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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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    My seven years under Nazi rule as a Jewish young man / (2009)
    Monroe Township, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Birkenau (Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Siegfried Line (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Zivi story : (Journey to America). (2005)
    Freeport, NY,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Weil, Edgar. ; Zivi, Hugo, ; Zivi, Louis, ; Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; France. ; Müllheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This brief memoir starts with a description of family background and childhood experiences in Germany. After things got worse in Germany, Ralph's parents decided to send their children away. In June 1939, they came to France, in order to live with Edgar and Alice Weil, a cousin of his father. After the outbreak of World War 2, they moved on to the Pyrenees, not far from Ralph's parents, who had been transferred to St. Cyprien internment camp. Finally the family received visas for the USA, and they managed to get a ship to Casablanca, Morocco, before boarding the ship "Guinee" to New York. Ralph arrived in the USA in April 1942. His parents quickly found temporary jobs in New York.
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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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    Memoirs of Gerhard Langer, 1923-1939 : A Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany. (2004)
    Boulder, CO :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Langer family. ; Straubel family. ; Zuckerkandl, Therese. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Hitler-Jugend. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jena (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written by Gerhard Langer in 2003 and 2004, and covers his childhood and youth years during the Nazi era in Jena, Germany, until his arrival in the US in 1939. Among the included photographs are a picture of Gerhard in Hitler Youth uniform, and a picture of Villa Zuckerkandl under construction, the family home, a famous Walter Gropius building.
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    Marianne : The first 30 years... (2004)
    Colchester :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: David, Bernhard. ; Great Britain. ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish way of life ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Colchester (England) ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with childhood memories - religious life in the synagogue, Marianne Geernaert's father's (Bernhard David) role in the Jewish community in Hamburg, her school life, going to summer camp with her Zionist youth organization, recollections of the rise of Nazism. Her father was appointed to oversee the clearing of a Jewish cemetery. She describes Kristallnacht when she was at a Jewish camp on the country side. Her father was arrested and taken to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. She describes the obstacles to overcome for obtaining permission to emigrate. Brief description of their stay in Amsterdam, then the trip to Palestine, farm life in Palestine. She joined the Royal Air Force in 1943. She married her husband John, then a British army officer, shortly after the war. Soon thereafter they moved to his home town Colchester, England. Many family and personal photographs are included following the biographical information in the text.
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    History of my family. (2004)
    Delray Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 65 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Feldman family. ; Kronenfeld family. ; Birnbaum family. ; Fuchs family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Tailors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Bad Vöslau (Austria) ; Belgium. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; France. ; Switzerland. ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with a short description of political events in Austria before the Anschluss in the 1930s. He gives an account of Hitler's welcomed arrival in Vienna in March 1938, where he observed cheering crowds close to his apartment. He talks of the background and origin of his grandparents in Zablotov, Galicia, and Witznitz, Bukowina. Alfred Fox writes about childhood memories where the family went to Prater amusement park, made trips to spas at Bad Voeslau and boat trips on the Danube. Then he writes about the Anschluss, the November Pogrom where he saw synagogues burning, and where his father was taken to Dachau concentration camp. The family's emigration was difficult because of the quota system in the USA. They decided to leave for Belgium. He describes the ride on the train from Vienna to Cologne, were denied entry at the border to Belgium close to Aachen, but were told by a German officer a way how to sneak into Belgium. His father worked in Brussels as a tailor. The family fled from the German invasion to France (Bordeaux), and stayed in the Pyrenees until spring of 1941, went to Lyon and stayed there until spring of 1942. They went over the Alps into Switzerland with smugglers. They were put into a refugee camp in Zurich. He started to attend ORT organization's trade school class in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1947, he went to the USA, with the help of his uncle. The last 25 pages cover his time in the USA since. He married his wife Susanne (Pistiner) on September 17, 1950, who was also born in Vienna, joined the US army and the Korea War. The memoir illustrates Alfred Fox's life story with many personal & family photographs as well as a map of his emigration route.
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    Your heritage in transition. (2003)
    Boca Raton, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Gottschalk family. ; United States. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns ; Dallas (Tex.) ; Ecuador Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 2003 in Florida, United States. Description of family history and life in an affluent assimilated German Jewish household. Hal's father was a partner in the banking firm of his father and later directed the "M. Molling" department store of his father in law. Early recollections of political unrest and inflation in the aftermath of World War One. Hal and his siblings grew up in a houshold with servants and a governess, who kept in touch even during the Nazi time. The children had piano and violin lessons and once a week gymnastic lessons with a private gym teacher, Fritz Strube, who later published a book on physical education. Summer vacations at the North Sea. Hal went to the Gymnasium (high school) where he was the only Jewish student. He became an apprentice in Krefeld with a business friend of his father in 1932. Life under the Nazis. Preparations to leave for Ecuador. Hal left Germany together with his friend Paul Klein for Guayaquil via Amsterdam and arrived in January 1936. Life in Ecuador. Excursion in the Andes. In 1938 he was granted a visa for the United States, where he arrived in September of the same year. Life in Dallas, Texas in the aftermath of the depression. His father in Germany was arrested during the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) and taken to Buchenwald. After his release the family emigrated to England. In 1944 they came to the United States. Hal enlisted in the US army in 1941 even before the United States officially entered the war. He was appointed officer and took part in the "D" Day landing on Omaha Beach in France. Hal became part of an army intelligence unit in Berlin. Return to the States after the war and live with his family in New York. Courtship and marriage with Anne Pick in 1945.
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    [Story of Sylvia (Mahler) Cherny]. (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Mahler family. ; Mahler, Robert, ; Mahler (née Gutmann), Grete, ; Watkins, Gerald Herbert, ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Melbourne (Vic.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with Sylvia Cherny's family background, the family business, and her time in Lower Austria where her family had lived for a couple of generations. She received private tutoring, coming from a well-off family. The "Anschluss" in 1938 changed everything. The family business was taken away and Sylvia Cherny provides a short chronology of its whereabouts. Her father commited suicide after the Anschluss, fearing the Gestapo who was looking for him. Sylvia Cherny went on a Kindertransport to France, then fled via Lisbon to New York. The final pages cover the first years in Melbourne, Australia, where she had joined her mother and her stepfather.
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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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    Memoirs of Robert Altschuler. (2003)
    Metuchen, NJ,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 25 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Altschuler, Robert, ; Altschuler family. ; Klamper family. ; Schapira family. ; Great Britain. ; Collective settlements ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief family background, describes his home in Vienna, and early recollections as a kid (he remembers political incidences during 1934). His father had a business partner who turned out to be an illegal Nazi. They were friendly with each other which helped the family after the Anschluss when it became obvious someone was protecting them - they were warned that his father was about to be arrested, and their property was not looted. The next chapter covers his emigration to Palestine, life in the Kibbutz, his first job, and the Jewish brigade. The last page covers his student time in the US, when he met and married his wife Miriam Oppenheimer.
