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  • Leo Baeck Institute New York  (26)
  • 1960-1964  (26)
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  • Kristallnacht, 1938.  (9)
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  • 1
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    Erich Drucker collection : diaries, essays, memoirs and poems, (1918-1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 linear foot : , 22 folders.
    Year of publication: 1918-1980
    Keywords: Mühsam, Erich, ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Anti-Nazi movement. ; Apartment houses. ; Bookstores. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Poetry. ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. ; Youth movements. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lisbon (Portugal) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vermont. ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Various manuscripts by Erich Drucker from the Erich Drucker Collection and the LBI Memoirs Collection
    Note: Microfilmed on MM 18, MM 19, MM 20 , German , Finding aid available online.
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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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    Walter Breslauer papers, (1928-1970)
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    Pages: 5
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2018 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 1928-1970
    Keywords: Breslauer, Bernhard. ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. ; Vereinigung für das Liberale Judentum in Deutschland. ; Jewish leadership. ; Reform Judaism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Clippings ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: The bulk of this collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence and clippings that were written and collected by Walter Breslauer in London, touching on his personal and professional memories as an administrative director of the Berlin Jewish community. Also included are items related to Walter Breslauer’s father, Bernhard Breslauer. The papers had been sent to the Leo Baeck Institute New York in 1970.
    Abstract: Also mentioned are Ismar Freund; Georg Kareski; Leo Lilienthal; Abraham Margaliot; Heinrich Stern and others.
    Note: Available also on microfilms MM 12, MM 13, MM 95 , German and some English , Finding aid available online.
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    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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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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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    Ich habe viele Leben gelebt : Erinnerungen. (1964)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 94 + 164 pages : , typescript; annotated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Authors, German Biography. ; Journalists. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Hamburg and Vienna; move to Munich, Berlin, Rueschlikon and Frankfurt am Main; encounter with Georg Simmel, Ricarda Huch, Stefan George, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Gustav Landauer, Heinrich Simon, Martin Buber, Ernst Bloch, Eugen Rosenstock, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Baeck, Berta Pappenheim, Hannah Karminski, Siegmund Freud, Paul Celan, Eleazar Benyoetz and Michael Landmann.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: First draft
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Second draft
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Erinnerungen] : [2nd copy]. (1964)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 167 pages : , 167 pages : , typescript; annotated. , Typescript.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Authors, German Biography. ; Journalists. ; Women authors. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Authors
    Abstract: Childhood in Hamburg and Vienna; move to Munich, Berlin, Rueschlikon and Frankfurt am Main; encounter with Georg Simmel, Ricarda Huch, Stefan George, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Gustav Landauer, Heinrich Simon, Martin Buber, Ernst Bloch, Eugen Rosenstock, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Baeck, Berta Pappenheim, Hannah Karminski, Siegmund Freud, Paul Celan, Eleazar Benyoetz and Michael Landmann.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Die verlorene Heimat. (1964)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Stein, Herbert. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Home economics. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Wolfratshausen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Erinnerungen. (1963)
    [Berlin] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: accompanying documents (photocopies), mainly 1946-1948.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Mosse, Albert, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Civil service. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in well-to-do Berlin Jewish family; recollections of father Albert Mosse; career in welfare office; imprisonment in Theresienstadt concentration camp; contains report on deportations of Jews from Berlin during World War II; contains also copy of document concerning Albert Mosse's mission in Japan.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover, Germany : Persoenliche Erinnerungen (1963)
    [Pottstown] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 95 + 16 pages : , typescripts (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1963
    Former Title: [Memoirs].
    Keywords: Freund, Samuel, ; Tänzer, Aron, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover. ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews, East European ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Teachers. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Sermons. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs touch upon the authors experiences as a young soldier during World War I; description of his studies; description of religious life in the Hannover Jewish community; tasks as rabbi and teacher; description of synagogue service. A special section in folder 3 describes “Kristallnacht” with the destruction of the Hannover Synagogue and his arrest.
    Abstract: Also included in folder 1 is the draft for a treatise about the essence of Judaism and of its responsibilities as an organized religion, as experienced during the author’s residence in Hannover, Germany before the Holocaust. Folder 4 holds copies of original documents and clippings.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Beitrag zu einer Geistesgeschichte der juedischen Gemeinde in Hannover : Einleitung; undated
    Description / Table of Contents: 2: Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover. Persoenliche Erinnerungen von Rabbiner Dr. Emil Schorsch
    Description / Table of Contents: 3: Wie es zum Ende kam : Erinnerungen an die “Kristallnacht” vom 9. zum 10. November 1938 in Hannover
    Description / Table of Contents: 4: Documents, clippings
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Geschichte und Erlebnisse eines Berliners in den Jahren 1930-1943]. (1963)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 21 + 3 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes Jewish life in Berlin 1933-1943, activities of the Jewish community under Nazi rule. Life in Theresienstadt 1943-1945.
