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Mainz family

 Family

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Frieda Hirsch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 30
Scope and Contents

"Mein Weg von Karlsruhe ueber Heidelberg nach Haifa" is the memoir of Frieda Hirsch (née Goldberg) (1890- ). She describes the history of her parents, her upbringing in Karlsruhe as daughter of a well-to-do Jewish-orthodox family, her education at a humanistic high school (Gymnasium), her university studies (medicine) in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Breslau (1908-1913), and life during World War I in Karlsruhe and Heidelberg. She married Albert Hirsch (1887-1954) in 1915, a medical student and member of the Zionist student organization "Verein Juedischer Studenten" and settled in Heidelberg, where Albert worked as a pediatrician. Frieda Hirsch tells about life in Heidelberg, the births and upbringing of her children, various friendships (among others with Georg Hermann, Frieda Reichmann, Erich Fromm, and Eugen Taeubler), Zionist activities of her husband, and first anti-Semitic persecutions in Heidelberg in 1933. She gives detailed testimony of her emigration from Heidelberg via Salzburg and Triest to Haifa, where the family settled, of the difficult first years in Palestine with her husband opening a new medical office, and describes her experiences during World War II in Haifa, the founding of the state of Israel in 1948 and moving to Kiryat Ono after her husband's death in 1954.

The second text, an attachment of Hirsch's memoir, contains a genealogical table and a detailed history of Frieda Hirsch's (née Goldberg) and Albert Hirsch's families.

Dates: 1965

Jacob Michael Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2467
Abstract

This collection contains genealogical information for the Mainz and Michael families and articles concerning Jacob Michael and his business.

Dates: 1850- circa 1930

Michael Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 21
Abstract

This collection consists of various materials pertaining to the Michael family in particular to Jacob Joseph Michael's (1882- ) efforts to write a family history covering the years 1600 to 1951.

Dates: 1891-1980

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Bankers 2
Manuscripts (documents) 2
Antisemitism 1
Archival materials 1
Autobiographies (literary works) 1