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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (36)
  • 1995-1999  (36)
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 12 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2000
    Keywords: Tepper, Elsa, ; Tepper, Minna. ; Tepper, Wilhelm, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Salaspils (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Lauenburg (Germany) ; Rīga (Latvia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1946 in Austria, shortly after her liberation. Minna recalls her deportation in February 1942. She was taken to Riga together with her parents and her husband. Her mother was killed upon their arrival. Her father and her husband were taken to Salaspils for forced labor, where the later perished. Minna, who was pregnant with her first child, was forced to undergo an abortion. She describes her experiences of Nazi sadism in the Ghetto of Riga, especially by the Ghetto commanders Krause and Roschmann. In 1943 Minna was taken for peat cutting labor to Olaine. In November 1943 Minna and her father were reunited at the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga. From there both were taken to Spilve - a labor camp at a German air base, which was under worse conditions than the first camp. They worked in the cold without appropriate shoes and in thin clothes. Due to the exhausting conditions Minna's father Wilhelm was getting weaker and eventually was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. Minna was taken to Stutthof, which was overcrowded and in primitive conditions. They were taken to an exterior labor camp, where they had to build trenches for the German defense in the rain and cold. They suffered of constant hunger. In January 1945 the camp was dissolved and all sick and disabled were killed. They were marched under exhausting conditions in the snow and cold. For all missing women ten others were chosen randomly to be killed. After a week Minna was finally too exhausted to continue walking and stayed behind. The guard who was supposed to kill her fired the bullet over her head and left her for dead in the snow. She was rescued and brought to a house, where she was given food and a place to sleep. She was discovered by a German police officer, who was about to shoot her along with other Jewish fugitives. Minna was saved by her Viennese accent, which convinced him that she was a gentile woman.
    Abstract: She was taken to a mobile army hospital and treated for her frozen feet. In March 1945 Minna was liberated in Lauenburg, Prussia, where she was sent by German hospitals as an unidentified Jewish patient.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Nini Ungar's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1536.
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    The life and times of Joseph F. Aschner (Hietzinger Gymnasium 1932-38). (1999)
    [New York, NY],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 pages : , typescript +
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    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: College teachers. ; Divorce. ; Education, Elementary ; Education, Secondary ; Education, Higher ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; 13. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Bogotá (Colombia) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of family home in Vienna; study at Hietzinger Gymnasium in Vienna; Anschluss and aftermath; emigration to Colombia; life in Bogota; emigration to USA; high school and college in Chicago; army service during World War II; marriage and divorce; birth of daughter; remarriage; lives of relatives; life in retirement.
    Abstract: Also included are Joseph Aschner's questionnaires with the Austrian Heritage Collection.
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    Momma's arc / (1999)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 94 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Ensel, Judah. ; Harnish, Clara. ; Harnish, Franz. ; Leitner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Mauthner, Herbert, ; Mauthner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Weinberg family. ; Weinberg, Guy. ; Civil disobedience ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Blaricum (Netherlands) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Thuringia (Germany) ; Veszprém (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.
    Abstract: Description of the author's childhood in Amsterdam. German invasion of the Netherlands in 1941. Recollections of a visit at her maternal grandparents in Groszbuch, Germany in 1942. During the Nazi occupation, Julia, her mother, and her stepfather Herbert Mauthner moved to Blaricum, a town in the Dutch countryside. Julia, protected through her Gentile mother and "unknown" father, was enrolled in the local school. Her mother was part of the Dutch Resistance. She saved 6 Jews (including her husband and her mother-in-law) and later a German Wehrmacht deserter in Blaricum by hiding them in the attic of her house. Description of the life of the people hiding in "her mother's arc" and occasional razzias by the SS. Fate of her scattered family during the Holocaust.
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    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 + 34 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Altbach, Ludwig ; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) ; HIAS (Agency) ; Jews Persecutions. ; Education, Higher. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Soccer. ; Engineers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Argentina. ; Eggenburg (Austria) ; Peru. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.
    Abstract: Internment at Ellis Island and release with the support of HIAS. Arrival in Buenos Aires in October 1943 and reunition with his parents. Work for a steel company and studies of mechanical engineering at the University of La Plata. Graduation in 1949. Military coup and political instability. Walter Altbach founded his own business, which became a successful enterprise. Marriage in 1951. Move to Peru in 1967. Recollections of his first trip to Austria after his emigration in 1968.
