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No full textPhilipp Loewenfeld (Munich 1887 - New York 1963) was a lawyer and Social Democrat in Munich. He joined the SPD in 1912 and was a delegate to the Bavarian congress of soviets in February 1919. Loewenfeld was a prominent lawyer in political trials in Weimar Germany. In 1933 he emigrated to Switzerland, in 1938 to the USA.See ME 404 for German manuscript
Claire Kokia
No full textDigital imageClaire Kokia was born in Egypt in 1937. She immigrated to Israel in 1963, and married Joseph Kokia, Director General of the Ministry of Justice. Ms. Kokia served as Docent Director of the Israel Museum. She died in Israel in 2005
AHC interview with Kurt David Brook.
No full textKurt David Brook was born in Vienna on November 9, 1911. He lived under his prewar name Bruckner at Hansalgasse 3 in the third Viennese district. Closeby, at Stubenbastei, he attended high school, the "Realgymnasium 3", and then went to butcher school. He immigrated to the US via Rotterdam. In his professional career, Mr. Brook was working as a butcher in wholesale. He died on 06/21/2000 in New York, NY.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Kurt David Brook Collection (AR 10850
Temple Emanu-El, Westfield, NJ (2 of 2) (Box 0S 7, Folder 6)
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[Jewish citizens in Oberbrechen 1711-1941].
No full textThis collection contains a partial translation by Justin J. Mueller of "Jüdische Mitbürger in Oberbrechen 1711-1941" by
Eugen Caspary, 1975. Caspary's work appeared in a volume entitled "Geschichte von Oberbrechen" by Hellmuth Gensicke and Egon Eichhorn,
1975. The translation deals mainly with the named inhabitants of Oberbrechen, augmented by personal and family histories. Surnames
include: Stern family, Besmann family, Blumenthal famil, Liechtenstein family.Processed for digitizatio
Biblical annihilation applied to Hitler's "final solution" in the Holocaust.
No full textDissertation (PhD in Theology) submitted to Trinity Theological Seminary in 1999: The historical-hermeneutical study examines the relationship between the biblical use of the concept of annihilation (the elimination of people or nations because of who they are or because of their refusal to obey and worship God) and the Nazis' use of the concept of annihilation in the "Final Solution".Also included are a curriculum vitae, copy of PhD degree and photo of Hannah M. Plaut.Hannah M. Plaut, October 1999Hannah M. Plaut was born in Oberhof, Thuringia. Her father immigrated to the United States in 1937, the rest of the family in 1938 (her mother was non-Jewish). She worked as a registered nurse with a master's degree in Psychiatric Nursing. After a trip to Israel in 1993 she returned to school to study theology and received a PhD in Theology in August 1999. Her memories of life in nazi Germany have been recorded by the Spielberg's Visual History Shoah foundation
The past is indestructible : my childhood memoirs including a history of the Wertheim family.
No full textA bound typescript of memoirs and the family’s history circa 1700 to 1999. Also included are a map of Germany and a family tree.Memoir by Claus Albert Wertheim, written in May 1999. He describes his childhood and family background, his life in Germany, Switzerland, and the United States. In a postscript he summarizes the fate of family members and friends. He finishes his memoirs with a brief note about the history of the Wertheim family.Synopsis in fileClaus Albert Wertheim was born in Berlin on June 22, 1927. His family moved to Cologne in 1931. In 1939 his parents sent him to a family in Switzerland; in 1940 the whole family immigrated to the United States.see also: Claus Albert Wertheim family Collection, AR 11047Memoir is quoted in: "Kreis, Georg: Die Rueckkehr des J-Stempels : zur Geschichte einer schwierigen Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung" (LBI library call number: st 254)Wertheim, Gertrud ; Zimmt, Laura ; Biedermann, Alice ; Biedermann, Ernst ; Hartley, Fred ; Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley
Rosemarie : A memoir /
No full textDescription of the life of Rosemarie L. Joseph from her happy childhood in Germany, the danger during the Nazi Regime, the immigration to the USA, until her retirement in Florida, narrated in 11 chapters and illustrated with photographs and figures showing family members and documents.Rosemarie Joseph describes her family and their life in Berlin. The father was a businessman, dealing with women’s clothes. The author writes about her years at a public school, where she met anti-Semitism for the first time. Later she went to a private school in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The memoir deals with the upcoming Nazi Regime and describes how the family experienced anti-Semitism, the terror, despair and confusion; especially the events of the “Reichskristallnacht” and the efforts to emigrate are described. Eventually Rosemarie was able to go to London, which was made possible by the Bloomsbury House, which offered older children, who were not eligible for the “Kindertransport”, to escape to Great Britain. The memoir tells about the escape of Rosemarie’s parents. Her father was born in Danzig, which was considered a free State by Hitler after the war began. Therefore Hartwig Deutschland received a “Danzig Quota” number 7 for travel to America and the couple left Germany immediately and soon arrived in New York. Shortly afterwards Rosemarie got a visa to enter the USA, too.The memoir tells about her first years in the USA, her job as a pediatrics nurse at the Israel Zion Hospital, her job caring for a small child, her years studying at Hunter College, her job at the Blood Bank at University Hospital as well as how she met her husband Hans Joseph. She was lucky to get a grant of $1,800.00 from the Educational Foundation for Jewish Girls and so she was able to enroll at the Polyclinic Hospital and Medical School for one year. After passing the Registry Exam she was allowed to work as a Medical Technologist of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. Her first job then was at a private medical laboratory in Brooklyn. 1952 she started to work part time at the Jewish Memorial Hospital, which soon turned into a full time job. She worked there until 1982. Furthermore Rosemarie writes about her struggle to get a child. Finally the couple adopted two boys, Claude and Andrew. The memoir gives account of the family’s decision to buy a house at Lake Carmel in Putnam county, N.Y., their animals, the family life, how Rosemarie started oil painting, her retirement, her voluntary work at the Residential Treatment Center for autistic children, the death of her husband, a new relationship; and finally her move to West Palm Beach, Florida and her life there, together with a lot of volunteer activities, music and trips to several places in the USA and Europe. Finally, the memoir includes a paragraph about Rosemarie’s contribution to the Shoa Foundation with Steven Spielberg as a chairman plus a copy of the letter that Spielberg sent to Rosemarie, saying thank you for her help.Rosemarie L. Joseph was born on September 4, 1919 in Berlin-Steglitz as a child to Hartwig and Else Deutschland. After four years at a public school, she entered a private school in Berlin-Lichterfelde until she was forced to leave. She attended a one-year training at a Jewish home for newborn infants. After completing this course she found a job caring for an infant. 1939 she left Germany and first went to Great Britain. On July 4, 1940 Rosemarie eventually arrived in New York. 1945 she married Hans Joseph. In 1946 she passed the Registry Examination. 1952-1982 she worked at the Jewish Memorial Hospital as a Medical Technologist. She retired in West Palm Beach, Florida.Joseph familyHebrew Immigrant Aid Society, New York, (1885-
Zur Geschichte der Offenbacher Synagoge.
No full textClass project of a tenth grader in Offenbach am Maindigitize