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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
    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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  • 5
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 2,173 pages (double space) : , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1935-1956
    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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: vol. 1 (pp. 1-560)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: vol. 2 (pp. 1-400)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: vol. 2 (pp. 401-811, index)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: vol. 3 (pp. 1-539); vol. 4 (pp. 1-121)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 5: vol. 5 (pp. 1-130)
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 6: Digest version in 7 parts (162 pages); bibliography of books by Paul Muehsam
    Note: Available on microfilm , Vol. 1 on MM 58 , Vol. 2 on MM 55 - MM 56 , Vol. 3 on MM 56 , Vol. 4 on MM 56 , Vol. 5 on MM 58 , Digest on MM 57 , German , Synopsis in file
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    Rio de Janeiro :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 283 , typescript (carbon copy) +
    Additional Material: addenda
    Year of publication: 1941-1956
    Keywords: Bildungsanstalt für jüdische Lehrer in Hannover. ; Jewish religious education. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Jews History. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Teachers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Correspondence ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood in rural Jewish community of Nordeck (Hesse); murder of two Nordeck Jews (1883); antisemitism; Jewish teachers' seminary in Hanover; teacher in Guntersblum (Rhineland), Sarstedt (Lower Saxony), Repzin (Pommerania), Tarnowitz (Upper Silesia) and Katowice; description of Jewish communities of Upper Silesia; soldier in World War I; teacher and headmaster in Berlin; Jewish politics and education in inter-war Berlin; reflections on Prussian Federation of Jewish Communites and Federation of Jewish Teachers; changes under Nazi rule; November pogrom 1938 in Berlin; emigration to Brazil; contains information on Georg Kareski, Michael Holzmann, Joseph Gutmann, Hermann Falkenberg, Michael Abraham, Jakob Stiebel, Leo Baeck, Ismar Freund and Meier Spanier.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Lebenserinnerungen
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Juedische Jugend im Umbruch : A collection of circa 160 letters from former students written to Stern before and after their emigration from Germany, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine and Australia, 1937-1956.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 7
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    Santa Branca, Brazil :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 135 + iii pages (single spaced) : , typescript (photocopy); illustrated.
    Year of publication: 1942-1946
    Keywords: Alterthum, Mathilde (née Blumenthal), ; Althertum, Therese, ; Alterthum family. ; Blumenthal family. ; Schönfliess, Friederike, ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews History 20th century. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Brazil Emigration and immigration. ; Eberswalde (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Genealogical tables ; Memoirs
    Abstract: After a description of family history, Willy Alterthum continues to order the chapters chronologically. They are entitled "childhood", "school", "studies and professional preparations; baptizing, engagement, first professional years", "further professional years; World War", "reconstruction", and finally the period from 1929-1939. Emphasis is on World War I, rise of Nazism and professional experiences as a lawyer. Included are copies of photographs, letters, school certificates. There is also a section written by his wife Gertrud. There are eulogies at the end, dedicated to Gertrud Alterthum. Finally, there is a factual report at the end about the population, geography, languages, and general civilisation in Brazil, written by Willy Alterthum in 1946.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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  • 8
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    Pages: 6 , circa 320 pages annotated typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1900-1945
    Keywords: Rolland, Romain, ; Zweig, Stefan, ; Authors. ; Translators. ; Concentration camps. ; Friendship. ; College teachers. ; Soldiers. ; Jewish refugees. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; France Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Les Sables-d’Olonne (France) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1941. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs ; Finding aids.
    Abstract: various essays and fragments
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 1: Composition des détenus de Camp, 1940-1945.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 2: Dated notebooks and diary fragments, 1939-1950.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 3: Oberst von Lukas, 1914-1918.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 4: Von der Hässlichkeit der Menschenmenge.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 5: Mon ami Romain Rolland, 1900-1930.
    Description / Table of Contents: Folder 6: Queer recollections on Stefan Zweig, 1910-1920.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , French , German , Inventory available online.
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  • 9
    Pages: 5 volumes : , handwritten notebooks.
