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    A very beautiful voyage : The stories of my life (2017)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 78 pages : , typescript; illustrations
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2017 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Jews, German Families 1918-1933. ; Jews, German Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    [Memoirs by Peter Schrag, MD], (2005-2017)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 33 + 23 + 101 typescript pages + , digital files.
    Additional Material: one photograph :
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2018 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2005-2017
    Keywords: Schrag, Ilse, ; Szamatolski, Else, ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs 1918-1933. ; Manners and customs Nineteen forties. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: This is a collection of three essays by Dr. Peter Schrag about his family, documenting in selected details his family's transition from being refugees from Nazi Germany to being Americans. A short essay, “We were once refugees”, is followed by “Oma”, reminiscences about his grandmother Else Szamatolski, and by “My mother and me”, selected memories of his mother Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Breitenbach, Joseph; Brunell, Albert (born 1934 in Cologne); Brunell, Susi (1901-1986); Goldhaber, Maurice; Goldschmidt, Lucien; Goldhaber family; Lowenstein, Edith; Marum-Lunau, Elisabeth; Samton, Claude (born 1933 in Berlin); Samton, Peter (born 1935 in Berlin); Szamatolski , Albert (1868- ); Szamatolski , Hans (later Henry Samton, 1906-2003).
    Description / Table of Contents: We were once refugees : Reminiscences, family lore, reflections, and related residua.
    Description / Table of Contents: Oma
    Description / Table of Contents: My mother and me : Selected memories of my mother, Ilse Szamatolski-Preiss-Schrag (1910-1997)
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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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    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.
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    Ich der Jude. (2016)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 93 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Universities and colleges. ; Germany. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiographical fiction. ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Partly fictional account of anti-Semitism at German universities around 1933.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Abtshof - Erinnerungen. (2016)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 5 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Aron Hirsch & Sohn‏ (Halberstadt‏(. ; Industrialists ; Jews, German Social life and customs. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Eberswalde (Germany) ; Halberstadt (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Aron Hirsch & Son metal business in Halberstadt and Eberswalde (Messingwerk), ca. 1902-1927; description of orthodox Jewish milieu in Hirsch's house.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Deported by the Nazis. (2016)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , typecript.
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Alton-Tauber, Ruth, ; Tauber, Julius, ; Tauber, Michael, ; Ewer, Erna, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Concentration camps Intellectual life. ; Jewish women authors ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jewish ghettos. ; Concentration camp inmates ; Concentration camp inmates ; Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation by Vernon Mosheim of Alton, Ruth : Deportiert von den Nazis. Seattle, Washington, 1961. ME 9
    Abstract: The memoirs begin with the family's deportation from their Berlin apartment on the evening of October 27th, 1941. They were taken to the Lewetzowstrasse synagogue and from there deported to the ghetto of Lodz (Litzmannstadt). Ruth's husband Julius (Ulli) was assigned the position of a transport supervisor, which granted them a small space to themselves. The memoir describes the living conditions, illnesses and deaths in the ghetto. She also recalls religious celebrations and cultural activities. The mass deportation of Jews from Lodz in September 1942 is described. Ruth's son Michael was exampted due to her husband's interventions. Ruth's mother, who was with them in the ghetto, died in 1943. In 1944 the famly was deported to Auschwitz and Stutthof. The living conditions of these camps are described. Ruth was transported to a work camp in Dresden, and was in the city during its destruction in February 1945. After the destruction of the city Ruth was transferred to a series of concentration camps, finally escaping on a death march. She was liberated by American soldiers in May 1945. In 1946 she was reunited with her son Michael, who had survived the Stutthof concentration camp.
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    Geschichte des Bankhauses Arnhold : [1864-1936]. (2016)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 85 pages : , handwritten manuscript.
    Edition: Digital Image New York, NY Leo Baeck Institute 2016 DigiBaeck
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Arnhold, Max. ; Arnhold, Heinrich, ; Arnhold, Georg, ; Arnhold family. ; Bankhaus Gebrüder Arnhold ; Banks and banking. ; Capitalists and financiers ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Account of the day to day business of the Jewish bank Arnhold in Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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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.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    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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    One family - one life. (2015)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 8 + 72 , pages : , bound typescript; self-published; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Deutsch family. ; Ehrenwerth family. ; Kestler family. ; Wellisch family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Mauritius. ; Moson (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is an account of the author’s life from his upbringing in Vienna, Austria to his eventful emigration to Toronto, Canada. Also included are family trees tracing the genealogy of descendents of Salamon Wellisch and Katharina Strasser from Moson, Hungary.
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    A reminiscence. (2014)
    [Pointe Claire, Quebec],
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    Pages: 69 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Badmann family. ; Roos family. ; Jewish families ; Jewish refugees ; Textile industry. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Netherlands World War, 1939-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    My recollections : 1872-1962 (2014)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 50 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Königshöfer, Meier, ; Child welfare. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish merchants. ; Orphanages. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers 1871-1914. ; Textile industry. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of 'Meine Erinnerungen 1872-1962' by the author's grandnephew, Leon Chameides.
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    A question of identity. (2014)
    Sri Lanka :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 45 , pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Jewish families. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Sri Lanka. ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: A question of identity
    Description / Table of Contents: A woman and her god
    Description / Table of Contents: The mood in the ghetto is rosy
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    Our beginnings never know our ends : A Western view of some aspects of culture in Sri Lanka (2014)
    Sri Lanka :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 20 + 86 , pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2014
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Sri Lanka. ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    URL: The past is another country
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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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    My Story / (2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 22 + 60 + 28 + 2 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    And there is no going back : A story of patience, persistence, and perseverance (2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 340 + 6 + 5 + 5 , pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Shiffers, Liese. ; Shiffers, Stephan, ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Sports. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
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    Memoirs of Reinhard Helmut Lesser / (1987-2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 , bound typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: genealogical tables
    Year of publication: 1987-2013
    Keywords: Honig family. ; Lesser family. ; Architects Biography. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Poznań (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first 50 pages encompass Lesser’s memoirs from his birth to ca. 1920; his further life is then described by his daughter, Margaret Lesser Bach.