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    Besuch in Wien / (1999)
    Miami, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 + 13 , handwritten manuscript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Fliegel family. ; Jewish Welcome Service, Vienna. ; Jews ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Voyages and travels. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are written in form of two letters. In the first letter "Besuch in Wien - Juni 1999", Hans Fliegel tells about his experiences on his visit to Vienna in May/June 1999 (following an invitation by the Jewish Welcome Service). He describes a walk in Vienna, mainly the second district, and as he stops in front of buildings with a personal significance for him, he unfolds parts of his family history, memories of family businesses and apartments.
    Abstract: In the second letter "Ernuechterung - fuer immer verdammt?!", Mr. Hans Fliegel gives an overview of the history of European Jewry, the Jews in Vienna, and his views of Austria before, during and after World War II. He also reflects his own experiences.
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    Our family history / (1999)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Rotholz family. ; Rotholz, Marianne, née Taussky, ; Rotholz, Marie. ; Rotholz, Max, ; Taussky, Adolf. ; Taussky, Fanny. ; Jewish families ; Jewish merchants ; Jews History. ; Secondhand trade. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history with photographs. The memoir starts with Lotte Bondy's grandparents from Hungary, Max and Marie Rotholz, and a description of her father's (Max Rotholz) youth in Vienna. Her mother was Marianne Rotholz, née Taussky, came from a Moravian family. Her parents married in 1905, and her father opened a successful store for second-hand goods at Lerchenfelderstrasse 48 in Vienna which she describes in detail. He also became an Authorised Valuer. The store became well known for its Persian carpets. The memoir with a note at the beginning of chapter four, "to be continued".
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    Vienna Childhood Memoirs : [circa 1920-1938]. (1999)
    1999 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 26 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Stewart, John Gideon. ; Wampach family. ; Weiser, Benno. ; Blau-Weiss (Youth movement) ; Herzl Klub. ; Terry's Montessori School. ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1918-1933. ; Jewish converts. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; College teachers. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Döbling (Vienna, Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of building and Doebling neighborhood in Vienna; description of home; family life; father's Zionist activity; parent's families; primary schooling at a Montessori school; Gymnasium; recreation; family members' health problems; father's education; membership in Zionist youth group Blau Weiss.
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    Abstract: Adler, Alfred; Brod, Max; Feuchtwanger, Lion; Glaser, Kurt; Herman, Hugo; Kohn, Hans; Mahler, Gustav; Murmelstein, Benjamin.
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    My story : [1915-1999]. (1999)
    Cadwell, NJ,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 101 pages.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Gutmann, Jakob, ; Pick, Margarethe, ; Pick family ; Rothberger, Bertha ; Rothberger family ; Schulhof family ; Weil family ; United States. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Engineers. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Families 20th century. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Ohio. ; Vienna (Austria) ; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army.
    Abstract: He served in England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.
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    Vienna and The Ides of March 1938 : (A reminiscence) (1998)
    [Vienna] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Wolf, Max, ; Universität Wien. ; Jewish physicians History. ; Medicine. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Short article about commemorative sessions on March 13, 1998 in remembrance of Jewish victims of Nazi rule in Vienna, Austria, specifically at the University of Vienna and its medical school.
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    Autobiography of Lisel Salzer. (1998)
    Seattle, WA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 , bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Salzer, Lisel. ; Dubrowsky, Joseph ; Ehrlich, Bettina ; Ehrlich, Georg ; Grom-Rothmeyer, Abdul Hamid ; Grossmann, Frederick M. ; Salzer, Hermann ; Seligman, Otto ; Spiral, Hilde ; Weil, Lisl. ; Zeisl, Erich ; Artists. ; Families 20th century. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women artists. ; Women authors. ; Women Education 1871-1918. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History. ; Seattle (Wash.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States History 1945- ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Early childhood memories; family apartments; Gymnasium; art school; art study in Paris; establishment as professional artist in Vienna; circle of friends in Vienna; emigration to New York; work in New York as fashion illustrator; exhibitions; painted portrait of Grandma Moses; a year with husband on Indian reservations; travels in western United States; move to Seattle; life in Seattle; work as portrait artist; death of husband; acquisition of piano; founding of art galleries in Seattle; surgery for bladder cancer; travels and artistic activities; work for Adlai Stevenson campaign; friends in Seattle over the years.
