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  • 1980-1984  (15)
  • 1955-1959  (15)
  • Vienna (Austria)  (27)
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  • 1
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    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 8 + 12 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1946-2000
    Keywords: Tepper, Elsa, ; Tepper, Minna. ; Tepper, Wilhelm, ; Auschwitz (Concentration camp) ; Salaspils (Concentration camp) ; Stutthof (Concentration camp) ; Forced labor. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust survivors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Lauenburg (Germany) ; Rīga (Latvia) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1946 in Austria, shortly after her liberation. Minna recalls her deportation in February 1942. She was taken to Riga together with her parents and her husband. Her mother was killed upon their arrival. Her father and her husband were taken to Salaspils for forced labor, where the later perished. Minna, who was pregnant with her first child, was forced to undergo an abortion. She describes her experiences of Nazi sadism in the Ghetto of Riga, especially by the Ghetto commanders Krause and Roschmann. In 1943 Minna was taken for peat cutting labor to Olaine. In November 1943 Minna and her father were reunited at the concentration camp Kaiserwald near Riga. From there both were taken to Spilve - a labor camp at a German air base, which was under worse conditions than the first camp. They worked in the cold without appropriate shoes and in thin clothes. Due to the exhausting conditions Minna's father Wilhelm was getting weaker and eventually was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944. Minna was taken to Stutthof, which was overcrowded and in primitive conditions. They were taken to an exterior labor camp, where they had to build trenches for the German defense in the rain and cold. They suffered of constant hunger. In January 1945 the camp was dissolved and all sick and disabled were killed. They were marched under exhausting conditions in the snow and cold. For all missing women ten others were chosen randomly to be killed. After a week Minna was finally too exhausted to continue walking and stayed behind. The guard who was supposed to kill her fired the bullet over her head and left her for dead in the snow. She was rescued and brought to a house, where she was given food and a place to sleep. She was discovered by a German police officer, who was about to shoot her along with other Jewish fugitives. Minna was saved by her Viennese accent, which convinced him that she was a gentile woman.
    Abstract: She was taken to a mobile army hospital and treated for her frozen feet. In March 1945 Minna was liberated in Lauenburg, Prussia, where she was sent by German hospitals as an unidentified Jewish patient.
    Description / Table of Contents: Also included is Nini Ungar's questionnaire with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1536.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
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    Meine Kinder!, (1942-1998)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 38 + 28 pages : , manuscript; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1942-1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Fischer, Erwin. ; Treu family. ; Laundry. ; Socialism. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany History 1870-1918. ; Rheda (Harsewinkel, Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Louise Fischer's life story written by her at the Aldersbrook Hospital in England in April of 1942. Also available is an English translation by by Erwin Fischer, 1998.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English translation , German , Synopsis in file
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    [Max Knight's Lebenserinnerungen], (1909-1991)
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    Pages: 8 + 1,007 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1909-1991
    Keywords: Propper family. ; Kühnel family. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Intermarriage. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish press. ; Jewish refugees. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript is richly interwoven with photocopies of photographs and original documents.
    Abstract: Reflections on career as editor at University of California Press; family geneology; lives of father and mother; birth in Pilsen; move to Vienna in 1910; school experiences; first publications; studied law at University of Vienna; published stories in journals and newspapers; relationships with various women; graduation with law degree; publishing of stories in London newspaper; internship as law clerk; emigration to England in 1938; emigree acquaintances in London; more writing for newspapers in London; job with the Jewish Chronicle; continued publication of stories in Germany under pseudonyms; story of brother's life; emigration of parents to England; diary written in Shanghai describing trip from England to Shanghai; voyage to Canada; train trip across Canada; boat trip to Shanghai via Japan; tour of Japan; description of arrival in Shanghai; work at newspaper in Shanghai and teaching English at University of Shanghai; emigration to USA in 1941; emigration of parents to USA; life in San Francisco; marriage to Charlotte Lowes; trips through United States; death of brother Otto in Australia; work as research assistant at Hoover Institution; graduate study in Political Science at University of California - Berkeley; letter from Harry Freud from Berlin 1945; letter from father Bernhard Kuehnel concerning restitution; letters to and from the writer Ernst Lothar.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Fabrizius, Peter; Fabry, Joseph; Freud, Harry; Freud, Sigmund; Friese, Ernst; Garrett, Joan; Gombrich, Ernst; Hoffer, Grete; Hoffer, Richa; Hoover Institution; Knight, Charlotte; Knight, Martin; Knight, Tony; Kuehnel, Bernhard; Kuehnel, Grete; Kuehnel, Margarethe; Kuehnel, Max; Kuehnel, Otto; Lieban, Ralph; Oppenheimer, Max; Propper, Laura; Rothschild, Lionel de; Sachs, Emmy; Schwarz family; Schwarz, Arthur; Schwarz, Kurt; Siebel, Max; Storfer, A. J.
