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    [Memoirs of Henry Salfeld], (1978-1992)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 9 + 42 + 104 + 13 pages : , typescript +
    Additional Material: reproductions of documents and letters.
    Year of publication: 1978-1992
    Keywords: Adler, Fritz. ; Heimerdinger family. ; Heimerdinger, Leo. ; Heiming, Henry. ; Marxsohn, Richard. ; Neukirch, Carl. ; Salfeld family. ; Salfeld, Albert. ; Salfeld, Alice. ; Salfeld, Berthold. ; Salfeld, Erich. ; Salfeld, Henry. ; Salfeld, Ludwig. ; Salfeld, Siegmund. ; Antisemitism. ; Courtship. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jewish families Genealogy. ; Rabbis. ; Reform Judaism. ; Universities and colleges ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 20th century. ; New York (N.Y.) ; Wiesbaden (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Anecdotes concerning experienced anti-Semitism at universities; outbreak of World War I; death of father; memories of student days at University of Munich; French occupation of Wiesbaden; account of Nazi boycott of April 1, 1933 in Wiesbaden.
    Abstract: Account of arrival in USA in 1933; relationships with African-Americans; life in New York; attempts to find employment; death of family members in Holocaust; emigration of mother to USA; reflections on Jewish religion and Jewish identity; membership in various Jewish organizations.
    Abstract: Geneology of Salfeld family; rabbinical career of Siegmund Salfeld; childhood memories growing up in Wiesdbaden; lives of father and mother; father's medical practice in Wiesbaden; death of father; siblings; death of sister and her family in Holocaust; geneology of Heimerdinger family; Gymnasium; social activities as teenager in Wiesbaden; Jewish life in Wiesbaden and anti-Semitism; university study of law at Munich; life in Munich; study at Leipzig; study at Frankfurt; experience of inflation of 1923 and French occupation; work as lawyer in Frankfurt; relationionships with women; engagement and marriage to wife; loss of job following Nazi seizure of power; emigration to USA in 1933.
    Description / Table of Contents: Little stories from the past
    Description / Table of Contents: In U.S.A.
    Description / Table of Contents: The past
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    [Max Knight's Lebenserinnerungen], (1909-1991)
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    Pages: 8 + 1,007 , synopsis; typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1909-1991
    Keywords: Propper family. ; Kühnel family. ; University of California, Berkeley. ; Universität Wien. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1938. ; Intermarriage. ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish press. ; Jewish refugees. ; Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- ) ; World War, 1939-1945 Military life. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Austria. ; Australia Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Shanghai (China) Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The typescript is richly interwoven with photocopies of photographs and original documents.
    Abstract: Reflections on career as editor at University of California Press; family geneology; lives of father and mother; birth in Pilsen; move to Vienna in 1910; school experiences; first publications; studied law at University of Vienna; published stories in journals and newspapers; relationships with various women; graduation with law degree; publishing of stories in London newspaper; internship as law clerk; emigration to England in 1938; emigree acquaintances in London; more writing for newspapers in London; job with the Jewish Chronicle; continued publication of stories in Germany under pseudonyms; story of brother's life; emigration of parents to England; diary written in Shanghai describing trip from England to Shanghai; voyage to Canada; train trip across Canada; boat trip to Shanghai via Japan; tour of Japan; description of arrival in Shanghai; work at newspaper in Shanghai and teaching English at University of Shanghai; emigration to USA in 1941; emigration of parents to USA; life in San Francisco; marriage to Charlotte Lowes; trips through United States; death of brother Otto in Australia; work as research assistant at Hoover Institution; graduate study in Political Science at University of California - Berkeley; letter from Harry Freud from Berlin 1945; letter from father Bernhard Kuehnel concerning restitution; letters to and from the writer Ernst Lothar.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Fabrizius, Peter; Fabry, Joseph; Freud, Harry; Freud, Sigmund; Friese, Ernst; Garrett, Joan; Gombrich, Ernst; Hoffer, Grete; Hoffer, Richa; Hoover Institution; Knight, Charlotte; Knight, Martin; Knight, Tony; Kuehnel, Bernhard; Kuehnel, Grete; Kuehnel, Margarethe; Kuehnel, Max; Kuehnel, Otto; Lieban, Ralph; Oppenheimer, Max; Propper, Laura; Rothschild, Lionel de; Sachs, Emmy; Schwarz family; Schwarz, Arthur; Schwarz, Kurt; Siebel, Max; Storfer, A. J.