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    Dreams and realities. (2002)
    Boston, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 304 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Schratter, Margarethe (née Schall), ; Schratter, Paul, ; United States. ; Business travel. ; Families ; Jewish soldiers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marketing. ; Nazis. ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews. ; Orphanages. ; Orphans. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first part of his memoir Paul Schratter describes the life of his family in Vienna and east-central Europe. He writes about the early death of his mother and his feelings. He describes his protected childhood in Vienna and surprisingly agreeable time in an orphanage. Later he describes political topics like the great depression and the beginning of Nazi activities, culminating in Hitler’s welcome to Vienna and the events of ‘Kristallnacht’. The second part of the memoir is mostly about his immigration to the US and his return to Vienna as a soldier of the U.S. Army. At the end of this chapter, he describes the early days of his marriage. The third part covers the bulk of the memoir (approximately 200 pages). He mainly describes his work in international marketing and the different countries he visited. He also includes remarks about his family, his feelings towards Germany and Austria after the World War II, and his thoughts on current politics.
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    [The divorce of my parents ...]. (2002)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 34 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Former Title: Untitled
    Keywords: Bendheim family. ; Friedländer, Adolf. ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps Intellectual life. ; Divorce. ; Dressmakers. ; Emigration and immigration Official documents. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Deggendorf (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Several short memoirs written by Margot Friedlaender. Recollections of her childhood shadowed by the divorce of her parents. School years during the Nazi time in Germany. Margot started an apprenticeship to become a dressmaker in a salon. Circumstances of life in Nazi Germany and recollections of Kristallnacht. Position with the Jewish "Kulturbund". In 1941 the "Kulturbund" was closed by the Nazi authorities and Margot was forced to work in a factory. Fervent attempts to emigrate failed. In 1943 her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz. Margot went into hiding. Experiences of life in underground. After her discovery in 1944 she was fortunate to be deported to Theresienstadt, where she met a former colleague from the Kulturbund, Adolf Friedlaender. They both managed to survive and were liberated by the Russian army. They got married in Theresienstadt in June of 1945. After a year in the DP Camp Deggendorf, they finally left for New York in June of 1946.
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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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    Limited autobiography of Jules Wallerstein. (2001)
    Norwalk, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Wallerstein, Anton, ; Wallerstein, Paula, ; Wallerstein family. ; St. Louis (Ship) ; United States. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Cuba. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief description of orthodox family background. His mother Paula, nee Rau, was a student at Heidelberg University prior to her marriage. His parents got married in 1926. The family lived with his father's mother in a six-room apartment and kept a kosher home. The author's younger sister Edith was born in 1932. Julius attended the "Juedische Realschule" and had friendly relationships with non-Jewish children. Recollections of the Night of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. His father was forced to hand over the jewelry store of the family to Nazi authorities. Experiences of antisemitic attacks. Preparations to emigrate. The family left for Cuba on May 13, 1939 on board of the St. Louis departing from Hamburg. They were refused entry to Cuba and had to return to Europe again. They stayed in Belgium and waited for their visas to the United States. Julius attended public school and was Bar Mitzvahed in the Main Synagogue in Brussles in 1940. A month later the Germans invaded Belgium. His father was sent to Camp Les Gurs in France, and the family followed him to Vichy France through an illegal passage. They finally received visas to the United States and left Marseilles in 1941. They immigrated to the United States via Casablanca and arrived in New York in January of 1942. Life in the United States. Jules was drafted into the US army in 1945 and was sent to Germany in a Counter Intelligence Mission. Return to the States in 1947. Work in an electronic company. Marriage in 1953. Move to Connecticut in 1967. Reunions of St. Louis survivors and visits to Fuerth.
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    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Max Liebmann describes his school life and how unbearable conditions grew after Hitler was elected chancellor. One time a pupil harassed him, but he fought back. He stayed in public school until 1937, and then attended a private school. He had to leave school after “Kristallnacht”, when all Jews were excluded from non-Jewish schools. In March 1938, his father had left for Greece in order to explore new business possibilities. Max Liebmann never saw him again. With the outbreak of World War II, Max Liebmann took his grandmother, who was French Alsatian, to the Swiss border. But Switzerland did not permit her to enter the country, so she went to Nancy and later to Bordeaux. During the war discrimination increased and culminated in Max Liebmann being sent to Eastern Germany to harvest. He describes himself as one of the first slave laborers of the Reich. In 1940, Max Liebmann started to work for the “Hilfsverein”. On October 21, 1940, the “Hilfsverein” was closed and he was deported to France the next day. On October, 25, Max Liebmann arrived at the camp of Gurs in Southwestern France. He managed to get out of the camp just weeks before its closure on August 1, 1942, and the beginning of the first deportations to Auschwitz. He hid in several places in unoccupied France with the help of local residents. He later managed to escape to Switzerland with the help of a Swiss militia man. In Switzerland, he worked in a refugee camp. On February 28, 1943, his girlfriend Hanne, whom he had met in Gurs, came to Switzerland. She first lived with relatives, but left them on Christmas Eve 1944 when personal frictions became too heavy. Max Liebmann married Hanne on April 14, 1945 in Geneva. Their daughter was born on March 4, 1946. In 1948, the family left for the United States.
    Abstract: Max Liebmann ends his memoir with giving a few remarks on Swiss policy concerning Jewish immigration and also on their policy of blocking them from their money in Swiss bank accounts.
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    [Speeches and memories], (1997-2001)
    [New Orleans] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 5 + 4 + 5 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1997-2001
    Keywords: Levy family. ; Levy, Leo, ; Weil, Leo. ; Weil, Liselotte L. (née Levy), ; United States. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Reform Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Neuwied (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were comprised as speeches from 1997-2001. Brief description of family history. Recollections of the Neuwied Reformed Jewish community. Liselotte attended the Jewish school. Description of domestic life with a nanny and religious traditions. Nazis and preparation of their parents for the children's emigration. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom 1938 (Kristallnacht). The family was arrested and their father beaten up so brutally that he died two weeks later. Liselotte and her younger brother Leo were sent to relatives in the US in 1939. Her brother joined the US army. Their mother and sister stayed in Germany and probably perished during the Holocaust. Description of life with relatives in the United States. Courtship and marriage to Leo Weil.
    Description / Table of Contents: Talk given by Liselotte Weil, July 9, 1997 [in New Orleans]; 5 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sermon by Liselotte Weil at Temple Sinai, New Orleans, on Dec. 7, 2001; 4 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: In memory of my brother, Aug. 19, 1998; 5 pages.
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    My life : [1927-1990]. (2000)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Rothstein, Esther. ; Storch, Baruch. ; Storch family. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Textile industry. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in Israel in the 1990s. Phillippe Storch's father Baruch was born 1887 in Galicia. He came to Hannover at age 13 and started his own business in 1907. His ready-made men's clothing had great success and expanded within the years. He met his future wife Deborah, née Horowitz in Hannover, where she had moved with her father from Galicia. They married in 1912. Phillippe was the youngest of four children. His father Baruch, an orthodox Jew, was a strict but a just and kind-hearted man. He was a fervent German patriot and an admirer of German culture, which left him blind folded to the events of the Nazi era and ultimately led to his end in Auschwitz. The children were brought up with German education. Phillippe's older brother Sally was a member of Agudat Yisroel and prepared himself for emigration to Palestine (hakhsharah), which their father strongly opposed. Despite the anti-Jewish boycott the business still continued to do well until 1938. With the "Kristallnacht" on November 9th 1938 things deteriorated rapidly. The family, who had been granted German citizenship, became stateless. During "Kristallnacht" the entire apartment and their shop were devastated. In 1939 Phillippe joined a children's transport to the Netherlands. 1940 the Germans entered the Netherlands. Phillippe's brother Sally and his sister Martha crossed the border illegally to Belgium, where Sally contracted TB and died shortly after the Germans entered the country. Through the help of the "Resistence" Phillippe was reunited with his sister and mother in Antwerp, Belgium. They managed to get to Southern France, where their mother died of exhaustion. Through adventurous circumstances Phillippe managed to cross the border to Switzerland together with his sister and her husband.