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 23: parts 1-4
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 24: parts 5-6
    Note: Available on microfilm , English with German and Chinese , Synopsis in file
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    Windows to my youth : [1913-1945]. (1984)
    Los Angeles :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 106 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Furst, Arthur. ; Furst, Lilly. ; Perutz family. ; Rotter family. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History. ; Kenya Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Born in 1913 in Vienna; origins of mother's family in Bohemia; origins of father's family in Pressburg (Bratislava); lives of parents in Vienna; education and work of father as engineer; experience of father and other relatives in World War I; early school years after 1918; memories of family life; childhood memories; summers in France; hiking and skiing trips with family; musical life in Vienna; study at University of Vienna; experience of antisemitism at University; membership in Haganah organization in Vienna; travel to Palestine in 1937; emigration to United States in 1938; emigration of parents to Kenya.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    My Family Biography. (1984)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 639 + 121 + 35 , typescript (copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Mechner family. ; Mechner, Francis. ; Mechner, Hedwig. ; Ziegler family. ; Ziegler, Lisa. ; Majdanek (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Concentration camps. ; Education, Higher ; Emigration and immigration. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) ; Cuba. ; Paris (France) ; Romania. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Genealogy
    Abstract: Memoir in four volumes, richly illustrated with photographs, drawings, correspondence, genealogical tables, and newspaper clippings.
    Abstract: Photocopies of family documents and photographs:
    Abstract: Detailed biographical account of Dr. Adolph Mechner, born in Czernowitz in 1897. Description of historical events together with immediate and extended family. Adolescent years in Vienna, military service in World War I; medical studies in Vienna; courtship and marriage; family; medical practice in Vienna; emigration to Paris, Cuba and finally to the United States; deportation and extermination of relatives; family life and travels; transcripts of interviews with several members of the family.
    Note: Available on microfilm: parts 1-6 on MM II 7 ; parts 7-9 on MM II 8. , English , Table of contents , Subject and name index
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    Dr. Fritz L. Brassloff : Interview: 12.10.1984, Pension Nossek, Wien (1984)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 7 + 46 + 3 , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Former Title: Interview with Friedrich L. Brassloff
    Keywords: Steinitz, Heinrich. ; Republikanischer Schutzbund. ; Sozialistische Partei Österreichs. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish lawyers. ; Austria History Socialist Uprising, 1934. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The bulk of the manuscript consists of a transcribed interview with Friedrich L. Brassloff, touching on his secondary education; his studies at the university in Vienna and the political atmosphere among students; his political engagement with the Social Democratic Party; and his internship in the law practice of Heinrich Steinitz.
    Abstract: Also included are a biographical abstract about F.L. Brassloff, as well as his own autobiographical fragment, "Herzlich unwillkommen."
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Studying psychology in turbulent times. (1984)
    London :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Psychologists. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Geneva (Switzerland) ; Brussels (Belgium) ; Paris (France) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiographical account of psychology studies in various place including Prague, Vienna, Paris, Geneva, Brussels and London, 1937-1940. She later practiced psychology in London.
    Abstract: Autobiographical account of psychology studies in various places including Prague, Vienna, Paris, Geneva, Brussels and London, 1937-1940. She later practiced psychology in London.
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    Memoirs & reminiscences : [1898-1985]. (1984)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 248 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1984
    Keywords: Fischer family Genealogy. ; Universität Wien. ; College teachers. ; Jewish way of life. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Geographers. ; Teachers. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1919. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Vienna; description of family; primary and secondary education; description of teachers and schoolmates; military service in Austrian army in World War I; student life at the university in Vienna; Revolution of 1918-1919; Austria in inter-war period; Jewish life in Vienna; description of school system and teacher colleagues in inter-war Vienna; hikes and travels; Nazi takeover and November Pogrom in 1938; emigration to Palestine and USA; new jobs as university teacher and political geographer.
