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    [Memoirs of Baronne Hildegard von Gumppenberg], (1942-2019)
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    Pages: 4 folders.
    Year of publication: 1942-2019
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish refugees. ; Women authors. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; France. ; Archival materials ; Biographical sources ; Manuscripts. ; Finding aids. ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Two original German manuscripts and their English translations, describing the author’s escape from Nazi Germany (written in 1942) and her subsequent life underground (written in the 1960s).
    Abstract: Also included is a report by Dominique Joliat, who’s father was a Swiss border guard, who rescued Gumppenberg’s original manuscript.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 : "[Vous êtes libre]", Macon; 1942
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 : "La vie de Mme Ducaret". Köln; 1970
    Description / Table of Contents: 3a: "Kaete Hildegard von Gumppenberg", English translation of "[Vous êtes libre]"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 3b: “My Life as Mme Ducaret : Living undercover in Cologne”, English translation of "La vie de Mme Ducaret"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 : "1942 : Baroness Von Gumppenberg and her attempted escape to Switzerland"; 2019
    Note: English translations by Gerda Loosemore-Reppen, edited by Ruth and David Geall , German and English , Finding Aid
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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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
    Former Title: No title
    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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English translation , German , Synopsis in file
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    Toni Ehrlich's diaries, (1906-1996)
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    Pages: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes) : , 29 handwritten notebooks +
    Additional Material: + English summaries
    Year of publication: 1906-1996
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Education. ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: The diaries of Toni Ehrlich – 29 handwritten notebooks – document her life on an almost day to day basis, beginning on April 1, 1906 and ending with a single word (“Lo”, meaning “no” in Hebrew) on October 21, 1969. Her thoughts and observations concentrate mostly on matters and issues of art and culture, as well as – to a lesser degree – current events. Private matters, including life changing ones - like her husband’s death -, are mentioned on the side, if at all. The original diaries in old German handwriting are accompanied by detailed summaries in English and a list of names, provided by Irene Miller.
    Description / Table of Contents: Toni Ehrlich's diaries [29 volumes in Boxes ]: continuous from April 1, 1906 to August 27, 1969
    Note: German , English , Finding aid available online.
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    [Memoirs by Marianne Berel]. (1902-1989)
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    Pages: circa 153 + 135 + 152 pages (double space) : , partially bound typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 1902-1989
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Women authors. ; Jewish refugees. ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Breslau. ; France. ; Morocco. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In 'Family fragments" Berel tells her nephew the story of her family and esp. of her sister Vera. In the form of letters, poems and photographs she reconstructs the history of the family in Germany, England and the USA. Contains original immigration documents from France, Morocco and the USA. [2 copies, one bound, one unbound]
    Abstract: 'I remember': Letters to author's mother, mostly written in Gurs internment camp; author's experiences in Gurs internment camp and emigration to New York via Nice (translated from German); Account of Berel's private life after her emigration to the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Family Fragments : compiled, written and edited by your mother's sister [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Letters to My Mother (Part I of 'I Remember') [bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: The time of adjustment : The first ten years (Part II of 'I Remember') [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , German , French , See inventory , Synopsis in file
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    The story that Blanche told / (1974)
    Los Angeles, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 64 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Baer, Sabina. ; Dahlmann, Bertha. ; Gradwohl, Abraham. ; Gradwohl family. ; Roth family. ; Roth, Blanche. ; Roth, Sabina, ; Roth, Simon, ; Wise, Leo. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews, German ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Marriage. ; Women Education. ; Women authors. ; Cincinnati (Ohio) ; Spokane (Wash.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1871. ; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history reaching back to Simon Roth, born in 1838 in Duesseldorf, and Sabina Baer, born in 1844 in Frankfurt: Information on their immigration to the United States; on Roth's serving in the Civil War; on Baer's and Roth's marriage 1865 in Cincinnati; on childhood, schooling and youth of their children, including Blanche Roth; on Abraham Gradwohl, born in 1870 in Washington, D.C.; on his marriage to Blanche; on their life in Spokane; and on the life of Bertha Dahlman, born in Cincinnati to German-Jewish parents.
