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How we survived : Chronicles of our families.
No full textThe memoir contains the first chapter of Luise David's autobiography. Recollections of her mother Franziska Gruenbaum, who - after a love affair to an unsuitable partner - was married to the physician Albert Dreyfuss in 1908. The couple had two children, Fritz and Luise. Her husband served in World War One. After years of depression and frequent sojourns in different sanatoria, Franziska Dreyfuss commited suicide in 1919. Luise was sent to her father's family in Landau. The family was reunited again a year later, when Albert Dreyfuss married his second wife Alice Oppenheimer in 1920. Celebration of holidays at the Dreyfuss family in Landau. Weekend outings in the countryside. Recollection of the author's childhood with various nannys and governesses. Early interest in dress making and clothing. Awareness of her different status as the daughter of the town's physician and as a Jewish girl. Encounters with anti-Semitism. Luise was enrolled in the "lyceum" (girl's school), where she became an excellent student. Rising Nazi movement. Her brother Fritz emigrated to Switzerland in 1933.Luise David was born in 1915 in Fuerth, Germany. She married Frank David and the couple lived in Hamburg. They immigrated to the United States in 1938.Synopsis in fileEisenachFuerthNuernbergChildhoodEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Professions and occupations, dressmaker
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews on the Former Soviet Union Jewish communities in need—Isaiah 58 Project
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International Fellowship of Christians and Jews—Presentation on Jewish communities in need in the former Soviet Union
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Survival : 1933-1945.
No full textAutobiography in German, French and English with illustrations by the author and reproductions of photos and documents.Family history in Becherbach, Germany going back to the 18th century. The author's father Ludwig David Moritz served in World War One. He got married to Klara Kaufmann in 1929. Birth of their sons Alfred and Ernst. Rise of Nazism. In 1936 Alfred was enrolled in the public school of Becherbach. Confrontation with anti-Jewish laws and regulations. Celebration of Jewish holidays with the maternal Kaufmann family in Cologne. Night of the November pogrom in 1938 and arrest of his father. Ludwig Moritz was taken to Dachau concentration camp, where he was interned for three months. His sons Alfred and Ernst were taken to safety by their uncle Hermann Wolf in Luxemburg. His parents followed after the release of their father from Dachau. German invasion of Belgium, Luxemburg and France in 1940. Escape to Southern France. Ludwig Moritz was interned in the camp Les Milles near Aix en Provence. Alfred and Ernst were enrolled in the local public school in St. Lizaigne. Life in hiding in Issoudun, where their father's brother had a clothes business. Alfred and Ernst were sent to the Jewish children relief organization OSE (Oeuvre de Secours de l'Enfance). With support of the French resistence movement new identity cards were issued for the two siblings, which stated them being of French descendent. Life in hiding in the countryside of Vernoux/Vivarais. They were enrolled in a public school and in the local Catholic sunday school of Vernoux. End of the war and final reunion with their parents.The architect Alfred Moritz was born in Becherbach, Germany. He survived the war in hiding in the French countryside and was reunited with his parents after the war. The author lived in the United States.Synopsis in fileMoses familyDijonLyonEmigration and immigration, 1933-1945, LuxemburgEmigration and immigration, 1933-1945, FranceEmigration and immigration, after 1945, United StatesFrench Resistance movements, WarGermany, history, 1933-1945Holocaust, survivorsMilliner
Die Vorfahren der Elisabeth Goldschmidt aus Kassel und Mannheim /
No full textList of the ancestors of Elisabeth Goldschmidt (1888-1973) from Kassel and Mannheim from the early 16th century to late
20th century, which includes birth, death, and marriage dates and locations as well as extensive biographical notes on some family
members, including Elisabeth Goldschmidt. Information on her four sons is also provided. Also included are brief histories of Jews in
Kassel and Mannheim, including the Goldschmidt family.Processed for digitizatio
The emergence of the Spanish illuminated haggadah manuscript.
No full textIn late thirteenth-century Spain, the Hebrew Passover haggadah appeared for the first time as an independent and decorated book. The purpose of this investigation is to develop an explanation for its emergence through the recovery of an original reading of the manuscripts and their decoration, insofar as this is possible. By shedding light on the function and meaning of this new type of book for its medieval readers, this project inserts the manuscripts (and their reading) within the historical narrative of Jewish grandeur and decline in fourteenth-century Christian Spain.The illuminated haggadah tradition demonstrates how Spanish Jews effectively expressed a cultural identity based on shifting relations of both resemblance to and difference from the majority Christian culture. In particular, the decoration reveals ways in which Jews continued to identify with the majority culture while finding creative ways to express their dissent or to subvert dominant ideologies. Each of the three most prominent aspects of the haggadah's artistic program illuminates this process of identity-formation by lending support to and actually expanding upon the ideological message already implicit in the text.First, the corpus of text illustrations is viewed in light of the rabbinic emphasis on teaching and learning. The rabbis sought to associate Jewish education with the survival of the Jews in terms of the power of tradition to act as a bulwark against hostile forces. The various types of illustration all draw upon the importance of tradition in asserting an unequivocal Jewish strength in the face of a more uncertain reality. Next, the striking image of the unleavened bread in each manuscript is viewed within the context of a contemporary visual discourse of power. When activated by the reading of the haggadah, this illustration effectively neutralized the threat to Jews posed by a number of Christian power-signs. Finally, the biblical miniature cycles included within ten of the manuscripts are understood in terms of the court Jews' stake in biblical narrative and national-religious historiography. They therefore bring narrative traditions and strategies to bear on the production of meaning and the construction of identity.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2000.School code: 0163
AHC interview with Siegmund Bernfeld.
No full textJanuary 26, 2000 and February 16, 2000Siegmund Bernfeld was born in Vienna, Austria, 1916. After finishing school, he worked as a machinist until he was drafted into the Austrian Army in the fall of 1937. Being Jewish, he was discharged a few days after the 'Anschluss' of Austria, in March 1938. In the Kristallnacht, he was arrested and taken to the Dachau concentration camp. With the help of a faked visa for Latvia issued by the Latvian consulate in Trieste, Italy, he managed to be released after six months. In fall of 1939, Siegmund Bernfeld and his father emigrated to New York. His mother and sister followed a few months later. In October 1941, Siegmund Bernfeld was drafted into the U.S. Army and served in North Africa and Europe during World War II, interrogating German prisoners of war. He was discharged in fall 1945. Until his retirement, he worked as a machinist in New York. Siegmund Bernfeld lives in Bellerose, NY.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Siegmund Bernfeld Collection (AR 11267
AHC interview with Hilda Russo Fagan
No full textHilda Russo Fango (nee Metzendorf) was born in Vienna on September 23, 1913. She immigrated to the United States in 1939 via Italy, Switzerland, Belgium. In 1938, she was arrested in Zurich, Switzerland.See also Hilda Russo Fagan Collection (AR 11127)Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Helen Andis.
No full textFeb. 22, 2000Helen Andis, nee Ultmann, was born on October 23, 1916, in Vienna. She accompanied her former fiancee Jura Soyfer (1912-39), anti-fascist and play writer, through his last month in freedom and in prison. Their correspondence is published in several books and historical works, where she is often described as a 'simple girl' (e.g. Horst Jarka). Punished because of 'Landesverrat' by the Austrofascist Government of Schuschnigg, but released shortly after, she lost her job and struggled a hard time making a living for her family in poverty before the 'Anschluss'.See also Helen Andis Collection (AR 11176)Austrian Heritage Collectio