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    Departures and returns : A memoir (2013)
    Tenafly, NJ,
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    Pages: 147 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Additional Material: 13 pages illustrations :
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Marquard, Ernestine. ; Steiner, Brigitte, ; Steiner family. ; Steiner, Hans L. ; Antisemitism ; Assimilation (Sociology) ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jewish physicians. ; Manners and customs ; World War, 1939-1945 ; Münsingen (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1941. ; Württemberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir is partially made up of excerpts from the author’s mother’s memoir, ‘A time of fear, a time of hope’ by Brigitte Steiner, which describes her and her family’s life in pre-war Germany, their immigration to and beginnings in the United States in the 1930s, and visits to Germany after the war. In addition, the author draws from his maternal grandmother’s diary during her years in wartime Germany, when she witnessed his paternal grandmother’s deportation to a concentration camp. Finally, the author describes various later events, like the laying of a “Stolperstein” in front of his grandparent’s former home in Germany.
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    Heads or tails. (2013)
    Rio de Janeiro :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 93 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Keywords: Melchior family. ; Children of interfaith marriage. ; Brazil. ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Angelica B. Melchior Pimentel.
    Note: English
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    Memoirs of Henri Moos : Ulm, Karlsruhe, Annecy, 1922-1946. (2012)
    Annecy, Haute Savoie, France :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 33 , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Edition: English language version.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Former Title: Itinéraire d'une famille juive
    Keywords: Moos, Salomon. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecutions 1939-1945. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Annecy (France) ; France Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: An account of Henri Moos’ family, starting with his grandfather Salomon Moos in Ulm and Henri’s mother Ruth, née Haas in Karlsruhe, and ending in Annecy, France. It also looks at survival in occupied France during WW II.
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    falk valentin grinfeld v’mapel hiio. (2012)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: Hebrew
    Pages: 36 , digital file.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Grünfeld, Falk Valentin, ; Grünfeld, Heinrich, ; Friendship. ; Industrialists Biography. ; Textile industry. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Kamienna Góra (Województwo Dolnośląskie, Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Hebrew translation of “Falk Valentin Gruenfeld und sein Werk” from a privately printed edition, Berlin 1934, by Joel Freudenberg.
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    [Autobiographical abstract]. (2012)
    Kibbutz Tzuba :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 18 pages.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Haganah (Organization) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. ; France Emigration and immigration. ; Spain Emigration and immigration. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: After introducing his family in Germany since early modern times, Joel Dorkam describes “Life in France” (1933-1942) and “Life in Spain” (1942-1944). He then moves on to Palestine and tells about his education and his participation in the Israeli war of independence as a soldier in the Haganah.
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    Mein 14. Geburtstag. (2011)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 4 + 4 pages.
    Year of publication: 2011
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Deportations ; Children of interfaith marriage. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections of the author’s 14th birthday on Nov. 13, 1941 in Munich, Germany; about her own history; her family’s fate; and the one of Munich’s Jewish population under the Nazis.
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    A Jewish girlhood in Berlin 1859-1879 : A memoir by Jenny Barth Bornstein, M.D. (1859-1951) (2010)
    Austin, Texas :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 126 pages : , typescript, illustrations
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Jewish families 1870-1918. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jenny Barth Bornstein's memoir covers the years 1859-1879, the years of her infancy, girlhood and adolescence.
    Note: English
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    Abschiedsworte eines Regenwurms. (2010)
    West Palm Beach, Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 3 pages.
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Affidavits ; Education, Secondary 1918-1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Affidavits ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A short essay about the author’s emigration from Austria in 1939.
    Description / Table of Contents: Page 1: German original
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    Note: German and English
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    Aftershocks : a biographical memoir (2010)
    Charlotte, NC :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 300 pages : , typed and bound manuscript.
    Edition: amended 2010 with additional content.
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Windner, Leopold. ; Jewish women artists. ; Intermarriage. ; Persecution Jews ; Maribor (Slovenia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was published in German under the title "Nachbeben" in 2005 by the Czernin Verlag, Vienna (available in LBI library). The English manuscript has 350 pages. The memoir starts in the year 1939, previously talks about Vienna, and Maribor, and soon moves on to the years 1941 when Marianne and her mother were living again in Vienna.
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    My seven years under Nazi rule as a Jewish young man / (2009)
    Monroe Township, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 51 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Birkenau (Germany) Ethnic relations. ; Siegfried Line (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    [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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    My 90 years. (2006)
    New York City :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 185 pages : , bound typescript; illustrations
    Edition: version 2 2011.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Chemists. ; College teachers. ; Czech Republic. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Eine Familie zwischen Deutschen und Juden. (2005)
    Sao Paulo,
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Carst, Irene ; von Koss, Elisabeth (née Carst) ; Jews ; Memoirs ; Biographical sources
    Note: Available on microfilm.
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    In search of Gustav : The story of the Lilienfeld (later Lynfield) family covering the last 200 years. (2005)
    Boca Raton, FL :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 203 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Lilienfeld, Gustav, ; Diamond industry and trade. ; Jews History 19th century. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; South Africa Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is the first of three books about the history of Geoffrey Lynfield's family. It is about four Lilienfeld brothers: Geoffrey Lynfield's grandfather and his brothers. They were born in the Jewish enclave of Marburg and ended up in South Africa when and where the first diamonds were discovered. The manuscript also includes photographs and documents.
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    The family memories of Robert Kanfer : Vienna – London – Cheltenham - Vienna. (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 84 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Boehm family. ; Kanfer family. ; Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. ; Antisemitism ; Architects. ; Education, Higher ; Emigration and immigration ; Jews Persecutions ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Shanghai (China) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir includes a pedigree, photographs, representing the whole family, grandparents, parents, himself, in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The manuscript starts with Robert Kanfer's grandparents' background, then covers the Boehm family--his wife Susie's family. Susie's father was Jewish. Her Catholic mother helped her husband's parents to get a visa. Her grandfather was Alfred Boehm. The next chapter covers vague memories of the "Anschluss" in March 1938. Robert Kanfer's father, Max Kanfer, was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. There he spent 4 months, and 4 more in Dachau concentration camp. Robert Kanfer's mother Bertha was forced to scrub off the streets which is vividly described. He describes a few more of these cruel daily antisemitic attacks. Since the family had a very limited budget, obtaining visas became quite difficult. The family had to separate and reunite only many years later, in 1947. The father emigrated to Shanghai, Robert could escape on a Kindertransport in 1939. He would spend the coming eleven years in England. Robert's brother Fritz was eager to move back to Vienna, and wanted his family to join him. He arranged for Robert to study architecture at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, which finally convinced Robert to join his brother. So he moved back to Vienna in 1950. He started to study with famous Austrian architect Clemens Holzmeister, but later changed to the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, to study with Franz Schuster. After graduation, he soon opened his own office. Throughout his career, he designed 10 Novotel hotels in Austria. He got married to his first wife Evi, they got a son, Roland. Soon they got a divorce, and Robert married Susy who he had known for a long time.