    Abstract: He was taken to a military camp near Zurich. It was in poor conditions, but they had a rich cultural life due to many famous inmates such as the singer Josef Schmidt and the writer Manes Sperber. Transfer to a family camp in Morgin, where he got married to his inmate Esther Rothstein. Post-war life in France. 1946 birth of his oldest son Sami in Lyon. French citizenship in 1949. Emerging textile business. Business travels to Israel. Emigration to Brazil in 1952. Export business with his friend Shloyme Draenger.
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    Family saga, (2000)
    Scarsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 114 pages + appendix : , typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Ripp, Norbert. ; Ripp, Herbert. ; Geller, Regina, 1898- ; Ripp, Paul, 1898- ; Geller, Benno (Ben Zion) ; Atran, Frank. ; Ripp, Joseph, ; Ripp family. ; United States. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Saint Paul (Minn.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In his memoir, Joseph Ripp decribes "some of the events that drove them out of Europe and brought them to safety in the United States". He describes the fate of each family member, and their later lives in the United States. Then Joseph Ripp focuses on the time of persecution thorugh the Nazis. In school they were taught the discriminatory racial doctrines, in the outside world his father's business suffered from all different kinds of assaults on his property. It became clear that they had to emigrate. In 1938, young Joseph could take part in a small program sponsered by the American Jewish community which enabld a few hundred children from Germany to escape. He was about to end up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that, they made a stop in New York, where he stayed with his aunt Bertha Geller. He describes how impressed he was by all the new things he got to see in New York. After his arrival, he took on several jobs to help his family survive the struggles of war. The memoir moves back to Nazi-Germany and its persecution of Jews. There is an account of Kristallnight and Joseph Ripp's brothers' escape to Holland and England. His parents are dispersed over Europe, his father being held at St. Cyprien internment camp in France, his mother stuck in Antwerp, Belgium. Finally there is a family re-union in the USA. Joesph Ripp then writes about his family's fate in the US. He joins the army and combats in Europe. He receives education from Columbia University, and then meets his future wife, Mimi, a refugee child as well. Both go back to Europe in the 1950s. Joseph Ripp accepted a job offer in Brussels, Belgium, from his wife's uncle. The memoir closes with the upbringing of the next generation. There are several family photos and documents included in the appendix.
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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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    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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    My story : [1915-1999]. (1999)
    Cadwell, NJ,
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    Pages: 101 pages.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Gutmann, Jakob, ; Pick, Margarethe, ; Pick family ; Rothberger, Bertha ; Rothberger family ; Schulhof family ; Weil family ; United States. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Engineers. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Families 20th century. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Ohio. ; Vienna (Austria) ; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army.
    Abstract: He served in England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.
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    Memoirs : [1931-1998]. (1998)
    Netanya :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 54 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Drachsler family. ; Mandelstam, Lucy, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Death marches. ; Families ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first few pages describe Lucy Mandelstam's family life in Vienna, Austria. The Anschluss markes a turning point in their lives. Pages 6-24 detail her family's persecution through the Nazis, the horror of the concentration camps. The second half of the memoir details the post-war era, DP camps and her way to Palestine. The last pages summarize family events up to today.
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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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    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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    Kristallnacht in Fürth and following actions. (1997)
    [Leeds] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 8 , pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Scheidt, Salomon. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Article about the November pogrom in Fuerth and following actions, such as expropriation of Salomon Scheidt.
    Abstract: This is a partial translation of a special illustrated edition of “Fürther Freiheit – Kristallnacht in Fürth”. This article was largely based on minutes of court cases against the mayor, the chief of fire service and other Nazi officials in Fürth after the end of the war.
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    A child of the twentieth century : My journey to America. (1997)
    Bloomington, Indiana :[publisher not identified],
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    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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    [Memoirs] : [1922-1996]. (1996)
    Menlo Park, CA,
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    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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    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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    [I was born in Germany in 1929]. (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 8 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Dressmakers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Telephone. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Brief account of father and mother; father's internment after Kristallnacht; emigration to Shanghai; life in Shanghai.
    Abstract: Also included are two texts describing her arrival in the United States in 1947 and the description of her job as a telephone operator in the United States in 1969.
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    Memoirs of the years 1938-1940. (1995)
    King of Prussia PA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Former Title: Irene Deutsch Lowy
    Keywords: Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Belgium Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Baden (Austria) ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Irene Deutsch Lowy, written mostly in German in 1940 and in the 1960s. The text was edited and translated into English by her daughter, Ann-Mary Reiss.
    Abstract: Experience of the Anschluss in Vienna; life in Vienna, Baden after Anschluss; emigration to Brussels; life in Brussels; work as language teacher in Brussels; immigration to USA; life in Philadelphia.
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    The Fountain. (1995)
    San Francisco, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 220 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: synopsis; photographs and documents
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Cramer family. ; Gumbel, Josef. ; Gumbel, Max. ; Gumbel, Melanie. ; Gumbel family. ; Gümbel family. ; United States. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Grain trade. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Africa, North. ; Cuba. ; France. ; Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Circa 1878-1995: Family background; experience of French occupation, 1918; arrest and incarceration in concentration camp 1933; flight to Switzerland, France, Algeria, Spanish Morocco, Casablance, Cuba, USA; experiences during Spanish Civil War in Morocco; experience in US Army; military service in England; return to Albisheim and Germany after war with US Army; work in US Army intelligence after war, helping to investigate I. G. Farben; experiences of parents in Germany after 1933, including Kristallnacht; emigration of parents to USA, via England, in 1940; account written by father Josef Gumbel of Kristallnacht; father's experiences in USA after emigration; marriage in 1950.
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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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    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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    Tilly : Her story. (1995)
    [Chevy Chase, Md.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 140 + 40 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1995
    Keywords: Auerbach, Rudolph. ; Rehbock family. ; Wiesenfelder family. ; Wiesenfelder, Max. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Childbirth. ; Courtship. ; Education, Primary. ; Factories. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Scarsdale (N.Y.) ; Sweden Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is a transcript of an oral history interview with Tilly Rehbock Wiesenfelder Auerbach conducted on November 28, 1994. The interview was commissioned by Ms. Auerbach’s children, Lillian Rose Brenwasser, Leslie Hugh Wiesenfelder, and Frances Jane Queller, and conducted by Ellen Robinson Epstein of the Center for Oral History.
    Abstract: Also included are genealogical tables of the extended Rehbock and Wiesenfelder families.
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    Mon sejour depuis Mai 1940. (1994)
    Pompano Beach :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 + 18 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: 9 pages
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Saint-Cyprien (Concentration camp) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Belgium. ; France. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir is a translation of a diary written originally in Shanghai, during August and September of 1941, accompanied by clarifying correspondence and notes.
    Abstract: The memoir starts on March 6, 1939, the day when Jerry (Gerhard) Breuer was forced to say goodbye to Vienna. He went to Brussels, Belgium, on a Kindertransport. In 1940, on the day Germany invaded Belgium, he was arrested in Brussels. He was sent on a train (which had the letters “fifth column” written on it) to Camp St. Cyprien, France, which is described in detail. The memoir ends with the departure on his ship to Shanghai.