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    Trudi Jeremias; New York : [1925-1998]. (1998)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 + 6 , synopsis; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Stammtisch (New York, NY) ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Airlines Employees. ; Jewelry Design. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in 1925, family immigrated to USA from Vienna in 1939; family settled in New York; life in New York; education in high school and college at Alfred University in New York state; work for Sabena airlines; engagement to Swiss man; lived in Vienna for three years, work in record shop in Vienna; life in New York; reflections on identity as Austrian/Jew/American.
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    Memoirs. (1998)
    Charlotte, NC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typed manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Christian converts from Judaism. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecutions ; Jews History 20th century. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Maribor (Slovenia) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The material forms only one part of Marianne Lieberman's memoirs. It covers her time in Vienna and Maribor, Slovenia, between the years of 1939 and 1942, with individual chapter headings. Marianne Lieberman remembers her rigid father who would not see her creative talent. She describes early recollections from school, right after the Anschluss in 1938. Her father, being Jewish, had to flee Austria immediately, Marianne Lieberman and her mother went to Slovenia where they stayed with an aunt in 1939. She describes her problems of being baptized. She believed her mother went back to Vienna in 1941, that is why she headed in the same direction. Her first stop was in Graz at a relative's house. Back in Vienna, she was considered a "Mischling" and therefore in danger.
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    Aftershocks : a biographical memoir (1998)
    Charlotte, NC,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 350 pages : , typed and bound manuscript with handwritten dedication to LBI.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Lieberman, Marianne, 1927. ; Intermarriage. ; Persecution Jews ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Maribor (Slovenia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Abstract: The memoir was published in German under the title "Nachbeben" in 2005 by the Czernin Verlag, Vienna (available in LBI library). The English manuscript has 350 pages. The memoir starts in the year 1939, previously talks about Vienna, and Maribor, and soon moves on to the years 1941 when Marianne and her mother were living again in Vienna.
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    Marianne Lieberman's memoirs, (1998)
    Charlotte, NC,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 + 14 pages.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Euthanasia ; Vienna (Austria) ; Yugoslavia Emigration and immigration. ; Archival materials ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Manuscripts
    Abstract: In the first part of her memoir, Marianne Lieberman describes her flight from the Nazis to Maribor and further on to Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. She then writes about her return to Vienna, Austria. – In the second part she documents the life story of her schizophrenic aunt Hedwig, who was killed in the course of the Euthanasia project "T4".
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Charlotte
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    Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 38 + 28 pages : , manuscript; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942-1998
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    Keywords: Fischer, Erwin. ; Treu family. ; Laundry. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Rheda (Harsewinkel, Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Louise Fischer's life story written by her at the Aldersbrook Hospital in England in April of 1942. Also available is an English translation by by Erwin Fischer, 1998.
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    Through hell with a guardian angel : [1900-1998] (1998)
    Haifa,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 69 , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Hacker, Edith, ; Mengele, Josef, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camps) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Guben (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Israel Emigration and immigration after 1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Yugoslavia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoires by Dr. Ruth Gutman, written June-August 1998 in Haifa, describing mainly her family's history in Bosnia and Austria, her experiences in Yugoslavia during World War II, and her survival of Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
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    My granddaughter wanted to know... (1998)
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    Pages: 2 +7 + 5 + 6 , handwritten manuscript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Groszman family. ; Horthy, Miklós, ; Wallenberg, Raoul, ; Antisemitism. ; Blood accusation ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish ghettos. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1998 in Argentina. Gabriel Groszman describes the family history reaching back to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Anti-Semitism and the blood libel trial of Tisza Eszlar. His father, who was born in the Habsburg empire, fought in World War One. In 1918 counter revolution in Hungary under Admiral Horthy, who established a semi-fascist regime. Childhood memories of the Jewish life in Vamosmikola, a small Hungarian village of 1500 inhabitants and 25 Jewish families. Both of his grandparents had small stores and did fairly well. Encounters of anti-Semitism in a predominantly Catholic environment. With Hitler's rise in Germany Admiral Horthy became encouraged to reinforce Anti-Jewish regulations. Gabriel's father was forced to give up his grain-business, because agricultural related buisness was prohibited for Jews. Move to Budapest. Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944. Imi, Gabriel's 18 years old brother, was taken to a copper mine in Yugoslavia. Gabriel himself at age 14 had to clean up factories after air raids. He got a position as a messenger boy at the Jewish community committee (Judenrat). Large Jewish population in Budapest (300.000) delayed the Nazi efforts of deportation. Concentration of the Jewish population in designated houses under restricted circumstances. House searches by the Nazis. Growing danger of deportation. Raol Wallenbergs intervention with the Swedish embassy provided the family with a special document of protection. They moved to the "Swedish house". In December 1944 the Nazis did not respect any longer the immunity of the protected Jewish families and started deporting people from there as well. The Nazis established a Jewish ghetto in a district of Budapest to prepare the final deportation of the Jewish population in Budapest. Approaching Russian troops cut the roads and crossed these plans. The family of Gabriel Groszman was still able to stay in the "Swedish house", though with limited protection.
