X
feed icon rss

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
Filter
  • Media Combination  (686)
  • Jews Persecution 1933-1945.  (472)
  • Vienna (Austria)  (235)
Library
Region
Material
Language
Years
Author, Corporation
Publisher
Keywords
  • 1
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Etwas lernen aus den 30er Jahren“ : www.1938projekt.org – neues Online-Projekt des Leo Baeck Instituts. (2018)
    Köln :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 3 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2018
    Keywords: Bistrović, Miriam. ; Mecklenburg, Frank. ; Weitzer, William H. ; Leo Baeck Institute, New York. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Austria. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Germany. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk Köln about the online project "1938 Posts from the Past" by the Leo-Baeck-Institute in New York.
    Abstract: The broadcast on April 13, 2018 was part of a series “Schalom - Jüdisches Leben heute”.
    URL: Digital form
    URL: 1938 Projekt
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=6626081&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 2
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    [Memoirs by Peter Schrag, MD], (2005-2017)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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)
    Note: Inventory available online.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=5618915
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 3
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Richard and Stephanie Abraham Travel to Shanghai, China in February 2017. (2017)
    Flourtown, PA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 24 pages : , typescript ; , 1 folder.
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Abraham family. ; Weinberger family. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Shanghai (ghetto) ; Shanghai ghetto, Jewish life. ; Shanghai (China) ; Shanghai (China) History 21st century. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: First-hand account of Richard and Stephanie Abraham's trip to Shanghai, China in February 2017, with foreward detailing the personal history of Hans Weinberger, who had emmigrated there to escape Nazi persecution in 1940. Photographs documenting their steps as they trace the life of their relative and learn about the dynamic history of the "Shanghai Ghetto" comprise this manuscript.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=5870590&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 4
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    I would like the whole world to know : how, and why my dear parents died. (2017)
    [Broadstairs] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 17 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2017
    Keywords: Liebenau family. ; Liebenau, Dora (née Simke), ; Liebenau, Max, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Charlottenburg (Berlin, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Richly illustrated booklet in memory of the author's parents.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=5900937&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 5
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Refugee From Nazi Oppression. (2016)
    Details
    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.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 6
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Interview with Edith Lenneberg. (2016)
    [Iowa City] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 55 pages : , typescript ; , 1 folder.
    Year of publication: 2016
    Keywords: Lenneberg family. ; Salomon family. ; Bombardment ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Germany Daily life 1945- ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Transcript of an interview conducted in Corrales, NM, July 13-14, 1995:
    Abstract: This interview details Edith's memories of her childhood in Hamburg during the 1920s, and her experience after Nazism came to power. She shares details of her family's customs and values, music, and the dismissal of her father Richard G. Salomon from the University of Hamburg. The social ambience of the Nazi period, schooling and friendships, touring and cultural attitudes are also addressed. Her immigration to the United States and the experience of landing in New York, as well as her postwar relations with her old German connection are also discussed.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=5868671&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 7
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    One family - one life. (2015)
    Details
    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.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4562390&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 8
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Hein family history : A chronology with stories, 1838-2011. (2015)
    Eau Claire, WI :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 90 , Typescript (e-file).
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Hein family. ; Leser family. ; Hein, John. ; Hein, Siegfried. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Leather industry and trade 1918-1933. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Chronological history of the extended family of Friedel (Siegfried) Hein and his wife Ilse, née Mayer.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2880668&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 9
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Kurt Schmuel Flascher : (7.11.1928 Wien - 24.2.2015 Staten Island). (2015)
    [Vienna] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 2 , pages : , typescript (e-file).
    Year of publication: 2015
    Keywords: Flascher, Kurt. ; London, Jacob. ; Civil rights ; Jewish refugees ; Rabbis. ; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Publications.
    Abstract: Obituary for Kurt Flascher, published in David, Nr.104, 2015, S.40-41.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2957355&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 10
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Kde domov můj ... : (Where is my home?) (2014)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 11
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    My Story / (2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4535803&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 12
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    And there is no going back : A story of patience, persistence, and perseverance (2013)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4557809&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 13
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Memories of Eva Luzia Greenberg (1929--2012) : Notes of loving remembrance from her family and friends. (2012)
    [Oberlin, Ohio] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Pages: circa 120 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Keywords: Jewish refugees. ; Librarians. ; Women authors. ; Oberlin (Ohio) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: In addition to the notes by friends and family written after her passing, the manuscript contains some of Eva Grenberg’s own published writings.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=5867399&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 14
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Ignaz Zollschan : An insider’s view of early twentieth century racial science and Zionism. (2012)
    Philadelphia, PA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 99 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2012
    Dissertation note: A senior thesis for Honors in History, University of Pennsylvania
    Keywords: Zollschan, Ignaz. ; Antisemitism. ; Ethnic relations. ; Jews 19th century. ; Jews 19th century. ; Racism. ; Zionism. ; Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4632549&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 15
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Aftershocks : a biographical memoir (2010)
    Charlotte, NC :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: Digital copy broken into sections due to size. , Available on CD-ROM , English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1765411&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 16
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Among strangers : A family story. (2010)
    Northampton, MA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 295 , e-file.
    Year of publication: 2010
    Keywords: Fürth, Elza Roheim. ; Perl, Eva Fürth. ; Perl, George. ; Drancy (Concentration camp) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish families ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecutions 1939-1945. ; Suicide. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The story of a family of Austrian-Hungarian descent, covering three generations, the Holocaust and immigration to the United States.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=2060380&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 17
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    'Und dann war sie weg ...' : Das kurze Leben der Doris Katz. (2009)
    Erbach :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 27 pages : , Offprint (photocopy); illustrations
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Westerbork (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish refugees ; Jews History. ; Michelstadt (Germany) ; Publications.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1564744&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 18
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Darstellung des Schicksals eines Juden aus dem Raum Erlangen zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus am Beispiel Justin Fraenkels. (2007)
    Erlangen (Germany) :Emmy-Noether-Gymnasium,
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 40 pages : , typescript; illustrated + , English synopsis.
    Additional Material: 15 pages :
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Fränkel, Justin. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish teachers ; Germany History 1933-1945. ; Erlangen (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The paper - submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the German high school diploma (Abitur) - describes the life of Justin Fraenkel, a Jew from Erlangen, Bavaria during the Nazi era.