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 23: parts 1-4
    Description / Table of Contents: MM2 reel 24: parts 5-6
    Note: Available on microfilm , English with German and Chinese , Synopsis in file
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    Felix Deutsch Collection, (1977-1983)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 1 folder : , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1977-1983
    Former Title: Lebenserinnerungen.
    Keywords: Deutsch, Felix, ; Rathenau, Emil, ; Electric industries. ; Industrialists Biography. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: A dossier from the archives of AEG about the company’s founder, Felix Deutsch. Included are correspondence; biographical notes; index of names; family tree; clippings, etc.
    Abstract: Also included is the transcript of Felix Deutsch’s autobiography, ”Lebenserinnerungen” in 17 chapters.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Vignettes of my Life : [1899-1979] (1979)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 98 pages (double space) : , 98 pages (double space) : , bound typescript. , Typewritten manuscript (bound)
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Freud, Martin. ; Flöge, Emilie Louise, ; Freud, Ernestine Drucker. ; Freud, Anna, ; Freud, Sigmund, ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Mädchenlyzeum der Frau Dr. Phil. Eugenie Schwarzwald (Vienna, Austria) viaf. ; Divorce. ; National socialism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Actors. ; Lawyers. ; Speech therapists. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; Casablanca (Morocco) ; France. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1979 in the United States. Esti Freud was the first born daughter of a Viennese Jewish lawyer. Her mother was a passionate singer whose career was prevented by her early marriage. Childhood memories and recollection of summer vacations. Confusion of religious identity due to her pious Catholic nanny. Private tutoring and attending "Schwarzwaldschule", a highly esteemed girl's school. Her plans to study at university were inhibited by her mother, who feared her to become hunchbacked. Instead she was offered speech lessons to become an actress. Outings to the mountains with her father. Confrontation with stereotypical perceptions of a young woman's reputation. Outbreak of World War One. Volunteering as a nurse. Recollections of the flow of refugees in Vienna and the scarceness of food. Various public poetry recitation in Vienna and Prague. Courtship and marriage to Martin Freud. Recollections of the Freud family and the "Herr Professor" Freud himself. Difficulties to start a household in postwar Austria. Martin, who had studied law, obtained a position as a clerk in a bank. Difficulties of married life. Birth of her children Walter (1921) and Sophie (1924). Starting a career in speech therapy. Training at the clinic for speech and voice disorders of Dr. Froeschel. Memories of the worker's uprise in 1927. Position as a lecturer in speech therapy at the Vienna University in 1932. Political instability due to the rise of fascism in Europe. "Anschluss" in 1938 and the sudden reality of Nazi terror. Preparation to emigrate. Estrangement and separation from her husband. The Freud family left for England, whereas Esti and her daughter emigrated to France. New life in Paris. German occupation of France. Esti and her daughter Sophie escaped to Casablanca. Emigration to the United States and starting a new career in New York.
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    Ein verlorenes Jahrzehnt. Shanghai 1939-1949 : Tagebuchblaetter eines Heimatvertriebenen (1979)
    Chicago :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 244 , typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Dachau (Concentration camp) ; College teachers. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Translators. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Shanghai (China) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1951. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Description of November Pogrom 1938 in Vienna, imprisonment in Dachau, emigration to Shanghai via Italy. Inserts his reminiscences of World War I when he was a prisoner of war in Siberia (and returned to Shanghai). Jewish life in Shanghai during World War II. Foundation of the New Gregg School of Business in Hongkew (1941), later Gregg School; ghettoization by Japanese, and of the war and question of repatriation; failures of attempts of direct emigration to the USA; return to a DP camp in Austria and then immigration to the USA.
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    Apropos Erinnerungen. (1979)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 27 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1979
    Keywords: Stahl, Heinrich, ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden. ; Draft ; Economic assistance, Domestic ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Social conditions. ; Lawyers. ; Students. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Military service in World War I; university education and student organizations; Revolution of 1918-1919; as lawyer in Berlin during Weimar years; loss of work under Nazi rule; social welfare activities of Berlin Jewish community during Nazi years; financial scandal of Iwria-Bank; immigration to USA.