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    My life's journey. (2005)
    West Newton, MA :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 26 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Prister family. ; Schein family. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration. ; La Paz (Bolivia) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Silesia. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs with photographs and a family tree of the Schein-Prister family.
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    A short walk through the twentieth century : 1920-1991. (2005)
    Brooklyn :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 147 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; College teachers Nineteen fifties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    Theresienstaedter Tagebuch (Diary). (2005)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 57 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Geissmar, Elisabeth. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish lawyers ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judges ; Diaries ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation by John and Eva Englander of a lyrical diary in verse, chronicling Geissmar's imprisonment in Theresienstadt, July to December 1943.
    Note: Translation not microfilmed.
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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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    Erlebnisse in Theresienstadt, (1946-2005)
    Amsterdam :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 57 + 10 , typscript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2005
    Keywords: Epstein, P. ; Joseph, Fritz. ; Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) ; Hugo Schneider Aktiengesellschaft. ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in German one and a half years after liberation. It has the form of a witness report, written in a clear and objective tone, but nevertheless harrowing. The content: Their is no word on their life in Amsterdam before the deportation. The memoir starts with their arrest in Amsterdam, Westerbork - the place they were deported to at first - is mentioned, but not described. Bergen-Belsen gets more attention, Fritz Joseph describes daily work routine, and living conditions in the camp. Theresienstadt comes next, and the author points out the good features as opposed to his later experiences in Auschwitz. He describes the efforts to make Theresienstadt look prettier, before the International Red Cross delegation arrived. Soon thereafter, the infamous movie documentary about Thersienstadt was shot. Firtz Joseph describes many details of the false set-up. Then he was separated from his wife and deported to Auschwitz. He describes the selection process, and many other components of the horror. He was then transferred to Buchenwald, and had to work as a forced laborer at the HASAG works (former Hugo Schneider AG) at Meuselwitz near Leipzig. In 1945, the camp was evacuated and Fritz Joseph could flee. The war ended and he got treatment for his infected leg. After a few days he could return to Amsterdam where he met his wife - she had survived as well. A 10 page long It can be found in the file as well.
    Abstract: Also included is an English language summary of the memoir by John and Eva Englander (2005).
    Note: German (original) and English (summary)
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    Biography of Fred Blau. (2005)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 10 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Blau, Fred, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short biography of Fred Blau, based on conversations with his granddaugther Michele Glouberman who compiled this text during high school.
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    Incredible but true : A collection of recollections. (2005)
    Neenah, Wisconsin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 188 pages : , typescript; bound, illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Concentration camps. ; Refugees. ; Forced labor ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecutions ; Jews Persecutions ; Austria History 20th century. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A collection of various, all but two previously published, essays and articles which cover different aspects of Brown's life. They are organized in 4 main chapters, "From cradle to crash" (1921-1938), "Exile and Exhaustion" (1938-47), "Life and Liberty" (1947-87), and "Retired and Retried" (1987-2005). As . Brown states, his stories are "true in essence but not in form".
    Abstract: Copies of personal photographs and school documents are also included.
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    1938 : the end of the beginning (2005)
    Jamestown, RI :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 106 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Antisemitism ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution. ; Women Education. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The writing covers eight months, from February 1938 until September 15, 1938, when the family emigrated via airplane to London, England. The first chapter starts in February 1938, the day of Lisl's birthday. The author uses a fictional style throughout the memoir, naming herself Lisl instead of "I". The days following the Anschluss are described in detail: the persecution, being expelled from school, the arrest of her father--all from a child's perspective. A brief "epilogue" tells about Lisl taking pre-med classes at Canterbury College; and the family obtaining visas to the US and settling down in Los Angeles.
    Abstract: Also included are family and childhood photographs from the years in Austria and a few pictures from the time in the USA.
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    [Das Kriegsende]. (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Former Title: Memoirs
    Keywords: Enders, Otto. ; Germany. ; World War, 1939-1945 Soldiers’ writings, German. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germany History 1945-1955. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A short memoir about the final moments of World War 2, from a German soldier's perspective. Otto Enders worked as radio operator during the war. He came back to Germany in early summer 1944, and spent the last months with his unit in Austria, until armistice was declared. In June 1945 he returns to his hometown Frankfurt.
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    Dreiundsechzig. (2005)
    Berlin :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 148 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Alexan, Georg Friedrich, ; Eisler, Hilde, ; Eisler, Gerhard. ; Mosse, Hilde L. ; Mosse, George L. ; Communists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish way of life ; Jewish way of life ; Germany History Late 20th century. ; Germany (East) History Late 20th century. ; Germany Politics and government Late 20th century. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Irene Runge’s 14th book was written on occasion of her 63rd birthday: instead of a speech, it was printed and delivered to 63 of her friends. The book is a memoir, and jumps back and forth in time. It consists mostly of personal memories and anecdotes, but there are also reflective passages and analyses. It is divided into many chapters, which resemble diary entries. Irene Runge was a member of the "second generation": She was born in the New York exile, but her parents moved back to Germany during a political climate in the USA, when it became very difficult for sympathizers with the communist party. Her memories give rich insight into the life as an emigrant in New York, but also as a re-emigrant in Germany. She writes about her disappointments with the evolving German Democratic Republic (GDR; experiences, which repeated again in 1989/1990, when the reunification with West Germany took place. The year 1989 had practical consequences for her private life when she lost her job at the university, because her past seemed not compatible. She discusses the PDS, the party which evolved from the communist party of Eastern Germany after the "Wende" (reunification), and life in Berlin after the reunification. At one point she asks whether the current Turkish-Muslim community in Berlin could be comparable to the living conditions of the Jewish community in the 1930. This is a rare memoir documenting many recent aspects of German-speaking Jewry.
