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    [Memoirs of Baronne Hildegard von Gumppenberg], (1942-2019)
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    Pages: 4 folders.
    Year of publication: 1942-2019
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish refugees. ; Women authors. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; France. ; Archival materials ; Biographical sources ; Manuscripts. ; Finding aids. ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Two original German manuscripts and their English translations, describing the author’s escape from Nazi Germany (written in 1942) and her subsequent life underground (written in the 1960s).
    Abstract: Also included is a report by Dominique Joliat, who’s father was a Swiss border guard, who rescued Gumppenberg’s original manuscript.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 : "[Vous êtes libre]", Macon; 1942
    Description / Table of Contents: 2 : "La vie de Mme Ducaret". Köln; 1970
    Description / Table of Contents: 3a: "Kaete Hildegard von Gumppenberg", English translation of "[Vous êtes libre]"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 3b: “My Life as Mme Ducaret : Living undercover in Cologne”, English translation of "La vie de Mme Ducaret"; 2017
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 : "1942 : Baroness Von Gumppenberg and her attempted escape to Switzerland"; 2019
    Note: English translations by Gerda Loosemore-Reppen, edited by Ruth and David Geall , German and English , Finding Aid
    URL: Digital form
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    Etwas lernen aus den 30er Jahren“ : www.1938projekt.org – neues Online-Projekt des Leo Baeck Instituts. (2018)
    Köln :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2018
    Keywords: Bistrović, Miriam. ; Mecklenburg, Frank. ; Weitzer, William H. ; Leo Baeck Institute, New York. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Austria. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Germany. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk Köln about the online project "1938 Posts from the Past" by the Leo-Baeck-Institute in New York.
    Abstract: The broadcast on April 13, 2018 was part of a series “Schalom - Jüdisches Leben heute”.
    URL: Digital form
    URL: 1938 Projekt
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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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    Refugee From Nazi Oppression. (2016)
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    Pages: 245 pages : , typescript with reproductions of photographs and documents.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Mechanics. ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1933-1945 1933-1945. ; Wigandsthal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Courtship and marriage of parents; childhood home in Luebeck; memories of nanny; memories of cousin Recha Liebenau; visit to relatives' home in Wigandsthal; school memories; Nazis come to power; summer vacation at Travemuende; origin of family name; work as apprentice machinist; account of Kristallnacht; loss of job; emigration to England; stay in camp with other boys; transfer to St. Felix School, Shaftesbury-Society-Holiday Camp, Lord Kitchener Camp; work in factory; Loughton High School For Boys; beginning of World War II; death of father; work at garage; internment on Isle of Man; deported to Canada; internment; move to Toronto.
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    Abstract: Carlebach, Ephraim; Carlebach, Felix; Carlebach, Salomon; Mansbacher family -- Genealogy; Carlebach, Simson; Ettlinger, Emmy; Ettlinger, Hanni; Ettlinger, Leopold; Falck, Abraham (Adolph) Falck, Juliane; Falck, Margarethe Babette; Fürst, Gertrud; Fürst, Henry; Hofmann, Rudi; Kantor, Fritz; Klein, Eddie; Kluver, Frieda; Liebenau, Recha; Mansbacher, Fritz Ludwig; Mansbacher, Hannah; Mansbacher, Jakob; Mansbacher, Johanna; Mansbacher, Julius; Mansbacher, Käthe; Mansbacher, Martin; Mansbacher, Peter; Mansbacher, Ursula; Mecklenburg, Hermann Marcus; Mecklenburg, Thea; Norman, Horace; Schön, Ellen; Weiss, Felix; Wreschner, Alice; Zimmer, George; Zimmer, Paula.
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    Seefahrtsbuch H 8098 : (Eine unglaubliche Geschichte). (2016)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 19 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Sailors. ; Voyages and travels. ; Egypt. ; India. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Hans Neter's escape from Germany as a stoker on a German steamer in 1935; illegal stays in Egypt and India during World War II; immigration to USA after World War II.
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    Kde domov můj ... : (Where is my home?) (2014)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 163 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Goldschmidt family. ; Heintschel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education. ; Families. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Czechoslovakia. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Die Menorah von Oberstein : Eine Geschichte zur Reichspogromnacht in Idar-Oberstein und Mannheim. (2013)
    [Oberhausen] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 , pages : , typescript; illustrated (efile).
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Becker, Helmut. ; Eppstein, Heinrich. ; Eppstein, Paula. ; Mayer, Johanna. ; Ostermann, Jacob. ; Jews, German Persecutions 1933-1938. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Mischlinge (Nuremberg Laws of 1935) ; Synagogues ; Idar-Oberstein (Germany) ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Account about Kristallnacht in the town of Oberstein and about the fate of families in the region in light of Nazi racial laws.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form
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    Memories of Eva Luzia Greenberg (1929--2012) : Notes of loving remembrance from her family and friends. (2012)
    [Oberlin, Ohio] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: circa 120 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Librarians. ; Women authors. ; Oberlin (Ohio) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: In addition to the notes by friends and family written after her passing, the manuscript contains some of Eva Grenberg’s own published writings.
    URL: Digital form:
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    [Oma’s and Opa’s stories]. (2010)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 4 + 4 pages : , typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Marshall, Lotte. ; Marshall, Walter. ; Juedischer Jugendbund. ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Portugal Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Spain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
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    London, Paris, Laupheim : August 2010. (2010)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 54 pages : , photographs book; illustrations
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Jews Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; Jewish communities ; Laupheim (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Travelogue of a trip by Henry Rieser and his son, Ari, to the ancestral home in Laupheim, Germany
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    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
    Note: English
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    [Janik's memoirs]. (2008)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 450 + 208 + 316 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2008
    Keywords: Sainz, Paco. ; Artists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Munich (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Janik Remembers - 1932-1957
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: Janik - 1960-1972
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III. Janik - Years with Paco Sainz
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    9. November 1938 - 9. November 2006 - gegen das Vergessen : Materialsammlung zum Kurzvortrag im Regionalmuseum Alsfeld: ‘Der 9. November 1938, das letzte Ausrufezeichen!’. (2006)
    Alsfeld :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 + 12 pages : , clippings, print.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; Alsfeld (Germany) ; Clippings ; Publications.
    Abstract: Clippings, copied documents (correspondence, photographs, etc.) and explanatory texts commemorating “Kristallnacht’s” 68th anniversary in the town of Alsfeld in Hesse, Germany.
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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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    9. November 1938 - 9. November 2005 - gegen das Vergessen : Materialsammlung zur Gespraechsrunde im Regionalmuseum Alsfeld. (2005)
    Alsfeld :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 46 pages : , clippings, print.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Synagogues ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; Alsfeld (Germany) ; Clippings ; Publications.
    Abstract: Clippings, copied documents (correspondence, photographs, etc.) and explanatory texts commemorating “Kristallnacht’s” 67th anniversary in the town of Alsfeld in Hesse, Germany.
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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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    A not so brief review of my life / (2004)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 131 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: 1 notebook
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Jewish families ; Metallurgy. ; Metal trade. ; Voyages and travels. ; Cologne (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Manuscripts. ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir describes the author’s family background; his work in Germany, 1935-1936; and his work and business activities in New York and worldwide, 1937-1982. A fourth part of this memoir, describing the author’s experience as a subject of an FBI espionage investigation, 1941-1944, may be found in the Kurt E. Reinsberg Collection, AR 11356.
    Abstract: Also included is a “compositions” notebook with handwritten analyses of metals, 1937-1940.
