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    [The life and political views of her grandfather Hermann Loeb : dedicated with love to his granddaughter Renate Simon] (2017)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 + 13 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: appendix
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Loeb, Hermann, ; Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Socialists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionists. ; Butzbach (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs of the watchmaker Hermann Loeb (1874-1948), describing his life as an active socialist (social democrat) and Zionist; his encounters with German anti-Semitism; his service in WW I; his experiences during Kristallnacht and the concentration camp Theresienstadt; and finally his immigration to the US.
    Abstract: Also included are clippings referring to Hermann Loeb from the German press in Giessen, Frankfurt and Butzbach; 2011-2013.
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    Seefahrtsbuch H 8098 : (Eine unglaubliche Geschichte). (2016)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Sailors. ; Voyages and travels. ; Egypt. ; India. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Hans Neter's escape from Germany as a stoker on a German steamer in 1935; illegal stays in Egypt and India during World War II; immigration to USA after World War II.
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    Ich der Jude. (2016)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Universities and colleges. ; Germany. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiographical fiction. ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Partly fictional account of anti-Semitism at German universities around 1933.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Ignaz Zollschan : An insider’s view of early twentieth century racial science and Zionism. (2012)
    Philadelphia, PA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 99 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Dissertation note: A senior thesis for Honors in History, University of Pennsylvania
    Keywords: Zollschan, Ignaz. ; Antisemitism. ; Ethnic relations. ; Jews 19th century. ; Jews 19th century. ; Racism. ; Zionism. ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
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    London, Paris, Laupheim : August 2010. (2010)
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    Pages: 54 pages : , photographs book; illustrations
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Jews Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; Jewish communities ; Laupheim (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Travelogue of a trip by Henry Rieser and his son, Ari, to the ancestral home in Laupheim, Germany
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    We came to America : Memoirs of a refugee child. (2005)
    Hartsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 + 16 + 12 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Frank, Werner L. ; Geissmar, David Jacob. ; Geissmar, Johanna, ; Oppenheimer, Clemens. ; Oppenheimer, Mina (née Adler) ; Oppenheimer, Max, ; Plotnik, Marlies (née Wolf), ; Wolf family. ; Wolf, Hermann David, ; Wolf, Paul Jacob. ; Wolf, Theodor. ; Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. ; Queen Mary (Steamship) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Lawyers. ; Leather industry and trade ; Darmstadt (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the Wolf family's arrival in New York City in February 1939, including a brief description of the ship Queen Mary. Then the memoir jumps back in time, to the year 1933:.fFamily life, their live-in maid who had to leave the family in 1937. The two older siblings Paul and Ellen were exposed to anti-Semitism in their schools, and were sent by their parents to an international boarding school and a Jewish school respectively. Marlies Plotnik then talks about her grandparents and the family's leather business, Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. She recollects the events of Kristallnacht in Darmstadt. She saw that both the conservative and orthodox synagogues were ablaze. It follows a detailed genealogical description of her family background. Then "Life in Pre-Hitler Darmstadt" is covered. Marlies Plotnik writes about the daily routine of her middle class family. Her parents attended the cultural events of Darmstadt, theater, the ball season, etc. The second part of the memoir is dedicated to the departure from Germany, the emigration via England, and the immigration into the USA. The family settled in Washington Heights, as did so many other Jewish families from Germany. Attached are family pedigrees, family photographs, passports (copies), and documents.
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    Visit to a Viennese cemetery / (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 + 89 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Former Title: Delusions and denials: Viennese life under the Nazis / Visit to a Viennese cemetery.
    Keywords: Fireside, Harvey, ; Feuerzeug family. ; Zelman, Leon, ; Zentralfriedhof (Vienna, Austria) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: "Visit to a Viennese Cemetery" is a personal reflection about Fireside's first trip back to Austria since his arrival in the USA. It was organised by the "Jewish Welcome Service" in September 2000. This trip brings forgotten memories back to life, questioning the role of Austrians in the Holocaust, and their denial afterwards. The author describes the trip, first days of sightseeing and conversations of his fellow travellers. On the last day, the group went to Zentralfreidhof, the main cemetery in Vienna.
    Abstract: The memoir "Delusions and Denials: Viennese Life under the Nazis" starts with a description of the author's family and an essay-like reflection about Austria and its role and engagement with Nazism, and soon turns to the author's own childhood in Vienna, presenting his personal memories in context of the political situation in the 1930s. In the main part of the memoir, Fireside talks at length about the immediate events leading to the "Anschluss", followed by its consecutive years, still being in Vienna. "Kristallnacht", the pogrom in November of 1938, is dealt with in detail, over 15 pages. Until their escape in April 1940, Fireside describes plenty incidents of humiliations and persecution, the process of getting affidavits for the USA, and finally his family boarding a ship in Italy and their arrival in the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Visit to a Viennese cemetery
    Description / Table of Contents: Delusions and denials: Viennese life under the Nazis
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    A not so brief review of my life / (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 131 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: 1 notebook
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Jewish families ; Metallurgy. ; Metal trade. ; Voyages and travels. ; Cologne (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir describes the author’s family background; his work in Germany, 1935-1936; and his work and business activities in New York and worldwide, 1937-1982. A fourth part of this memoir, describing the author’s experience as a subject of an FBI espionage investigation, 1941-1944, may be found in the Kurt E. Reinsberg Collection, AR 11356.
    Abstract: Also included is a “compositions” notebook with handwritten analyses of metals, 1937-1940.
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    Vignettes from my early life : Remembered fifty+ years later (2003)
    Livonia, Michigan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 146 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Bach family. ; Boehm family. ; Boehm, Gertrude, ; Boehm, Victor, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Czechoslovakia. ; London (England) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Uruguay. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written between 1998 and 2000. Description of family apartment house built by his grandfather in Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna’s 6th district. The family lived in the penthouse designed by the Viennese architect Ernst Plischke. The Boehm family was the owner of textile factories in Bohemia. They had a governess and a English language tutor. The family was one of the few in Vienna to own a car. Their mother Gertrude was a passionate driver, who participated in various Road Rallies. She was a university graduate and had earned a PhD in chemistry in 1921. Their father was a war veteran of World War One. Summer vacations in Italy and Czechoslovakia. They also spent a few summers in a rented villa in the outskirts of Vienna. On Christmas vacations the family went skiing in St. Anton. In 1935 Heinrich Boehm was enrolled in the “Theresianum”, an elite private school in Vienna. Plans to become a physicist with the encouragement of the author’s mother. In 1937 he contracted Legg-Perthes disease and was sent to a Sanatorium to recover. Private tutoring. Very first encounter with antisemitism at the sanatorium in February of 1938. Transfer back to Vienna. Recollections of the weeks leading up to Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life in Nazi Austria and preparations for their emigration. Conversion in order to assimilate better in their emigration. The family was able to leave the country in September of 1938 for Czechoslovakia. Henry’s sisters were placed to boarding schools in Great Britain with the help of their father’s uncle Frederick Bach, who resided in England. From Czechoslovakia they immigrated to Belgium, where Henry was enrolled in school again. In February of 1939 they left for Great Britain. Life of émigrés in London. Recollections of wartime England. Passport procedures and visa preparations.
    Abstract: Detailed description of the family’s departure from Great Britain to the United States via Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo on board of the “Andalusia Star” in 1941. The “Andalusia Star” was sunk a few months after their arrival in the United States. Recollections of their stay in Brazil and Uruguay. Detailed description of the German submarine war. Arrival in New York on April 7th 1941, where the family was reunited with their father.
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    One child's lonely passage to freedom, (2003)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages + 4 pages : , typed manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Pogroms. ; Emigration and immigration ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A short memoir that mixes personal experiences with historical facts, e.g. about Kristallnacht and the Kindertransport. Experiences made during Kristallnacht are described, followed by the ride on the Kindertransport, and Mr. Rosenbaum's arrival in Britain. He then describes the effects on him of being separated from his family, his difficulties in adapting to new circumstances in his life, mainly because of him not knowing English. Includes resume which is full of awards and affiliations.
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    Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] (2003)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 + 42 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Löbl, Friedl, ; Löbl, Sally, ; Löbl, Werner, ; Samson, Dorothee. ; Samson, Richard. ; Bunce Court School. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Kent (England) ; Quito (Ecuador) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Typed transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:
    Abstract: Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.
    Abstract: Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.
    Abstract: Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.
    Description / Table of Contents: Erika's Tagebuch
    Description / Table of Contents: In's neue Leben
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    Sehr geehrte Herren!. (2003)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Untitled
    Keywords: Haber family. ; Uri family. ; Uri, Max, ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written as a letter in January of 2003. The author's grandfather was a producer of military uniforms during World War One. Max Uri attended 4 years of the Gymnasium and 4 years of business school (Handelsschule). He came from an orthodox Jewish family. Recollections of his school years and rising national socialism among his fellow students. Max was only one of 8 Jews in his class of 50 students. Memories of the author’s years at the Gymnasium, where he frequently encountered anti-Semitism due to his orthodox upbringing. Recollections of the terrors of the Kristallnacht in November of 1938, when he was arrested and beaten and only narrowly escaped transportation to Dachau concentration camp. His family managed to get the children out of the country. His sisters were sent as domestic help and his younger brother with a Kindertransport to England. Max managed to be accepted for an agricultural school in Palestine. He enrolled in the “Haganah” and became an officer. In 1941 he got married to Fritzi Haber. Their son was born in 1942. Max Uri participated in the war efforts of the Jewish Brigade and the British army during World War Two. Difficulties to establish a household in Palestine. Move to Vienna together with his family and his in-laws. Decision to leave for the United States, where Max Uri lived with his family for 10 years. He came back to Vienna to take over his father in law’s furrier business.
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    Die Entziehung juedischen Vermoegens im Rahmen der "Aktion Gildemeester" : eine empirische Studie ueber Organisation, Form und Wandel von "Arisierung" und juedischer Auswanderung in Oesterreich 1938-1941. (2002)
    Vienna :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 470 pages.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Fürnberg, Hermann. ; Aktion Gildemeester. ; Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Migrations 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Note: Also available online at http://www.historikerkommission.gv.at/pdf/INTEGILDEMEESTER.pdf. , See also Hermann Fuernberg Collection (AR 7194) , German
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    A Walk Through My Life : An attempt to remember (1995-2002)
    Hanover, NH,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 217 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995-2002
    Keywords: Landmann family. ; Landmann, Siegfried. ; Hecht, Alfred. ; Rahn, Max. ; Kunreuther, Richard. ; Ollesheimer, Henry. ; Landmann, Frederick E., ; United States. ; Antisemitism. ; Brewing industry. ; Business travel ; Christmas. ; Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Jewish families 1880-1917. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; National socialism. ; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946. ; Translators. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Russia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir "A Walk Through My Life" is divided into three parts. The first section is entitled "From Birth through World War I to World War 2", part two is called "World War 2", and part three "The Years from 1946-2002". At the end is a short section - "Memorial" - which gives room to his family to honour the legacy of their grandfather and father after his death, with additional prayer texts and songs. After an introduction to the family brewing business, the memoir covers Frederick Landmann's years of education and apprenticeship, then his business travel for the family brewing supplies business to the Far East. He describes the rise of Hitler in Germany and all the obstacles and persecution this brought to his family, leading to his flight from the country in 1938. The memoir then describes New York during World War 2, and Mr. Landmann's efforts to secure his living, then talks about his time at the US Army and the War crime trials at Nuremberg. Back in the USA, he rejoins his family and continues his career in the brewing industry.
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    My Jewish heritage / (2002)
    Hamden, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: circa 135 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Identity. ; Rabbis. ; Synagogues. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ahlem (Germany) History. ; Oświęcim (Poland) Description and travel. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is an illustrated travelogue, complete with a condensed family tree, photographs, ephemera and news clippings. Through these materials, Peter C. Hereld discusses the role and relevance the Jewish religion had on his life. The various synagogues Hereld attended while living in different cities are also discussed. Community bulletins, news articles and photographs of services accompany the descriptions of synagogues. In addition to histories of the cities of Ahlem and Auschwitz, Hereld includes histories of the Wolfes and Schusters families, and a section on Rabbis of influence in his life.
