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  • 1
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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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  • 2
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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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  • 3
    Pages: 92 + 160 , handwritten manuscript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1920-1970
    Former Title: Diaries April 1917 - January 1920.
    Keywords: Prisoners of war. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Report of a German soldier's internment in France during WW I. The author wrote it in German after his liberation and translated it into English 50 years later.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: German
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: English
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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  • 4
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 614 pages : , typescript (carbon copy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Sternthal family. ; Tachau family. ; Tachau, Paul. ; Tachau, Ilse (née Sternthal) ; Jüdischer Kulturbund. ; Philanthropin (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; Samsonschule (Wolfenbüttel, Germany) ; Education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Physicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; United States Emigration and immigration. ; Wolfenbüttel (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history of Tachau, Frankenstein, Seckel, Herxheimer, Loewenstein and Sternthal families.
    Abstract: Among ancestors were Rabbi Salomon Herxheimer, professor Levy Rubens and Julius von Reuter; author's father, Ludwig Tachau, was a teacher at the Philantropin school in Frankfurt am Main and became the director of the Samson school in Wolfenbuettel in 1888; childhood in Wolfenbuettel; primary and secondary education; university studies in Goettingen, Freiburg, Berlin and Heidelberg; activities as musician; experiences as young physician in Zurich and Strasbourg; military service in World War I; marriage and move to Braunschweig and Breslau; return to Wolfenbuettel; recreational travels to Switzerland and Italy; persecution of Jews after 1933; anti-Jewish boycott of April 1933; ousted from the Society of Natural Science in Braunschweig shortly after being reelected as its president in March 1933; playing in string quartet of the "Juedischer Kulturbund" in Hanover; emigration to USA; career as physician in USA; contains reviews of publications and numerous photos of Sternthal and Tachau families (19th and 20th centuries) and of Samson school in Wolfenbuettel.
    Note: Available on memoir microfilm reels # 76, 77 , English
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 82 pages (1 1/2 space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Stein, Herbert. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Antisemitism. ; Children. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Home economics. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Women authors. ; Munich (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939-1945. ; Wolfratshausen (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written in the United Sates. Charlotte Stein-Pick was growing up in Munich, Germany. Memories of Shabbat evenings in her family. Close relationship with her Catholic nanny. Celebration of Christmas and Hanukkah. Recollections of anti-Semitic experiences in her childhood. Summer vacations in the rural surroundings of Munich. Outbreak of World War One. Desolation of post-war Germany and rising anti-Semitism. Acquaintance with her future-husband Herbert Stein. Cultural life in Munich. Friendship with Christians. Rising Nazi movement and Hitler's take-over in 1933. House searches by the Gestapo. Charlotte Stein-Pick was the director of the Jewish home-economics school in Wolfratshausen from 1932-1938. Encounters with Nazi persecution during her life in Nazi Germany. Activities in the "Juedischer Frauenbund" and relief work in the Polish Jewish community in Munich. Death of her father in 1937. Terror of the November pogrom night in 1938. Imprisonment of Charlotte's husband Dr. Stein in the Dachau concentration camp. Release of her husband and fervent preparation to leave the country. Immigration to the USA via France in August 1939. Turbulences due to the outbreak of the war. After various interventions finally able to board the ship "Aquitania" from Southampton, England to the United States. Difficulties of a new start. Epilogue: Journey to Germany in 1951.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 6
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 3 + 149 pages : , bound mimeographs.
