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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (15)
  • 1985-1989  (7)
  • 1960-1964  (8)
  • Frankfurt am Main (Germany)  (15)
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  • 1
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    Reminiscences of a Frankfurt childhood : [1924-1933]. (1989)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 2 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Rosenzweig, Franz, ; Baeck, Leo, ; Women authors. ; Public welfare. ; Child welfare. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Children. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Frankfurt am Main; father provided assistance to Bertha Pappenheim's home for unwed mothers and their children; visits of Leo Baeck and Martin Buber in parents' home; after World War I Franz Rosenzweig lived for a while with author's parents.
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    Comments at Kristallnacht Service : 11 November 1988 (1988)
    Easton/Pennsylvania :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Children. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of November pogrom 1938 in Franfurt am Main.
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    [From previous centuries]. (1988)
    Washington D.C. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 520 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Koch family. ; Antisemitism. ; Assimilation Jews. ; College teachers. ; Education, Primary before 1871. ; Education, Secondary before 1871. ; Education, Higher. ; Families. ; Jews Cultural assimilation 19th century. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Medicine. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Soviet Union Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is the translation of Richard Koch's memoir which was originally written in German by his daughter Naomi Laqueur. According to her epilogue, Richard Koch wrote these memoirs until shortly before he died, probably without ever having revised them. She shortened some parts of the original. Originally, the manuscript was handwritten, and then copied by his wife on a very old-fashioned typewriter.
    Abstract: Family history reaching back to early 19th century; most family members came from Frankfurt am Main and Bockenheim; domestic life; childhood in well-to-do Frankfurt Jewish family; reflections on antisemitism and assimilation in 19th century; celebration of Christmas and Jewish holidays; primary and secondary education; university studies in Munich and Berlin; reflections on prostitution.
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    Gabriel Hirschhorn : Schicksal einer deutsch-juedischen Buerger-Familie waehrend und nach dem Zeitalter der Emanzipation. (1988)
    Mannheim :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 57 + 18 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Hirschhorn family. ; Hirschhorn, Gabriel, ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Merchants. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lecture at the occasion of the Hirschhorn family meeting in Mannheim, 1988.
    Abstract: Genealogy of Hirschhorn family from 1788 until 1980s; Gabriel Hirschhorn (1788-1865) of Frankfurt married to Schwetzingen (Baden) and moved to Mannheim in 1834 where he founded a tobacco business; part of his descendants emigrated to Italy and to the USA in the 19th century, some descendants converted to Christianity; another line of the family stayed in Mannheim.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Memoirs]. (1988)
    Seattle, Washington :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 116 + 50 pages (single space) : , typescript (bound).
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Strauss, Amalie. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Uruguay Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first part deals with Stiefel's disposal of real estate in Frankfurt am Main; the November pogrom of 1938; and the immigration to USA via Russia and Japan. Also included are lists of German emigrants to Seattle via Russia and China.
    Abstract: The second part is the family's history: Amelie Strauss' family background in the Palatinate; her marriage to Siegfried Strauss and move to Frankfurt am Main; Nazi persecution; emigration to Uruguay; and restitution. Also included are a list of descendants and a family tree.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: The story of my emigration, 1938-1940
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Our grandmother Amalie Strauss, 1862-1949
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    The old order changeth : Memoirs of persecution and emigration (1987)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 173 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Drews family. ; Ettlinger family. ; Mainzer family. ; Nachmann family. ; Wormser family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Rastatt (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of Ettlinger, Mainzer, Wormser, Drews and Nachmann families from Rastatt (Baden) and Frankfurt between 1933 and 1945; emigration to France and illegal crossing of borders to Switzerland; immigration to USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Eyewitness under God. (1985)
    New York, New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 3 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Israelistische Lehrerbildungs-Anstalt ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orphanages. ; Teachers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish Teachers' Seminary Wuerzburg; teaching at Jewish school and orphanage at Frankfurt in Nazi period; November pogrom of 1938; imprisonment in Buchenwald; return to Karlsruhe; emigration to USA via England; contains copy of letter by English Consul General from 1938.
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    A few days of my life. (1963-1965)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 40 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1963-1965
    Keywords: Oppenheimer, Siegfried. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish leadership. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Persecution in Nazi Germany; visit to Palestine in 1937; November pogrom 1938 in Frankfurt; author's children were sheltered by a Christian family; her husband was deported to Buchenwald; author emigrated through Switzerland to Palestine, where she was joined by her husband.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs of the author's husband; gravestones; and the Frankfurt synagogue.