    Abstract: Also included are genealogical tables as well as reproductions of documents and clippings.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Looking back from new horizons. (1974)
    East Hartford,
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    Pages: 39 + 34 + 35 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jewish refugees. ; Photographers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edited transcript and an English language translation of a memoir, originally written in German in 1941:
    Abstract: Recollections of the war years in France. Marriage with Rudolf Sachs in 1940 during the time of his internment as enemy alien. Yolla Niclas Sachs was taken to the Gurs internment camp. Escape from the camp to Oloron. Yolla lived in hiding with an elderly woman, whom she helped with the work on the fields. Search for her husband. Reunion with Rudolf Sachs at the "Centre des Isoles" (center for the dispersed soldiers) in Le Journet. Rudolf was transferred to another military camp in St. Antoine-Albi. Difficulties to obtain the exit visa to the United States, which permitted her husband to leave the camp. Yolla eventually succeeded in receiving the visa. They emigrated to the USA on board of the ship "Winnipeg", which left the harbor of Marseilles in May 1941. The ship was stopped in Martinque and all German and Austrian emigrants were taken to British internment camps in Trinidad. After their papers were checked they were permitted to continue their journey to the United States. Yolla Niclas-Sachs and Rudolf Sachs arrived in New York in June 1941.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs taken in war-time France.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English , Synopsis in file
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    URL: Photographs from Rueckblick und Blick in die Ferne
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    Das Dreimaederlhaus. (1974)
    [Yarmouth, Mass.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 99 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1974
    Keywords: Grunwald, Clara, ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Montessori method of education. ; Preschool teachers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Story of three woman friends who lived together and worked in a Montessori nursery school in Berlin; their professionsal activities in Germany and immigration to USA; mental illness and death of the author's two friends.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs of Dr. Maria Montessori and her children's home in Rapallo, Italy.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    I remember my grandfather, (1973)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Vogelstein, Heinemann, ; Vogelstein, Hermann, ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish religious education 19th century. ; Judaism Prayers and devotions. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism 19th century. ; Women authors. ; Lippe (Germany) ; Szczecin (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author Hertha Vogelstein is the grand-daughter of Heinemann Vogelstein. He was born in the rural community of Lage. Heinemann was an excellent student and was sent to the gymnasium (high school) in Detmold. Due to his outstanding talent he was granted a scholarship of the State of Lippe to study theology at the Jewish seminary in Breslau. He became a rabbi in Pilsen (in 1869) and Stettin (in 1880). Heinemann Vogelstein married his student love Rosa Kobrack in 1869. His first born son Hermann, the author's father, followed in his footsteps as a rabbi in Koenigsberg. Heinemann Vogelstein was a leading personality in liberal Judaism and among the founders of the Association of Liberal Rabbis in Germany. He faced fervent opposition by orthodox rabbis for the publication of a German translation of the Hebrew prayer book.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    The Apartment. (1973)
    [Oceanside, Calif.],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 + 39 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Beer, Otto ; Beer Ritter, Frieda ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Jews Persecution. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Joelle Beer: description of her childhood in Vienna, persecution of Jews under Nazi rule, her family's immigration to the United States, information on her life in California and New York, recollections of her aunt Frieda Beer Ritter, who lived on a farm in Czechoslovakia and died in Theresienstadt.
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    [Two memoirs]. (1972)
    Sydney :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 38 + 34 pages : , typescripts (single space).
    Year of publication: 1972
    Keywords: Göring, Hermann, ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Westphalian town of Guetersloh; Jewish communal life; domestic life; description of orthodox Jewish household; family and Jewish community during World War I; 2 brothers died in World War I
    Abstract: Argument with Hermann Goering during a train ride in 1924; move from Guetersloh to nearby Harsewinkel; anti-Jewish persecutions after 1933 in small town of Harsewinkel; November pogrom 1938; emigration to Australia in 1939; new beginnings in Sydney.
    Description / Table of Contents: Die Geschichte einer juedischen Familie in einer kleinen Stadt in Westfalen, 1886-1918.
