Language:
English
Pages:
43 + 6 pages (single space) :
,
typescript.
Year of publication:
1982
Keywords:
Apt, Frieda (née Aron)
;
Apt family.
;
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish religious education 1871-1918.
;
Jews, German Genealogy.
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Metal trade.
;
Dresden (Germany)
;
Germany Politics and government 1918-1933.
;
Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
;
London (England)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
Memoir by Rudolf Apt, compiled by his daughter Alice Apt in 1982, including extensive genealogical data reaching back to the Hasidic Rabbi of Apt (1700-80) and recollections of Rudolf Apt's childhood; of his schooling and his religious upbringing in Dresden; of his work in the family's metal business; of his marriage to Frieda Aron (died in 1922); of his involvement in Jewish organizations and politics in Weimar Germany; of his incarceration in Buchenwald after the November Pogrom; of release and emigration to England, and of his life in London.
Abstract:
Also included is a letter by the violinist Heinz Meyer from Paris (1945) describing life in Dresden in the Nazi period with details on forced labor camps, his activities in the Juedische Kulturbund in Berlin, and the fate of other Dresden Jews who were deported to Riga, Auschwitz, and Buchenwald.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
German letter
,
Synopsis in file
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1184922&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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