    Year of publication: 1959-1964
    Keywords: Mühsam, Erich, ; Mühsam, Hans. ; Silbergleit, Arthur, ; Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft. ; Antisemitism. ; Authors. ; Education, Higher. ; Lawyers. ; Jewish families ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Red Cross and Red Crescent. ; Students' societies. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Brandenburg (Germany) ; Chemnitz (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Görlitz (Görlitz, Germany) ; Israel. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Zittau (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history: father opened clothing store in Brandenburg; bankruptcy and move to Chemnitz where father opened shoe store; visits to uncle in Luebeck; helps in his father's store; move to Zittau (Saxony); description of small orthodox Jewish community of Zittau; anti-Semitism in school; limits of social integration of Jews; Christmas celebration at home; university studies in Freiburg, Munich and Leipzig; Max Weber among his professors; member of "Sozial-wissensschaftliche Vereinigung" and the primarily Jewish student fraternity "Thuringia"; his cousins, the writer and anarchist Erich Muehsam, and the Zionist Hans Muehsam; apprenticeship as lawyer in Mittenwalde; lawyer in Goerlitz; Jewish community of Goerlitz; moves only in Jewish circles; beginnings of his literary career; with beginning of World War I Muehsam became pacifist; in "Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft" and International Red Cross; encounters with Else Lasker-Schueler, Martin Buber and Stefan Zweig; Revolution of 1918-19 and political events of Weimar Germany; after World War I considered himself primarily a writer; literary circles of Weimar Germany; friendship with the writer Arthur Silbergleit; emigration and life in Palestine; last volume on death of his wife and continuation of literary work in Israel.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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  • 7
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 309 pages (single space) : , bound typescript; illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1964
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Shipping companies (Marine transportation) ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes his childhood in Breslau, his experiences as a German officer during World War I, his business career as a shipowner, his arrest upon his arrival in Germany in 1937 and the time in prison; his founding of the American Banner Lines in the USA.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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  • 8
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    [Pottstown] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 95 + 16 pages : , typescripts (photocopies) +
    Additional Material: clippings
    Year of publication: 1963
    Former Title: [Memoirs].
    Keywords: Freund, Samuel, ; Tänzer, Aron, ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover. ; Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau, Germany) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jews, East European ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Rabbis. ; Teachers. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Hannover (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Sermons. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs touch upon the authors experiences as a young soldier during World War I; description of his studies; description of religious life in the Hannover Jewish community; tasks as rabbi and teacher; description of synagogue service. A special section in folder 3 describes “Kristallnacht” with the destruction of the Hannover Synagogue and his arrest.
    Abstract: Also included in folder 1 is the draft for a treatise about the essence of Judaism and of its responsibilities as an organized religion, as experienced during the author’s residence in Hannover, Germany before the Holocaust. Folder 4 holds copies of original documents and clippings.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1: Beitrag zu einer Geistesgeschichte der juedischen Gemeinde in Hannover : Einleitung; undated
    Description / Table of Contents: 2: Zwoelf Jahre vor der Zerstoerung der Synagoge in Hannover. Persoenliche Erinnerungen von Rabbiner Dr. Emil Schorsch
    Description / Table of Contents: 3: Wie es zum Ende kam : Erinnerungen an die “Kristallnacht” vom 9. zum 10. November 1938 in Hannover
    Description / Table of Contents: 4: Documents, clippings
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    1963 :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Bernhard, Max. ; Dessauer, Carl Emmanuel. ; Dessauer, Sigmund. ; Ehrlich, Fritz. ; Federlein, Max. ; Gerst, Otto. ; Haas, Ernest. ; Heidenheimer family. ; Hessberg, Max. ; Kahn, Otto. ; Lessing, Fred. ; Morgenroth family. ; Morgenroth, Alice. ; Morgenroth, Ludwig. ; Morgenroth, Max. ; Morgenroth, Sigmund. ; Rosenstern, Otto. ; Salomon, Felix. ; Scharlach, Robert. ; Warburg, Paul M. ; Warburg, Max M., ; Hops industry. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jewish merchants. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Bamberg (Germany) ; Germany History 1789-1918. ; Germany History 20th century. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; New York (N.Y.) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history: description of father's business selling hops; memories of childhood in Bamberg; move to Leipzig to study at Handelshochschule; apprenticeship in Hamburg; work in Hamburg at export-import firm; work in New York; return to Bamberg to work in father's hops business; death of father; return to Hamburg to work in export-import business; outbreak of World War I; move to Berlin after war; marriage.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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  • 10
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    Astoria :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 321 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1963
    Keywords: Friedrichs, Ilse. ; Friedrichs, Rudolf. ; Actors. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish physicians. ; Jewish refugees ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Shanghai (China) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Theodor Friedrichs, written in 1963 in German, including the travel log of his sister Emmi when she emigrated from Germany to Shanghai via the Soviet Union and recollections by Theodor Friedrichs of Jewish life in Nazi Germany, of his son Rudi Friedrichs being sent to England where he became an actor, of Theodor Friedrichs' emigration to Shanghai by boat from Genua, of his experience as a physician in Shanghai, of musical and Jewish life in Shanghai, of conditions in Shanghai during World War II, of his emigration to the United States, of his experience in California, and of his opening a medical practice in Astoria NY in 1949.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Copy on MF 54 , German
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Pages: 95 pages. (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (bound photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Keywords: Königshöfer, Meier, ; Child welfare. ; Jewish leadership. ; Jewish merchants. ; Orphanages. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Soldiers 1871-1914. ; Textile industry. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in orthodox Jewish atmosphere of Fuerth orphanage; military service; orthodox Jewish life in Fuerth; World War I; emigration and life in Palestine. Contains drawings of the author, introduction by his grandson M. Kohn (English), speech at his 80th birthday, obituaries of his daughter and his wife, and obituary of the author by M. Kohn (Hebrew)
    Note: Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 219 , Available on microfilm , German , English , Hebrew
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  • 12
    Pages: 17 + 3 + 65 + 177 , typescripts (copies).