    Year of publication: 1914-1943
    Keywords: Buchheim, Wilhelm, ; Jews Education 1918-1933. ; Jewish religious schools ; Kristallnacht, 1938 ; Jews Persecutions ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Jewish teachers. ; Teachers. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; London (England) ; United States Emigration and immigration. 1933-1945 ; Autobiography. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources
    Abstract: Includes three war diaries (1914-1917), one diary written in London and in the USA (1939-1943), and his “Second War diary" about the beginning of WW II which he experienced in London. The diary written in London and in the USA starts with a detailed account of the years 1933-1939, when Wilhelm Buchheim was principal in the Jewish school in Dortmund, Germany. He writes about how school life was affected by the National Socialist government. There is also a detailed account of Kristallnacht in Dortmund, Germany. In September 1941, Mr. Buchheim switches his writing language from German to English.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1/1 War diary I. // Aug. 12, 1914 - Feb. 9, 1915
    Description / Table of Contents: 1/2 War diary; notes on Judaism and other topics; French vocabularies // Feb. 12, 1915 - Mar. 9, 1915
    Description / Table of Contents: 1/3 Kriegstagebuch II. (War diary) //1915 - 1917
    Description / Table of Contents: 1/4 Tagebuch (diary, London and New York, 156 p.) //1939 - 1943
    Description / Table of Contents: 1/5 Ein 2. Kriegstagebuch (A second war diary), London //1939 - 1940
    Note: Available on microfilm MM III 21 , Parts of the diaries are also available on MF 95 , German and English
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  • 10
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    Bulawayo :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 64 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1942
    Former Title: No Title
    Keywords: Arnold family (Dresden) ; Arnold, Eduard. ; Klemperer, Victor Edler von Klemenau. ; Klemperer family. ; Klemperer, Ralph. ; Lindau, Rudolf. ; Löwe, Isidor. ; Reichenheim, Otto. ; Dresdner Bank. ; Bankers. ; Banks and banking. ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Interfaith marriage. ; Soldiers. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Dresden (Germany) ; Margate (South Africa) ; South Africa Emigration and immigration 1938. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Family history reaching back to 18th century; university study in Halle; military service in Austrian army; apprenticeship at Dresdner Bank in Dresden and Hamburg; work at a Bank in New York; travels through United States; return to Germany; work at bank in Berlin; milieu of Jewish bankers and businessmen in Dresden and Berlin; Arnold and Loewe families; marriage to Arnold; move to Leipzig to open branch of Dresdner Bank there; efforts at establishing Leipzig business; birth of daughter; success in Leipzig; birth of son; general consulate awarded to author's father Gustav von Klemperer who was chairman of the board of the Dresdner Bank; award of hereditary nobility to father from Austrian Emperor; transfer to Dresden; outbreak of war, move to Koeniggraetz as officer; life as officer in Habsburg army; birth of third child; war experiences on Eastern Front, Italy; return to Dresden; difficulties at Dresdner Bank leading to collapse in 1931; rebuilding the bank; brief account of last days in Germany; fate of family members after 1933; condition of family in South Africa up to 1942.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    [Place of publication not identified] :[publisher not identified],
    Pages: 44 + 6 , typescripts.
    Year of publication: 1942
    Keywords: Fleischer family. ; Dachau (Concentration camp) ; Antisemitism. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Deportations. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; World War, 1939-1945. ; Austria History 1918-1938. ; Austria History Anschluss, 1938. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Vienna (Austria) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written for the Harvard University competition in 1942. Also included is an English language report "My experiences on the tenth of November, 1938."
    Abstract: Description of family history. His father was a businessman who came from Budapest to Vienna in 1890. Recollections of his school years in the Gymnasium. Graduation in 1914. Philipp enrolled with classes in German and Latin at the Vienna University. In 1916 he volunteered as a soldier in World War One and was soon promoted to become an officer in the army. Disastrous aftermath of the war. Philipp returned to university to continue his studies. He became a teacher at a Gymnasium (high school). Description of political tensions in post-war Austria. Civil war of 1934. At this time he became strongly aware of the rising attraction of the National Socialist movement. Anschluss in 1938. Degrading "spontaneous actions" against the Jewish population of Vienna. Philipp Flesch lost his position and was forced to retire. He started teaching at a improvised Jewish school. Maltreatment of students by the Hitler youth. Observations of Nazi enthusiasm in the Austrian Gentile population. Occasional experiences of support by neighbors and strangers. Reflections on the Nazi ideology and hatred against Jews. Reports of the first deportations to concentration camps. Recollections of the night of the November pogrom and its aftermath 1938 in Vienna. Description of the circumstances of his arrest and the maltreatment by the Gestapo. Terror and humiliation. Release due to his achievements in World War One. Awareness of the magnitude of destruction and terror. Summons to the Gestapo headquarters. Sarcasm of Nazi bureaucracy and preparations for his emigration. Outbreak of the war. Philipp Flesch left Vienna in 1939 for the United States and emigrated via Holland to New York.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German and English
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    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 + 48 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1942
    Former Title: Memoiren
    Keywords: Children. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jewish families ; Jewish merchants. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Cuba. ; Fürth (Bavaria, Germany) ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Childhood and school years in Fuerth; upper middle class Jewish family life; business history; officer in World War I.
