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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 3 + 55 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1987
    Keywords: Banks and banking. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Fraternal organizations. ; Jewish leadership. ; Lawyers. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Bremen (Germany) ; Chile Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Germany Emigration and immigration 1971. ; Santiago (Chile) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood memories growing up in Bremen; secular and religious education; experiences during World War I in Bremen; revolution in Bremen; decision to study law; study at University of Heidelberg; experience of anti-Semitism; membership in Jewish student fraternity; study at University of Berlin, University of Goettingen; work as lawyer in Bremen; vacations sailing; loss of law practice after 1933; decision to emigrate to Chile in 1934; emigration to Chile in 1936; description of sea journey to Chile; arrival in Chile; émigré life in Chile; work as leather manufacturer; birth of children; post-war visits to Germany; life in post-war Santiago; work as lawyer dealing with restitution claims; emigration to Germany in 1971; work for bank in Bremen; activity in Bremen Jewish community and Zentralrat der Deutschen Juden; immigration to USA; death of wife; remarriage.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned: Feyer, Walter; Goldberger, Paul; Hirschfeld, Emil; Katz, Karl; Kiefer, Leo; Lehmann, Claudio; Lehmann, Hilde; Lehmann, Irene; Levy family; Schwabe, Ida; Schumacher, Hans; Straus, Hilde; Seide, Hans; Wolff, Martin.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 487 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1986
    Keywords: Benedikt family. ; Gurs (Concentration camp) ; Neue Freie Presse, Vienna. ; Authors. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Friendship. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of family home in Vienna; early study of music; relationship with piano teacher; relationship with brother; family life and problematic relationship with father; treatment of domestic servants in parents' home; gymnastics classes; experience of revolution in November 1918; early summer vacations in Bad Ischl; early trip to Berlin and Baltic coast; mother's affair with Adolf Reich; first experiences with anti-Semitism; description of father's textile factory; illness of father; death of father; relationship with Adolf Reich; Gymnasium in Doebling; mother's relationship with Reich; bankruptcy of mother; suicide of Reich; friendship with Wolfgang Foges; academic problems at school; circle of friends; work as Hofmeister at residence; loss of job; work at cotton dealer; enters essay competition sponsored by wealthy publisher; meets owner and editor of Neue Freie Presse, Ernst Benedikt; begins writing for Neue Freie Presse; political upheavals in Austria in 1934; friendship with Egon Friedell; decision to study law; friendship with Charlotte and Fritz Vering; attempted suicide of Gerda Benedikt; work for newspaper owned by Wolfgang Foges; end of relationship with Gerda Benedikt; acqaintanceship with colleague Willibald von Strieberny; Strieberny's takeover of paper after Anschluss; plans to emigrate to USA; flight to Holland; internment in Holland; forced return to Vienna; emigration to USA via Switzerland, England in 1939; emigration of brother to USA; arrival in New York; move to live with relatives in Ohio; work as door-to-door salesman; relationship with Jews in USA; work as roofer; other brief jobs; attempt to help liberate brother from concentration camp Gurs in France.
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  • 3
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 111 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1970
    Keywords: Bickel, Lothar, ; Bickel, Shlomo, ; Brunner, Constantin, ; Kettner, Frederick, ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Jewish physicians. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Philosophers. ; Philosophy. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Zionism. ; Bukovina (Romania and Ukraine) ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The author describes his friendship with Lothar "Elieser" Bickel in the Zionist youth group "Hashomer Hazair", where he met him in 1919 in Czernowitz, Bukowina. Discussion of Jewish-national and social problems and studies of Hebrew. Elieser's growing interest in philosophical and socialist themes. His brother Schlomoh Bickel was a leader of the worker's movement Poale Zion. Influence of the ethic seminary by Dr. Kettner and criticism on Zionist ideals. Elieser Bickel became acquainted with the philosopher Constantin Brunner and grew to become one of his most talented students. In 1922 Elieser enrolled at the Medical School in Bucharest, where he experienced virulent anti-Semitism at the university. Disintegration of Dr. Kettner's seminary in Czernowitz. Circle around Elieser Bickel who promoted the growing importance of Brunner's philosophy. In 1926 Elieser graduated. After completing his military service he decided to move to Berlin in 1927. Czernowitz philosophy circle in Berlin and friendship with Constantin Brunner. Lectures and studies of philosophy. Work as a physician in Berlin and Prenzlau. In 1931 journey to Spain. After Hitler's takeover in 1933 he moved back to Bucharest, where Lothar Bickel became one of the most renowned gynecologists. He continued his philosophic interests and specialized in the ethic of Spinoza and Kant. Death of Constantin Brunner in 1937. Acquaintance with Maedi Moscovici. They married in 1939 in Czernowitz. Military service and growing danger of approaching Germans. Precarious situation of the Jewish population. Armistice and continuation of his philosophic work. In 1950 Lothar Bickel emigrated to Canada. He died in Toronto in 1951.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 180 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Einstein, Albert, ; Viertel, Salka. ; Freemasons. ; Antisemitism. ; Bookkeepers. ; Jewish families ; Jewish musicians. ; Music. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women dressmakers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; 2. Bezirk (Vienna, Austria) ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Bruno Eisner, written in 1960, including description of Leopoldstadt (the Jewish quarter in Vienna) and of Vienna at large, information on his parents and grandparents from Hungary and Moravia, recollections of antisemitism in Vienna, of his childhood, of his schooling, of his musical education and his career as a musician, his membership in a Masonic lodge, his move to Berlin, his marriage to Salka Steuermann, his experience as a musician in the Austrian army during World War I and after the war, his travels to Palestine and Italy, his friendship with Albert Einstein, his immigration to the United States with the help of an affidavit by Einstein, and his life there.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned in this memoirs:
    Abstract: Altenberg, Peter; Bruckner, Anton; Kargeorgevitch, Prince Bojidar; Nordau, Max; Rathenau, Walter; Twain, Mark.