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    Life in a changing world : [1910-1975]. (1978)
    New York,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 136 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1978
    Keywords: Actors. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Families. ; Pianists. ; Theater 1918-1933. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cologne (Germany) ; Magdeburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1978 in New York. Recollections of the author's childhood in Cologne. Hilda Albersheim was the youngest and overly protected daughter of four. Her father was a physician, who had his practice in the spacious house of the family near the center of Cologne. Description of the large household of the well-to-do family, including a governess, a chauffeur, a cook and two maids, as well as the weekly laundry woman and two seamstresses, who sew dresses for mother and Hilda. Memories of Easter celebrations. Salon of her aunt Emma, who had famous guests such as the conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler and the pianist Edwin Fischer. The family valued cultural activities highly, and the children were introduced to operas at an early age. Each of the children had piano lessons. Hilda was sent to a private school. She grew up never exposed to politics and did not know of her Jewish origin until the second year of school. Summer vacations in the mountains and at her cousins in Den Hague. Recollections of World War One and its aftermath. Hilda was enrolled in the newly established Girl's Gymnasium in Cologne. After graduation, during the peak of inflation times, she was assigned for a homemaking school in Rothenburg, where she was confronted with antisemitism for the first time. Skiing trips in the mountains. Hilda had a passion for theatre from an early age on. Her father especially opposed the idea, as he feared the vicissitudes of the profession. Fencing lessons at the club of university students. Private instructions from an assistant of Max Reinhardt. Engagement at the Salzburg Reinhardt Festival in "Jedermann" ["Everyman"], where she was among famous actors such as Alexander Moissi. Apprenticeship at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Encounter with the famous Russian-Jewish theatre troupe "Habima" during an engagement in Constance. Solidarity and intrigues among actors.
    Abstract: Rise of national socialism. Dismissal of the Jewish theater director and growing awareness of the political threat in Germany. Rejection of further engagements. Affidavit from her brother in New York, who had recognized the danger of National Socialism in time. Emigration to the United States in 1933, where Hilda Albers-Frank worked as a piano teacher and music therapist after a brief career in acting.
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    Erinnerung und Dialog. (1977)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 106 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1977
    Keywords: Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Noam, Ernst. ; Nussbaum, Max. ; Grumbach, Robert. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Lawyers. ; Socialism. ; Universities and colleges. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Hanau (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1934. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: This is an edited (incomplete) transcript of oral history interviews with Ernst Noam (Nussbaum), conducted with his wife Lotte Noam and their children in Switzerland and in the United States, 1976-77.
    Abstract: Memories of Ernst Nussbaum's childhood in a well-to-do Jewish family in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main. His father Max Nussbaum was a lawyer. Recollections of the outbreak of World War One. His father served as a sergeant in the German army. Shortage of food and memories of air raids. Erst Nussbaum grew up in an assimilated and liberal environment. His great-uncle, the lawyer Robert Grumbach, was a Socialist, who had a great impact on him. Different world of his orthodox paternal grandparents in Fulda. His grandfather Levy Nussbaum was parness in the synagogue. Nussbaum family history going back to the 17th century in the Frankfurter Judengasse. Recollections of the Jewish community and local politics in Hanau, where Max Nussbaum, the author's father, was the leader of liberal party. Vacations with his younger sister Hilde at the Jewish children's home of Gertrud Feiertag in Norderney. Recollections of the murder of Walter Rathenau in 1922. Relations between Jewish and non-Jewish pupils in the Gymnasium (high school). Experience with antisemitism. Exclusion from the student dance formation "Schillerkraenzchen". Members of the pre-Nazi organization "Jungsturm" among the students. Encounter with Zionism and establishment of Zionist youth group ("Juedischer Wanderbund") together with Ernst Loewenstein in Hanau. Outings at the weekends. Influence of Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld. Studies of law at the universities in Frankfurt, Geneva, Freiburg, Hamburg and Berlin. Zionist student organizations. Cultural activities. After the Nazi take-over in 1933 Ernst Nussbaum went to Paris. He emigrated to Palestine in 1934, where he was reunited with his family.