    Abstract: Mass killing of Jewish people who were taken to the river Danube and shot by Hungarian Nazis. Gabriel's father bought forged papers for the family, stating them as Eastern Hungarian refugees. They moved out of the Ghetto and the "Swedish house" to the gentile district with forged identities. Air raids and advancing Russion troops. Their landlords discovered their true identity and restrained from denouncing them. After a few weeks Budapest was liberated by the Russians. The family moved to Vienna and lived there for three years, before they emigrated to Argentina.
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    Liebe, Hass und Krieg - oder die verwogenen Wellen. (1997)
    Launceston, Tasmania :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 138 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Dvorsky, Otto, ; Dvorsky, Theresa (Weiss) ; Courtship. ; Deportation. ; Desertion, Military. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945 Eastern front. ; Amstetten (Austria) ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir 1908-1947 by Ingeborg Fischer-Dvorsky, describing the life of her parents in a fictional and sentimental style. Otto Dvorsky was descendant of a Polish aristrocratic family. Detailled description of his courtship with his future-wife Theresa during the war, where Otto served as a lieutenant in the German army hospital. Marriage and birth of their daughter Ingeborg. Account of Otto Dvorsky's experience in the "Wehrmacht". Air raids in Vienna and experiences during World War II. Otto's desertion and his affair with a woman called Julia. Penal transfer to the Eastern front. Theresa lost their second child. Interrogation by the Gestapo due to her husband's Jewish descent. With the support of a local Gestapo officer her deportation to Auschwitz could be posponed. Liberation by the Russian army. Emigration to Australia.
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    Nuts and bolts : assembling a life. (1997)
    Wahroonga :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 166 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; England. ; Japan. ; Newcastle (N.S.W.) ; Sydney (N.S.W.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Before the Holocaust : Letters to Alice (and Edith) 1939-1941 (1997)
    Portland, Oregon :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 73 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Loewenstein, Alice Kleinmann, ; Reingruber, Edith Loewenstein, ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution. ; Mothers. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Correspondence ; Genealogical tables
    Abstract: Edited transcripts of 32 letters written by Flora Mattersheim Kleinmann in Vienna, Austria, to her daughter Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein and her granddaughter Edith from July 1939 to October 1941.
    Abstract: The letters are accompanied by an introduction by Alice Kleinmann Loewenstein's granddaughter, Ruth Leeds Love (Inge Ruth Loewenstein), as well as by notes, photographs and family trees; transcripts by Herbert Weber.
    Note: The original letters are on deposit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
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    Survival, (1997)
    [Borehamwood, Hertfordshire ?] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 91 pages (1.5 space, paper 5.5 x 8 ") : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Markstein, Otto. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Women authors. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Latin America Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Edith Loewenstein, née Markstein, including recollection of her father's and uncle's arrest in Vienna and their deportation to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald; of persecution of Jews in Vienna; of the family's efforts to emigrate to Bolivia; and of their departure via Hamburg.
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    The Inverted Moon. (1997)
    Acassuso, Acassuso :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 71 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Weiss family. ; Poznan family. ; Frankl family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography with Weisz's recollections of his childhood in Vienna.