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    Bericht ueber das Leben meines Vaters Benoit Courmont, (2005)
    Kiel :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 55 pages.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Courmont, Frieda (nee Hanke), 1912-1983. ; Courmont, Donat, 1888-1914. ; Susmann, Gertrud, 1886-1969. ; Courmont, Peter. ; Susmann, Melanie, 1883-1944. ; Hanke, Frieda, 1899-1983. ; Courmont, Benoit, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Intermarriage. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945 Jews ; Persecutions. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Genealogy. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir has a very formal style. It is written in a strictly chronological way, and each year received an entry. Renate Nottrott uses letters, and many other written notes and documents of her family to reconstruct her father's life. There are also family trees attached at the end. The memoir reconstructs the life in Germany during World War 2.
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    We came to America : Memoirs of a refugee child. (2005)
    Hartsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 81 + 16 + 12 , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Frank, Werner L. ; Geissmar, David Jacob. ; Geissmar, Johanna, ; Oppenheimer, Clemens. ; Oppenheimer, Mina (née Adler) ; Oppenheimer, Max, ; Plotnik, Marlies (née Wolf), ; Wolf family. ; Wolf, Hermann David, ; Wolf, Paul Jacob. ; Wolf, Theodor. ; Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. ; Queen Mary (Steamship) ; Antisemitism. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Lawyers. ; Leather industry and trade ; Darmstadt (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir starts with the Wolf family's arrival in New York City in February 1939, including a brief description of the ship Queen Mary. Then the memoir jumps back in time, to the year 1933:.fFamily life, their live-in maid who had to leave the family in 1937. The two older siblings Paul and Ellen were exposed to anti-Semitism in their schools, and were sent by their parents to an international boarding school and a Jewish school respectively. Marlies Plotnik then talks about her grandparents and the family's leather business, Adler & Oppenheimer Lederfabrik AG. She recollects the events of Kristallnacht in Darmstadt. She saw that both the conservative and orthodox synagogues were ablaze. It follows a detailed genealogical description of her family background. Then "Life in Pre-Hitler Darmstadt" is covered. Marlies Plotnik writes about the daily routine of her middle class family. Her parents attended the cultural events of Darmstadt, theater, the ball season, etc. The second part of the memoir is dedicated to the departure from Germany, the emigration via England, and the immigration into the USA. The family settled in Washington Heights, as did so many other Jewish families from Germany. Attached are family pedigrees, family photographs, passports (copies), and documents.
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    Attached to „P2“, S.S. General M.C. Meigs. (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 pages : , photocopies.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Former Title: Diary entries.
    Keywords: Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Sailors. ; China History Civil War, 1945-1949. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Photocopy of diary entries between November 30, 1946, and January 18, 1947, and an explanatory letter. The entries are very brief and limited to information on port arrival and departure times. The ship sailed from San Francisco to Honolulu (Hawai), to Shanghai (China), to Hongkong (China), to Manila (Philippines), to Shanghai, and went finally back to San Francisco.
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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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    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.
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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 historical autobiography. (2004)
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    Pages: 161 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Kremski family. ; Cohen family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Food engineers. ; Chile Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogical tables.
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    Dachau concentration camp - a memoir / (2004)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 29 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir provides a detailed description of daily life and misery in the concentration camp Dachau, May to December of 1938. The first eight chapters are missing which would cover Felix Klein's life in Vienna. The existing memoir then starts with his deportation to Dachau, and ends shortly before his transfer to Buchenwald concentration camp.
    Abstract: Translated from the German by Sanda Vero.
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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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    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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    Mit dem Leben davongekommen : Aus den Erfahrungen eines Opfers des NS-Staats, (2004)
    Göteborg :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 51 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Marcuse family. ; Chemists. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Refugees. ; Restitution. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Italy Emigration and immigration. ; Sweden Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir to document the influence of the Nazi terror on the author's later life:
    Abstract: Reinhard Marcuse's family background, and his education in Germany. Description of Nazi persecution; his life in exile in Italy between 1937-1939; his emigration to Sweden and the difficulties starting a new life. In 1948, he visits his home town, Cologne, for the first time after the war. He describes the bombed city, and experiences with people. The part covers his professional career in Sweden, where he worked as a chemist.
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    [Three stories]. (2004)
    Protea Village :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Finaly family. ; Finaly, Zsigmund. ; Jews History. ; Holocaust survivors ; Jewish physicians ; Budapest (Hungary) ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Three stories about the extended Finaly family in Hungary and in Bukowina.
    Description / Table of Contents: A story about medicine and the power of faith, arranged and translated by Miriam Lava from : ‘Aus dem Tagebuche eines Arztes von Dr. Sigismund Finaly’ , Druck von Kohr u. Wein , Pest 1873 (5 p.)
    Description / Table of Contents: Lava, Miriam : The “Finaly Case”, including personal memories (10 p.). Describing the ‘Affaire Finaly’ in France, 1944-1953, about two brothers whose parents perished in the Holocaust and who found refuge in a municipal children’s home in Grenoble. After the war, the boys aunts had to appeal to France’s highest court to get custody; the boys were released to Israel, where they grew up with their cousin, Miriam Lava née Rosner.
    Description / Table of Contents: Typescript : Rosner, Moshe : Memories of the Bukowina (4 p.) about growing up in Putila (Putyla, Ukraine), written in Hebrew in 1994 and translated by the author’s daughter, Miriam Lava.
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    A chance to live. (2003)
    Florida :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews, German Persecution. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs by Hans Stefan Kohnstam were originally written in German in 1980; they were edited and translated into English by his son Pieter G. Kohnstam.
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    A brief history of the Arnstein family : (For Katharine Arnstein) (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 12 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Arnstein family. ; Arnstein, Gustav, ; Arnstein, Leopold, ; Arnstein, Richard, ; Jewish families ; Jewish printers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Sulzbach (Saarland, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Arnstein family, dating back to Seckel Arnstein in 1751 and his ancestor Ahron Fraenkel in 1645, who established a printing press business in 1699. Seckel Arnstein continued the business of printing of Hebrew bibles, which became famous all over Central and Eastern Europe under the name “S. Arnstein & Sons”. Another predecessor, Leopold Arnstein, founded a dry goods store under the name “Leopold Arnstein & Sons”. Family history of Gustav and Richard Arnstein, the grandfather and father of the author. Gustav Arnstein was born in Sulzbach and raised his family together with his wife Nanette, née Luber, in Wertheim. Later they moved to Stuttgart. In 1907 Gustav Arnstein founded a security business (“Nachtwach- und Schliessdienst”) for local stores and factories. Assimilated life style. World War One. Marriage of the author’s parents Richard and Charlotte, née Heymann. Post-war depression and rise of Nazi movement. Immigration to the United States.