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  • 5
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 72 , incomplete typescript (copy).
    Year of publication: 1958
    Keywords: Ritter, Gladys. ; Diseases. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Hospitals. ; Jews Persecution. ; Physicians. ; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria. ; China History 1937-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; Singapore. ; Venezuela. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Wenzhou Shi (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in 1958 in Austria. The physician Ernst Ritter describes his emigration to India and Shanghai in 1939. He was able to obtain a visa to India through the Austro-Indian Society, who conciliated physician exchanges to India. Ernst Ritter was offered a position as an assistant in a private hospital in Bombay. He left together with his wife for India via Denmark in April 1939. The British immigration office in Singapore regarded them as German spies and denied their visa for India. The only possibility for them was to go to Shanghai. Cultural differences and a high concentration of people in the city. With the help of a befriended Viennese physician he became a member of the Shanghai Medical Board. Network of German and Austrian refugee physicians and lawyers. Position in a hospital. Primitive circumstances. Confrontation with tropical illnesses. Fraud and crimes. Political tensions between China and Japan. Position in a Catholic missionary hospital in Wenchow, Central China, which was cut off from Shanghai due to the Japanese occupation of the coast. Confrontation with Trachom, the Egyptian eye disease and Bilharzia infection, an illness common among the Chinese rice-farmers. Orphanage of "unwanted female babies" at the missionary. Hygienic and nutrition insufficiencies among the Chinese inhabitants. Exit visa for Venezuela from his brother. Preparations for their immigration and language studies in Spanish. Journey to Venezuela via Japan and Los Angeles. Arrival in Caracas in September 1940. Difficulties in obtaining a position as a physician. In 1941 Ernst Ritter was offered the position of a "country physician" in Libertad in the Andes. Work under primitive circumstances in the midst of the jungle. Tropical climate and vegetation. Diseases due to nutrition insufficiencies. Confrontation with superstition and charlatans among the inhabitants. Position in Ospino and fight against a Malaria epidemic.
    Abstract: Position as a head physician at a rubber plantation in Orinocco in the midst of the tropical jungle. From 1945 to 1958 Ernst Ritter dedicated his work to the cure and research of the Bilharzia infection. He returned to Austria in 1958.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 50 pages : , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1956
    Keywords: Lessing, Adolf. ; Lessing, Anneliese. ; Lessing, Anton. ; Lessing, Fred. ; Lessing, Lydia. ; Lessing, Walter. ; Sack, Anneliese. ; Schwanenbach, Peter von. ; Struve, Amand von. ; Struve, Gustav von. ; Vitte, S. I︠U︡. ; Diplomats. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Industrialists. ; Railroads. ; Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. ; Soldiers. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Russia History 1880-1917. ; Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: History of father Anton's business activities in Russia, building railroads and factories; relationships with Russian and German businessmen and statesmen; education of son Walter in Germany; Walter's arrival in Russia 1904; eyewitness account of 1905 Revolution in St. Petersburg; work in father's factory in Kolomna; military service; business activities in Russia; business activities in Siberia; outbreak of war in 1914 in St. Petersburg; return to Oberlahnstein; World War I service as officer on eastern front (Bulgaria); service at embassy in Moscow in 1918 after armistice; witness to assasination of German ambassador Mirbach; survives assassination attempt on his own life; 1919 return to Berlin; work in ministry of war; participation in anti-revolutionary activities in Berlin: "Liga zum Schutz der deutschen Kultur"; post-war diplomatic and political activities; decision to settle in Berlin; Ludwig von Mies van der Rohe contracted to design house, but plan rejected by author; decision to move back to Oberlahnstein; reflections on fate of Germans living in Russia; brief account of inter-war, World War II, and post-war experiences.