    Abstract: Contains a biography of Eric Fischer by Michael M.J. Fischer and a bibliography of his publications.
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  • 9
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    Briefe an Mirjam und Raphael : Rueckkehr und Heimkehr (1983)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 105 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Chaimowicz, Doris. ; Chaimowicz, Rosemarie. ; Habsburg, House of. ; Habsburg, Otto von, ; Schuschnigg, Kurt von, ; Antisemitism. ; College teachers. ; Education, Higher. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish converts. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Birmingham (Ala.) ; Bogotá (Colombia) ; Columbia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Kryvichy (Belarus) ; Salzburg (Austria) ; Tyrol (Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Thomas Chaimowicz including information on his grandparents from Galicia and the Bukovina, on life in Vienna before and after 1938, on his emigration to Columbia, on his life in Bogota and his medical studies there, on his studies in Birmingham (Alabama) and in Vienna, on his move to Tyrol, and on his two marriages, and thoughts on his Jewish identity and his admiration for the Austrian monarchy.
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    My story : [1922-1992]. (1983)
    Franklin, NC :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 70 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1983
    Keywords: Srulowitz family. ; Erber family. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Plumbers. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Manners and customs ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Belgium. ; Israel. ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen fifties. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the form of a reflective diary between 1983 and 1985 in the United States. Detailed and somewhat disorganized description of family background and family members until present time. His mother’s family came to Vienna during World War One. His father Osias Srulowitz served in the army and his parents got married after the war. His mother Klara Amalia Srulowitz founded the family’s knitting business during the war under her maiden name “K. Erber“. The author had an older sister (Stella), born in 1920, and a younger sister (Lotte) born in 1927. The family lived in the 9th district and had a maid and a French governess. His maternal grandparents were orthodox and had a lasting impact on his life. He studied the Hebrew alphabet with his grandfather at an early age and became religious. He went to “Schubertschule“ and later on to Realschule, then he transferred to public school. At age 14 he started an apprenticeship with his uncle in the plumbing business. Recollections of the Nazi takeover and the Kristallnacht in 1938. The family business was taken away. The author crossed the border to Belgium illegally, his parents emigrated to Shanghai in 1939. Recollections of life in Belgium. He was taken to a work camp for young refugees. After his release he took various jobs and lived underground with false papers during the German occupation. Marriage to Janine De Geyter, a young Belgian woman, in 1943. Liberation by the British army in 1944. Starting of a candy business. Reunition with his grandmother from Theresienstadt and his parents from Shanghai. Emigration to Israel together with the author’s parents in 1948. Description of life and new beginnings in Israel. Birth of their daughter Tamy. Emigration to the United States via Belgium in 1953. Life in the United States and detailed description of several business endeavors.
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    Haengt alles von der Beleuchtung ab... : (eine erzaehlte wahre Geschichte), (1982)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 153 + 219 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Brecht, Bertolt, ; Eisler, Hanns, ; Finck, Werner, ; Mehring, Walter, ; Piscator, Erwin, ; Artists. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Set designers. ; Theater. ; Berlin (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Zurich (Switzerland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father's work as a waiter and restaurant owner; refusal to organize Bar-Mitzvah celebration; escape from parents' home at age of 17; attendance of art school and apprenticeship as painter; setting designer at Piscator's theater; work with Bertold Brecht, Walter Mehring, Hanns Eisler, Werner Finck; artist milieu in Berlin around 1930; emigration to Austria in 1933 and Switzerland in 1934; work at the Zurich "Schauspielhaus"; has to leave Switzerland and emigrates to USA in 1938; as setting designer in New York show business; visit to Europe in 1949.
