Ebern; Jewish Community Collection

Material on Jewish cemeteries in Lower Franconia (Burgpreppach, Ebern, Ermershausen, Kleinsteinach, Limbach, Memmelsdorf, Schweinshaupten, Untermerzbach).

Jewish Planted Forest

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Jewish Eucalyptus Forest

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Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray

The memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.

The story of my family : The German-Jewish family of Hermann Nelki /

History of the Nelki and Russo families in Berlin; concentrates mainly on first half of the 20th century; most members of the family were physicians; persecution in Nazi period; emigration to England; attached is the story of Eva Edith Ehrlich who survived the war years in Berlin in hiding.

Embattled Selves. Jewish Identity in the Face of Nazi Persecution undated (1989 circa)

Manuscript: "Embattled Selves. Jewish Identity in the Face of Nazi Persecution". Table of contents and partial draft of a book on the impact of experiences in the Nazi era on the Jewish identity of four persons.

German-Jewish Club of 1933, Los Angeles : Ein vergessenes Kapitel der Emigration /

Radio speech on the writers, actors, artists, and others who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Los Angeles area.

Diary of a Jewish mother.

Brief synopsis of life of Toni Ringel by Robert Ringel; translated diary of Toni Ringel during hiding in Amsterdam, September 1942 - April 1945: struggles to survive; diet; observance of Passover and other Jewish holidays; sickness of husband; death of husband.

Jewish Americans 1982

Manuscript: "Jewish Americans, A Film Treatment". Treatment for a documentary film exploring how Jewish Americans see themselves, and their enormous contributions to and achievements in the USA.

Jewish Agency Commemorative Medal

Obverse: A fractional reproduction of the Star of David made out of line of immigrants disembarking from a ship. Reverse: To the left, the emblem of the Jewish Agency

The Autobiography of a Jewish Refugee 1921-1998

Charles Leigh, 1992, 1994, 1999

A Patchwork of memories 1911-1997

Memoir describes her life in Germany, her decision to leave Germany after the death of her parents, and to work in the United States in 1934. Detailed description of every day life in Germany (after World War I) and in the United States, and later of various travels all over the world. Also mentions her German-Jewish ancestors on her maternal side (great-great-grandparents: Moritz and Fanny Hertz, great-grandmother: Helene Hertz nee Orthenberger), who had a textile business.

Jewish Girl.

The sitter is Ulla Goldstein, daughter of Harvard Neurologist & psychiatrist Kurt Goldstein, cousin of Mrs. Edith Tietz ( archives Goldstein, Kurt)

To the Mothers of the Twelve Thousand.

The size of the work and the printed title suggests, that this is a poster. It bears the emblem R.J.F., for the sponsoring organization, Reichsbund Juedischer Frontsoldaten or National Organization of the Jewish Front-line Soldiers. The mothers of "The twelve thousand" refers to the Jewish soldiers killed during World War I, when reminding Germans of the patriotism and sacrifices of German Jews, seemed important in view of the discrimination they were confronted with at the time, in 1935.

Jewish settlements in the Odessa region

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