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    Holocaust and redemption. (2002)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 + 56 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Grese, Irma ; Treuer family ; Treuer, Fritz, ; Treuer, Mia (née Weil) ; Antisemitism. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Families ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first chapter, “Holocaust and I”, Robert Treuer describes his youth in Vienna/Austria, how he grew up and how the anti-Semitism became more and more apparent in Austria. After the Anschluss, his father decided for him and his mother to leave the country. They emigrated to England where his mother worked as a housekeeper. Robert Treuer was separated from his mother, because the employer did not want another child in the house. His father was still in Austria. After being abused at school, his uncle took him away and brought him to a nearby tent camp in London. After a while, his father got the chance to escape from Austria and came to England as well. Although Robert Treuer’s father wrote letters to many countries to immigrate, only the United States allowed them to enter. Together with his parents he immigrated to the United States on February 9, 1939. In the second chapter, “Redemption. Searching for Trude and Irma”, Robert Treuer returned for a trip to Germany with two of his children and visited some of the concentration camps. During his stay in Germany, all the memories of the cruelty of the Nazi regime came back. He also talks about his cousin Erika and her family in Vienna and Hohenau. She was sent to England with the Kindertransport and never saw any member of his family again.
    Abstract: Also included are Robert Treuer's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection and a curriculum vitae.
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    Lecture given at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. (2001)
    San Francisco :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Rathenau, Walther, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The lecture was held at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco. Description of life in Berlin in the 1920s. Childhood in an assimilated well-to-do Jewish family the Weimar Republic. Her father was a lawyer and editor of the "Vossische Zeitung", who had his office in the front part of the apartment. Her mother a devoted singer who performed occasionally at the "Singakademie". Recollections of Sunday morning walks and visits to the museum at the center of the town. Earliest memories of food shortages during World War One. Private lessons in the aftermath of the war. Summer vacations in the German and Swiss Alps. Birth of her younger brother in 1921. Visits at her grandparents together with her older sister Irene. Memories of Christmas celebrations with family gatherings. Celebration of the Jewish holidays with her maternal grandparents, who were devoted orthodox Jews. Recollection of the assassination of Walter Rathenau in 1922, which made her aware of the undercurrent antisemitism. Her father became an active member of the Democratic party and was elected alderman (Stadtrat) of the city of Berlin in 1928. Description of the vibrating cultural life of Berlin. Eleanor attended the Auguste Viktoria Realgymnasium, an all-girls school preparing for university. Recollection of teachers and schoolmates. Theater and concerts. Private dance classes. Summer vacation in England to improve her English skills in 1931. Eleanor passed her final exams in 1932 and started to study medicine at the university in Heidelberg. Rising antisemitism and political unrest. With Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933 Jewish students were soon expelled from university. Soon thereafter Eleanor left Germany for Paris.
    Note: See also "Eleanor Alexander Collection" (AR 6414), and four other memoirs by Eleanor Alexander: ME 995, Me 1071, Me 1107, Me 1113 , English , Synopsis in file
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    Poldi's memoirs : [1883-1958]. (2001)
    Maplewood, N.J. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 73 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Moskiewicz, Else, ; Hirschfeld, Rahel. ; Hirschfeld family. ; Samolewitz, Moritz (Moshe), ; Samolewitz, Leopold, ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Education, Higher. ; Families. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Antisemitism. ; Social classes. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Translation from the original German by Leopold's son Harvey W. Samo, formerly Hans Werner Samolewitz, and his wife Eva Samo, née Isaac-Krieger.
    Abstract: The memoirs of Leopold Samolewitz were written during 1956 to 1958 in Jerusalem. Reflections on the author's identity as a German-Jewish emigre. Description of life in Imperial Germany at the turn-of-the century. Relationship between social classes and gender roles. Reflections on the Jewish community in Berlin and the differences between Eastern and Western Jews. Jewish influence on the cultural life in Berlin. Reflections on antisemitism. German Jewish life in a Christian surroundings. Reflections on his religious standing. History of German Jews and emancipation.
    Abstract: Description of his father's orthodox family background. Moritz Samolewitz was born 1840 in Gollub, a small town between Russia and Poland, where Jewish life was restricted. He moved to Berlin with his wife Rahel and they struggled to make a living. Birth of their children Isidor, Georg, Martha and Leopold. Description of the author's childhood in an orthodox Jewish home. His parents established a shoe and clothing business. Recreation at the spas of Bad Teplitz and Bad Kissingen. Living conditions in a working-class neighborhood. At age 6 Leopold attended the religious school of Israel Hildesheimer. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah. He was enrolled in the Humbold Gymnasium. After some antisemitic incidents as the only Jewish student at school Leopold transferred to the Sophien Gymnasium, where he graduated in 1902. He enrolled at university as a law student. Recollections of the author's encounter with antisemitism as a student. He was a member of the student fraternity "Freie Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung". Military service with the "Garde Regiment" in Bavaria. In 1912 he married his fiance Else Moskiewicz, who was a passionate art collector. The couple had two sons. Leopold served and was wounded during World War One. During his thriving career as a lawyer he was offered a position as a judge on the condition to be baptized, which he refused. During the night of the November pogrom in 1938 he was hidden with his wife at the house of a German family and spared deportation. In 1939 he left Germany with his wife and they emigrated to Palestine, where their son Kurt had established himself. Leopold Samolewitz took classes in Hebrew, English as well as British and Jewish law and passed the bar examination to start working again at age 58. Addendum: Completions of his son Harvey W. Samo (Hans Werner Samolewitz) on his father's life.
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    Christians and Jews in Pomerania 1815-1914 : the mobilisation of antisemitic prejudice in rural communities (2001)
    Burgess Hill, West Sussex :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 141 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Henrici, Ernst, ; Antisemitism. ; Jews 19th century. ; Szczecinek (Poland) ; Pomerania (Poland and Germany) ; Pomerania (Poland and Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Doctoral thesis
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    "... und half mir mit Gottes Hilfe selbst" : ein Lebensbericht von Erna Huth (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 69 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Böhm, Agnes. ; Böhm, Alexander. ; Neumann, Erna. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Secretaries. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Erna Huth were recorded by her nephew Michael Weber in 1993. Childhood in an assimilated Jewish family. Erna Huth's father was an architect who made his living as a journalist and writer. Recollections of Christmas celebrations. Erna graduated from Lyceum (high school) in 1911. Her plans to continue her studies were not granted. She started to work in her father's publishing company. Death of her mother in 1928. Nazi-takeover in Germany in 1933. Sudden dismissal from her position as a secretary due to her Jewish heritage. Increasing discrimination by former colleagues and acquaintances. Difficulties of her father to continue his profession as a journalist and editor. Emigration of her younger brothers Gerhard and Georg. Attempts to obtain exit permits for the United States and England, which only arrived after the beginning of the war. Erna and her sister Agnes were stuck in Berlin together with their father. Erna started to work at the Jewish welfare and youth department of the Jewish community. Position at an insurance company. Increased anti-Jewish regulations and the constraint to wear the yellow star. Erna's sister Agnes worked as a housekeeper at a Jewish family. Marriage of Agnes with the considerably older Alexander Boehm in 1941. Deportation of Agnes and Alexander Boehm to the Ghetto of Lodz. Diminishment of Erna's friends and relatives, who either emigrated or were subject to deportation. Support of her superior. Life in hiding. Refuge at houses of friends. Constant fear of discovery. Difficulties to obtain food stamps. Position as a nurse for an elderly lady provided her with a new identity and a place to stay. End of the war and liberation. Reunion with her relatives.
    Abstract: Addendum: Reflections by Michael Weber, Documents, Letters, Historic Chronology, Family Tree, Bibliography
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    The day Frau Svoboda played god / A Hole In The Ground. (2001)
    Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 4 , typecripts, copies.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after the "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
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    The great errand / (2001)
    Kailua Kona :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 120 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Fascism ; Neo-Nazis Fiction. ; Germany History 1945-1955. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Revisionist history novel:
    Abstract: Description of post-war Germany from the viewpoint of a German, Fritz Meyer, who was a member of a local Nazi Youth organization in Sonneborn. He fought as a soldier and fell into the hands of the English in Northern France. He was taken to Canada as a prisoner of war. He escaped the camp and found refuge at a German family. Description of erotic encounters. Reflection on Nazi ideology. At the request of the family he returns to Germany for something subscribed as "the great errand", taking up the identity of a former American G.I. Desolation of post-war Germany. Confrontation with British emigre soldiers. Identifying with the anger of his German countrymen. Reflection on the Bible and the denial of the Jewish roots of Christianity. Creating an underground network of conspiracy with former Nazi leaders and high members of the Catholic church in order to continue the ideals of Nazism. Donations from secret supporters abroad. Connections with the political leaders in the newly established German Republic.
    Abstract: Story of a Jewish emigre Bruno, who enrolled at university in his forties and was confronted with right-wing professors. Outstanding success despite of the difficulties he faced. Position as a history professor in Montana. Encounters with antisemitism. Return to his birth place in Sonneborn, Germany. Confrontation with the Neo Nazi network of Fritz Meyer and challenging his views.
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    My life story : [1931-1994]. (2001)
    Beverly Hills :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 49 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Schaffa family. ; Great Britain. ; Education, Higher. ; Bar mitzvah. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Theater. ; London (England) ; Czechoslovakia. ; England. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Chur (Switzerland) ; Mikulov (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain copies of photos and detailed family trees. Description of the authors childhood in Nikolsburg (Mikulov), a town in the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia. History of Nikolsburg. Recollections of cultural events and the celebration of religious holidays in the community. John's father Julius Schaffa worked in the restaurant of his father and was also a frequent performer at local theater plays. Description of domestic life. Birth of his brother Eric. In 1936 John Schaffa attended the German Primary School in Nikolsburg. Antisemitism due to the growing Nazi movement. German occupation of Sudetenland in 1938. Preparations to leave the country. Emigration to England via Lundenburg, Vienna and Holland in 1939. Arrival in London in August 1939, where the family was welcomed by the Jewish Refugee Committee. Declaration of World War II. John continued his schooling in England. His father joined the Czech Army Brigade and became a soldier in the war. Evacuation to Edmond Castle in the village of Hayton, in Cumberland. Continued education at the Czechoslovak State Secondary School at Hinton Hall near Whitchurch. John's mother and aunt got positions among the support staff at the school. Bar mitzvah celebration at the West Hempstead Synagogue in London. After the end of the war his father was released from the army and got a position as a chef in a London West End restaurant. After graduation John started a job in a bakery. The family was granted British Citizenship in 1949. John Schaffa decided to join the Royal Air Force and was stationed at the base in Henlow for two years. Resuming his career as a pastry chef. Position at the Confiserie Hirsch in Chur, Switzerland.
    Abstract: In 1961 he moved to New York. Continued education at City College with studies in psychology. Start of a new career in the mental health field. Marriage to Isabel, a Catholic from Puerto Rica in 1982. Birth of their daughter Cassandra in 1983. First visit to Czechoslovakia in 1989 with his family. Retirement and move to Florida.
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    Fragmente : Erinnerungen von 1942-1948. (2001)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 13 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Chemists. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women Employment. ; Buenos Aires (Argentina) ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Celle (Germany) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs concentrate on the years between 1942-1948. The author moved with his mother from Prague to Celle. Difficult situation due to his mixed heritage. His father had served in the Austrio-Hungarian army during World War One. Fragments and recollections of his school years in Nazi-Germany. He was expelled from "Oberrealschule" due to his "half-Jewish" descent. Experiences of antisemitism among fellow students and partial support by his teachers. Private English lessons. His mother worked as a chemist. Recollections of air raids. Liberation by the English and American army in 1945. Description of life in Germany in the aftermath of World War II. His mother got a position with the English military goverment. Brief courtship. Emigration to Argentina in 1948.
    Abstract: Also avaialble is a questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection.
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    The rise of Nazism before World War II : Memories of Germany (2001)
    Seattle, WA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 52 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Birnbaum, Hilde (née Merzbach), ; Merzbach family. ; Heim family. ; Seligmann, Caesar, ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Nazis. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Limburg an der Lahn (Germany) ; London (England) ; Palestine. ; Seattle (Wash.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir is a transcript of an interview with Hilde Birnbaum from June to August of 1999, conducted by Judith Bendor in Seattle, Washington. Description of the Frankfurt Jewish community, where Hilde’s father was the leader of the Gemeinde. Hilde had private lessons in Hebrew with the rabbi Caesar Seligmann. Hilde reflects on the time leading up to the rise of Nazism in Germany. She was a law student and was already very aware of the dangers of National Socialism prior to 1933 due to her frequent travels abroad. In 1931 she worked in an internship at a law firm in London. After the overwhelming success of the Nazis at the elections she decided not to return to Germany, since she did not see a future for herself as a woman and a Jew. Her father convinced her to finish her studies in Germany. Continuation of studies in Freiburg and encounter with Nazi student groups as a member of the social-democratic student faction. Graduation and Referendar position in Limburg in 1932. In March of 1933 she left Germany with her sister Edith for England, being warned by colleagues at court of the anti-Jewish boycot. They crossed the Dutch border and waited for invitations from relatives in London in order to get an entry permit for England. They were warmly received by the Heim family and settled in London. Difficulties of finding work. Hilde was introduced to influential British journalists and politicians, who disregarded her concerns of the possible dangers of Nazi Germany.
