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    My Story / (2013)
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    Pages: 22 + 60 + 28 + 2 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    And there is no going back : A story of patience, persistence, and perseverance (2013)
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    Pages: 340 + 6 + 5 + 5 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Shiffers, Liese. ; Shiffers, Stephan, ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    The family memories of Robert Kanfer : Vienna – London – Cheltenham - Vienna. (2005)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 84 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Boehm family. ; Kanfer family. ; Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. ; Antisemitism ; Architects. ; Education, Higher ; Emigration and immigration ; Jews Persecutions ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Shanghai (China) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir includes a pedigree, photographs, representing the whole family, grandparents, parents, himself, in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The manuscript starts with Robert Kanfer's grandparents' background, then covers the Boehm family--his wife Susie's family. Susie's father was Jewish. Her Catholic mother helped her husband's parents to get a visa. Her grandfather was Alfred Boehm. The next chapter covers vague memories of the "Anschluss" in March 1938. Robert Kanfer's father, Max Kanfer, was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. There he spent 4 months, and 4 more in Dachau concentration camp. Robert Kanfer's mother Bertha was forced to scrub off the streets which is vividly described. He describes a few more of these cruel daily antisemitic attacks. Since the family had a very limited budget, obtaining visas became quite difficult. The family had to separate and reunite only many years later, in 1947. The father emigrated to Shanghai, Robert could escape on a Kindertransport in 1939. He would spend the coming eleven years in England. Robert's brother Fritz was eager to move back to Vienna, and wanted his family to join him. He arranged for Robert to study architecture at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, which finally convinced Robert to join his brother. So he moved back to Vienna in 1950. He started to study with famous Austrian architect Clemens Holzmeister, but later changed to the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, to study with Franz Schuster. After graduation, he soon opened his own office. Throughout his career, he designed 10 Novotel hotels in Austria. He got married to his first wife Evi, they got a son, Roland. Soon they got a divorce, and Robert married Susy who he had known for a long time.
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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.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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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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    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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    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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    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)
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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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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
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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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    This is what I remember. (1993)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy) +
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    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding ; Jewish families ; Jewish refugees. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Note: July 1992 - May 1993
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    Lest We Forget - The Nazi Era : by Lizzy Rapp-Bauer. (1991)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 + 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Artists. ; Household employees. ; Tobacco industry. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Crime. ; Criminals. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; England Emigration and immigration 1938. ; London (England) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Encounters with SA and SS officers in Vienna before emigration; emigration to England; work as domestic servant with mother at various homes; emigration to USA.
    Abstract: Also included is a 2 page typescript, To my Grandchildren Joanna, Jessica, Michael & Rebecca
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    Austrian Anti-Semitism : One Woman's Experience. (1990)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Former Title: [Two Manuscripts].
    Keywords: Garelick, Marta. ; Antisemitism. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Jews Persecutions ; Women lawyers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay, based largely on an interview, recounting the experiences of the Jewish woman Marta Garelick in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. Garelick was the first female lawyer in Vienna, and emigrated to Ireland shortly after the Anschluss.
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    Growing up in Vienna, (1990)
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    Pages: 8 pages : , typewritten manuscript, photocopies.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Keywords: Blank, Helen, 1919. ; Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; National socialism. ; Antisemitism. ; Socialism. ; Violin. ; Women authors. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written for a lecture at the New School in 1990. Reflections on Vienna and its culture and mentality. Helen Blank was born 1917 in Vienna, briefly before the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. She grew up in a bourgeois family in the working-class neighborhood of Ottakring and had private violin lessons. During the depression her father lost his business and the family had to cope with a meager income. Achievements of the Social democratic policy in Vienna. Helen attended summer camps organized by the Social democrats. Reflections on antisemitism in Austria before and after 1938. School system in Vienna. Helen Blank attended an experimental school and was promoted to a upper-class Gymnasium, the former Officer's Daughter's Institute. Helen continued her violin lessons and became a promising protege. She also joined the Socialist Student movement (Sozialistische Mittelschueler). Recollections of Schattendorf and the massacre on demonstrating workers. Civil War in 1934. Underground meetings of the Socialist Youth. Nazi-takeover in 1938. Description of life in Nazi-Austria. Helen and her family were granted affidavits by their relatives in the United States. Helen got a teaching position at the Thalmud Thora School in Vienna and worked in the organization of the "Kindertransport". Recollections of the morning after the November pogrom in 1938, where Helen was rounded up by the SS with her fellow teachers at the Thalmud Thora School. She left Austria for the United States on January 12, 1939. During her time in New York she was a member of several organizations in New York, e.g. the Austrian Forum, the Austrian American Federation, and the Free Austrian Youth.