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    Selma's saga : [1916-1948]. (1982)
    Sydney,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 271 pages (3 folders) : , typed manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1982
    Keywords: Oppenheim, Benjamin, ; Oppenheim, Anna, ; Oppenheim family. ; Kahane, Arnold ; Betar. ; Antisemitism. ; Christmas. ; Families 20th century. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecutions. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; National socialism. ; Jews Education. ; Jews Holidays and festivals. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Australia Emigration and immigration. ; Brisbane (Qld.) ; England. ; Grado (Italy) ; Hornchurch (London, England) ; Prague (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1982 in Sydney, Australia and include excerpts of letters from various relatives during the years 1938-1941. Early childhood recollections of World War One. The family was living in the 6th district of Vienna. Description of domestic life with maids, laundresses and a French governess. Death of her mother in 1918. Trip with her stepmother Ida Plohn to Prague. Recollections of a stay in the countryside at their maid's family, where Selma and her older sister Martha awaited the birth of their younger sister Trude. Memories of Christmas celebrations. Summer vacations in the mountains. Description of the extended family. Inflation and economic depression in the 1920s. Strict upbringing by her stepmother. Children recreation trip to Grado, Italy in 1925. Selma was accepted at the "Bundeserziehungsanstalt" for gifted students. Only few fellow Jewish students. Religious education with beloved rabbi Diamant. Recovery from tonsilitis in a senatorium in Aflenz, Austria. Celebration of Jewish holidays and visits at the Synagogue on Yom Kippur. Transfer to Realschule. Due to a sudden onset of various illnesses Selma was unable to continue school and had put an end to her father's dream of an university education for her. Difficult to find a position in the depression times of the early 1930s. Only few working options for a Jewish woman. Position as a secretary in a Jewish firm. Outings in the Vienna Woods. Membership in the Zionist group Betar.
    Abstract: Plans to emigrate to Palestine through marriage of convenience shattered by her orthodox parents. Signs of rising National Socialism and political unrest in Austria. Recollections of the civil war in February of 1934. Selma joined a Jewish club. Outings and skiing trips. First courtships. Marriage of her sister Martha. Awareness of the dangers of National Socialism. Detailed recollections on the time before and during the the Anschluss. Preparation for her emigration. Position as a domestic servant in England. Departure on November 2nd 1938, few days before the "Kristallnacht". Adjusting to her new life with a family in Hornchurch, in England. Attempts to find positions for family members and friends. Brief reunion with her fiance Arnold in London prior to his departure to Australia in Febrary of 1939. In March of 1939 her sister Trude was finally able to join her in England. Fervent endeavors to obtain entry permits for her parents. Preparations for Selma's emigration to Australia, in order to join her fiance, were finally granted in October of 1939. Delayment of her passage until May of 1940. Arrival in Capetown, Australia on June 9th of 1940. Reunition with her fiance in Brisbane and new life with future husband in Ravenshoe. Difficulties in obtaining a marriage licence. Wedding in August of 1940. The couple started to run a bording house. Birth of their daughter Marie in June of 1941. Their son Ronny was born in September of 1942. Dreadful news from Europe. Birth of daughter Sylvia in 1945. Letters from her sister Martha, who survived the concentration camp. In 1948 she finally was able to join Selma in Australia.
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    [Memoirs]. (1980)
    Jamaice, N.Y :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 3 + 51 + 93 + 4 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Heilig family. ; Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Jewish refugees ; Women authors. ; Ljubljana (Slovenia) ; United States Emigration and immgiration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiographical manuscript of Lisa De Curtis, born Heilig, of mixed Jewish and Christian parents. The family lived in Vienna and fled to Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, from where she was deported to Ravensbrueck. After liberation by the Red Army she joined her mother in Ljubljana again. She finally immigrated to the United States.
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    [My dear Dick]. (1980)
    Northampton :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 111 + 5 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Musicians. ; Violinists. ; Women authors. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections circa 1907-1978 from her childhood, her life among musicians, and emigration.
