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Physicians

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Bernhard Bardach Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6632
Abstract

The Bernhard Bardach Collection describes mainly the career of a staff physician with the Austro-Hungarian army through educational and financial documents, photographs, and military decorations. Most importantly, Dr. Bardach kept a diary throughout his service in WW I. (see ME 1164)

Dates: 1887-1945, 1994, 2015

Birthday albums for Harry Harter

 Collection
Identifier: ALB 238a-s
Abstract

Birthday albums for Harry Hirschberg-Harter, prepared by his son Dieter (Donald).

Dates: 1934-1954

Edmund Hadra Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 1249
Abstract

This collection holds papers of the physician and author Edmund Hadra. Much of the collection is composed of unpublished manuscripts of his writing, a significant part of which is autobiographical in nature and describe some of the most notable events of his life. In addition to these works are other writings on themes such as literature and art. The collection additionally contains official, educational and professional documentation, some correspondence and a few research notes.

Dates: 1877-1971; Majority of material found within 1939-1966

Eduard Cohen Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3785 / MF 689
Abstract

The bulk of the collection contains family correspondence mainly in typescript. The most extensive part are the letters from Olga Cohen to her son Max from 1882 to 1893. The collection also contains a manuscript with notes of conversations Eduard Cohen had with Otto von Bismarck as well as a letter of condolence from Bismarck to Eduard Cohen's children. In addition, there are miscellaneous letters, memorabilia, and genealogical notes.

Dates: 1849-1971

Einzig-Field Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25156
Abstract

This collection contains the personal papers of members of the Einzig and Biberfeld (later Field) families. Physician Heinrich Biberfeld immigrated via Italy to New York City with his wife Johanna, two sons, and his mother-in-law in 1940. The collection includes personal correspondence with family members who had not been able to flee Germany, as well as vital records, education records, World War I military records, records of Henry Field’s medical career in Germany and New York, genealogical tables, and photographs.

Dates: 1879-2004; Majority of material found within 1914-1959

Elias Bondi Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5426 / MF 542
Abstract

Correspondence of Dr. Elias Bondi.Letters are to his brother Marcus Bondi, a geologist. And to his sisters Schewa and Clara. Letters refer to cholera epidemics (1831) in Hamburg. Letter of November 1833 to Clara Bondi refers to marriage and dowry. Letters from Ignaz Maron to his wife. George Meyer to his brother Friedrich (1890s). Letters from Clara Bondi to her niece Julie Bondi. Letters from Ignatz to Caecilie Bondi.

Dates: 1796-1890

Erich Adler Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25303 / MF 859
Abstract

Documents, correspondence, notebooks and manuscripts of Dr. Erich Adler and his wife Frieda née Feisenberger

Dates: 1889-1984

Erich Seligmann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 4104
Abstract

The Erich Seligmann Collection documents the noteworthy events in the life of this bacteriologist and hygienist, holding material on both his personal and professional life. The material focuses on the events of the 1930s and 1940s, including the loss of his position in Berlin, his immigration to the United States and World War II. The collection consists of diaries, a family history, professional documentation, a small amount of correspondence and a few family trees.

Dates: 1812-1982; Majority of material found within 1931-1948

Ernst Bloch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 219 / MF 692 / MF 998
Abstract

Clippings; photos; obituaries; article by Bloch: "Heimat und Friede" on patriotism.

Dates: 1934-1980

Ernst Heinrich Picard collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12073
Scope and Contents

Documents relating to restitution for denied public education in the 1930s for Ernst (Ernest) H. Picard, such as his report card, a copy of his birth certificate, his Harvard medical school diploma (photocopy) and correspondence; 1935 - 1968. Also included are three dissertations required for medical degrees in Germany of Ernst Picard’s father Julius Picard (Heidelberg, circa 1920); Julius Picard’s father Hermann Picard (Strassburg, 1895); and Julius Picard’s father in law Isidor Dreyfuss (Strassburg, 1893).

Dates: 1893-1968

Ernst Mueller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10006 / MF 623
Abstract

Personal documents and professional certificates pertaining to Dr. Ernst Mueller

Dates: 1911-

Eugen Kullmann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25439
Abstract

This collection holds papers of the philosopher Karl Joël and of various members of the Philippson family. Karl Joël's material includes personal and professional correspondence and a considerable amount of his notes, along with newspaper clippings on him and a few articles. Philippson family material largely focuses on Phöbus, Ludwig and Moritz Philippson's family correspondence and writing. Also present are letters of other family members, a few official documents and notes.

Dates: 1828-1949; Majority of material found in 1845-1934

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

Gottschalk and Krakauer Families Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25695
Abstract

The Gottschalk and Krakauer Families Collection provides documentation primarily on the immigration of family members of these two related families, but also documents the professional lives of family members along with other topics. The collection includes family correspondence, official papers and correspondence, material relating to the Molling & Co. department store, photographs, and notes.

Dates: 1900-2016; Majority of material found within 1937-1942

Graefenberg Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 231
Abstract

The collection contains military letters for Julius Frankenstein; genealogical tables for the Graefenberg family; and materials about the gynaecologist Ernst Graefenberg.

