My First 6701 Days : July 31 1921 to December 1939 /

The memoirs contain photocopies of documents and photos as well as extracts from letters and were written in October 1989 in the United States. Description of life in Baden, a famous health resort near Vienna. The family lived in Vienna in the second district (Leopoldstadt). Recollections of schoolteachers and childhood friends. Occasional Friday night services in the Leopoldstadt temple. Theater and opera visits and cultural life in Vienna. Private piano and music lessons. Description of the family apartment and Jewish life in the Leopoldstadt. The family celebrated Christmas and observed the high Jewish holidays. Recollections of the author's bar mitzvah celebration. His mother Charlotte, nee Schwadron, was an artistic woman, who studied painting at the Frauenakademie with Tina Blau. Walter's father Leo Schaffir was born in Byalistock, Russia and studied in Berlin. He was a travelling businessmen. His family lived in Lemberg, Galicia. Leo and Charlotte Schaffir got married in 1919 in Vienna by rabbi Dr. Grunwald. Recollections of a family trip to Poland and to the World Fair in Posen in 1930. Suicide of the author's father due to business failure in 1930. Schaffir and Schwadron family history. Both families originated in Galicia, Poland. Family and social life. Summer vacation at the Semmering. Austrian politics in the 1930's and rising National Socialism. Life in Vienna after the "Anschluss" in 1938. Walter had to leave school and took lessons in graphic arts with the artist Heinrich Koerner. Preparations to emigrate. Walter was picked up in the streets in the days after Kristallnacht and released due to his mother's intervention. He was sent with his brother Kurt on a "Kindertransport" to Holland. They were sent to a quarantine camp at Heyplaat. Reunition with their mother in the United States in December 1939. Reflections on life as an emigre.

Dwelling house in a sacred space: reused synagogues in Germany.

Contribution to the Congress " Sacred and Secular Buildings," Washington, May 1999, describing a project of the Institute of Architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem, which has been working on a documentation of synagogues, cemetery chapels, and ritual baths in Germany since 1994.

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.

Report 1942 to 1945.

Memoir describes the personal experience of Coen Rood during the Holocaust from 1942 to 1945. The report was written from 1945 to 1949 for the War Documentation Center in Amsterdam.

Terezin, The Deportation Train.

Signed and dated lower right.

Archives; Amsterdam.

Christie's; Amsterdam, 1989.

Proekt tipovogo samannogo doma pod gontovoǐ krysheǐ dli︠a︡ evreǐskikh pereselent︠s︡ev obsluzhzhivaemykh "Agro-dzhoǐntom"

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Plan poselka "Poltavt︠s︡y"

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Tipovoĭ proekt korovnika na 100 golov

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Proekt tipovogo 2-kh kvartirnogo pereselencheskogo doma

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Proekt tipovogo 4-kh kvartirnogo pereselencheskogo doma

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Proekt tipovogo doma dli︠a︡ pereselencheskikh uchastkov obsluzhivaemykh Agrodzhoĭntom

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Proekt doma

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Tipovoĭ zhiloĭ dom pereselent︠s︡ev evreev Khersonskogo okruga po planu stroitelʹstva 1926 goda

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Proekt glinobytnogo doma tipa 7.50x4.00

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