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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (28)
  • 1965-1969  (10)
  • 1940-1944  (19)
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.  (28)
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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    Erinnerungen von Dachau bis Basel (1938-1942). (1968)
    Cincinnati, Ohio :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 236 + 21 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1968
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practice. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Baden (Germany) ; Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Germany) ; Les Milles (France) ; Pirmasens (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The manuscript was originally written in Basel in 1944:
    Abstract: November pogrom 1938 in Pirmasens (Palatine); imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp; move to Ludwigshafen; administrative work for Pirmasens Jewish community; crossing Swiss border; reunion with daughter who had been in French internment camp of Gurs.
    Abstract: Also included are excerpts of letters by Jews from Baden, who were deported to Gurs and Les Milles: contains letters by Mrs. Basnizky (Tauberbischofsheim), Lotte Sauer (Ludwigshafen), Lotte Kirschbaum, Gertrud Weis, Robert Mayer, Gustav und Frieda Mayer (Edenkolben), Hedwig Baer (Buchen), and Klara Rosenfeld.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Erinnerungen, Basel 1944
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Mortuos Voco : Briefe aus Gurs
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    Im Dienste der Gemeinde : 1923-1939. (1968)
    Manchester :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 241 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1968
    Keywords: Kareski, Georg, ; Stahl, Heinrich, ; Stern, Heinrich, ; Woyda, Bruno, ; Kareski, Georg, ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Zentralstelle für Jüdische Wirtschaftshilfe. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Reform Judaism. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hungary Emigration and Immigration 1933-1945. ; Hungary History Revolution, 1956. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Detailed description of Jewish communal politics in Berlin before and after 1933; sketches of members of assembly of representatives; characterization of Reform congregation; internal conflicts between orthodox, liberals and Zionists; journalistic activities for Social Democratic papers; economic activities of Jewish community under Nazi rule; accusations against former head of community Georg Kareski; November pogrom 1938 in Berlin; outbreak of war; emigration to Hungary; Hungarian revolt of 1956.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Geschichte der juedischen Gemeinde Gleiwitz vom 31. 1. 1933 bis 24. 1. 1945. (1967)
    [Ober Roden] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 + 8 pages (single space) : , typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1967
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Marriage. ; Gliwice (Poland) ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Gleiwitz Jewish community during Nazi rule; survival of author because of his marriage to a Christian; November pogrom of 1938 and author's experiences in Buchenwald concentration camp.
    Abstract: Also included are correspondence and a list of 168 Gleiwitz Jews who were killed between 1933 and 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und unter Hitler / (1966)
    Nahariya/Israel :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Germany. ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; Music. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Primary and secondary education in small East German town; law studies in Berlin; military service in World War I; anti-Semitism in German army; apprenticeship and work as a lawyer; domestic life; practicing music; performance of his play in Berlin; active for liberal "Deutsche Demokratische Partei"; anti-Jewish persecution after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; beaten by SS-men in front of burning synagogue; internment in Oranienburg concentration camp; description of life in Oranienburg; emigration to Shanghai in 1939.
    Abstract: An older version of this manuscript had been a contribution to the Harvard history prize competition in 1940.
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    Arbeit fuer die juedische Jugend in Deutschland : Mein Erlebnis im Dienste des Judentums. (1966)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 + 10 pages : , typescript (1 1/2 space).
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Haus Berta. ; Jüdischer Jugendverein. ; Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten. ; Jewish youth 1918-1933. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Gelsenkirchen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: "Arbeit fuer die juedische Jugend in Deutschland" tells about the youth organization "Juedischer Jugendverein" in Gelsenkirchen; Nazi organizations in Gelsenkirchen before 1933; persecutions against Jews after 1933; and about the November pogrom 1938.
    Abstract: Also included is "Haus Bertha : Das Heim in der Heide", a history of the Jewish youth home "Bertha" in Westphalia.
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    The story of my life : [1864-1966]. (1966)
    [Sharon, Mass.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 55 + 3 , synopsis; typescript; documents.
    Year of publication: 1966
    Keywords: Ohlmann, Ilse. ; Ohlmann, Julius. ; Ohlmann, Jack. ; Makaras, Johnny. ; Makaras, Madge. ; Women authors. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish physicians ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Women physicians. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Scotland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs, written in 1966; Photocopies of miscellaneous documents: a sheet from her father's prescription pad, rubber-stamped with the notice that her father's practice was limited to Jewish patients (December 1938); Reply from a Jewish organization after the war to her mother's inquiry as to her grandmother's whereabouts (1946); A notice from her father to her mother while he was being kept in a detention center after the Kristallnacht
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    A few days of my life. (1963-1965)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 40 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1963-1965
    Keywords: Oppenheimer, Siegfried. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish leadership. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Persecution in Nazi Germany; visit to Palestine in 1937; November pogrom 1938 in Frankfurt; author's children were sheltered by a Christian family; her husband was deported to Buchenwald; author emigrated through Switzerland to Palestine, where she was joined by her husband.
