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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (30)
  • 1960-1964  (30)
  • Jews Persecution 1933-1945.  (30)
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  • 1
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    Language: German
    Pages: 31 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1941-1977
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The collection holds the photocopy of a diary documenting the persecution of Jews in Mainz, 1941-1943. Also included are clippings about the importance of this diary and its author.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Diary (Mainz, 1941-1943)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Clippings concerning Michel Oppenheim's diary; 1966-1977
    Note: The diary is microfilmed on MM 127 , The original German-language inventory is available in the folder.
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  • 2
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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  • 3
    Pages: 5
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2018 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 1928-1970
    Keywords: Breslauer, Bernhard. ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. ; Vereinigung für das Liberale Judentum in Deutschland. ; Jewish leadership. ; Reform Judaism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Clippings ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: The bulk of this collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and clippings that were written and collected by Walter Breslauer in London, touching on his personal and professional memories as an administrative director of the Berlin Jewish community. Also included are items related to Walter Breslauer’s father, Bernhard Breslauer. The papers had been sent to the Leo Baeck Institute New York in 1970.
    Abstract: Also mentioned are Ismar Freund; Georg Kareski; Leo Lilienthal; Abraham Margaliot; Heinrich Stern and others.
    Note: Available also on microfilms MM 12, MM 13, MM 95 , German and some English , Finding aid available online.
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  • 4
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 5
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 614 pages : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Sternthal family. ; Tachau family. ; Tachau, Paul. ; Tachau, Ilse (née Sternthal) ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Samsonschule (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) ; Education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wolfenbüttel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of Tachau, Frankenstein, Seckel, Herxheimer, Loewenstein and Sternthal families.
    Abstract: Among ancestors were Rabbi Salomon Herxheimer, professor Levy Rubens and Julius von Reuter; author's father, Ludwig Tachau, was a teacher at the Philantropin school in Frankfurt am Main and became the director of the Samson school in Wolfenbuettel in 1888; childhood in Wolfenbuettel; primary and secondary education; university studies in Goettingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Heidelberg; activities as musician; experiences as young physician in Zurich and Strasbourg; military service in World War I; marriage and move to Braunschweig and Breslau; return to Wolfenbuettel; recreational travels to Switzerland and Italy; persecution of Jews after 1933; anti-Jewish boycott of April 1933; ousted from the Society of Natural Science in Braunschweig shortly after being reelected as its president in March 1933; playing in string quartet of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" in Hanover; emigration to USA; career as physician in USA; contains reviews of publications and numerous photos of Sternthal and Tachau families (19th and 20th centuries) and of Samson school in Wolfenbuettel.
    Note: Available on memoir microfilm reels # 76, 77 , English
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  • 6
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Stein, Herbert. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Home economics. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Wolfratshausen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 7
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 30 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Czellitzer, Arthur, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences of the Czellitzer family between 1938 and 1945. Emigration to Breda (Holland); escape of M. Czellitzer, her daughter and her two grandchildren to England.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 8
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 309 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Shipping companies (Marine transportation) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes his childhood in Breslau, his experiences as a German officer during World War I, his business career as a shipowner, his arrest upon his arrival in Germany in 1937 and the time in prison; his founding of the American Banner Lines in the USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 9
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    [Pottstown] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 95 + 16 pages : , typescripts (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1963
    Former Title: [Memoirs].
    Keywords: Freund, Samuel, ; Tänzer, Aron, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover. ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews, East European ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Teachers. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Sermons. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs touch upon the authors experiences as a young soldier during World War I; description of his studies; description of religious life in the Hannover Jewish community; tasks as rabbi and teacher; description of synagogue service. A special section in folder 3 describes “Kristallnacht” with the destruction of the Hannover Synagogue and his arrest.