    Note: see also: "Helen Blank Collection" (AR 11286) , English , Synopsis in file
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    Viennese Reconstruction after World War II. (1990)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 14 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1990
    Former Title: [Two Manuscripts].
    Keywords: Housing. ; Postwar reconstruction. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Allied occupation, 1945-1955. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) Economic conditions. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay outlining the physical reconstruction of Vienna after 1945.
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    My First 6701 Days : July 31 1921 to December 1939 (1989)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 76 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Schaffir, Charlotte Lola, ; Schaffir, Leo, ; Schaffir, Walter B., ; Heijplaat (Refugee camp) ; Education. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish refugees Personal narratives. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Baden (Austria) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain photocopies of documents and photos as well as extracts from letters and were written in October 1989 in the United States. Description of life in Baden, a famous health resort near Vienna. The family lived in Vienna in the second district (Leopoldstadt). Recollections of schoolteachers and childhood friends. Occasional Friday night services in the Leopoldstadt temple. Theater and opera visits and cultural life in Vienna. Private piano and music lessons. Description of the family apartment and Jewish life in the Leopoldstadt. The family celebrated Christmas and observed the high Jewish holidays. Recollections of the author's bar mitzvah celebration. His mother Charlotte, nee Schwadron, was an artistic woman, who studied painting at the Frauenakademie with Tina Blau. Walter's father Leo Schaffir was born in Byalistock, Russia and studied in Berlin. He was a travelling businessmen. His family lived in Lemberg, Galicia. Leo and Charlotte Schaffir got married in 1919 in Vienna by rabbi Dr. Grunwald. Recollections of a family trip to Poland and to the World Fair in Posen in 1930. Suicide of the author's father due to business failure in 1930. Schaffir and Schwadron family history. Both families originated in Galicia, Poland. Family and social life. Summer vacation at the Semmering. Austrian politics in the 1930's and rising National Socialism. Life in Vienna after the "Anschluss" in 1938. Walter had to leave school and took lessons in graphic arts with the artist Heinrich Koerner. Preparations to emigrate. Walter was picked up in the streets in the days after Kristallnacht and released due to his mother's intervention. He was sent with his brother Kurt on a "Kindertransport" to Holland. They were sent to a quarantine camp at Heyplaat. Reunition with their mother in the United States in December 1939. Reflections on life as an emigre.
    Abstract: The following families are mentioned here:
    Abstract: Brassloff ; Goldstein ; Heublum ; Hoffman ; Koditschek ; Schaffir ; Schwadron ; Thorn ; Wertheim.
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    Wien, 1938. (1988)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 28 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript ((1 1/2 space).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Nadler, Josef, ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Women authors. ; Teachers. ; Jews Persecution 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences as Jewish teacher in Vienna in 1938; emigration to Palestine.