    Abstract: Contains also report on Berlin Jewish community 1943: "Tatsachen ueber die letzten Jahre der Juedischen Gemeinde in Berlin 1943 und die KZ-Zeit bis 1945." 3 pages, 1963.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Geschichte unserer Auswanderung aus Deutschland. (1963)
    Astoria :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 321 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Friedrichs, Ilse. ; Friedrichs, Rudolf. ; Actors. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Theodor Friedrichs, written in 1963 in German, including the travel log of his sister Emmi when she emigrated from Germany to Shanghai via the Soviet Union and recollections by Theodor Friedrichs of Jewish life in Nazi Germany, of his son Rudi Friedrichs being sent to England where he became an actor, of Theodor Friedrichs' emigration to Shanghai by boat from Genua, of his experience as a physician in Shanghai, of musical and Jewish life in Shanghai, of conditions in Shanghai during World War II, of his emigration to the United States, of his experience in California, and of his opening a medical practice in Astoria NY in 1949.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy on MF 54 , German
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    Manuscripts from the Arthur Propp Collection. (1946-1962)
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    Pages: 17 + 3 + 65 + 177 , typescripts (copies).
    Year of publication: 1946-1962
    Keywords: Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1950. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biographies: Primary and secondary education in Koenigsberg; apprenticeship in wood business; military service; independent sawmill business in Eastern Prussia; military service in World War I; second part mainly on friends and employees and their changes after 1933; emigration and life in Bolivia.
    Abstract: The letter to the Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld concerns economic reconstruction of Palestine; memories of common experiences in Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript 'Etwas ueber Schema und Zukunft der Wirtschaft, und unsere spaeteren Anlagemoeglichkeiten' (Economic plan for future of Palestine, 17 p.) and a letter to Kurt Blumenfeld; 1946
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typescript (German) 'Biography Complete to Armistice 1918', Gibsons (Canada), 65 p.; 1962
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Typescript (German) 'Biography to the End of the Stay in Sucre', Gibsons (Canada), 177 p.; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , see also AR 6846 (audio)
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    Im Schatten einer endlosen grossen Zeit : Erinnerungen aus einem langen Leben fuer meine Kinder, jungen Freunde und Studenten. (1962)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: College teachers. ; Education, Higher. ; Editors. ; Jewish sociologists. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Heidelberg (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1935. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Draft, covering circa 1891-1935.
    Abstract: University studies in Berlin and Heidelberg; among Salomon's teachers were Adolf von Harnack, Georg Simmel, Karl Jaspers and Max Weber; activities in Social Democratic Party; relationship with finance minister Rudolf Hilferding and with Theodor Heuss.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Memoir of childhood. (1962)
    [Place of publication not identified] :The Jewish Spectator,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Children. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Publications.
    Abstract: Account of author's grandparents; rural orthodox Jewry in Hesse and urban community (Frankfurt am Main?); domestic life; suicide of grandfather after November pogrom 1938.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Lebenserinnerungen von Ottilie Schoenewald : Fuer das Leo Baeck Institut, New York. (1961)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine. ; International Council of Jewish Women. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund von Deutschland. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Women Political activity ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bochum (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs cover 1883-1946. Childhood recollections in a well-to do Jewish household of eight children. Both her parents worked in building up their business. Tradition of charity. Ottilie's father was a member of the Jewish community executive committee. Growing up in a liberal yet religious family. Reflections on girl's education of her time. Death of her father in 1903. Marriage to the lawyer Dr. S. Schoenewald in 1905. Start of her activities in the women's movement in Germany (BDF). Ottilie Schoenewald had a leading position as a women's legal guidance counselor (Frauenrechtschutzstelle) in Bochum. She was involved in the homemaking organization during World War One. Political equality for women after the war and activities in the democratic party in Weimar Germany. In 1929 Ottilie Schoenewald was elected to be a board member of the Jewish women's movement (JFB) in Berlin. Preparations for the International Congress of Jewish women 1930 in Hamburg, which led to the formation of the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1934 she became chairwoman of the JFB. Experiences and activities during the Nazi time. Ottilie Schoenewald emigrated to England via Holland in 1939, where she continued her social activities.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Lebenserinnerungen / (1961)
    New York :Leo Baeck Institut,
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    Language: German
    Pages: circa 2,000 pages : , heavily annotated typescript
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Tietz, Edith. ; Tietz, Hermann, ; Tietz, Oskar, ; Hermann Tietz (Firma, Berlin) ; Hertie Warenhaus und Kaufhaus. ; Department stores. ; Children. ; Jewish families. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Five drafts (each approximately 267 pages) for a book by Georg Tietz, published by the Leo Baeck Institute in 1965.