    Description / Table of Contents: To my Descendants, 1924-1950
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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    Geschichte der Familien Liepmann und Hamburger / (1972)
    Sao Paolo :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: ix + 202 + 34 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1972
    Keywords: Liepmann, Hugo Paul. ; Liepmann, Louis, ; Bleichröder, Julius. ; Liepmann, family. ; Bleichröder family. ; Banks and banking. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism. ; Marriage. ; Neurologists. ; Physicians. ; Textile industry. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Germany History Kapp Putsch, 1920. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Genealogy; domestic life 19th century; cousin Adda Plaut converted to Catholicism and became a nun; cousin Rudi Liepmann participated in Kapp revolt of 1920 and was involved in the murder of Karl Liebknecht; biography of neurologist Hugo Paul Liepmann; excerpts of his letters; biography of grandfather Julius Bleichroeder; marriage of his daughter Agathe with Hugo Paul Liepmann; mainly excerpts of letters of Hugo Paul and Agathe Liepmann; appendage contains list of Hugo Paul Liepmann's works and obituaries by Kurt Hildebrandt, R.Gaupp and Hermann Goldschmidt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    My darling daughter. (1971)
    Cardiff :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Pregnancy. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Letter written by Eva Clarke's mother to her daughter describing her life following her deportation in 1941.
    Abstract: Eva Clarke's mother lived in Prague. Her husband was sent to Theresienstadt on November 28, 1941; she was sent a few weeks later. In September 1943 she became pregnant. In December, her parents were sent to the East and never returned. In February 1944, her child, a boy called Dan, was born, but he died after two month of pneumonia. In 1944, they received the news that the Allied Forces were moving across France. In July 1944, she became again pregnant. Her husband was sent away on September 28, she followed on October 1. She never saw her husband again, he was shot during the evacuation of Auschwitz on January 18, 1945. After a short stop in Dresden, she was also sent to Auschwitz. Her parents, sisters and Peter ended in the gas chamber. She and her unborn baby only survived because there were not enough workers, so she was used for slave labor. Dr. Mengele selected her with the words “This time a very good quality”. Shortly afterwards, she was again sent away in a freight train, this time to Freiberg/Saxony, where she manufactured V-1s. When it became obvious in January 1945 that she was pregnant, it was too late to send her back to Auschwitz, so she went to Mauthausen and was brought there with dying women to a camp hospital. During this trip she got her baby. The Americans were not far away, so the Germans were more frightened than she was and the gas chamber of Mauthasen had been blown up only one day before. She and her baby, a girl who first was mistakenly described as a boy, survived the Shoah. She left Czechoslovakia together with her new husband in 1948 and settled in Great Britain.
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    Aus meinem Leben : [1891-1963]. (1966-1971)
    Vienna :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 201 pages : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1966-1971
    Keywords: Safar, Karl, ; Friedjung, Joseph, ; Girardi, Alexander, ; Jagic, Nikolaus, ; Landauer, Gustav Eugen, ; Landau family ; Meller, Josef, ; Scheuch family. ; Schwarzwald, Eugenie, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Coffeehouses. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Interfaith marriage. ; National socialism. ; Ophthalmologists. ; Pediatricians. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; Vienna (Austria) Social life and customs 20th century. ; Vienna (Austria) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written between 1966 and 1971. Genealogical tables and reflections on her mixed heritage as a child of an assimilated Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Description of life in the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the turn-of-the-century. Childhood in Salzburg, Cilli (Slovenia) and Trieste. Move to Vienna in 1907. Vinca was enrolled in the "Schwarzwaldschule", one of the few girl's schools in Vienna who provided higher education for women. Preparation for University. Memories of the celebrations due to the 60th year anniversary of Kaiser Franz- Joseph's accession. Cultural life in Vienna. In 1911 Vinca Landauer started her studies of medicine at the Vienna University. Acquaintance with her colleague and future-husband Karl Safar. Differences between the directors of the two anatomic institutes (Julius Tandler and Professor Hochstetter). Outings in the mountains. Outbreak of World War One. Vinca volunteered as a physician in a hospital. Marriage in 1917. Graduation from university. Difficult start after the end of the war and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Karl Safar specialized on ophthalmology with Professor Meller and Vinca started to work as a pediatrician with the Social Democrat Professor Friedjung in a working-class neighborhood. Confrontation with the misery of the unemployed. Travels to Egypt and Italy. Antisemitism in Austria. Nazi-take over and experiences of discrimination. Karl Safar lost his position at university due to his non-Aryan wife Vinca. The couple managed with some difficulties to stay during the Nazi time in Vienna. Especially their children were exposed to discrimination. Recollections of the time during World War II. Post-war life in Vienna. Appendix: Obituaries of Karl Safar in various medical journals.