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    A Part of the Honors : Family-historical and auto-biographical vignettes. (1987)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 119 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Ehrenteil, Emanuel. ; Ehrentheil, Moritz. ; Fischer, Josephine. ; Perutz, Ada. ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Physicians. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Trieste (Italy) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Otto Ehrenteil, completed in 1987, including genealogical information and family history reaching back to the generation of his grandparents in Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary, description of his childhood in Trieste and Vienna, of his schooling in Vienna, of Jewish life in Vienna before and after 1938, of his marriage to Josephine Fischer, of their family life, of their emigration to the USA via Italy and France and adjustment to life in America, of his efforts to help other Nazi victims, and of his post-War academic career.
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    [Autobiography] : [1913-1941]. (1986)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 487 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Benedikt family. ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Neue Freie Presse, Vienna. ; Authors. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of family home in Vienna; early study of music; relationship with piano teacher; relationship with brother; family life and problematic relationship with father; treatment of domestic servants in parents' home; gymnastics classes; experience of revolution in November 1918; early summer vacations in Bad Ischl; early trip to Berlin and Baltic coast; mother's affair with Adolf Reich; first experiences with anti-Semitism; description of father's textile factory; illness of father; death of father; relationship with Adolf Reich; Gymnasium in Doebling; mother's relationship with Reich; bankruptcy of mother; suicide of Reich; friendship with Wolfgang Foges; academic problems at school; circle of friends; work as Hofmeister at residence; loss of job; work at cotton dealer; enters essay competition sponsored by wealthy publisher; meets owner and editor of Neue Freie Presse, Ernst Benedikt; begins writing for Neue Freie Presse; political upheavals in Austria in 1934; friendship with Egon Friedell; decision to study law; friendship with Charlotte and Fritz Vering; attempted suicide of Gerda Benedikt; work for newspaper owned by Wolfgang Foges; end of relationship with Gerda Benedikt; acqaintanceship with colleague Willibald von Strieberny; Strieberny's takeover of paper after Anschluss; plans to emigrate to USA; flight to Holland; internment in Holland; forced return to Vienna; emigration to USA via Switzerland, England in 1939; emigration of brother to USA; arrival in New York; move to live with relatives in Ohio; work as door-to-door salesman; relationship with Jews in USA; work as roofer; other brief jobs; attempt to help liberate brother from concentration camp Gurs in France.
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    The memoirs of Ernest G. Saxonhouse. (1985)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 123 + 4 , typeuscript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Businessmen. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Saint Gall (Switzerland) Life and times. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life in Vienna and St. Gall (Switzerland); Nazi "Anschluss" of Austria; emigration to USA; mostly on life in USA after emigration; also contains memoirs of Amy Saxonhouse (4 p.) who lived in Prague after World War.
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    Memoirs & reminiscences : [1898-1985]. (1984)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 248 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Fischer family Genealogy. ; Universität Wien. ; College teachers. ; Jewish way of life. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Geographers. ; Teachers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1919. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Vienna; description of family; primary and secondary education; description of teachers and schoolmates; military service in Austrian army in World War I; student life at the university in Vienna; Revolution of 1918-1919; Austria in inter-war period; Jewish life in Vienna; description of school system and teacher colleagues in inter-war Vienna; hikes and travels; Nazi takeover and November Pogrom in 1938; emigration to Palestine and USA; new jobs as university teacher and political geographer.
    Abstract: Contains a biography of Eric Fischer by Michael M.J. Fischer and a bibliography of his publications.