    Description / Table of Contents: Manuscript
    Description / Table of Contents: English translation
    Note: Manuscript has been microfilmed on MSF 68. , German , English synopsis on file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=549273&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 19
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Memoirs of an old doctor : Autobiography of Alfred Sternthal, (2006)
    Cedar Crest, NM :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Pages: 280 pages : , Typewritten, bound manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Köthen (Anhalt) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Braunschweig (Germany) ; Autobiography. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Dermatologists ; Medical profession
    Abstract: English translation of a German autobiography by the author's great-grandson
    Abstract: Childhood in Koethen (Anhalt) and Leipzig; father emigrated to USA in 1879; university studies in Leipzig; dermatologist in Braunschweig; contact with Paul Ehrlich; persecution under Nazi rule.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1516472&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 20
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Mandel family letters, 1938-1946 : Letters and other documents concerning the experiences of Hermann and Tony Mandel, of Vienna, during the time of the Nazis (2006)
    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Pages: 64 + 53 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Mandel, Hermann, ; Mandel, Tony (née Tabak), ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts. ; Correspondence
    Abstract: Contains original German transcripts of letters and documents and English translation with additional information.
    Note: English and German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=560230&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 21
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Die juedische Familie Griesheim in Beuern : Versuch einer Aufarbeitung der Ahnenfolge. (2006)
    Buseck-Beuern :Heimatverein Beuern,
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 11 pages : , typecript +
    Additional Material: illustrating addenda
    Year of publication: 2006
    Keywords: Griesheim family. ; Griesheim, Max. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jews, German History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Synagogues ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Buseck-Beuern‏ (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Contains information about the Griesheim family and the Jewish community in Beuern in general. Includes photocopis of documents and maps.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=528777&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 22
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The 20th century story of Paula and Samuel Furnberg's family : from Vienna to three continents (2005)
    Portland, OR :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 274 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Fürnberg family. ; Furnberg, Fritz (Fred), ; Furnberg, Paula (née Oser), ; Furnberg, Samuel, ; Furnborough, Paul, ; Lowenstein, Gertrud (née Fürnberg), ; O’Gorman, Erna (née Fürnberg), ; Wechsler, Helen (née Fürnberg), ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish families ; Jews Genealogy. ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=540364&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 23
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Luck was on our side : Escaping from Nazi Europe, 1938-1941. (2005)
    Silver Spring, MD :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Pages: 14 + 14 pages : , typescript, illustrations and maps
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Portugal. ; Luxembourg. ; Manuscripts. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The manuscript is based on a talk given on Dec. 2, 2005, at a meeting of the World War II Legacy Club in Silver Spring, Maryland, about the Sucher family’s escape from Europe.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1562919&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 24
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Biography of Fred Blau. (2005)
    Details
    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.
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 25
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Incredible but true : A collection of recollections. (2005)
    Neenah, Wisconsin :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 26
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    1938 : the end of the beginning (2005)
    Jamestown, RI :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=602438&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 27
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    We came to America : Memoirs of a refugee child. (2005)
    Hartsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=602690&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 28
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The family memories of Robert Kanfer : Vienna – London – Cheltenham - Vienna. (2005)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=491481&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 29
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft. (2005)
    Schriesheim :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 9 pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Schriesheim (Germany) ; Publications.
    Abstract: Article about victims of the Holocaust in Schriesheim, published in Schriesheimer Jahrbuch 2005, pages 23-38.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=528603&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 30
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    My life's journey. (2005)
    West Newton, MA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=437798&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 31
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Jacob Jacobson - deutscher Jude und Archivar (1888-1968). / (2005)
    Potsdam :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 40 pages : , print.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Jacobson, Jacob, ; Gesamtarchiv der Deutschen Juden, Berlin (1905-1943) ; Jewish archives. ; Archivists. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Publications.
    Abstract: Off-print of an appraisal of Jacob Jacobson, published in "Archive und Gedaechtnis. Festschrift fuer Botho Brachmann", Verlag fuer Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam, 2005, pages 547-585.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=546579&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 32
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Bericht ueber das Leben meines Vaters Benoit Courmont, (2005)
    Kiel :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4468262&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 33
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Theresienstaedter Tagebuch (Diary). (2005)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4161297&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 34
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    In fide et officio : Baron Max and Baron Gustav Springer. (2005)
    [Vienna] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Pages: 77 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2005
    Keywords: Springer, Gustav von, ; Springer, Max. ; Springer family. ; Todesco family. ; Aristocracy (Social class) ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Merchants. ; Springer-Schlösschen Wien‏. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The lives of Baron Max Springer and his son Baron Gustav Springer reflect the manifold opportunities, which were offered to descendents of privileged Jewish families in the Habsburg monarchy during the 19th century.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=5947646&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 35
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The heart beats on : Continuity and change in social work and welfare activities of German Jews under the Nazi regime, 1933-1945. (2004)
    Jerusalem :Yad Vashem Publications,
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 21 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Jews Charities ; History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Institutional care ; History. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Abstract of an original Hebrew publication
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 36
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Mit dem Leben davongekommen : Aus den Erfahrungen eines Opfers des NS-Staats, (2004)
    Göteborg :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=506834&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 37
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Visit to a Viennese cemetery / (2004)
    Details
    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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Visit to a Viennese cemetery
    Description / Table of Contents: Delusions and denials: Viennese life under the Nazis
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 38
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Bekanntheit von verfolgten Kuenstlern. (2004)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Bergner, Elisabeth, ; Döblin, Alfred, ; Hollaender, Friedrich. ; Lasker-Schüler, Else, ; Sahl, Hans. ; Jewish artists. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Study of 'Gesellschaft für Sozialforschung und statistische Analyse mbH': how well-known are five persecuted artists in Germany?
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=519096&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 39
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Staatliche Entschädigung für staatliche Verfolgung : Die Entschädigung verfolgter Juden aus Gladbeck. (2004)
    Wuppertal :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 112 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Gladbeck (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Master's thesis at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universitaet in Muenster about official restitution payments following official persecution, particularly in the town of Gladbeck in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=534410&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 40
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The letters 1938-1945 : The Grunwalds' journey from oppression to freedom. (2004)
    Sacramento, CA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 320 pages : , typescript; illustrated +
    Additional Material: appendix.
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Sommer, Susanne (née Grunwald) ; Grunwald, Max. ; Grundwald, Marga (née Saloschin) ; Lewinson, Paul. ; Lewinson, Jean. ; Grunwald, Hugo. ; Segall, Dora (née Saloschin) ; Jewish families Correspondence. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Visas ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Philippines Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: The bulk of the correspondence is between Susanne Sommer's parents, Max and Marga Grunwald, and their sponsors in the United States, Paul and Jean Lewinson. Also included are letters from Susanne Sommer's maternal grandparents prior to their deportation from Berlin in 1942 and from her paternal grandfather prior to and after his deportation from Stettin to a ghetto in Poland. Also included are a number of letters by Hugo Grunwald, Susanne Sommer's uncle, who joined the British army after his immigration to England.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1057404&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 41
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Geheimsache Schloss Hungen : Die Geschichte der geraubten Buecher in Hungen und Hirzenhain (1943-1946). (2004)
    Hungen :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 28 pages : , print +
    Additional Material: clipping
    Year of publication: 2004
    Keywords: Eller, Erhard, ; Freemasons. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews History. ; Pillage. ; Giessen (Hesse, Germany) ; Hungen (Germany) ; Publications.