    Abstract: The following years she travelled frequently to Germany to convince her parents and friends to leave the country, until she was declared an enemy of the Reich and lost her German citizenship. Her mother started preparations to leave without the knowledge of her husband. Observations about life in Nazi Germany. Trip to Palestine in 1936. In 1938, only weeks before “Kristallnacht”, Hilde’s parents joined her in London, before they went to the United States. Her sister Edith had already left with her husband for Seattle in 1936. Preperations for Hilde’s emigration to the United States. She arrived in Seattle in the winter of 1938.
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    Under Swastika and the French flag. (2001)
    Croton on Hudson, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 94 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Scherzer, Samson. ; Scherzer family. ; Juris family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Hitler-Jugend. ; Antisemitism. ; Anti-Jewish boycotts. ; Jewelers. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews Persecutions. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; National socialism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Elbląg (Poland) ; France. ; Poland. ; Palestine. ; Paris (France) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were originally written for the Harvard University competition in 1940 and were translated by the author in 2001. Reflections on his childhood in Germany and Austria. His parents were both from Poland. They moved to Vienna in 1921, where his father opened a haberdashery store in the Second district (Leopoldstadt). Otto attended primary school in Czerningasse. Birth of his sister Cecile in 1924. After his failing business endeavors his father decided to move back to Germany, where the family opened a department store in Elbing, East Prussia. Otto attended Gymnasium, where he was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Growing Nazi movement among students. Summer vacations on the Baltic Sea. Private piano lessons. Hitler’s rise in Germany and life under National Socialism. Bar mitzvah in 1933. Anti-Jewish boycotts. His father fled to Vienna in order to escape a rounding up of Jews. The family followed soon after to Austria. Otto attended Gymnasium in the Zirkusgasse and started to work as a tutor. Member of a youth group and hiking tours in the mountains. Recollections of the Anschluss in 1938. Fervent attempts to obtain an exit visa for the United States, where they had a relative in New York. Description of discriminations and frequent attacks on Jewish friends and relatives in the weeks after the Anschluss. Otto was picked up by Nazi stormtroops. He was forced to hold up an anti-Jewish sign and was walked up and down, receiving beatings and spittings in front of a jeering crowd. Detailed account of the atmosphere within the Jewish population. The Gymnasium Zirkusgasse was transferred into a Jewish school. Frequent attacks of Hitler Youths on the students. Preparations for the “Matura” despite the turmoil. In June of 1938 his father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After passing the final exams, Otto planned on leaving the country illegally, since he was subject to the Polish quota for the United States with
    Abstract: little prospect of getting a permit. Constant danger of arrest for Jewish males in Vienna. He received a visa for France from relatives and left for Paris. Difficult beginnings and detailed account of the life of a refugee. Application for his visa to the United States. His girlfriend Rika joined him in Paris before she left for her agricultural training in Palestine. His mother and sister in Vienna received their exit permits and left for New York. Otto’s father was released from Buchenwald shortly after and joined his wife and daughter in the United States in April of 1939. Difficulties at the American consulate in Paris concerning his visa. Otto arrived in New York in July of 1939, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II. Description of his life in the United States. He trained to become a jeweler and got married in 1944. He lived with his wife and two daughters in Queens.
    Abstract: The memoirs were originally written for the Harvard University competition in 1940 and were translated by the author in 2001. Reflections on his childhood in Germany and Austria. His parents were both from Poland. They moved to Vienna in 1921, where his father opened a haberdashery store in the Second district (Leopoldstadt). Otto attended primary school in Czerningasse. Birth of his sister Cecile in 1924. After his failing business endeavors his father decided to move back to Germany, where the family opened a department store in Elbing, East Prussia. Otto attended Gymnasium, where he was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Growing Nazi movement among students. Summer vacations on the Baltic Sea. Private piano lessons. Hitler’s rise in Germany and life under National Socialism. Bar mitzvah in 1933. Anti-Jewish boycotts. His father fled to Vienna in order to escape a rounding up of Jews. The family followed soon after to Austria. Otto attended Gymnasium in the Zirkusgasse and started to work as a tutor. Member of a youth group and hiking tours in the mountains. Recollections of the Anschluss in 1938. Fervent attempts to obtain an exit visa for the United States, where they had a relative in New York. Description of discriminations and frequent attacks on Jewish friends and relatives in the weeks after the Anschluss. Otto was picked up by Nazi stormtroops. He was forced to hold up an anti-Jewish sign and was walked up and down, receiving beatings and spittings in front of a jeering crowd. Detailed account of the atmosphere within the Jewish population. The Gymnasium Zirkusgasse was transferred into a Jewish school. Frequent attacks of Hitler Youths on the students. Preparations for the “Matura” despite the turmoil.
    Abstract: In June of 1938 his father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After passing the final exams, Otto planned on leaving the country illegally, since he was subject to the Polish quota for the United States with little prospect of getting a permit. Constant danger of arrest for Jewish males in Vienna. He received a visa for France from relatives and left for Paris. Difficult beginnings and detailed account of the life of a refugee. Application for his visa to the United States. His girlfriend Rika joined him in Paris before she left for her agricultural training in Palestine. His mother and sister in Vienna received their exit permits and left for New York. Otto’s father was released from Buchenwald shortly after and joined his wife and daughter in the United States in April of 1939. Difficulties at the American consulate in Paris concerning his visa. Otto arrived in New York in July of 1939, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II. Description of his life in the United States. He trained to become a jeweler and got married in 1944. He lived with his wife and two daughters in Queens.
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    How we survived : Chronicles of our families. (2000)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: David, Frank. ; Dreyfuss, Albert, ; Dreyfuss family. ; Dreyfuss, Franziska (née Grünbaum), ; Dreyfuss, Fritz. ; Oppenheimer, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir contains the first chapter of Luise David's autobiography. Recollections of her mother Franziska Gruenbaum, who - after a love affair to an unsuitable partner - was married to the physician Albert Dreyfuss in 1908. The couple had two children, Fritz and Luise. Her husband served in World War One. After years of depression and frequent sojourns in different sanatoria, Franziska Dreyfuss commited suicide in 1919. Luise was sent to her father's family in Landau. The family was reunited again a year later, when Albert Dreyfuss married his second wife Alice Oppenheimer in 1920. Celebration of holidays at the Dreyfuss family in Landau. Weekend outings in the countryside. Recollection of the author's childhood with various nannys and governesses. Early interest in dress making and clothing. Awareness of her different status as the daughter of the town's physician and as a Jewish girl. Encounters with anti-Semitism. Luise was enrolled in the "lyceum" (girl's school), where she became an excellent student. Rising Nazi movement. Her brother Fritz emigrated to Switzerland in 1933.
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    Survival : 1933-1945. (2000)
    Rockville, MD :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 193 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Kaufmann family. ; Moritz, Klara Kaufmann. ; Moritz, Ludwig David, ; Moritz family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Les Milles (Concentration camp) ; Œuvre de secours aux enfants (France) ; Antisemitism. ; Education 1933-1945. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Becherbach (Germany) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Issoudun (France) ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography in German, French and English with illustrations by the author and reproductions of photos and documents.
    Abstract: Family history in Becherbach, Germany going back to the 18th century. The author's father Ludwig David Moritz served in World War One. He got married to Klara Kaufmann in 1929. Birth of their sons Alfred and Ernst. Rise of Nazism. In 1936 Alfred was enrolled in the public school of Becherbach. Confrontation with anti-Jewish laws and regulations. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the maternal Kaufmann family in Cologne. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and arrest of his father. Ludwig Moritz was taken to Dachau concentration camp, where he was interned for three months. His sons Alfred and Ernst were taken to safety by their uncle Hermann Wolf in Luxemburg. His parents followed after the release of their father from Dachau. German invasion of Belgium, Luxemburg and France in 1940. Escape to Southern France. Ludwig Moritz was interned in the camp Les Milles near Aix en Provence. Alfred and Ernst were enrolled in the local public school in St. Lizaigne. Life in hiding in Issoudun, where their father's brother had a clothes business. Alfred and Ernst were sent to the Jewish children relief organization OSE (Oeuvre de Secours de l'Enfance). With support of the French resistence movement new identity cards were issued for the two siblings, which stated them being of French descendent. Life in hiding in the countryside of Vernoux/Vivarais. They were enrolled in a public school and in the local Catholic sunday school of Vernoux. End of the war and final reunion with their parents.
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    A tale of three continents. (2000)
    Netanya :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Lederer, August, ; Garcia de los Reyes, Margot, ; Rosenthal, Hilda, ; Rosenthal family. ; Lederer family. ; Antisemitism. ; Apartheid ; Education 1918-1933. ; Families 20th century. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Pacifism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Cape Town (South Africa) ; England. ; Frankfurt (Germany) ; Gladenbach (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Israel. ; South Africa. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in Netanya, Israel in 2000. Family history going back to the 19th century. Hilda Rosenthal and August Lederer married in 1903. They settled in Gladenbach. Their son Benno was born in 1904. Childhood recollections. Description of the Lederer household and his father's fancy for technical modernizations. Private studies in Hebrew. Benno attended the local primary school, since Gladenbach was too small to keep a separate Jewish school. No encounter with anti-Semitism during his childhood years. Outbreak of World War One and increasing patriotism. Recollection of his bar mitzvah celebration during the war. Benno was enrolled in the high school (Gymnasium) in Giessen, where he stayed with a Jewish family. Difficulties observing the Sabbath on Saturdays during the school time. Growing political interest and awareness. Benno Lederer became an ardent Pacifist and even started to study Esperanto. His plans to study medicine were shattered due to the economic crisis and inflation, which deprived his parents of their savings and made it impossible to pay the tuition fees. Benno got a position as a bookkeeper in a metal work in Frankfurt. In addition he attended night classes at university. Move to Hamburg. 1930 marriage with Margot Garcia de los Reyes, who came from a Sephardic family. Rising Nazism. Hitler's takeover and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Birth of their son Rolf in 1935. Preparations to emigrate. Benno and Margot left Germany in 1936 via England and Madeira to South Africa. Arrival in Cape Town. Language difficulties and initial problems to get settled. Benno managed to get his mother out of Germany in 1938. Political situation and apartheid policy in South Africa. In 1956 Margot and Benno started their own business. Margot Lederer passed away in 1966. Benno Lederer moved to Israel in 1979.
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    From Berlin to Ecuador : (1940-1941) (2000)
    Austin, TX :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 82 pages : , bound typescript; maps
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Hias-Ica Emigration Association. ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; South America. ; Japan. ; Korea. ; Soviet Union. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of a four months long journey (October 1941-January 1941) from Frankfurt via Soviet Union, Korea, Japan to South America. Very detailed description of countryside, people and mores of the places she encountered.
    Abstract: English translation by Miguel Bamberger, juxtaposed with a German transcript and maps
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    La Partida (The Departure) / (2000)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 42 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Wohlmuth family. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of Tony Wohlmuth's memoir "La Partida" by John Grossmann
    Abstract: This book is based on Tony Wohlmuth's experiences during the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany and her father’s healthy premonition of danger to leave the country as soon as possible. In 1937 the whole family were allowed to enter Argentina where they tried to build a new life. Inspired by her father’s education she supported the “Theodor Herzl group” and the “Zionist movement” and helped to train people who wanted to immigrate to Palestine living in a Kibbutz.
    Abstract: In another part of the book Tony Wohlmuth introduces into the genealogy of her family and describes also the feelings for her relatives.
