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My life. Memoirs of Irma Reiss, 1910-2000 /
No full textThe memoir was written in 1986 in the USA and was edited by the author's son Nathan M. Reiss. Irma Reiss was the second child of three of Bertha and Leopold Goldblum. The family lived Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, which had a small Jewish community. Her father was a shoemaker. Description of domestic life in rural Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Recollection of Sabbath preparations in her family. Memories of school life. Hebrew lessons with her uncle Friedmann, who was the cantor and shochet of the town. Visits to relatives in Rossdorf by Darmstadt. Recollections of World War One. Her father Leopold, an Austrian citizen from Galicia, served in the Austrian Army. Celebration of the high holidays. Recollection of Irma Reiss' schooldays in Heppenheim, where she was a well-liked student. Irma and her sister were members of the local Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss". Their group leaders were Rafael and Eva Buber, children of Martin Buber, who lived in Heppenheim and was very supportive of the youth movement. At age 14 Irma was sent to her uncle's family to help taking care of the children. She took continued education classes. Afterwards she worked as a "house daughter" with a religious family in Frankfurt. Irma became a member of the Agudas Yisroel. After the Nazi take-over in Germany their American relatives provided them with affidavits to join them in the States. Growing anti-Semitism. Irma Goldblum left Germany on September 15th, 1938. Her parents stayed behind because her father, who was born in Galicia, still had to wait for his affidavit due to the Polish quota regulations. Difficulties in starting a new life in New York. Worries about her parents in Germany. During the night of the November Pogrom in 1938 her father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After three weeks he was released and was able to leave together with his wife for the States. Support of their relatives to start a new life.Irma Goldblum got married to Leonhard Reiss in December 1939. Thei had two sons, Nathan and Barry Reiss.The author was born 1910 as Irma Goldblum into an orthodox Jewish family in Heppenheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany. Irma was a member of the Jewish youth movement "Blau Weiss" and worked as a "house daughter" in Frankfurt. In September 1938 she immigrated to the United States.Synopsis in fileMay familyBuber, Martin, 1878-1965Buber, familyRossdorfGaliciaEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Jewish communitiesProfessions and occupations, cattle dealersProfessions and occupations, ritual slaughterersProfessions and occupations, shoemakersYouth groupZionis
"Bergemolo" : Before and thereafter - the way it was.
No full textErnest Breuer was born in Vienna on 4/2/1916. He attended four years of high school in the sixth district of Vienna. 1934 - 1938 he joined the Revolutionary Socialists (illegal social democratic party during Austria’s fascist dictatorship), working for the Austrian air force. He moved to France where he joined the army, was arrested several times, fled to Italy and stayed in a monastery for nine months in Rome. An Italian Jewish organization made it possible for him and his girlfriend to immigrate to the United States, where he settled in California. After working in a series of jobs, he became a business man and a stock broker.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Friedrich Hecht.
No full textFrederick Hecht was born in Vienna, Austria in 4/27/1917. He attended a high school in the sixth district of Vienna and after that the Vienna Institute of Technology. He got a visa for the USA in 7/14/1938. He fled to Hamburg and took a ship, the 'USS Manhatten" to New York, USA. He arrived there at 8/6/1938. In the USA he joined the Army (Air Force) and worked later as an industrial designer.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Frederick Hecht Collection (AR 11308)Austrian Heritage Collectio
Memorial plaque for the former Wiesloch synagogue.
No full textPhotograph of a plaque memorializing the synagogue in Wiesloch.LBIWiesloch is a town in the German state of Bade
Descendants of Jantoff Jakob Oppenheim /
No full textFamily tree of the Jantoff Jakob Oppenheim family, from the early 18th century to the late 20th century, including birth, death, and marriage dates and
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[Rudi Lesser : 12.7.1901 Berlin 1.3.1988].
No full textInvitation to an exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of Rudi Lesser's birth. The invitation is accompanied by a picture postcard of
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Soviet Jews' Witness Accounts: Interview with Greg Borovsky
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Ingrid Decker Collection.
No full textThree essays by Ingrid Decker are bound together into one illustrated typescript. They all report about Jewish German survivors of the Holocaust and their emigrations to Mexico and to the Dominican Republic.Also mentioned are Max Daniel; Hans Neumann; Ruth Deutsch Lechuga; Martha Winkler; Gertrud Biller; Maria (Mitzi) Kafka; Marianne Frenk-Westheim; Tanya Kohn; Felix Koch; and Ruth Hermges.I. Die PolenreiseII. Die Jugendjahre der Elisabeth Koch-ThauIII. Mexiko und seine jüdischen ExilantenIngrid Decker was born in Rheydt, Germany in 1945.Finding aid available onlineProcessed for digitizationdigitizedMönchengladbach (Germany
Musik macht frei: Choral music composed and performed in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938--1944.
No full textWe have learned about the horrors of the Holocaust through history books, documentaries and feature films, through harrowing photographs, and most importantly, through the voices of those who survived. Confronting these horrifying statistics and the nightmare of this chapter of history leads us to one weighty and unanswerable question: How could human beings do this to other human beings?While this query will keep sociologists and historians engaged for centuries to come, another astonishing phenomenon emerges as a heartening insight into the complexities of human nature. Amidst the atrocities and unspeakable conditions of the concentration camps, Jews continued to make music together until either their last breath or their liberation. Everything from small choirs to fully staged operas were set against the unlikely backdrop of prison camps, performed either in secret or with the ironically sinister consent of Nazi officials.This study documents examples of choral activity from within the various prison camps of the Nazi Holocaust. Included are the historic accounts of the organization of choirs, prisoners who composed for choirs and significant performances of choral repertoire in the camps. Special attention is given to the transit camp of Terezin due to the unusually large amount of information that survived. Also included as a significant part of the study are the personal stories of some of those for whom the pursuance of musical activity, specifically choral singing, served as a coping method during captivity. These interviews and testimonials are vital to the survival and preservation of this unique musical history; these individual accounts are in some cases the only accessible records of what occurred within the tight security of the Nazis' prison camps.Finally, a study of the varied roles that singing played in concentration camps accentuates a unique communal characteristic of choral singing that extends beyond the music itself. Nowhere is this aspect of singing, the creation and intensification of community bonding, more dramatically realized than in the choral activities of inmates in the Nazi concentration camps.Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Southern California, 2001.School code: 0208