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  • Media Combination  (15)
  • 1975-1979  (13)
  • 1955-1959  (4)
  • United States Emigration and immigration.  (15)
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  • 1
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    [Memoirs by Marianne Berel]. (1902-1989)
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    Pages: circa 153 + 135 + 152 pages (double space) : , partially bound typescripts; illustrations
    Year of publication: 1902-1989
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Women authors. ; Jewish refugees. ; Concentration camps. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Breslau. ; France. ; Morocco. ; Great Britain. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In 'Family fragments" Berel tells her nephew the story of her family and esp. of her sister Vera. In the form of letters, poems and photographs she reconstructs the history of the family in Germany, England and the USA. Contains original immigration documents from France, Morocco and the USA. [2 copies, one bound, one unbound]
    Abstract: 'I remember': Letters to author's mother, mostly written in Gurs internment camp; author's experiences in Gurs internment camp and emigration to New York via Nice (translated from German); Account of Berel's private life after her emigration to the USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Family Fragments : compiled, written and edited by your mother's sister [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Letters to My Mother (Part I of 'I Remember') [bound typescript]
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: The time of adjustment : The first ten years (Part II of 'I Remember') [MM reel 8; bound typescript]
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , German , French , See inventory , Synopsis in file
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 2
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    Erich Drucker collection : diaries, essays, memoirs and poems, (1918-1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 linear foot : , 22 folders.
    Year of publication: 1918-1980
    Keywords: Mühsam, Erich, ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Oranienburg (Concentration camp) ; Anti-Nazi movement. ; Apartment houses. ; Bookstores. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees. ; Poetry. ; Political persecution 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. ; Youth movements. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Lisbon (Portugal) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vermont. ; Manuscripts. ; Autobiographies ; Diaries ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: Various manuscripts by Erich Drucker from the Erich Drucker Collection and the LBI Memoirs Collection
    Note: Microfilmed on MM 18, MM 19, MM 20 , German , Finding aid available online.
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  • 3
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    Reiss (Reese) roots / (1979)
    [Calgary, Alberta] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 116 pages : , bound typscript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Berger family. ; Fischer family. ; Gold family. ; Jackson family. ; Kohn family. ; Liftschitz family. ; Reiss, David. ; Reiss, Joseph. ; Reiss, Moritz. ; Reiss family. ; United States. ; Education, Higher. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Hops industry. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish way of life ; Jews Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Žatec (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author's aim is to provide a chronicle of the Reiss family and other related families, many of them killed in the Holocaust. There is a large family photograph on the cover page. The memoir starts with a short history of Jewish life in Bohemia where John Reese's family comes from, then moves on to detailed descriptions of the lives of family members, sometimes enriched by personal anecdotes. In the second half John Reese turns to his close family, his family hop business, childhood memories from Bohemia, and his education. In 1938 his family escaped to North America, he started a new life and took part in World War II. The memoir follows roughly a chronological order.