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    Vignettes of my Life : [1899-1979] (1979)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages (double space) : , 98 pages (double space) : , bound typescript. , Typewritten manuscript (bound)
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freud, Martin. ; Flöge, Emilie Louise, ; Freud, Ernestine Drucker. ; Freud, Anna, ; Freud, Sigmund, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Divorce. ; National socialism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Actors. ; Lawyers. ; Speech therapists. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Casablanca (Morocco) ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1979 in the United States. Esti Freud was the first born daughter of a Viennese Jewish lawyer. Her mother was a passionate singer whose career was prevented by her early marriage. Childhood memories and recollection of summer vacations. Confusion of religious identity due to her pious Catholic nanny. Private tutoring and attending "Schwarzwaldschule", a highly esteemed girl's school. Her plans to study at university were inhibited by her mother, who feared her to become hunchbacked. Instead she was offered speech lessons to become an actress. Outings to the mountains with her father. Confrontation with stereotypical perceptions of a young woman's reputation. Outbreak of World War One. Volunteering as a nurse. Recollections of the flow of refugees in Vienna and the scarceness of food. Various public poetry recitation in Vienna and Prague. Courtship and marriage to Martin Freud. Recollections of the Freud family and the "Herr Professor" Freud himself. Difficulties to start a household in postwar Austria. Martin, who had studied law, obtained a position as a clerk in a bank. Difficulties of married life. Birth of her children Walter (1921) and Sophie (1924). Starting a career in speech therapy. Training at the clinic for speech and voice disorders of Dr. Froeschel. Memories of the worker's uprise in 1927. Position as a lecturer in speech therapy at the Vienna University in 1932. Political instability due to the rise of fascism in Europe. "Anschluss" in 1938 and the sudden reality of Nazi terror. Preparation to emigrate. Estrangement and separation from her husband. The Freud family left for England, whereas Esti and her daughter emigrated to France. New life in Paris. German occupation of France. Esti and her daughter Sophie escaped to Casablanca. Emigration to the United States and starting a new career in New York.
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    Ferne Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugend und Alter. (1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 123 + 75 + 205 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Amann, Dora (née Israel), ; Amann, Paul, ; Israel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Families. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Music. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Dora Amann including family history reaching back to her grandparents, recollection of her childhood in Vienna, and information on her own and her brother's schooling, on changing family customs, on her musical education, on World War I, on antisemitism and political life in Europe before and during Nazi rule, on the fate of the different family members, on her emigration to France and to the United States via Lisbon, and on her life in America.
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    Life beyond the reach of hope : Recollections of a refugee, 1938-1939. (1972)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 + 10 pages.
    Year of publication: 1972
    Keywords: Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Czech Republic Emigration and immigration. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) ; Uherský Brod (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Recollections of German occupation of Austria in March 1938
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: 'The Ghosts of Nuremberg' : Recollections of the Nuremberg Trials, published in Atlantic Monthly, March 1972
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    Meine Memoiren : [1863-1940]. (1971)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1971
    Keywords: Unger, Adolf, ; Clothing trade. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Tailors. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Adolf Unger was born on July 6, 1863 in Enying, Hungary. His parents were Nathan Unger who was born in Burgenland, Austria, and Julie Deutsch, nee Deutsch, born in Goerbe, Hungary. In 1874, the family moved to Vienna, and young Adolf had to learn German. He was dropping out of school at age 14, and started an apprenticeship as tailor. He soon became a salesperson for his uncle’s store “Ignaz Weisz”. After his uncle died, he took over his business. After a few years, he changed the name to “Alfred Unger, master tailor”. The store which was located at Rochusgasse in the third Viennese district, grew bigger and bigger, and its name was changed again, “Kleiderhaus Monopol”. His brother Ludwig became a tailor and worked for him until December 1938, when his trade certificate was taken away by the Nazis. Only a few days before World War 2 broke out, on August 16, 1939, Adolf Unger could flee to London, England, with his wife, where he died in 1941.
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    About my family : [1892-1940]. (1969)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1969
    Keywords: Bach, family. ; Grunfeld family. ; Kary family. ; Hat trade. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Czechoslovakia. ; England. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written In 1969. Genealogy of the Boehm family, dating back to the 18th century. The author's great-grandparents came from Nikolsburg, Moravia, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They emigrated to the capital Vienna In 1840, where the widowed greet grandmother opened a business with raw materials, which later on was developed into a hat factory. Family history of the Bach and Grunfeld family. Description of domestic life and family activities, like Sunday “jours”. Description of gender difference in education end upbringing. Family apartment house in Vienna, Mariahilferstrasse. Summer vacations In the family country house In Baden. His brother Victor showed an early talent for technical studies, but was not able to attend university, because he was needed in the family business. He continued his studies privately. The author finished Handels•Akadomie and joined the family business as well. Recollections of the enthusiasm end patriotism In the first days after the declaration of the war In 1914. The author and his brother Victor proudly volunteered In the Austro-Hungarian Army. Description of the terrors of the war. End of the war and collapse of the empire. Inflation and difficulties to keep up their business. Difficulties in the exchange of goods between the family factories in Czechoslovakia and Vienna. Expanding business. Recollections of Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Immediate awareness of approaching dangers and concentrating efforts on liquidating business and getting family members out of the country. Difficulties in obtaining immigrations visas. The family dispersed in different countries.
