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Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945

Memoirs of Arje Rubens, "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way") regarding the story of a Jewish family from Berlin, 1933-1945 Included in the file: [1-Scanned File; 119 pages in German] [2- Memoirs of Arje (Walter) Rubens, titled "So Hat Es Angefangen" ("It All Began This Way"); written in narrative form, primarily from a collection of letters by his mother in Berlin, his uncle in Vienna and his brother in Prague as well as excerpts from his own diary; memoirs published in 1992; - Summary of family background, parents' family history; - Childhood in Berlin including encounters with...

File Number : 4740

Type of Material : Memoirs, Testimony, Letter(s), Photograph, Diary

Language : Hebrew, German

Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence, reports and memoirs, 1956-1960

Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence, reports and memoirs, 1956-1960 Material regarding the situation of the German Jews, 1933-1945, and from immediately after the war, as well as postwar correspondence between Jewish organizations, 1956-1960, reports submitted by historical commissions and memoirs of contemporary witnesses. In the file: - Report concerning the deportation of Jews from Hamburg to Riga, 06 December 1941, among the deportees: Rabbi Dr. Joseph Zwi Carlebach, the former rabbi of the Jewish...

File Number : 334

Type of Material : Reports, Postcard, Correspondence, Testimony, Telegram, Memoirs, Newspaper Clippings, Letter(s)

Language : Hebrew, English, German

Testimony of Regine (Klemperer) Elbogen, born in Breslau, Germany, 1883, widow of Professor Ismar Elbogen, regarding the Hochschule (Lehranstalt) der Wissenschaft des Judentums (Higher Institute for Jewish Studies) in Berlin, 1933-1938 - Founding of the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin, 1872; - Name change from Hochschule to Lehranstalt between 1883 and 1922 and from 1934; - Maintenance of a high educational level and independence; studies at the Institute open to Germans of all religions; concentration on education of rabbis and teachers; financing by foundations and...

File Number : 140

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Testimony

Language : German

Testimony of Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1938

Testimony of Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri, born in Berlin, Germany, 1891, regarding his experiences in Germany, 1933-1938 - Thoughts regarding Hindenburg's image and underestimation of Hitler by the German population; - The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, 01 April 1933; the subsequent law regarding admission to the legal profession, 07 April 1933; - Dr. Ball-Kaduri's journey to England for clarification of emigration possibilities for his sister, Erna Ball, and himself, 1933; - Account of a trial before the labor court: Case brought by a Jewish scientist against his dismissal; rejection of a settlement...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Testimony, Official Documentation

Language : Hebrew, English, German