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    My first fifty years. (1976)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 16 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Levinger, Bill. ; Jewish women. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Lawyers. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Panama Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Life of a German Jewish woman. During World War I she abandoned her studies and worked in a "Kriegskindergarten." In 1915, when the day care closed down, she finished school and passed her "Abitur." After the war, she studied law in Marburg and Bern/Switzerland and then moved to Berlin where she married and had children. In 1937, she emigrated to England, where, in 1940, her husband was interned as an enemy alien. They left England via Panama, Guatemala and Mexico for the United States.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file, 1998
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    Retrospect and reflections : (My life and my times). (1976)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 275 + 19 pages (double space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Goldstein, Elsa Ruth (née Oppenheimer) ; Mosbacher, I.Z. ; Antisemitism. ; Economists. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Merchants. ; Music Instruction and study. ; Outfitting industry. ; Universities and colleges. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Aachen (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Munich (Germany) ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States History 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Kurt Goldstein, completed in 1976, including information on his grandparents; his childhood and his secular, Jewish and musical education in Nuremberg; World War I; his experience with anti-Semitism in the 1920s; his university studies and his studies in England; his apprenticeship of the production of cloth in Aachen; and his joining the family's business in 1929. Recollections of political, social and cultural life in Weimar Germany; the increasingly difficult situation after 1933 in Stuttgart; a trip to Palestine in 1935; his imprisonment after the 1938 November Pogrom; his emigration to the United States via England; his life, diverse jobs and business enterprises in Buffalo; his courtship and marriage to Elsa; and their family life and children.
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    Wehmut ums Westend : Jugenderinnerungen eines alten Frankfurters (1976)
    Pleasantville, N.Y. :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 134 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Blum, Ferdinand. ; Ehrlich, Paul, ; Rudolf, Max, ; Salfeld family. ; Schweitzer, Albert, ; Education, Higher 1918-1933. ; Feminism. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Manners and customs. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Physicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1945- ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Hans Salfield, written in 1976, including information on his mother's upbringing and her family: feminist and social activities of his eccentric grandmother; nostalgic reminiscences on his childhood and youth in a well-to-do Jewish family in the Frankfurt Westend; nannies and tutors in French and piano; growing up in an assimilated Jewish society; interesting observations on social conventions, cultural norms and gender relations; outstanding personalities of the Frankfurt Westend; description of family members; early interest in medicine; encounter with Albert Schweitzer; recollections of World War I and the aftermath of the revolution; humanistic high school education (Gymnasium); excursions in the mountains (Sonnwendfeier); memories of his first romantic involvements; medical studies in Bonn, Koeln and Freiburg; student life and encounters with male and female colleagues; research on the Salfeld family heritage reaching back to the 18th and 19th century; reflecting on the ambivalence highly assimilated Jewish conservatives faced in the course of political changes in Germany; bewilderment and shock due to the circumstances and consequences of the Nazi take-over in 1933; difficulties finishing his studies with Jewish professors disappearing and Jewish students expelled from the university; graduation without permission to practice his profession; friends and family members leaving the country; emigration to the United States in 1934; difficult start as a physician in New York; disappearance of the Westend world of his childhood days.
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    Reflexions on my life and related matters. (1976)
    1976 :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 15 pages : , private printing.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Charité (Hospital : Berlin, Germany) ; College teachers. ; Hospitals Employees. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Physicians. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Military service in World War I; university studies in Munich; medical career at the Charité Hospital in Berlin; persecutions after 1933; immigraton and life in USA.
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    Dear Family : Memoirs (1976)
    Flushing :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: approximately 585 pages : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1976
    Keywords: Schönbach family. ; Magnus family. ; Children. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 20th century. ; Jews, East European. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Social workers. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; Munster, France (Haut-Rhin) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Tel Aviv (Israel) ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Ten volumes of Lotte Fairbrook's memoirs, covering 1792-1938:
    Abstract: Childhood and background; adolescence and young womanhood; married life in Germany; five years in four countries.; the first years in the United States of America.
    Abstract: Addenda: Update of the first volume, Childhood and background.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 1-11
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: Part I: Childhood and background, chapters 12-17
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 1-5
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: Part II: Adolescence and young womanhood, chapters 6-14
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 1-10
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 11-15
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: Part III: Married life in Germany, chapters 16-23
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 1-7
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 8-18
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 10: Part IV: From one Promised Land to another, chapters 19-24
    Note: Available on microfilm and on CDROM , MM2 reel 21: parts 1-2 , MM2 reel 22: parts 3-5 , English
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    Ferne Erinnerungen aus meiner Kindheit und Jugend und Alter. (1975)
    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: German
    Pages: 123 + 75 + 205 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Amann, Dora (née Israel), ; Amann, Paul, ; Israel family. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Children. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Families. ; Jews Persecution 1938-1945. ; Music. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France. ; United States. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Dora Amann including family history reaching back to her grandparents, recollection of her childhood in Vienna, and information on her own and her brother's schooling, on changing family customs, on her musical education, on World War I, on antisemitism and political life in Europe before and during Nazi rule, on the fate of the different family members, on her emigration to France and to the United States via Lisbon, and on her life in America.