    Note: Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 225 , Available on microfilm , Introduction in English
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    Tel-Aviv :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 78 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Rosenthal family. ; Timendorfer family. ; Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Universitaet Breslau (Breslau) ; Education, Higher 1871-1918. ; Gynecologists. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Physicians. ; Rabbis. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Bytom (Poland) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Father was rabbi in Beuthen; father's first marriage and children; family history; father's education and background; earliest memories of Beuthen; father's activities as rabbi in Breslau; brother's education; education of sisters; Jewish life in Breslau; experiences as student at University of Breslau; study of medicine; experience in student fraternity; life in Breslau and Heidelberg; military service as doctor on eastern front in World War I; experiences of Jewish life in Poland during military service; injury at the front; meets future wife in Berlin; transfer to western front; taken prisoner; establishment of medical practice in Breslau after the war; death of father; birth of children; Jewish life in Breslau in 1920's; death of wife's parents; medical practice after 1933; arrest after Kristallnacht and transport to Buchenwald; experience at Buchenwald; release from Buchenwald and emigration in 1939 to England; life in Leicester; emigration to Palestine; arrival in Palestine.
    Abstract: The following individuals are mentioned: Baeck, Leo; Cohn, Fritz; David, Jacob Julius; Kaufmann, David; Korn, Alfred; Rosenthal, Felix; Rosenthal, Hans; Rosenthal, Werner; Timendorfer, Berthold; Timendorfer, Margot.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German , Synopsis in file
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    Mauritius, Beau Bassin :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 53 pages : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Emigration and immigration. ; Inflation (Finance) ; Internment of aliens. ; Jewish refugees ; Families 19th century. ; Jews History 19th century. ; Jews Persecutions 1933-1945. ; Marriage. ; Paper industry ; Soldiers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskai︠a︡ oblastʹ, Russia) ; Mauritius. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Transcript of an originally handwritten memoir.
    Abstract: In this memoir Max Meyer Aronsohn describes his life from childhood through his emigration from Germany and imprisonment in an internment camp in Mauritius. Memories include descriptions of growing-up in Koenigsberg, his marriage and family life, his life as a merchant in the paper business, and his experiences as a soldier in World War I. The memoir continues describing events in his life through the years of the Weimar Republic, and the events surrounding the Nazi seizure of power and his ultimate emigration from Germany in 1940. He then describes his internment in the camp in Mauritius.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Dixville Notch, N.H. :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 37 pages : , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Stern, Olga (née Fraenkel) ; Stern, Rosalie (née Herzfeld) ; Antisemitism. ; Jewish families. ; Jewish religious education. ; Judaism Customs and practices. ; Liquor industry. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Textile industry. ; Voyages and travels. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; France Emigration and immigration 1933. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Poznań (Poland) ; Switzerland Emigration and immigration 1933. ; United States Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Early childhood recollections. Isidor Sterns father had a textile store in Graetz. Memories of his maternal grandfather, who was an assistant of the famous rabbi Elias Gutmacher. Orthodox upbringing. Description of his devoted mother, who was a loving and pious woman. High esteem for German culture and literature, above all works by Goethe and Schiller. Isidor Stern was enrolled in the Jewish elementary school at the age of six years. In 1868 he was sent for further studies to his uncle in Pyritz, where he attended the local Gymnasium (high school). Recollections of his Bar Mitzvah in 1870. Rebellion against the rigid laws of orthodox Judaism. Continuation of his education at a Catholic Gymnasium in Schrimm, where he experienced antisemitism and left the school. Work in a bank in Berlin. Relationship to his younger siblings. Work in a spirit producing company. Socialist activities. In 1879 his house was raided and he had to leave his job due to his political affiliations. He got a position for his company in Spain in 1880. Due to his growing competence he was ordered back to Posen and became one of the directors in 1886. Isidor Stern abandoned his political activities and expanded the company to Berlin. Technical and social reforms. Expansion of the technical use of spirit. Detailed description of professional life. Marriage with Olga Fraenkel in 1888. Birth of his sons Fritz and Walter. Move to Berlin in 1896. Birth of his daughter Charlotte. Both his sons served in World War One. Social concerns within the business world. Friendship with the political reformer Friedrich Naumann and engaging in liberalism. Membership in the "Freisinnige Vereinigung", a liberal party. Influence of the economic reform ideas of Franz Oppenheimer. Friendship with the politician Theodor Barth, editor of the paper "Die Nation". Relationship with Paul Nathan, co-founder of the "Hilfsverein der deutschen Juden".