    Year of publication: 1946-1962
    Keywords: Blumenfeld, Kurt, ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Zionism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Bolivia Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Canada Emigration and immigration 1950. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Palestine. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Biographies: Primary and secondary education in Koenigsberg; apprenticeship in wood business; military service; independent sawmill business in Eastern Prussia; military service in World War I; second part mainly on friends and employees and their changes after 1933; emigration and life in Bolivia.
    Abstract: The letter to the Zionist leader Kurt Blumenfeld concerns economic reconstruction of Palestine; memories of common experiences in Germany.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Typescript 'Etwas ueber Schema und Zukunft der Wirtschaft, und unsere spaeteren Anlagemoeglichkeiten' (Economic plan for future of Palestine, 17 p.) and a letter to Kurt Blumenfeld; 1946
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Typescript (German) 'Biography Complete to Armistice 1918', Gibsons (Canada), 65 p.; 1962
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Typescript (German) 'Biography to the End of the Stay in Sucre', Gibsons (Canada), 177 p.; 1956
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , see also AR 6846 (audio)
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  • 13
    Language: German
    Pages: 19 + 13 pages : , manuscript + transcript. +
    Additional Material: 11 pages typescript + clippings.
    Year of publication: 1919-1962
    Former Title: Lebenserinnerungen
    Keywords: Butchers (Persons) ; Country life. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Jews Social life and customs 19th century. ; Pharmacists. ; Shehitah. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Butchers. ; Heilbronn (Germany) ; Strasbourg (France) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Maier Rosenthaler’s memoirs (original handwritten manuscript + typed transcript), written during the ceasefire following WW I in Strasbourg; January 1919:
    Abstract: Rural Jewish life in Wuerttemberg; unsuccessful search for employment as ritual slaughterer in Frankfurt am Main; return to Heilbronn as ritual slaughterer and butcher; providing good education for seven children; one son became editor-in-chief of the "Strassburger Neue Zeitung"; Strasbourg in World War I.
    Abstract: Also included are memoirs by his son Leopold (childhood in rural Jewish atmosphere; education and apprenticeship as a pharmacist) and Leopold Rosenthaler's obituary.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Rosenthaler, Leopold : Lebenserinnerungen, Heilbronn, 1920, 11 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen, geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, handwritten manuscript, 19 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Rosenthaler, Maier : Meine Lebenserinnerungen geschrieben in Strassburg waehrend des Waffenstillstands im Januar 1919, typed transcript, 13 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Offprint: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Leopold Rosenthaler, 1875-1962 , in: Schweizerische Apotheker-Zeitung 100 (1962), pages 577-583.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Language: German
    Pages: 25 pages (single space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1962
    Former Title: Slonim 1916-1917.
    Keywords: Jews ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Slonim (Belarus) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Describes his experiences as a "Landsturmmann" in Belarus, concentrating on a period of two and a half months working in the municipal government of Slonim:
    Abstract: Delighted about bed with linen, etc. Assistant to “Hauptmann”. Helping with budget. Gets money for indebted “Chewra”. Slonim, according to census, has a population of 11,899 persons, of which 10,450 are Jews. There are a movie theater; two “Konditoreien”; a Russian, a Polish and eight Jewish schools; one municipal and one Jewish hospital; four Jewish cemeteries. Frequent transmission of epidemics (typhus, spotted fever) due to poverty. Founding of soup kitchen; disinfection; sewing roo to repair clothes. Transport of people to have them work in the woods is seen as slavery. Surprising dismissal of Block without explanation.
