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  • 1985-1989  (9)
  • 1930-1934  (6)
  • Jewish families.
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    My First 6701 Days : July 31 1921 to December 1939 (1989)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 76 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Schaffir, Charlotte Lola, ; Schaffir, Leo, ; Schaffir, Walter B., ; Heijplaat (Refugee camp) ; Education. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees Personal narratives. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Baden (Austria) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain photocopies of documents and photos as well as extracts from letters and were written in October 1989 in the United States. Description of life in Baden, a famous health resort near Vienna. The family lived in Vienna in the second district (Leopoldstadt). Recollections of schoolteachers and childhood friends. Occasional Friday night services in the Leopoldstadt temple. Theater and opera visits and cultural life in Vienna. Private piano and music lessons. Description of the family apartment and Jewish life in the Leopoldstadt. The family celebrated Christmas and observed the high Jewish holidays. Recollections of the author's bar mitzvah celebration. His mother Charlotte, nee Schwadron, was an artistic woman, who studied painting at the Frauenakademie with Tina Blau. Walter's father Leo Schaffir was born in Byalistock, Russia and studied in Berlin. He was a travelling businessmen. His family lived in Lemberg, Galicia. Leo and Charlotte Schaffir got married in 1919 in Vienna by rabbi Dr. Grunwald. Recollections of a family trip to Poland and to the World Fair in Posen in 1930. Suicide of the author's father due to business failure in 1930. Schaffir and Schwadron family history. Both families originated in Galicia, Poland. Family and social life. Summer vacation at the Semmering. Austrian politics in the 1930's and rising National Socialism. Life in Vienna after the "Anschluss" in 1938. Walter had to leave school and took lessons in graphic arts with the artist Heinrich Koerner. Preparations to emigrate. Walter was picked up in the streets in the days after Kristallnacht and released due to his mother's intervention. He was sent with his brother Kurt on a "Kindertransport" to Holland. They were sent to a quarantine camp at Heyplaat. Reunition with their mother in the United States in December 1939. Reflections on life as an emigre.
    Abstract: The following families are mentioned here:
    Abstract: Brassloff ; Goldstein ; Heublum ; Hoffman ; Koditschek ; Schaffir ; Schwadron ; Thorn ; Wertheim.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    German Jewish roots. (1989)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Cities and towns ; Jewish families. ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Bavaria (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Communities
    Abstract: Impressions of Richard Landman as a first generation American of contemporary Germany, finding all of it "Juden frei".
    Abstract: The following towns are mentioned: Nuremberg, Friedberg, Uffenheim, Ermetzhofen, Hellstein, Augsburg, Garmisch.
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    Frieda, Mutti - Rebecca, Mamma or Mamele : My two mother's in law Frieda Preuss, born Schaeler. (1988)
    Middle Village, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Preuss, Frieda. ; Mothers. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life in Tel Aviv until 1948; immigration to the USA in 1948; description of her mother-in-law Frieda Preuss, born Schaeler.
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    Unbidden Guest : [A memoir of an Odyssey to Ellis Island]. (1988)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 503 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Friedland, Bertha. ; Friedland, Hermann. ; Friedland, Rolf Erich Hermann. ; Fry, Varian, ; Kaplun, Sol. ; Ullmann family. ; Warburg, Max. ; Warburg, Paul. ; Anti-fascist movements 1918-1933. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees ; Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immgiration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Pierre Ferrand, written in 1988, published in an abridged and changed version as "A Question of Allegiance." Including information on his grandparents, some of which emigrated in the 1840s from Gailingen to the United States while others came from Eastern Europe to Germany; on the history of Hamburg Jewry; on politics in Weimar Germany; on Ferrand's father, his business in radio advertising and his anti-fascist politics; on political repression and the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany; and on American immigration laws. - Recollections of his childhood; of the family's emigration in 1933; of his schooling in France; of the emigrant milieu in Paris; of the Ferrand family's journey from Paris to Southern France, Spain, Morocco, and Portugal to the United States in 1940; of their extended stay at Ellis Island and Ferrand's friendship with Sol Kaplun from Poland; and on the family's adjustment to life in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM2 reel 12 (parts I-II) and MM2 reel 13 (part III). , English , Synopsis in file
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    Gabriel Hirschhorn : Schicksal einer deutsch-juedischen Buerger-Familie waehrend und nach dem Zeitalter der Emanzipation. (1988)
    Mannheim :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 57 + 18 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Hirschhorn family. ; Hirschhorn, Gabriel, ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Merchants. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lecture at the occasion of the Hirschhorn family meeting in Mannheim, 1988.