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    Rueckblick, Erinnerungen und Gedankensplitter einer alten Mannheimerin. (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution ; 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; France. ; Germany Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Mannheim; education as a musician; Gurs internment camp; liberation and life in France after the war.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    My first 12 years / (1971)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jewish religious education. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Remseck am Neckar (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1971 in New York. The author describes her childhood in the tiny village Hochberg on the river Neckar at the end of the 19th century. Recollection of the rural environment and its simple living conditions. Description of the inhabitants of the village, including a night watchman who called out the time in the streets. Alice grew up speaking German and French at home. Her mother was a well-educated woman who had lived in Paris for some time. Her father was a business man. The Jewish community in Hochberg was small, but it had its own synagogue. Memories of family Seder celebrations at her grandparents' home. Recollection of her time at the Alexandrina Kindergarten, where Alice was the only Jewish child. Christmas celebrations at nursery school. Birth of her sister. In 1899 Alice Ottenheimer was enrolled in the local primary school. Private Hebrew lessons with the cantor of the nearby city. Summer vacations at her mother's birthplace in Ichenhausen. In 1905 the family moved from the countryside to Ludwigsburg.
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    La vie de Mme Ducaret. (1970)
    Köln :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir describes the life of Hildegard Gumppenberg, aka Maguerite Ducaret, in France from 1942 until 1945. She had many friends who helped her to get out of Germany. In France she lived dangerously with a fake French identity. She describes her work for the Germans and the Renault company, her life in hiding and the help she gave and got. The memoir also describes her many arrests, first by the Germans, then by the French. The memoir ends with the happy reunion with her family against great odds in Germany.
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    [Memoirs] : [1900-1970]. (1970)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 163 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Müller, Ernst. ; Architects. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Korean War, 1950-1953. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Athens (Greece) ; Greece Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in well-to-do Nuremberg Jewish family; persecution under Nazi rule in Nuremberg; emigration to Greece; cultural life in Athens; friendship with violinist Bronislaw Hubermann; flight from Greece in World War II; emigration to USA via Palestine; new life in New York; career as architect; death of son in Korean War; death of husband and remarriage.
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    Aus deutsch-juedischen Kindheitserinnerungen. (1970)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Burg, Meno, ; Oppenheim, Moritz Daniel, ; Devrient, Therese, ; Lewald, Fanny, ; Lazarus, Moritz, ; Rodenberg, Julius, ; Bernstein, Julius, ; Bernstein, Eduard, ; Oppenheimer, Franz, ; Mayer, Gustav, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Salomon, Alice, ; Bonn, Moritz J. ; Wassermann, Jakob, ; Rosenstein, Paul, ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sinsheimer, Hermann, ; Toller, Ernst, ; Kurz, Isolde, ; Nazimova, ; Autobiographies. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Biography. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is a collection of excerpts of published memoirs on Jewish childhood in Germany during the 19th century, focusing on the experience of "being different" in a Gentile environment. The collection contains fragments of the biographies of 20 famous German- Jewish men and women, who excelled as authors, economists, historians, painters, philosophers, physicians, politicians, psychologists, surgeons, teachers, and writers.