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  • 7
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 23 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1951
    Keywords: Augspurg, Anita, ; Düwell, Wilhelm. ; Heymann, Gustava. ; Luxemburg, Rosa, ; Prager, Eugen. ; Zetkin, Klara, ; Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands. ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Spartakusbund (Germany) ; Unabhaengige Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Rote Fahne. ; Communism. ; Teachers. ; Labor unions. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women Political activity. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Soviet Union. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: At age 17, Frieda Duewell, became a member of Verband fuer Frauenstimmrecht led by Anita Augspurg and Gustava Heymann; Duewell left Jewish congregation and became Zionist; training and work as a teacher; in 1905 she became a member of the Social Democratic Party; 1906 she married the journalist Eugen Prager who worked for the Offenbacher Abendblatt; 1907 move to Cologne and later to Berlin; separation from Prager and dedication to working for the party, in part with Rosa Luxemburg; married Wilhelm Duewell in 1917; same year Frieda Duewell was founding member of left-wing splinter group, the Unabhaengige sozialdemokratische Partei (USPD); November 1918 to February 1919 work in newly founded newspaper "Rote Fahne", member of worker and soldier council (Arbeit und Soldaten Rat); later in 1919 work for newspaper "Die Freiheit"; 1921 travel to Moscow to founding meeting for international trade union (Gewerkschaftsinternationale, PROFINTERN) and meeting of international women's conference; subsequent travel through the Soviet Union; 1928 return to Berlin and work with the central committee of the Communist Party.
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  • 8
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 47 pages (single space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1949
    Former Title: Vom taetigen Leben
    Keywords: Heimann, Hugo, ; Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. ; Education. ; Jews Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Politicians ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1871-1918. ; Government ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; India Description and travel. ; Könitz (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Short family history; journey to India in 1893/94; political and educational activities (educational committee of the SPD; honorary citizen of Berlin (1926); persecution under Nazi rule and immigration to the USA.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 142 pages : , handwritten notebook (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1948
    Keywords: Charité (Hospital : Berlin, Germany) ; College teachers. ; Education, Higher. ; Hospitals. ; Physicians. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Son of Jewish grain dealer from Poland; primary and secondary education in Berlin; Jewish religious education; university studies in medicine in Heidelberg, Berlin, Tuebingen and Leipzig; assistant professor in Berlin; move to Frankfurt am Main and Strasbourg; journeys to France, Russia and America; work at Friedrichshain and Charité hospitals in Berlin.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , The paper collection contains an English summary.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 2 + 8 + 129 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Hitler, Adolf, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Nazis. ; Vintners. ; Voyages and travels. ; France Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Personal encounter with Adolf Hitler; mainly on general aspects of social and political changes in Nazi Germany; trip through Germany in 1938; experiences in Buchenwald concentration camp (summer 1938); November pogrom in Frankfurt am Main.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 26 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1939
    Keywords: Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Assimilation. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Merchants. ; Voyages and travels. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: School memories of Philanthropin in Frankfurt; business travels to several European countries; upper middle class life in Frankfurt/M; description of various articles in his import business; Christmas celebration in Jewish families.
    Abstract: Contains photocopies of "Einwohnermeldeamt" Frankfurt.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 38 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1936
    Keywords: Immigrants ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Zionism. ; Palestine Description and travel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Lecture on personal impressions during a visit to Palestine in early 1936. Berliner describes mostly the life of the German Jewish immigrants to Palestine.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 6 + 3 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1918
    Keywords: Artisans, Jewish. ; Banks and banking. ; Jews, German Country life. ; Jews, German Families. ; Textile industry. ; Voyages and travels. ; Aldingen (Remseck am Neckar, Germany) ; Ludwigsburg (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of Adolf Elsas's father Benedict who left his hometown Aldingen as a travelling artisan and settled in Ludwigsburg where he founded a weaving mill.
    Abstract: On Benedict Elsas and his wife Roesle, who was employed by the banker Kaulla.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: 'Skizze zum Elsas'schen Stammhaus' by Adolf Elsas
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: 'Das Roesle von Wankheim. Ein Familienbild aus dem Jahre 1861 im Elsas'schen Hause in Ludwigsburg' by Max Elsas
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  • 14
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 123 + 75 pages : , typescript (double space).
    Year of publication: 1910
    Keywords: Badt family. ; Badt & Co. ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jewish religious education. ; Merchants Biography. ; Voyages and travels. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1789-1900. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Silesia. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Louis Badt recounts in this memoir his childhood, his time serving in the military, and most of all his career as a merchant. He also recounts trips to Italy, France, Switzerland and Russia.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: written 1909/1910
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: written 1910
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 62 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1905
    Keywords: Silbergleit family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; College teachers. ; Families 19th century. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 Personal narratives. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1905. Recollections of the author's childhood in Breslau. Memories of her orthodox grandmother Lina Nothmann, who kept a strictly kosher household. Description of the different world of her parents' families in Gleiwitz. Her father came from a poor religious family, her mother was of more affluent heritage. Her parents were engaged in 1853 and got married in 1854. Anna was the fourth of five daughters. Her father was in the iron business and had connections in Poland and Vienna. Cultural life and literature. Recollections of author's uncle, the writer Ludwig Georg Silbergleit. Anna had private lessons in French and English. Recollections of the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). Trips to Switzerland and Italy. Descriptions of her family and her parents' circle of friends. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of the engagement of her older sisters Else with Willhelm Kauffmann. Marriage of her sister Marie with Richard Eppenstein. Engagement of her sister Grete with Adolf Friedenthal. Engagement of Anna Silbergleit with the physicist Felix Auerbach in 1883. They married the same year. Felix Auerbach was obliged to convert in order to be able to make career on university. In 1889 he was offered a position as professor in Jena.
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