    Abstract: Genealogy of Hirschhorn family from 1788 until 1980s; Gabriel Hirschhorn (1788-1865) of Frankfurt married to Schwetzingen (Baden) and moved to Mannheim in 1834 where he founded a tobacco business; part of his descendants emigrated to Italy and to the USA in the 19th century, some descendants converted to Christianity; another line of the family stayed in Mannheim.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Memoirs] : [1919-1988]. (1988)
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    Language: French
    Pages: 6 + 160 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Birkenau (Concentration camp) ; World Union for the Protection of the Health of the Jews. ; Union générale des israélites de France. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Children Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Belgium. ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Annie Kamm, written in 1988. She describes her family history from the perspective of a journey to Poland with her brother Henri after the war. They visited the concentration camps in Poland where most of their family members died during the war. Their parents, born in Lublin (at that time in Russia, today in Poland), lived in Germany from 1919-1920, and then in Anvers, Belgium, where Annie Kamm (then Fanny Zorman) was born as the youngest of 7 siblings. She describes in detail the events between 1942 and 1945: hiding in Belgium, escape to France, capture by SS men when the family tried to cross the Swiss border, imprisonment in Montbeliard and in Belfort, transportation of her parents and siblings to the concentration camps in Auschwitz and Birkenau, her escape and life in hiding in Paris and Saint Cloud.
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    Stories of My Life. (1986)
    Berkeley, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 131 , print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Alexander, Paul. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Washington (D.C.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Eleanor Alexander including description of her childhood, medical school, emigration to Paris, London, Rolandia (Brazil), and Boston, marriage to Paul Alexander, information on their life in Washington DC and Princeton.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Sophie Dann. (1986)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Dann, Gertrud, ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish communities. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; Nurses. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Social workers. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Youth movements. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Sophie Dann, including description of her childhood in Augsburg; of her secular and Jewish education; of her experiences during World War I; of her involvment in and exclusion from the youth group "Wandervogel"; of her training as a teacher and a nurse; of her employment as a nurse in Augsburg, Nuremberg and Fuerth; of her work for the Augsburg Jewish community after 1933; of life in Nazi Germany and her parents leaving for Palestine; of her emigration to England with her sister; of her work as a domestic and a nurse there; of her life in post-war England and restitution payments from Germany; and of her work in Freud's library, information on her parents moving to England, and their life there.
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    Our lives. (1985)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Bamberger family. ; Metzger family. ; Brown, Eva Metzger. ; Metzger, Ernest. ; Amputation. ; Associations, institutions, etc. ; Brewing industry. ; Conservative Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; France. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history, circa 1905-1985: courtship and marriage; birth of daughter; Kristallnacht; emigration to France; injury in bombing of Angers at start of World War II; injury of daughter; amputation of leg; immigration to USA; life in New York; marriage of daughter; birth of grandchildren; activity in Hadassah.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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    [Friendship books of Gertrud Feigel and of her daughter Vera], (1911-1939)
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    Pages: 2 bound notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1911-1939
    Keywords: Feigel, Vera. ; Children. ; Friendship. ; Jewish families. ; Klatovy (Czech Republic) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Two libri amicorum (friendship books) belonging to Gertrud Feigel née Mandler and to her daughter Vera. Autographs for Gertrud are all in German, written mostly in Prague, 1911-1918. The autographs for her daughter Vera are written in Czech, mostly in the town of Klatovy (formerly Klattau).
    Note: German and Czech
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    A born refugee. (1933)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 153 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1933
    Keywords: Barth, Renée ; Communists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Alsace (France) ; France. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945. ; Martinique. ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Weimar (Thuringia, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Renée Barth including information on her grandparents' lives in Alsace; her father Rene leaving Germany for Switzerland during World War I because he was a pacifist; her early years in Switzerland; her and her mother's involvement in the communist movement in Weimar Germany; their arrestation after the Nazi seizure of power; Barth's emigration to Switzerland, return to Germany, life as a refugee in Paris; her emigration to the United States via Casablanca and Martinique; and on her career as a social worker and her family life.
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    [Oma Louise Simions Erinnerungen]. (1933)
    Westaere :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 17 + 3 pages : , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1933
    Keywords: Lewin, Rachel. ; Roehmann family. ; Roehmann, Louis, ; Roehmann, Ida (née Stern) ; Simion family. ; Simion, Leonhard, ; Stern, Joseph. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jewish families. ; Jews History. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Widows. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of Louise Simion's memoirs, recalling the lives of grandparents, uncles, aunts, and cousins. She also briefly covers the French German War in 1871.
    Abstract: Also included is a Simion family tree.
    Note: German , Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)
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    Fortsetzung : [Die Geschichte der Familie Kuhn]. (1932)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 7 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1932
    Keywords: Bethe, Hans A. ; Kuhn family. ; Metzger, Hermance, ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815. ; Women authors. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Worms (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Continuation of an unknown larger work about the history of the Kuhn family from Bissersheim/Palatinate and Worms, reaching back to late 18th century.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein geistiges Testament. (1931)
    Semmering,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 + 27 , synopsis; incomplete typescript.
    Year of publication: 1931
    Keywords: Economic history. ; Education, Higher ; Jewish families. ; Jews Economic conditions. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Shoe industry. ; Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal account of his life and moral legacy to his heirs.
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