    Abstract: Also included are 3 picture postcards of Slonim and a Chanukah celebration in Baranowitschi.
    Note: Available on microfilm
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 23 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bach, Albert. ; Bach family. ; Baeck, Leo, ; Fleischhacker, Suse. ; Mayer, Ruth. ; Mayer family. ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher. ; Jewish families. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Journalists. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Women authors. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Neustadt an der Weinstrasse (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961. Recollection of the author's childhood in Neustadt, Palatinate. Her parents owned large vineyards. Description of harvest work. Early death of her mother. Relationship with her grandparents. Bertha was enrolled in the "Hoehere Toechterschule" (school for girls). Private piano and French lessons. Afterwards Bertha Bach was sent to a boarding school in Brussels for two years. Engagement with Albert Bach in 1900. Honeymoon to Switzerland, France and Italy. Move to Stuttgart, where the couple acquired a 7-room apartment. Birth of their sons Hans in 1902 and Rudi in 1904. Bertha Bach founded a sisterhood of the Bnei Brith Lodge in Stuttgart and became head of the South German section. Outbreak of World War One. Bertha volunteered at the Red Cross. Food shortages. Bar mitzvah of her sons. Description of her children's studies at university and their careers. Hans Bach became editor and a journalist at the Jewish newspaper "Der Morgen. He married his colleague Suse Fleischhacker in 1938. Wedding ceremony by Dr. Leo Baeck. Rudi Bach spent some years in the United States and South America. He married Ruth Mayer in 1929. Increasing anti-Jewish regulations in Nazi Germany. Rudi and Hans Bach emigrated to Palestine with their families. Terror of the November pogrom in 1938, when Bertha's husband was taken to a concentration camp. Release and emigration to Palestine in February 1939. Cultural difference and modest beginning of a new life. Death of her husband in 1942. Bertha Bach left for the United States via England in 1947, where she joined her children who had emigrated earlier.
    Note: English , Synopsis in file
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    Language: German
    Pages: 81 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Geiger, Hermann ; Geiger, Rudolf. ; Geiger family. ; Kullmann family ; Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Composers. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945. ; Musicians. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs were written in 1961 in the United States. Genealogical background of the Kullmann and Geiger families going back to the 15th and 16th century in Frankfurt/Main. Her father's sister Elise St. Goer, nee Kullmann was one of the first feminists in Germany. Early discovery of Rosy Kullmann's musical talents. Sunday outings with the family. Catholic nanny who contributed to the confusion of her religious identity. Journey to Innsbruck and Switzerland with her parents. Death of her father in 1899. Rosy was granted piano lessons with Carl Friedberg, who had started his career as a student of Clara Schumann. Concert evenings of Hugo Wolf. First compositions of Rosy Kullmann at age 13. Summer vacations with her mother in Madonna di Campiglio and in the Black Forrest. Private English lessons. Remarriage of her mother and birth of her half-sister Erna Levy. Rosy was enrolled at the higher-daughter's "Elisabethinenschule" in Frankfurt. The first performance of one of Rosy Kullmann's compositions took place in 1902. Friendship with Willy Dreyfus and the young composer Max Wolff. Various concerts visits in Frankfurt. Summer vacations with relatives in England. Voice lessons with Margarete Dessof. Studies with Carl Schuricht. Engagement and marriage with Dr. Rudolf Geiger, grandson of Dr. Abraham Geiger, in 1906. Genealogy of the Geiger and Auerbach family. Birth of their son Hermann in 1907. Military service of the author's husband and his brother during World War One. Continuation of the musical career of Rosy Geiger-Kullmann. Compositions to poems by Hans Muehlestein. Birth of her daughter Ruth in 1914. Teaching position during World War One. Musical talent of her son Hermann, who became a musical stage director for operas. 1916 performance of Geiger-Kullmann's first orchestral compositions with Carl Schuricht in Wiesbaden. Work on her first operas and the oratorio "Moses".
    Abstract: Rising of National Socialism and increasing of anti-Jewish laws. Establishment of the Jewish "Tonkuenstler-Verein" by Arthur Holde. Continuation of her compositions and several performances by the "Kulturbund" in various synagogues. Night of the November pogrom 1938 and arrest of her husband Rudolf Geiger. Affidavits from their relatives in New York and release of her husband. Emigration to the USA via Cuba in April of 1939. Arrival in New York in September of 1940. Continuation of her work in the United States.
