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[Ernst Frankenstein was born in Dortmund, Germany...].
No full textEssay by Ernst Frankenstein's daughter Bettina Roth about his work in private international law; passion for writing;
family and family history; emigration from Germany; and Zionism.Ernst Frankenstein, a German Jewish scholar of private international law and comparative law, was born in Dortmund,
Germany, on May 31, 1881, and grew up in Berlin where his parents moved in 1884. In 1933, he left Germany and went first to Italy,
then to France, and finally to Great Britain. In 1939, he commenced to draft a European Code of Private International law, which was
published in the Netherlands in 1950 under the title "Projet d'un code europeen de droit international prive." In 1943, he published
his book Justice for My People : The Jewish Case. About the same time, he wrote the book Future of Man under the pseudonym Frank E.
Warner. He died in London in 1959.Processed for digitizatio
AHC interview with Gertrude Marmorek.
No full textGertrude Marmorek (nee Neuron) was born in Vienna in 1914. She lived at Kandlgasse 23, in the seventh Viennese district, and worked as a translator. She went to the University of Vienna, and then the University of Grenoble, Switzerland. She emigrated to the USA.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Gertrude Marmorek Collection (AR 10872
The Mendelsohn family from Zeitz, Saxony.
No full textNames and dates of 5 members of the Mendelsohn family from Zeitz, Saxony, who were killed during World War I and during the Holocaust.Mentioned are: Mendelsohn, Bertha (née Bachmann); Mendelsohn, Herbert; Mendelsohn, Martin; Mendelsohn, Paul; and Mendelsohn, Siegfried
Mezuzah "This Mezuzah was produced on 1993 by MALKA COHAVI & STUDIO D.H.GUMBEL,THE SOLE-OWNER OF THE COPYRIGHTS, as a gesture for D.H.GUMBEL'S last special design that was designed and created by him for the SUPREME COURT IN JERUSALEM 1992 , opened one week after D.H.GUMBEL passed away."
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Where the wolves say goodnight : Memoirs of a mother Hitler couldn't catch /
No full textThe memoir was written 1999 in California. Memories of Ruth Abraham's childhood in Löbau, West Prussia. She grew up in an orthodox family. Her father, Meyer Fromm, was a wealthy merchant. Recollections of the celebration of Jewish holidays. Relationship between the Jewish and Christian community. Antisemitism after World War One, when Löbau became Polish. Rumors of pogroms in Russia. Opting for German citizenship and move to Allenstein near Koenigsberg in 1921. Early interest in dressmaking. Ruth was enrolled in the Luisen Schule, a homemaking school for girls. Private Religion and Hebrew classes at home. Importance of family ties. Increasing encounters of alienation with non-Jewish friends, who stopped associating with her. Rising Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitism. Apprenticeship at the family's dressmaker. First signs of the growing danger in Germany. In 1932 her sister Betty left for Palestine. Move to Berlin, where she stayed at her sisters' houses, who were both married to affluent business men and led the lives of comfortable middle class wives. Fascinating cultural life in Berlin. Working with various dressmakers. Jewish life slowly disappeared into private life due to fears of stirring attention. Increasing persecution and awareness of permanent danger. Zionist lectures and activities. Trip to Italy and Palestine to visit her sister in February 1938. Witnessing the terror of the "Kristallnacht" (November Pogrom). Attending performances of the Kulturbund (Jewish arts society) to escape the dreadful reality. Engagement with Walter Abraham. Fervent attempts to arrange an exit visa for the family. First deportations of relatives to camps in Poland. Forced labor in a pharmacy corporation. In 1942 Ruth became pregnant. Deportation of her parents. Encounter with a German woman, Maria Nickel, who offered her help. Birth of their daughter Reha and life in hiding in the countryside. Escape from a SS raid. Hiding in Berlin and life on the streets.False identity and hiding place in the countryside. Liberation by the Russian army. Imprisonment of her husband accused of being a Nazi spy. Return to Berlin and liberation by the Americans.Ruth Fromm was born as the youngest child of an orthodox family 1913 in Löbau, West Prussia. She worked as a dressmaker in Berlin and got married to Walter Abraham in 1939. In 1943 Ruth and her husband escaped deportation and went to live in hiding with their newborn daughter Reha until the end of the war.Synopsis in fileSee also: "Reha Abraham Sokolow Collection" (AR 11202)AllensteinChildhoodEducation, Jewish, 1918-1933Forced laborHolidays, JewishNazi Germany, Jewish communal and cultural lifeOrthodox JudaismRighteous Gentiles in the HolocaustVoyages and travel
The interiorization of religious life and thought at the beginning of Hasidism : its sources and epistemological basis.
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Shimon Gottschalk with his wife Jo and family on his 70th birthday; Florida Portraits Family
No full textFront row left to right: Tikkun, Back row: the twins, age 8, Shimon's wife Jo,, right: Ariela, age 28, the eldestDigital ImageShimon Gottschalk is the great nephew of Alfred Laurence and is related through the nineteenth century Sterns of SoestShimon Gottschalk, born 192
Momma's arc /
No full textThe memoirs were written in New York in 1999. Description of the childhood of Rosemarie Schink, the author's mother, in the rural area of Meuszelwitz, Thuringia, where her grandfather, Franz Harnish, was the station manager. Rosemarie Schink eloped to Amsterdam with the Dutch Jew Judah Easel in 1931. The marriage fall apart soon thereafter, and Rosemarie was taken under the wings of her father-in-law Joseph Easel. The couple stayed officially married until their divorce in 1940, and Rosemarie worked in the pension of her in-laws. She had a long affair with the German Jew Guy Weinberg from Hamburg, a married man who was living in Amsterdam and became the father of her daughter Julia. Description of the Weinberg family history. In 1941 Rosemarie Schink married the Austrian Jewish lawyer Herbert Mauthner, the eldest of three sons of Robert Mauthner, director of the Bodenbacher-Dux Railroad and Melanie Leitner, daughter of a wealthy family from Veszprem, Hungary. Mauthner family history and nobility of the Leitner family, who were admitted to the court of the Austrian Kaiser Franz Joseph.Description of the author's childhood in Amsterdam. German invasion of the Netherlands in 1941. Recollections of a visit at her maternal grandparents in Groszbuch, Germany in 1942. During the Nazi occupation, Julia, her mother, and her stepfather Herbert Mauthner moved to Blaricum, a town in the Dutch countryside. Julia, protected through her Gentile mother and "unknown" father, was enrolled in the local school. Her mother was part of the Dutch Resistance. She saved 6 Jews (including her husband and her mother-in-law) and later a German Wehrmacht deserter in Blaricum by hiding them in the attic of her house. Description of the life of the people hiding in "her mother's arc" and occasional razzias by the SS. Fate of her scattered family during the Holocaust.Julia B. Schor (née Ensel) was born in Amsterdam in 1937. She survived the war with her family in the Dutch countryside, where her mother was hiding her Jewish husband and mother-in-law among other Jewish refugees from the Germans.see also "Julia B. Schor Collection" (AR 25062)MeuszelwitzGroszbuchAntisemitismAustro-Hungarian EmpireChildhoodDomestic life, 20th centuryGenealogyGestapoNazi Germany, persecution of Jews, 1933-1941Netherlands, history, 1933-1945Professions and occupations, carpentersProfessions and occupations, lawyersProfessions and occupations, station managersRural lif