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    Ich habe viele Leben gelebt : Erinnerungen. (1964)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 94 + 164 pages : , typescript; annotated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Authors, German Biography. ; Journalists. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Hamburg and Vienna; move to Munich, Berlin, Rueschlikon and Frankfurt am Main; encounter with Georg Simmel, Ricarda Huch, Stefan George, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Gustav Landauer, Heinrich Simon, Martin Buber, Ernst Bloch, Eugen Rosenstock, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Baeck, Berta Pappenheim, Hannah Karminski, Siegmund Freud, Paul Celan, Eleazar Benyoetz and Michael Landmann.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: First draft
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Second draft
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    [Erinnerungen] : [2nd copy]. (1964)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 167 pages : , 167 pages : , typescript; annotated. , Typescript.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Authors, German Biography. ; Journalists. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Authors
    Abstract: Childhood in Hamburg and Vienna; move to Munich, Berlin, Rueschlikon and Frankfurt am Main; encounter with Georg Simmel, Ricarda Huch, Stefan George, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Gustav Landauer, Heinrich Simon, Martin Buber, Ernst Bloch, Eugen Rosenstock, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Baeck, Berta Pappenheim, Hannah Karminski, Siegmund Freud, Paul Celan, Eleazar Benyoetz and Michael Landmann.
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    Erinnerungen des Heinrich Baab : an die Zeit 1937-1945 in Frankfurt/Main (1963)
    Frankfurt/Main :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 31 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Excerpts of an account of persecution of Jews in Frankfurt during World War II; contains names of Germans who assisted Jews and of Jewish informers.
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    Memoir of childhood. (1962)
    [Place of publication not identified] :The Jewish Spectator,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Publications.
    Abstract: Account of author's grandparents; rural orthodox Jewry in Hesse and urban community (Frankfurt am Main?); domestic life; suicide of grandfather after November pogrom 1938.
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    Lebenserinnerungen / (1961)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Geiger, Hermann ; Geiger, Rudolf. ; Geiger family. ; Kullmann family ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Composers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961 in the United States. Genealogical background of the Kullmann and Geiger families going back to the 15th and 16th century in Frankfurt/Main. Her father's sister Elise St. Goer, nee Kullmann was one of the first feminists in Germany. Early discovery of Rosy Kullmann's musical talents. Sunday outings with the family. Catholic nanny who contributed to the confusion of her religious identity. Journey to Innsbruck and Switzerland with her parents. Death of her father in 1899. Rosy was granted piano lessons with Carl Friedberg, who had started his career as a student of Clara Schumann. Concert evenings of Hugo Wolf. First compositions of Rosy Kullmann at age 13. Summer vacations with her mother in Madonna di Campiglio and in the Black Forrest. Private English lessons. Remarriage of her mother and birth of her half-sister Erna Levy. Rosy was enrolled at the higher-daughter's "Elisabethinenschule" in Frankfurt. The first performance of one of Rosy Kullmann's compositions took place in 1902. Friendship with Willy Dreyfus and the young composer Max Wolff. Various concerts visits in Frankfurt. Summer vacations with relatives in England. Voice lessons with Margarete Dessof. Studies with Carl Schuricht. Engagement and marriage with Dr. Rudolf Geiger, grandson of Dr. Abraham Geiger, in 1906. Genealogy of the Geiger and Auerbach family. Birth of their son Hermann in 1907. Military service of the author's husband and his brother during World War One. Continuation of the musical career of Rosy Geiger-Kullmann. Compositions to poems by Hans Muehlestein. Birth of her daughter Ruth in 1914. Teaching position during World War One. Musical talent of her son Hermann, who became a musical stage director for operas. 1916 performance of Geiger-Kullmann's first orchestral compositions with Carl Schuricht in Wiesbaden. Work on her first operas and the oratorio "Moses".
    Abstract: Rising of National Socialism and increasing of anti-Jewish laws. Establishment of the Jewish "Tonkuenstler-Verein" by Arthur Holde. Continuation of her compositions and several performances by the "Kulturbund" in various synagogues. Night of the November pogrom 1938 and arrest of her husband Rudolf Geiger. Affidavits from their relatives in New York and release of her husband. Emigration to the USA via Cuba in April of 1939. Arrival in New York in September of 1940. Continuation of her work in the United States.
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    Die Arbeit der offenen juedischen Fuersorge in Frankfurt/Main, 1919-1939. (1960)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 46 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Jüdische Notstandsküche. ; Jüdische Winterhilfe. ; Jüdische Wohlfahrtspflege. ; Public welfare 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of welfare activities in the Frankfurt Jewish community, 1919-1939.
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    My life : written from 1943 onwards. (1960)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: circa 150 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Hirsch family (Halberstadt) ; Calvary, Esther. ; Calvary family. ; Agudat Israel. ; Austrittsgemeinde. ; Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft zu Frankfurt a.M. (Germany) ; Messingwerk Eberswalde. ; Intellectual life 1918-1933. ; Metal trade. ; Orphanages. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Eberswalde (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Halberstadt (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Frankfurt am Main; orthodox Jewish atmosphere in Messingwerk in Halberstadt; Hirsch and Calvary families; activities in "Agudath Israel"; cultural life in Halberstadt; preparations of emigration in 1933; life in London after emigration.
    Note: Irregular pagination: no pages 21; 114-120; 145. , Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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