    Note: Available on microfilm , Synopsis in file
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 193 pages (1 1/2 space) : , Typewritten manuscript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Stern family. ; Abraham, Karl, ; Cassirer, Richard, ; Charcot, J. M. ; Israel, James, ; Mesmer, Franz Anton, ; Oppenheim, Hermann, ; Prinz, Joachim, ; Szold, Henrietta, ; B'nai B'rith. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Fasts and feasts Judaism. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Neurologists. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicians. ; Psychoanalysis. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Chorzów (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Silesia. ; Żory (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1961 in Jerusalem. It contains reflections on psychoanalysis and psychological problems as well as private correspondence. Description of the paternal Stern family and the descendents of the author's grandfather Abraham Stern. The family of his mother, descendents of the banker and cantor Joseph Marcus Boehm, came from Brieg (Silesia). Recollections of his childhood in the small Silesian Jewish community of Sohrau and in Koenigshuette. Musical activities in the family. Memories of his early Jewish education in the cheder. Reflections of his childhood experiences and its psychoanalytic implications. Arthur Stern attended the Koenigshuetter Gymnasium. Memories of his childhood in Imperial Germany. Bar mitzvah in 1892. Celebration of Jewish holidays and observance. Recollections of the Dreyfus trial and its consequences for Jewish communities all over Germany. After graduation in 1898 Arthur Stern studied medicine at the university in Freiburg. Separation between Jewish and Christian students through the different student fraternities. Friendship with the psychoanalyst Karl Abraham. Studies at the university in Berlin and Munich. Recollections of the first female medical students, who had to fight for their right to study. Description of various professors. Antisemitism among students at the university. In 1903 Arthur Stern graduated as Dr.med. (MD) with a thesis in otolaryngology. In the same year he moved back to Berlin, where he started his training in neurology.
    Abstract: In 1907 Arthur started his own practice in Charlottenburg, Berlin. He continued his training in neurology and was a disciple of Hermann Oppenheim, a neurologist of international reputation. 1914 outbreak of World War I and national rapture due to the war propaganda. Military service as a field physician and field neurologist in Belgium and the eastern front. Observations of war neurosis. Experiences of antisemitism during the war. Confrontation with the Jewish stetl life in eastern Europe. Economic depression and inflation after World War I. Arthur Stern married his long-time fiance in 1919. Description of research findings in medicine and neurology. Observations of hysteria and hypnotic therapy. Rising National Socialism and persecution of Jewish people. Journey to Palestine in 1934. Difficulties in continuing his professional life. Preparations to leave the country. Emigration to Palestine in 1939. Language difficulties and starting of a new life. Continuation of his work as a neurologist and psychiatrist. Recollections of the war of liberation in 1948. Lectures and research. Studies on Heinrich Heine and his nervous condition. Discussion of psychoanalytic theories. Reflections on the phenomenon of suicide and the problem of euthanasia. Studies on sexuality. Cultural life in Germany and Israel.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: First draft (on MM 74)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Second draft (on MM 73)
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 378 pages (double space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Salomon, Alice, ; Antisemitism. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education, Higher 1870-1918. ; Feminism. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Lawyers. ; Marriage counseling. ; Social workers. ; Voyages and travels. ; Women authors. ; Women Employment. ; Women Political activity. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History. ; Munich (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoir by Marie Munk, written in 1961. Recollections of her childhood; her Christian upbringing; her schooling; her training at Alice Salomon's Groups of Social Work in Berlin; life in Imperial Germany; anti-Semitism; her experiences during World War I; her law studies at the universities of Freiburg and Bonn; her career in law including her work in a legal aid clinic for women in Munich; her admittance to the bar as the first woman in Germany; her work as an attorney in Berlin; her teaching social work and her involvment in the women's movement; the impact of 1933 on feminist organizations; her experiences in Nazi Germany; her travels and later her immigration to the United States; her various jobs in New York State, Philadelphia, Maryland, Northampton (MA), Toledo (Ohio) and Cambridge (MA); her interest in juvenile delinquence; her work as a marriage counsellor; her work as an attorney; her trips to Hawai, Mexico and Asian and European countries where she attended women's conferences; and her impressions in post-war Germany and Berlin.