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    A hectic month in a retiree's life : or "All is well, that ends well". (1997)
    [West Palm Beach] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 8 + 1 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Levi, Alice. ; Retirees. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    From Vienna to Vineland : A history of the Salier Family, including the ancestors and descendants of Wulff Levin Fraenkel, during the last four hundred years (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 92 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Additional Material: geneological charts :
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Fraenkel Levin, Wulff. ; Hellendag, Eva. ; Salier family. ; Salier, Bertha. ; Salier, Eva. ; Salier, Felix. ; Salier, Frederike. ; Salier, Frieda. ; Salier, George. ; Salier, Jacob. ; Salier, Max. ; Salier, Tommy. ; Salier, Wilhelm. ; Artists. ; Country life. ; Farmers. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood home in Vineland, New Jersey; life on farm; life of parents in Berlin after 1933; father's account of family's flight from Germany in 1936; emigration of parents; family move to farm in Vineland, New Jersey; history of the Salier family; origin of family name; geneologies; bibliography.
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    My Pre-American History. (1997)
    [Long Island] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 62 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Buchbinder family. ; Israel. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Germans Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; England. ; Isle of Man. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author’s father Dr. Leon Buchbinder was a lawyer and veteran officer of World War One. He got married to Toni Hernes in 1919. After the birth of their son Martin they moved to Vienna. The author grew up in an enlightened Jewish family, celebrating the Jewish holidays. His father was a Social Democrat. Martin attended Gymnasium. Recollection of anti-Semitic remarks among his fellow students. He joined the Boy Scouts. Memories of the social democratic government In Vienna. Civil war in February of 1934 and banning of the social democratic party. Rising of National Socialism in times of unemployment and poverty. Recollections of Anschluss to Nazi Germany. Martin was forced to leave his school and enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium. Description of frequent round-ups and humiliation by Nazi troops.
    Abstract: The family decided to leave the country and prepared their emigration. Martin joined the Zionist youth movement Makkabi Hazair and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. He was sent on Hachsharah to a chicken farm in Eichgraben, in the outskirts of Vienna, in November of 1938. During Kristallnacht, they were raided by a group of local Nazi youths and sent to a large estate (Schloss Walpersdorf), where they worked alongside non-Jewish co-workers. In April of 1939 Martin was sent to England for agricultural training. He worked in Llandegveth, in South Wales. His parents were banned to emigrate to England and went on an illegal passage to Palestine. Martin was accepted at a Youth Aliyah training center in Glamorganshire and worked on farms and as a groom for a physician in Hereford.
    Abstract: In 1940 he was arrested and interned as an "enemy alien" together with other refugees: rich cultural life among his fellow internees, who were largely intellectuals and socialists. Transport to the Isle of Man due to increased fear of a German invasion. He joined the British "Habonim" in 1942 and was sent to the "Beth-Challutz" in West Hempstead. “Blitzkrieg” and recollections of the V.E. day in London. In 1946 he joined an Israeli underground group for illegal emigration to Palestine. After some weeks at sea their ship was captured by the British and Martin and his inmates were sent to a camp in Cyprus. After 11 months he was released and was finally able to be reunited with his parents, who were living in Tel-Aviv. Martin joined the army and trained to be a radio operator. Army exchange trip to the United States. Work as an instructor in the Israeli Air Force and technical exchange trip to France, where he met his future wife Maya. Wedding in 1957 in Israel. 1961 immigration to the US to join Maya's parents. Birt oh their children Elia and Danny. Martin continued his studies at NYU, eventually settling with his family in Long Island.
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    Autobiography. (1996)
    Washington D.C.,
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    Pages: 10 + 24 pages : , typescripts (copies).
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Shiffers, Stephan, ; Hechaluz (Organization : Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Education. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Auto-biographical essay by Stephan Shiffers. Also included is a transcript of an Austrian Heritage Collection interview with Stephen Shiffers, conducted by Sebastian Markt in 2001.
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    Meine Erlebnisse : Erinnerungen (1996)
    Ramat Gan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 99 + 2 pages : , private printing; addendum.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Education, primary and secondary 1918-1938. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Yugoslavia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of life in Vienna and summer vacations in the country; early experiences of anti-Semitism; experiences at children's Erholungsheim following scarlet fever; vacation in the Jewish village of Lackenbach; Bar Mitzvah preparations; membership in Zionist Betar youth movement; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; work in village of Moosbrunn; preparations to emigrate to Palestine; journey to Palestine via ship down the Danube river; stay in Yugoslavia; train to Palestine via Greece, Turkey, Syria, Beirut; arrival in Palestine.