    Abstract: Brochure for an exhibition in Hungen about the persecution of Jews and of freemasons and about the looting of their libraries.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=528435&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 42
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Memoirs of Gerhard Langer, 1923-1939 : A Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany. (2004)
    Boulder, CO :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 43
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    [Three stories]. (2004)
    Protea Village :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=549296&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 44
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Marianne : The first 30 years... (2004)
    Colchester :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=423377&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 45
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    History of my family. (2004)
    Delray Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=503305&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 46
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Your heritage in transition. (2003)
    Boca Raton, FL :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=424081&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 47
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Vignettes from my early life : Remembered fifty+ years later (2003)
    Livonia, Michigan :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=600243&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 48
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Die juedische Gemeinde von Mellrichstadt mit dem Schwerpunkt auf der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. (2003)
    Mellrichstadt :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript (photocopy) + , 25 pages.
    Additional Material: handwritten English translation :
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Mellrichstadt (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Lecture to class 13 of the Martin-Pollich-Gymnasium, Mellrichstadt, on Nov. 25 2003, describing the history of the Jewish community in Mellrichstadt in Bavaria since 1283.
    Note: English translation , German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=518768&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 49
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The Bondy family of Dolni Mesto and Lipnice Bohemia. (2003)
    Fairfax, VA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 94 + 23 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2003
    Keywords: Bondy family. ; Bondy, Lazar Sinek, ; Bondy, Karoline (née Fluss), ; Bondy, Adolf, ; Bondy, Gustav, ; Bondy, Ludwig, ; Kornfeld, Hermine (née Bondy), ; Bondy, Emil, ; Weiss, Ida (née Bondy), ; Jewish families. ; Jews Genealogy. ; Dolní Město (Czech Republic) ; Bohemia (Czech Republic) ; Lipník nad Bečvou (Czech Republic) ; Vienna (Austria) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Family history with photographs, documents, maps, recipes, and family trees.
    Abstract: Also included as an appendix is a speech by Irma Bondy, Meine Erfahrungen in Amerika, 1921/22, presented in 1923 in Vienna, Austria.
    Note: appendix in German , English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1056542&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 50
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Memoirs of Robert Altschuler. (2003)
    Metuchen, NJ,
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: Photograph
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 51
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    A brief history of the Arnstein family : (For Katharine Arnstein) (2003)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=401731&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 52
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] (2003)
    [Jerusalem] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=600398&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 53
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Sehr geehrte Herren!. (2003)
    Wien :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=401588&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 54
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The biography of Kurt Tauber, part II, (2003)
    Southbury, CT,
    Details
    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)
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 55
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Ein Amerikaner : A collection of anecdotes in the life of (2002)
    Rockaway, NJ :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=498135&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 56
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Dreams and realities. (2002)
    Boston, MA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 57
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Die ehemalige Mutterstadter juedische Gemeinde, die Gurs-Deportation 1940 und Auschwitz : Herkuft, Aufbluehen, Vertreibung, Zuflucht und Tod, Gedenken, Neue Freundschaften. (2002)
    Mutterstadt :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 190 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Gurs (Concentration camps) ; Deportation. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews History. ; Vergangenheitsbewältigung. ; Mutterstadt (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Draft for a book- and Internet publication about the Jewish community in the village of Mutterstadt in the Rhineland-Palatinate, concentrating on the deportations to the Gurs concentration camp in 1940.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=552202&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 58
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Jewish life in the village : Rapprochment of the native soil "Franken". (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: circa 170 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Rural conditions ; Demmelsdorf (Schesslitz, Germany) ; Franconia (Germany) ; Zeckendorf (Schesslitz, Germany) ; Manuscripts. ; Communities
    Abstract: Translation of "Juedisches Leben auf dem Dorf : Annaeherungen an die verlorene Heimat Franken" by Klaus Guth; introduction by Jack C. Heiman; illustrations not included.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=543757&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 59
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Geschichte der Juden in den heutigen Ortsteilen Staufenbergs Daubringen, Mainzlar, Staufenberg und Treis. (2002)
    Staufenberg :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 71 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2002
    Keywords: Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Staufenberg (Göttingen, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Revised manuscript of a brochure published in 1990 for an exhibition about Jews in the town of Staufenberg since the middle ages.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=544828&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 60
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Growing up in Germany. (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=401546&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 61
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Holocaust and redemption. (2002)
    Details
    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.
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 62
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Diaries, (2002)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=393052&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 63
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Lecture given at the Goethe Institut San Francisco. (2001)
    San Francisco :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=400601&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 64
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Limited autobiography of Jules Wallerstein. (2001)
    Norwalk, CT :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    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.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=401560&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 65
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Odyssee to Switzerland : [1921-1987]. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=997841&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 66
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The day Frau Svoboda played god / A Hole In The Ground. (2001)
    Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 4 , typecripts, copies.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after the "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
    Abstract: The first memoir deals with the changes that occurred in the relationships between Jews and non-Jews in Austria after "Anschluss". The second memoir, "A Hole In The Ground", covers the time of emigration.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=403471&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 67
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Robert Bosch und der Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 6 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Adler, Karl, ; Bosch, Robert, ; Goerdeler, Carl, ; Walz, Hans D. ; Robert Bosch GmbH. ; Robert Bosch Stiftung. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Germany Government, Resistance to 1933-1945. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Short essay about Robert Bosch's life and his engineering company; their opposition against the Nazi regime and their attempts to help Jews.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=544551&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 68
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Die juedische Bevoelkerung von Daubringen und Mainzlar. (2001)
    Staufenberg :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 64 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Jews History. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Staufenberg (Göttingen, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Revised manuscript of a brochure published in 1990 for an exhibition about Jews in the town of Staufenberg since the middle ages.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=544753&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 69
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Fragmente : Erinnerungen von 1942-1948. (2001)
    Details
    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.
    Note: German , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=400893&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 70
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Under Swastika and the French flag. (2001)
    Croton on Hudson, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1050271&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 71
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    [Speeches and memories], (1997-2001)
    [New Orleans] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    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.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=401570&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 72
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    From Suessel Hechtsheim to David Kapp : The Hechtsheim Jews. (2001)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 46 + 31 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy) +
    Additional Material: documentation
    Year of publication: 2001
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Saarpfalz (Germany) Jews ; History. ; Hechtsheim (Mainz-Bingen, Germany) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Account of the history of the Jewish population in Hechtsheim and their persecution during the Nazi era. Translated from German to English by Robert R. Wolf (2001).