    Abstract: The following individuals are named: Arnstein, Seckel, 1751-1825 ; Auer, Ignatz ; Heymann, Berthold ; Heymann, Charlotte ; Luber, Nanette ; Spitzer, Franz.
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    Beyond the mainstreams. (2003)
    New York, NY. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 30 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Psychoanalysis. ; Psychoanalysts. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal account of a psychoanalyst and his stance beyond the mainstream of American psychology.
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    The biography of Kurt Tauber, part II, (2003)
    Southbury, CT,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 56 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Tauber, Kurt, ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This book is dedicated to Kurt Tauber’s wife Greta, who died ten years before. In 19 chapters he describes what happens in his life and how he feels since his wife has died. For example, he got in touch with the daughter of Albert Lang, a missing cousin, the son of his father’s sister Rose. She was still living in Vienna with her family. This was the beginning of the acquaintance with his family in Austria. Further in the book, he tells about his family in the USA. In another chapter, Kurt Tauber writes about his political views. The book is illustrated with many family pictures as well as newspaper clippings and documents.
    Note: See also "To Greta: The Biography of Kurt Tauber" (ME 1234); and "Kurt Tauber Collection" (AR 10954)
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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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    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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    Vignettes from my early life : Remembered fifty+ years later (2003)
    Livonia, Michigan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 146 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Bach family. ; Boehm family. ; Boehm, Gertrude, ; Boehm, Victor, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Universities and colleges. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Czechoslovakia. ; London (England) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Uruguay. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written between 1998 and 2000. Description of family apartment house built by his grandfather in Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna’s 6th district. The family lived in the penthouse designed by the Viennese architect Ernst Plischke. The Boehm family was the owner of textile factories in Bohemia. They had a governess and a English language tutor. The family was one of the few in Vienna to own a car. Their mother Gertrude was a passionate driver, who participated in various Road Rallies. She was a university graduate and had earned a PhD in chemistry in 1921. Their father was a war veteran of World War One. Summer vacations in Italy and Czechoslovakia. They also spent a few summers in a rented villa in the outskirts of Vienna. On Christmas vacations the family went skiing in St. Anton. In 1935 Heinrich Boehm was enrolled in the “Theresianum”, an elite private school in Vienna. Plans to become a physicist with the encouragement of the author’s mother. In 1937 he contracted Legg-Perthes disease and was sent to a Sanatorium to recover. Private tutoring. Very first encounter with antisemitism at the sanatorium in February of 1938. Transfer back to Vienna. Recollections of the weeks leading up to Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life in Nazi Austria and preparations for their emigration. Conversion in order to assimilate better in their emigration. The family was able to leave the country in September of 1938 for Czechoslovakia. Henry’s sisters were placed to boarding schools in Great Britain with the help of their father’s uncle Frederick Bach, who resided in England. From Czechoslovakia they immigrated to Belgium, where Henry was enrolled in school again. In February of 1939 they left for Great Britain. Life of émigrés in London. Recollections of wartime England. Passport procedures and visa preparations.
    Abstract: Detailed description of the family’s departure from Great Britain to the United States via Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo on board of the “Andalusia Star” in 1941. The “Andalusia Star” was sunk a few months after their arrival in the United States. Recollections of their stay in Brazil and Uruguay. Detailed description of the German submarine war. Arrival in New York on April 7th 1941, where the family was reunited with their father.
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    World War II through my eyes : An Austrian refugee in the United States army (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 229 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: United States. ; World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives. ; California. ; England. ; France. ; Germany (West) ; Autobiographies ; Correspondence ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Edited letters sent to his family while he served with the US Army in the US and in Europe from Oct. 1941 to Oct. 1945. The letters had originally been written in German during 1941 and then in English. Stewart describes his experiences in wartime California, fearing a Japanese invasion; in wartime England; in recently liberated France and Belgium; and in occupied Germany.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Gosh I'm good : Memoirs of a modest man (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 126 , self-published book.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Orsten, Hanna. ; Trader Joe’s (Firm) ; Exile armies ; Real estate agents. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) History. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Třebíč (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface by Joe Coulombe
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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.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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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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    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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    The river of my time : Historical background to my life (2003)
    Melville, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 89 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Revision A of memoirs; older version available in AR 10877
    Note: English
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    Memoirs, (2003)
    Silver Spring, MD :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 59 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Levi, Minna (née Stein) ; Bernheimer family. ; Tannhauser family. ; Weil family. ; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland, Berlin (1933-1943) ; Clothing trade. ; Textile industry. ; Textile fabrics. ; World War, 1914-1918 Jews. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Buttenhausen (Germany) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Leopold Levi, translated by Werner Blumenthal.
    Note: English
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    The story of my family & my life as I remember it. (2003)
    Hamilton, Ontario :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 137 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Eisler family. ; Krakauer family. ; Krakauer, Gertrude. ; Great Britain. ; Cytologists. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Canada Emigration and immigration. ; Mikulov (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Krakauer was born and grew up in Nikolsburg, Bohemia (today Mikulov, Czech Republic). In March of 1939 he and his brother Hans started their emigration to Palestine with the help of a Zionist organization. 1942-1945 he served with the British army in Palestine, fighting in World War II in Egypt and then moving on to France before being discharged in Czechoslovakia. He continued his studies in Prague, before returning to Israel in 1949. In 1956 he settled in Canada, where he finished his medical studies and settled as cytologist in Hamilton, Ontario.
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    The Neuberg/Aron Family Chronicle / (2003)
    Tenafly, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 157 pages : , bound typecript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Rashi, Genealogy. ; Aron family. ; Buss family. ; Gans family. ; Katzenellenbogen family. ; Neuberg family. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs ; Genealogy.
    Abstract: Detailed genealogical description of the Neuburg and the Aron families, accompanied by the memoirs of the authors, Hans and Birgit (née Aron) Neuburg, originally from Hannover and Berlin, respectively. Also included are a “photo gallery” and family trees.