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    [Memoirs]. (1999)
    Munich :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1,000 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Antisemitism. ; Jews, East European ; Lawyers. ; Nazis. ; Socialism. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Munich (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Where the wolves say goodnight : Memoirs of a mother Hitler couldn't catch (1999)
    La Quinta, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 153 pages : , typescript, photocopy.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Abraham, Walter. ; Fromm, Frieda. ; Fromm, Meyer. ; Nickel, Maria. ; Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, Berlin (1933-1941) ; Antisemitism. ; Dressmakers. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1918 ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lubawa (Poland) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1999 in California. Memories of Ruth Abraham's childhood in Löbau, West Prussia. She grew up in an orthodox family. Her father, Meyer Fromm, was a wealthy merchant. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish holidays. Relationship between the Jewish and Christian community. Antisemitism after World War One, when Löbau became Polish. Rumors of pogroms in Russia. Opting for German citizenship and move to Allenstein near Koenigsberg in 1921. Early interest in dressmaking. Ruth was enrolled in the Luisen Schule, a homemaking school for girls. Private Religion and Hebrew classes at home. Importance of family ties. Increasing encounters of alienation with non-Jewish friends, who stopped associating with her. Rising Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism. Apprenticeship at the family's dressmaker. First signs of the growing danger in Germany. In 1932 her sister Betty left for Palestine. Move to Berlin, where she stayed at her sisters' houses, who were both married to affluent business men and led the lives of comfortable middle class wives. Fascinating cultural life in Berlin. Working with various dressmakers. Jewish life slowly disappeared into private life due to fears of stirring attention. Increasing persecution and awareness of permanent danger. Zionist lectures and activities. Trip to Italy and Palestine to visit her sister in February 1938. Witnessing the terror of the "Kristallnacht" (November Pogrom). Attending performances of the Kulturbund (Jewish arts society) to escape the dreadful reality. Engagement with Walter Abraham. Fervent attempts to arrange an exit visa for the family. First deportations of relatives to camps in Poland. Forced labor in a pharmacy corporation. In 1942 Ruth became pregnant. Deportation of her parents. Encounter with a German woman, Maria Nickel, who offered her help. Birth of their daughter Reha and life in hiding in the countryside. Escape from a SS raid. Hiding in Berlin and life on the streets.
    Abstract: False identity and hiding place in the countryside. Liberation by the Russian army. Imprisonment of her husband accused of being a Nazi spy. Return to Berlin and liberation by the Americans.
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    Recollections of my life : An autobiography (1999)
    [Adelaide] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 125 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Pagel, Hans Isaac. ; Pagel, Regina. ; Tuckfield, Milton James. ; Australia. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish religious education. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Kępno (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir covers 1919 to 1999. Childhood memoirs of Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where Eva grew up as the third daughter of Hans Isaac and Regina Pagel. Her parents were highly respected members of the Jewish community as well as of the Zionist Movement. They owned a ladies' boutique and were rather affluent. Memories of Shabbat celebrations and observance of the holidays. Eva was enrolled in a Jewish public school. Hebrew school in the afternoons. At the age of eight Eva joined a Jewish youth group. Passion for books and theater. Recollections of the airship "Zeppelin Hindenburg". Trips to Berlin to visit her mother's parents. Holidays at her grandparents in Kempen (Kepno), where her father was born. After the Jewish primary school Eva attented the public girl's school (Gymnasium). Political tensions and the rise of Nazis. Emigration to Palestine via Romania, Hungary and Italy in 1932. Life in Tel Aviv, where her parents opened the first ladies' boutique "Ha Geveret". Difficulties of learning the new language (Ivrith). Member of the sport's club Maccabi, where Eva (Hava) was in the swimming team. Underground activities in the Haganah, the Israeli defense movement. Work as a photographer, in a kindergarten and in a flower shop. Recollections of the Arab uprising in 1936. Flow of new immigrants from Germany and Austria due to the dramatic political events in Europe. Outbreak of World War II. Friendship with an Australian soldier, who was stationed at Palestine. Marriage with James Tuckfield in April 1942. Difficulties with her father, who did not accept her Gentile husband. Birth of their son Raymond Gil. Emigration to Australia via Egypt and India in November 1944. Arrival in Melbourne in January 1945. Welcome by her husband's family in Adelaide, South Australia. End of the war and reunion with her husband. Birth of their daughter Judith Dawn in 1946 and move to Brownville. Birth of their son Allen David in 1948.
    Abstract: Declaration of the State of Israel. Visiting her family in Israel in 1970. Trip to Europe and Israel together with her husband in 1973. Birth of their grandchildren. Death of her husband in 1979. Various journeys to China, Cyprus, Israel and Europe.
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    How do you like America? : A family chronicle. (1999)
    La Jolla, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 138 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Stern, Beate Herzberg, ; Stern, Max, ; Westfeld, Max. ; Herzberg family. ; Stern family. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Jewish businesspeople. ; Jews Holidays and festivals. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Intellectual life Nineteen thirties. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Brussles (Belgium) ; Essen (Germany) ; France. ; Gelsenkirchen (Germany) ; Italy. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 2000 in California and contain some of the author's diary entries during the years of the family's emigration and reminiscences of the author's father. Detailed description of family history going back to the early 19th century. The author's grandfather Moses Stern had a rawproduct business in Gelsenkirchen, Westphalia. His father Max Stern took his graduate exam (Abitur) at the Jacobsohn boarding school in 1904 and was sent to a business school in Brussles, Belgium. Work in the family business M. Stern AG. World War One and rise of the family business with branches throughout Germany and offices in New York, London, Milan and Stockholm. Due to political unrest at the end of the war the business administration moved to Essen. Description of the family background of Beate Herzberg, the author's mother. Courtship of his parents and marriage in 1922. Birth of his sister Annelore in 1923. Martin Stern was born in 1924. Description of the family household and domestic life in a well-to-do family in the 1920s. Friday visits to the synagogue and celebration of Jewish holidays. Vacations at the Baltic Sea and skiinig in the Alps. Martin attended a Jewish elementary school. Rising Nazism. After Hitler came to power in 1933 the author's father immediately started preparations for the family's emigration, but was persuaded to stay by his family. Life under Nazi rule. Martin attended Gymnasium and was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Antisemitic incidents. Private lessons in piano and Hebrew. Bar Mitzvah in 1937. Recollections of performances of the Kulturbund.
    Abstract: Lessons in Italian and preparations for emigration. The family left Germany for Turin, Italy in 1937. Life in Italy and sign of spreading fascism and move to France in 1938. Life in Paris and lessons in French. Move to Grenoble. Description of various schools in Italy and France. German invasion in 1940. Fervent attempts to leave the country for England failed. The family escaped to Marseilles, Bordeaux and Bayonne and failed attempt to escape to Marocco. Finally the family succeeded in leaving for Algiers, where they arrived on July 4th of 1940. They went to Morocco and were granted exit permits for the United States. The family left for the United States via Portugal in August of 1940. They arrived in New York in September 1940.
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    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
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    Pages: 98 + 34 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Altbach, Ludwig ; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) ; HIAS (Agency) ; Jews Persecutions. ; Education, Higher. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Soccer. ; Engineers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Argentina. ; Eggenburg (Austria) ; Peru. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.
    Abstract: Internment at Ellis Island and release with the support of HIAS. Arrival in Buenos Aires in October 1943 and reunition with his parents. Work for a steel company and studies of mechanical engineering at the University of La Plata. Graduation in 1949. Military coup and political instability. Walter Altbach founded his own business, which became a successful enterprise. Marriage in 1951. Move to Peru in 1967. Recollections of his first trip to Austria after his emigration in 1968.
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    Besuch in Wien / (1999)
    Miami, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 + 13 , handwritten manuscript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Fliegel family. ; Jewish Welcome Service, Vienna. ; Jews ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Voyages and travels. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are written in form of two letters. In the first letter "Besuch in Wien - Juni 1999", Hans Fliegel tells about his experiences on his visit to Vienna in May/June 1999 (following an invitation by the Jewish Welcome Service). He describes a walk in Vienna, mainly the second district, and as he stops in front of buildings with a personal significance for him, he unfolds parts of his family history, memories of family businesses and apartments.
    Abstract: In the second letter "Ernuechterung - fuer immer verdammt?!", Mr. Hans Fliegel gives an overview of the history of European Jewry, the Jews in Vienna, and his views of Austria before, during and after World War II. He also reflects his own experiences.
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    Rosemarie : A memoir (1999)
    West Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 96 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Deutschland family. ; Joseph, Hans. ; Land family. ; Bloomsbury House. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Medical technology. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; England. ; Lake Carmel (N.Y.) ; West Palm Beach (Fla.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the life of Rosemarie L. Joseph from her happy childhood in Germany, the danger during the Nazi Regime, the immigration to the USA, until her retirement in Florida, narrated in 11 chapters and illustrated with photographs and figures showing family members and documents.
    Abstract: Rosemarie Joseph describes her family and their life in Berlin. The father was a businessman, dealing with women’s clothes. The author writes about her years at a public school, where she met anti-Semitism for the first time. Later she went to a private school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The memoir deals with the upcoming Nazi Regime and describes how the family experienced anti-Semitism, the terror, despair and confusion; especially the events of the “Reichskristallnacht” and the efforts to emigrate are described. Eventually Rosemarie was able to go to London, which was made possible by the Bloomsbury House, which offered older children, who were not eligible for the “Kindertransport”, to escape to Great Britain. The memoir tells about the escape of Rosemarie’s parents. Her father was born in Danzig, which was considered a free State by Hitler after the war began. Therefore Hartwig Deutschland received a “Danzig Quota” number 7 for travel to America and the couple left Germany immediately and soon arrived in New York. Shortly afterwards Rosemarie got a visa to enter the USA, too.
    Abstract: The memoir tells about her first years in the USA, her job as a pediatrics nurse at the Israel Zion Hospital, her job caring for a small child, her years studying at Hunter College, her job at the Blood Bank at University Hospital as well as how she met her husband Hans Joseph. She was lucky to get a grant of $1,800.00 from the Educational Foundation for Jewish Girls and so she was able to enroll at the Polyclinic Hospital and Medical School for one year. After passing the Registry Exam she was allowed to work as a Medical Technologist of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Her first job then was at a private medical laboratory in Brooklyn. 1952 she started to work part time at the Jewish Memorial Hospital, which soon turned into a full time job. She worked there until 1982. Furthermore Rosemarie writes about her struggle to get a child. Finally the couple adopted two boys, Claude and Andrew. The memoir gives account of the family’s decision to buy a house at Lake Carmel in Putnam county, N.Y., their animals, the family life, how Rosemarie started oil painting, her retirement, her voluntary work at the Residential Treatment Center for autistic children, the death of her husband, a new relationship; and finally her move to West Palm Beach, Florida and her life there, together with a lot of volunteer activities, music and trips to several places in the USA and Europe. Finally, the memoir includes a paragraph about Rosemarie’s contribution to the Shoa Foundation with Steven Spielberg as a chairman plus a copy of the letter that Spielberg sent to Rosemarie, saying thank you for her help.
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    Lebos / (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 92 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Pick family. ; Pick, Otto, ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Sports. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sudetenland (Czech Republic) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Oskar Pick written in 1998; description of family life in the Sudeten area of Bohemia; memories of the family estate and textile industry; recollections of his upbringing, which involved his resolute grandmother and various nannies; member of the Jewish sport's club "Makabi"; his father's journey to purchase land in Palestine in the 1930s; nervous disposition of his father due to a head injury of World War I; participation at the Makabiade in Zilina, Slovakia in 1936; escapades of his school time; after a certain incident Oskar was sent to a sport's boarding school near the Austrian border; in 1938 the school was transferred to Salzburg, Austria; ski trips; after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 the entire school was ordered back immediately; annexion of the Sudetenland area; the entire family had to flee to Prague; first confrontation with antisemitism; his father was offered a job in Egypt, where he tried to get "Palestine" affidavits for his family; occupation of Prague; Oskar's mother took refuge with her sons in Italy; they managed to get their affidavits for Palestine; arrival and reunition with their father in Tel Aviv in 1939; Oskar started an apprenticeship at "Mercedes Benz" in Israel; member of the organization "Blau-Weiss"; end of World War II; facing the tragedy of the loss of their entire family in the Holocaust; encounters with survivors; marriage to his fiance "Ande" in 1947; declaration of the state of Israel in 1948; activities in the emerging military; victim of meningitis epidemic; war with Egypt; six-days-war; career at BMW; job offer in Kaiserslauten, Germany; cultural differences in the mentality of the local inhabitants; move to Cologne with his family from Israel, where Oskar Pick still lives today.