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    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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    Memoirs, (2003)
    Marblehead, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 11 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Hirschkron, Robert, 1928. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Emigration and immigration ; Hirschkron family. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Originally 38 pages long, the Archives at the Leo Baeck Institute hold only the first 11 pages of the memoir which cover the time period before the Hirschkron family's emigration to the USA, and the first years thereafter. The memoir starts with brief memories about Mr. Hirschkron's paternal grandparents and the neighbourhood they were living in, which was the second district of Vienna. Just one year after his birth, the young family moves out from the grandparents' apartment to an apartment in the seventh district of Vienna, on Burggasse. The family had a house in Hinterbruehl where they used to go during holidays. Later on, they started to summer in Alt Aussee. More detailed descriptions are provided of the events during the Anschluss and the Kristallnacht, after which the family was relocated to Biberstrasse where they had to share the apartment with strangers. After their visas were granted, the family left for New York in January 1940. The last three pages talk about their arrival in New York City, difficulties with finding jobs and general living conditions for immigrants.
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    Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] (2003)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 44 + 42 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Löbl, Friedl, ; Löbl, Sally, ; Löbl, Werner, ; Samson, Dorothee. ; Samson, Richard. ; Bunce Court School. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Kent (England) ; Quito (Ecuador) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Typed transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:
    Abstract: Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.
    Abstract: Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.
    Abstract: Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.
    Description / Table of Contents: Erika's Tagebuch
    Description / Table of Contents: In's neue Leben
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    Die Lebensgeschichte meiner Eltern. (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 33 + 24 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: documents; clippings (all photocopies)
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Blum, Annelies, ; Blum, Gustav, ; Blum, Bella (née Behr), ; Jewish refugees ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lumber trade. ; Estoril (Portugal) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Portugal Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Fritz Blum mainly writes about his parents Gustav and Bella Blum (née Behr), covering approx. the years 1881-1992. He describes his father's various businesses and his family's emigration to Portugal in 1938. The bulk of the memoir deals with the family's stay in Portugal from 1938 to 1941.
    Abstract: Photocopies of certificates, correspondence, photographs, and other archival materials are interspersed with the German text in folder 1.
    Abstract: Also included is a brochure of an exhibition about refugees in Portugal at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt in 1997.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Memoir in German
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Memoir in English
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Exhibition material
    Note: German and English
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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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    If not for Hitler, (2003)
    Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 12 pages : , typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Jews History 20th century. ; Emigration and immigration ; Kristallnacht. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Women authors. ; Lerman, Anny (nee Ulmer) 1925. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the events following the German annexion of Austria in March 1938. Anny Lerman was transferred to a Jewish school, the family was evicted from their apartment. She eyewitnessed Kristallnight, the pogrom in November 1938. In February, the family decides to flee from Austria. They took a train to Mistelbach, a village close to the Czechoslovakian border, and marched to the other side of the border during night. They could stay in Brno with her father's brother, but soon went illegally to Palestine. Anny Lerman describes the daily routine on the 3-month long journey on the ship to Palestine. The final pages are dedicated to her life in Palestine.
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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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    Sehr geehrte Herren!. (2003)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2003
    Former Title: Untitled
    Keywords: Haber family. ; Uri family. ; Uri, Max, ; Haganah (Organization) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written as a letter in January of 2003. The author's grandfather was a producer of military uniforms during World War One. Max Uri attended 4 years of the Gymnasium and 4 years of business school (Handelsschule). He came from an orthodox Jewish family. Recollections of his school years and rising national socialism among his fellow students. Max was only one of 8 Jews in his class of 50 students. Memories of the author’s years at the Gymnasium, where he frequently encountered anti-Semitism due to his orthodox upbringing. Recollections of the terrors of the Kristallnacht in November of 1938, when he was arrested and beaten and only narrowly escaped transportation to Dachau concentration camp. His family managed to get the children out of the country. His sisters were sent as domestic help and his younger brother with a Kindertransport to England. Max managed to be accepted for an agricultural school in Palestine. He enrolled in the “Haganah” and became an officer. In 1941 he got married to Fritzi Haber. Their son was born in 1942. Max Uri participated in the war efforts of the Jewish Brigade and the British army during World War Two. Difficulties to establish a household in Palestine. Move to Vienna together with his family and his in-laws. Decision to leave for the United States, where Max Uri lived with his family for 10 years. He came back to Vienna to take over his father in law’s furrier business.
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    History re-edited. (2003)
    Carmel, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: He, Fengshan, ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Emigration and immigration ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lotte Marcus was asked in 2002 by a friend to look for her passport from Shanghai, which brought back old memories and initiated writing this memoir. Embedded are also 2 photographs. Procedure of obtaining visas, desperate situation in Vienna, relatives deported to Dachau, visit of the daughter of the Chinese diplomat, Feng Shan Ho, who issued visas to Shanghai, China, to save refugees. By looking through her old passport's stamps, she recalls the places she passed on her journey to Shanghai.
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    Diaries, (2002)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 100 pages : , handwritten manuscript (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: 37 pages typescript
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels ; Women authors. ; Germany History Nineteen thirties. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: 5 diaries written by Margaret Kahn's mother, Lisbeth Schmidt. Most of her early writings refer to travelling across Europe. A brief description is provided of events in 1933 when Nazis took over power in Germany. During Kristallnacht, her husband Fritz is taken to the police. They are able to leave Germany, first to Holland, then to the USA where they settle in New York. From 1950 on, all entries were written in English. Enclosed is also a letter from her parents to her daughter Margrit for her birthday, dated January 16, 1941, Amsterdam.
    Note: English translation , German
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    My Jewish heritage / (2002)
    Hamden, CT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: circa 135 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Identity. ; Rabbis. ; Synagogues. ; Voyages and travels. ; Ahlem (Germany) History. ; Oświęcim (Poland) Description and travel. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: This is an illustrated travelogue, complete with a condensed family tree, photographs, ephemera and news clippings. Through these materials, Peter C. Hereld discusses the role and relevance the Jewish religion had on his life. The various synagogues Hereld attended while living in different cities are also discussed. Community bulletins, news articles and photographs of services accompany the descriptions of synagogues. In addition to histories of the cities of Ahlem and Auschwitz, Hereld includes histories of the Wolfes and Schusters families, and a section on Rabbis of influence in his life.
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    Growing up in Germany. (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Opel family. ; Liechtenstein family. ; Families ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New Zealand Emigration and immigration. ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a recorded document of an interview conducted in September 2002. Description of family background. Her father Fritz Opel was a journalist from a non-Jewish family, her mother Else, née Liechtenstein came from a large Jewish family in Berlin. Her father was killed shortly after her birth during World War One. Recollections of early childhood in Berlin, where Marianne and her older brother Fritz lived with their widowed mother in modest circumstances. Summer vaccations in the family’s country house in the Riesengebirge. Marianne attended a boarding school in Letzlingen. After her graduation she dismissed her dream to become a doctor and accepted a position as a secretary in order to help supporting her family. Rising of Nazi movement. Her brother was arrested for political activities and served three years in jail. After his release he immedeatly left Germany and escaped to Switzerland. Marianne received a permit as a domestic help for New Zealand and emigrated in 1939.
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    Family memories / (2002)
    Carmel, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Lieberg family. ; Lieberg, Max, ; Lieberg, Moritz. ; Country life. ; Metal trade. ; Women authors. ; Hesse (Germany) ; Kassel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English version of an original text, written in Stuttgart in 1933.
    Abstract: History of the Lieberg family and especially Erna Sander's father Moritz Lieberg who operated the metal factory 'Messinghof' near Kassel; life in Messinghof;
    Abstract: Also included are photographs taken in Messinghof in 2002.