    Abstract: Contact to the left with Eduard David and Albert Sydekum. "Gesellschaft fuer ethische Kultur" in Berlin. Political diversion and instability in post-war Germany. Economic political activities and suggestions to improve the situation for the unemployed. Business endeavors. Sunday soirees at Olga and Isidor Stern's new apartment. Summer vacations in the Swiss alps. Travels to Italy, Spain and Morocco. Death of his wife Olga in 1928. Isidor Stern donated a house for less privileged Jewish women in the memory of his wife. The "Olga-Stern-house" was opened by the "Juedische Frauenbund" in 1930. After Hitler's being appointed chancellor of Germany Isidor Stern left Germany together with his daughter for France. From 1934-1939 he lived in Zuerich. His children emigrated to London, Switzerland and the USA. In October 1939 Isidor Stern emigrated to New York.
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned:
    Abstract: Barth, Theodor; David, Eduard; Förster, Wilhelm; Gutmacher, Elias; Guttmann, Albrecht; Herzfeld family; Hindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934; Katzenellenbogen, Ludwig; Lewin, Leopold; Mommsen, Carl; Nathan, Paul, 1857-1927; Naumann, Friedrich, 1860-1919; Oppenheimer, Franz, 1864-1943; Schrader, Karl; Stern, Bernhard; Sydekum, Albert.
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    Mitcham (Surrey, England) :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 7 + 40 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Jewish families ; Jews ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Soldiers. ; Antisemitism. ; Great Britain Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Limburg an der Lahn (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Memoirs and family history, written in Mitcham (Surrey, England) 1941. Emphasis on experiences in World War I.
    Note: Available on microfilm , English , Synopsis in file
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    Pages: 3 folders.
    Year of publication: 1941
    Keywords: Banks and banking. ; Christian converts from Judaism. ; Education 1871-1918. ; Judaism Liturgy. ; Jews, German Genealogy. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Suicide. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Aschersleben (Germany) ; Berlin (Germany) ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Hamburg (Germany) ; Hannover (Germany) ; Hildesheim (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Recollection of Julius Kohsen’s life, including a family tree. Also available are two translations by his grandchildren, Monica Schubert (ME 939) and Gunther Steinberg (ME 1611).
    Abstract: The following names are mentioned:
    Abstract: Bamberger, Georg; Berger, Anna; Cohen, Jacob Salmon; Dux, August; Dux, Henriette; Dux, Wolf; Grolman, Wilhelm von; Gruenfeld, Heinrich; Kohen, Elsbeth (Else); Kohen, Ludwig; Kohen, Otto; Kohen, Therese; Kohen, Wilhelm; Kohsen, Henriette (Hetty); Kohsen, Walter; Lapp, Heinrich; Marcuse, Marcelle; Oppenheimer, Alexander; Regan, Charles; Rubensohn, Rudolf; Steinberg, Gunter; Steinberg, Henriette (Hetty); Steinberg, Herbert; Unger, Elisabeth; Unger, Gustav; Unger, Richard.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Lebenserinnerungen von Julius Israel Kohsen Berlin 1941: photocopy of the original typescript, 37 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 2. Memories of my life by Julius Israel Kohsen, Berlin / Edited and translated by his granddaughter Monica Schubert in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1992, 5 + 90 pages.
