Gertrude Berliner Collection

The writings of Gertrude Berliner in folder 2 (in two parts) are mainly stories of personal recollections and reminiscences of childhood and adulthood, family and emigration, in German and in English. Titles include “Mein schönstes Erlebnis in U.S.A.“, "Gourmet treats on culinary road” (1960), “The apple sauce”, “Story about Mizi and Kathe”, “New York World’s Fair 1964 - Wiener Prater 1914”, “Frühling in Wien”, “No iron curtain”, “Mein erster Ausgflug in den Wiener Prater“, “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend”, “Das weise Vögelein”, “Kammermusik in unserem Haus“, “Mishpochologie”, “Carneval time”, “Life on this planet”, and “My trip over the Atlantic”, all in part one.

Folder 2, part two holds various autobiographical typescripts and manuscripts, such as “Portrait of my two grandmothers”, “Memoires from my mother’s family”, and others, as well as published and unpublished materials pertaining to “A memorial to Joseph Sanders” (1960).

Folder 3, genealogy, concentrates on the work of Peter Schulze about the genealogy of the Berliner family.

Folder 4, Semmy Berliner, holds correspondence and clippings pertaining to Semmy Berliner (1879-1915), who was killed 1915 in World War I.

Folder 5, memorabilia, contains photographs, copies of vital records of the Berliner family in Hannover, and an autograph of the writer Schalom Asch (1936).

Folder 6: Sketches, drawings and notes // undated

Folder 7 is dedicated to the industrialist and inventor Emile (Emil) Berliner, containing published materials and an undated, eight page typescript by Gertrude Berliner, "Emil Berliner kam aus Hannover. Weil der Erfinder der Schallplatte kein Soldat werden wollte, wanderte er nach Amerika aus". It is the biography and family history of the author’s uncle, the inventor of the flat recording disk. Also included a one-page family tree.