    Abstract: Addendum: Die Muttersprachtragoedie, 2 pages.
    Abstract: The following individuals are emntioned: Begin, Alisa; Kopp, Fabian; Queller, Berthold; Queller, Georg.
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    My family. (1996)
    Haifa :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Nohel, Emil. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Univerzita Karlova. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria)
    Abstract: Family history circa 1890-1944: Speculation on origin of family name; story of life of great grandfater, grandfather; father's study in Prague; father's work as assistant to Albert Einstein; description of childhood home in Vienna; childhood friends; summer vacations with family; Anschluss; emigration to Palestine in 1938; death of family members in Holocaust.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Kellner, Victor; Mahler, Max; Mahler, Ottla; Mautner, Fritz; Nohel, Adolf; Nohel, Elias; Nohel, Heinrich; Nohel, Julie; Nohel, Karl; Nohel, Yeshayahu; Pelzer, Fritz; Pelzer, Heinz; Pelzer, Robert; Pelzer, Wilhelm; Spitzner, Anna; Spitzner, Bertha; Spitzner, Clara; Spitzner, Hannah; Spitzner, Johanna; Spitzner, Joseph; Spitzner, Karl; Spitzner, Paul.
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    [Memoirs] : [1922-1996]. (1996)
    Menlo Park, CA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Porat, Etka, ; Porat, Milka, ; Porat family. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kibbutzim. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicists. ; Shtetls. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clausus for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailled acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illeagal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzwah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illeagal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clauses for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailed acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illegal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illegal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: After the end of war he learned about the fate of his family, who perished in the Holocaust. Dan rejoined the Haganah after war. He got married to his wife Frieda in 1946. Continuation of his studies. Birth of his son Uri. Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. Volunteering in the War of Independence. Scholarship to study physics at Manchester University in England. Birth of his daughters Ruthi and Naomi in England. Move to USA to work as nuclear physicist at Harvard and MIT. Position as physicist at Stanford for 26 years.
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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 60 + 32 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Blau, Bertha. ; Blau family. ; Dollfuss, Engelbert, ; Drucker, Kurt. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Fliegel, Hans Robert, ; Fliegel, Julius, ; Fliegel, Otto, ; Fliegel, Rosa, ; Fliegel, Wilhelm, ; Fliegel family. ; Grunwald, Max, ; Haber, Georg. ; Levi, Alice. ; Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah, ; Waldheim, Kurt. ; Dachau (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are reproductions of documents.
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    On Being Jewish / (1996)
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    Pages: iii + 147 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Kelsen, Hans, ; Stross, Walter ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Identity. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Reform Judaism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1939. ; England Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Trip back to Vienna in 1965 for first time since emigration; youth in Vienna; relationship with parents; relationship to Judaism and Jewish identity as child; move to Liebauthal in Czechoslvakia in 1932; life in Liebauthal; school in Eger; religious education; move to Prague; life in Prague; memories of grandmothers; emigration to England in 1939; school in England; baptism into Church of England; emigration of parents to England; work and study in Manchester; job testing parachutes; study at Technical College in Leicester; anti-Semitism in England; victory celebration in London at end of war; death of father; life in London after war; sister's encounter with anti-Semitism in England; emgiration to USA in 1947; arrival in San Francisco; college at Berkeley; marriage and birth of children; joins synagogue congregation; death of mother; divorce, second marriage, and second divorce; trip to Germany; trip to Israel; experiences in Israel; visit to Prague and Czech Republic; visit to Theresienstadt; account of cousin's survival of the Holocaust; return to father's factory in Liebauthal; final reflections on being Jewish.