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Remembrances of my life : [Lebenserinnerungen] / by Julius Jacob (Israel) Kohsen: illustrated and bound translation by Julius Kohsen's grandson Gunther Steinberg, 49 pages. Gunther Steinberg’s translation also includes replicas and translations of Julius Kohsen’s last letters to his daughter Hetty and to his late wife’s cousin, Dr. Otto Rubensohn in Basel.
    Note: The translations are also available on microfilms MM II 19 (Monica Schubert) and MM IV 8 (Gunther Steinberg) , Finding aid available online
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    New York, NY :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 130 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Jews Persecution 1933-1941. ; Lawyers. ; Nazis. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Netherlands Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Wrocław (Poland) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: University studies in Breslau and Munich; military service during World War I; lawyer in Breslau before and after 1933; political attitude of non Jewish lawyers in Breslau; changes in daily life after 1933; support by German friends; emigration to Holland in September 1938; reflections on the question whether the German people were Nazis and on impact of Nazism on the life of the German people.
    Abstract: Also included is correspondence with “German life – history prize competition committee”.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 4 + 254 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Blech, Leo, ; Reinhardt, Max, ; Strauss, Richard, ; Stresemann, Gustav, ; Vossische Zeitung, Berlin (1704-1934) ; Antisemitism. ; Journalists. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Theater. ; Germany History 1918-1933. ; Berlin (Germany) ; Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) History. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Journalistic career at the "Vossische Zeitung"; military service in World War I; mediator between the newspaper and German government; close relationship with foreign secretary Gustav Stresemann; cultural life in Berlin; friendships with Max Reinhardt and Richard Strauss; political and economic development of Weimar Germany; antisemitism; excerpts of diaries of 1920s and 30s; dismissal after Nazi seizure of power; boycott against Jewish stores April 1933; anti-Jewish laws; November pogrom 1938; emigration to Palestine.
    Abstract: Also included are documents pertaining to Max Reinhardt's 25th anniversary as director at "Deutsches Theater".
    Note: Available on microfilm. , Copy available at LBI Jerusalem. , German
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    Ganspan (Andalusia), South Africa :[publisher not identified],
    Language: English
    Pages: 19 pages (single space) : , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Air pilots. ; Families. ; Soldiers. ; Motor vehicle drivers. ; Merchants. ; Shoe industry. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; South Africa Emigration and immigration 1933-1945. ; Stuttgart (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Professional career in the shoe and leather business and as pilot; military service in World War I; success as racing motorist; early death of first wife, divorce from second wife; emigration to South Africa.
    Abstract: The autobiographical note was written in the South African Internment Camp No. 2 in Ganspan (Andalusia).
    Note: Available on microfilm , English
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    Language: German
    Pages: 90 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Buchenwald (Concentration camp) ; Emigration and immigration. ; Jewish merchants. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany Politics and government 1918-1933. ; Hanau (Germany) ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Apprenticeship in Duisburg; military service in World War I; political development in Weimar Republic; economic crisis and consequence for department store; changes after 1933; November pogrom 1938 in Hanau; imprisonment in Buchenwald; preparations for emigration.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    London :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 78 , typescript (carbon copy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Concentration camp escapes. ; Jews Persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Berlin (Germany) ; England Emigration and immigration 1939. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: Mostly on professional career; work for German war administration in World War I; persecution of Jews after 1933; November pogrom of 1938; author escaped imprisonment in concentration camp; description of emigration to England.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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    Jerusalem :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 454 , typescript.
