Unidentified woman on phone; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Unidentified women working with files; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Groups; Women

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Unidentified woman; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Kaete Rosenheim; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Unidentified woman; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Unidentified woman; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Unidentified woman; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Unidentified woman; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Unidentified woman; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Kaete Rosenheim; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Women

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Paul Eppstein; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Men

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Georg Lubinski; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Portraits; Men

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Desk; Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland Organizations

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Mathias family preparing to board the ship "Deutschland" to emigrate from Germany to New York Portraits; Family

On January 6, 1938 our family left Nazi Germany and boarded a ship "Deutschland" for New York. This ended our family's life in Germany forever. Rudolph ES Mathias.

[Memoiren] : [1887-1933].

Childhood and education in Munich; assimilated bourgeois Jewish family; father was a lawyer and titular professor; writer Ludwig Thoma assistant of his father; vacations in Marienbad; military service; university studies in Munich with Lujo Brentano; apprenticeship as lawyer; political interest and joining of SPD; contacts with later Bavarian president Kurt Eisner; as soldier in World War I; diplomatic mission in Tirol during last days of World War I; refused to take part in Bavarian revolution of November 1918, but close contacts with Eisner government; exact account of two Bavarian soviet republics in 1919 and their protagonists (Gustav Landauer, Erich Muehsam, Eugen Levine); Bavarian politics and justice 1919-1933; description of Paul Nikolaus Cossmann and his reactionary journal "Sueddeutsche Monatshefte"; advocate of Eisner's secretary Felix Fechenbach in political trial against accusations by Cossmann; expulsion of East European Jews by Bavarian government 1923; Hitler coup attempt 1923; election campaign March 1933; Nazi takeover of power in Bavaria; dismissal as lawyer; decision to emigrate.