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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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    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
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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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    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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    The rise of Nazism before World War II : Memories of Germany (2001)
    Seattle, WA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 52 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Birnbaum, Hilde (née Merzbach), ; Merzbach family. ; Heim family. ; Seligmann, Caesar, ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Nazis. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Limburg an der Lahn (Germany) ; London (England) ; Palestine. ; Seattle (Wash.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir is a transcript of an interview with Hilde Birnbaum from June to August of 1999, conducted by Judith Bendor in Seattle, Washington. Description of the Frankfurt Jewish community, where Hilde’s father was the leader of the Gemeinde. Hilde had private lessons in Hebrew with the rabbi Caesar Seligmann. Hilde reflects on the time leading up to the rise of Nazism in Germany. She was a law student and was already very aware of the dangers of National Socialism prior to 1933 due to her frequent travels abroad. In 1931 she worked in an internship at a law firm in London. After the overwhelming success of the Nazis at the elections she decided not to return to Germany, since she did not see a future for herself as a woman and a Jew. Her father convinced her to finish her studies in Germany. Continuation of studies in Freiburg and encounter with Nazi student groups as a member of the social-democratic student faction. Graduation and Referendar position in Limburg in 1932. In March of 1933 she left Germany with her sister Edith for England, being warned by colleagues at court of the anti-Jewish boycot. They crossed the Dutch border and waited for invitations from relatives in London in order to get an entry permit for England. They were warmly received by the Heim family and settled in London. Difficulties of finding work. Hilde was introduced to influential British journalists and politicians, who disregarded her concerns of the possible dangers of Nazi Germany.
    Abstract: The following years she travelled frequently to Germany to convince her parents and friends to leave the country, until she was declared an enemy of the Reich and lost her German citizenship. Her mother started preparations to leave without the knowledge of her husband. Observations about life in Nazi Germany. Trip to Palestine in 1936. In 1938, only weeks before “Kristallnacht”, Hilde’s parents joined her in London, before they went to the United States. Her sister Edith had already left with her husband for Seattle in 1936. Preperations for Hilde’s emigration to the United States. She arrived in Seattle in the winter of 1938.
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    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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    My life. Memoirs of Irma Reiss, 1910-2000 / (2001)
    Highland Park, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Goldblum family. ; Reiss, Leonhard. ; Agudat Israel. ; Blau-Weiss Bund fuer Juedisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland (1913- ) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1986 in the USA and was edited by the author's son Nathan M. Reiss. Irma Reiss was the second child of three of Bertha and Leopold Goldblum. The family lived Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, which had a small Jewish community. Her father was a shoemaker. Description of domestic life in rural Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Recollection of Sabbath preparations in her family. Memories of school life. Hebrew lessons with her uncle Friedmann, who was the cantor and shochet of the town. Visits to relatives in Rossdorf by Darmstadt. Recollections of World War One. Her father Leopold, an Austrian citizen from Galicia, served in the Austrian Army. Celebration of the high holidays. Recollection of Irma Reiss' schooldays in Heppenheim, where she was a well-liked student. Irma and her sister were members of the local Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss". Their group leaders were Rafael and Eva Buber, children of Martin Buber, who lived in Heppenheim and was very supportive of the youth movement. At age 14 Irma was sent to her uncle's family to help taking care of the children. She took continued education classes. Afterwards she worked as a "house daughter" with a religious family in Frankfurt. Irma became a member of the Agudas Yisroel. After the Nazi take-over in Germany their American relatives provided them with affidavits to join them in the States. Growing anti-Semitism. Irma Goldblum left Germany on September 15th, 1938. Her parents stayed behind because her father, who was born in Galicia, still had to wait for his affidavit due to the Polish quota regulations. Difficulties in starting a new life in New York. Worries about her parents in Germany. During the night of the November Pogrom in 1938 her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After three weeks he was released and was able to leave together with his wife for the States. Support of their relatives to start a new life.
    Abstract: Irma Goldblum got married to Leonhard Reiss in December 1939. Thei had two sons, Nathan and Barry Reiss.
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    Lecture given at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. (2001)
    San Francisco :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Rathenau, Walther, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Paris (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The lecture was held at the Goethe Institute in San Francisco. Description of life in Berlin in the 1920s. Childhood in an assimilated well-to-do Jewish family the Weimar Republic. Her father was a lawyer and editor of the "Vossische Zeitung", who had his office in the front part of the apartment. Her mother a devoted singer who performed occasionally at the "Singakademie". Recollections of Sunday morning walks and visits to the museum at the center of the town. Earliest memories of food shortages during World War One. Private lessons in the aftermath of the war. Summer vacations in the German and Swiss Alps. Birth of her younger brother in 1921. Visits at her grandparents together with her older sister Irene. Memories of Christmas celebrations with family gatherings. Celebration of the Jewish holidays with her maternal grandparents, who were devoted orthodox Jews. Recollection of the assassination of Walter Rathenau in 1922, which made her aware of the undercurrent antisemitism. Her father became an active member of the Democratic party and was elected alderman (Stadtrat) of the city of Berlin in 1928. Description of the vibrating cultural life of Berlin. Eleanor attended the Auguste Viktoria Realgymnasium, an all-girls school preparing for university. Recollection of teachers and schoolmates. Theater and concerts. Private dance classes. Summer vacation in England to improve her English skills in 1931. Eleanor passed her final exams in 1932 and started to study medicine at the university in Heidelberg. Rising antisemitism and political unrest. With Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933 Jewish students were soon expelled from university. Soon thereafter Eleanor left Germany for Paris.
    Note: See also "Eleanor Alexander Collection" (AR 6414), and four other memoirs by Eleanor Alexander: ME 995, Me 1071, Me 1107, Me 1113 , English , Synopsis in file
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    [Speeches and memories], (1997-2001)
    [New Orleans] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    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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    Mi ultimo testimonio. (2000)
    Santiago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 16 + 16 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Seelenberger, Albert, ; Seelenberger, Martha, ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Furniture industry and trade. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Chile Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Grünstadt (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain recollections of the Nazi terror during the November pogrom night of 1938. The author's father Albert Seelenberger was the owner of a large furniture factory. After the take-over by the Nazis Albert and his wife Martha were detained for the first time in 1934 in order to force them to give up their property. Description of Nazi laws and anti-Jewish regulations. Impact of the Nuremberg laws on the Seelenberger family. Albert Seelenberger was arrested in the night of the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) and deported together with his son Gustav to Dachau concentration camp. Description of torture and abuse and the agonizing circumstances of life in the camp. After their release the family tried to organize exit visas. Gustav Seelenberger emigrated to Chile in June 1939. His parents, who were to follow shortly thereafter, were deported to Auschwitz and Majdanek, where they perished.
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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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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 12 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2000
    Keywords: Tepper, Elsa, ; Tepper, Minna. ; Tepper, Wilhelm, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Salaspils (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Lauenburg (Germany) ; Rīga (Latvia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1946 in Austria, shortly after her liberation. Minna recalls her deportation in February 1942. She was taken to Riga together with her parents and her husband. Her mother was killed upon their arrival. Her father and her husband were taken to Salaspils for forced labor, where the later perished. Minna, who was pregnant with her first child, was forced to undergo an abortion. She describes her experiences of Nazi sadism in the Ghetto of Riga, especially by the Ghetto commanders Krause and Roschmann. In 1943 Minna was taken for peat cutting labor to Olaine. In November 1943 Minna and her father were reunited at the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga. From there both were taken to Spilve - a labor camp at a German air base, which was under worse conditions than the first camp. They worked in the cold without appropriate shoes and in thin clothes. Due to the exhausting conditions Minna's father Wilhelm was getting weaker and eventually was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. Minna was taken to Stutthof, which was overcrowded and in primitive conditions. They were taken to an exterior labor camp, where they had to build trenches for the German defense in the rain and cold. They suffered of constant hunger. In January 1945 the camp was dissolved and all sick and disabled were killed. They were marched under exhausting conditions in the snow and cold. For all missing women ten others were chosen randomly to be killed. After a week Minna was finally too exhausted to continue walking and stayed behind. The guard who was supposed to kill her fired the bullet over her head and left her for dead in the snow. She was rescued and brought to a house, where she was given food and a place to sleep. She was discovered by a German police officer, who was about to shoot her along with other Jewish fugitives. Minna was saved by her Viennese accent, which convinced him that she was a gentile woman.