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Straus, Rachel, ; Jüdischer Frauenbund. ; Zionist Congress, 7th, Basel, 1905. ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Primary 1871-1918. ; Fasts and feasts Judiasm. ; Feminism. ; Gynecologists. ; Jewish families 19th century. ; Orthodox Judaism. ; Physicians Biography. ; Women authors. ; Women Education. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Germany History 1871-1918. ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: The memoir was written 1940 in Jerusalem. Recollections of Rahel's childhood in Imperial Germany. Her father was born into a family of rabbis in Hungary. He studied at the famous yeshiva of Esriel Hildesheimer in Eisenstadt, where he was ordained as a rabbi. Her mother Ida Goitein, nee Loewenfeld was born in 1848 in Posen. She passed the teacher's exams secretly - a profession very unusual for a woman in her time. Rahel was born as the fourth child of the Goitein family in 1880. Sudden death of her father in 1883. Rahel attended Hebrew school for eight years in addition to her regular schooling and experienced from an early age on the difference between the two worlds. Celebration of Jewish holidays. Journey to Hungary and holidays with the befriended Straus family. In 1893 Rahel was enrolled in the "Maedchen Gymnasium" in Karlsruhe, the first high school for girls in Germany who prepared students for the entry exam at university. Awakening of feminist and Zionist interest. University studies in Heidelberg together with her brother Ernst. In 1900 Rahel Straus was the first female student at the School of Medicine in Heidelberg. Zionist activities in Mannheim. Engagement with Elias Straus. Geneology of her husband's family. Graduation from University in 1905. Wedding of Rahel Goitein and Elias Straus in 1905. Move to Munich. Attendance of the Seventh Zionist Congress in Basel. Difficult beginnings of Zionism in Munich. Relationship with non-Jewish friends. Journey to Egypt and Palestine in 1907. In 1908 Rahel Straus finished her doctorate and started her own gynecological practice. Birth of her first child Isa in 1909. Difficulties in combining her professional and private family life. Activities and speeches in various women organizations. Member of the political activist group fighting for the right of women to vote. Work in Jewish women organizations. Difficulties with her Zionist ambitions in an anti-Zionist environment.
    Abstract: Cooperation and activities with the "Juedische Frauenbund". Birth of her children Hannah (1912) and Peter (1914). Outbreak of World War I. Death of her brother Ernst, who was killed in the battle of Stry. Birth of her fourth child, Gabriele in 1915. Declaration of the German Republic. Spartacus Revolution in Munich in 1918-1919. Anti-Semitism, inflation and unemployment in the aftermath of the war. 1920 birth of a son, Ernst Gabor. Work in the board of the "Juedischer Frauenbund". Publication of her brochure on sexual education. Lectures and speeches. "Deutsche Frauentagung" in Cologne in 1928. Activities in the WIZO. Disrupted harmony within various women's organizations due to the rising National Socialist movement. 1932 wedding of daughter Ina with the Zionist Ignaz Emrich. Severe illness of her husband. Death of her husband Elias Straus. Emigration to Palestine in November 1933.
    Abstract: The following families and individuals are mentioned:
    Abstract: Baeck, Leo, 1873-1956; Bodenheimer, Rosa; Buber, Martin, 1878-1965; Emrich, Ignaz; Goitein family; Hildesheimer, Esriel, 1820-1899; Karminski, Hannah, 1897-1942; Loewenfeld family; Pappenheim, Bertha,1859-1936; Straus family; Straus, Elias, 1878-1933; Szold, Henriette, 1860-1945; Weizmann, Chaim; Zweig, Arnold, 1887-1968.
    Abstract: The following places are mentioned: Aurich; Cologne; Egypt; Eisenstadt; Germany; Heidelberg; Hungary; Italy; Karlsruhe; Munich; Posen.
    Note: Available on microfilm; copies on MF 83(1) & MF 87(28) , German , Synopsis in file
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    Kfar Shmaryhahu :[publisher not identified],
    Language: German
    Pages: 47 , typescript (photocopy).
    Year of publication: 1940
    Keywords: Streicher, Julius, ; Antisemitism. ; Education, Primary. ; Education, Secondary. ; Jews Political persecution 1933-1945. ; Kristallnacht, 1938. ; Lawyers. ; World War, 1914-1918. ; Nuremberg (Germany) ; Palestine Emigration and immigration 1929-1948. ; Autobiographies ; Biographical sources ; Memoirs
    Abstract: School years in Nuremberg; military service; university studies in Munich and Berlin; soldier in World War I; antisemitism in post-World War I Nuremberg; Julius Streicher; persecution of Jews after Nazi seizure of power; Nuremberg's role as the "city of the NSDAP Congresses"; November pogrom 1938; emigration to Palestine.
    Note: Available on microfilm , German
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