    Abstract: Also included are photographs of the author's husband; gravestones; and the Frankfurt synagogue.
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    Erinnerungen eines alten deutschen Juden. (1965)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 117 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1965
    Keywords: Friedberg, Leopold, ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Students' societies. ; France. ; Great Britain. ; Karlsruhe (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Karlsruhe; school time; student years in Heidelberg, Berlin and Munich; joins student organization "Freie Wissenschaftliche Verbindung"; lawyer during Weimar years; Nazi period and arrest in Dachau concentration camp; emigration to France and England; contains also diary of a cruise in 1958.
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    Zehn Jahre spaeter. (1956-1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: handwritten manuscript
    Year of publication: 1956-1965
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher Agricultural education 1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish life in small Westphalian town after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; agricultural training in Jewish school at Neuendorf; failure to obtain visa for emigration; experiences in Auschwitz; liberation in Ravensbrueck.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript; 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Manuscript; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Lebenserinnerungen eines deutschen Juden und Paedagogen. (1941-1956)
    Rio de Janeiro :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 283 , typescript (carbon copy) +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1941-1956
    Keywords: Bildungsanstalt für jüdische Lehrer in Hannover. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Correspondence ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish community of Nordeck (Hesse); murder of two Nordeck Jews (1883); antisemitism; Jewish teachers' seminary in Hanover; teacher in Guntersblum (Rhineland), Sarstedt (Lower Saxony), Repzin (Pommerania), Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia) and Katowice; description of Jewish communities of Upper Silesia; soldier in World War I; teacher and headmaster in Berlin; Jewish politics and education in inter-war Berlin; reflections on Prussian Federation of Jewish Communites and Federation of Jewish Teachers; changes under Nazi rule; November pogrom 1938 in Berlin; emigration to Brazil; contains information on Georg Kareski, Michael Holzmann, Joseph Gutmann, Hermann Falkenberg, Michael Abraham, Jakob Stiebel, Leo Baeck, Ismar Freund and Meier Spanier.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Lebenserinnerungen
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Juedische Jugend im Umbruch : A collection of circa 160 letters from former students written to Stern before and after their emigration from Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine and Australia, 1937-1956.
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    [Auszug aus dem Tagebuch], (1938-1945)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 8 + 5 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1938-1945
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Mugdan’s passages from his diaries 1938-1945 describe the November pogrom in Heidelberg and the suicide of his grandmother in order to escape deportation. The last part, written after liberation in May 1945, contains a short family history.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Waehrend der Studienzeit in Heidelberg, 10. November 1938 - 1. Januar 1939; English translation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Aus dem Tagebuch, August 1942.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Politischer Rueckblick, Neckargemuend, October 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy available on MF 116 , German
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    Erinnerungen. (1944)
    Ramot-Haschawin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Stein, Leopold, ; Verband Bayerischer Israelitischer Gemeinden. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Augsburg (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Dann family in Frankfurt since 1627 and portrait of Albert Dann's grandfather the reform rabbi, Leopold Stein. Description of Albert Dann's childhood.
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    Bericht ueber den Untergang der Synagogengemeinde Elbing : [1938-1939]. (1944)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 pages (double space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Rabbis. ; Antisemitism. ; Elbląg (Poland) ; Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report on the antisemitic persecutions in the small-town Jewish community of Elbing (East Prussia, today Elbląg, Poland) told by the community's rabbi; mainly on November pogrom of 1938; contacts between rabbi Neufeld and Gestapo; contains also excerpt of "Juedisches Wochenblatt" (Buenos Aires on November pogrom in Elbing and Koenigsberg.
    Abstract: Report on the antisemitic persecutions in the small-town Jewish community of Elbing (East Prussia) told by the community's rabbi; mainly on November pogrom of 1938; contacts between rabbi Neufeld and Gestapo; contains also excerpt of "Juedisches Wochenblatt" (Buenos Aires on November pogrom in Elbing and Koenigsberg.
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    [20. März 1944]. (1944)
    New York City :,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1944
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report about Alfred Schweizer’s experiences in Germany after his release from the Welzheim concentration camp in Nov. 1938 until his immigration to the US in March 1939.
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    My autobiography. (1943)
    [Cleveland] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 31 , handwritten manuscript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Children 1933-1945. ; Jewish physicians. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Cologne (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir of an immigrant child from Germany written in English class in Collinwood High School, Cleveland, Ohio.
