Freddy Godshaw (Gottschalk) (far left) on Pfingsten (Pentacost) with two unidentified friends who perished in the Holocaust. Portraits Children

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Dorothea (Dola) Guttmann and two friends riding bicycles; Montreal Portraits Groups Women

Born April 27, 1922 in Tilsit, died June 8, 2003 Zurich

Jacob Judey-Barosin and his father Hermann Judey hiking with friends; Sächsische Schweiz Portraits Men

l-r: Martin Lipschitz, Sam Kohn, Hermann Judey, Willy Lipschitz, Georg Eliasberg and Jacob Judey-Barosin

Young Herbert Strauss (far right) with three unidentified friends walking down a street on an excursion to Sulzfeld, Baden.

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Young Herbert Strauss (center) with four friends seated on a park bench on the Sabbath; Würzburg.

To the right of Herbert Strauss are Anne Chrenbacher and Walther Reis, to his left are Heinz Ostheim and an unidentified woman

Freddy Godshaw (Gottschalk) (far left) on Pfingsten (Pentacost) with two unidentified friends who perished in the Holocaust. Portraits Children

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Young Herbert Strauss (far right) with three unidentified friends walking down a street on an excursion to Sulzfeld, Baden.

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Membership cards of Judith Rosenthal, Elma Rosenthal and Arthur Rosenthal to the Jüdischer Kulturbund Berlin Portraits Family

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Selma's saga [1916-1948]

The memoirs were written in 1982 in Sydney, Australia and include excerpts of letters from various relatives during the years 1938-1941. Early childhood recollections of World War One. The family was living in the 6th district of Vienna. Description of domestic life with maids, laundresses and a French governess. Death of her mother in 1918. Trip with her stepmother Ida Plohn to Prague. Recollections of a stay in the countryside at their maid's family, where Selma and her older sister Martha awaited the birth of their younger sister Trude. Memories of Christmas celebrations. Summer vacations in the mountains. Description of the extended family. Inflation and economic depression in the 1920s. Strict upbringing by her stepmother. Children recreation trip to Grado, Italy in 1925. Selma was accepted at the "Bundeserziehungsanstalt" for gifted students. Only few fellow Jewish students. Religious education with beloved rabbi Diamant. Recovery from tonsilitis in a senatorium in Aflenz, Austria. Celebration of Jewish holidays and visits at the Synagogue on Yom Kippur. Transfer to Realschule. Due to a sudden onset of various illnesses Selma was unable to continue school and had put an end to her father's dream of an university education for her. Difficult to find a position in the depression times of the early 1930s. Only few working options for a Jewish woman. Position as a secretary in a Jewish firm. Outings in the Vienna Woods. Membership in the Zionist group Betar.

Schoolman family papers, undated, 1889-1994

The Schoolman Papers reflect Dr. Albert P. and Mrs. Bertha Schoolmans' staunch dedication to Jewish education, Jewish causes, and Israel. Bertha Schoolman, a lifelong member of Hadassah, assisted thousands of Israeli youth as chairman of the Youth Aliyah Committee. Her diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and correspondence record her numerous visits to Israel on which she helped set up schools, met with Israeli dignitaries, and participated in Zionist Conferences and events. The collection includes a 1936 letter from Hadassah founder, Henrietta Szold, praising Mrs. Schoolman's work as well as a letter from the father of Anne Frank, thanking Mrs. Schoolman for naming a Youth Aliyah center the "Anne Frank Haven" after his later daughter.

Accounts of K. K. S. I--Membership, Debts, Bonds and Interest

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