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Reinhardt / Blum Family.
No full textFamily tree of the Reinhardt and Blum families from the mid 18th to mid 20th century, including birth and death dates and locations.Abraham Grumbach was a rabbi in Sarreguemine, France.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Zwischen Tradition und Moderne : Kunst und Architektur in Messingwerk zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.
No full textArticle about Modern art in the industrial suburb Messingwerk in Eberswalde in the German state of Brandenburg in: Eberswalder Jahrbuch 2000/2001digitize
Young Leaders (Box 120, Folder 10)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 120. Folder originally titled: Young Leaders.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
The development of civil society and urban culture in Tel-Aviv during the 1920's and 1930's.
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A tale of three continents.
No full textThe memoirs were written in Netanya, Israel in 2000. Family history going back to the 19th century. Hilda Rosenthal and August Lederer married in 1903. They settled in Gladenbach. Their son Benno was born in 1904. Childhood recollections. Description of the Lederer household and his father's fancy for technical modernizations. Private studies in Hebrew. Benno attended the local primary school, since Gladenbach was too small to keep a separate Jewish school. No encounter with anti-Semitism during his childhood years. Outbreak of World War One and increasing patriotism. Recollection of his bar mitzvah celebration during the war. Benno was enrolled in the high school (Gymnasium) in Giessen, where he stayed with a Jewish family. Difficulties observing the Sabbath on Saturdays during the school time. Growing political interest and awareness. Benno Lederer became an ardent Pacifist and even started to study Esperanto. His plans to study medicine were shattered due to the economic crisis and inflation, which deprived his parents of their savings and made it impossible to pay the tuition fees. Benno got a position as a bookkeeper in a metal work in Frankfurt. In addition he attended night classes at university. Move to Hamburg. 1930 marriage with Margot Garcia de los Reyes, who came from a Sephardic family. Rising Nazism. Hitler's takeover and increasing anti-Jewish regulations. Birth of their son Rolf in 1935. Preparations to emigrate. Benno and Margot left Germany in 1936 via England and Madeira to South Africa. Arrival in Cape Town. Language difficulties and initial problems to get settled. Benno managed to get his mother out of Germany in 1938. Political situation and apartheid policy in South Africa. In 1956 Margot and Benno started their own business. Margot Lederer passed away in 1966. Benno Lederer moved to Israel in 1979.Benno Lederer was born in an orthodox Jewish family 1904 in Gladenbach, Germany. His father was a businessman. He left Germany in 1936 with his wife Margot and their son Rolf for South Africa via Madeira. Benno Lederer settled in Netanya, Israel.see also "Lederer Family Collection" (AR 5141)GiessenMadeiraChildhoodInflation (Finance)--GermanyJews, liturgy and ritua
The fascinating life and theory of Albert Einstein : With a foreword by Bernard Einstein.
No full textSite of the former Viennese Café Eclair (turned Krispy Kreme); 141 West 72nd Street, Manhattan, New York Architecture; Buildings
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My life : [1927-1990].
No full textThe memoir was written in Israel in the 1990s. Phillippe Storch's father Baruch was born 1887 in Galicia. He came to Hannover at age 13 and started his own business in 1907. His ready-made men's clothing had great success and expanded within the years. He met his future wife Deborah, née Horowitz in Hannover, where she had moved with her father from Galicia. They married in 1912. Phillippe was the youngest of four children. His father Baruch, an orthodox Jew, was a strict but a just and kind-hearted man. He was a fervent German patriot and an admirer of German culture, which left him blind folded to the events of the Nazi era and ultimately led to his end in Auschwitz. The children were brought up with German education. Phillippe's older brother Sally was a member of Agudat Yisroel and prepared himself for emigration to Palestine (hakhsharah), which their father strongly opposed. Despite the anti-Jewish boycott the business still continued to do well until 1938. With the "Kristallnacht" on November 9th 1938 things deteriorated rapidly. The family, who had been granted German citizenship, became stateless. During "Kristallnacht" the entire apartment and their shop were devastated. In 1939 Phillippe joined a children's transport to the Netherlands. 1940 the Germans entered the Netherlands. Phillippe's brother Sally and his sister Martha crossed the border illegally to Belgium, where Sally contracted TB and died shortly after the Germans entered the country. Through the help of the "Resistence" Phillippe was reunited with his sister and mother in Antwerp, Belgium. They managed to get to Southern France, where their mother died of exhaustion. Through adventurous circumstances Phillippe managed to cross the border to Switzerland together with his sister and her husband.He was taken to a military camp near Zurich. It was in poor conditions, but they had a rich cultural life due to many famous inmates such as the singer Josef Schmidt and the writer Manes Sperber. Transfer to a family camp in Morgin, where he got married to his inmate Esther Rothstein. Post-war life in France. 1946 birth of his oldest son Sami in Lyon. French citizenship in 1949. Emerging textile business. Business travels to Israel. Emigration to Brazil in 1952. Export business with his friend Shloyme Draenger.Phillippe Storch was born as the youngest son of a well-to-do Jewish family in May 1927 in Hannover, Germany. In 1939 he joined a children's transport to the Netherlands. After the German occupation he escaped to Southern France and managed to cross the border to Switzerland, where he stayed interned until the end of the war. The author emigrated to Brazil in 1952, where he founded an export business. Philippe Storch then lived in Tel Aviv, Israel.Synopsis in fileMorginParisSao PauloZurichBelgiumAgudat YisroelEast European JewryEducation, JewishEducation, primary and secondary; 1918-1933HachsharahInternment of aliensMarriageSynopsis in fil