    Abstract: Also included in folder 1 is the draft for a treatise about the essence of Judaism and of its responsibilities as an organized religion, as experienced during the author’s residence in Hannover, Germany before the Holocaust. Folder 4 holds copies of original documents and clippings.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Beitrag zu einer Geistesgeschichte der juedischen Gemeinde in Hannover : Einleitung; undated
    Description / Table of Contents: 2: Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover. Persoenliche Erinnerungen von Rabbiner Dr. Emil Schorsch
    Description / Table of Contents: 3: Wie es zum Ende kam : Erinnerungen an die “Kristallnacht” vom 9. zum 10. November 1938 in Hannover
    Description / Table of Contents: 4: Documents, clippings
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 10
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    [Berlin] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: accompanying documents (photocopies), mainly 1946-1948.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Mosse, Albert, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Civil service. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in well-to-do Berlin Jewish family; recollections of father Albert Mosse; career in welfare office; imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp; contains report on deportations of Jews from Berlin during World War II; contains also copy of document concerning Albert Mosse's mission in Japan.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 11
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    Albuquerque, New Mexico :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 40 pages : , mostly handwritten, partly typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of imprisonment in Theresienstadt; liberation in 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 12
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    Astoria :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 321 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Friedrichs, Ilse. ; Friedrichs, Rudolf. ; Actors. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Theodor Friedrichs, written in 1963 in German, including the travel log of his sister Emmi when she emigrated from Germany to Shanghai via the Soviet Union and recollections by Theodor Friedrichs of Jewish life in Nazi Germany, of his son Rudi Friedrichs being sent to England where he became an actor, of Theodor Friedrichs' emigration to Shanghai by boat from Genua, of his experience as a physician in Shanghai, of musical and Jewish life in Shanghai, of conditions in Shanghai during World War II, of his emigration to the United States, of his experience in California, and of his opening a medical practice in Astoria NY in 1949.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy on MF 54 , German
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  • 13
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    Frankfurt/Main :[publisher not identified],
    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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 14
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    Harrison, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 64 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Baum family. ; Wolff, Valentin. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Alsace (France) ; Bad Nauheim (Germany) ; Essingen (Südliche Weinstrasse, Germany) ; Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Baum family as related by Irma Baum. Along with illustrations and genealogical tables the story spans from the early 19th to the mid 20th century, including annecdotes relating to various members of the family; experiences under the Nazis in Germany. Second half is about the next generation in the United States, some in Europe and in South Africa.
    Abstract: The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:
    Abstract: Aaron family ; Adorn family ; Baum family ; Braun family ; Fisher family ; Goldschmidt family ; Hasenberg family ; Isaak family ; Lesser family ; Levy family ; Loeb family ; Markus family ; Marx family ; Mayer family ; Obermoschel family ; Paukes family ; Seligmann family ; Simon family ; Sinauer family ; Singer family ; Steinitz family ; Strauss family ; Willard family ; Wolff family.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 21 + 3 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes Jewish life in Berlin 1933-1943, activities of the Jewish community under Nazi rule. Life in Theresienstadt 1943-1945.
    Abstract: Contains also report on Berlin Jewish community 1943: "Tatsachen ueber die letzten Jahre der Juedischen Gemeinde in Berlin 1943 und die KZ-Zeit bis 1945." 3 pages, 1963.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 16
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    [Place of publication not identified] :The Jewish Spectator,
    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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 17
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    Hohn/Eifel :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 70 , mounted illustrated typescript ; , 30 cm
    Year of publication: 1962
    Dissertation note: Hausarbeit zur ersten Lehrerpruefung
    Keywords: Jews Economics. ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish cemeteries ; Bad Münstereifel (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
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  • 18
    Pages: 17 + 3 + 65 + 177 , typescripts (copies).
    Year of publication: 1946-1962
    Keywords: Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1950. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biographies: Primary and secondary education in Koenigsberg; apprenticeship in wood business; military service; independent sawmill business in Eastern Prussia; military service in World War I; second part mainly on friends and employees and their changes after 1933; emigration and life in Bolivia.
    Abstract: The letter to the Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld concerns economic reconstruction of Palestine; memories of common experiences in Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript 'Etwas ueber Schema und Zukunft der Wirtschaft, und unsere spaeteren Anlagemoeglichkeiten' (Economic plan for future of Palestine, 17 p.) and a letter to Kurt Blumenfeld; 1946
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typescript (German) 'Biography Complete to Armistice 1918', Gibsons (Canada), 65 p.; 1962
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Typescript (German) 'Biography to the End of the Stay in Sucre', Gibsons (Canada), 177 p.; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , see also AR 6846 (audio)
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    [Memmingen] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 120 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Bavaria (Germany) ; Memmingen (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The fate of the Jewish population in the town of Memmingen in Bavaria, Germany during the Nazi years.