    Abstract: She was taken to a mobile army hospital and treated for her frozen feet. In March 1945 Minna was liberated in Lauenburg, Prussia, where she was sent by German hospitals as an unidentified Jewish patient.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Nini Ungar's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1536.
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    From Berlin to Ecuador : (1940-1941) (2000)
    Austin, TX :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 82 pages : , bound typescript; maps
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Hias-Ica Emigration Association. ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; South America. ; Japan. ; Korea. ; Soviet Union. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of a four months long journey (October 1941-January 1941) from Frankfurt via Soviet Union, Korea, Japan to South America. Very detailed description of countryside, people and mores of the places she encountered.
    Abstract: English translation by Miguel Bamberger, juxtaposed with a German transcript and maps
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    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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    How we survived : Chronicles of our families. (2000)
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    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: David, Frank. ; Dreyfuss, Albert, ; Dreyfuss family. ; Dreyfuss, Franziska (née Grünbaum), ; Dreyfuss, Fritz. ; Oppenheimer, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir contains the first chapter of Luise David's autobiography. Recollections of her mother Franziska Gruenbaum, who - after a love affair to an unsuitable partner - was married to the physician Albert Dreyfuss in 1908. The couple had two children, Fritz and Luise. Her husband served in World War One. After years of depression and frequent sojourns in different sanatoria, Franziska Dreyfuss commited suicide in 1919. Luise was sent to her father's family in Landau. The family was reunited again a year later, when Albert Dreyfuss married his second wife Alice Oppenheimer in 1920. Celebration of holidays at the Dreyfuss family in Landau. Weekend outings in the countryside. Recollection of the author's childhood with various nannys and governesses. Early interest in dress making and clothing. Awareness of her different status as the daughter of the town's physician and as a Jewish girl. Encounters with anti-Semitism. Luise was enrolled in the "lyceum" (girl's school), where she became an excellent student. Rising Nazi movement. Her brother Fritz emigrated to Switzerland in 1933.
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    La Partida (The Departure) / (2000)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 42 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Wohlmuth family. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of Tony Wohlmuth's memoir "La Partida" by John Grossmann
    Abstract: This book is based on Tony Wohlmuth's experiences during the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany and her father’s healthy premonition of danger to leave the country as soon as possible. In 1937 the whole family were allowed to enter Argentina where they tried to build a new life. Inspired by her father’s education she supported the “Theodor Herzl group” and the “Zionist movement” and helped to train people who wanted to immigrate to Palestine living in a Kibbutz.
    Abstract: In another part of the book Tony Wohlmuth introduces into the genealogy of her family and describes also the feelings for her relatives.
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    Escape from the Holocaust. (2000)
    Charleston, SC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 pages : , typescript, copies.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Antisemitism History 20th century. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir was written for a Holocaust Survivors' Webpage for people who went to Hunter College High School, New York City, NY. Lisa F. Barclay's memoir is short and concise. She talks briefly about her family's background and her childhood in pre-war Vienna. The "Anschluss" of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938 changed everything. The family was forced to emigrate. Her parents were a mixed couple - the father Jewish, the mother a Catholic. They got help from a number of Catholic friends, which gave them a few more options than a Jewish family. They got the US affidavit through an American relative, but had to wait long for the actual visas, since her father was born in Hungary and therefore considered under the quota for Hungarian citizens. After leaving Austria in 1938, they temporarliy lived in Paris, France, and Lisbon, Portugal. The memoir ends with a description of the living conditions after their arrival in New York.
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    Besuch in Wien / (1999)
    Miami, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 + 13 , handwritten manuscript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Fliegel family. ; Jewish Welcome Service, Vienna. ; Jews ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Voyages and travels. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are written in form of two letters. In the first letter "Besuch in Wien - Juni 1999", Hans Fliegel tells about his experiences on his visit to Vienna in May/June 1999 (following an invitation by the Jewish Welcome Service). He describes a walk in Vienna, mainly the second district, and as he stops in front of buildings with a personal significance for him, he unfolds parts of his family history, memories of family businesses and apartments.
    Abstract: In the second letter "Ernuechterung - fuer immer verdammt?!", Mr. Hans Fliegel gives an overview of the history of European Jewry, the Jews in Vienna, and his views of Austria before, during and after World War II. He also reflects his own experiences.
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    Austrian memories. (1999)
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    Pages: 6 + 95 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Kellner, Dora. ; Meller, Rosza. ; Menelik ; Popper family ; Popper, Friedl ; Popper, Julius ; Popper, Laura ; Schanzer, Rosa ; Weiss, Henriette ; Weiss, Klara ; Wolkenberg, Alfred ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbruck (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism ; Education, Secondary 1918-1938. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Innsbruck (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of the physician Robert Popper, interspersed with text by others, and richly illustrated with reproductions of photographs and documents.
    Abstract: Born in 1909 in Innsbruck; brief accounts of extended family members' lives; first five years spent in Innsbruck; following childhood years spent at sanitarium in Breitenstein founded by his aunt; letter from cousin Roszika Meller of 1945 relating experiences of her family in Budapest during German occupation; includes account of cousin Erna Low of her survival in Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Neustadt-Cleve; additional memoir of Erna Low about a childhood experience; translation of his mother's account traveling in England and France during the outbreak of World War I; experience of anti-Semitism in Innsbruck; becoming a physician at the sanitarium at Breitenstein; account of life after Anschluss; account of parent's experience of Kristallnacht in Innsbruck, including translated letter from mother recounting experiences on Kristallnacht; emigration to United States in 1939; emigration of brother, parents to England in 1939; medical school in the United States.
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    Looking back : Paper given for the chestnut club. (1999)
    [Hamilton, Ohio] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 8 + 27 , synopsis; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Morgenroth family. ; Morgenroth, Julius, ; Jews History. ; Jews History. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Women authors. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir and family history written between 1979 and 1982.
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    Where the wolves say goodnight : Memoirs of a mother Hitler couldn't catch (1999)
    La Quinta, CA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 153 pages : , typescript, photocopy.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Abraham, Walter. ; Fromm, Frieda. ; Fromm, Meyer. ; Nickel, Maria. ; Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, Berlin (1933-1941) ; Antisemitism. ; Dressmakers. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1918 ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lubawa (Poland) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1999 in California. Memories of Ruth Abraham's childhood in Löbau, West Prussia. She grew up in an orthodox family. Her father, Meyer Fromm, was a wealthy merchant. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish holidays. Relationship between the Jewish and Christian community. Antisemitism after World War One, when Löbau became Polish. Rumors of pogroms in Russia. Opting for German citizenship and move to Allenstein near Koenigsberg in 1921. Early interest in dressmaking. Ruth was enrolled in the Luisen Schule, a homemaking school for girls. Private Religion and Hebrew classes at home. Importance of family ties. Increasing encounters of alienation with non-Jewish friends, who stopped associating with her. Rising Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism. Apprenticeship at the family's dressmaker. First signs of the growing danger in Germany. In 1932 her sister Betty left for Palestine. Move to Berlin, where she stayed at her sisters' houses, who were both married to affluent business men and led the lives of comfortable middle class wives. Fascinating cultural life in Berlin. Working with various dressmakers. Jewish life slowly disappeared into private life due to fears of stirring attention. Increasing persecution and awareness of permanent danger. Zionist lectures and activities. Trip to Italy and Palestine to visit her sister in February 1938. Witnessing the terror of the "Kristallnacht" (November Pogrom). Attending performances of the Kulturbund (Jewish arts society) to escape the dreadful reality. Engagement with Walter Abraham. Fervent attempts to arrange an exit visa for the family. First deportations of relatives to camps in Poland. Forced labor in a pharmacy corporation. In 1942 Ruth became pregnant. Deportation of her parents. Encounter with a German woman, Maria Nickel, who offered her help. Birth of their daughter Reha and life in hiding in the countryside. Escape from a SS raid. Hiding in Berlin and life on the streets.
