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  • 1
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Pages: 27 + 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Melzer family. ; Melzer, Leo. ; Melzer, Mendel. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Furniture industry and trade. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Frankenthal (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Account of the Melzer family, the descendents of Mendel and Maria Melzer who settled in Frankenthal, Germany, and whose children and grandchildren emigrated to Israel and to the United States.
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Genocide. ; Immigrants. ; Refugees. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Paper presented at the conference “Inclusion and exclusion: International migrants and refugees in Europe and North America” at the New School for Social Research, New York, June 5-7, 1997:
    Abstract: The paper focuses on aspects of the link between genocidal situations and the ways in which the presence of migrants has been assessed and dealt with before, during and after.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 3
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 4
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 5
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 6
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 7
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 639 + 121 + 35 , typescript (copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Mechner family. ; Mechner, Francis. ; Mechner, Hedwig. ; Ziegler family. ; Ziegler, Lisa. ; Majdanek (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Concentration camps. ; Education, Higher ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) ; Cuba. ; Paris (France) ; Romania. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Memoir in four volumes, richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, correspondence, genealogical tables, and newspaper clippings.
    Abstract: Photocopies of family documents and photographs:
    Abstract: Detailed biographical account of Dr. Adolph Mechner, born in Czernowitz in 1897. Description of historical events together with immediate and extended family. Adolescent years in Vienna, military service in World War I; medical studies in Vienna; courtship and marriage; family; medical practice in Vienna; emigration to Paris, Cuba and finally to the United States; deportation and extermination of relatives; family life and travels; transcripts of interviews with several members of the family.
    Note: Available on microfilm: parts 1-6 on MM II 7 ; parts 7-9 on MM II 8. , English , Table of contents , Subject and name index
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  • 8
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 240 + 8 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Płaszów (Concentration camp) ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Treblinka (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bremen (Germany) ; Göttingen (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Sweden Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Nazi seizure of power in Goettingen; move to Hamburg; persecution of Jews in Hamburg; deportation to Minsk; experiences in Minsk ghetto and concentration camps in Treblinka, Plaszow, Flossenbuerg, Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen; bomb raids on Bremen; liberation in Bergen- Belsen; transfer to Sweden; contains copies of documents and photographs.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 9
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 153 + 219 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Brecht, Bertolt, ; Eisler, Hanns, ; Finck, Werner, ; Mehring, Walter, ; Piscator, Erwin, ; Artists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Set designers. ; Theater. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father's work as a waiter and restaurant owner; refusal to organize Bar-Mitzvah celebration; escape from parents' home at age of 17; attendance of art school and apprenticeship as painter; setting designer at Piscator's theater; work with Bertold Brecht, Walter Mehring, Hanns Eisler, Werner Finck; artist milieu in Berlin around 1930; emigration to Austria in 1933 and Switzerland in 1934; work at the Zurich "Schauspielhaus"; has to leave Switzerland and emigrates to USA in 1938; as setting designer in New York show business; visit to Europe in 1949.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 10
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 8 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Refuge in Uruguayan embassy in The Hague; immigration to USA in 1940.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 11
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 12
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 13
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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  • 14
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 62 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Adult education. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Theater Production and direction. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Alsace (France) Ethnic relations. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Colmar (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was first written in 1940.
    Abstract: Childhood in assimilated Jewish family in Colmar (Alsace); relations between Germans and French in Colmar; experiences as a soldier in World War I; university study in Berlin and Cologne; activities as journalist, lecturer of German language and literature at the Berlin Volkshochschule (adult education), and as dramatic producer; violent clashes between Nazis and Communists in Berlin before 1933; exclusion from Reichskulturkammer and dismissal from job 1933; November pogrom 1938, imprisonment and emigration.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    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).
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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