    Abstract: Also enclosed are 14 "Close shaves" by Jerry Breuer: The first "shave" describes the experience of “Kristallnacht” in November of 1938; he was arrested and brought to the Gestapo headquarters in the first district of Vienna, but then he was released because of his young age. The second episode is about the Kindertransport he took to get out of Nazi-Germany. The next episode is entitled “The certificate”, about the permission to enter the French Concession in Shanghai on May 5, 1939. Episode 4 happened when Jerry's train was bombed. The next one is about money being returned to him at Camp St. Cyprien. Then he resisted to be released from St. Cyprien camp. He lost his luggage on his way to Marseille, which helped sneak past some guards. He had an encounter with a friendly police officer who refused to send him to an internment camp; and he was lent money to pay for his exit visa. The final events took place on the voyage to Shanghai: once they were threatended by an ugly storm; the other time he was accused by a Dutch officer of being a spy for the German army, looking "too blond" for being a Jew.
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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 descendence of Rebekka Meyer née Levy Warburg. (1993)
    Porto Alegre, Brazil,
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    Pages: 94 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Kupferstein family ; Levy Warburg family ; Levi Warburg family ; Meyer, Rebekka ; Oliven family ; Rideamus, ; Seelig family. ; Spiegelberg family. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Authors. ; Bankers. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Rabbis. ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Memoirs ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Detailed geneological study; Ancestry of Rebekka Meyer; first marriage to Abraham Berend; children from first marriage; death of first husband; second marriage to Ephraim Meyer; ancestry of husbands; description of life of Rabbi Samuel Levi Warburg; excerpts from will of Rebekka Meyer; life of son, Louis E. Meyer; family of Ephraim Meyer; life of son Morris Meyer and his family;list of descendants of Samuel Ephraim Meyer and of his children; father Fritz Oliven's career as satirical writer and operetta librettist ("Rideamus"); emigration of family to South America; siblings and their families; childhood and education in Berlin; involvement in Communist youth group as teenager; activity in Zionist Hashomer Hatzair in Dresden; work at Gut Winkel agricultural project outside Berlin; account of Kristallnacht; relationship with and engagement to Seldi Reifen; family and geneology of Seldi Reifen; family and children.
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    My story. (1993)
    White Plains, N.Y. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 71 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Malachowski family. ; Spir family. ; Book industries and trade. ; Education, Higher. ; Genealogists. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage. ; Soldiers 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs, circa 1908-1964:
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Berlin; family geneology; father's experience during World War I; home life during World War I; gymnasium; studies law in Berlin and Freiburg; practices law in Berlin; studies Jewish geneology; published articles in Jewish newspapers; friendships; courtship and marriage; witnesses Kristallnacht; immigrates to USA in 1938; life in New York; work for National Refugee Service; birth of son; work in Office of Strategic Service in Washington; birth of daughter; becomes book dealer; death of wife; remarriage.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Ansbach, Heinz; Baeck, Leo; Bernhard, Ruth; Boehm, Hilde; Borchardt, Fritz; Buchthal, Fritz; Crzellitzer, Arthur; Gottlieb, Rosa; Grubel, Fred; Heilmann, Else; Heinemann, Jean; Herz, John; Holborn, Hajo; Kellermann, Heinz; Kirchheimer, Otto; Lennoff, Fritz; Levy, Herbert; Luft, Walter; Malachowski, Alex; Marcuse, Herbert; Jacker, Marianne; Neumann, Franz; Palmer, Lilli; Phiebig, Albert; Phiebig, Barbara; Phiebig, Else; Phiebig, Hans; Phiebig, Helene; Phiebig, Tommy; Pinn, Max; Plaut, Guenter; Reiwald, Paul; Sachs, Ellen; Themal, Franz; Unna, Ruth; Warburg, Eric.
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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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    Lucky to be here / (1993)
    Brussels :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 273 pages : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1993
    Keywords: Children. ; Jewish musicians Fiction. ; Jewish refugees Fiction. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Fictionalized biography of an 8-year-old boy from Cologne, Germany, living with his parents as Jewish refugees in Toledo, Ohio during WW II.
    Abstract: Also included is a curriculum vitae of Herbert L. Kaufman.
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    My life story. (1993)
    [San Francisco],
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    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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    A family during troubled times : The Hausmanns and the Weingartners; 1934-1944. (1992)
    [Buffalo], NY,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: documents.
    Year of publication: 1992
    Keywords: Hausmann family Genealogy. ; Weingarten family Genealogy. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Jewish way of life. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Memoirs ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Family history and memoir of Hausmann and Weingartner families of cattle dealers from Flehingen in Baden. Descriptions of Jewish customs and community life. November 1938 pogrom. Some children go to England (Kindertransport). Emigration to the United States in December 1938. Description of the fate of other family members during Nazi period, several of them died in the Holocaust. Addenda with photocopies of family documents and photos.
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    Pathways of my life / (1991)
    Chicago, IL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 277 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Herzog, Anna. ; Herzog, David, ; Herzog family. ; Herzog, Leopold. ; Universität Graz. ; College teachers. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecutions 1938-1945. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Sermons. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Graz (Austria) ; Ostrava (Czech Republic) ; Oxford (England) ; Trnava (Slovakia) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: David Herzog wrote his autobiography in German while living in England. This is an English translation by his son, Fred F. Herzog.
    Abstract: Family history 1869-1946; lives of parents; description of Jewish life in Tyrnau; Hebrew and religious studies in Tyrnau, description of teachers; description of pogrom in wake of Tisza-Eszlar ritual slaughter trial; other childhood experiences of anti-Semitism; talmudic studies in Pressburg (Bratislava); detailed account of experiences in secondary school; years at seminary in rabbinical seminary and University in Berlin; recollections of life in Berlin in 1890's; experience of anti-Semitism in Berlin; move to Ostrau (Hungary) to work as rabbi; life in Ostrau; move to Prague-Simchow; became chief rabbi in 1907 and university professor in Graz; increasingly worsening situation in Graz after 1932; internment in prison after Nazi seizure of power in 1938; experience of Kristallnacht in Graz; emigration to England in 1939; life in London.
    Abstract: In an epilogue, Fred F. Herzog provides more information about his father and describes his parents' life in Oxford. Also included is an appendix, listing David Herzog’s lectures at Karl-Franzens-Universität in Graz, 1909-1938.
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    [Reflections of an immigrant] : [1920-1991]. (1991)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 45 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Frank, Anne. ; Woods, Irene. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Various short essays on the following subjects: chronicle of childhood and school years in Berlin; persecution in Nazi Germany; memories of author's father and grandparents; November pogrom 1939; reflections of an immigrant to USA; World War II; reunion of former schoolmates in New York 1989; journey to Vienna; revisiting Berlin in 1990; German-Jewish dialogue; reflections on Anne Frank exhibit
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    A Memoir of Nazi Austria and the Jewish Refugee Experience in America : [1934-1989]. (1991)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 + 24 , reprint (copy).
    Year of publication: 1991
    Keywords: Papanek, Ernst. ; Wiesenthal, Simon. ; New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) ; Education, Higher after 1945. ; Women authors. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigratio 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Publications.
    Abstract: Reprint from: American Jewish Archives, vol. XLIII (1991), no. 2
    Abstract: Recollections by Stella Hershan of life in Vienna from 1934; account of Anschluss, Kristallnacht in Vienna; emigration to USA via Switzerland, France in 1939; life and work in New York after 1945; study at The New School for Social Research; translation of work of Simon Wiesenthal; return visit to Vienna.
