Lola and George Gruenthal in Neu-Ulm Portraits Family

"When will you come back?" (written in German on verso)

Portrait of Julie Schoenbeck; Neu-Ulm, Germany.

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Jakob Guggenheimer and his daughter Irene Einstein walking past antisemitic graffiti "Juden in Ulm nicht errwuenscht!" (Jews are not welcome in Ulm); Stuttgarterstrasse; Ulm/Donau Antisemitica

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Lola and George Gruenthal in Neu-Ulm Portraits Family

"When will you come back?" (written in German on verso)

Portrait of Julie Schoenbeck; Neu-Ulm, Germany.

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Jakob Guggenheimer and his daughter Irene Einstein walking past antisemitic graffiti "Juden in Ulm nicht errwuenscht!" (Jews are not welcome in Ulm); Stuttgarterstrasse; Ulm/Donau Antisemitica

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School group class portrait including Susan (Susi) Ehrlich; Ulm Portraits; Groups

(l-r): Ruth Altman, Irene Hirsch, Hilde Dannhauser, Suse Barth, Anneliese Hirsch, Suse Saenger, Esther Nathan, Hannelore Baer, Heinz Koerner, Ruth Bauland, Marianne Leiter, Heinz Krippel, Hanna Ullmann, Edith Weil, Otto Eckstein, Susi Ehrlich, Hans Klein, Julie Klappholz, Hanna Chose, Minna Hirsch and Rudolf Loewy

Erinnerungen 1857-1934

Genealogy; childhood in Tuebingen as the youngest of 14 brothers; student life in Tuebingen; professional career; because of his being Jewish no possibility to enter career as public prosecutor; active membership in National Liberal Party and in Free Mason Lodge; World War I; closing of his law office in 1933. Contains transcriptions of numerous congratulations for his golden wedding and his 80th birthday in 1937.

Tolle Jahre Versuch einer Lebensbeschreibung

Description of the author’s family background. His paternal family owned a tobacco and cigarres business in Ulm, which was transferred to Munich in 1888. The maternal family in Frankfurt am Main had a textile export business. Recollections of his schooldays at the Catholic St. Anna Schule. Antisemitic encounters at the local Gymnasium. Description of life in the 19th century. Reverence for the local royalties. The family was involved in the Zionist movement, as were most of the members of their local synagoge.