    Abstract: Also included is an exchange of letters concerning the possibility of the manuscript's publication (1959-1973).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 21 and MM 96 , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Geschichte der Befreiung aus Theresienstadt] : [February - March 1945]. (1970)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 19 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Spitzer, Federica, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of transport from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Switzerland in February 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Tagebuch einer deutschen Frau in Paris von 1939-1944, (1939-1960)
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    Pages: 130 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: addenda; letters; clipping
    Year of publication: 1939-1960
    Keywords: Bamberger-Beyfus, Max. ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Germany. ; Querqueville (Internment camp) ; Interfaith marriage. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives. ; France History German occupation, 1940-1945. ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diary of war years in Paris; frequent interviews with Gestapo officials in Paris; internment and death of her husband in internment camp.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Manuscript “Befreiung von Paris’ with notes, correspondence, addresses, and a genealogical table; 1944 - 1961
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Letters; March 9, 1944 - May 31, 1943
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Original diary of a German woman in Paris; 1940-1944
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Printed synopsis in: Merkur, v. 14, no. 5, May 1960
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and French
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    Tante Adele erzaehlt... (1929-1950)
    Vienna / New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 156 + 17 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1929-1950
    Keywords: Eisenstadt, Meïr ben Isaac, ; Kallir family. ; Kolir, Elasar, ; Landau family. ; Mises, Adele von, ; Nathanson family. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Politicians. ; Public welfare. ; Rabbis. ; Women authors. ; Brody (Lʹvivsʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine) ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written between 1929 and 1931 (in Vienna). Recollections of the author's childhood in Brody, Galicia. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the grandparents Kallir. Detailed descriptions of Jewish festivals and customs. Charity traditions within the family. Domestic life and family servants. Traditions of "Kaschern" and "Chumez sales" before the Passover holidays. Description of family characters. Welfare activities of the Landau family. Recollections of the great fire in Brody (1867). Stories and anecdotes of Adele's uncle, the lawyer Dr. Joachim Landau. Outings and summer vacations in Podhorce. Description of daily life activities in the family. School system and private lessons in German and Hebrew. In 1876 the Landau family moved to Vienna. Genealogy of the Nathanson and Kallir family. Addendum: Family history by Dr. Joachim Landau. Notebook of Adele's grandmother Esther Landau with birth dates and family chronicles in the Hebrew calendar. Biographical sketches of Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt (1670-1744) and Rabbi Eleasar Kallir (1739-1801). Collection of letters by Esther and Alexander Landau. Appendix: Lecture by Leopold Lourie on the "Galizischer Hilfsverein" in Vienna.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Aufzeichnungen ueber mein Leben im Kamp durch zwei Jahre : fuer meine Kinder (1944-1945)
    Theresienstadt :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 29 + 62 pages : , handwritten manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 1944-1945
    Keywords: Bauer, Helene. ; Papanek, Frederike, ; Papanek, Joseph. ; Steiner, Grethe. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Intellectual life. ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir by Frederike Papanek was written for her children in a mixed style between diary and letter. She describes her internment at Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt. Her first entry is dated from July 11, 1944. She describes work routine, conditions, and daily life in the before mentioned concentration camps. She was always hungry, and sometimes also quite sick. She spent some time knitting to earn extra money for bread, for her husband Joseph Papanek who was sick and desperate for food. She describes the awful conditions while being transported from camp to camp, without food, air to breathe, or light to see, put together with 61 other people in one wagon. Her husband died following such a transport. Theresienstadt is a nightmare with cynical islands of culture, concerts of works by Bach and Beethoven. Frederike Papanek writes about her daily life being concerned with her ill husband, visiting him, washing him, and bringing him food. On September 2, 1944, she is present when he passes away. In fall 1944, deportations start. She describes the last days of Theresienstadt, which she left on June 7, 1945. Her last entry is dated July 15, 1945. Attached is a translation into English.
    Note: German , English
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    Familien-Chronik / (1944)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 46 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Goldschmidt family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history, 1695-1944.
    Note: German
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    Razzia!. (1944)
    Bern :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Germany. ; Jewish refugees. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Last visit to mother in Germany from Swiss exile, April 1938; description of Gestapo search in German hotel.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Bilder aus meiner Vergangenheit. (1944)
    Jönköping :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 31 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Mostly family history and childhood memories; father's family in Upper Silesia; marriage customs; domestic life (19th century); Franco-Prussian War 1870; primary and secondary education in Breslau; father and brothers were merchants.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Tagebuch, (1943-1944)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 79 , 79 pages : , Handwritten manuscript. , Handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1943-1944
    Keywords: Lewissohn, Cäcilie ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish musicians ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Women authors. ; Women Biography. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Jewish musicians. ; Musicians ; Berlin (Germany) ; Biographical sources ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Diaries. ; Memoirs.