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    [Lebenserinnerungen], (1915-1975)
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    Language: German
    Pages: 9 volumes : , Handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1915-1975
    Former Title: [Diary and Memoirs]
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Education, Secondary 1871-1918. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish merchants. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Austria Emigration and immigration 1936. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Głubczyce (Poland) ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1939. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Koenigshuette and Leobschuetz, Silesia; primary and secondary education; Bar Mitzwah in secularized family; apprenticeship in father's store; military service in World War I; marriage and family life; moving business in Breslau; president of Breslau "oddfellow order"; politics in Weimar Germany; travels and voyages; persecution after 1933; emigration to Austria; November pogrom of 1938 in Vienna; emigration to England and life in USA.
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 1: 1915 - 1941, 170 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 2: 1941 - 1945, 312 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 3: 1945 - 1950, 300 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 4: 1950 - 1951, 179 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 5: 1951 - 1958, 180 pages:
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 6: 1958 - 1964, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 7: 1965 - 1968, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 8: 1968 - 1972, 252 pages
    Description / Table of Contents: Volume 9: 1972 - 1975, 114 pages
    Note: Available on microfilm , MM 129: Band 1-3 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , MM 130: Band 4-9 meiner Lebenserinnerungen , German
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    Hugo Carl Plaut. (1975)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 69 + 125 pages (double space) : , typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Former Title: H.C. Plaut
    Keywords: Oppenheim family Genealogy. ; Plaut, Gustav, ; Plaut, Hugo Carl, ; Universität Hamburg. ; Jewish communities ; Alcoholism. ; Antisemitism. ; Bankers. ; Biologists. ; Clinical medicine. ; College teachers. ; Depression. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Physicians. ; Revolution, 1918-1919. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Leipzig (Germany) ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biography of Hugo Carl Plaut, written by his daughter, Rahel Liebeschuetz:
    Abstract: Vol. 1 inculdes family history reaching back to Herz Cusel Plaut from Reichensachsen in Prussia and to the family Oppenheim in Leipzig and Hamburg; description of Hugo Carl Plaut's childhood and schooling in Leipzig; his training in agriculture near Arnstadt and in Jena; his studies in veterinary science, botany, and medicine at the university in Leipzig; antisemitism in Leipzig; Hugo Plaut's marriage with Adele Brach and details on her background.
    Abstract: Vol. 2 includes information on his work as a mykologist and bacteriologist at the Hygienische Institut in Leipzig; his medical practice; his involvement against acoholism and antisemitism; his move to Hamburg; his depression; his activities in the Jewish community especially in relation to refugees from Eastern Europe and Jewish education; his experience during World War I and the revolution in Hamburg; and his career as a professor at the university in Hamburg. Also included is a family tree.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: 1858-1890
    Description / Table of Contents: Part II: 1890-1928
    Note: Part I has a handwritten dedication: “Dr. Robert Weltsch verehrungsvoll gewidmet von Rahel Liebeschütz, geb. Plaut. Dez. 1975.“ , Available on microfilm
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    65 Years devoted to the study and practice of medicine / (1975)
    New York :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 82 pages (double space) : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Offenbacher, Kurt. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Physicians. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in Fuerth in orthodox atmosphere; university studies (medicine) in Erlangen, Wuerzbug, Strasbourg, Munich and Berlin; among his teachers were Konrad Roentgen and Rudolf Virchow; medical officer in World War I; work in Jewish Hospital Berlin under Prof. Hermann Strauss and return to Fuerth; mostly on professional career as physician; immigration to USA; beginnings of new life in New York where he practiced as a physician until the age of 84; epilogue contains reflections on world history and memory of the author's departed son Kurt.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    [Plague in the city of Breslau] : [Introduction to memoirs of a life in Breslau] (1975)
    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
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    Language: English
    Pages: 11 , photocopies of manuscript.
    Year of publication: 1975
    Keywords: Tausk, Walter, ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Diaries. ; Soldiers. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Manuscripts.
    Abstract: This is a partial translation of a Polish introduction to the diaries of Walter Tausk, held at the University of Wroclaw in Poland. The diaries are available on microfilm MF 359 at the LBI Archives.
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