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=559468&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 73
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    My life : [1927-1990]. (2000)
    Tel Aviv :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Rothstein, Esther. ; Storch, Baruch. ; Storch family. ; Jewish refugees ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Textile industry. ; Antwerp (Belgium) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in Israel in the 1990s. Phillippe Storch's father Baruch was born 1887 in Galicia. He came to Hannover at age 13 and started his own business in 1907. His ready-made men's clothing had great success and expanded within the years. He met his future wife Deborah, née Horowitz in Hannover, where she had moved with her father from Galicia. They married in 1912. Phillippe was the youngest of four children. His father Baruch, an orthodox Jew, was a strict but a just and kind-hearted man. He was a fervent German patriot and an admirer of German culture, which left him blind folded to the events of the Nazi era and ultimately led to his end in Auschwitz. The children were brought up with German education. Phillippe's older brother Sally was a member of Agudat Yisroel and prepared himself for emigration to Palestine (hakhsharah), which their father strongly opposed. Despite the anti-Jewish boycott the business still continued to do well until 1938. With the "Kristallnacht" on November 9th 1938 things deteriorated rapidly. The family, who had been granted German citizenship, became stateless. During "Kristallnacht" the entire apartment and their shop were devastated. In 1939 Phillippe joined a children's transport to the Netherlands. 1940 the Germans entered the Netherlands. Phillippe's brother Sally and his sister Martha crossed the border illegally to Belgium, where Sally contracted TB and died shortly after the Germans entered the country. Through the help of the "Resistence" Phillippe was reunited with his sister and mother in Antwerp, Belgium. They managed to get to Southern France, where their mother died of exhaustion. Through adventurous circumstances Phillippe managed to cross the border to Switzerland together with his sister and her husband.
    Abstract: He was taken to a military camp near Zurich. It was in poor conditions, but they had a rich cultural life due to many famous inmates such as the singer Josef Schmidt and the writer Manes Sperber. Transfer to a family camp in Morgin, where he got married to his inmate Esther Rothstein. Post-war life in France. 1946 birth of his oldest son Sami in Lyon. French citizenship in 1949. Emerging textile business. Business travels to Israel. Emigration to Brazil in 1952. Export business with his friend Shloyme Draenger.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=400309&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 74
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Menschenjagd : [1942-1945]. (1946-2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    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
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=400334&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 75
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    How we survived : Chronicles of our families. (2000)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 27 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: David, Frank. ; Dreyfuss, Albert, ; Dreyfuss family. ; Dreyfuss, Franziska (née Grünbaum), ; Dreyfuss, Fritz. ; Oppenheimer, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Suicide. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Landau in der Pfalz (Germany) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir contains the first chapter of Luise David's autobiography. Recollections of her mother Franziska Gruenbaum, who - after a love affair to an unsuitable partner - was married to the physician Albert Dreyfuss in 1908. The couple had two children, Fritz and Luise. Her husband served in World War One. After years of depression and frequent sojourns in different sanatoria, Franziska Dreyfuss commited suicide in 1919. Luise was sent to her father's family in Landau. The family was reunited again a year later, when Albert Dreyfuss married his second wife Alice Oppenheimer in 1920. Celebration of holidays at the Dreyfuss family in Landau. Weekend outings in the countryside. Recollection of the author's childhood with various nannys and governesses. Early interest in dress making and clothing. Awareness of her different status as the daughter of the town's physician and as a Jewish girl. Encounters with anti-Semitism. Luise was enrolled in the "lyceum" (girl's school), where she became an excellent student. Rising Nazi movement. Her brother Fritz emigrated to Switzerland in 1933.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=400472&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 76
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The Terrace memoirs. (2000)
    Laguna Beach, CA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 136 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Bondy, Curt, ; Warmbrunn family. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Diary from childhood to old age (as described in the biographical note), which includes a few family photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=602107&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 77
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Family saga, (2000)
    Scarsdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 114 pages + appendix : , typewritten manuscript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Ripp, Norbert. ; Ripp, Herbert. ; Geller, Regina, 1898- ; Ripp, Paul, 1898- ; Geller, Benno (Ben Zion) ; Atran, Frank. ; Ripp, Joseph, ; Ripp family. ; United States. ; Education, Higher. ; Jews Persecution 1939-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Saint Paul (Minn.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: In his memoir, Joseph Ripp decribes "some of the events that drove them out of Europe and brought them to safety in the United States". He describes the fate of each family member, and their later lives in the United States. Then Joseph Ripp focuses on the time of persecution thorugh the Nazis. In school they were taught the discriminatory racial doctrines, in the outside world his father's business suffered from all different kinds of assaults on his property. It became clear that they had to emigrate. In 1938, young Joseph could take part in a small program sponsered by the American Jewish community which enabld a few hundred children from Germany to escape. He was about to end up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that, they made a stop in New York, where he stayed with his aunt Bertha Geller. He describes how impressed he was by all the new things he got to see in New York. After his arrival, he took on several jobs to help his family survive the struggles of war. The memoir moves back to Nazi-Germany and its persecution of Jews. There is an account of Kristallnight and Joseph Ripp's brothers' escape to Holland and England. His parents are dispersed over Europe, his father being held at St. Cyprien internment camp in France, his mother stuck in Antwerp, Belgium. Finally there is a family re-union in the USA. Joesph Ripp then writes about his family's fate in the US. He joins the army and combats in Europe. He receives education from Columbia University, and then meets his future wife, Mimi, a refugee child as well. Both go back to Europe in the 1950s. Joseph Ripp accepted a job offer in Brussels, Belgium, from his wife's uncle. The memoir closes with the upbringing of the next generation. There are several family photos and documents included in the appendix.