    Abstract: False identity and hiding place in the countryside. Liberation by the Russian army. Imprisonment of her husband accused of being a Nazi spy. Return to Berlin and liberation by the Americans.
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    Recollections of my life : An autobiography (1999)
    [Adelaide] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 125 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Pagel, Hans Isaac. ; Pagel, Regina. ; Tuckfield, Milton James. ; Australia. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish religious education. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Kępno (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir covers 1919 to 1999. Childhood memoirs of Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where Eva grew up as the third daughter of Hans Isaac and Regina Pagel. Her parents were highly respected members of the Jewish community as well as of the Zionist Movement. They owned a ladies' boutique and were rather affluent. Memories of Shabbat celebrations and observance of the holidays. Eva was enrolled in a Jewish public school. Hebrew school in the afternoons. At the age of eight Eva joined a Jewish youth group. Passion for books and theater. Recollections of the airship "Zeppelin Hindenburg". Trips to Berlin to visit her mother's parents. Holidays at her grandparents in Kempen (Kepno), where her father was born. After the Jewish primary school Eva attented the public girl's school (Gymnasium). Political tensions and the rise of Nazis. Emigration to Palestine via Romania, Hungary and Italy in 1932. Life in Tel Aviv, where her parents opened the first ladies' boutique "Ha Geveret". Difficulties of learning the new language (Ivrith). Member of the sport's club Maccabi, where Eva (Hava) was in the swimming team. Underground activities in the Haganah, the Israeli defense movement. Work as a photographer, in a kindergarten and in a flower shop. Recollections of the Arab uprising in 1936. Flow of new immigrants from Germany and Austria due to the dramatic political events in Europe. Outbreak of World War II. Friendship with an Australian soldier, who was stationed at Palestine. Marriage with James Tuckfield in April 1942. Difficulties with her father, who did not accept her Gentile husband. Birth of their son Raymond Gil. Emigration to Australia via Egypt and India in November 1944. Arrival in Melbourne in January 1945. Welcome by her husband's family in Adelaide, South Australia. End of the war and reunion with her husband. Birth of their daughter Judith Dawn in 1946 and move to Brownville. Birth of their son Allen David in 1948.
    Abstract: Declaration of the State of Israel. Visiting her family in Israel in 1970. Trip to Europe and Israel together with her husband in 1973. Birth of their grandchildren. Death of her husband in 1979. Various journeys to China, Cyprus, Israel and Europe.
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    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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    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
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    Language: English
    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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    My story : [1915-1999]. (1999)
    Cadwell, NJ,
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    Language: English
    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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    Momma's arc / (1999)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 94 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Ensel, Judah. ; Harnish, Clara. ; Harnish, Franz. ; Leitner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Mauthner, Herbert, ; Mauthner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Weinberg family. ; Weinberg, Guy. ; Civil disobedience ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Blaricum (Netherlands) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Thuringia (Germany) ; Veszprém (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.
    Abstract: Description of the author's childhood in Amsterdam. German invasion of the Netherlands in 1941. Recollections of a visit at her maternal grandparents in Groszbuch, Germany in 1942. During the Nazi occupation, Julia, her mother, and her stepfather Herbert Mauthner moved to Blaricum, a town in the Dutch countryside. Julia, protected through her Gentile mother and "unknown" father, was enrolled in the local school. Her mother was part of the Dutch Resistance. She saved 6 Jews (including her husband and her mother-in-law) and later a German Wehrmacht deserter in Blaricum by hiding them in the attic of her house. Description of the life of the people hiding in "her mother's arc" and occasional razzias by the SS. Fate of her scattered family during the Holocaust.
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    A train to tomorrow: A Jewish child's odyssey of survival. (1999)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 10 pages : , typed and bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kindertransports (Resü operations) ; Women authors. ; Tepper, Gertrude (nee Zell) 1923. ; Zell, Paul. ; Kindertransports (Resue operations) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A small booklet containing memoirs of Ms. Tepper and her brother Paul Zell, as well as 4 photographic prints of Ms. Tepper and her family members. The booklet was published by the Temple Adath Yeshurun in Syracuse, NY, 09/20/1999.
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    Two families. (1999)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 + xiii + 79 + viii pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Baschwitz family. ; Herzberg family. ; Schiff family. ; Wolfsohn family. ; Goldmann, Nahum, ; Art appreciation. ; Assimilation Jews. ; Jewish families. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Music appreciation. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Wuppertal (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of the related Wolfsohn and Schiff families, covering 1776-1982.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Mordehai Akdon; Prince Czartoryski; Andrea Guarneri, 1626-1698; Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, 1687-1742; Leopold Krakauer, 1890-1954; Arturo Toscanini, 1867-1957; Richard Wagner 1813-1883
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 1: The Wolfsohn family
    Description / Table of Contents: Book 2: The Schiff family
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    Berlin stories. (1999)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Willdorff family. ; Apartments. ; Journalists. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    [Pirmasens in der Pfalz ist meine Geburts- und Heimatstadt]. (1998)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Simon, Fred. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Pirmasens (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Political background to rise of Nazis in Pirmasens; account of Kristallnacht in Pirmasens; expulsion of Jewish men from Pirmasens to France; forced return to Germany; march from the town of Schweix to Pirmasens; deportation to Dachau via Ludwigshafen; arrival in Dachau; life in the camp; death of father at Dachau; release from Dachau with brother.
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    Autobiography of Lisel Salzer. (1998)
    Seattle, WA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 , bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Salzer, Lisel. ; Dubrowsky, Joseph ; Ehrlich, Bettina ; Ehrlich, Georg ; Grom-Rothmeyer, Abdul Hamid ; Grossmann, Frederick M. ; Salzer, Hermann ; Seligman, Otto ; Spiral, Hilde ; Weil, Lisl. ; Zeisl, Erich ; Artists. ; Families 20th century. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women artists. ; Women authors. ; Women Education 1871-1918. ; Women Employment. ; Austria History. ; Seattle (Wash.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States History 1945- ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Early childhood memories; family apartments; Gymnasium; art school; art study in Paris; establishment as professional artist in Vienna; circle of friends in Vienna; emigration to New York; work in New York as fashion illustrator; exhibitions; painted portrait of Grandma Moses; a year with husband on Indian reservations; travels in western United States; move to Seattle; life in Seattle; work as portrait artist; death of husband; acquisition of piano; founding of art galleries in Seattle; surgery for bladder cancer; travels and artistic activities; work for Adlai Stevenson campaign; friends in Seattle over the years.
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    Through hell with a guardian angel : [1900-1998] (1998)
    Haifa,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 69 , typescript (photocopies).
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Hacker, Edith, ; Mengele, Josef, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camps) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Guben (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Israel Emigration and immigration after 1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Yugoslavia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoires by Dr. Ruth Gutman, written June-August 1998 in Haifa, describing mainly her family's history in Bosnia and Austria, her experiences in Yugoslavia during World War II, and her survival of Auschwitz and other concentration camps.
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    Kindheit in Berlin Charlottenburg Ahornallee 33. (1998)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Germany. ; Katholische Schule Liebfrauen‏ (Berlin, Germany) ; Boarding schools. ; Christian education. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Catholics ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brambach (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Publications. ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was published in "Katholische Schule Liebfrauen, Berlin: Schulchronik," 1998, pages 33 - 38.
    Abstract: The author describes her childhood memories as a child of a Christian journalist and a mother from a well-to-do Jewish family. Margit Korge's parents got divorced in 1935. At the age of 7 she was taken to a Catholic boarding school. Her mother immigrated to the United States and left her daughter in the care of the nuns of the order "Our dear Lady" (Unserer lieben Frau). Margit's grandparents, the textile merchants Anita and Salomon Kalman paid for her education. The boarding school was located in an exclusive villa and hosted children of the high society. Margit was fascinated by the rituals of the Catholic surroundings. The nuns showed a loving care and made efforts to integrate her in an environment alien to her. At the same time restriction of her strong desire for independence through firm rules and distanced relationships in the nunnery. Estrangement from her classmates due to her mixed heritage. Last encounters with her maternal grandparents prior to their deportation. Growing danger and Gestapo investigations. In 1942 she had to leave the boarding school and lived without legal permission at her paternal grandparents. In 1944 she was taken to Brambach, where she survived the war in hiding.