    Note: English
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    Memoirs [of Lou Graumann]. (1979)
    [Topeka, Kansas] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , print; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freudenberg, Ernest. ; Graumann, Heinz. ; Suskind, Walter, ; Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Childbirth. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Berlin (Germany) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germany Social life and customs 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 5
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    Vignettes of my Life : [1899-1979] (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages (double space) : , 98 pages (double space) : , bound typescript. , Typewritten manuscript (bound)
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freud, Martin. ; Flöge, Emilie Louise, ; Freud, Ernestine Drucker. ; Freud, Anna, ; Freud, Sigmund, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Divorce. ; National socialism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Actors. ; Lawyers. ; Speech therapists. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Casablanca (Morocco) ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1979 in the United States. Esti Freud was the first born daughter of a Viennese Jewish lawyer. Her mother was a passionate singer whose career was prevented by her early marriage. Childhood memories and recollection of summer vacations. Confusion of religious identity due to her pious Catholic nanny. Private tutoring and attending "Schwarzwaldschule", a highly esteemed girl's school. Her plans to study at university were inhibited by her mother, who feared her to become hunchbacked. Instead she was offered speech lessons to become an actress. Outings to the mountains with her father. Confrontation with stereotypical perceptions of a young woman's reputation. Outbreak of World War One. Volunteering as a nurse. Recollections of the flow of refugees in Vienna and the scarceness of food. Various public poetry recitation in Vienna and Prague. Courtship and marriage to Martin Freud. Recollections of the Freud family and the "Herr Professor" Freud himself. Difficulties to start a household in postwar Austria. Martin, who had studied law, obtained a position as a clerk in a bank. Difficulties of married life. Birth of her children Walter (1921) and Sophie (1924). Starting a career in speech therapy. Training at the clinic for speech and voice disorders of Dr. Froeschel. Memories of the worker's uprise in 1927. Position as a lecturer in speech therapy at the Vienna University in 1932. Political instability due to the rise of fascism in Europe. "Anschluss" in 1938 and the sudden reality of Nazi terror. Preparation to emigrate. Estrangement and separation from her husband. The Freud family left for England, whereas Esti and her daughter emigrated to France. New life in Paris. German occupation of France. Esti and her daughter Sophie escaped to Casablanca. Emigration to the United States and starting a new career in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 6
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    Apropos Erinnerungen. (1979)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 27 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Stahl, Heinrich, ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Draft ; Economic assistance, Domestic ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Social conditions. ; Lawyers. ; Students. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Military service in World War I; university education and student organizations; Revolution of 1918-1919; as lawyer in Berlin during Weimar years; loss of work under Nazi rule; social welfare activities of Berlin Jewish community during Nazi years; financial scandal of Iwria-Bank; immigration to USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 7
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    Erinnerungen / (1978)
    Ramat Gan :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 11 , off-print (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Cassirer, Ernst, ; Feilchenfeld, Hermann. ; Joseph, Aron. ; Levy, Adolf. ; Margolius, Edith. ; Margolius, Isak Heilmann. ; Petsch, Robert, ; Ries, Moritz. ; Stern, William, ; Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin. ; Education, Higher. ; Education, Secondary. ; Ethnic relations. ; Librarians. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Krotoszyn (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland) ; Poznań (Poland : Voivodeship) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Offprint from “Mitteilungen des Verbandes ehemaliger Breslauer und Schlesier in Israel”, no. 43, Ramat Gan 1978.
    Abstract: Ancestors: great-grandparents, grandparents and parents; anecdotal accounts of childhood and school years in Krotoschin (Posen); relationship with German and Polish populations; childhood enthusiasm for literature and the art Gymnasium in Krotoschin; introduction to philosophy; influential teachers; study at University of Berlin; work as librarian at Volksbuecherei in Berlin; philosophical reflections; courtship and marriage.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 8
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    Susie's story. (1978)
    [Catskills, New York] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 4 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Weinberg, Susie. ; Children. ; Foster parents. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Women authors. ; Netherlands. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A mother's story how her daughter was hidden and saved in the Netherlands during World War II and reunited with her parents; life of daughter after immigration to the USA after 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 9
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    Life in a changing world : [1910-1975]. (1978)
    New York,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 136 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Actors. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Families. ; Pianists. ; Theater 1918-1933. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Magdeburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1978 in New York. Recollections of the author's childhood in Cologne. Hilda Albersheim was the youngest and overly protected daughter of four. Her father was a physician, who had his practice in the spacious house of the family near the center of Cologne. Description of the large household of the well-to-do family, including a governess, a chauffeur, a cook and two maids, as well as the weekly laundry woman and two seamstresses, who sew dresses for mother and Hilda. Memories of Easter celebrations. Salon of her aunt Emma, who had famous guests such as the conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler and the pianist Edwin Fischer. The family valued cultural activities highly, and the children were introduced to operas at an early age. Each of the children had piano lessons. Hilda was sent to a private school. She grew up never exposed to politics and did not know of her Jewish origin until the second year of school. Summer vacations in the mountains and at her cousins in Den Hague. Recollections of World War One and its aftermath. Hilda was enrolled in the newly established Girl's Gymnasium in Cologne. After graduation, during the peak of inflation times, she was assigned for a homemaking school in Rothenburg, where she was confronted with antisemitism for the first time. Skiing trips in the mountains. Hilda had a passion for theatre from an early age on. Her father especially opposed the idea, as he feared the vicissitudes of the profession. Fencing lessons at the club of university students. Private instructions from an assistant of Max Reinhardt. Engagement at the Salzburg Reinhardt Festival in "Jedermann" ["Everyman"], where she was among famous actors such as Alexander Moissi. Apprenticeship at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Encounter with the famous Russian-Jewish theatre troupe "Habima" during an engagement in Constance. Solidarity and intrigues among actors.