    Abstract: The author and his brother Victor escaped with their families to Czechoslovakia in September of 1938, when the German troops were already occupying the northern parts of the country. They had to leave within a short time and obtained visas for Belgium with the help of their business friendFritz Feldheim, who had connections with the embassy. In January of 1939 they emigrated to England, where they successfully started a hat factory. In 1940 their status as “enemy aliens” became more and more restrictive, and they were informed about their possible internment in a camp on the Isle of Man. They sold their factory and with help of their American visas, which had arrived in the meantime, proceeded their immigration to the United States in June and July of 1940.
    Note: See also: ME 1349 , English
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    [Account of his life to 1920]. (1968)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 236 + 118 pages : , handwritten manuscript; typescript +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1968
    Keywords: Börner, Wilhelm, ; Courtship. ; Draft. ; Education, Higher. ; Intellectual life 20th century. ; Jewish families. ; Personal narratives. ; Textile industry. ; Textile schools. ; Voyages and travels. ; War wounds. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons, Russian. ; Austria History 1789-1900. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Liberec (Czech Republic) ; South America Description and travel. ; Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Arthur Wolf’s autobiography in English written during the last years of his life, based on his German diaries. The diaries are available as part of the Arthur Wolf papers, AR 25270.
    Abstract: Arthur Wolf mentions the sentencing of the writer and philosopher Wilhelm Börner for heresy in 1911 on page 54 of the original manuscript; clippings pertaining to this sentence are available in folder 2.
    Abstract: Also available is a typed transcript that was reviewed by Arthur’s nephew, Peter Wolf, but some words or names could not be deciphered. Arthur Wolf’s life and movements are marked in bold.
    Note: Manuscript has been microfilmed on MSF 66 and MSF 67. , English
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    Allen Freunden : von Dr. Adolf Drucker zur Feier seines 90. Geburtstages. (1966)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 17 pages : , bound print.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Poetry. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Festschrift on occasion of Adolf Drucker's 90th birthday containing some of his poems written since the 1930s, mostly about his life in emigration.
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    Ich habe viele Leben gelebt : Erinnerungen. (1964)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 94 + 164 pages : , typescript; annotated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Authors, German Biography. ; Journalists. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Hamburg and Vienna; move to Munich, Berlin, Rueschlikon and Frankfurt am Main; encounter with Georg Simmel, Ricarda Huch, Stefan George, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Gustav Landauer, Heinrich Simon, Martin Buber, Ernst Bloch, Eugen Rosenstock, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Baeck, Berta Pappenheim, Hannah Karminski, Siegmund Freud, Paul Celan, Eleazar Benyoetz and Michael Landmann.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: First draft
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Second draft
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    Peter Altenberg und das zeitgenössische Wien / (1964)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 83 , 83 pages : , typescript, illustrations, with inserted newspaper clippings. , typescript, illustrations, with inserted newspaper clippings.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Altenberg, Peter, Homes and haunts. ; Altenberg, Peter, ; Austrian literature 20th century. ; Jews Intellectual life 20th century. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcription of a lecture delivered by Grossberg at the Literarischer Verein in New York City. The lecture examines Altenbergs works through the lens of his biography and sketches a rich, episodic portrait of Altenberg's life and the milieu of the café culture and literary scene of early 20th century Vienna. Attached to the manuscript are a couple of clippings about the lecture.