    Note: English
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    A Walk Through My Life : An attempt to remember (1995-2002)
    Hanover, NH,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 217 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1995-2002
    Keywords: Landmann family. ; Landmann, Siegfried. ; Hecht, Alfred. ; Rahn, Max. ; Kunreuther, Richard. ; Ollesheimer, Henry. ; Landmann, Frederick E., ; United States. ; Antisemitism. ; Brewing industry. ; Business travel ; Christmas. ; Emigration and immigration 1871-1933. ; Jewish families 1880-1917. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; National socialism. ; Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946. ; Translators. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Russia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir "A Walk Through My Life" is divided into three parts. The first section is entitled "From Birth through World War I to World War 2", part two is called "World War 2", and part three "The Years from 1946-2002". At the end is a short section - "Memorial" - which gives room to his family to honour the legacy of their grandfather and father after his death, with additional prayer texts and songs. After an introduction to the family brewing business, the memoir covers Frederick Landmann's years of education and apprenticeship, then his business travel for the family brewing supplies business to the Far East. He describes the rise of Hitler in Germany and all the obstacles and persecution this brought to his family, leading to his flight from the country in 1938. The memoir then describes New York during World War 2, and Mr. Landmann's efforts to secure his living, then talks about his time at the US Army and the War crime trials at Nuremberg. Back in the USA, he rejoins his family and continues his career in the brewing industry.
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    Remembering Leo Baeck / (2002)
    Peterborough, NH :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 13 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Baeck, Leo, ; Jewish religious education. ; Teachers. ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memories of Leo Baeck as a teacher in religious education in Duesseldorf high school 1906-1912
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    Escape to Shanghai, China, 1939-1949. (2002)
    Livingston, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 10 pages : , typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration ; Emigration and immigration ; Seiden, Norbert, 1932. ; Seiden family. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir was written for educational purposes, particularly for its use in schools (7th and 8th grade), which is reflected in the style it was written. It also includes a map showing his emigration route from Vienna to Shanghai, a photograph, and many resources for teachers. It was originally published in the State of New Jersey Holocaust/Genocide Curriculum in 2002. The memoir starts with the family’s departure from Vienna, on January 23, 1939. It later on describes daily life in Shanghai and the later Jewish ghetto. The memoir ends with the Seiden family’s departure to Israel on January 1, 1949.
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    Erinnerungen. (2002)
    Goettingen :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 160 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Ettinger, Mark, ; Ettinger family. ; Education, Primary. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Jews History 1945- ; 1945- ; Jews History. ; Soviet Union. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir is dedicated to Mark Ettinger's family, and has the subtitle: "Adolescence in Poland, escape and life in the Soviet Union--a Jewish fate". The first chapter of Mark Ettinger's memoir in entitled "In Poland (until October 1939)", describing his family background, his childhood, his schooling years, and the beginning years under Hitler. Chapter 2 is called "Time of uncertainty and reckless attempts (October 1939 until May 1940) where. The third and last chapter is "In the Republic of Komi (July 1940 until June 1944). Mark Ettinger describes his professional life, and the entry of the Soviet Union into World War 2. The German translation is provided by Rita Schick, it is edited by Hermann and Leni Prell.
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    Diaries, (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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 life / (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Schiff, Alice, ; Actors Motion picture industry. ; Jewish families ; Jewish physicians Biography. ; Jewish physicians Biography. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Düsseldorf (Germany) ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; Autobiographies ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript with the memoirs of the pediatrician Alice Schiff follows her notes that she assembled throughout her retirement.
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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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    Ein Amerikaner : A collection of anecdotes in the life of (2002)
    Rockaway, NJ :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 127 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Ettlinger, Mimi (née Goldman) ; Oppenheimer, Otto. ; Oppenheimer, Emma. ; Families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Personal narratives. Cultural assimilation ; Manners and customs ; Newark (N.J.) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Harry Ettlinger describes his life, first growing up in Germany, then life under Nazi rule, and finally his emigration to America in 1938. Harry Ettlinger recounts his life as a German Jew living in America, with an intimate look at his teenage years in Newark, New Jersey. The memoirs are accompanied with humorous and interesting anecdotes about life, family, his war service, college, his career path, and vacations, as well as photographs.
    Abstract: Also included is an original postcard sent by Max and Suse Ettlinger on the day after their arrival in America to her parents, Otto and Emma Oppenheimer; they arrived in the US on December 8, 1941.
    Note: English
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    Holocaust and redemption. (2002)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 17 + 56 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Grese, Irma ; Treuer family ; Treuer, Fritz, ; Treuer, Mia (née Weil) ; Antisemitism. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Families ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; England. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In the first chapter, “Holocaust and I”, Robert Treuer describes his youth in Vienna/Austria, how he grew up and how the anti-Semitism became more and more apparent in Austria. After the Anschluss, his father decided for him and his mother to leave the country. They emigrated to England where his mother worked as a housekeeper. Robert Treuer was separated from his mother, because the employer did not want another child in the house. His father was still in Austria. After being abused at school, his uncle took him away and brought him to a nearby tent camp in London. After a while, his father got the chance to escape from Austria and came to England as well. Although Robert Treuer’s father wrote letters to many countries to immigrate, only the United States allowed them to enter. Together with his parents he immigrated to the United States on February 9, 1939. In the second chapter, “Redemption. Searching for Trude and Irma”, Robert Treuer returned for a trip to Germany with two of his children and visited some of the concentration camps. During his stay in Germany, all the memories of the cruelty of the Nazi regime came back. He also talks about his cousin Erika and her family in Vienna and Hohenau. She was sent to England with the Kindertransport and never saw any member of his family again.
    Abstract: Also included are Robert Treuer's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection and a curriculum vitae.