    Abstract: Diary of time of hiding in Berlin 1943/1944; children were already in Palestine and author hoped to join them; tells about life in hiding; includes visits at the cinema and coffee houses; bombings of Berlin. Contains photograph of the author.
    Note: Also available on microfilm , Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebenserinnerungen : Kindheit und Jugend bis zu ihrem Eheschluss (1943)
    Philadelphia :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 394 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1943
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Meyer, Johanna, ; Grünfeld, Ludwig. ; Israel family (Berlin) ; Lövinson, Ermanno. ; Lövinson, Martin. ; Miether, Helene. ; Children. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Berlin Jewish family; among brothers were Centralverein co-founder Martin Loevinson (ME 401) and historian Ermanno Loevinson; observance of Jewish holidays and traditions; Israel and Gruenfeld textile stores; domestic life; newspaper clipping on Ermanno Loevinson; correspondence with Christian friend Helene Miether.
    Note: German
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    Der erste Akt meines Lebens / (1943)
    Cambridge :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 319 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish religious education. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Dresden (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of childhood in well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Dresden; primary and secondary education; short account of Jewish religious education; trips to Bohemian spas and to Italy.
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    [My Mother's diary], (1920-1942)
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    Pages: 3 + 84 + 35 + 6 , synopsis; handwritten manuscript (copy); typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1920-1942
    Former Title: Diary of My Mother
    Keywords: Pick, Leopold. ; Pick, Ruzena. ; Pick, Vilem. ; Neurath, Regina. ; Rosenbaum, Jonas. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Children. ; Education. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1938. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ella Pick’s handwritten diary that describes mainly her son’s upbringing is followed by Rudolph Pick’s English translation of his mother’s diary. Also included is Rudolph Pick’s short typescript about his and his own family’s survival of the Holocaust (in German).
    Abstract: The diary was written between 1920 and 1942. Description of the birth of the author’s son Rudolph on January 3, 1920 and his first childhood illnesses. Milestones and accidents. Summer holidays with the author’s extended family. Visits at her husband’s home in Cetno. Appendicitis operation and recovery stay in Grado, Italy. Rudolph is enrolled at grade school in 1925. Summer in Baden and more illnesses. First sign of the swastika during the summer holidays in Bohemia in 1929. Rudi enters “Realschule”. Subtle Anti-Semitism at school. Anti-Semitic encounter during the summer holidays in Carinthia in 1930. Bar mitzvah celebration in 1933. Rudi joins the Jewish Boy Scouts. Hitch-hike trip to Paris. In 1937 he enrolls at the Vienna Technical University. Anschluss in 1938 and move to Prague. After the German occupation of Prague in March of 1939, Rudolph Pick leaves for Paris.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English , synopsis in file
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    Citizenship: None. (1942)
    [Cleveland, Ohio] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Leufer, Eva. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Girls ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Trips and voyages. ; Women authors. ; Ashtabula County (Ohio) ; Cleveland (Ohio) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Anne Koppel, including information on the background of her parents and recollections of her childhood and schooling in Cologne; of life in Germany before and after 1933; of the detention of her father in Dachau after the 1938 November Pogrom; of her emigration to England and to the United States; and of her experiences in Ashtabula and in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Abstract: The essay was written in Anne Koppel’s 11A English class at East High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
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    Tagebuch, (1940-1942)
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    Pages: 100 , Photocopy of autograph (clear handwriting in modern script).
    Year of publication: 1940-1942
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camps) ; Concentration camps. ; Funeral rites and ceremonies Jews. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Religious life. ; Women authors. ; France History 1933-1945. ; Les Milles (France) Concentration camps. ; Cuba Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Diary by Rosa Traub, written between 1940 to 1942. The first entry dates from November 20, 1940, written in Gurs internment camp in France, and recollects the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, and the effects on school children, businesses, cultural life etc. She herself was a witness to the burning of books. Her business had to be sold, and their goods were stolen. On October 21, 1940, all Jews were deported from Baden and the surrounding region to France. Rosa describes in detail when the Gestapo came to their apartment to arrest them. She was put on a train to Orleans, France, where she had to wait several days on the train until the internment camp in Gurs was set up for the new prisoners. She then describes the conditions and her experiences at Gurs in detail. At first, there were still some Spanish prisoners (Spanish Republicans). In February of 1941, her sister Bertha dies at Gurs. In October 1941, visas to get to the USA via Cuba arrive for Rosa and her family. They depart from Gurs on October 23, 1941, to Marseilles, where they board a ship in February (after many difficulties). On Rosa's last entry in her diary, dated from February 12, 1941, she decribes the trip on the ship which made stops at Casablanca, Morocco, and Bermuda, before arriving in Cuba. They were told to stay in Cuba until the end of the war.