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    Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 38 + 28 pages : , manuscript; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942-1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Fischer, Erwin. ; Treu family. ; Laundry. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Rheda (Harsewinkel, Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Louise Fischer's life story written by her at the Aldersbrook Hospital in England in April of 1942. Also available is an English translation by by Erwin Fischer, 1998.
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    Shulamith Ben Dror : Recollections 1919-1944. (1998)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 22 + 2 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Anrooy, Peter van, ; Borchardt family. ; Borchardt, Ursula, ; Hermann, Georg, ; Heynemann, Martha, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Children of divorced parents. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Hilversum (Netherlands) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Schlierbach (Heidelberg, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are a transcript of a taped conversation with Ursula Borchardt by George Rothschild in 1998. Description of her family background. Ursula lived with her parents in an apartment building in Schlierbach, near Heidelberg. She attended a private Jewish kindergarten. Ursula was frequently taken care of by relatives, since her parents were traveling a lot. After the early death of her mother, Ursula was taken care of by nannies. Friendly relations with her father’s first wife, the pianist Martha Heynemann and her half-siblings of that marriage. Trip to Holland via Cologne in 1929. In 1931 Ursula moved with her father to Berlin. Recollections of a somehow chaotic household, where she was left to herself frequently. She attended Tielien Schule. First signs of rising Nazism. Her father received a warning and fled to Holland during the elections in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power. Ursula was left to live with her father’s first wife, Martha. She joined her father in April of 1933 in Laren, Holland. She went to live with friends of her parents, the conductor Peter van Anrooy and his family in Hilversum. She learned Dutch and went to a Gymnasium in Hilversum. Language exchange trip to Paris in 1935 and London in 1937. German occupation. Marriage to Herbert Kalmann in 1940 and changing her name to Shulamith. Birth of their son Micky (Peter Kalmann) in 1941. Breakup with her husband in the same year and move in with her father. In 1943 they were forced to leave their apartment and move to Amsterdam. Deportation to Westerbork camp in June of 1943. Her father was deported to Auschwitz in November of 1943, where he died on arrival. Emergency affidavits for Shulamith, her son and her father arrived weeks after his deportation in Westerbork.
    Abstract: In 1944 Shulamit was transported with her son to Bergen-Belsen, where they waited for their exchange to Palestine. Description of the dreadful conditions of the camp. Start of the typhoid fever among camp inmates. In mid 1944 she was moved with her son to another part of the camp, where they were seperated from the main camp and lived under somehow improved circumstances, forming the Group 222 to be exchanged for German templars in Palestine. Transport to Palestine via Vienna and Turkey in June and July of 1944. Arrival in Haifa and start of a new life in a kibbutz.
    Abstract: Includes family tree of the Borchardt family.
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    Unausloeschliche Erinnerungen. (1998)
    Hamburg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 52 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Schools ; Women authors. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was published by the Gymnasium Allee-Altona, Hamburg, Herta Grove's high school, in December 1998. The main focus lies on her memories of school life, and the changes after the Nazis' rise to power. Herta Grove steps back and forth between her own memories and wider reflections on her relationship to Germany. The memoir includes private and official corespondence, and photographs.
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    A personal history. (1998)
    Manila, Philippines :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 142 pages : , printed manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Brings, Paula Katz, 1905-2001. ; Birnbaum, Helene. ; Birnbaum, Herbert. ; Birnbaum, Judith. ; Birnbaum, Robert. ; Birnbaum, Therese (Tessy) ; Walter, Bruno. ; Antisemitism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Manners and customs ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; Burgenland (Austria) ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Philippines Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A series of lengthy Oral History Interviews conducted by Peter Farquhar. For more than six hours over several days Paula Brings told her life as a girl and young woman in Vienna, the escape to the Philippines, the terror and destruction of the Japanese conquest, the builiding of a new independent Philippines in the post-war years, becoming a Philippine citizen, raising a daughter, teaching in Philippines schools and participating in the local academic community, the international social community, and the community of Jewish survivors. Attached at the end is an extensive index list.
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    The last carefree summer. (1998)
    Montpelier, VT :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 + 5 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Women authors. ; Austria (Vienna) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first short memoir, Hedi Ballantyne describes her family's summer vacations at the Austrian countryside during the summer of 1938. Her family was forced to leave abrubtly because of protesting Hitler Youth. In her second writing, Hedi Ballantyne describes her family's appartment at Karolinengasse 14 in the 4th district of Vienna, her recollections of the "Anschluss" and of antisemitism.
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    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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    The diary of Else Pintus : The story of a Holocaust survivor (1998)
    Seattle :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 58 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Pintus, Clara. ; Pintus, Else. ; Pintus, Heinz. ; Pintus, Richard. ; Pintus, Max. ; Pintus family. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Kartuzy (Poland) ; Poland History 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Outbreak of World War II in Karthaus (Kartuzy); German invasion; seizure of brother; move to Danzig; attempts to contact brother; life in Danzig; work in old-age home after deportation of most Jews from Danzig; flight after threat of deportation; return to Karthaus; hides in friend's house attic; life in hiding; liberation and trials under Russian occupation; life in immediate post-war years.
    Abstract: Outbreak of World War II in Karthaus, Pomerania (today Kartuzy, Poland); German invasion; seizure of brother; move to Danzig; attempts to contact brother; life in Danzig; work in old-age home after deportation of most Jews from Danzig; flight after threat of deportation; return to Karthaus; hides in friend's house attic; life in hiding; liberation and trials under Russian occupation; life in immediate post-war years.
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    A personal memoir of Kristallnacht. (1998)
    [Ann Arbor] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Synagoge Fasanenstrasse (Berlin, Germany) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Education, Primary 1933-1945. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ernest Fontheim's account of November 10, 1938, the day after Kristallnacht, in Berlin; eyewitness account of Fasanenstrasse synagogue burning, and anti-Semitic violence at the scene of the fire. Includes short translation of article from Berliner Tageblatt, August 26, 1912, covering dedication of Fasanenstrasse synagogue in Berlin.
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    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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    Trip to Berlin : May 4-12, 1998. (1998)
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    Pages: 67 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) History. ; Jews History. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Recollections from a trip to Berlin (May 1998); thoughts about the Holocaust and 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung'.
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    Names Calling / Prague Winter / Flight to England. (1998)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 33 + 31 + 9 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Chadwick, Trevor. ; Eisenberger, Erna. ; Eisenberger, Wilhelm. ; Eisenberger family. ; Stein family. ; Grocers. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Lawyers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; England Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1998. History of the Stein and Eisenberger family. The author’s mother Erna was the daughter of the well-respected solicitor Dr. Wilhelm Eisenberger. She got married to a Gentile, with whom she had a daughter, the author’s older sister Anna. After their divorce she got married to Arnold Stein, father of the author. Brief recollections of the author’s childhood. Jump to life in Karlsbad under the Nazi rule in 1938. Move to Prague. Fervent preparations in order to be able to emigrate. With the help of Trevor Chadwick Gerda was sent to England on a children’s transport in March of 1939.