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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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    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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    "... und half mir mit Gottes Hilfe selbst" : ein Lebensbericht von Erna Huth (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 69 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Böhm, Agnes. ; Böhm, Alexander. ; Neumann, Erna. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Intermarriage. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Secretaries. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs of Erna Huth were recorded by her nephew Michael Weber in 1993. Childhood in an assimilated Jewish family. Erna Huth's father was an architect who made his living as a journalist and writer. Recollections of Christmas celebrations. Erna graduated from Lyceum (high school) in 1911. Her plans to continue her studies were not granted. She started to work in her father's publishing company. Death of her mother in 1928. Nazi-takeover in Germany in 1933. Sudden dismissal from her position as a secretary due to her Jewish heritage. Increasing discrimination by former colleagues and acquaintances. Difficulties of her father to continue his profession as a journalist and editor. Emigration of her younger brothers Gerhard and Georg. Attempts to obtain exit permits for the United States and England, which only arrived after the beginning of the war. Erna and her sister Agnes were stuck in Berlin together with their father. Erna started to work at the Jewish welfare and youth department of the Jewish community. Position at an insurance company. Increased anti-Jewish regulations and the constraint to wear the yellow star. Erna's sister Agnes worked as a housekeeper at a Jewish family. Marriage of Agnes with the considerably older Alexander Boehm in 1941. Deportation of Agnes and Alexander Boehm to the Ghetto of Lodz. Diminishment of Erna's friends and relatives, who either emigrated or were subject to deportation. Support of her superior. Life in hiding. Refuge at houses of friends. Constant fear of discovery. Difficulties to obtain food stamps. Position as a nurse for an elderly lady provided her with a new identity and a place to stay. End of the war and liberation. Reunion with her relatives.
    Abstract: Addendum: Reflections by Michael Weber, Documents, Letters, Historic Chronology, Family Tree, Bibliography
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    Das Schicksal der Familie Brueg aus Gera und ihre Beziehungen zu Leipzig. (2001)
    Newtown, Connecticut :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 26 pages : , Photocopies of letters and documents.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Brüg family. ; Gillis, Siegfried. ; Sanderson, Arthur. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; England Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Gera (Germany) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A compilation of documents pertaining to Guy Bishop’s (formerly Guenter Brueg’s) years in Gera, Germany and his escape to England.
    Abstract: A short typescript is accompanied by photocopies of letters, documents and family photos. Also included are published materials about the history of the Jewish community in Gera; the "Kindertransport" rescue mission; and the fate of the Brueg family during the Holocaust.
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    Under Swastika and the French flag. (2001)
    Croton on Hudson, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 94 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Scherzer, Samson. ; Scherzer family. ; Juris family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Hitler-Jugend. ; Antisemitism. ; Anti-Jewish boycotts. ; Jewelers. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews Persecutions. ; Jews Social life and customs. ; National socialism. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Elbląg (Poland) ; France. ; Poland. ; Palestine. ; Paris (France) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were originally written for the Harvard University competition in 1940 and were translated by the author in 2001. Reflections on his childhood in Germany and Austria. His parents were both from Poland. They moved to Vienna in 1921, where his father opened a haberdashery store in the Second district (Leopoldstadt). Otto attended primary school in Czerningasse. Birth of his sister Cecile in 1924. After his failing business endeavors his father decided to move back to Germany, where the family opened a department store in Elbing, East Prussia. Otto attended Gymnasium, where he was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Growing Nazi movement among students. Summer vacations on the Baltic Sea. Private piano lessons. Hitler’s rise in Germany and life under National Socialism. Bar mitzvah in 1933. Anti-Jewish boycotts. His father fled to Vienna in order to escape a rounding up of Jews. The family followed soon after to Austria. Otto attended Gymnasium in the Zirkusgasse and started to work as a tutor. Member of a youth group and hiking tours in the mountains. Recollections of the Anschluss in 1938. Fervent attempts to obtain an exit visa for the United States, where they had a relative in New York. Description of discriminations and frequent attacks on Jewish friends and relatives in the weeks after the Anschluss. Otto was picked up by Nazi stormtroops. He was forced to hold up an anti-Jewish sign and was walked up and down, receiving beatings and spittings in front of a jeering crowd. Detailed account of the atmosphere within the Jewish population. The Gymnasium Zirkusgasse was transferred into a Jewish school. Frequent attacks of Hitler Youths on the students. Preparations for the “Matura” despite the turmoil. In June of 1938 his father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After passing the final exams, Otto planned on leaving the country illegally, since he was subject to the Polish quota for the United States with
    Abstract: little prospect of getting a permit. Constant danger of arrest for Jewish males in Vienna. He received a visa for France from relatives and left for Paris. Difficult beginnings and detailed account of the life of a refugee. Application for his visa to the United States. His girlfriend Rika joined him in Paris before she left for her agricultural training in Palestine. His mother and sister in Vienna received their exit permits and left for New York. Otto’s father was released from Buchenwald shortly after and joined his wife and daughter in the United States in April of 1939. Difficulties at the American consulate in Paris concerning his visa. Otto arrived in New York in July of 1939, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II. Description of his life in the United States. He trained to become a jeweler and got married in 1944. He lived with his wife and two daughters in Queens.
    Abstract: The memoirs were originally written for the Harvard University competition in 1940 and were translated by the author in 2001. Reflections on his childhood in Germany and Austria. His parents were both from Poland. They moved to Vienna in 1921, where his father opened a haberdashery store in the Second district (Leopoldstadt). Otto attended primary school in Czerningasse. Birth of his sister Cecile in 1924. After his failing business endeavors his father decided to move back to Germany, where the family opened a department store in Elbing, East Prussia. Otto attended Gymnasium, where he was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Growing Nazi movement among students. Summer vacations on the Baltic Sea. Private piano lessons. Hitler’s rise in Germany and life under National Socialism. Bar mitzvah in 1933. Anti-Jewish boycotts. His father fled to Vienna in order to escape a rounding up of Jews. The family followed soon after to Austria. Otto attended Gymnasium in the Zirkusgasse and started to work as a tutor. Member of a youth group and hiking tours in the mountains. Recollections of the Anschluss in 1938. Fervent attempts to obtain an exit visa for the United States, where they had a relative in New York. Description of discriminations and frequent attacks on Jewish friends and relatives in the weeks after the Anschluss. Otto was picked up by Nazi stormtroops. He was forced to hold up an anti-Jewish sign and was walked up and down, receiving beatings and spittings in front of a jeering crowd. Detailed account of the atmosphere within the Jewish population. The Gymnasium Zirkusgasse was transferred into a Jewish school. Frequent attacks of Hitler Youths on the students. Preparations for the “Matura” despite the turmoil.