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    Kindheitserinnerungen / (1942)
    Haifa,
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    Language: German
    Pages: typewritten manuscript (bound).
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1942 in Haifa, Palestine. Recollection of Toni Ehrlich (née Goldschmidt)'s childhood in Breslau at the end of the 19th century (1880-1895) in an assimilated upper-class Jewish family. Her father, Siegfried Goldschmidt, was the representative of Hoechst IG Farben, the chemical industry company in eastern Europe and founded the largest soap factory in eastern Germany. In 1872 he married Flora Rother. Both her parents were fond of traveling. Her older sister Grete, born 1873, was an excellent student and very close to her. Toni Ehrlich attended the Froebel Kindergarten from age 4 to 6. Recollections of summer vacations in the countryside. Memories of Christmas celebrations and fasting on Yom Kippur. Cultural life and family meetings. Her mother encouraged toughening (Abhaertung) through physical exercises and swimming lessons for her daughters at an early age. Recollections of her elementary school and her early awareness of being different as the only Jewish student among her class amtes. Memories of Imperial Germany and patriotic celebrations of the emperor's birthday at school. Piano and dance lessons. Dream of becoming a dancer, which was impossible in her social setting. In 1891 Toni Goldschmidt was enrolled in the Augusta girl's school in Breslau, where she received Jewish religious education for the first time. Summer vacations in Tyrol and Italy. Recollections of the invention of electric light and memories of the first telephone. Private French lessons. Engagement of her sister to the lawyer Felix Abramczyk. Death of her father in 1894.
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    Meine Erlebnisse ab 22. Oktober 1940. (1941)
    New York, USA :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 17 pages : , handwritten manuscript +
    Additional Material: 10 pages typescript
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Navemare (ship) ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Photocopy of German original manuscript and English typed translation of Clara Suess's diary.
    Abstract: The diary was written during September 1941 on board of the ship Navemare which transported refugees from Spain to New York City. On October 22, 1940, Clara Suess and her husband were arrested by the Gestapo at their home in Mannheim, Germany. The very next day, they found themselves on a train to France. The journey ended at the French internment camp Gurs, close to the Spanish border. They received an invitation to appear at the American consulate in Marseille, France, in February 1941. So they were released from Gurs. On May 16, 1941, they were notified that their visas were granted. Their children, who were already in the USA paid for the passage. They took the train to Spain where they boarded the ship Navemare. On September 12, 1941, they arrived in New York City.
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    Curriculum Vitae, (1941)
    Port Erin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Painters. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: English
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    Zwei Jahre Frankreich und die damit verbundenen Erlebnisse. (1941)
    Santo Domingo :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 95 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; France History German occupation, 1940-1945. ; Dominican Republic Ethnic relations. ; Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Emigration to France in 1938; internment in Gurs; emigration to USA via Lisbon and Dominican Republic.
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    [Erinnerungen] : [1883-1933]. (1940)
    Stockholm,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Jewish families. ; Jews Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Public welfare. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Szczecin (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Stettin; assimilated Jewish background; career as social worker; sole female member of Stettin magistrate; dismissal in 1933.