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    Kindertransport 1939. (1989)
    Merrick, NY,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Levy family ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Olga Drucker describing the arrest of her father during the 1938 November Pogrom, her transfer to a Jewish school, and her preparations for leaving for England on a Kindertransport.
    Abstract: Also inclided is correspondence by Olga Drucker including references to a Kindertransport reunion in London in 1989.
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    Memoir 1933-1946. (1989)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 69 + 4 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Herskowitz, Samuel. ; Mengele, Josef, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Birkenau (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Women authors. ; Cantors. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Rabbis. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father's employment at the Jewish community of Hanover; traditional Jewish life; November pogrom 1938 in Hanover; emigration to Holland in 1939; return to parents in Hanover in 1941; life in Hanover 1941-1943; Theresienstadt and Birkenau concentration camps; confrontation with Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz; Reichenbach labor camp; evacuation through Bergen - Belsen and Hamburg; liberation in Denmark.
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    My Personal History, (1989)
    Greenwhich, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 57 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Schwadron family. ; Heijplaat (Refugee camp) ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family origins in Galicia; grandfather moves to Vienna; mother's childhood in Vienna; courtship of parents; description of apartment in Vienna; childhood memories of Vienna; death of father; experience of Anschluss; life in Vienna after Anschluss; Kristallnacht; emigration to Holland with brother; life in internment camp at Heyplaat; emigration to USA with mother in 1939.
    Abstract: Family origins in Galicia; grandfather moves to Vienna; mother's childhood in Vienna; courtship of parents; description of apartment in Vienna; childhood memories of Vienna; death of father; experience of Anschluss; life in Vienna after Anschluss; Kristallnacht; emigration to Holland with brother; life in internment camp at Heijplaat; emigration to USA with mother in 1939.
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    Lest You Forget. (1989)
    Nottingham :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 10 + 10 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Stoppleman, Gunter. ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Cottbus (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany 1938-1942; deportation of Polish Jews; November pogrom 1938 in Cottbus; arrest of husband in Sachsenhausen concentration camp; emigration to England; suicide of parents in 1941.
    Abstract: Also included is a German translation.
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    My trip to Karlsruhe, Germany : My original hometown - Oct. 9 to 16, 1988. (1989)
    Bronx, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 + 1 pages : , manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Seidler, Gerhard. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report about a visit to the city of Karlsruhe, following an official invitation.
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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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    [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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    When time ran out : Coming of age in the Third Reich. (1988)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 374 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1988
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Sculptors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigrationn 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir based on diaries kept by the sculptor Frederic Zeller as a boy; Nazi periods in Berlin; primary and secondary school; pogrom (November 1938); emigration to England via Holland; visit to Berlin in 1982.
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    Fred (Fritz) Lisberger. (1987)
    Baltimore, MD :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Hamburger, Gretl. ; Spanier, Gretl. ; Wilmersdorfer, Anne. ; Wilmersdorfer, Siegfried. ; Wilmersdorfer family. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Leather industry and trade. ; Textile industry. ; Baltimore (Md.) ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Wallerstein (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Education in Wallerstein, Noerdlingen, and Munich; work in family's textile store in Wallerstein; death of father; move to Munich in 1938; fate of relatives during Holocaust; immigration to US in November 1938; settled in Baltimore, set up business in leather goods.
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    [My family's emigration]. (1986)
    Pine Run Community :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Peters, Hans. ; Antisemitism. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Zehlendorf (Berlin) ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the authors life in Berlin during the time of Vazism. Recollections of anti-Semitic incidents and anti-Jewish policies. Preparations to emigrate meet with difficulties in getting her parents' support for her decision to leave. Reluctance of her non-Jewish husband to take steps for their emigration. In 1937 her husband Hans lost his job due to his marriage to a "non-Aryan" wife. Birth of their second son Michael. Growing awareness of the surrounding danger and disappearance of more and more Jewish friends. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom. The family was forced to move out of their apartment soon thereafter. Arrival of her husband's affidavit and his immigration to the United States. Descriptions of the many difficulties for Lotte to obtain a passport and the necessary emigration papers. Visa for Denmark and immigration to the States together with her two children in 1939.
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    I am a Star. Child of the Holocaust [Synopsis]. (1986)
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    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Bernbaum, Israel. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Cattle trade ; Deportation. ; Forced labor. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Refugee camps. ; Textile industry. ; Women authors. ; Göppingen (Germany) ; Jebenhausen (Göppingen, Germany) ; Kippenheim (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Synopsis of memoir by Inge Auerbacher including description of the town Kippenheim where she was born; outline of Jewish history in Germany leading up to Nazism; account of the November pogrom in Kippenheim; her family moving to her grandparents in Jebenhausen; being forced to move to "Judenhaus" in Goeppingen; being deported to Theresienstadt. Description of life in the concentration camp; of her liberation and her return to a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart and soon to Jebenhausen and Goeppingen; of her immigration to New York, and biographical information on her life in the United States.
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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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    Our lives. (1985)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Bamberger family. ; Metzger family. ; Brown, Eva Metzger. ; Metzger, Ernest. ; Amputation. ; Associations, institutions, etc. ; Brewing industry. ; Conservative Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; France. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history, circa 1905-1985: courtship and marriage; birth of daughter; Kristallnacht; emigration to France; injury in bombing of Angers at start of World War II; injury of daughter; amputation of leg; immigration to USA; life in New York; marriage of daughter; birth of grandchildren; activity in Hadassah.
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    Once a doctor, always a doctor : The memoirs of a German-Jewish immigrant-physician (1985)
    Syracuse, New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 141 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1985
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Education, Higher ; Jewish physicians. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; New York (State) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: University studies in Breslau during Nazi rule; move to Berne to complete studies; November pogrom of 1938 in Breslau; imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp; immigration to USA; experiences as a physician in USA.
    Abstract: Also included is the copy of a letter from President Ronald Reagan, handed to Dr. Hartmann on occasion of his 70the birthday.
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    Memoirs & reminiscences : [1898-1985]. (1984)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 248 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Fischer family Genealogy. ; Universität Wien. ; College teachers. ; Jewish way of life. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Geographers. ; Teachers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1919. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Vienna; description of family; primary and secondary education; description of teachers and schoolmates; military service in Austrian army in World War I; student life at the university in Vienna; Revolution of 1918-1919; Austria in inter-war period; Jewish life in Vienna; description of school system and teacher colleagues in inter-war Vienna; hikes and travels; Nazi takeover and November Pogrom in 1938; emigration to Palestine and USA; new jobs as university teacher and political geographer.
    Abstract: Contains a biography of Eric Fischer by Michael M.J. Fischer and a bibliography of his publications.
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    The Ninth of November - Crystal Night : 45 years later. (1983)
    Flossmoor, Illinois,
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    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript +
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    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Głogów (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of November pogrom 1938 in Glogau, Silesia, presented at the Stone Jewish Community Center in Flossmoor, Illinois on Nov. 10, 1983.
    Abstract: Also included is a photograph (copy) of the synagogue in Glogau (today Głogów, Poland).