    Note: Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=4463948&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
    Fulltext
  • 78
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Mi ultimo testimonio. (2000)
    Santiago :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: Spanish
    Pages: 16 + 16 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Seelenberger, Albert, ; Seelenberger, Martha, ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Furniture industry and trade. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Chile Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Grünstadt (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs contain recollections of the Nazi terror during the November pogrom night of 1938. The author's father Albert Seelenberger was the owner of a large furniture factory. After the take-over by the Nazis Albert and his wife Martha were detained for the first time in 1934 in order to force them to give up their property. Description of Nazi laws and anti-Jewish regulations. Impact of the Nuremberg laws on the Seelenberger family. Albert Seelenberger was arrested in the night of the November pogrom (Kristallnacht) and deported together with his son Gustav to Dachau concentration camp. Description of torture and abuse and the agonizing circumstances of life in the camp. After their release the family tried to organize exit visas. Gustav Seelenberger emigrated to Chile in June 1939. His parents, who were to follow shortly thereafter, were deported to Auschwitz and Majdanek, where they perished.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Spanish
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=410511&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 79
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Der Steirische Schindler. (2000)
    Details
    Pages: 9 + 13 , transcript +
    Additional Material: 1 CD-ROM
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Schleich, Josef, ; Germany. ; Jews Persecutions ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Graz (Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The businessman Josef Schleich was born in 1902 in Graz, Austria. He went on businesstrips to Vienna and upheld close relationships with Jewish merchants. After the Anschluss to Nazi Germany in 1938 he was contacted by some of his Jewish acquaintances, who asked him to assist them in their attempts to leave the country. He started to hold agricultural classes for Jews, who wanted to learn a trade prior to their emigration. With the support of the Jewish community (Kultusgemeinde) he traveled around Europe to find out about possible emigration routes. Soon he concentrates his efforts on the Southern border of Austria with Yugoslawia. Due to prior business endeavors, which were already partially illegal, he already knew the border with its many sidepaths. Initially he started his efforts to assist Jews illegally over the border with the knowledge of the Gestapo, but after some time he could only continue his endeavors on the basis of constant bribes. In 1940 the Jewish community was dissolved and moved to Vienna, where Schleich continued to organize his activities under the cover of a travelagency. Most of the people arrived from Vienna, some even from cities in Germany, at Graz, where Schleich accomodated them in his city apartment, until further transportation was arranged. Schleich had helpers among some farmers along the border as well as some helpers on the Yugoslawian side. The whole extent of the people he helped crossing the border is still unknown, but new research has proved that the number of rescued Jews amount to more than 20.000. After the war, in 1947, he was accused of taking advantage of the plight of Jews, due to the fact that he received substantial fees for his efforts to assist Jews over the border. In 1949 Josef Schlech died in Graz.
    Abstract: The collection contains materials pertaining to a radio broadcast in Austria on Oct. 25, 2000, “Der Steirische Schindler”, about Josef Schleich from Graz, Austria, who saved the life of thousands of Jews, 1938-1941. Also included is a typed transcript of the broadcast.
    Note: German and some English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=400510&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 80
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Survival : 1933-1945. (2000)
    Rockville, MD :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Pages: 193 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Kaufmann family. ; Moritz, Klara Kaufmann. ; Moritz, Ludwig David, ; Moritz family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Les Milles (Concentration camp) ; Œuvre de secours aux enfants (France) ; Antisemitism. ; Education 1933-1945. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Becherbach (Germany) ; Cologne (Germany) ; Issoudun (France) ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Autobiography in German, French and English with illustrations by the author and reproductions of photos and documents.
    Abstract: Family history in Becherbach, Germany going back to the 18th century. The author's father Ludwig David Moritz served in World War One. He got married to Klara Kaufmann in 1929. Birth of their sons Alfred and Ernst. Rise of Nazism. In 1936 Alfred was enrolled in the public school of Becherbach. Confrontation with anti-Jewish laws and regulations. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the maternal Kaufmann family in Cologne. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and arrest of his father. Ludwig Moritz was taken to Dachau concentration camp, where he was interned for three months. His sons Alfred and Ernst were taken to safety by their uncle Hermann Wolf in Luxemburg. His parents followed after the release of their father from Dachau. German invasion of Belgium, Luxemburg and France in 1940. Escape to Southern France. Ludwig Moritz was interned in the camp Les Milles near Aix en Provence. Alfred and Ernst were enrolled in the local public school in St. Lizaigne. Life in hiding in Issoudun, where their father's brother had a clothes business. Alfred and Ernst were sent to the Jewish children relief organization OSE (Oeuvre de Secours de l'Enfance). With support of the French resistence movement new identity cards were issued for the two siblings, which stated them being of French descendent. Life in hiding in the countryside of Vernoux/Vivarais. They were enrolled in a public school and in the local Catholic sunday school of Vernoux. End of the war and final reunion with their parents.
    Note: German, French and English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=599296&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 81
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    A tale of three continents. (2000)
    Netanya :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 33 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Lederer, August, ; Garcia de los Reyes, Margot, ; Rosenthal, Hilda, ; Rosenthal family. ; Lederer family. ; Antisemitism. ; Apartheid ; Education 1918-1933. ; Families 20th century. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish religious education 1871-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Pacifism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Cape Town (South Africa) ; England. ; Frankfurt (Germany) ; Gladenbach (Germany) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Israel. ; South Africa. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in Netanya, Israel in 2000. Family history going back to the 19th century. Hilda Rosenthal and August Lederer married in 1903. They settled in Gladenbach. Their son Benno was born in 1904. Childhood recollections. Description of the Lederer household and his father's fancy for technical modernizations. Private studies in Hebrew. Benno attended the local primary school, since Gladenbach was too small to keep a separate Jewish school. No encounter with anti-Semitism during his childhood years. Outbreak of World War One and increasing patriotism. Recollection of his bar mitzvah celebration during the war. Benno was enrolled in the high school (Gymnasium) in Giessen, where he stayed with a Jewish family. Difficulties observing the Sabbath on Saturdays during the school time. Growing political interest and awareness. Benno Lederer became an ardent Pacifist and even started to study Esperanto. His plans to study medicine were shattered due to the economic crisis and inflation, which deprived his parents of their savings and made it impossible to pay the tuition fees. Benno got a position as a bookkeeper in a metal work in Frankfurt. In addition he attended night classes at university. Move to Hamburg. 1930 marriage with Margot Garcia de los Reyes, who came from a Sephardic family. Rising Nazism. Hitler's takeover and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Birth of their son Rolf in 1935. Preparations to emigrate. Benno and Margot left Germany in 1936 via England and Madeira to South Africa. Arrival in Cape Town. Language difficulties and initial problems to get settled. Benno managed to get his mother out of Germany in 1938. Political situation and apartheid policy in South Africa. In 1956 Margot and Benno started their own business. Margot Lederer passed away in 1966. Benno Lederer moved to Israel in 1979.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=400684&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 82
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    From Berlin to Ecuador : (1940-1941) (2000)
    Austin, TX :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Pages: 82 pages : , bound typescript; maps
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Hias-Ica Emigration Association. ; Hilfsverein der Deutschen Juden (Germany) ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Manners and customs. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; South America. ; Japan. ; Korea. ; Soviet Union. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of a four months long journey (October 1941-January 1941) from Frankfurt via Soviet Union, Korea, Japan to South America. Very detailed description of countryside, people and mores of the places she encountered.