    Abstract: Memoir by Oskar Pick written in 1998; description of family life in the Sudeten area of Bohemia; memories of the family estate and textile industry; recollections of his upbringing, which involved his resolute grandmother and various nannies; member of the Jewish sport's club "Makabi"; his father's journey to purchase land in Palestine in the 1930s; nervous disposition of his father due to a head injury of World War I; participation at the Makabiade in Zilina, Slovakia in 1936; escapades of his school time; after a certain incident Oskar was sent to a sport's boarding school near the Austrian border; in 1938 the school was transferred to Salzburg, Austria; ski trips; after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 the entire school was ordered back immediately; annexion of the Sudetenland area; the entire family had to flee to Prague; first confrontation with antisemitism; his father was offered a job in Egypt, where he tried to get "Palestine" affidavits for his family; occupation of Prague; Oskar's mother took refuge with her sons in Italy; they managed to get their affidavits for Palestine; arrival and reunition with their father in Tel Aviv in 1939; Oskar started an apprenticeship at "Mercedes Benz" in Israel; member of the organization "Blau-Weiss"; end of World War II; facing the tragedy of the loss of their entire family in the Holocaust; encounters with survivors; marriage to his fiancee "Ande" in 1947; declaration of the state of Israel in 1948; activities in the emerging military; victim of meningitis epidemic; war with Egypt; six-days-war; career at BMW; job offer in Kaiserslauten, Germany; cultural differences in the mentality of the local inhabitants; move to Cologne with his family from Israel.
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    Juden raus! Lessing raus! : Wie in Deutschland die Tötung eines geistigen Menschen abrollt. (1998)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 24 pages : , typescript.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Hindenburg, Paul von, ; Lessing, Theodor, ; Antisemitism. ; Philosophers. ; Germany Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Manuscript about the German Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing.
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    Trip to Berlin : May 4-12, 1998. (1998)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 67 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) History. ; Jews History. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Recollections from a trip to Berlin (May 1998); thoughts about the Holocaust and 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung'.
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    Ein Judenjunge durfte kein Deutscher sein. (1998)
    Bristol, Grossbritanien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 70 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Grünbaum family. ; Grünbaum, Harry. ; Wolff family. ; World ORT Union. ; Antisemitism. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish way of life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Cologne (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: This is the story of Harry Gruenbaum and the Gruenewald-Wolff families, featuring Jewish customs in light of Nazi persecution. Also included on pages 20-21 is a prayer by Rabbi Leo Baeck for Yom Kippur 1935.
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    Autobiography of Lisel Salzer. (1998)
    Seattle, WA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 , bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Salzer, Lisel. ; Dubrowsky, Joseph ; Ehrlich, Bettina ; Ehrlich, Georg ; Grom-Rothmeyer, Abdul Hamid ; Grossmann, Frederick M. ; Salzer, Hermann ; Seligman, Otto ; Spiral, Hilde ; Weil, Lisl. ; Zeisl, Erich ; Artists. ; Families 20th century. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women artists. ; Women authors. ; Women Education 1871-1918. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History. ; Seattle (Wash.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States History 1945- ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Early childhood memories; family apartments; Gymnasium; art school; art study in Paris; establishment as professional artist in Vienna; circle of friends in Vienna; emigration to New York; work in New York as fashion illustrator; exhibitions; painted portrait of Grandma Moses; a year with husband on Indian reservations; travels in western United States; move to Seattle; life in Seattle; work as portrait artist; death of husband; acquisition of piano; founding of art galleries in Seattle; surgery for bladder cancer; travels and artistic activities; work for Adlai Stevenson campaign; friends in Seattle over the years.
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    Sipurai savta vesaba: korot haim ( = Stories of grandmother and grandfather: readings of life. Hebrew). (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: Hebrew
    Pages: 39 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Nizav family. ; Sämann family, Sugenheim. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Regensburg (Germany) ; Sugenheim. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of the Nizav family, circa 1754-1998
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    My granddaughter wanted to know... (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    Austria before and after the Anschluss : Personal experiences, observations and comments (1998)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 46 + 252 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Jews Persecution 1930-1939. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Pharmacology. ; Physicians ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Sweden. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain observations and reflections on the events before and during the Nazi period in Austria (circa 1914-1994). Also included are David Lehr's CV and a bibliography of his writings.
    Abstract: Early childhood recollections during World War One. Detailed account of the fate of his uncles as soldiers during the war. Experiences of antisemitism during David Lehr's schoolyears at Gymnasium and anti-Jewish riots at university. Detailed account of his years as a medical student and his internship in the Wiedner hospital. Friendship with the Gentile family of Alma N. Graduation from Medical School in May 1935. David obtained a position as a faculty member of the Pharmacological Institute of the Vienna University. Recollections of the civil war of 1934 and the declaration of the autocratic Christian Democratic regime. His plans to leave Austria as early as in 1937 were met with discouragement in his family. Quotations of contemporary literature on Austria's history during the Nazi period and critical remarks. Recollections of the "Anschluss" in 1938. David was expelled from his position at the faculty soon thereafter. Detailed account of life in Nazi-Vienna. Arrest of his father and uncle. Experience at the Gestapo headquaters in an attempt to free his father. David was rounded up by SA stormtroups in the streets and forced to clean streets, but was released due to his professsion. He worked as a volunteer in the Rothschildspital (Jewish hospital). Recollections of a Goebbles speach in Vienna.
    Abstract: With the help of a former colleague in Sweden, Maya Stroemberg-Grossman, David received an official invitation from the Medical School in Lund. Detailed account of the procedures to obtain his papers. He emigrated to Sweden in July 1938 and came to the United States after the war. Addendum: Reflections on post-war Austria and its reluctant dealing with its Nazi past. Fiftieth "Matura" anniversary with his classmates from Gymnasium 1979 in Vienna and reflections on their different biographies. Extensive thoughts about anti-semitism in Austria.
    Abstract: The following individuals and families are mentioned:
    Abstract: Bauer, Richard; Brueck family; Eiselsberg, Anton; Finsterer, Otto; Goebbels, Joseph; Gold, Ernst; Grossmann, Stefan; Prof. Hochstetter; Hohenberg, Erich; Loewenherz, Richard; Pick, Ernst Peter; Scherf, David; Schnitzler, Julius; Sternberg, Carl; Tandler, Julius; Dr. Trevani; Unna, Klaus; Unna, Paul Gerson; Weill, Kurt.
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    A personal memoir of Kristallnacht. (1998)
    [Ann Arbor] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Synagoge Fasanenstrasse (Berlin, Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ernest Fontheim's account of November 10, 1938, the day after Kristallnacht, in Berlin; eyewitness account of Fasanenstrasse synagogue burning, and anti-Semitic violence at the scene of the fire. Includes short translation of article from Berliner Tageblatt, August 26, 1912, covering dedication of Fasanenstrasse synagogue in Berlin.
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    A personal history. (1998)
    Manila, Philippines :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 142 pages : , printed manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Brings, Paula Katz, 1905-2001. ; Birnbaum, Helene. ; Birnbaum, Herbert. ; Birnbaum, Judith. ; Birnbaum, Robert. ; Birnbaum, Therese (Tessy) ; Walter, Bruno. ; Antisemitism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Manners and customs ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; Burgenland (Austria) ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Philippines Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A series of lengthy Oral History Interviews conducted by Peter Farquhar. For more than six hours over several days Paula Brings told her life as a girl and young woman in Vienna, the escape to the Philippines, the terror and destruction of the Japanese conquest, the builiding of a new independent Philippines in the post-war years, becoming a Philippine citizen, raising a daughter, teaching in Philippines schools and participating in the local academic community, the international social community, and the community of Jewish survivors. Attached at the end is an extensive index list.
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    The last carefree summer. (1998)
    Montpelier, VT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 + 5 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Women authors. ; Austria (Vienna) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first short memoir, Hedi Ballantyne describes her family's summer vacations at the Austrian countryside during the summer of 1938. Her family was forced to leave abrubtly because of protesting Hitler Youth. In her second writing, Hedi Ballantyne describes her family's appartment at Karolinengasse 14 in the 4th district of Vienna, her recollections of the "Anschluss" and of antisemitism.
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    Joseph and his daughter : from 1890-1980 (1997)
    1997 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 146 pages : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: reproductions of documents and photographs.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Blumenthal family. ; Frankenhuis family. ; Gottschalk family. ; Heimann family. ; Heimann, Joseph. ; Heiman, Selman. ; Heiman, Walter. ; Kamp family. ; Marx family. ; Marx, Selma. ; Passmann family. ; Samson family. ; Spiegel family. ; Antisemitism. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Dry-goods. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Education 1918-1933. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Butchers. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Essen (Germany) ; Osnabrück (Germany) ; Recklinghausen (Münster, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Werne an der Lippe (Germany) ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Werne; experiences at schools in Werne and Osnabruck; apprenticeship at dry goods store in Recklinghausen; military service on western front in World War I; resumption of apprenticeship at Recklinghausen after war; work at dry goods store in Castrop - Rauxel; work in Essen; marriage and life in Essen up to 1931.
    Abstract: Inge Heiman Karo's chilhodd memories of life in Essen; experiences after 1933; emigration to United States in 1939; life in New York, Philadelphia; accounts of relatives' fates during Holocaust, lives of other relatives after 1945.
    Description / Table of Contents: And all this in one man's lifetime, by Joseph Heiman
    Description / Table of Contents: His daughter's story, by Inge Heiman Karo
    Description / Table of Contents: Relatives who perished during the Holocaust
    Description / Table of Contents: Genealogy
    Description / Table of Contents: Excerpts from several audio taped interviews of Selma Heiman
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    Nuts and bolts : assembling a life. (1997)
    Wahroonga :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 166 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; England. ; Japan. ; Newcastle (N.S.W.) ; Sydney (N.S.W.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Three branches of our family : 1850-1997 (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 159 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Backer, Ellen Wolf (Ellen Ruth Wolf) ; Desman, Lise Muller (Liesel Müller) ; Kann, Emma. ; Kratzenstein, Rachel (Rosel Mueller) ; Kratzenstein family. ; Mueller family ; Wolf family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Schwetzingen (Germany) ; Sobernheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Geneology and brief histories of the Müller/Muller, Wolf/Wolfe, and Kratzenstein/Kaye families; family history, reflections on life experiences.
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    Survival, (1997)
    [Borehamwood, Hertfordshire ?] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 91 pages (1.5 space, paper 5.5 x 8 ") : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Markstein, Otto. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Women authors. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Latin America Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Edith Loewenstein, née Markstein, including recollection of her father's and uncle's arrest in Vienna and their deportation to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald; of persecution of Jews in Vienna; of the family's efforts to emigrate to Bolivia; and of their departure via Hamburg.
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    Reminiscences of Ruth Middelmann : for Robert and his family; (1994-1997)
    [Rondebosch, South Africa].
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    Pages: 108 + 3 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: obituary
    Year of publication: 1994-1997
    Keywords: Hinrichsen family. ; Middelmann family. ; Botanists. ; Music. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cape Town (South Africa) ; Germany History 20th century. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Johannesburg (South Africa) ; South Africa Emigration and immigration 1935. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Parents' family background; early childhood memories; death of father at Eastern Front in World War I; move to Aachen; re-marriage of mother, move to Hamburg; school in Hamburg; attended music school in Cologne; engagement; music teacher at Quaker camp for Jewish children in Holland; termination of engagement; plans for emigration; emigration to South Africa; marriage to Walter Middelmann; birth of son; end of war; life in South Africa; work as professional botanist; death of parents; trip to Middle East; trip to USA to meet with botanists; trip to Australia; further trips to Europe, Asia; trip to Germany in 1990; final entries after suffering from a mild stroke in 1994.
    Abstract: Her husband, Walter Middelmann, added 3 pages based on her notes before she suffered her final stroke in 1996. Also included is an obituary.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Hinrichsen, Anna Karoline ; Hinrichsen, F. Willy ; Lewy, Gerda ; Lewy, Yochanan ; Middelmann, Hans ; Middelmann, Robert; von Gizycki family.
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    A child of the twentieth century : My journey to America. (1997)
    Bloomington, Indiana :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Blume, Grete. ; Gordon, Ruth. ; Jacubeit family. ; Lechner, Alfred. ; Makower, Gerhard. ; Neuweg, Arthur. ; Neuweg, Kurt. ; Rackwitz family. ; Antisemitism. ; Dentists, Jewish. ; Families. ; Forced labor. ; Intermarriage. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Landsberg an der Warthe (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family background; parents; childhood memories; vacations with family; family experience after 1935; move to Berlin; life in Berlin; start of World War II; forced labor in Berlin; experiences during bombing of Berlin; end of war; enters Humbold Univeristy in 1946; experiences of Jacubeit family, Rackwitz family; emigration to USA; military service in US Army in Japan; entrance to Harvard University; graduate school at Harvard; meets wife; move to Bloomington, Indiana.