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    My story : [1922-1992]. (1983)
    Franklin, NC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Srulowitz family. ; Erber family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Plumbers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Manners and customs ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Belgium. ; Israel. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen fifties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the form of a reflective diary between 1983 and 1985 in the United States. Detailed and somewhat disorganized description of family background and family members until present time. His mother’s family came to Vienna during World War One. His father Osias Srulowitz served in the army and his parents got married after the war. His mother Klara Amalia Srulowitz founded the family’s knitting business during the war under her maiden name “K. Erber“. The author had an older sister (Stella), born in 1920, and a younger sister (Lotte) born in 1927. The family lived in the 9th district and had a maid and a French governess. His maternal grandparents were orthodox and had a lasting impact on his life. He studied the Hebrew alphabet with his grandfather at an early age and became religious. He went to “Schubertschule“ and later on to Realschule, then he transferred to public school. At age 14 he started an apprenticeship with his uncle in the plumbing business. Recollections of the Nazi takeover and the Kristallnacht in 1938. The family business was taken away. The author crossed the border to Belgium illegally, his parents emigrated to Shanghai in 1939. Recollections of life in Belgium. He was taken to a work camp for young refugees. After his release he took various jobs and lived underground with false papers during the German occupation. Marriage to Janine De Geyter, a young Belgian woman, in 1943. Liberation by the British army in 1944. Starting of a candy business. Reunition with his grandmother from Theresienstadt and his parents from Shanghai. Emigration to Israel together with the author’s parents in 1948. Description of life and new beginnings in Israel. Birth of their daughter Tamy. Emigration to the United States via Belgium in 1953. Life in the United States and detailed description of several business endeavors.
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    Grandma, times have changed. (1982)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 101 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Cuba Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in wealthy Berlin family; high school and university study; marriage to the lawyer Alfred Gerstel; decision to build a new house in 1935; persecutions in Nazi Germany; Pogrom November 1938; immigration and life in the USA.
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    My Life : by Rudolf Apt (1882-1978) (1982)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    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.
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    Selma's saga : [1916-1948]. (1982)
    Sydney,
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    Pages: 271 pages (3 folders) : , typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Oppenheim, Benjamin, ; Oppenheim, Anna, ; Oppenheim family. ; Kahane, Arnold ; Betar. ; Antisemitism. ; Christmas. ; Families 20th century. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecutions. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; National socialism. ; Jews Education. ; Jews Holidays and festivals. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Brisbane (Qld.) ; England. ; Grado (Italy) ; Hornchurch (London, England) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1982 in Sydney, Australia and include excerpts of letters from various relatives during the years 1938-1941. Early childhood recollections of World War One. The family was living in the 6th district of Vienna. Description of domestic life with maids, laundresses and a French governess. Death of her mother in 1918. Trip with her stepmother Ida Plohn to Prague. Recollections of a stay in the countryside at their maid's family, where Selma and her older sister Martha awaited the birth of their younger sister Trude. Memories of Christmas celebrations. Summer vacations in the mountains. Description of the extended family. Inflation and economic depression in the 1920s. Strict upbringing by her stepmother. Children recreation trip to Grado, Italy in 1925. Selma was accepted at the "Bundeserziehungsanstalt" for gifted students. Only few fellow Jewish students. Religious education with beloved rabbi Diamant. Recovery from tonsilitis in a senatorium in Aflenz, Austria. Celebration of Jewish holidays and visits at the Synagogue on Yom Kippur. Transfer to Realschule. Due to a sudden onset of various illnesses Selma was unable to continue school and had put an end to her father's dream of an university education for her. Difficult to find a position in the depression times of the early 1930s. Only few working options for a Jewish woman. Position as a secretary in a Jewish firm. Outings in the Vienna Woods. Membership in the Zionist group Betar.
    Abstract: Plans to emigrate to Palestine through marriage of convenience shattered by her orthodox parents. Signs of rising National Socialism and political unrest in Austria. Recollections of the civil war in February of 1934. Selma joined a Jewish club. Outings and skiing trips. First courtships. Marriage of her sister Martha. Awareness of the dangers of National Socialism. Detailed recollections on the time before and during the the Anschluss. Preparation for her emigration. Position as a domestic servant in England. Departure on November 2nd 1938, few days before the "Kristallnacht". Adjusting to her new life with a family in Hornchurch, in England. Attempts to find positions for family members and friends. Brief reunion with her fiance Arnold in London prior to his departure to Australia in Febrary of 1939. In March of 1939 her sister Trude was finally able to join her in England. Fervent endeavors to obtain entry permits for her parents. Preparations for Selma's emigration to Australia, in order to join her fiance, were finally granted in October of 1939. Delayment of her passage until May of 1940. Arrival in Capetown, Australia on June 9th of 1940. Reunition with her fiance in Brisbane and new life with future husband in Ravenshoe. Difficulties in obtaining a marriage licence. Wedding in August of 1940. The couple started to run a bording house. Birth of their daughter Marie in June of 1941. Their son Ronny was born in September of 1942. Dreadful news from Europe. Birth of daughter Sylvia in 1945. Letters from her sister Martha, who survived the concentration camp. In 1948 she finally was able to join Selma in Australia.
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    All our hopes are you : A true story about a great woman and her compassion for strangers in need …. (1980)
    Glencoe, Ill. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 65 pages (single space) : , bound typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Hamilton, Augusta, D.R. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Concentration camps. ; Hildesheim (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In memory Augusta Dotty Rahr Hamilton, April 12 1893 – April 30 1966.
    Abstract: Encounter with Augusta D.R. Hamilton during her visit to Germany; Mrs. Hamilton's assistance in Shurman's immigration to the USA; November pogrom of 1938 in Hildesheim; imprisonment in Buchenwald concentration camp; immigration to USA in 1940; contains exchange of letters between author and Augusta Hamilton.
    Abstract: Also included are copies of awards to the author.
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    How we got out, and why, perhaps, some others didn't. (1979)
    [Berkeley] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short account of last years in Vienna before emigration to Shanghai in 1940.
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    Opus One. (1976)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 83 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Rosenthal, Bernhard. ; Stöcker, Adolf, ; Strauss, Jacob. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1931. ; London (England) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Nora Rosenthal, written 1973-1976 in London, including some genealogical information and recollections of her childhood: domestic life; her musical education; her married life; persecutions in Nazi Germany; her emigration to England after her husband's suicide; and her experiences in England during the war.
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    Retrospect and reflections : (My life and my times). (1976)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 275 + 19 pages (double space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Goldstein, Elsa Ruth (née Oppenheimer) ; Mosbacher, I.Z. ; Antisemitism. ; Economists. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Music Instruction and study. ; Outfitting industry. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Aachen (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Munich (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States History 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Kurt Goldstein, completed in 1976, including information on his grandparents; his childhood and his secular, Jewish and musical education in Nuremberg; World War I; his experience with anti-Semitism in the 1920s; his university studies and his studies in England; his apprenticeship of the production of cloth in Aachen; and his joining the family's business in 1929. Recollections of political, social and cultural life in Weimar Germany; the increasingly difficult situation after 1933 in Stuttgart; a trip to Palestine in 1935; his imprisonment after the 1938 November Pogrom; his emigration to the United States via England; his life, diverse jobs and business enterprises in Buffalo; his courtship and marriage to Elsa; and their family life and children.
