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  • 1
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    A patchwork of memories. (1994)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 3 binders : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1994
    Keywords: Blau family. ; Hertz family. ; Levison, William (1908-1961) ; Levison, Wilhelm (1876-1941) ; Levison family. ; Elisabethenschule (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Au pairs. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Intermarriage. ; International travel. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Nurses. ; Manners and customs. ; Physicians. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Leubsdorf (Linz am Rhein, Germany) ; United States. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir describes her life in Germany, her decision to leave Germany after the death of her parents, and to work in the United States in 1934. Detailed description of every day life in Germany after World War I and in the United States, and later of various travels all over the world. Also mentions her German-Jewish ancestors on her maternal side (great-great-grandparents: Moritz and Fanny Hertz, great-grandmother: Helene Hertz née Orthenberger), who had a textile business.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: 1911-1937
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 2: 1937-1961
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 3: 1961-1997
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 2
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    Geschichte eines Weltbuergers. (1989)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 371 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1989
    Keywords: Levi, Julius Walter. ; Authors. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Potsdam (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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    So habe ich es erlebt : [1939-1958]. (1958)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 72 , incomplete typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Ritter, Gladys. ; Diseases. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Hospitals. ; Jews Persecution. ; Physicians. ; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; China History 1937-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; Singapore. ; Venezuela. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Wenzhou Shi (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1958 in Austria. The physician Ernst Ritter describes his emigration to India and Shanghai in 1939. He was able to obtain a visa to India through the Austro-Indian Society, who conciliated physician exchanges to India. Ernst Ritter was offered a position as an assistant in a private hospital in Bombay. He left together with his wife for India via Denmark in April 1939. The British immigration office in Singapore regarded them as German spies and denied their visa for India. The only possibility for them was to go to Shanghai. Cultural differences and a high concentration of people in the city. With the help of a befriended Viennese physician he became a member of the Shanghai Medical Board. Network of German and Austrian refugee physicians and lawyers. Position in a hospital. Primitive circumstances. Confrontation with tropical illnesses. Fraud and crimes. Political tensions between China and Japan. Position in a Catholic missionary hospital in Wenchow, Central China, which was cut off from Shanghai due to the Japanese occupation of the coast. Confrontation with Trachom, the Egyptian eye disease and Bilharzia infection, an illness common among the Chinese rice-farmers. Orphanage of "unwanted female babies" at the missionary. Hygienic and nutrition insufficiencies among the Chinese inhabitants. Exit visa for Venezuela from his brother. Preparations for their immigration and language studies in Spanish. Journey to Venezuela via Japan and Los Angeles. Arrival in Caracas in September 1940. Difficulties in obtaining a position as a physician. In 1941 Ernst Ritter was offered the position of a "country physician" in Libertad in the Andes. Work under primitive circumstances in the midst of the jungle. Tropical climate and vegetation. Diseases due to nutrition insufficiencies. Confrontation with superstition and charlatans among the inhabitants. Position in Ospino and fight against a Malaria epidemic.
    Abstract: Position as a head physician at a rubber plantation in Orinocco in the midst of the tropical jungle. From 1945 to 1958 Ernst Ritter dedicated his work to the cure and research of the Bilharzia infection. He returned to Austria in 1958.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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  • 4
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    Erlebtes und Gedachtes. (1957)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 13 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Assimilation. ; National socialism. ; Physicians. ; Zionism. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of assimilated Jews in Koenigsberg at the beginning of the 20th century. Describes discussions between assimilationists and Zionists after World War I. The Nazi rise to power changed his assimilationist ideology and led to his emigration to Palestine. (contains diary excerpts)
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Ein Facit meiner 61 Jahre. (1955)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 152 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1955
    Keywords: Children. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Poznań (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood and school years in Posen; university studies in Munich and Berlin; as physician in World War I; account of his work as physician during Weimar years in Halle and Munich; emigration and life in Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Meine Erinnerungen 1865/1947. (1948)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 142 pages : , handwritten notebook (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Charité (Hospital : Berlin, Germany) ; College teachers. ; Education, Higher. ; Hospitals. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Son of Jewish grain dealer from Poland; primary and secondary education in Berlin; Jewish religious education; university studies in medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin, Tuebingen and Leipzig; assistant professor in Berlin; move to Frankfurt am Main and Strasbourg; journeys to France, Russia and America; work at Friedrichshain and Charité hospitals in Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , The paper collection contains an English summary.
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    Mein kurzgefasster Lebenslauf. (1945)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 14 , handwritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1945
    Keywords: Gessner, Hermann, ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Music. ; Physicians. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Musical education and interest in literature and philosophy; university studies in Wuerzburg and Berlin; among his professors was W.C.Roentgen; as a physician in Nuremberg.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Camp de Gurs. (1943)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 18 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1943
    Former Title: [Two accounts]
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Physicians. ; Jewish leadership. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Mannheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: As head of the Mannheim Jewish community, Neter voluntarily joined the 7000 Jews from Baden and Palatine who were deported to the Gurs internment camp in France in October 1940. He describes life in Gurs where he continued to work as a physician.
    Note: A draft of Eugen Neter's essay 'Der juedische Frontsoldat - Erinnerungen aus dem 1. Weltkrieg' has been removed from this record. The draft together with the final version may be found in ME 1509. , Available on microfilm , German
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    [Aus dem vorigen Jahrhundert]. (1943)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 941 + 510 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1943
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Koch family. ; Antisemitism. ; Assimilation Jews. ; College teachers. ; Education, Primary before 1871. ; Education, Secondary before 1871. ; Education, Higher. ; Families. ; Jews Cultural assimilation 19th century. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Medicine. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bockenheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Soviet Union Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Richard Koch wrote these memoirs until shortly before he died, probably without ever having revised them. Originally, the manuscript was handwritten, and then copied by his wife on a very old-fashioned typewriter.
    Abstract: Family history reaching back to early 19th century; most family members came from Frankfurt am Main and Bockenheim; domestic life; childhod in well-to-do Frankfurt Jewish family; reflections on antisemitism and assimilation in 19th century; celebration of Christmas and Jewish holidays; primary and secondary education; university studies in Munich and Berlin; reflections on prostitution; contains ms. fragment with reflections on medicine and other topics.
    Note: Available on microfilms MM2 reel 3 (parts 1-4) and MM2 reel 4 (part 5) , German
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    Pfingstreise 1940. (1940)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 39 pages (1.5 space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Hospitals. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Breda (Netherlands) ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report of the evacuation of the Dutch city of Breda in 1940 and the return to Breda; contains police document from La Panne (in French) and Nazi document allowing Czellitzer to use public transportation (1940).
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Unsere Familiengeschichte : [1800-1939]. (1939)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 207 , typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Hadra family. ; Lesser family. ; Assimilation. ; Business enterprises. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Marriage. ; Merchants. ; Physicians. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of the Hadra and Lesser families reaching back to the 18th century; grandparents were orthodox Jews in Prenzlau (Mark Brandenburg); father was a wealthy metal merchant in Berlin; mother had to take over the business after the father's early death; the author and most of his siblings converted to Christianity; some of them married into aristocratic families; Hadra wrote this family history in September/December 1939 in Berlin for his daughter who had emigrated to the USA. Contains photographs (copies) of relatives.
    Note: Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 148 , Available on microfilm , German
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