    Note: The original German-language inventory is available in the folder.
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    Gedenken und Gedanken aus dem Leben eines Musikers : [1883-1960]. (1960)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 180 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Einstein, Albert, ; Viertel, Salka. ; Freemasons. ; Antisemitism. ; Bookkeepers. ; Jewish families ; Jewish musicians. ; Music. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women dressmakers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Bruno Eisner, written in 1960, including description of Leopoldstadt (the Jewish quarter in Vienna) and of Vienna at large, information on his parents and grandparents from Hungary and Moravia, recollections of antisemitism in Vienna, of his childhood, of his schooling, of his musical education and his career as a musician, his membership in a Masonic lodge, his move to Berlin, his marriage to Salka Steuermann, his experience as a musician in the Austrian army during World War I and after the war, his travels to Palestine and Italy, his friendship with Albert Einstein, his immigration to the United States with the help of an affidavit by Einstein, and his life there.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned in this memoirs:
    Abstract: Altenberg, Peter; Bruckner, Anton; Kargeorgevitch, Prince Bojidar; Nordau, Max; Rathenau, Walter; Twain, Mark.
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    So habe ich es erlebt : [1939-1958]. (1958)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 72 , incomplete typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Ritter, Gladys. ; Diseases. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Hospitals. ; Jews Persecution. ; Physicians. ; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; China History 1937-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; Singapore. ; Venezuela. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Wenzhou Shi (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1958 in Austria. The physician Ernst Ritter describes his emigration to India and Shanghai in 1939. He was able to obtain a visa to India through the Austro-Indian Society, who conciliated physician exchanges to India. Ernst Ritter was offered a position as an assistant in a private hospital in Bombay. He left together with his wife for India via Denmark in April 1939. The British immigration office in Singapore regarded them as German spies and denied their visa for India. The only possibility for them was to go to Shanghai. Cultural differences and a high concentration of people in the city. With the help of a befriended Viennese physician he became a member of the Shanghai Medical Board. Network of German and Austrian refugee physicians and lawyers. Position in a hospital. Primitive circumstances. Confrontation with tropical illnesses. Fraud and crimes. Political tensions between China and Japan. Position in a Catholic missionary hospital in Wenchow, Central China, which was cut off from Shanghai due to the Japanese occupation of the coast. Confrontation with Trachom, the Egyptian eye disease and Bilharzia infection, an illness common among the Chinese rice-farmers. Orphanage of "unwanted female babies" at the missionary. Hygienic and nutrition insufficiencies among the Chinese inhabitants. Exit visa for Venezuela from his brother. Preparations for their immigration and language studies in Spanish. Journey to Venezuela via Japan and Los Angeles. Arrival in Caracas in September 1940. Difficulties in obtaining a position as a physician. In 1941 Ernst Ritter was offered the position of a "country physician" in Libertad in the Andes. Work under primitive circumstances in the midst of the jungle. Tropical climate and vegetation. Diseases due to nutrition insufficiencies. Confrontation with superstition and charlatans among the inhabitants. Position in Ospino and fight against a Malaria epidemic.
    Abstract: Position as a head physician at a rubber plantation in Orinocco in the midst of the tropical jungle. From 1945 to 1958 Ernst Ritter dedicated his work to the cure and research of the Bilharzia infection. He returned to Austria in 1958.
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    Interview, (1956)
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    Pages: 6 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy + photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Halpern, Georg. ; Warburg, Max. ; Zionism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Ballin, Albert. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Economists
    Abstract: Studies with Lujo Brentano in Munich; Zionist activities in Hamburg; encounter with Albert Ballin and Max Warburg.