    Note: English
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    Erinnerungen an die Israelitische Religionsgemeinde Mainz a. Rh. von 1904 - 1941 / (1943)
    Buenos Aires :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 16 + 3 + 2 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Keywords: Jewish communities. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Hesse (Germany) ; Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the Jewish community and Jewish associations in Mainz before and after 1933.
    Abstract: Also included are a short account of "Landesverband Israelitischer Religionsgemeinden Hessens" and a listing of the destruction during the November pogrom 1938 in Mainz.
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    Citizenship: None. (1942)
    [Cleveland, Ohio] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Leufer, Eva. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Girls ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Trips and voyages. ; Women authors. ; Ashtabula County (Ohio) ; Cleveland (Ohio) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs by Anne Koppel, including information on the background of her parents and recollections of her childhood and schooling in Cologne; of life in Germany before and after 1933; of the detention of her father in Dachau after the 1938 November Pogrom; of her emigration to England and to the United States; and of her experiences in Ashtabula and in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Abstract: The essay was written in Anne Koppel’s 11A English class at East High School in Cleveland, Ohio.
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933 : [1914-1939]. (1942)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 44 + 6 , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Fleischer family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Deportations. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written for the Harvard University competition in 1942. Also included is an English language report "My experiences on the tenth of November, 1938."
    Abstract: Description of family history. His father was a businessman who came from Budapest to Vienna in 1890. Recollections of his school years in the Gymnasium. Graduation in 1914. Philipp enrolled with classes in German and Latin at the Vienna University. In 1916 he volunteered as a soldier in World War One and was soon promoted to become an officer in the army. Disastrous aftermath of the war. Philipp returned to university to continue his studies. He became a teacher at a Gymnasium (high school). Description of political tensions in post-war Austria. Civil war of 1934. At this time he became strongly aware of the rising attraction of the National Socialist movement. Anschluss in 1938. Degrading "spontaneous actions" against the Jewish population of Vienna. Philipp Flesch lost his position and was forced to retire. He started teaching at a improvised Jewish school. Maltreatment of students by the Hitler youth. Observations of Nazi enthusiasm in the Austrian Gentile population. Occasional experiences of support by neighbors and strangers. Reflections on the Nazi ideology and hatred against Jews. Reports of the first deportations to concentration camps. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom and its aftermath 1938 in Vienna. Description of the circumstances of his arrest and the maltreatment by the Gestapo. Terror and humiliation. Release due to his achievements in World War One. Awareness of the magnitude of destruction and terror. Summons to the Gestapo headquarters. Sarcasm of Nazi bureaucracy and preparations for his emigration. Outbreak of the war. Philipp Flesch left Vienna in 1939 for the United States and emigrated via Holland to New York.
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    [Tagebuch von Dr. Th. Rosenthal]. (1941)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 78 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Rosenthal family. ; Timendorfer family. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Universitaet Breslau (Breslau) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Gynecologists. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father was rabbi in Beuthen; father's first marriage and children; family history; father's education and background; earliest memories of Beuthen; father's activities as rabbi in Breslau; brother's education; education of sisters; Jewish life in Breslau; experiences as student at University of Breslau; study of medicine; experience in student fraternity; life in Breslau and Heidelberg; military service as doctor on eastern front in World War I; experiences of Jewish life in Poland during military service; injury at the front; meets future wife in Berlin; transfer to western front; taken prisoner; establishment of medical practice in Breslau after the war; death of father; birth of children; Jewish life in Breslau in 1920's; death of wife's parents; medical practice after 1933; arrest after Kristallnacht and transport to Buchenwald; experience at Buchenwald; release from Buchenwald and emigration in 1939 to England; life in Leicester; emigration to Palestine; arrival in Palestine.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Baeck, Leo; Cohn, Fritz; David, Jacob Julius; Kaufmann, David; Korn, Alfred; Rosenthal, Felix; Rosenthal, Hans; Rosenthal, Werner; Timendorfer, Berthold; Timendorfer, Margot.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Mein Leben : Erinnerungen eines Grossvaters (1941)
    [London] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 161 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Cohen, Hermann, ; Graetz, Heinrich, ; Hildesheimer, Ezriel, ; Katzenellenbogen family. ; Montefiore, Claude G., ; Pappenheim, Bertha, ; Wahl, Saul ben Judah, ; Zunz, Leopold, ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Vereinigung für das liberale Judentum. ; B'nai B'rith ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; B'nai B'rith ; Antisemitism. ; Cholera ; Education before 1871. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Soldiers. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Kaiserslautern (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Caesar Seligmann, written between 1934-1941 in Frankfurt and London; description of Jewish life in Landau in the 19th century; early memories of his Jewish childhood and family life; recount of the Landau rabbinate elections in 1836 and the defeat of Seligmann's father, who later on became an instructor at the Jewish teachers' seminary in Kaiserslautern; genealogical account reaching back to Katzenellenbogen family and Saul Wahl, the "Jewish king of Poland"; childhood and school in Landau; memories of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871); university studies in Munich and Breslau; anti-Semitic movement of Adolf Stoecker (1835-1909) and the Rohling affair in Austria; Juedisch-theologisches Seminar in Breslau; student associations (Liwiath Chen, Amicitia); descriptions of Heinrich Graetz, Leopold Zunz and Esriel Hildesheimer; assembly of German rabbis in Breslau in 1887; military service in 1887/88; graduating at the theological seminary in 1888; rabbi in Hamburg; lectures and research about the history of Judaism; religious education for the youth; marriage in 1892; cholera epidemic in Hamburg; rabbinic position in Frankfurt am Main in 1902; acquaintance with Bertha Pappenheim and encouraging the activities of Jewish women's organizations; Jewish dominated free masons' lodge (Bne Briss); crisis of liberal Judaism; internal conflicts between orthodox and liberal Judaism; reform of synagogue service and prayer book; new curriculum for Jewish schools; organization "Vereinigung fuer das liberale Judentum"; recollections of World War I; persecution of Jews in Frankfurt after 1933; November pogrom of 1938.