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    [Erinnerungen von Valerie und Andrea Wolffenstein]. (1980)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 200 pages (double space) : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1980
    Keywords: Wolffenstein, Valerie, ; Children. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in fin-de-siecle Berlin; visits at mother's family in Vienna; main part on persecution under Nazi rule and assistance by non-Jewish friends.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Valerie bis 1945
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Andrea 1938-1945
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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    [Mona Spiegel-Adolf's diaries], (1903-1971)
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    Pages: 3 notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1903-1971
    Keywords: Children. ; Diseases. ; Teenagers. ; Physicians ; Philadelphia (Pa.) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 1: 1903-1905 (German)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 2: 1907-1908 (English)
    Description / Table of Contents: Diary 3 1936-1952, 1971 (English)
    Note: The diaries are also available in the Mona Spiegel-Adolf Collection, AR 5321 / folder 12. , German and English
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    Lebens-Erinnerungen : [1870-1959]. (1959)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 135 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Schwarz, Emil. ; Frankl, Paul. ; Bund österreichischer Frauenvereine. ; Neuer Frauenklub (Wien) ; Families 19th century. ; Feminism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; Physicians. ; Public welfare. ; Socialism. ; Social workers. ; Teachers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women Employment. ; Women Education. ; Women authors. ; Women Political activity. ; Palestine. ; Prague. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1959 in Chicago. Memories of the author's childhood in an upper middle-class Jewish family in Prague in the 1870s. Her maternal grandfather was a highly esteemed lawyer in the German-Jewish society of Prague. Early awakening of social and feminist interest. Cultural and literary interests. Criticism on women's upbringing in bourgeois society and the taboos and morals of her time. Move to Vienna in 1898. Marriage with the physician Emil Schwarz in 1899. Olly Schwarz participated in the establishing of the "Athenaeum", an association providing higher education for women. She was a founding member of the "Neue Wiener Frauenklub" and inspired the physicist Dr. Olga Steindler to establish the "Handelsakademie", a girl's school for higher education in economy. Olly Schwarz pursued her interest in women's education and established a center for career counseling in female professions. Participation at the International Congress of the World Women's League in Rome. During World War One Olly Schwarz worked as a nurse and was a member of several welfare organizations. Political activities and cooperation with Social Democratic women's organizations. Description of domestic life activities. Several journeys to Russia, India and the Near East. Detailed description of an official visit to Palestine in 1930. Experiences after the Nazi take-over in Austria. Emigration to the United States and difficulties of starting a new life. The couple lived in Chicago, where Emil Schwarz had a position at the institute of hematology at the Michael Reese Hospital. Olly Schwarz was active in the settlement movement and other fields of social work.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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    Erinnerungen an Felix Kohn : Ansprache gehalten von Dr. Joseph Schnell in der Sitzung von Liberty Lodge und Chapter, B'nai B'rith, New York, N.Y. vom 24. November 1959. (1959)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1959
    Keywords: Kohn, Felix. ; Lawyers. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
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    So habe ich es erlebt : [1939-1958]. (1958)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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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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    From my Family : Fiction and Truth. (1958)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript; annotated; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Berliner, Emil. ; Berliner, Gertrude, ; Waller family. ; Jews Family life. ; Fashion designers. ; Women authors. ; England. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Upper middle-class life in Vienna prior to the "Anschluss," emigration to England and the USA, covering 1900 to circa 1940.
    Abstract: Contains photos, documents and drawings by the author and a family tree.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Lebenserinnerungen : [1857-1935]. (1957)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 + 55 , handwritten synopsis; typescript.
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Jerusalem, Edumund. ; Jerusalem family Genealogy. ; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. ; Education, Higher. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; College teachers. ; Teachers. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1867-1918. ; Moravia (Czech Republic) ; Mikulov (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family geneology; lives of grandfather and father; experiences of father attending gymnasium and university in Prague; childhood years in Nikolsburg; father's life as teacher at Gymnasium in Nikolsburg; life in Nikolsburg; family move to Vienna; childhood years in Vienna; appointment of father to position at University of Vienna; earned doctorate in history from University of Vienna; family life and deaths of siblings; marriage to Anna Kassowitz; geneology of wife's family; work as teacher; military service in World War I; life in Vienna up to 1935; separate a count of trip to Palestine in 1925 for formal opening of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Mut, Wahrheit, Liebe : Roman aus dem heutigen Israel. (1957)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 73 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1957
    Keywords: Intellectual life. ; Jews ; Operas. ; Wit and humor. ; Israel Emigration and immigration. ; Israel Politics and government. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Autobiographical novel ("Courage, truth, love") about Central European characters moving to Israel in the 1950s.