    Note: Published in Joseph Walk: "Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden, 1918-1945": p.138 , Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    One life is not enough : Autobiographical vignettes [1890-1920] (1956)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 105 + 203 , 105 , bound typescripts. , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Busoni, Ferruccio, ; Hofer, Andreas. ; Meitner, Lise, ; Renner, Karl, ; Robert, Richard. ; Shapira, Vera. ; Szell, Georg. ; Bader, Edwin. ; Stern'sche Mädchen- Lehr- und Erziehungsanstalt (Vienna, Austria) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Teplice (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Lillian Bader describing in great detail life in Vienna, including information on her grandparents and parents, her childhood in Vienna and Teplitz (now Teplice, Czechoslovakia), her education and studies, domestic life, World War I, politics and social issues, her mother's work as a piano teacher and as the director of a girls' boarding school, her husband's encounter with one incident of antisemitism in the Austrian army. The memoir ends with the first years of her marriage in the early 1920ies.
    Description / Table of Contents: The paper version contains a second, illustrated typescript.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , The memoir was removed from the Bader Collection.
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933 : [1914-1939]. (1942)
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    Pages: 44 + 6 , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Fleischer family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Deportations. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written for the Harvard University competition in 1942. Also included is an English language report "My experiences on the tenth of November, 1938."
    Abstract: Description of family history. His father was a businessman who came from Budapest to Vienna in 1890. Recollections of his school years in the Gymnasium. Graduation in 1914. Philipp enrolled with classes in German and Latin at the Vienna University. In 1916 he volunteered as a soldier in World War One and was soon promoted to become an officer in the army. Disastrous aftermath of the war. Philipp returned to university to continue his studies. He became a teacher at a Gymnasium (high school). Description of political tensions in post-war Austria. Civil war of 1934. At this time he became strongly aware of the rising attraction of the National Socialist movement. Anschluss in 1938. Degrading "spontaneous actions" against the Jewish population of Vienna. Philipp Flesch lost his position and was forced to retire. He started teaching at a improvised Jewish school. Maltreatment of students by the Hitler youth. Observations of Nazi enthusiasm in the Austrian Gentile population. Occasional experiences of support by neighbors and strangers. Reflections on the Nazi ideology and hatred against Jews. Reports of the first deportations to concentration camps. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom and its aftermath 1938 in Vienna. Description of the circumstances of his arrest and the maltreatment by the Gestapo. Terror and humiliation. Release due to his achievements in World War One. Awareness of the magnitude of destruction and terror. Summons to the Gestapo headquarters. Sarcasm of Nazi bureaucracy and preparations for his emigration. Outbreak of the war. Philipp Flesch left Vienna in 1939 for the United States and emigrated via Holland to New York.
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    [Lebenserinnerungen]. (1940)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 , 19 , typescript (transcript). , typescript (typscript).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Friedman, Otto, ; Friedmann, Alfred, ; Blaschek, Nelly. ; Bogyansk, Ignaz. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish refugees. ; Lumber trade. ; Printers. ; Women dressmakers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Participation, Jewish. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Salzburg (Austria) ; Switzerland. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1940. Vague childhood recollections of the author's father, who died unexpectedly in 1900 and left the family in a precarious financial situation. His mother worked as a seamstress, and his older siblings contributed to the income. After his school years Otto started working in a printing office. In the evenings he attended the commercial school "Alina" for two years. Memories of his leasure time in the ice skating rink and at dancing school. Position as an office clerk at an architect. Outbreak of World War One. Otto volonteered in 1915 and served in the artillery. He was stationed in Italy for almost three years and was decorated with the bronce medal of bravery. In 1917 his older brother Alfred was killed during battle. After the war Otto became a co-partner in his uncle's lumber business. Courtship and marriage in 1922. Honeymoon in Salzburg, Munich and Berlin. Business trips to France and Switzerland. Move to Salzburg, where Otto continued his lumber export business activities. "Anschluss" in 1938 and the terror of the Nazis. Detailed description of the liquidation of his assets. Due to business transfers prior to the Nazi-takeover he could save a good part of his fortune. Arrest and interrogation by the Nazi-officials. In 1938 he left Salzburg and tried to continue his business in Italy, France and Switzerland. Efforts to get family members out of Austria. In autumn 1938 he succeeded in getting his two children to join him in Bern. His wife Hilda was able to emigrate a few months later after a lot of difficulties. Due to their expiring visa they had to leave Switzerland for France.