    Abstract: Also included are an incomplete list of Seligmann's publications and a German translation of the last will of his great grandfather's father-in-law, rabbi Seligmann Puettlingen (-1767).
    Note: Available on microfilms MM 70 and MF 93 , German , Synopsis in file
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem Jahre 1933. (1940)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 90 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish merchants. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Hanau (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Apprenticeship in Duisburg; military service in World War I; political development in Weimar Republic; economic crisis and consequence for department store; changes after 1933; November pogrom 1938 in Hanau; imprisonment in Buchenwald; preparations for emigration.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem Jahre 1933 / (1940)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 78 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Concentration camp escapes. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Mostly on professional career; work for German war administration in World War I; persecution of Jews after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; author escaped imprisonment in concentration camp; description of emigration to England.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933. (1940)
    Kfar Shmaryhahu :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 47 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Streicher, Julius, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: School years in Nuremberg; military service; university studies in Munich and Berlin; soldier in World War I; antisemitism in post-World War I Nuremberg; Julius Streicher; persecution of Jews after Nazi seizure of power; Nuremberg's role as the "city of the NSDAP Congresses"; November pogrom 1938; emigration to Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933 : Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum. (1940)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 8 + 129 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Hitler, Adolf, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Vintners. ; Voyages and travels. ; France Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal encounter with Adolf Hitler; mainly on general aspects of social and political changes in Nazi Germany; trip through Germany in 1938; experiences in Buchenwald concentration camp (summer 1938); November pogrom in Frankfurt am Main.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem 30. Januar 1933. (1940)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 71 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Goldschmidt, Alfred, ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin (1933-1943) ; Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp) ; Judges ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Activities as a judge in Berlin until 1933 and as legal advisor of Jewish organizations after 1933; experiences in Sachsenhausen concentration camp 1938.
    Abstract: The memoir was written as part of the Harvard University competition.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Mein Leben in Deutschland vor und nach dem Jahre 1933 : (1906 - ca. 1937) (1940)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 254 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Blech, Leo, ; Reinhardt, Max, ; Strauss, Richard, ; Stresemann, Gustav, ; Vossische Zeitung, Berlin (1704-1934) ; Antisemitism. ; Journalists. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Theater. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) History. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Journalistic career at the "Vossische Zeitung"; military service in World War I; mediator between the newspaper and German government; close relationship with foreign secretary Gustav Stresemann; cultural life in Berlin; friendships with Max Reinhardt and Richard Strauss; political and economic development of Weimar Germany; antisemitism; excerpts of diaries of 1920s and 30s; dismissal after Nazi seizure of power; boycott against Jewish stores April 1933; anti-Jewish laws; November pogrom 1938; emigration to Palestine.
    Abstract: Also included are documents pertaining to Max Reinhardt's 25th anniversary as director at "Deutsches Theater".
    Note: Available on microfilm. , Copy available at LBI Jerusalem. , German
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    Recollections. (1940)
    New York, USA,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: As a 12 year old child, in the year of 1940, just after having arrived in the US, Mary-Ann Reiss wrote down her recollections of the past two years, covering the events of March 1938 in Austria and her family's persecution and emigration. Many decades later, she found her writings again in form of a little notebook, written with pencil and fading away. This memoir then is cleared from some mistakes and in her current handwriting. It starts with her 10th birthday, which was only a few days before the Anschluss.
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