    Abstract: English translation by Miguel Bamberger, juxtaposed with a German transcript and maps
    Note: German and English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=506607&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 83
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    La Partida (The Departure) / (2000)
    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 42 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Wohlmuth family. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Argentina Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: English translation of Tony Wohlmuth's memoir "La Partida" by John Grossmann
    Abstract: This book is based on Tony Wohlmuth's experiences during the increasing anti-Semitism in Germany and her father’s healthy premonition of danger to leave the country as soon as possible. In 1937 the whole family were allowed to enter Argentina where they tried to build a new life. Inspired by her father’s education she supported the “Theodor Herzl group” and the “Zionist movement” and helped to train people who wanted to immigrate to Palestine living in a Kibbutz.
    Abstract: In another part of the book Tony Wohlmuth introduces into the genealogy of her family and describes also the feelings for her relatives.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=489083&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 84
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Juedische Studentinnen an der Medizinischen Fakultaet in Wien : [1920-1939]. (2000)
    [Wien] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 20 pages : , 20 pages : , typescript. , typescript
    Year of publication: 2000
    Keywords: Pappenheim, Else, ; Huppert, Alice (née Doktor), ; Safar, Vinzenzia (Landauer) ; Schleissner, Stella. ; Spitz, Trude. ; Steiner, Beatrice Eugenie. ; Universität Wien. ; Feminism. ; Jewish students Women. ; Women Education. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Case study on female Jewish students at the Medical Department of the University of Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=543252&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 85
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    The life and times of Joseph F. Aschner (Hietzinger Gymnasium 1932-38). (1999)
    [New York, NY],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 9 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: College teachers. ; Divorce. ; Education, Elementary ; Education, Secondary ; Education, Higher ; Physicists. ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; 13. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Bogotá (Colombia) Emigration and immigration. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of family home in Vienna; study at Hietzinger Gymnasium in Vienna; Anschluss and aftermath; emigration to Colombia; life in Bogota; emigration to USA; high school and college in Chicago; army service during World War II; marriage and divorce; birth of daughter; remarriage; lives of relatives; life in retirement.
    Abstract: Also included are Joseph Aschner's questionnaires with the Austrian Heritage Collection.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 86
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Recollections of my life : An autobiography (1999)
    [Adelaide] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 125 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Pagel, Hans Isaac. ; Pagel, Regina. ; Tuckfield, Milton James. ; Australia. ; Haganah (Organization) ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Intermarriage. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish religious education. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism and Judaism. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1940s. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Kępno (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1930s. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir covers 1919 to 1999. Childhood memoirs of Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where Eva grew up as the third daughter of Hans Isaac and Regina Pagel. Her parents were highly respected members of the Jewish community as well as of the Zionist Movement. They owned a ladies' boutique and were rather affluent. Memories of Shabbat celebrations and observance of the holidays. Eva was enrolled in a Jewish public school. Hebrew school in the afternoons. At the age of eight Eva joined a Jewish youth group. Passion for books and theater. Recollections of the airship "Zeppelin Hindenburg". Trips to Berlin to visit her mother's parents. Holidays at her grandparents in Kempen (Kepno), where her father was born. After the Jewish primary school Eva attented the public girl's school (Gymnasium). Political tensions and the rise of Nazis. Emigration to Palestine via Romania, Hungary and Italy in 1932. Life in Tel Aviv, where her parents opened the first ladies' boutique "Ha Geveret". Difficulties of learning the new language (Ivrith). Member of the sport's club Maccabi, where Eva (Hava) was in the swimming team. Underground activities in the Haganah, the Israeli defense movement. Work as a photographer, in a kindergarten and in a flower shop. Recollections of the Arab uprising in 1936. Flow of new immigrants from Germany and Austria due to the dramatic political events in Europe. Outbreak of World War II. Friendship with an Australian soldier, who was stationed at Palestine. Marriage with James Tuckfield in April 1942. Difficulties with her father, who did not accept her Gentile husband. Birth of their son Raymond Gil. Emigration to Australia via Egypt and India in November 1944. Arrival in Melbourne in January 1945. Welcome by her husband's family in Adelaide, South Australia. End of the war and reunion with her husband. Birth of their daughter Judith Dawn in 1946 and move to Brownville. Birth of their son Allen David in 1948.
    Abstract: Declaration of the State of Israel. Visiting her family in Israel in 1970. Trip to Europe and Israel together with her husband in 1973. Birth of their grandchildren. Death of her husband in 1979. Various journeys to China, Cyprus, Israel and Europe.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=502406&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 87
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    How do you like America? : A family chronicle. (1999)
    La Jolla, CA :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 138 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Stern, Beate Herzberg, ; Stern, Max, ; Westfeld, Max. ; Herzberg family. ; Stern family. ; Antisemitism. ; Emigration and immigration Nineteen thirties. ; Jewish businesspeople. ; Jews Holidays and festivals. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Intellectual life Nineteen thirties. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Brussles (Belgium) ; Essen (Germany) ; France. ; Gelsenkirchen (Germany) ; Italy. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration Nineteen forties. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 2000 in California and contain some of the author's diary entries during the years of the family's emigration and reminiscences of the author's father. Detailed description of family history going back to the early 19th century. The author's grandfather Moses Stern had a rawproduct business in Gelsenkirchen, Westphalia. His father Max Stern took his graduate exam (Abitur) at the Jacobsohn boarding school in 1904 and was sent to a business school in Brussles, Belgium. Work in the family business M. Stern AG. World War One and rise of the family business with branches throughout Germany and offices in New York, London, Milan and Stockholm. Due to political unrest at the end of the war the business administration moved to Essen. Description of the family background of Beate Herzberg, the author's mother. Courtship of his parents and marriage in 1922. Birth of his sister Annelore in 1923. Martin Stern was born in 1924. Description of the family household and domestic life in a well-to-do family in the 1920s. Friday visits to the synagogue and celebration of Jewish holidays. Vacations at the Baltic Sea and skiinig in the Alps. Martin attended a Jewish elementary school. Rising Nazism. After Hitler came to power in 1933 the author's father immediately started preparations for the family's emigration, but was persuaded to stay by his family. Life under Nazi rule. Martin attended Gymnasium and was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Antisemitic incidents. Private lessons in piano and Hebrew. Bar Mitzvah in 1937. Recollections of performances of the Kulturbund.
