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  • Media Combination  (4)
  • Alexander, Eleanor,  (2)
  • Herzfeld, Ernst,  (2)
  • Jews Persecution 1933-1945.  (4)
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    Lecture given at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. (2001)
    San Francisco :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Rathenau, Walther, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The lecture was held at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco. Description of life in Berlin in the 1920s. Childhood in an assimilated well-to-do Jewish family the Weimar Republic. Her father was a lawyer and editor of the "Vossische Zeitung", who had his office in the front part of the apartment. Her mother a devoted singer who performed occasionally at the "Singakademie". Recollections of Sunday morning walks and visits to the museum at the center of the town. Earliest memories of food shortages during World War One. Private lessons in the aftermath of the war. Summer vacations in the German and Swiss Alps. Birth of her younger brother in 1921. Visits at her grandparents together with her older sister Irene. Memories of Christmas celebrations with family gatherings. Celebration of the Jewish holidays with her maternal grandparents, who were devoted orthodox Jews. Recollection of the assassination of Walter Rathenau in 1922, which made her aware of the undercurrent antisemitism. Her father became an active member of the Democratic party and was elected alderman (Stadtrat) of the city of Berlin in 1928. Description of the vibrating cultural life of Berlin. Eleanor attended the Auguste Viktoria Realgymnasium, an all-girls school preparing for university. Recollection of teachers and schoolmates. Theater and concerts. Private dance classes. Summer vacation in England to improve her English skills in 1931. Eleanor passed her final exams in 1932 and started to study medicine at the university in Heidelberg. Rising antisemitism and political unrest. With Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933 Jewish students were soon expelled from university. Soon thereafter Eleanor left Germany for Paris.
    Note: See also "Eleanor Alexander Collection" (AR 6414), and four other memoirs by Eleanor Alexander: ME 995, Me 1071, Me 1107, Me 1113 , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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    A Tribute to my Mother Hedwig Eyck (1888-1971). (1995)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages (doublespace) : , Typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Eyck, Erich, ; Eyck, Hedwig. ; Deutsche Demokratische Partei. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Woman authors. ; Women Political activity. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Lawyers
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander, née Eyck, born in Berlin in 1913, on her mother Hedwig Eyck including information on her involvement in the Democratic Party and her philanthropic and cultural activities, description of life in Nazi Germany, of her emigration to England, and of her experiences there.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 3
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    Meine letzten Jahre in Deutschland : 1933-1938, (1933-1938)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 folders.
    Year of publication: 1933-1938
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Brodnitz, Julius, ; Hirschberg, Alfred, ; Hirschland, Georg. ; Stahl, Friedrich Julius, ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Preussischer Landesverband Jüdischer Gemeinden. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Essen (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: In this memorial article, Herzfeld offers deep insight into the problems and the predicament for German Jews from 1933 to 1938. He especially describes the creation and the work of “Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden”, the new organization for German Jews, facing the Nazi-regime.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Final version, 49 + 2 + 3 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 2: Version edited by Alfred Hirschberg, 44 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 3: Two almost identical draft versions, 66 + 66 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 4: Correspondence, notes, clippings.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file , Inventory available online.
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 4
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    Ernst Herzfeld : Eine Autobiographie.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 259 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Brodnitz, Julius, ; Kareski, Georg, ; Stahl, Friedrich Julius, ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Preussischer Landesverband Jüdischer Gemeinden. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish way of life 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1948. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Essen (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This version was edited by Alfred Hirschberg and E.G. Lowenthal for the purpose of publication.
    Abstract: Family background and childhood in Posen; primary and secondary education; university studies in Freiburg, Muenchen and Berlin; first experiences as a lawyer; settling in Essen in 1903 and founding of local CV chapter; specializing in economic law; military service in +World War I; relationship between CV and Zionism in Weimar period; activities in Essen Jewish community and in Prussian Federation of Jewish Communities; persecution of Jewish lawyers after 1933; last phase of CV before its dissolution in 1938; pogrom (November 1938); emigration to Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
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