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    Wir lebten in Deutschland : Erinnerungen einer deutschen Juedin, 1880-1933. (1940)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 454 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Straus, Rachel, ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Zionist Congress, 7th, Basel, 1905. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Fasts and feasts Judiasm. ; Feminism. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicians Biography. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1940 in Jerusalem. Recollections of Rahel's childhood in Imperial Germany. Her father was born into a family of rabbis in Hungary. He studied at the famous yeshiva of Esriel Hildesheimer in Eisenstadt, where he was ordained as a rabbi. Her mother Ida Goitein, nee Loewenfeld was born in 1848 in Posen. She passed the teacher's exams secretly - a profession very unusual for a woman in her time. Rahel was born as the fourth child of the Goitein family in 1880. Sudden death of her father in 1883. Rahel attended Hebrew school for eight years in addition to her regular schooling and experienced from an early age on the difference between the two worlds. Celebration of Jewish holidays. Journey to Hungary and holidays with the befriended Straus family. In 1893 Rahel was enrolled in the "Maedchen Gymnasium" in Karlsruhe, the first high school for girls in Germany who prepared students for the entry exam at university. Awakening of feminist and Zionist interest. University studies in Heidelberg together with her brother Ernst. In 1900 Rahel Straus was the first female student at the School of Medicine in Heidelberg. Zionist activities in Mannheim. Engagement with Elias Straus. Geneology of her husband's family. Graduation from University in 1905. Wedding of Rahel Goitein and Elias Straus in 1905. Move to Munich. Attendance of the Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel. Difficult beginnings of Zionism in Munich. Relationship with non-Jewish friends. Journey to Egypt and Palestine in 1907. In 1908 Rahel Straus finished her doctorate and started her own gynecological practice. Birth of her first child Isa in 1909. Difficulties in combining her professional and private family life. Activities and speeches in various women organizations. Member of the political activist group fighting for the right of women to vote. Work in Jewish women organizations. Difficulties with her Zionist ambitions in an anti-Zionist environment.
    Abstract: Cooperation and activities with the "Juedische Frauenbund". Birth of her children Hannah (1912) and Peter (1914). Outbreak of World War I. Death of her brother Ernst, who was killed in the battle of Stry. Birth of her fourth child, Gabriele in 1915. Declaration of the German Republic. Spartacus Revolution in Munich in 1918-1919. Anti-Semitism, inflation and unemployment in the aftermath of the war. 1920 birth of a son, Ernst Gabor. Work in the board of the "Juedischer Frauenbund". Publication of her brochure on sexual education. Lectures and speeches. "Deutsche Frauentagung" in Cologne in 1928. Activities in the WIZO. Disrupted harmony within various women's organizations due to the rising National Socialist movement. 1932 wedding of daughter Ina with the Zionist Ignaz Emrich. Severe illness of her husband. Death of her husband Elias Straus. Emigration to Palestine in November 1933.
    Abstract: The following families and individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956; Bodenheimer, Rosa; Buber, Martin, 1878-1965; Emrich, Ignaz; Goitein family; Hildesheimer, Esriel, 1820-1899; Karminski, Hannah, 1897-1942; Loewenfeld family; Pappenheim, Bertha,1859-1936; Straus family; Straus, Elias, 1878-1933; Szold, Henriette, 1860-1945; Weizmann, Chaim; Zweig, Arnold, 1887-1968.
    Abstract: The following places are mentioned: Aurich; Cologne; Egypt; Eisenstadt; Germany; Heidelberg; Hungary; Italy; Karlsruhe; Munich; Posen.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copies on MF 83(1) & MF 87(28) , German , Synopsis in file
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    Recollections. (1940)
    New York, USA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: As a 12 year old child, in the year of 1940, just after having arrived in the US, Mary-Ann Reiss wrote down her recollections of the past two years, covering the events of March 1938 in Austria and her family's persecution and emigration. Many decades later, she found her writings again in form of a little notebook, written with pencil and fading away. This memoir then is cleared from some mistakes and in her current handwriting. It starts with her 10th birthday, which was only a few days before the Anschluss.
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    [Familiengeschichte]. (1940)
    Karkur :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 12 + 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Agriculture. ; Country life. ; Education. ; Jewish families. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Tailors. ; Textile industry. ; Women authors. ; Berlin. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Pardes Hanna-Karkur (Israel)‏. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Adolf Abraham Rothmann and his wife Therese née Casper. Included is information on the Wolff, Munderstein, Michalowski and Casper families.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Erinnerungen von Adolf Abraham Rothmann, 1874-1940
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Erinnerungen von Therese Rothmann, geb. Casper
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