Dates: 1877-2003

Helen Ollendorff Curth Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25004
Abstract

This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of dermatologist Helen Ollendorff Curth for the years 1933 and 1934. The bulk is from friends and family in Germany, particularly her mother, social reformer Paula Ollendorff. Also included are many inquiries from Jewish doctors in Germany about immigration to the United States, as Curth and her husband had left Germany for New York in 1931.

Dates: 1932-1997; Majority of material found within 1933-1934

Hellpach-Kubatzki Correspondence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11087
Abstract

This collection contains correspondence from Willy Hellpach to Martha Cohn née Kubatzki, primarily from the early 1930s. The materials include letters, postcards, poems, newspaper and scholarly publications, and a photograph. The collection also includes a notebook, songbook, and an executor’s letter.

Dates: 1915-1999; Majority of material found within 1929-1935

Helmuth Nathan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3911
Abstract

The Helmuth Nathan Collection documents professional activities of Helmuth Nathan, physician, artists, teacher, and a historian of medicine. The collection includes brochures, booklets, clippings, correspondence, financial documents, minutes, notes, off prints, photographs, drawings, and writings.

Dates: 1918-1988

Hochherr Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6348
Abstract

This collection consists of the personal papers of the Hochherr family of southwestern Germany. Materials include vital records, photographs, a genealogical chart, a family history, official records of family members’ deportations and deaths in extermination camps, an account of life in Nazi-occupied Holland, and an account of an escape to Switzerland. With the exception of the photographs, the collection consists entirely of photocopies.

Dates: circa 1910-2014; Majority of material found within 1936-1946

Individuals

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25474
Abstract

This is a collection of clippings pertaining mostly to German-Jewish individuals, whose life, accomplishment, or death had been noteworthy enough to trigger the interest of an editor at a newspaper or a journal. From the 1960s to the end of the 20th century, archivists at the Leo Baeck Institute perused dailies, immigrants’ journals and periodicals of special interest groups in the United States, in Israel, in various European countries and beyond to discover traces of the scattered survivors of German-speaking Jewry. Birthday celebrations, special anniversaries and obituaries as well as reports about deeds and accomplishments were clipped from the publications and collected. Today, these clippings bear testimony of all these individuals’ lives and German speaking Jewry as a whole.

Dates: 1960s - 1990s

Julius Voehl Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5820 / MF 917
Abstract

School documents; reports; photos. Letters from World War I (Feldpostbriefe). Diaries from World War I

Dates: 1895-

Karl Rubner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25078
Abstract

This collection documents the education, immigration, and professional life of the physician Karl Rubner (born 1906), covering his early life in the Bukovina (part of Austro-Hungary), his studies in Vienna and Paris, and his later career in New York City. Materials include school and university records, vital records, correspondence, identification papers, articles, licenses to practice medicine, and photographs.

Dates: 1924-1957

Kornstein-Rosenthal Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6280
Abstract

The Kornstein-Rosenthal Collection documents the most notable events in the lives of members of the Kornstein and related families, especially of Adolf and Suse Kornstein. Prominent in this collection is the comprehensive family correspondence, providing a view of the daily events of family members for nearly two decades. In addition, the collection contains a detailed narrative based on these letters. Other material includes educational and official papers, some compositions of family members, family trees and other genealogical information and photographs.

Dates: 1861-1988; Majority of material found within 1924-1941

Kurt Singer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3100
Abstract

The collection holds materials pertaining to the physician and musician Kurt Singer, including some of his musical writings; reviews of his books; correspondence, including letters from Max Friedlaender, Wilhelm Furtwaengler, and Siegfried Ochs, and others. Also included are papers of Kurt Singer’s father, the Hungarian-born Moritz Singer, who served as rabbi in Koblenz, including letters from Helmuth von Moltke and Duke Friedrich I of Baden; and documents from his studies at the universities of Berlin and Jena, including a thesis, as well as academic reports signed by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, and Theodor Mommsen.

Dates: 1855-1953

Ludwig Edinger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10236 / MF 603
Dates: 1855-1997

Manfred Mayer-Zachart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25400
Abstract

This collection comprises the papers of the physician Manfred Mayer-Zachart, including material on his family, service in World War I and professional work. The papers include a large amount of family correspondence, including wartime letters, medical articles, and many photographs. In addition there is some professional correspondence and educational and family papers. Notes on patients are included in the collection but access to them is restricted.

Dates: 1860-1942; Majority of material found within 1915-1939

Martha Werner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 7261 / MF 496
Abstract

The collection contains documents related to birth, education, marriage, employment, emigration, death as well as correspondence, writings, clippings and photographs for Martha Werner, her husband Berthold Werner, her sisters Hansi and Liesel, her parents Heinrich Gruen and Mathilda Goldstein, and her husband's parents Koloman Werner (Kohn) and Rosa Heumann. There are baptism certificates for several family members.

Dates: 1872-1976

E. Michael Bluestone Papers

 Collection
Identifier: P-362
Abstract

The E. Michael Bluestone Collection contains primarily the professional writings and correspondence of Michael Bluestone--one of the foremost authorities in the field of medical care and hospital administration--and his associates. Most of the materials in this collection are in bound volumes and scrapbooks arranged by E. Michael Bluestone.

Dates: undated, 1913-1980

Mona Spiegel-Adolf Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5321 / MF 883
Abstract

Diaries 1903-1971

Dates: undated, 1903-1971