Portrait from the Golden Wedding Anniversary celebration of Heinrich and Helena Valentin; Berlin Portraits Groups

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Building that once served as the J. Krakauer Likoerfabrik Nachfolger; Chausseestrasse, Berlin Business Establishments; Factories

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Arno Nadel (2nd from right) with undentified men listening to new recordings; Berlin Portraits; Groups; Men

Verso: "Listening to new recordings. Berlin 1932"

Students on the steps of the Lehranstalt fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Jewish teachers' seminary); Berlin Institutions; Educational; Schools; Portraits; Groups

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Students on the steps of the Lehranstalt fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums (Jewish teachers' seminary); Berlin Institutions; Educational; Schools; Portraits; Groups

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Wedding portrait of Mariana Rosenbaum; Berlin Portraits Couples

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Studio portrait of young Hilde Rosenbaum holding a teddy bear; Berlin Portraits Children

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Yasha and Riva outside their lighting store; Martin Luter Strasse, Berlin Portraits Couples

Relatives of the Judey-Barosin and Finkel families

Photograph of oil painting portrait of Samuel Loewen; Berlin Portraits Men

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Mosse family photo collage for the wedding of Hans and Licie Mosse; family shown in blimp floating over Grosse Berliner Strasse; Berlin Portraits; Family

Verso: Die Anfahrt der Gaeste zur Hochzeitsfeier von Hans u. Licie am 10. Oktober 1909

Memoirs : Heida Hermanns Holde /

The author's mother Alice Goldschmidt was a gifted piano player, who studied with Carl Maria Breithaupt and became his most talented student. Childhood recollections. Early musical awakening. Outbreak of World War One. Recollections of air raids and scarceness of food. Inflation and political instability in post-war Germany. Piano lessons by her mother from an early age. Heida made her debut at age fourteen with the Wiesbaden Symphony under the conductor Carl Schuricht, who became a close mentor and friend. Close relationship to her mother, who had a great influence on her professional career. Heida had a number of outstanding teachers, among them Artur Schnabel, Karl Leimer and Egon Petri. Heida was accepted as a student of Petri at the "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Berlin, where she studied between 1922-1925. Salon at her aunt's house with guests such as the playwright Georg Kaiser and Siegfried Wagner. Her sister Elsie received her Ph.D. in economics and moved to Berlin as well. Heida graduated from the "Hochschule" in 1925. Soon after she won an international piano competition in Berlin. Engagements with various conductors such as Max Fiedler and Otto Klemperer. Private lessons with Arthur Schnabel and Carl Friedberg, the co-founder of Juilliard. Due to occasional experiences of antisemitism during her music career Heida decided to change her name from Goldschmidt to Hermanns. Position at the "Hoch Conservatory" in Frankfurt. Encounter with the music critic Artur Holde, Heida's future-husband. Engagement and wedding in 1932. Move to Berlin.

[Childhood memories of Berlin, Rhineland, Holland] 1933-1945

Childhood memories of Berlin, Rhineland, Holland; emigration to United States in 1936; impressions of New York; life in Paso Robles, California; memories of his mother; reflections on life of mother.

A Berlin Childhood ca. 1900 1900

English translation of "Berliner Kindheit um 1900" by Shierry Weber Nicholsen.

[BÖCKH: ordentliche Mitglieder des Philologischen Seminars Berlin].

Lists of participants in Prof. August Boeck‘s philological societies in Berlin and in Heidelberg, circa 1822-1857, compiled by Klaus Grotsch.

Reproduction of an autographed portrait of Ludwig Bamberger seated holding paper Portraits; Men

Signed Ludwig Bamberger