Liederkranz trip to Hundseck Portraits Groups

Liederkranzausflug nach Hundseck; Standing l-r; Sidi Ullmann, Ehepaar, Alfred und Toni Hirschland, Willi Ullmann, Lisel Suess, Lene Hesse-Sinzheimer, Julius Suess, ?, Hermann Boehm, Eugen Hirsch, Dr. Carl Kahn, Frau von Michael Rothschild (Ella?), Max Sinzheimer, Grete Hirschland and Alfred Liebmann ; Seated l-r: Adele Boehm, Michael Rothschild, rosel Suess, Louis Kahn (Junior), Ehepaar Dr. Gustav Hecht, Paula Hirsch and Marianne Kahn

Visit to a Viennese cemetery /

"Visit to a Viennese Cemetary" is a personal reflection about Fireside's first trip back to Austria since his arrival in the USA. It was organised by the "Jewish Welcome Service" in September 2000. This trip brings forgotten memories back to life, questioning the role of Austrians in the Holocaust, and their denial afterwards. The author describes the trip, first days of sightseeing and conversations of his fellow travellers. On the last day, the group went to Zentralfreidhof, the main cemetery in Vienna.

[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.