Reproduction of photograph of Kurt Fritz Rosenberg (left) with Karl Kaufman and Elsa Kaufman; Dresden.

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Terezin: Barrack "Dresden" compound, barracks women's activities.

Initialed and dated lower right. Inscription attached paper: "Court of Dresden barracks for ladies only"

Portrait of a family and their dog sitting in a park Portraits Family

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Class picture of Gisela Kleinermann Portraits Group

The photograph shows Gisela Kleinermann (standing at the right end of the line) with her class at the ‘Juedische Schule’ in Dresden, late summer of 1938, as she and her mother were preparing for her immigration to the USA. Most other children were deported in October 1938 and perished in the Holocaust. The teacher, Jacob Blum (center back) emigrated to Palestine.

Portrait of a family and their dog sitting in a park Portraits Family

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Margarete Oppenheimer geb. Busch : 29. Mai 1883 - 8. August 1935.

Memorial book with the speeches by Leo Baeck and Hugo Jacobi.

Chronik der Familie Herz Salomon Fuld 1806-1944

History of the Frankfurt Fuld family, reaching back to the author's grandfather, Herz Salomon Fuld. Contains description of the antique business of Benjamin's uncle Selig Goldschmidt.

Erinnerungen 1861-1925

Fragment of author's mother's (born 1861) memories; author's father came from Hungary and attended Pressburg Yeshiva; orthodox Jewish family; main part of childhood in Mesingwerk near Eberswalde in orthodox Jewish milieu; Hirsch, Rosenblueth and Calvary families in Messingwerk and Berlin; recreational travel; move to Berlin in 1911; father's house was center for Zionist youth in Berlin.

Familienerinnerungen. Ein Fragment 1790-1913

History of the family of Isak Mirabeau (born 1840); his maternal grandfather Isak Henle was the first Jew to receive civic rights in Hall (Wuerttemberg); his paternal grandfather came from Olnhausen (Wuerttemberg); he was a hops and wool merchant; he became wealthy as a supplier for the French army, and entered the banking business; notes on Jewish history in 19th century Wuerttemberg; contains also instructions to his son for the case of his death (does not have to say kaddish).

[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.

Vom Hof zum Staatstheater : Zwei Jahrzehnte persoenlicher Erinnerungen an Sachsens Hoftheater, ….

A chapter from Adolph's book, “Die Freiherrin Kaskel in Dresden���, about the Baronesse von Kaskel, née Oppenheim, who was entertaining Saxony’s performing artists in her villa.