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    One life is not enough : Autobiographical vignettes [1890-1920] (1956)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 105 + 203 , 105 , bound typescripts. , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Busoni, Ferruccio, ; Hofer, Andreas. ; Meitner, Lise, ; Renner, Karl, ; Robert, Richard. ; Shapira, Vera. ; Szell, Georg. ; Bader, Edwin. ; Stern'sche Mädchen- Lehr- und Erziehungsanstalt (Vienna, Austria) ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Teplice (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Lillian Bader describing in great detail life in Vienna, including information on her grandparents and parents, her childhood in Vienna and Teplitz (now Teplice, Czechoslovakia), her education and studies, domestic life, World War I, politics and social issues, her mother's work as a piano teacher and as the director of a girls' boarding school, her husband's encounter with one incident of antisemitism in the Austrian army. The memoir ends with the first years of her marriage in the early 1920ies.
    Description / Table of Contents: The paper version contains a second, illustrated typescript.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , The memoir was removed from the Bader Collection.
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    You shall never forget : [1900-1945]. (1956)
    Denver, Colorado :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 326 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Public welfare. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Lʹviv (Ukraine) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Erna Segal spent her childhood years with her grandparents in Lwow, where she attended a Jewish school and spoke mainly Yiddish. At the age of six she joined her parents in Vienna, where her father was an orthodox rabbi and cantor. Cultural differences and difficulties to adapt into a new environment. Strong impressions of anti-Semitism during her schoolyears and growing awareness of political unrest and pogroms in Eastern Europe. Reverence for the Kaiser. Outbreak of World War One. Situation of Galician refugees and increasing anti-Semitism in Vienna. End of the war and collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which left her family worried for their future. Awaking interest for Zionism. Work in a fur buisness. Marriage in 1920. Her husband, a merchent from Lemberg, had a lumber export business in Styria. Birth of their son Herschi in 1921, who developed a remarkable artistic talent. Birth of their daughter in 1924. Move to Berlin. Rising National Socialism. Erna became aware of the dangers and tried to convince her husband to emigrate already in 1927. Work in the Jewish welfare and youth center of the community. First incidents with Nazis in 1932. Nazi take-over in 1933. Life in Nazi-Germany. Anti-Jewish boycotts and regulations. Experiences of discrimination. Erna's children were forced to leave their schools and proceeded in Jewish schools. Encounters with the Gestapo. Protection due to their Austrian citizenship until 1938. Olympic Games 1936 in Berlin. Exhibition of her son's work in 1937. He was accepted at an art school in Switzerland, yet after the Austrian anexion in 1938 he was refused an exit permit. Night of the November pogrom. Exit permit for Chile. Death of her father and news of deportations to concentration camps in Poland.
    Abstract: Outbreak of World War Two and impossibility to emigrate. Forced labor. Encounter with a German soldier who warned Erna imploringly about the horrific circumstances of Polish concentration camps. Desicion to lead a life in hiding. Help of gentiles and constant fear of discovery. Refuge in a cloister. Escape from Nazi spies. Survival during last years of the war. Immigration to USA after World War II.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Interview, (1956)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Pages: 6 pages (single space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy + photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Halpern, Georg. ; Warburg, Max. ; Zionism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Ballin, Albert. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Munich (Germany) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Memoirs ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Economists
    Abstract: Studies with Lujo Brentano in Munich; Zionist activities in Hamburg; encounter with Albert Ballin and Max Warburg.
    Note: Published in Joseph Walk: "Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden, 1918-1945": p.138 , Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Hakenkreuz und Judenstern / (1956)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 56 pages : , annotated typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Stricker, Robert, ; Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust survivors Personal narratives. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Refugees. ; Zionism. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Max Mautner's memoir provides a detailed account of daily life and suffering in Vienna during the first years after the Anschluss. During some of that time, Mautner was working at a Jewish office in Vienna distributing food stamps. The second part of the memoir is dedicated to the concentration camp Theresienstadt, where he was deported to in 1942. Mautner remembers terrible diseases and work conditions. After some time he was employed as a guard, first at a manufactory, then at the one and only coffee house at Theresienstadt. His account then covers the liberation of Theresienstadt by the Russian army, his time at the displaced persons camp at Deggendorf, Germany, and finally a transport of 800 orphans to Palestine, which he accompanied. The memoir ends with the formal establishment of Israel in 1948.
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