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    Sketches : [1895-1995]. (1995)
    Amherst, Massachusetts :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 52 pages : , private print; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Schiffer, Ludwig, ; Schiffer, Olga, ; Schiffer family. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Lawyers. ; College teachers. ; Women authors. ; Groningen (Netherlands) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written and published in 1995. Childhood recollections of growing up in a well-to-do Jewish family in Vienna. Her father Ludwig Schiffer was a lawyer. Description of the family apartment. Private French and Piano lessons. Passion for theater. Outings to the Vienna Woods and to the skating rink. Memories of the extended family. Trips to her uncle's home in Eisenstadt. Observance of the Jewish holidays and recollections of seder celebrations at her maternal grandparents. Private lessons in French and English. Eva was enrolled in a girl's Gymnasium (high school). Exclusion from the Austrian patriotic organization "Jungvolk". Summer vacation in the Austrian Alps. Anschluss in 1938. Friends from the Netherlands convinced her parents to send her and her brother to live with them in Groningen. In Vienna her father was sent to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. Eva's mother fervently prepared their emigration, and after her husband's release they joined their children in the Netherlands. Emigration to the USA via England in September 1939. Move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where her father attended Law School at Harvard at age 43. Eva's mother opened a Viennese coffeehouse (the "Window shop") with her friend Alice Perutz to support the family. After her father's graduation the family moved to New York. Experiences of antisemitism. Eva enrolled at Radcliffe college. Death of her father in 1961. Studies of comparative literature at Harvard University. Eva Schiffer became a professor of German literature at the University of Massachusetts and had various visiting professorships in Germany.
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    Memoirs of the years 1938-1940. (1995)
    King of Prussia PA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Former Title: Irene Deutsch Lowy
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Baden (Austria) ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Irene Deutsch Lowy, written mostly in German in 1940 and in the 1960s. The text was edited and translated into English by her daughter, Ann-Mary Reiss.
    Abstract: Experience of the Anschluss in Vienna; life in Vienna, Baden after Anschluss; emigration to Brussels; life in Brussels; work as language teacher in Brussels; immigration to USA; life in Philadelphia.
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    Hans Martin Grossmann. (1995)
    [New York],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Jewish refugees. ; Revolutions. ; Sports. ; Textile industry. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Buenos Aires (Argentina) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Montevideo (Uruguay) ; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) ; Trieste (Italy) ; Uruguay Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1992. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Grossmann began to write his memoirs in Montevideo in 1990. The present draft touches on his life in Vienna; “Anschluss”; his life in Italy and in England; fighting in World War II; his emigration to South America; his work in the textile industry; and his encounters with revolutions.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM II 32 and MF 503 , Synopsis in file
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    Everyone has a story to tell - This is mine, (1995)
    Houston, TX,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 67 pages : , Typed manuscript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Liebenthal, Edith (née Friedler) ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Women authors. ; Vienna (Austria) ; England Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edith Liebenthal starts her memoir with description of Vienna where she was born. She describes famous buildings, and buildings that were important to her personally. She states that "living in Vienna and attending school there imbued me with a sense of pride, even love, for the city and country of my birth". She discusses art in Austria which she thinks of as the greatest source of pride. Her family had a clear bourgeois background, being involved in Vienna's rich cultural life. The family went on summer vacations, and during winter had skiing vacations in the Alps. Her harmonic childhood but suddenly disrupted by the Anschluss. Her father lost his job and her mother lost her customers. They had no friends in the US to get an affidavit, but a childhood friend of her father's finally guaranteed for them. Edith escaped on a Kindertransport to England, where she stayed with the Kingdon family in Bristol. Her parents managed to get domestic visas in England. Although only staying in England for 15 months, this period of time had the greatest impact on her life, as Ms. Liebenthal notes in her memoir. She writes about her days at school, different eating habits in Britain, the outbreak of the war, and a temporary reunion with her parents. After the outbreak of World War 2, she had to leave Bristol within 3 days, because it was declared an "alien protected area". Still, she could graduate from high school. Then the visas arrived, and after some obstacles they made it to New York on the liner "Cameronia". She found a job immediately, through a girl she had befriended on the ship. During the first weeks she sustained the family financially. However, it was difficult for her to befriend new people. In March 1947, she met Kurt, her future husband. They married one year later. The remaining chapters cover the first years of marriage, her job as social security administrator, her retirement years in Houston, Texas.
    Abstract: The memoir ends with a portrait of the Friedler family and includes a pedigree on the last page.
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    Paul Amann - Leben und Werk : Ein Leben in zwei Welten. (1995)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 193 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Amann, Paul, ; Authors. ; Authors, Exiled Biography. 20th century ; Jewish refugees. ; Publishers and publishing. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: MA thesis about the life and work of Paul Amann.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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