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    Memoirs. (1998)
    Charlotte, NC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages : , typed manuscript, copies.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Christian converts from Judaism. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecutions ; Jews History 20th century. ; Women authors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Maribor (Slovenia) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The material forms only one part of Marianne Lieberman's memoirs. It covers her time in Vienna and Maribor, Slovenia, between the years of 1939 and 1942, with individual chapter headings. Marianne Lieberman remembers her rigid father who would not see her creative talent. She describes early recollections from school, right after the Anschluss in 1938. Her father, being Jewish, had to flee Austria immediately, Marianne Lieberman and her mother went to Slovenia where they stayed with an aunt in 1939. She describes her problems of being baptized. She believed her mother went back to Vienna in 1941, that is why she headed in the same direction. Her first stop was in Graz at a relative's house. Back in Vienna, she was considered a "Mischling" and therefore in danger.
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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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    Remembering the Children of Terezin : 1942-1944. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 15 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Hirsch, Robin. ; Hollis, Jim. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Essay about Robin Hirsch and his book ‘Last Dance at the Hotel Kempinski’. Also included are poetry and images by inmates of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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    The world of Franz Kafka. (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 13 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Kafka, Franz, ; Criticism. ; German literature 20th century. ; Literature. ; Women authors. ; Manuscripts.
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    Back to the camps / (1997)
    Kailua :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 38 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Plaut family. ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Mauthausen (Concentration camp) ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Voyages and travels. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Journey to the sites of former concentration camps in Poland, Germany and Austria.
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    Survival, (1997)
    [Borehamwood, Hertfordshire ?] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 91 pages (1.5 space, paper 5.5 x 8 ") : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Markstein, Otto. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Women authors. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Latin America Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Edith Loewenstein, née Markstein, including recollection of her father's and uncle's arrest in Vienna and their deportation to the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald; of persecution of Jews in Vienna; of the family's efforts to emigrate to Bolivia; and of their departure via Hamburg.
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    Reminiscences of Ruth Middelmann : for Robert and his family; (1994-1997)
    [Rondebosch, South Africa].
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    Pages: 108 + 3 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: obituary
    Year of publication: 1994-1997
    Keywords: Hinrichsen family. ; Middelmann family. ; Botanists. ; Music. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cape Town (South Africa) ; Germany History 20th century. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Johannesburg (South Africa) ; South Africa Emigration and immigration 1935. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Parents' family background; early childhood memories; death of father at Eastern Front in World War I; move to Aachen; re-marriage of mother, move to Hamburg; school in Hamburg; attended music school in Cologne; engagement; music teacher at Quaker camp for Jewish children in Holland; termination of engagement; plans for emigration; emigration to South Africa; marriage to Walter Middelmann; birth of son; end of war; life in South Africa; work as professional botanist; death of parents; trip to Middle East; trip to USA to meet with botanists; trip to Australia; further trips to Europe, Asia; trip to Germany in 1990; final entries after suffering from a mild stroke in 1994.
    Abstract: Her husband, Walter Middelmann, added 3 pages based on her notes before she suffered her final stroke in 1996. Also included is an obituary.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Hinrichsen, Anna Karoline ; Hinrichsen, F. Willy ; Lewy, Gerda ; Lewy, Yochanan ; Middelmann, Hans ; Middelmann, Robert; von Gizycki family.
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    A child of the twentieth century : My journey to America. (1997)
    Bloomington, Indiana :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Blume, Grete. ; Gordon, Ruth. ; Jacubeit family. ; Lechner, Alfred. ; Makower, Gerhard. ; Neuweg, Arthur. ; Neuweg, Kurt. ; Rackwitz family. ; Antisemitism. ; Dentists, Jewish. ; Families. ; Forced labor. ; Intermarriage. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Landsberg an der Warthe (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family background; parents; childhood memories; vacations with family; family experience after 1935; move to Berlin; life in Berlin; start of World War II; forced labor in Berlin; experiences during bombing of Berlin; end of war; enters Humbold Univeristy in 1946; experiences of Jacubeit family, Rackwitz family; emigration to USA; military service in US Army in Japan; entrance to Harvard University; graduate school at Harvard; meets wife; move to Bloomington, Indiana.
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    A Bit of Family History. (1997)
    Berkeley :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 28 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Alexander family. ; Mauthner, Ernst. ; Mauthner, Fritz, ; Mauthner, Malvine. ; Straub, Hedwig. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Eleanor Alexander including information on Fritz Mauthner and his wife Hedwig Straub, Ernst and Malvine Mauthner, and other Mauthner family members as well as the Alexander family in Hungary and Berlin, emigration to England and the United States, and description of post-war visits in Europe; xeroxes of handwritten letters by Fritz Mauthner.
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    [Our trip to Germany and France]. (1997)
    Flushing, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Former Title: [Untitled]
    Keywords: Eichenbronner, Hannah. ; Kleeman family. ; Levinstein, Henry. ; Strauss family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews History ; Jews ; Voyages and travels. ; Gaukönigshofen (Germany) ; Unterfranken (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection from a trip to Europe, with information about the Kleeman family.
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    Liebe, Hass und Krieg - oder die verwogenen Wellen. (1997)
    Launceston, Tasmania :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 138 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Dvorsky, Otto, ; Dvorsky, Theresa (Weiss) ; Courtship. ; Deportation. ; Desertion, Military. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945 Eastern front. ; Amstetten (Austria) ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Austria History 1938-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir 1908-1947 by Ingeborg Fischer-Dvorsky, describing the life of her parents in a fictional and sentimental style. Otto Dvorsky was descendant of a Polish aristrocratic family. Detailled description of his courtship with his future-wife Theresa during the war, where Otto served as a lieutenant in the German army hospital. Marriage and birth of their daughter Ingeborg. Account of Otto Dvorsky's experience in the "Wehrmacht". Air raids in Vienna and experiences during World War II. Otto's desertion and his affair with a woman called Julia. Penal transfer to the Eastern front. Theresa lost their second child. Interrogation by the Gestapo due to her husband's Jewish descent. With the support of a local Gestapo officer her deportation to Auschwitz could be posponed. Liberation by the Russian army. Emigration to Australia.
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    From St. Poelten to America : [1906-1997]. (1997)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Kubin, Rosa, ; Kubin, Ludwig. ; Lustig family. ; Mautner, Hans. ; Singer, Karl. ; Ullman, Egon. ; Chemists. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Boston (Mass.) ; Sankt Pölten (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in the United States in 1997. Childhood recollections. Ambition of Rosa's father, a leather merchant, to send his daughter to Gymnasium (high school) in order to prepare her for studies at the University. Rosa was the only female student in the local Gymnasium. Recollections of World War One. After graduation in 1924 she enrolled at the University of Vienna. Her plan to study medicine was opposed by her mother, so she registered in pharmacology and chemistry. In 1930 she became engaged with her future-husband Dr. Ludwig Kubin, specialist in dermatology. Rosa received her doctorate in chemistry in 1931. She got a position with the Austrian Chemical Works as the only female applicant among 50. Rosa and Ludwig Kubin were married in 1935. Preparations for their emigration prior to the Anschluss 1938. The couple received affidavits for the United States. They left for Portland, Oregon via Switzerland and Paris in 1938. Life as immigrants in the new country. Rosa became the breadwinner of the family as a hospital technician at the Oregon Medical School. They moved to Boston, were they both obtained positions at the Waltham hospital. Rosa became an Assistant Professor of chemistry at Middlesex University (later: Brandeis University). Sudden death of her husband in 1954. Rosa Kubin was the only women honored as a 50-year member by the American Chemical Society at Harvard in 1990.
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    Joseph and his daughter : from 1890-1980 (1997)
    1997 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 146 pages : , bound typescript +
    Additional Material: reproductions of documents and photographs.