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    Back to the camps / (1997)
    Kailua :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 38 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Plaut family. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Voyages and travels. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Journey to the sites of former concentration camps in Poland, Germany and Austria.
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    A Bit of Family History. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Alexander family. ; Mauthner, Ernst. ; Mauthner, Fritz, ; Mauthner, Malvine. ; Straub, Hedwig. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including information on Fritz Mauthner and his wife Hedwig Straub, Ernst and Malvine Mauthner, and other Mauthner family members as well as the Alexander family in Hungary and Berlin, emigration to England and the United States, and description of post-war visits in Europe; xeroxes of handwritten letters by Fritz Mauthner.
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    [Our trip to Germany and France]. (1997)
    Flushing, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 26 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Former Title: [Untitled]
    Keywords: Eichenbronner, Hannah. ; Kleeman family. ; Levinstein, Henry. ; Strauss family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews History ; Jews ; Voyages and travels. ; Gaukönigshofen (Germany) ; Unterfranken (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection from a trip to Europe, with information about the Kleeman family.
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    "Liebte ich dich doch mein Krumbach ..." : Lebenserinnerungen von Hugo Höchstädter. (1997)
    Lima, Peru :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 68 pages : , print; illustrated (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Höchstädter, Hugo, ; Höchstädter family. ; Landauer, Simon. ; Antisemitism. ; Courtship. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Horse trading ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Krumbach (Günzburg, Germany) ; Lima (Peru) ; Peru Emigration and immigration. ; Spain. ; Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939. ; Switzerland. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of the authors early childhood. His father was a successful local horse dealer. The family owned a large property in Krumbach. Recollection of Sabbath celebrations with the family. Preparations for the high holidays. Hugo Hoechstaedter was enrolled in the Jewish elementary school in Krumbach. Experience of anti-Semitism. Friendship with local youths of different religious background. Romances and his first car. Apprenticeship at the woven goods business of Simon Landauer. Rising Nazism. Emigration to Spain in 1936, where his uncle owned a metal business. Outbreak of the Spanish civil war and return to Nazi Germany. Brief detention by Nazi authorities during a passover celebration in 1936. Escape to Switzerland and preparation for his emigration to Peru, where his uncle Leopold Weil was living. Emigration difficulties due to his stay in Spain during the civil war. New career in Peru. Effort to get his mother out of Germany succeeded in 1938. Family life and marriages. Business endeavours. Membership in a synagogue in Lima. Trips to Europe and Krumbach.
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    Der Antisemitismus der Gegenwart : Komplexe Grundlagenforschung Antijudaismus - Verunglimpfung des Judentums in Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte. (1997)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 88 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Former Title: Komplexe Grundlagenforschung Antijudaismus Verunglimpfung des Judentums in Literatur- und Kirchengeschichte.
    Keywords: Luther, Martin, ; Bible ; Antisemitism. ; Christianity and antisemitism. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Study on the interplay of Christian “anti-Judaism” and Nazi anti-Semitism as a response to a 1990 study by Wolfgang Benz at TU Berlin about present-day antisemitism.
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    Autobiography. (1996)
    Washington D.C.,
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    Pages: 10 + 24 pages : , typescripts (copies).
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Shiffers, Stephan, ; Hechaluz (Organization : Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Education. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Auto-biographical essay by Stephan Shiffers. Also included is a transcript of an Austrian Heritage Collection interview with Stephen Shiffers, conducted by Sebastian Markt in 2001.
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    Meine Erlebnisse : Erinnerungen (1996)
    Ramat Gan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 99 + 2 pages : , private printing; addendum.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Education, primary and secondary 1918-1938. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Yugoslavia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of life in Vienna and summer vacations in the country; early experiences of anti-Semitism; experiences at children's Erholungsheim following scarlet fever; vacation in the Jewish village of Lackenbach; Bar Mitzvah preparations; membership in Zionist Betar youth movement; Anschluss; Kristallnacht; work in village of Moosbrunn; preparations to emigrate to Palestine; journey to Palestine via ship down the Danube river; stay in Yugoslavia; train to Palestine via Greece, Turkey, Syria, Beirut; arrival in Palestine.
    Abstract: Addendum: Die Muttersprachtragoedie, 2 pages.
    Abstract: The following individuals are emntioned: Begin, Alisa; Kopp, Fabian; Queller, Berthold; Queller, Georg.
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    Moments of truth. (1996)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Suicide. ; Zionism. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Netherlands. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of poignant episodes and encounters from his life, from 1933 to 1990: Braun keeping his father from committing suicide in Nazi Germany; personal incidents in Palestine and Israel; episodes involving anti-Semitism in post-war Germany; Braun expressing strong contempt for Jews in contemporary Germany; anti-German sentiments in the Netherlands; and positive encounters of Braun with non-Jewish Germans.
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    Thankfully yours, Lisa Leist Seiden : 1929-1946. (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 66 pages : , Typed and bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Leist, Friedrich. ; Leist, Peter. ; Antisemitism. ; Women authors. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs Children ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996 at Lisa Seiden's home. The main time covered is her childhood in Vienna and her stay in Bath, England, during the war. Lisa Seiden describes daily life for a child in Vienna--the type of dolls she had, activities on a cold winter day, vaccations on the countryside. In 1938, she was not allowed to go to school anymore. She remembers many details during that time of horros--the anxious expressions in her parents' faces, the constant fear they had while being in the apartment. One day, the Gestapo was looking for her father, Friedrich Leist, but he was warned and did not return home. He had a hise-out and Lisa brought him food. It did not help--a few days later, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. On December 17, 1938, Lisa and her brother Peter were sent via Kindertransport to England. Since their parents did not get visas for England, they emigrated to Argentine where an uncle lived. Lisa Seiden writes about her time in Englad, her foster parents, schooling, and air raids. In May of 1946, a ship takes Lisa and Peter to their parents in Buenos Aires, Argentine. The memoir includes copies of photographs showing family members, herself, her doll's house, and vaccation trips etc. There also many letters included, as well as bits of Lisa Seiden's brother's (Peter Leist) dairy.
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    [Memoirs] : [1922-1996]. (1996)
    Menlo Park, CA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Porat, Etka, ; Porat, Milka, ; Porat family. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kibbutzim. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicists. ; Shtetls. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clausus for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailled acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illeagal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzwah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illeagal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996. Childhood recollections of growing up in Stanislawow. Early awareness of antisemitism and the constant dangers of pogroms. Antisemitism at school and numerus clauses for Jews entering universities. Dan Porat's family were rather wealthy, since his father owned a freight shipping business. His oldest sister Etka went to Vienna to study medicine. During the World recession his father lost his business. The family moved to the shtetl of Kuty due to their financial difficulties, while his father tried to establish himself anew in Vienna. Multi-lingual environment of the shtetl. Detailed acount of his Jewish education and Mishnah studies in the cheder. Difficulties in obtaining an exit visa to join their father in Vienna. Arrival in Vienna in 1934 as illegal immigrants. Presence of antisemitism and hostility towards Eastern Jews (Ostjuden). Dan was enrolled in the Chajes Gymnasium, the first Jewish high school in Vienna. Language and cultural differences. At age 12 Dan started a part-time job as a bookkeeper to contribute to the family income. Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah celebration. Political turmoil and growing presence of the illegal Nazi movement. Detailled account of the Anschluss in 1938 and the frequent rounding-up of Jews in the streets of Vienna. Life in National Socialist Vienna and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Recollections of Kristallnacht. Dan's father was arrested and never heard of again. Dan was involved in the Zionist movement and prepared for his emigration to Palestine. In 1939 he managed to get his papers and left for Palestine. Life in the kibbutz. Due to his Hebrew knowledge he adapted easier to the new environment. Dan joined the Haganah movement and volunteered as an enigineer in the British army. Fights against the Germans in Africa and Italy. Traces of German atrocities.
    Abstract: After the end of war he learned about the fate of his family, who perished in the Holocaust. Dan rejoined the Haganah after war. He got married to his wife Frieda in 1946. Continuation of his studies. Birth of his son Uri. Declaration of the State of Israel in 1948. Volunteering in the War of Independence. Scholarship to study physics at Manchester University in England. Birth of his daughters Ruthi and Naomi in England. Move to USA to work as nuclear physicist at Harvard and MIT. Position as physicist at Stanford for 26 years.
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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 60 + 32 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Blau, Bertha. ; Blau family. ; Dollfuss, Engelbert, ; Drucker, Kurt. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Fliegel, Hans Robert, ; Fliegel, Julius, ; Fliegel, Otto, ; Fliegel, Rosa, ; Fliegel, Wilhelm, ; Fliegel family. ; Grunwald, Max, ; Haber, Georg. ; Levi, Alice. ; Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah, ; Waldheim, Kurt. ; Dachau (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are reproductions of documents.
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    How beautiful we were. (1996)
    Pittsburgh :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 112 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Adelsheim, Honey. ; Aldesheimer, Emma. ; Aldesheimer, Gustav, ; Aldesheimer, Paula, ; Bornebusch, Wolfgang. ; Eichmann, Johanna. ; Kann, Nathan. ; Silberman family. ; Silberman, Hanna, ; Silberman, Louis, ; Wagner, Gottfried. ; Weissmann Klein, Gerda. ; Zadek family. ; Zadek, Gerhard. ; Antisemitism. ; Cattle trade. ; Country life. ; Housekeepers. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lemförde (Germany) ; Schermbeck (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the author's family history. Her parents, Hanna and Louis Silberman, married in 1918. Marga was the last child of four. Recollection of her father's sudden death in 1934 due to the shock of an announced arrest by the Gestapo. Her mother had to take a job as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to Schermbeck to live with her mother's younger sister Paula and her grandparents in the countryside. Her maternal grandfather Gustav Adelsheimer was a cattle dealer and a respected member of the local Jewish community. Celebration of Jewish holidays. Disrupted education due to Nazi laws. Recollections of the terrors of Kristallnacht, when they were forced to leave their house and run for shelter in the woods. The family moved to stay with relatives in Berlin shortly thereafter. Difficult circumstances of life in Nazi Germany and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Their immigration papers arrived in May 1941, and Marga and her mother were able to immigrate to USA via Lisbon. Arrival in New York. Difficult new beginnings. Marga's mother took a position as a housekeeper, and Marga was sent to live with a German-speaking foster family during the school year. Cultural and language differences. After two years her mother and sister had saved enough for an own apartment, and the family was reunited. Return to Schermbeck in 1981. Recollections of the family members who perished in the Holocaust. Reunion with her Gentile friend Irmgard in Schermbeck. Reconciliation with residents of Schermbeck. Return to Lemforde together with her sister Hilde in 1986. Reflections on her frequent reconciliation meetings in Germany and her effort to commemorate the Holocaust.
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    Ein Leben geht vorüber : oder Am Frankfurter Fenster. (1996)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 177 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Birnbaum family. ; Gottlieb, Sima. ; Actors. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements. ; Germany (West) Emigration and immigration 1945. ; Kraków (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Poland History 20th century. ; Warsaw (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of Filipiwska from before, during and after WW II.
    Abstract: Recollections of Filipiwska from before, during and after WW II.
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    On Being Jewish / (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: iii + 147 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Kelsen, Hans, ; Stross, Walter ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Identity. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Reform Judaism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1939. ; England Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Trip back to Vienna in 1965 for first time since emigration; youth in Vienna; relationship with parents; relationship to Judaism and Jewish identity as child; move to Liebauthal in Czechoslvakia in 1932; life in Liebauthal; school in Eger; religious education; move to Prague; life in Prague; memories of grandmothers; emigration to England in 1939; school in England; baptism into Church of England; emigration of parents to England; work and study in Manchester; job testing parachutes; study at Technical College in Leicester; anti-Semitism in England; victory celebration in London at end of war; death of father; life in London after war; sister's encounter with anti-Semitism in England; emgiration to USA in 1947; arrival in San Francisco; college at Berkeley; marriage and birth of children; joins synagogue congregation; death of mother; divorce, second marriage, and second divorce; trip to Germany; trip to Israel; experiences in Israel; visit to Prague and Czech Republic; visit to Theresienstadt; account of cousin's survival of the Holocaust; return to father's factory in Liebauthal; final reflections on being Jewish.