    Abstract: In June of 1938 his father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After passing the final exams, Otto planned on leaving the country illegally, since he was subject to the Polish quota for the United States with little prospect of getting a permit. Constant danger of arrest for Jewish males in Vienna. He received a visa for France from relatives and left for Paris. Difficult beginnings and detailed account of the life of a refugee. Application for his visa to the United States. His girlfriend Rika joined him in Paris before she left for her agricultural training in Palestine. His mother and sister in Vienna received their exit permits and left for New York. Otto’s father was released from Buchenwald shortly after and joined his wife and daughter in the United States in April of 1939. Difficulties at the American consulate in Paris concerning his visa. Otto arrived in New York in July of 1939, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II. Description of his life in the United States. He trained to become a jeweler and got married in 1944. He lived with his wife and two daughters in Queens.
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    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , Typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Switzerland. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Max Liebmann describes his school life and how unbearable conditions grew after Hitler was elected chancellor. One time a pupil harassed him, but he fought back. He stayed in public school until 1937, and then attended a private school. He had to leave school after “Kristallnacht”, when all Jews were excluded from non-Jewish schools. In March 1938, his father had left for Greece in order to explore new business possibilities. Max Liebmann never saw him again. With the outbreak of World War II, Max Liebmann took his grandmother, who was French Alsatian, to the Swiss border. But Switzerland did not permit her to enter the country, so she went to Nancy and later to Bordeaux. During the war discrimination increased and culminated in Max Liebmann being sent to Eastern Germany to harvest. He describes himself as one of the first slave laborers of the Reich. In 1940, Max Liebmann started to work for the “Hilfsverein”. On October 21, 1940, the “Hilfsverein” was closed and he was deported to France the next day. On October, 25, Max Liebmann arrived at the camp of Gurs in Southwestern France. He managed to get out of the camp just weeks before its closure on August 1, 1942, and the beginning of the first deportations to Auschwitz. He hid in several places in unoccupied France with the help of local residents. He later managed to escape to Switzerland with the help of a Swiss militia man. In Switzerland, he worked in a refugee camp. On February 28, 1943, his girlfriend Hanne, whom he had met in Gurs, came to Switzerland. She first lived with relatives, but left them on Christmas Eve 1944 when personal frictions became too heavy. Max Liebmann married Hanne on April 14, 1945 in Geneva. Their daughter was born on March 4, 1946. In 1948, the family left for the United States.
    Abstract: Max Liebmann ends his memoir with giving a few remarks on Swiss policy concerning Jewish immigration and also on their policy of blocking them from their money in Swiss bank accounts.
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    "Bergemolo" : Before and thereafter - the way it was. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 21 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Hartmayer, Manya. ; Revolutionaere Sozialisten Oesterreichs. ; Anti-fascist movements. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1939. ; Italy. ; Nice (France) ; Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
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    The great errand / (2001)
    Kailua Kona :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 120 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Fascism ; Neo-Nazis Fiction. ; Germany History 1945-1955. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Revisionist history novel:
    Abstract: Description of post-war Germany from the viewpoint of a German, Fritz Meyer, who was a member of a local Nazi Youth organization in Sonneborn. He fought as a soldier and fell into the hands of the English in Northern France. He was taken to Canada as a prisoner of war. He escaped the camp and found refuge at a German family. Description of erotic encounters. Reflection on Nazi ideology. At the request of the family he returns to Germany for something subscribed as "the great errand", taking up the identity of a former American G.I. Desolation of post-war Germany. Confrontation with British emigre soldiers. Identifying with the anger of his German countrymen. Reflection on the Bible and the denial of the Jewish roots of Christianity. Creating an underground network of conspiracy with former Nazi leaders and high members of the Catholic church in order to continue the ideals of Nazism. Donations from secret supporters abroad. Connections with the political leaders in the newly established German Republic.
    Abstract: Story of a Jewish emigre Bruno, who enrolled at university in his forties and was confronted with right-wing professors. Outstanding success despite of the difficulties he faced. Position as a history professor in Montana. Encounters with antisemitism. Return to his birth place in Sonneborn, Germany. Confrontation with the Neo Nazi network of Fritz Meyer and challenging his views.
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    Fragmente : Erinnerungen von 1942-1948. (2001)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 13 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Chemists. ; Education, Secondary 1933-1945. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women Employment. ; Buenos Aires (Argentina) ; Argentina Emigration and immigration. ; Celle (Germany) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs concentrate on the years between 1942-1948. The author moved with his mother from Prague to Celle. Difficult situation due to his mixed heritage. His father had served in the Austrio-Hungarian army during World War One. Fragments and recollections of his school years in Nazi-Germany. He was expelled from "Oberrealschule" due to his "half-Jewish" descent. Experiences of antisemitism among fellow students and partial support by his teachers. Private English lessons. His mother worked as a chemist. Recollections of air raids. Liberation by the English and American army in 1945. Description of life in Germany in the aftermath of World War II. His mother got a position with the English military goverment. Brief courtship. Emigration to Argentina in 1948.
    Abstract: Also avaialble is a questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection.
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    The rise of Nazism before World War II : Memories of Germany (2001)
    Seattle, WA,
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    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)
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    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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    [Speeches and memories], (1997-2001)
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    Pages: 5 + 4 + 5 pages : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1997-2001
    Keywords: Levy family. ; Levy, Leo, ; Weil, Leo. ; Weil, Liselotte L. (née Levy), ; United States. ; Education, Primary. ; Jewish religious education 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Reform Judaism. ; Women authors. ; Neuwied (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were comprised as speeches from 1997-2001. Brief description of family history. Recollections of the Neuwied Reformed Jewish community. Liselotte attended the Jewish school. Description of domestic life with a nanny and religious traditions. Nazis and preparation of their parents for the children's emigration. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom 1938 (Kristallnacht). The family was arrested and their father beaten up so brutally that he died two weeks later. Liselotte and her younger brother Leo were sent to relatives in the US in 1939. Her brother joined the US army. Their mother and sister stayed in Germany and probably perished during the Holocaust. Description of life with relatives in the United States. Courtship and marriage to Leo Weil.
    Description / Table of Contents: Talk given by Liselotte Weil, July 9, 1997 [in New Orleans]; 5 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Sermon by Liselotte Weil at Temple Sinai, New Orleans, on Dec. 7, 2001; 4 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: In memory of my brother, Aug. 19, 1998; 5 pages.
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    My life. 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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    Poldi's memoirs : [1883-1958]. (2001)
    Maplewood, N.J. :[publisher not identified],
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    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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