    Abstract: Lessons in Italian and preparations for emigration. The family left Germany for Turin, Italy in 1937. Life in Italy and sign of spreading fascism and move to France in 1938. Life in Paris and lessons in French. Move to Grenoble. Description of various schools in Italy and France. German invasion in 1940. Fervent attempts to leave the country for England failed. The family escaped to Marseilles, Bordeaux and Bayonne and failed attempt to escape to Marocco. Finally the family succeeded in leaving for Algiers, where they arrived on July 4th of 1940. They went to Morocco and were granted exit permits for the United States. The family left for the United States via Portugal in August of 1940. They arrived in New York in September 1940.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1050167&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 88
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Momma's arc / (1999)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 94 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Ensel, Judah. ; Harnish, Clara. ; Harnish, Franz. ; Leitner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Mauthner, Herbert, ; Mauthner family. ; Mauthner, Rosemarie, ; Weinberg family. ; Weinberg, Guy. ; Civil disobedience ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Holocaust survivors. ; Intermarriage. ; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Amsterdam (Netherlands) ; Blaricum (Netherlands) ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Netherlands. ; Thuringia (Germany) ; Veszprém (Hungary) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.
    Abstract: Description of the author's childhood in Amsterdam. German invasion of the Netherlands in 1941. Recollections of a visit at her maternal grandparents in Groszbuch, Germany in 1942. During the Nazi occupation, Julia, her mother, and her stepfather Herbert Mauthner moved to Blaricum, a town in the Dutch countryside. Julia, protected through her Gentile mother and "unknown" father, was enrolled in the local school. Her mother was part of the Dutch Resistance. She saved 6 Jews (including her husband and her mother-in-law) and later a German Wehrmacht deserter in Blaricum by hiding them in the attic of her house. Description of the life of the people hiding in "her mother's arc" and occasional razzias by the SS. Fate of her scattered family during the Holocaust.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1050020&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 89
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray. (1999)
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 98 + 34 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Altbach, Ludwig ; Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) ; HIAS (Agency) ; Jews Persecutions. ; Education, Higher. ; Kindertransports (Rescue operations) ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Antisemitism. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Soccer. ; Engineers. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Argentina. ; Eggenburg (Austria) ; Peru. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.
    Abstract: Internment at Ellis Island and release with the support of HIAS. Arrival in Buenos Aires in October 1943 and reunition with his parents. Work for a steel company and studies of mechanical engineering at the University of La Plata. Graduation in 1949. Military coup and political instability. Walter Altbach founded his own business, which became a successful enterprise. Marriage in 1951. Move to Peru in 1967. Recollections of his first trip to Austria after his emigration in 1968.
    Note: Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 90
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Besuch in Wien / (1999)
    Miami, FL :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 14 + 13 , handwritten manuscript (copies).
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Fliegel family. ; Jewish Welcome Service, Vienna. ; Jews ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Voyages and travels. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs are written in form of two letters. In the first letter "Besuch in Wien - Juni 1999", Hans Fliegel tells about his experiences on his visit to Vienna in May/June 1999 (following an invitation by the Jewish Welcome Service). He describes a walk in Vienna, mainly the second district, and as he stops in front of buildings with a personal significance for him, he unfolds parts of his family history, memories of family businesses and apartments.
    Abstract: In the second letter "Ernuechterung - fuer immer verdammt?!", Mr. Hans Fliegel gives an overview of the history of European Jewry, the Jews in Vienna, and his views of Austria before, during and after World War II. He also reflects his own experiences.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=423279&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 91
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Our family history / (1999)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 19 , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Rotholz family. ; Rotholz, Marianne, née Taussky, ; Rotholz, Marie. ; Rotholz, Max, ; Taussky, Adolf. ; Taussky, Fanny. ; Jewish families ; Jewish merchants ; Jews History. ; Secondhand trade. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history with photographs. The memoir starts with Lotte Bondy's grandparents from Hungary, Max and Marie Rotholz, and a description of her father's (Max Rotholz) youth in Vienna. Her mother was Marianne Rotholz, née Taussky, came from a Moravian family. Her parents married in 1905, and her father opened a successful store for second-hand goods at Lerchenfelderstrasse 48 in Vienna which she describes in detail. He also became an Authorised Valuer. The store became well known for its Persian carpets. The memoir with a note at the beginning of chapter four, "to be continued".
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 92
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Rosemarie : A memoir (1999)
    West Palm Beach, FL :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 96 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Deutschland family. ; Joseph, Hans. ; Land family. ; Bloomsbury House. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Medical technology. ; Nurses. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Gdańsk (Poland) ; England. ; Lake Carmel (N.Y.) ; West Palm Beach (Fla.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of the life of Rosemarie L. Joseph from her happy childhood in Germany, the danger during the Nazi Regime, the immigration to the USA, until her retirement in Florida, narrated in 11 chapters and illustrated with photographs and figures showing family members and documents.
    Abstract: Rosemarie Joseph describes her family and their life in Berlin. The father was a businessman, dealing with women’s clothes. The author writes about her years at a public school, where she met anti-Semitism for the first time. Later she went to a private school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The memoir deals with the upcoming Nazi Regime and describes how the family experienced anti-Semitism, the terror, despair and confusion; especially the events of the “Reichskristallnacht” and the efforts to emigrate are described. Eventually Rosemarie was able to go to London, which was made possible by the Bloomsbury House, which offered older children, who were not eligible for the “Kindertransport”, to escape to Great Britain. The memoir tells about the escape of Rosemarie’s parents. Her father was born in Danzig, which was considered a free State by Hitler after the war began. Therefore Hartwig Deutschland received a “Danzig Quota” number 7 for travel to America and the couple left Germany immediately and soon arrived in New York. Shortly afterwards Rosemarie got a visa to enter the USA, too.
    Abstract: The memoir tells about her first years in the USA, her job as a pediatrics nurse at the Israel Zion Hospital, her job caring for a small child, her years studying at Hunter College, her job at the Blood Bank at University Hospital as well as how she met her husband Hans Joseph. She was lucky to get a grant of $1,800.00 from the Educational Foundation for Jewish Girls and so she was able to enroll at the Polyclinic Hospital and Medical School for one year. After passing the Registry Exam she was allowed to work as a Medical Technologist of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Her first job then was at a private medical laboratory in Brooklyn. 1952 she started to work part time at the Jewish Memorial Hospital, which soon turned into a full time job. She worked there until 1982. Furthermore Rosemarie writes about her struggle to get a child. Finally the couple adopted two boys, Claude and Andrew. The memoir gives account of the family’s decision to buy a house at Lake Carmel in Putnam county, N.Y., their animals, the family life, how Rosemarie started oil painting, her retirement, her voluntary work at the Residential Treatment Center for autistic children, the death of her husband, a new relationship; and finally her move to West Palm Beach, Florida and her life there, together with a lot of volunteer activities, music and trips to several places in the USA and Europe. Finally, the memoir includes a paragraph about Rosemarie’s contribution to the Shoa Foundation with Steven Spielberg as a chairman plus a copy of the letter that Spielberg sent to Rosemarie, saying thank you for her help.