    Year of publication: 1997
    Keywords: Blumenthal family. ; Frankenhuis family. ; Gottschalk family. ; Heimann family. ; Heimann, Joseph. ; Heiman, Selman. ; Heiman, Walter. ; Kamp family. ; Marx family. ; Marx, Selma. ; Passmann family. ; Samson family. ; Spiegel family. ; Antisemitism. ; Butchers (Persons) ; Dry-goods. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Education 1918-1933. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Soldiers. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Butchers. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Essen (Germany) ; Osnabrück (Germany) ; Recklinghausen (Münster, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Werne an der Lippe (Germany) ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of Werne; experiences at schools in Werne and Osnabruck; apprenticeship at dry goods store in Recklinghausen; military service on western front in World War I; resumption of apprenticeship at Recklinghausen after war; work at dry goods store in Castrop - Rauxel; work in Essen; marriage and life in Essen up to 1931.
    Abstract: Inge Heiman Karo's chilhodd memories of life in Essen; experiences after 1933; emigration to United States in 1939; life in New York, Philadelphia; accounts of relatives' fates during Holocaust, lives of other relatives after 1945.
    Description / Table of Contents: And all this in one man's lifetime, by Joseph Heiman
    Description / Table of Contents: His daughter's story, by Inge Heiman Karo
    Description / Table of Contents: Relatives who perished during the Holocaust
    Description / Table of Contents: Genealogy
    Description / Table of Contents: Excerpts from several audio taped interviews of Selma Heiman
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    Toni Ehrlich's diaries, (1906-1996)
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    Pages: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes) : , 29 handwritten notebooks +
    Additional Material: + English summaries
    Year of publication: 1906-1996
    Keywords: Goldschmidt, Flora (née Rother), ; Goldschmidt, Grete, ; Goldschmidt, Siegfried, ; Rosenow, Grete. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Education, Higher. ; Education. ; Families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 1871-1918. ; Sports. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Diaries ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: The diaries of Toni Ehrlich – 29 handwritten notebooks – document her life on an almost day to day basis, beginning on April 1, 1906 and ending with a single word (“Lo”, meaning “no” in Hebrew) on October 21, 1969. Her thoughts and observations concentrate mostly on matters and issues of art and culture, as well as – to a lesser degree – current events. Private matters, including life changing ones - like her husband’s death -, are mentioned on the side, if at all. The original diaries in old German handwriting are accompanied by detailed summaries in English and a list of names, provided by Irene Miller.
    Description / Table of Contents: Toni Ehrlich's diaries [29 volumes in Boxes ]: continuous from April 1, 1906 to August 27, 1969
    Note: German , English , Finding aid available online.
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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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    The Holocaust and the Viennese Family Fliegel / (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 60 + 32 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Blau, Bertha. ; Blau family. ; Dollfuss, Engelbert, ; Drucker, Kurt. ; Einstein, Albert, ; Fliegel, Hans Robert, ; Fliegel, Julius, ; Fliegel, Otto, ; Fliegel, Rosa, ; Fliegel, Wilhelm, ; Fliegel family. ; Grunwald, Max, ; Haber, Georg. ; Levi, Alice. ; Lipschutz, Israel ben Gedaliah, ; Waldheim, Kurt. ; Dachau (Concentration camps) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1996. It contains family trees, copies of documents, correspondence of the 1980s and 90s pertaining to restitution claims and the Kurt Waldheim affair. Childhood recollections of the aftermath of World War One and life in the small Austrian Republic. Impact of the Social democratic city counsel in "Red Vienna". Memories of his school years. Private French lessons. Political turmoil and the civil war of 1934, which led to the autocratic regime of the Christian Socialists. Rising National Socialism. Summer vacation in Abbazia in 1937. Plans to enroll in Medical School after graduation (Matura). Growing apprehension in the days preceeding the "Anschluss" in 1938. Life under National Socialism. Confiscation of family assets and harassments. Preparations to leave the country. Graduation in June 1938. Detention of his father, who was released on the condition that he had to leave the country within six weeks. His brother Otto was sent to Dachau concentration camp. Delay of the affidavits from his grandfather's brother Morris Fliegel in Brooklyn, New York. The family got visas for Belgium through the family friend Isidore Lipschutz in Antwerp. Hurried departure and life in Antwerp. Difficulties to obtain their American affidavits. The family was able to leave right in time in October 1939, just when the war broke out. Arrival in New York and start of a new life. Difficult adjustments to life in the United States. Hans Fliegel was unable to have his education accredited for Medical School. Experiences in various jobs to contribute to the family budget. Apprenticeship in the diamond business. End of the war. Marriage with Alice Levi. Reflections on his life and career. Addendum: Recollections of the author's brother Fred Fliegel on life in Vienna during National Socialism. Detailed genealogy and family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included are reproductions of documents.
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    Flight & submersion. (1996)
    Manchester, Vt. :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 230 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Collection of personal narratives, documents, and background information, compiled by Martin Bier in 1996, including information on the flight of Ellen Bier-Feitler and her sons Gerhard, Martin and Georg from Freiburg to Basel in March 1944, on her life on a farm in Switzerland, on the brothers' experiences in Swiss refugee camps, on Bier-Feitler's return to Germany in July 1945, and on her life in Oberambach until liberation, recollections by Ellen Bier-Feitler, Martin Bier and Gertrud Bier, newspaper clippings and maps, report on the dissolution of the Jewish community of Stuttgart, and recollection by Martin Bier of an episode in 1933 involving his "Aryan" father.
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    Glad, mighty glad, to be British : The memoirs of Dr. John Abels. (1996)
    Billingham, England :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 280 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Great Britain. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish physicians. ; Swim teams. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Memories of my teaching career. (1996)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 2 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of experiences teaching elementary school in New York City; recollections of colleagues.
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    On Being Jewish / (1996)
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    Language: English
    Pages: iii + 147 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Kelsen, Hans, ; Stross, Walter ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Identity. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Reform Judaism. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Czechoslovakia History 1918-1939. ; England Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1947. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Trip back to Vienna in 1965 for first time since emigration; youth in Vienna; relationship with parents; relationship to Judaism and Jewish identity as child; move to Liebauthal in Czechoslvakia in 1932; life in Liebauthal; school in Eger; religious education; move to Prague; life in Prague; memories of grandmothers; emigration to England in 1939; school in England; baptism into Church of England; emigration of parents to England; work and study in Manchester; job testing parachutes; study at Technical College in Leicester; anti-Semitism in England; victory celebration in London at end of war; death of father; life in London after war; sister's encounter with anti-Semitism in England; emgiration to USA in 1947; arrival in San Francisco; college at Berkeley; marriage and birth of children; joins synagogue congregation; death of mother; divorce, second marriage, and second divorce; trip to Germany; trip to Israel; experiences in Israel; visit to Prague and Czech Republic; visit to Theresienstadt; account of cousin's survival of the Holocaust; return to father's factory in Liebauthal; final reflections on being Jewish.
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    Thankfully yours, Lisa Leist Seiden : 1929-1946. (1996)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 66 pages : , Typed and bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Leist, Friedrich. ; Leist, Peter. ; Antisemitism. ; Women authors. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs Children ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1996 at Lisa Seiden's home. The main time covered is her childhood in Vienna and her stay in Bath, England, during the war. Lisa Seiden describes daily life for a child in Vienna--the type of dolls she had, activities on a cold winter day, vaccations on the countryside. In 1938, she was not allowed to go to school anymore. She remembers many details during that time of horros--the anxious expressions in her parents' faces, the constant fear they had while being in the apartment. One day, the Gestapo was looking for her father, Friedrich Leist, but he was warned and did not return home. He had a hise-out and Lisa brought him food. It did not help--a few days later, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp. On December 17, 1938, Lisa and her brother Peter were sent via Kindertransport to England. Since their parents did not get visas for England, they emigrated to Argentine where an uncle lived. Lisa Seiden writes about her time in Englad, her foster parents, schooling, and air raids. In May of 1946, a ship takes Lisa and Peter to their parents in Buenos Aires, Argentine. The memoir includes copies of photographs showing family members, herself, her doll's house, and vaccation trips etc. There also many letters included, as well as bits of Lisa Seiden's brother's (Peter Leist) dairy.
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    The story about my family. (1996)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: Levy, Philipp. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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