    Abstract: The book tells the story of the department store "Hermann Tietz", known later as "Hertie", which was the largest company of its kind in Europe. It is also the story of the company’s two founders, Hermann and Oscar Tietz, the great uncle and father of Georg Tietz.
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    Memories. (1961)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 23 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bach, Albert. ; Bach family. ; Baeck, Leo, ; Fleischhacker, Suse. ; Mayer, Ruth. ; Mayer family. ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    The story of my family. (1961)
    Oakland, California :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 122 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Feitelberg family. ; Hope, Fritz. ; Children. ; Economists. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Courland (Latvia) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Traditional Jewish upbringing of author's father in Latvia (Kurland) in 1870s; father came to Berlin in order to study at university; father's work at chamber of commerce; both parents were active Zionists; childhood in middle-class Berlin Jewish family; university studies in Freiburg and Munich; emigration and new life in USA.
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    Vom Leben und Streben meines Vaters, Prediger und Kantor Erich Lewin : zuletzt in Herford, Westfalen. (1961)
    Schenectady, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 36 + 4 pages. (1 1/2 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Lewin, Erich, ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Struthof (Concentration camp) ; Cantors. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish teachers. ; Shehitah. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Herford (Germany) ; Koszalin (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Copies of 32 documents and letter concerning Lewin's activities as cantor, teacher and ritual slaughterer in Bunzlau (Silesia), Koeslin (Pommerania) and Herford (Westphalia). Also included is a short biography of Erich Lewin by his son Henry Gerd Lewin.
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    Marie Munk memoirs. (1961)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 378 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Salomon, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher 1870-1918. ; Feminism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage counseling. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History. ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Marie Munk, written in 1961. Recollections of her childhood; her Christian upbringing; her schooling; her training at Alice Salomon's Groups of Social Work in Berlin; life in Imperial Germany; anti-Semitism; her experiences during World War I; her law studies at the universities of Freiburg and Bonn; her career in law including her work in a legal aid clinic for women in Munich; her admittance to the bar as the first woman in Germany; her work as an attorney in Berlin; her teaching social work and her involvment in the women's movement; the impact of 1933 on feminist organizations; her experiences in Nazi Germany; her travels and later her immigration to the United States; her various jobs in New York State, Philadelphia, Maryland, Northampton (MA), Toledo (Ohio) and Cambridge (MA); her interest in juvenile delinquence; her work as a marriage counsellor; her work as an attorney; her trips to Hawai, Mexico and Asian and European countries where she attended women's conferences; and her impressions in post-war Germany and Berlin.
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    Eine Berliner Mischehe. (1961)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Elly Kapper's attempts to help her Jewish husband survive the Nazi years in Berlin; he survived the last of the war time in hiding and in a labour camp.
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    Lebenserinnerungen / (1961)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Geiger, Hermann ; Geiger, Rudolf. ; Geiger family. ; Kullmann family ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Composers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961 in the United States. Genealogical background of the Kullmann and Geiger families going back to the 15th and 16th century in Frankfurt/Main. Her father's sister Elise St. Goer, nee Kullmann was one of the first feminists in Germany. Early discovery of Rosy Kullmann's musical talents. Sunday outings with the family. Catholic nanny who contributed to the confusion of her religious identity. Journey to Innsbruck and Switzerland with her parents. Death of her father in 1899. Rosy was granted piano lessons with Carl Friedberg, who had started his career as a student of Clara Schumann. Concert evenings of Hugo Wolf. First compositions of Rosy Kullmann at age 13. Summer vacations with her mother in Madonna di Campiglio and in the Black Forrest. Private English lessons. Remarriage of her mother and birth of her half-sister Erna Levy. Rosy was enrolled at the higher-daughter's "Elisabethinenschule" in Frankfurt. The first performance of one of Rosy Kullmann's compositions took place in 1902. Friendship with Willy Dreyfus and the young composer Max Wolff. Various concerts visits in Frankfurt. Summer vacations with relatives in England. Voice lessons with Margarete Dessof. Studies with Carl Schuricht. Engagement and marriage with Dr. Rudolf Geiger, grandson of Dr. Abraham Geiger, in 1906. Genealogy of the Geiger and Auerbach family. Birth of their son Hermann in 1907. Military service of the author's husband and his brother during World War One. Continuation of the musical career of Rosy Geiger-Kullmann. Compositions to poems by Hans Muehlestein. Birth of her daughter Ruth in 1914. Teaching position during World War One. Musical talent of her son Hermann, who became a musical stage director for operas. 1916 performance of Geiger-Kullmann's first orchestral compositions with Carl Schuricht in Wiesbaden. Work on her first operas and the oratorio "Moses".