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    Mein Leben in Oesterreich vor und nach dem 11. Maerz 1938. (1940)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 176 , Handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Rohrlich, George F. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Families ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs written for Havard competition.
    Abstract: Georg Rohrlich describes his childhood in Vienna, including his parents' divorce, his time with the boy scouts (Pfadfinder), his friendships with Jewish and gentile classmates, his time at the University of Vienna and antisemitic encounters there, the "Anschluss", and how he left Vienna on a Dutch airplane in 1938.
    Note: English , Summary in file.
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    [Dear family]. (1939)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25 , typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1939
    Former Title: Erinnerungen an Buchenwald
    Keywords: Karplus family. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecutions ; Jews Persecutions ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A report about the author’s internment in the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald, 1938/39.
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    Professor Dr. Adolf Kurrein : Ein Bild seines Lebens und Wirkens anlaesslich seines zehnjaehrigen Todestages (1929)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 + 14 , Off-print.
    Year of publication: 1929
    Keywords: Kurrein, Adolf, ; Kurrein, Katharina. ; Löwe, Jessie. ; Placzek, Baruch. ; Pollak, Chajim Joseph. ; Universität Wien. ; Education, Higher 1867-1918. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Bielsko-Biała (Poland) ; Brno (Czech Republic) ; Linz (Austria) ; Sankt Pölten (Austria) ; Teplice (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short biography written by his son, rabbi Viktor Kurrein, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death. Description of mother; early education; He was taught by rabbi Chajim Josef Pollak in Hebrew and Christian teacher in Greek and Latin.gymnasium in Bruenn; In 1866 he passed his "Matura" and left Brno for Vienna where he earned his PhD at the university education in Vienna; ordained as Rabbi in Vienna in 1872; first post as rabbi in St. Poelten; first publications; rabbi in Linz 1875; marriage to Jessie Lowe in 1877; dedication of new synagogue in Linz; rabbi in Bielitz 1883-1888; rabbi in Teplitz-Schoenau 1883-1919; became active in Zionist movement; wrote articles for Juedische Volksstimme in Bruenn (Brno); spoke on Zionism in numerous cities in Germany and Austria.
    Abstract: Short biography written by his son, Rabbi Viktor Kurrein, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death. Description of mother; early education; he was taught by Rabbi Chajim Josef Pollak in Hebrew and Christian teacher in Greek and Latin. Gymnasium in Bruenn (Brno); in 1866 he passed his "Matura" and left Bruenn for Vienna where he earned his PhD at the University of Vienna; ordained as Rabbi in Vienna in 1872; first post as rabbi in St. Poelten; first publications; rabbi in Linz 1875; marriage to Jessie Lowe in 1877; dedication of new synagogue in Linz; rabbi in Bielitz 1883-1888; rabbi in Teplitz-Schoenau 1883-1919; became active in Zionist movement; wrote articles for Juedische Volksstimme in Bruenn (Brno); spoke on Zionism in numerous cities in Germany and Austria.
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    [Record].
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    Language: German
    Pages: 200 , handwritten; photocopies.
    Keywords: Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. ; Jews, Austrian Domestic life 1867-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs describe Kellmann’s parental home in Austrian Galicia; their escape to Vienna; his service with the Austrian army during World war I, when he was wounded and decorated; and the beginning of his adult life in Vienna. On August 17, 1938 he and his family escaped from Vienna.
    Description / Table of Contents: Memoirs of [Jakob] Kellmann, written for his daughter Hedwig on occasion of her 12th birthday in August 1940.
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