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    In God's hands : An autobiography (1975)
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    Pages: 59 + 43 , 2 bound typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Bock family. ; Bock, Hilda. ; Freudenberg family. ; Freudenberg, Trude. ; Patek, Irma. ; Patek, Leopold. ; Patek family. ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1930-1939. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941. ; Socialism. ; Teachers. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Beijing (China) ; China Emigration and immigration. ; Japan Emigration and immigration. ; Palo Alto (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1950s. ; Vienna (Austria) Intellectual life. ; Wiener Neustadt (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1975 in the United States. Description of the author’s family background. His father Jacob Bock was a schoolteacher, who later in life became principal of a School of Business in Wiener Neustadt. His parents converted to Catholicism shortly after they got married. Childhood memories and recollections of summer vacations in Attersee, near Salzburg. Recollection of his extended family. Scarce contact with his paternal grandmother, who did not approve of her son’s conversion. Rudolf grew up in a family, where religion was hardly mentioned. His father was an outspoken Socialist. First awareness of his Jewish background at age 16. Rising antisemitism in Austria, which also influenced the atmosphere at his school. Student exchange to France in 1931. After graduation he started medical school at the Vienna University in 1933. Description of cultural life in Vienna. The author describes the atmosphere among his family and friends, who, like him, underestimated the dangers of Nazism. Anschluss to Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life under National socialism and help from Aryan friends to continue his studies. Recollections of the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) in 1938. Rudolf was not permitted to take his final medical exams and started preparations for his emigration. In 1939 he joined his brother Kurt in Zagreb, where they found support in the local Jewish community. Plan to emigrate to Japan, where their uncle worked as an engineer. Journey to China and Japan. Admission to Peking Union Medical College (PUMUC) founded by the Rockerfeller Foundation, where Rudolf was able to finish his medical training. Description of life in Peking. He graduated in 1941 and specialized in ophthalmology. In the meantime his mother and grandparents arrived in Japan and lived with his brother Kurt. His sister went to England with a children’s transport. His father, who was unfit for travel at that time, died in Vienna in 1941.
    Abstract: Pearl Harbor and closing of the hospital. Rudolf was interrogated because he was believed to be a spy due to his correspondence with his family in Japan. In 1942 his mother joined him in Peking. Primitive living conditions. Growing friendship with his future wife Trude. They got married in September of 1944. Work in the Methodist Eye Hospital. Recollections of the end of the war. In September 1946 their daughter Marianne was born. Preparations to leave China. They left Peking for Shanghai in December of 1946. Arrival in Marseille on March 4th, 1947. Move to Geneva, Switzerland, where Trude’s parents were living. Delays in their immigration to the United States. Plans to settle in Europe. Trip to Austria, where he met with former friends and witnessed the post-war destruction. Position at the Eye clinic in Geneva and completion of his medical degree at the University of Vienna. They were almost ready to settle in Austria when finally his immigration papers for the U.S came through in the fall of 1950. They left for the United States soon after and arrived in New York in March of 1951. Trude and their daughters went to Berkeley to stay with Rudolf’s brother Kurt, while the author prepared for the Medical State Board exam in New York. He got a research position at Stanford. In July of 1951 their son Michael was born. The family settled in Paolo Alto, where Rudolf Bock started his own practice.
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    Family in war - a personal chronicle : [1938-1943]. (1973)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 106 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1973
    Keywords: Weisz, Samuel, ; Weisz, Stephanie. ; Weisz, Ruth, ; Weisz, Paul B., ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Belgium. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Šabac (Serbia) ; Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The book contains an introduction by Paul Weisz and a collection of family letters written during World War II. The letters were written between February 1938 and September 1945. Some were translated into English and complemented by commentary by the editor, Paul Weisz. Paul Weisz' introduction is 10 pages long and serves as a short memoir by itself. He provides a family chronicle, the living circumstances of his family, and his childhood in Vienna. He ends in 1938 when the family was eager to leave Austria. The following years are covered by the various letters he brought together in this book. The authors are cousin Willie, then already in Palestine, his father Samuel, his mother Stephanie, and his sister Ruth. His father and mother fled to Belgium, but were arrested after the beginning of World War II. They were deported to internment camps in France (St. Cyprien). His sister Ruth tried to escape from Austria to Palestine via the Danube. She got stuck in Yugoslavia, and was interned in Sabac internment camp. Paul's mother died in France in 1942, his father was sent to a concentration camp in Poland and murdered. His sister Ruth was murdered in Yugoslavia. Paul was released in Canada, and was enabled to go to college. He later named his children after his family members who did not survive the Nazi terror: Stephanie, Ruth, and Samuel.
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    The story of my life : [1864-1966]. (1966)
    [Sharon, Mass.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 5 + 55 + 3 , synopsis; typescript; documents.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Ohlmann, Ilse. ; Ohlmann, Julius. ; Ohlmann, Jack. ; Makaras, Johnny. ; Makaras, Madge. ; Women authors. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish physicians ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Women physicians. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Scotland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs, written in 1966; Photocopies of miscellaneous documents: a sheet from her father's prescription pad, rubber-stamped with the notice that her father's practice was limited to Jewish patients (December 1938); Reply from a Jewish organization after the war to her mother's inquiry as to her grandmother's whereabouts (1946); A notice from her father to her mother while he was being kept in a detention center after the Kristallnacht
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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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    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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    Memories. (1961)
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    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.
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    My autobiography. (1943)
    [Cleveland] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 , handwritten manuscript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Children 1933-1945. ; Jewish physicians. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir of an immigrant child from Germany written in English class in Collinwood High School, Cleveland, Ohio.
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    Citizenship: None. (1942)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Leufer, Eva. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Girls ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Trips and voyages. ; Women authors. ; Ashtabula County (Ohio) ; Cleveland (Ohio) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Anne Koppel, including information on the background of her parents and recollections of her childhood and schooling in Cologne; of life in Germany before and after 1933; of the detention of her father in Dachau after the 1938 November Pogrom; of her emigration to England and to the United States; and of her experiences in Ashtabula and in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Abstract: The essay was written in Anne Koppel’s 11A English class at East High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
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    Recollections. (1940)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: As a 12 year old child, in the year of 1940, just after having arrived in the US, Mary-Ann Reiss wrote down her recollections of the past two years, covering the events of March 1938 in Austria and her family's persecution and emigration. Many decades later, she found her writings again in form of a little notebook, written with pencil and fading away. This memoir then is cleared from some mistakes and in her current handwriting. It starts with her 10th birthday, which was only a few days before the Anschluss.
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    Concentration Camp Dachau 1938 : Recollections of a physician (1939)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camp inmates. ; Concentration camps. ; Health facilities. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences in Dachau concentration camp; physician's report on illnesses among prisoners in Dachau.
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    My dear children. (1939)
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    Pages: 2 + 14 + 15 + 8 , typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecutions ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Dominican Republic Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Gmünd (Lower Austria, Austria) ; Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The diary by Emmy Rosenbaum is dedicated to her children; it was probably written in the Dominican Republic, in early 1939. The first chapter "March 1938" (14 pages) covers events after 'Anschluss' in Gmuend, Lower Austria, such as the loss of her husband's factory. They escaped to Vienna, where her husband’s colleague was Consul of the Dominican Republic and provided them with visas. At the same time, they registered for US visas. The chapter closes with a description of "Kristallnacht". The second chapter “Ciudad Trujillo, Feb.11, 1939” (15 pages) covers their emigration to the Dominican Republic. The third chapter “Ciudad Trujillo, March 15, 1939” (8 pages) is about settling down in Santo Domingo and the difficulties of adapting to the new culture.