    Abstract: Rising of National Socialism and increasing of anti-Jewish laws. Establishment of the Jewish "Tonkuenstler-Verein" by Arthur Holde. Continuation of her compositions and several performances by the "Kulturbund" in various synagogues. Night of the November pogrom 1938 and arrest of her husband Rudolf Geiger. Affidavits from their relatives in New York and release of her husband. Emigration to the USA via Cuba in April of 1939. Arrival in New York in September of 1940. Continuation of her work in the United States.
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    Aus zwei Jahrhunderten : Lebenserinnerungen (1960)
    Roslyn Heights, New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 235 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Bab, Julius, ; Families 19th century. ; Authors 20th century. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers ; Theater History 20th century. ; Universities and colleges ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bonn (Germany) ; France World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Elisabeth Bab née Loos recollects her childhood as the only child of an affluent Protestant family in Kiel. She was later enrolled in a girls school in Berlin. She describes her teacher, the women's activist Helene Lange. Attending the Lehrerinnenseminar (teacher's seminary), she became increasingly interested and involved in the women’s movement. Upon graduation she found a teaching position in London. She describes her experience working as an educator in an aristocratic family. She next took a teaching position in Potsdam. Following this, she moved to Bonn to complete her university studies. She describes university life in Bonn, including social aspects. Due to the tight financial situation in her family her dream to study medicine could not be fulfilled. Her father died in 1904. Elisabeth moved to Berlin to continue her studies. She met Julius Bab through literary events in Berlin and a courtship ensued. She describes the reaction of the Bab family to their son marrying a gentile. After their wedding Elizabeth found a position as a teacher in a private school and Julius worked as a dramatic adviser in a theater. Both continued their studies at the Berlin University. She describes the birth and raising of her three children. She also describes her social and professional life as part of the literary, theatrical, and artistic community that existed in Berlin during this time. After describing life during World War One, she discusses the continued social and familial events in her life amid the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. The Babs became involved in the foundation of the “Kulturbund Deutscher Juden.” As Nazi persecution increased the family sought exist visas to leave. The Babs managed to emigrate to Paris in 1939.
    Abstract: At the outbreak of World War II, Julius Bab was interred by the French authorities as an enemy alien. Elisabeth describes the subsequent German occupation of France in 1940, and the methods in which the Bab’s managed to make it to New York in the same year.
    Abstract: The following persons are mentioned: Collin, Ernst, 1882-1953; Dumont, Louise, 1862-1932; Harlan, Walter; Hauptmann, Gerhard, 1862-1946; Lange, Helene, 1848-1930; Lilienthal, Leo; Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Mauthner, Fritz, 1849-1923; Simmel, Ernst, 1882-1947; Wentscher, Dora.
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    Gedenken und Gedanken aus dem Leben eines Musikers : [1883-1960]. (1960)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 180 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Einstein, Albert, ; Viertel, Salka. ; Freemasons. ; Antisemitism. ; Bookkeepers. ; Jewish families ; Jewish musicians. ; Music. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women dressmakers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Bruno Eisner, written in 1960, including description of Leopoldstadt (the Jewish quarter in Vienna) and of Vienna at large, information on his parents and grandparents from Hungary and Moravia, recollections of antisemitism in Vienna, of his childhood, of his schooling, of his musical education and his career as a musician, his membership in a Masonic lodge, his move to Berlin, his marriage to Salka Steuermann, his experience as a musician in the Austrian army during World War I and after the war, his travels to Palestine and Italy, his friendship with Albert Einstein, his immigration to the United States with the help of an affidavit by Einstein, and his life there.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned in this memoirs:
    Abstract: Altenberg, Peter; Bruckner, Anton; Kargeorgevitch, Prince Bojidar; Nordau, Max; Rathenau, Walter; Twain, Mark.
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    A life in focal points of our time : Vienna – Berlin – New York, Gustav Stolper 1888-1947. (1960)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 260 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Stolper, Gustav, ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The book by Toni Stolper about her husband Gustav Stolper, first published in 1960, has been translated from the German original with annotations, by Max A. Stolper.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Austria-Hungary
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: German Austria
    Description / Table of Contents: Part III: In the Weimar Republic
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