"From Ghetto to Ghetto" : [1900-1933].

Childhood and education in Grodno and Lemberg; poor family background; active as soccer player; acting school of Max Reinhardt in Berlin; engagements in Munich, Zurich and Frankfurt; visit to Poland and short engagement with Yiddish theater troupe; description of theater in Weimar Germany; activities in "Juedischer Kulturbund" after 1933; main role in Kulturbund performance of "Nathan the Wise".

The Autobiography of a Jewish Refugee 1921-1998

Charles Leigh, 1992, 1994, 1999

Das fatale Loch in der Berliner Theatergeschichte : lecture ueber Persoenlichkeiten des Berliner Theaterlebens und ihre NS-Vergangenheit /

Manuscript: "Das fatale Loch in der Berliner Theatergeschichte". Speech exploring the burdens placed on scholarship and the students of the Theatrical Institute of the Free University of Berlin by the presence of professors who were compromised by their activities during the Nazi era.

Genia und Guenter Nobel Haftbriefe.

Collection of letters exchanged between Genia and Guenter Nobel during their imprisonment, compiled by the Gedenkstaette Deutscher Widerstand Berlin to accompany the permanent exhibit "Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus"

Jacob Plaut Family Collection Interview Disc circa 1930-1940

Private press aluminum phonographic record sent to Jakob Plaut in Berlin by his sons Günther and Walter in Maine, United States, on his 58th birthday with their birthday wishes and an interview. Each side is only a few minutes long.

Erna Proskauer Collection 1988-1996

The collection contains published materials in honor of Erna Proskauer and her career in law. Also included are speeches and correspondence pertaining to her receiving the German medal of honor, Bundesverdienstkreuz, on April 5, 1995.

Schauplatz Fürstin-Bismarck-Schule.

An article (clipping) about a Jewish high school for girls in Berlin Charlottenburg, 1916-1939.

Bernhard and Hildegard Saenger Collection.

The bulk of the collection consists of two bound manuscripts (930 + 110 pages), representing the notes of the law student Bernhard Saenger during the lectures of Prof. Heinrich Dernburg in Halle, Germany on Roman law in Germany and on Roman inheritance law (Pandektenvorlesung).

[Mein unvergesslicher Vater Nathan Wachtel].

Description of family's escape from Germany to France and Italy, mother's deportation, life in hiding, return to Germany in 1950s.

Mr. and Mrs. Fuerst Berlin, Hans Frankenbach, Wronker Slogau? and Lilienthal Berlin seated at an outdoor table; Brambach, Germany Portraits Goups

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Grave of Josef Molling; Germany.

Josef Molling committed suicide. He had financial problems, either embezzelment from the Prussian State Lottery or over an aircraft plant.

Summer home of Bianca and Julius Rosenbaum; Glinicke, Berlin Portraits Men

Verso: handwritten correspondence

Grave of Josef Molling; Germany.

Josef Molling committed suicide. He had financial problems, either embezzelment from the Prussian State Lottery or over an aircraft plant.

Henny? Beitman with a bicycle; Dielkirchen, Falkenstein, Germany Portraits Women

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Judge Max Frankenbach of Berlin hiking with his wife Grete Frankenbach nee Bernstein; Sassal-Massone Portraits Couples

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