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    Glad, mighty glad, to be British : The memoirs of Dr. John Abels. (1996)
    Billingham, England :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 280 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish physicians. ; Swim teams. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Antisemitismus im Katholischen Milieu Badens 1848/49 bis 1870/71. (1996)
    Freiburg i. Br. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 136
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Catholic Church. ; Jews History 1848-871. ; Antisemitism. ; Baden (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: A study about the emancipation of the Jewish minority and the antijudaism of the Catholic population in Baden 1862 to 1870.
    Abstract: A study about the emancipation of the Jewish minority and the anti-Judaism of the Catholic population in Baden, 1862 to 1870.
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    Die Revolution 1848/49 in der deutsch-juedischen Presse : Eine Untersuchung anhand der Allgemeinen Zeitung des Judenthums und des Orients. (1996)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: VII, 237 pages : , VII, 237 pages : , Bound manuscript. , Bound manuscript
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jewish journalists. ; Journalism, Religious. ; Jewish press. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 1789-1900 ; 1848-1949. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: M.A. thesis for Modern History at the Humboldt University in Berlin, July 1996
    Abstract: M.A. thesis for Modern History at the Humboldt University in Berlin, started July 1996, completed June 2001.
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    Toni Ehrlich's diaries, (1906-1996)
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    Pages: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes) : , 29 handwritten notebooks +
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    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
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    [Memoir]. (1995)
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    Language: Swedish
    Pages: 71 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Löllbach family. ; Hechaluz. ; Jewish Agency for Israel. ; Kadimah Bund Juedischer Pfadfinder. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Denmark. ; Essen (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sweden. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography of Gert Loellbach in Swedish with expanded family history, circa 1932-1947.
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    Es gab juedischen Widerstand. (1995)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 35 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Masur, Norbert. ; Hechaluz. ; Jewish Agency for Israel. ; Kadimah Bund Juedischer Pfadfinder. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Bad Kreuznach (Germany) ; Denmark. ; Essen (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Sweden. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the death of Gert Loellbach’s parents in a ship accident in 1932. Gert was sent to live with his aunt in Kreuznach and was suddenly confronted with rising antisemitism due to Nazi propaganda. In Kreuznach he suddenly belonged to a visible minority at school, whereas in Berlin half of the students had been Jewish. Orthodox Jewish life at his aunt’s house. Gert had been brought up in an assimilated Jewish family. He was forced to leave school before taking the final exams (Abitur) and started to work in a wood trading company of his father’s friend. Soon thereafter the company was confiscated. Gert belonged to the Jewish sports group "Kadimah". Zionist activities and agricultural education in preparation for Palestine. Incidents and threats by Nazi groups. Gert became a youth leader for the district of Essen. Preparation for the members to emigrate. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and his arrest. He was spared deportation to a concentration camp and was freed due to the intervention of the rabbi of his home town. After his release he made his way to Berlin with the help of a nun. Endeavors to free his colleagues from the concentration camp. Difficulties to obtain visas. Plans to bring members of the Zionist groups to Palestine. Gert Loellbach’s activities were made known to the Gestapo and he had to leave the country. Exit permit for Sweden. Gert left Germany in time and started to prepare young "Hechaluzim" in Sweden for their emigration to Palestine - a program started by Emil Glueck. The outbreak of the war inhibited their further emigration. Fear of invasion of Nazi Germany in South Sweden. He worked together with the Jewish Agency and corresponded with various inmates of concentration camps, which meant a certain degree of protection for them. In 1940 Gert organized an initiative to rescue members of the Youth Aliyah and the Jewish population in Denmark after the German invasion.
    Abstract: A camp for the Jewish refugees was established near the Swedish port of Helsingborg. Difficulties to find work for the refugees. Gert was sent to Stockholm to represent the Hechaluz organization and open a "Palestinabuero" for the Jewish Agency. Reports of the fate of other refugees. Norbert Masur and the Bernadotte-Aktion to free 28.000 inmates in concentration camps in 1944.
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    Memoirs & notes : Alfreid (Reis) Rees, 1882-1969. (1995)
    Manchester, Vermont :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 13 + 13 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: photocopied documents
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Reis family Genealogy. ; Divorce. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Cuba. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Translated and edited memoir by Alfred Reis, including family history and genealogical information reaching back to Moses Reis and Hanna Kohn in the early nineteenth-century in Saxonia. Included are copies of numerous documents; recollections of his military service during World War I; of his commercial enterprises in Cuba, London, Nuremberg and various other places; of his settling in Nuremberg in 1922; and of his unsuccesful marriage to Edith Roethler.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Kohn, Hanna; Neuhaus, Emil; Reis, Alfred; Reis, Hanna; Reis, Moses.
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    Hineini - Here I am!. (1995)
    [Pittsburgh, Pa.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 231 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Beruh, Goldie. ; Marcuse, Lilly. ; Marcuse, Lore. ; Metzger, Edwin. ; Wiener, David. ; Flossenbürg (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; United States. ; Engineers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Military law ; Voyages and travels. ; War crime trials ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; Zionism. ; Konstanz (Germany) ; Pittsburgh (Pa.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Growing up in Konstanz; life in Konstanz after 1933; attempts to emigrate to USA; Kristallnacht; immigration to USA in 1939; voyage to USA on ship; life in New York; high school in New York; military service in US Army; military service in Germany in 1945; inspection of concentration camps after liberation; stationed in Marienbad, Landshut; work in de-nazification in Bavaria; return to USA; study at City College, Oklahoma A & M College; work as chemical engineer in Pittsburgh; marriage, birth of children; work for Westinghouse as nuclear engineer; education of children; death of parents; death of wife; retirement activities; trips to Konstanz; reflections on God.
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    On the fringe of the Holocaust. (1995)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements. ; Belgium History 1933-1945. ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by George Brawerman including description of German occupation of Belgium; of anti-Jewish measures; of Belgian anti-Semitism and deportations; of his life in hiding in Brussels and in a children's social service camp in Chevlipont with other Jewish children; of his experiences in the resistance movement; and of the liberation and its aftermath.
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    Erna Franck's memoirs : (1900-1981). (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 61 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education 1871-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; France Politics and government 1940-1945. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Martinique. ; Morocco. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of the memoir by Erna Ferrand, written originally 1977-1979 in New York.
    Abstract: Genealogical information on her family; recollections of her childhood and her schooling in Hamburg; marriage during World War I and life during the war, the revolution and in the Weimar Republic; her husband's activities as a radio advertiser; the family's emigration to France and her experiences in Paris; the family's evacuation from Paris and their crossing into Spain; their experiences in North Africa; their immigration in the United States and life in New York.
    Abstract: The folowing persons are mentioned: Ballin, Albert; Blaich, Emil; Delatour, Salomon; Doeblin, Alfred; Friedland, Jacques (Jakob); Gottheil, Richard; Hagenow, Walter; Karlweis, Oscar; Karpell, Hans; Levy, Benno; Mann, Thomas; Mehring, Franz; Richter, Erich; Wohlgemuth, Martin.
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    Es war einmal. (1995)
    Guatemala :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 65 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Makabi ha-tsaʻir (Association) ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Divorce. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Guatemala Emigration and immigration. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Growing up in Berlin; attended Jewish language and art schools; emigration to Guatemala; life in Guatemala; immigration to USA in 1946; marriage in 1947; life and work in New York; birth of sons; return to Guatemala in 1949; travels; children and friends; divorce.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Berndt, Richard; Berndt, Ruth Rose; Berndt, Siegismund; Bernhardt, Carlos; Bernhardt, Inge; Dreyfuss, Ilse; Fischer, Siegfried; Gort, Erich; Hochfelder, Irene; Landsberger, Elfie; Landsberger, Mutz; Levy, Claude; Levy, Michael; Levy, Ruth; Levy, Wolfgang; Meyer, Anneliese; Rathenau, Josfine; Reider, Ana-Luise; Reider, Rudi; Sachs, Inge; Sello, Erich; Sello, Lise.
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    Memories of Nelly Levy Berg : Her Life in Germany and her First Ten Years in America, 1910-1948 (1995)
    Houston, Texas :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Dannenbaum family. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Schneidemuhl (Pila) ; Houston (Tex.) ; Piła (Poland) ; Trzcianka (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in Behle in 1910, Nelly Levy Berg moved with her family to Schoenlanke in 1913; detailed description of home in Schoenlanke; Jewish life in Schoenlanke; move to grandparents' house in Schrotz after World War I; geneology of the Dannenbaum family; childhood memories; after death of father in 1929, move to Schneidemuehl; meets husband Siegfried; move to Berlin in 1933; immigration to USA in 1938; life and work in Houston; immigration of family members to USA; marriage in 1939; birth of children; list of family members who died in the Holocaust; Lorraine Wulfe's account of trip to Schoenlanke and Schneidemuehl in 1975; map of Schoenlanke in 1920's.
    Abstract: The text is interspersed with reproductions of photographs; a map and a family tree; and a glossary of German terms.
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    Resistance and Self-Defence : Zionism and Antisemitism in Inter-War Germany. (1995)
    [Place of publication not identified] :Saint Michael's College, Vermont,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Antisemitism. ; Government, Resistance to. ; Jews History 1933-1945. ; Zionism. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Manuscript about Zionism in Germany as a form of Jewish resistance against Nazism before World War II.
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    The end of a community : Jews in Bamberg 1930-1942 (1995)
    [Hoboken, N.J.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 110 + 105 pages : , print (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: photographs
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Two proofs of a book (one 110 pp., second missing last 5 pp., with 3 pp. of charts and 11 pp. pictures) that chronicles last 12 years of the Jewish community in Bamberg, from the rise of the Nazis to their triumph in the deportation of the remaining Jews of Bamberg.
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    [Thirty years]. (1993-1994)
    Melbourne, Australia :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 91 + 67 pages : , personal print; illustrated.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 1993-1994
    Keywords: Jarecki, Max. ; Jarecki, Richard. ; Jarecki family. ; Jarecki, Henry. ; Kunstmann family. ; Sabor, Hans. ; Education primary and secondary ; 1918-1933. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Divorce. ; Marriage. ; Shipping. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; Woman authors. ; Women Education. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Boston (Mass.) ; London (England) ; Szczecin (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Early childhood memories; met Kaiser Wilhelm II at age four in 1914; high school (Gymnasium) in Stettin; finishing school in Switzerland; study at Sorbonne in Paris; study in England; marriage and birth of children; divorce; after 1933, family moves to Berlin; departure from Germany in September 1938; emigration to London; immigration to USA in 1940; life in Boston; move to New York; remarriage; marriage of children.
    Description / Table of Contents: My first thirty years.
    Description / Table of Contents: My second thirty years
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    Autobiographical sketches. (1994)
    East Norwich, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 72 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Baer, Rudolf. ; Blum family. ; Thurnauer family. ; Bat mitzvah. ; Education, Higher ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918 Personal narratives. ; Women authors. ; Youth movements ; Burgkunstadt (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the paternal Thurnau family history, who originated from Burgkundstadt, Bavaria and the maternal family Blum. Memories of the arrival of her younger brother Wilhelm. Recollection of food shortages during World War I. Trips to the countryside. Difficulties at school due to her later discovered nearsightedness. Close friendship with two gentile classmates, who shared literary conversations and played music together. They stayed in contact after the war. Preparation for confirmation (Bat Mizvah) at age 15. Member of the German Jewish youth movement "Wanderbund Kameraden" together with her Jewish girlfriends. They undertook hikes and travels in the countryside and sang folk songs around bonfires. They did not believe in fashionable clothes nor in smoking or drinking. Else Thurnauer Baer was enrolled at the college in Heidelberg, where she studied economy. After a year she continued her studies in Berlin, where Else greatly enjoyed the cultural life. Move to Goettingen, where Else started a psychoanalytic therapy with Lou Andreas-Salome. Meetings with the Socialist Students Group. First romances with fellow students. Rising National Socialism and growing tensions at university. Street violence between the Nazis and the Communists. Anti-Jewish propaganda in "Der Stuermer". First introduction to Jewish holidays by a befriended family, who invited her to Shabbat celebrations at their home. Recollection of Hitler becoming chancellor in 1933. Socialist and communist friends were arrested. Her gentile boyfriend Richard became reluctant to be seen with her in public. Difficulties to continue her studies due to political events. Many Jewish professors were expelled from university. Else decided to emigrate as she could not find a position due to her Jewish heritage. Her mother’s younger brother Julius Blum, who lived in the United States provided her with an exit visa.