    Note: German
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    Herford :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 32 pages, (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Mauritius (Concentration camp) ; Jewish communities. ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; Germany Emigration and immigration. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of organized emigration of Danzig Jews between 1933 and 1940; contains details on dissolution of Jewish community, emigration of 500 Jews to Palestine in 1939 and transport to Mauritius in 1940. While 10,000 Jews were able to emigrate, 1,600 stayed behind and were killed in concentration camps.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 23 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bach, Albert. ; Bach family. ; Baeck, Leo, ; Fleischhacker, Suse. ; Mayer, Ruth. ; Mayer family. ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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  • 22
    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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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 193 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Stern family. ; Abraham, Karl, ; Cassirer, Richard, ; Charcot, J. M. ; Israel, James, ; Mesmer, Franz Anton, ; Oppenheim, Hermann, ; Prinz, Joachim, ; Szold, Henrietta, ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Neurologists. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicians. ; Psychoanalysis. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Silesia. ; Żory (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1961 in Jerusalem. It contains reflections on psychoanalysis and psychological problems as well as private correspondence. Description of the paternal Stern family and the descendents of the author's grandfather Abraham Stern. The family of his mother, descendents of the banker and cantor Joseph Marcus Boehm, came from Brieg (Silesia). Recollections of his childhood in the small Silesian Jewish community of Sohrau and in Koenigshuette. Musical activities in the family. Memories of his early Jewish education in the cheder. Reflections of his childhood experiences and its psychoanalytic implications. Arthur Stern attended the Koenigshuetter Gymnasium. Memories of his childhood in Imperial Germany. Bar mitzvah in 1892. Celebration of Jewish holidays and observance. Recollections of the Dreyfus trial and its consequences for Jewish communities all over Germany. After graduation in 1898 Arthur Stern studied medicine at the university in Freiburg. Separation between Jewish and Christian students through the different student fraternities. Friendship with the psychoanalyst Karl Abraham. Studies at the university in Berlin and Munich. Recollections of the first female medical students, who had to fight for their right to study. Description of various professors. Antisemitism among students at the university. In 1903 Arthur Stern graduated as Dr.med. (MD) with a thesis in otolaryngology. In the same year he moved back to Berlin, where he started his training in neurology.
    Abstract: In 1907 Arthur started his own practice in Charlottenburg, Berlin. He continued his training in neurology and was a disciple of Hermann Oppenheim, a neurologist of international reputation. 1914 outbreak of World War I and national rapture due to the war propaganda. Military service as a field physician and field neurologist in Belgium and the eastern front. Observations of war neurosis. Experiences of antisemitism during the war. Confrontation with the Jewish stetl life in eastern Europe. Economic depression and inflation after World War I. Arthur Stern married his long-time fiance in 1919. Description of research findings in medicine and neurology. Observations of hysteria and hypnotic therapy. Rising National Socialism and persecution of Jewish people. Journey to Palestine in 1934. Difficulties in continuing his professional life. Preparations to leave the country. Emigration to Palestine in 1939. Language difficulties and starting of a new life. Continuation of his work as a neurologist and psychiatrist. Recollections of the war of liberation in 1948. Lectures and research. Studies on Heinrich Heine and his nervous condition. Discussion of psychoanalytic theories. Reflections on the phenomenon of suicide and the problem of euthanasia. Studies on sexuality. Cultural life in Germany and Israel.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: First draft (on MM 74)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Second draft (on MM 73)
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    Lime Rock, Conn :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 32 + 1 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Hostages. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Folklorists. ; Merchants. ; Germany History Beer Hall Putsch, 1923. ; Munich (Germany) ; Westphalia (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: On folkloristic activities in Munich and rural Bavarian areas; Hitler coup in Munich 1923; "aryanization" of store in 1938; emigration to USA and return to Germany in 1948 in restitution matters.