    Note: English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=601080&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 93
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Vienna Childhood Memoirs : [circa 1920-1938]. (1999)
    1999 :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 5 + 26 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Stewart, John Gideon. ; Wampach family. ; Weiser, Benno. ; Blau-Weiss (Youth movement) ; Herzl Klub. ; Terry's Montessori School. ; Education, Primary 1918-1933. ; Education, Secondary 1918-1933. ; Jewish converts. ; Household employees 20th century. ; Jews Customs and practices. ; College teachers. ; Zionism. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Döbling (Vienna, Austria) ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories of building and Doebling neighborhood in Vienna; description of home; family life; father's Zionist activity; parent's families; primary schooling at a Montessori school; Gymnasium; recreation; family members' health problems; father's education; membership in Zionist youth group Blau Weiss.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Adler, Alfred; Brod, Max; Feuchtwanger, Lion; Glaser, Kurt; Herman, Hugo; Kohn, Hans; Mahler, Gustav; Murmelstein, Benjamin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in File.
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=410386&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 94
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    My story : [1915-1999]. (1999)
    Cadwell, NJ,
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 101 pages.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Gutmann, Jakob, ; Pick, Margarethe, ; Pick family ; Rothberger, Bertha ; Rothberger family ; Schulhof family ; Weil family ; United States. ; Jews Persecution. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Engineers. ; Education, Higher. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Bar mitzvah. ; Families 20th century. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Minsk (Belarus) ; Ohio. ; Vienna (Austria) ; České Budějovice (Czech Republic) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army.
    Abstract: He served in England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.
    URL: Digital form:
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 95
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    An act of courage. (1999)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 7 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1999
    Keywords: Seeck, Frieda. ; Wollstein, Gerhard. ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Life in hiding. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Ethnic relations. ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Frieda Seek was a concierge in Berlin-Charlottenburg, when she hid the Jew Gerhard Wollstein in her attic from 1939 to 1945.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=533368&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 96
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Life remembered : A home in the world - a world in the home. 1908 thru 1997 (1998)
    Riverdale, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 191 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Grubel, Fred ; Kreutzberger, Max ; Lessing, Fred W. ; Reinhardt, Max, ; Roth, Joseph, ; Lessing, Fred W. ; Leo Baeck Institute. ; Education, Secondary. ; Hospitals Administration. ; Jewish refugees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; England. ; Europe Voyages and travels. ; Leipzig (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollections on his life.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=585719&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 97
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    [Pirmasens in der Pfalz ist meine Geburts- und Heimatstadt]. (1998)
    [New York] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Former Title: No title
    Keywords: Simon, Fred. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Suicide. ; Palatinate (Germany) ; Pirmasens (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Political background to rise of Nazis in Pirmasens; account of Kristallnacht in Pirmasens; expulsion of Jewish men from Pirmasens to France; forced return to Germany; march from the town of Schweix to Pirmasens; deportation to Dachau via Ludwigshafen; arrival in Dachau; life in the camp; death of father at Dachau; release from Dachau with brother.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=398714&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 98
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    A balance sheet of life. (1998)
    London :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 256 pages : , bound typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Karpf, Fanny, ; Rothenberg, Isaak, ; Moses, Dora, ; Moses, Israel, ; Weiss, Therese, ; Rothenberg, Heinz, ; Hannes, Annema, ; Rothenberg, Emil, ; Rothenberg family. ; Accountants. ; Education, Elementary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; England Emigration and immigration. ; Frankfurt (Germany) ; London (England) ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Worms (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written 1998 in London. The author describes the Rothenberg family's history going back to the late 18th century. Helmut Rothenberg's great-grandfather Emil Rothenberg was born 1853 in Goettingen. His mother died three years later, and Emil was brought up with relatives. In 1879 Emil Rothenberg married Fanny Karpf, whose ancestors came from southern Germany. Emil and Fanny lived in Nuernberg and had seven children. Their oldest son Isaak, the author's father, was born in 1880. He became a senior manager at the brass works of Aron Hirsch & Son in Halberstadt. In 1914 Isaak Rothenberg married Dora Moses, who came from a large orthodox family. Isaak and Dora Rothenberg had two sons; Helmut, born in 1915, was the oldest. His brother Karl-Heinz was born in 1917. In 1920 the family moved to Frankfurt, where Isaak Rothenberg joined a manufacturing business. Memories of the Rhineland occupation by French troops and the time of inflation after World War I. Helmut attended "Musterschule", a school based on Johann Pestalozzi's principles of education. School trip to London in 1930. Private piano lessons and growing interest in music. Rising Nazism. Helmut Rothenberg graduated in 1933, shortly after Hitler had become chancellor of Germany. A few months later he left Frankfurt for England. He stayed with friends of his father in Cheshunt, where he started to work as a chartered accountant. Helmut's brother Heinz (Henry) joined him in 1934, as the condition in his school in Frankfurt had become intolerable. Summer vocations with their parents in Suffolk. In 1939 Isaak and Dora Rothenberg were able to emigrate to England - shortly before the outbreak of war with Germany. Henry joined the Pioneer Corps in 1939, while Helmut worked for the War Office. The family moved to London in 1940. Recollection of air raids and situation as enemy aliens.
    Abstract: Helmut Rothenberg started his own business in 1945, and shortly thereafter he married his fiancée Annema Hannes. In 1946 their son John Daniel was born. Description of his professional accomplishments. Memories of colleagues and friends. Their second son Robert Michael was born in 1950.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=598972&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 99
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Unausloeschliche Erinnerungen. (1998)
    Hamburg :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: German
    Pages: 52 pages : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Education, Secondary. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Schools ; Women authors. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was published by the Gymnasium Allee-Altona, Hamburg, Herta Grove's high school, in December 1998. The main focus lies on her memories of school life, and the changes after the Nazis' rise to power. Herta Grove steps back and forth between her own memories and wider reflections on her relationship to Germany. The memoir includes private and official corespondence, and photographs.
    Note: German
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1050696&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
  • 100
    Media Combination
    Media Combination
    Vienna and The Ides of March 1938 : (A reminiscence) (1998)
    [Vienna] :[publisher not identified],
    Details
    Language: English
    Pages: 5 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1998
    Keywords: Wolf, Max, ; Universität Wien. ; Jewish physicians History. ; Medicine. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: Short article about commemorative sessions on March 13, 1998 in remembrance of Jewish victims of Nazi rule in Vienna, Austria, specifically at the University of Vienna and its medical school.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
    URL: Digital form:
    URL: http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=556089&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
    Media Combination
    Leo Baeck Institute New York
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...