    Abstract: Her brother had already joined their uncle’s business in 1931. In 1934 Else Thurnauer left Germany for the United States. She stayed with relatives in New York and had a position in the office of her uncle’s company. She and her brother Bill went on many hikes and bicycle trips together. Emigration of her parents with difficulties and delays in 1939. Engagement with her future-husband Rudolf Baer. They married in 1939 and lived in Kew Gardens, Queens with their children Barbara, Tommy and Frankie.
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    Memoirs of a German Jew. (1994)
    1994 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 73 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Bass family. ; Wolff family. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Zionism. ; Stockbrokers. ; Bankers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Palestine. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Walter Wolff wrote his memoirs in 1962-1964 in Naharyia, Israel. They were translated into English by his son, Gerald (Jerry) Wolff.
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    Work inside and outside developing countries. (1994)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 100 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Agriculture. ; Engineers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Burma. ; Iran. ; Israel. ; Lhasa (China) ; Nepal. ; Rangoon (Burma) ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Work as agricultural engineer in Burma from 1954; trip from Israel to Rangoon; life and work in Burma; work in Iran as agricultural engineer; description of projects; work in Nepal; projects in Nepal; return trip to Nepal; trip to Tibet in 1992.
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    Back to school - A life of our time. (1994)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 54 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Curtius, Ludwig, ; Momigliano, Arnaldo. ; Riess, Anneliese, ; Archaeology. ; Education, Higher. ; Nurses. ; Psychologists. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Rome (Italy) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in Hamburg in 1910; father served in German army on eastern front in World War I; childhood memories of Hamburg; family moved to Berlin in 1921; cultural life in Berlin; schooling in Berlin; studied literature at University of Berlin and University of Freiburg; travel with boyfriend through Italy; studied archaeology in Berlin and then Italy from 1933; study at University of Rome; life in Rome; received PhD in archeology at Rome in 1936; trained as nurse in Switzerland; immigrated to USA in 1939; worked as nurse; life in New York; immigration of parents to USA; studied clinical psychology with Rene Spitz; tought psychology at City University of New York.
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    From Vienna to New York : A Memoir. (1994)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Schreier, Erwin. ; Booksellers and bookselling. ; Industrialists. ; Jewish refugees. ; Journalists. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918 Military life. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The biography of the author's father, Oscar Schreyer, covering approx. 1905-1993.
    Abstract: Father's World War I experience; early schooling; early interest in archeology; trips to Italy, Turkey and Palestine; work as journalist in Vienna; move to Berlin; friendship with Billy Wilder; return to Vienna in 1933; emigration to USA in 1939; unsuccessful business ventures; success with manufacture of decorative animal pins; later interest in book dealing.
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    A voyage in search of the past. (1994)
    Andover :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Wertheimer, Helen. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Attendance at Berlin's Hausdorf Private School from 1937; experience of Kristallnacht; emigration; return visit to Berlin in 1983; search for records of Hausdorf Private School; contact with former students of school; trip to Berlin in 1994; return to school.
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    The early days in Europe. (1993)
    Virum, Denmark :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Germany. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Denmark Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Denmark Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiographical lecture script
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    Remembrance of things past / (1993)
    Dedham, Massachusetts :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 175 + xxv pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Ariowitsch, Louise. ; Ariowitsch, Max. ; Halberstam, Alice. ; Halberstam, Antonia. ; Halberstam, Hermann. ; Lieberg, Friedrich A. ; Wizo. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jewish families. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Women authors. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Italy Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiographical manuscript
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    Ich stamme aus Wien, (1993)
    Vienna, Austria :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 9 + 8 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Antisemitism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Washington (D.C.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript and translation of a speech delivered in City Hall, Vienna on Nov.24, 1993.
    Abstract: Reflections on early life in Vienna, antisemitism, Judaism, life in America, changes in Austria.
    Description / Table of Contents: English translation, 9 p.
    Description / Table of Contents: German original, 8 p.
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    Memoirs of Moses Porges : (from the original Gothic German handwritten document, in posession of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York) (1993)
    Paris :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 20 + 22 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Frank, Jacob, ; Porgès family Biography. ; Children. ; Frankists. ; Jewish religious education before 1871. ; Voyages and travels. ; Offenbach am Main (Germany) ; Prague. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of „Die Geschichte meines Grossonkels und meines Grossvaters“ in the LBI Memoir collection, ME 795, including French translation:
    Abstract: Childhood and education in Prague; introduction into Frankist circle through author's father; journey to Offenbach; detailed description of Jakob Frank's "court" in Offenbach.
    Abstract: Also included are “Porgès’ bibliography” (containing citations of published works by authors named Porgès) and “Porgès’ biographies” (containing biographical abstracts from various publications), both compiled by Antoine F. Porgès, Paris, 1993, 8 pages each.
    Note: German and French
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    My life story. (1993)
    [San Francisco],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 174 pages : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: 4 pages family trees
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Gutfeld family. ; Hirschfeld family. ; Hirschfeld, Inge (née Korach) ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Gleiwitz II (Concentration camp) ; Jaworzno (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Accountants. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; San Francisco (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration after 1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lives of parents; childhood memories growing up in Berlin; Gymnasium in Berlin; studies at the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Universities of Berlin, Goettingen, Koenigsberg; work at a Jewish orphanage in Koenigsberg; work as teacher in Jewish school in Berlin; travels in Europe; marriage to Inge Korach; work as a furniture handler in Berlin during deportations; recollections of Leo Baeck; deportation to Theresienstadt in 1943; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; work in camps at Gleiwitz and Jaworzno; return to Berlin May 1945; life in Berlin after the war; teaching in girls' school in Berlin; experience of wife, Inge, in Auschwitz and Merzdorf; immigration to USA; settled in San Francisco; birth of son; studied accounting; work as accountant; Jewish life in San Francisco.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Alt, Robert ; Fabian, Hans Erich ; Gutfeld, Alexander ; Hirschfeld, Erna ; Hirschfeld, Lucia ; Hirschfeld, Robert ; Schulz, Heinrich ; Torczyner, Harry.
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    The diary of a survivor / (1992)
    Philadelphia, PA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 40 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Reichstein, Samson. ; Reichstein, Käthe. ; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish ghettos. ; Jewish refugees. ; Operation Poland, 1938 ; Translators. ; Voyages and travels. ; Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) ; Hannover (Germany) ; Ternopilʹ (Ukraine) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of life and death of Samson Reichstein and his wife Kaethe. Born in Tarnopol in Galicia, Austria, they moved via Vienna and Italy to Hanover, Germany. Marriage in Germany in 1918. October 1938 expulsion from Hanover due to Polish citizenship and return to Tarnopol. Atrocities by Ukrainians. Description of life in the ghetto. His wife died in the ghetto, but he managed to escape. He survived by claiming to be German. After the defeat of Nazi Germany he was employed as an interpreter by the Russians. Arrival at an UNRRA camp in Germany. Reunion with his son.
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    [Memoirs of Henry Salfeld], (1978-1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 42 + 104 + 13 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: reproductions of documents and letters.
    Year of publication: 1978-1992
    Keywords: Adler, Fritz. ; Heimerdinger family. ; Heimerdinger, Leo. ; Heiming, Henry. ; Marxsohn, Richard. ; Neukirch, Carl. ; Salfeld family. ; Salfeld, Albert. ; Salfeld, Alice. ; Salfeld, Berthold. ; Salfeld, Erich. ; Salfeld, Henry. ; Salfeld, Ludwig. ; Salfeld, Siegmund. ; Antisemitism. ; Courtship. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Universities and colleges ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 20th century. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Anecdotes concerning experienced anti-Semitism at universities; outbreak of World War I; death of father; memories of student days at University of Munich; French occupation of Wiesbaden; account of Nazi boycott of April 1, 1933 in Wiesbaden.
    Abstract: Account of arrival in USA in 1933; relationships with African-Americans; life in New York; attempts to find employment; death of family members in Holocaust; emigration of mother to USA; reflections on Jewish religion and Jewish identity; membership in various Jewish organizations.
    Abstract: Geneology of Salfeld family; rabbinical career of Siegmund Salfeld; childhood memories growing up in Wiesdbaden; lives of father and mother; father's medical practice in Wiesbaden; death of father; siblings; death of sister and her family in Holocaust; geneology of Heimerdinger family; Gymnasium; social activities as teenager in Wiesbaden; Jewish life in Wiesbaden and anti-Semitism; university study of law at Munich; life in Munich; study at Leipzig; study at Frankfurt; experience of inflation of 1923 and French occupation; work as lawyer in Frankfurt; relationionships with women; engagement and marriage to wife; loss of job following Nazi seizure of power; emigration to USA in 1933.
    Description / Table of Contents: Little stories from the past
    Description / Table of Contents: In U.S.A.
    Description / Table of Contents: The past
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    [Memoirs] : [1915-1992]. (1992)
    Lima :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 34 pages : , handwritten and typewritten letters.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Grünwald family. ; Gruenwald, Ida, ; Münz family. ; Antisemitism. ; Businesspeople. ; Clerks. ; Jewish families ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Socialism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Mistelbach (Austria) ; Peru Emigration and immigration 1946. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in various letters to Albert Lichtblau between 1991 and 1992. Description of the author's family history. Her father was the son of an innkeeper in Holicz, Bohemia. He came to Vienna with his brothers and started a leather businesss. Her mother was born in Mistelbach, where her father was a grain dealer. The couple got married in 1908. During World War One her mother moved with her children to Mistelbach. Memories of her orthodox grandmother. Recollections of the Mistelbach Jewish community and relationships with the Gentile neighbors. Economic crisis after World War One, which caused the bankrupcy of her father's leather business. Childhood memories. Description of Jewish holidays at home and in the synagogue. Recollections of her school years and friendship with Christian colleagues. Memories of her Bat mizvah celebration. Passion for the opera. Weekend trips to the Vienna Woods. Alice was a member of the "Arbeiter-Turnverein". In 1929 her father had a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed. He died in 1934 at age 62. Due to the difficult economic situation Alice had to abandon her plans to study. After graduation from "Handelsschule" she found a position as a clerical worker. Journeys to France and Italy. Recollections of the "Anschluss" in 1938. In July 1938 Alice emigrated to England, where she had a position as a domestic servant. In 1939 she was able to bring her mother, grandfather and her sister with her husband and child to England. Alice moved with her mother to Birmingham, where they started a boarding house. After the war she married her cousin Ernst, who was living in Peru. Move to Peru with her mother in 1946. Alice started working as a language tutor. Her husband died in 1966.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Gertrud Dann. (1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 20 + 5 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Dann, Elisheva. ; Dann, Sophie, ; Freud, Anna, ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Preschool teachers. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Gertrud Dann including recollections of her childhood; youth; schooling and her training as kindergarten teacher; of her emigration to England; of her working as a nurse with Anna Freud during World War II; of her experiences as a social worker with child survivors from concentration camps after the war; of her work as a librarian; of her travels to Rome, Germany and Israel; and of her moving to a nursing home with her sister Sophie; as well as information on her sisters Elisheva and Sophie.
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    The family of Joseph and Marie Adler : Jews in Germany, German Jews in America. (1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 109 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Adler family. ; Schnee family. ; Schwelm family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Wannsee-Konferenz ; Antisemitism. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Joseph Theo Adler, including family history reaching back to David Schwelm in 16th-century Frankfurt/Main, information on his family, his fighting in World War I, comments on German politics with a focus on antisemitism especially after 1933, and report on his internment in Dachau and emigration to the United States.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned in this collection:
    Abstract: Adler, Marie; Baeck, Leo; Beechem, Richard; Bischheim, Simon; Ehrlich Paul; Einstein, Albert; Erzberger, Mathias; Eschelbacher, Rabbi; Ettlinger, Rolf; Feinberg, Charles; Finger, Johannes; Geisenheimer, Sigmund; Grotwohl, Abraham; Grushow, Sam; Hirsch, Emil; Hirsch, Otto; Hoffman, Hans; Jacobson, Hilde; Jacobson, Hilde; Juchacz, Lotte; Karski, Jan; Kirdorf, Emil; Levy, Rudolph; Levy, Rudolph; Long, Beckman; Metz, Theo; Mileston, Samuel; Rosskamp, Jettchen; Salomon, Elsa; Salomon, Ernst; Salomon Marie; Salomon, Martha; Salomon, Paula; Scheuer, Abraham; Schoenhof, Helene; Seligsohn, Julius; Stobbe, Horst; Toller, Ernst; Zunz, Bessle
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