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    White Plains, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 28 + 19 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Chicago (Ill.) ; Michigan. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author was among the first group of concentration camp survivors, who arrived in the United States under the Truman Refugee Relief Act. He had an interrupted education due to the years in Nazi Germany and in various concentration camps, where he had lost almost his entire family. Description of his first impressions of New York and American life. Ernest went to Chicago where he was welcomed in the family of a former acquaintance, an officer in the US army, for whom he had worked as an interpreter in Germany. He was determined to find work as a newspaper reporter, which was the only profession he had obtained during his time in post-war Germany. He was sent to a small town in Michigan, where he started out as a copyboy for a small paper, in order to get experience in the newspaper world. After an invitation at the local college to speak about his experiences in Nazi-Germany, he became a speaker in various local organizations and was promoted to become a columnist for the paper, where he was to share his thoughts as an immigrant in the new country.
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    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Elly Kapper's attempts to help her Jewish husband survive the Nazi years in Berlin; he survived the last of the war time in hiding and in a labour camp.
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine. ; International Council of Jewish Women. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund von Deutschland. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Women Political activity ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bochum (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs cover 1883-1946. Childhood recollections in a well-to do Jewish household of eight children. Both her parents worked in building up their business. Tradition of charity. Ottilie's father was a member of the Jewish community executive committee. Growing up in a liberal yet religious family. Reflections on girl's education of her time. Death of her father in 1903. Marriage to the lawyer Dr. S. Schoenewald in 1905. Start of her activities in the women's movement in Germany (BDF). Ottilie Schoenewald had a leading position as a women's legal guidance counselor (Frauenrechtschutzstelle) in Bochum. She was involved in the homemaking organization during World War One. Political equality for women after the war and activities in the democratic party in Weimar Germany. In 1929 Ottilie Schoenewald was elected to be a board member of the Jewish women's movement (JFB) in Berlin. Preparations for the International Congress of Jewish women 1930 in Hamburg, which led to the formation of the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1934 she became chairwoman of the JFB. Experiences and activities during the Nazi time. Ottilie Schoenewald emigrated to England via Holland in 1939, where she continued her social activities.
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    Roslyn Heights, New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 235 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Bab, Julius, ; Families 19th century. ; Authors 20th century. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers ; Theater History 20th century. ; Universities and colleges ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bonn (Germany) ; France World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Elisabeth Bab née Loos recollects her childhood as the only child of an affluent Protestant family in Kiel. She was later enrolled in a girls school in Berlin. She describes her teacher, the women's activist Helene Lange. Attending the Lehrerinnenseminar (teacher's seminary), she became increasingly interested and involved in the women’s movement. Upon graduation she found a teaching position in London. She describes her experience working as an educator in an aristocratic family. She next took a teaching position in Potsdam. Following this, she moved to Bonn to complete her university studies. She describes university life in Bonn, including social aspects. Due to the tight financial situation in her family her dream to study medicine could not be fulfilled. Her father died in 1904. Elisabeth moved to Berlin to continue her studies. She met Julius Bab through literary events in Berlin and a courtship ensued. She describes the reaction of the Bab family to their son marrying a gentile. After their wedding Elizabeth found a position as a teacher in a private school and Julius worked as a dramatic adviser in a theater. Both continued their studies at the Berlin University. She describes the birth and raising of her three children. She also describes her social and professional life as part of the literary, theatrical, and artistic community that existed in Berlin during this time. After describing life during World War One, she discusses the continued social and familial events in her life amid the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. The Babs became involved in the foundation of the “Kulturbund Deutscher Juden.” As Nazi persecution increased the family sought exist visas to leave. The Babs managed to emigrate to Paris in 1939.
    Abstract: At the outbreak of World War II, Julius Bab was interred by the French authorities as an enemy alien. Elisabeth describes the subsequent German occupation of France in 1940, and the methods in which the Bab’s managed to make it to New York in the same year.
    Abstract: The following persons are mentioned: Collin, Ernst, 1882-1953; Dumont, Louise, 1862-1932; Harlan, Walter; Hauptmann, Gerhard, 1862-1946; Lange, Helene, 1848-1930; Lilienthal, Leo; Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Mauthner, Fritz, 1849-1923; Simmel, Ernst, 1882-1947; Wentscher, Dora.
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    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 11 pages (double space) : , typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Fur trade. ; Fur trade ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of fur business in Leipzig and the dominant role played by Jews. The firm "Leopold J. Cohn" was founded by Cohn-Grosz's father in 1872 and led by Cohn-Grosz until his emigration from Nazi Germany.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    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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