    Abstract: Rise of national socialism. Dismissal of the Jewish theater director and growing awareness of the political threat in Germany. Rejection of further engagements. Affidavit from her brother in New York, who had recognized the danger of National Socialism in time. Emigration to the United States in 1933, where Hilda Albers-Frank worked as a piano teacher and music therapist after a brief career in acting.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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    Dear Family : Memoirs (1976)
    Flushing :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: approximately 585 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Schönbach family. ; Magnus family. ; Children. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Munster, France (Haut-Rhin) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ten volumes of Lotte Fairbrook's memoirs, covering 1792-1938:
    Abstract: Childhood and background; adolescence and young womanhood; married life in Germany; five years in four countries.; the first years in the United States of America.
    Abstract: Addenda: Update of the first volume, Childhood and background.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 1-11
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 12-17
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 1-5
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 6-14
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 1-10
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 11-15
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 16-23
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 1-7
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 8-18
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 10: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 19-24
    Note: Available on microfilm and on CDROM , MM2 reel 21: parts 1-2 , MM2 reel 22: parts 3-5 , English
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    Multa multum : ["much of much"]. (1976)
    New York City :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 207 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Bach, Hans. ; Wandervogel (Youth movement) ; Children. ; Education. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Quality of life. ; Textile industry. ; Berlin. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This memoir by Rudi Bach includes genealogical information along with a description of his own life from his childhood in Stuttgart before World War I up to his life in New York after his immigration to the United States in 1947. He discusses his youth and education, a business apprenticeship in Stuttgart, and his eventual move to Berlin where he worked in the textile business. In Berlin he married and had children. He describes the atmosphere of Nazism and its effect on the Jewish community of Berlin, on his family's emigration to Palestine in 1936, and the further immigration the family undertook to the United States in 1947, and on his family life and successful business in New York.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Wohin gehen wir? (1975)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 23 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Pharmacists. ; Agriculturists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Dominican Republic Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Apprenticeship as pharmacist in Berlin; November pogrom 1938 in Berlin; flight to Switzerland; emigration and life in Dominican Republic; in agricultural settlement of Sosua; marriage with Dominican; beginning of new life in New York. 1938-1975.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Schau eines Judenschicksals im Jahrhundert : 1. Sektor: 'Montsalvatsch'. (1975)
    [New York, N.Y.] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 50 pages.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Autobiography.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1514277&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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    Zehn Jahre spaeter. (1956-1965)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 29 pages (double space) : , typescript +
    Additional Material: handwritten manuscript
    Year of publication: 1956-1965
    Keywords: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Country life. ; Education, Higher Agricultural education 1941. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Women authors. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Westphalia (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Jewish life in small Westphalian town after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; agricultural training in Jewish school at Neuendorf; failure to obtain visa for emigration; experiences in Auschwitz; liberation in Ravensbrueck.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript; 1965
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Manuscript; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Braunschweiger Erinnerungen. (1958)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 140 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Heinemann, Walter, ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Braunschweig (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1935. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Primary and secondary education; university studies in Munich and Berlin; experiences as a physician in Berlin and Braunschweig; working under Robert Koch; military service; Jewish life in Braunschweig; Braunschweig during the Third Reich; emigration to USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm. , German
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