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    New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 22 pages : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1961
    Keywords: Bund Deutscher Frauenvereine. ; International Council of Jewish Women. ; Jüdischer Frauenbund von Deutschland. ; Jewish communities, leadership. ; Jews Intellectual life. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Women authors. ; Women Societies and clubs. ; Women Political activity ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bochum (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoirs cover 1883-1946. Childhood recollections in a well-to do Jewish household of eight children. Both her parents worked in building up their business. Tradition of charity. Ottilie's father was a member of the Jewish community executive committee. Growing up in a liberal yet religious family. Reflections on girl's education of her time. Death of her father in 1903. Marriage to the lawyer Dr. S. Schoenewald in 1905. Start of her activities in the women's movement in Germany (BDF). Ottilie Schoenewald had a leading position as a women's legal guidance counselor (Frauenrechtschutzstelle) in Bochum. She was involved in the homemaking organization during World War One. Political equality for women after the war and activities in the democratic party in Weimar Germany. In 1929 Ottilie Schoenewald was elected to be a board member of the Jewish women's movement (JFB) in Berlin. Preparations for the International Congress of Jewish women 1930 in Hamburg, which led to the formation of the International Council of Jewish Women. In 1934 she became chairwoman of the JFB. Experiences and activities during the Nazi time. Ottilie Schoenewald emigrated to England via Holland in 1939, where she continued her social activities.
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 3 + 291 , bound typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Chemists. ; Concentration camps. ; Soldiers. ; National socialism. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; France Emigration and immigration 1940. ; Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales, France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Vienna (Austria) Emigration and immigration 1953. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Youth in Vienna; high school and university study; parental house with many famous visitors; soldier in World War I; years between the war; Nazi Anschluss of Austria; emigration to France and internment camp of St.Cyprien; emigration to the USA via Portugal; return to Austria.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Lieben, Adolf; Boystein, Leon; Eigner, Katharina; Freud, Sigmund; Grillparzer, Franz; Hopkins, Frederick Gowland; Lieben, Anna; Saar, Ferdinand von; Spizer, Leo; Warburg, Max; Wertheimstein, Franziska von.
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    Roslyn Heights, New York :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 235 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1960
    Keywords: Bab, Julius, ; Families 19th century. ; Authors 20th century. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Teachers ; Theater History 20th century. ; Universities and colleges ; Women authors. ; Women Education ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Bonn (Germany) ; France World War, 1939-1945. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Paris (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Elisabeth Bab née Loos recollects her childhood as the only child of an affluent Protestant family in Kiel. She was later enrolled in a girls school in Berlin. She describes her teacher, the women's activist Helene Lange. Attending the Lehrerinnenseminar (teacher's seminary), she became increasingly interested and involved in the women’s movement. Upon graduation she found a teaching position in London. She describes her experience working as an educator in an aristocratic family. She next took a teaching position in Potsdam. Following this, she moved to Bonn to complete her university studies. She describes university life in Bonn, including social aspects. Due to the tight financial situation in her family her dream to study medicine could not be fulfilled. Her father died in 1904. Elisabeth moved to Berlin to continue her studies. She met Julius Bab through literary events in Berlin and a courtship ensued. She describes the reaction of the Bab family to their son marrying a gentile. After their wedding Elizabeth found a position as a teacher in a private school and Julius worked as a dramatic adviser in a theater. Both continued their studies at the Berlin University. She describes the birth and raising of her three children. She also describes her social and professional life as part of the literary, theatrical, and artistic community that existed in Berlin during this time. After describing life during World War One, she discusses the continued social and familial events in her life amid the backdrop of the Weimar Republic and the rise of the Nazis to power. The Babs became involved in the foundation of the “Kulturbund Deutscher Juden.” As Nazi persecution increased the family sought exist visas to leave. The Babs managed to emigrate to Paris in 1939.
    Abstract: At the outbreak of World War II, Julius Bab was interred by the French authorities as an enemy alien. Elisabeth describes the subsequent German occupation of France in 1940, and the methods in which the Bab’s managed to make it to New York in the same year.
    Abstract: The following persons are mentioned: Collin, Ernst, 1882-1953; Dumont, Louise, 1862-1932; Harlan, Walter; Hauptmann, Gerhard, 1862-1946; Lange, Helene, 1848-1930; Lilienthal, Leo; Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955; Mauthner, Fritz, 1849-1923; Simmel, Ernst, 1882-1947; Wentscher, Dora.
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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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