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    My Life : told for my grandchildren
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Goldsmiths. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Marriage. ; Women authors. ; Eureka (Ill.) ; Kassel (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Apprenticeship as goldsmith; marriage in time of economic crisis (1919); persecution of Jews after 1933; November pogrom 1938 in Kassel; immigration to USA in 1940; beginnings of new life in USA.
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    Punishment without crime : The time I was dead.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 92 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Experiences in Buchenwald concentration camp, November 1938 - January 1939.
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    Plunging into chaos.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Eppstein, Paul, ; Karminski, Hannah. ; Maier, Max Hermann, ; Meinecke, Friedrich, ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin (1933-1943) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish leadership. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Imprisonment in Berlin in November 1938; politics of Jewish leadership, especially the Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden and the Reichsvertretung, in 1938 and 1939; contains information on Paul Eppstein, Hannah Karminski, and historian Friedrich Meinecke.
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    Memoirs : [1938-1945].
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    Language: English
    Pages: 166 pages : , typescript.
    Keywords: Blomberg, Moishe. ; Bogler, Samuel. ; Friedlaender, Paula. ; Laufer, Rudi. ; Levy, Armand. ; Matzner, David. ; Matzner, Leo. ; Pasternack, Leo. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; Wolfsberg (Carinthia, Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Deportation to Poland in 1938; illegal re-entry into Germany; escape with family to Belgium, then France; German invasion of France; internment and release from camp; deportation to Auschwitz; trip to and arrival at Auschwitz; description of experiences at Auschwitz; transfer to camps Graeditz, Faulbrueck, Gross-Rosen; Wolfsberg; various experiences and people at camps; work at factory in Hirschberg, Silesia; evacuation to Bergen-Belsen at beginning of 1945; liberation by the Americans; recuperation; return to Wiesbaden after liberation.
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    My childhood remembered /
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    Language: English
    Pages: 119 , e-file.
    Keywords: Butchers (Persons) ; Friendship. ; Jewish families 1918-1933. ; Jewish families 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Butchers ; Berlin (Germany) ; Gehaus (Germany) ; Portugal. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Joe Westheimer was born Jan. 23, 1927 in Berlin as Horst Westheimer, the only son of Alexander and Martha, née Rehbock. His parents had a butcher shop in Berlin. They immigrated to the US in 1942, settling in New York City.
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    Snapshots and soundbites : [1922-1945].
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    Language: English
    Pages: 137 , typescript (photocopy).
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nurses. ; Psychoanalysts. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France. ; Damascus (Syria) ; Jerusalem. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United States. Gertrud B. Ujhely describes small incidents of her childhood in Vienna and in several summer ressorts in Austria. Fragments of the family life. Experiences in school and gymnasium (high school). Memories of the Austrian civil war in 1934. Cultural life with theater and opera visits. Death of her mother. Memories of the Nazi take-over (Anschluss) in March 1938. Street terror by the Nazis. Preparation to leave the country. Emigration to France in 1938. Life in Paris. Terrifying news of the Kristallnacht. Move to the Riviera. Private lesson to prepare Gertrud for boarding school. Au pair at a French family in Damascus in 1939. For a short time Gertrud was sent to a convent of French sisters in Damascus. Enrollment in a nursing program. Difficulties due to her German passport. Enrollment at the University of Beirut, Lebanon. As an enemy alien Gertrud was not allowed to work in Beirut after her graduation from the School of Nursing. She was invited to stay with the family of her mother in Jerusalem, where she was working as a nurse in the Hadassah Hospital. In 1952 Gertrud B. Ujhely emigrated to the United States, where she was reunited with her father and her sister after 13 years of separation. Master degree in psychiatric nursing. Teaching position at Rutgers College. Gertrud published a book on nurse-patient relationships. Position as a director of a graduate program in psychiatric nursing in Long Island. Psychiatric training and graduation from the C.G. Jung Institute. Gertrud B. Ujhely works as a therapist in New York.
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United States. Gertrud B. Ujhely describes small incidents of her childhood in Vienna and in several summer ressorts in Austria. Fragments of the family life. Experiences in school and gymnasium (high school). Memories of the Austrian civil war in 1934. Cultural life with theater and opera visits. Death of her mother. Memories of the Nazi take-over (Anschluss) in March 1938. Street terror by the Nazis. Preparation to leave the country. Emigration to France in 1938. Life in Paris. Terrifying news of the Kristallnacht. Move to the Riviera. Private lesson to prepare Gertrud for boarding school. Au pair at a French family in Damascus in 1939. For a short time Gertrud was sent to a convent of French sisters in Damascus. Enrollment in a nursing program. Difficulties due to her German passport. Enrollment at the University of Beirut, Lebanon. As an enemy alien Gertrud was not allowed to work in Beirut after her graduation from the School of Nursing. She was invited to stay with the family of her mother in Jerusalem, where she was working as a nurse in the Hadassah Hospital. In 1952 Gertrud B. Ujhely immigrated to the United States, where she was reunited with her father and her sister after 13 years of separation. Master degree in psychiatric nursing. Teaching position at Rutgers College. Gertrud published a book on nurse-patient relationships. Position as a director of a graduate program in psychiatric nursing in Long Island. Psychiatric training and graduation from the C.G. Jung Institute. Gertrud B. Ujhely works as a therapist in New York.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Ninety years of memories : Recollections of Fred S. Bamberger.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages (single space) : , typescript; illustrated.
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Textile industry. ; Voyages and travels. ; Bochum (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Primary and secondary education in Worms; apprenticeship as merchant in Bochum and Brussel; business trip to USA; work in branches of father's textile business; imprisonment in Dachau after November pogrom of 1938;
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    Lest we forget!.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jewish leadership. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: An account of Kristallnacht (“the Sicilian Vespers for Jews”) in a letter by an unnamed young woman, secretary of a Jewish congregation in Germany. Rendered into English by Ernest I. Jacob.
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    No Homesickness.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 145 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Keywords: Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Spartakusbund (Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Chemists. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Isle of Man. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Youth in assimilated Berlin Jewish family; boy scouts; military service in World War I; Freecorps leader and fighting against Spartacus uprising; antisemitism in Weimar republic; persecutions under Nazi rule; description of arrest in November 1938 and transport to Sachsenhausen concentration camp; experiences in Sachsenhausen; sale of retail store and emigration to Great Britain; internment camps in Huyton and Isle of Man; return to Germany as a British soldier. Contains photograph of a drawing of the author.
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    With roadblocks and detours.
    La Mesa, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages (double space) : , typescript (double space).
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Social workers. ; Synagogues ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Rhodesia and Nyasaland Emigration and immigratio 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Marriage in Breslau synagogue in 1938; author's husband's imprisonment in Buchenwald in summer of 1938; November pogrom of 1938; emigration to Rhodesia and to USA.
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    Lost and found : A life
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    Language: English
    Pages: 180 , typescript.
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Psychologists, Jewish. ; Sports. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Salzburg (Austria) ; Tachov (Czech Republic : Okres) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Woodstock (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Reflections on own personality; childhood memories; description of the Jewish communities of Tachov and Salzburg; family history; lives and personalities of parents; emigration in Cambridge, England; courtship with first husband; emigration to USA in 1946; divorce; remarriage in 1956; discussion of observance of various Jewish holidays; experiences of antisemitism in Salzburg; reflections on being Jewish in Salzburg, Cambridge, New York; sporting activities; move to Woodstock, New York; life in Woodstock; friendships; account of reunion of former children of Kindertransport.
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