obituary for Doris Davidsohn and was published in "Juedische Rundschau" on Feb. 23. 1934.
    Note: Available on microfilm MM 17; copies on MF 264(12) and MF 74(12). , German
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