BIOGRAPHISCHES HANDBUCH DER DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN EMIGRATION NACH 1933 / Leitung und Bearbeitung, Werner Röder, Herbert A. (ID: 30519)
Authorship or Source:
- Röder, Werner.
- Strauss, Herbert Arthur.
- Foitzik, Jan.
- Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich, Germany)
- Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration.
Year:
1980-1983
Title or Main Description:
BIOGRAPHISCHES HANDBUCH DER DEUTSCHSPRACHIGEN EMIGRATION NACH 1933 / Leitung und Bearbeitung, Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, unter Mitwirkung von Dieter Marc Schneider, Louise Forsyth ; Autoren, Jan Foitzik ... [et al.] ; Redaktion, Sybille Claus und Beatrix Schmidt.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
München ; New York : K.G. Saur ; Detroit, Mich. : Distributed by Gale Research Company
Description:
- 3 v. in 4 ; 30-31 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 8,7000 Names
Type of Work:
Book
Alternate or Series Title:
International biographical dictionary of central European emigrés, 1933-1945.
ISBN or ISSN:
- 3598100876 (set)
- 0896641015 (U.S. : Bd. 1)
- 3598100892 (Bd. 2)
- 3598100906 (Bd. 3)
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- USHMM Library: Oversize DD68 .B52 1980 v. 1-3.
- Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Call Number: DD68 .B52 1980.
Provenance:
This publication was based upon 20,000 personal dossiers on Jewish and non-Jewish emigrants from Germany in the Nazi period which are available on microfilm at the Technische Üniversität Berlin's Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung [=Technical University of Berlin's Center for Antisemitism Research, website: http://zfa.kgw.tu-berlin.de/].
Keywords:
- Anonyms and pseudonyms --Indexes.
- Austrians --Foreign countries --Biography --Dictionaries.
- Czechs --Foreign countries --Biography --Dictionaries.
- Europe, German-speaking --Emigration and immigration --Biography --Dictionaries.
- Germans --Foreign countries --Biography --Dictionaries.
- Immigrants --Biography --Dictionaries.
- Jews, Austrian --Foreign countries --Registers.
- Jews, Czech --Foreign countries --Registers.
- Jews, German --Foreign countries --Registers.
- Jews --Austria --Emigration and immigration --Registers.
- Jews --Czech Republic --Emigration and immigration --Registers.
- Jews --Germany --Emigration and immigration --Registers.
- Refugees, Jewish --Foreign countries --Biography --Dictionaries.
- Refugees, Political --Foreign countries --Biography --Dictionaries.
Abstract:
Three-volume, alphabetized biographies of c. 9,000 prewar and wartime emigres from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. Many Jewish emigres are listed. Entries are similar to those in 'Who's Who' books. Entries include year of emigration, information on children, etc. Volume 3 lists names, pseudonyms, aliases, and name changes. Also includes name list indexes arranged by occupation, intermediate countries of emigration, and final destination.
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in German and English (Vol. 2 in English).
- Half title of v. 1, title of v. 2, and parallel title of v. 3: International biographical dictionary of central European emigrés, 1933-1945.
- Vol. 3: Unter der Leitung von Werner Röder zusammengestellt von Sybille Claus, Daniel Niederland und Beatrix Schmidt.
- "Herausgegeben vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte München und von der Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, Inc., New York, unter Gesamtleitung von Werner Röder und Herbert A. Strauss"--V. 3, half title.
- "Decknamen, Pseudonyme und Namensänderungen": v. 1, p. [853]-861.
- "List of pseudonyms": v. 2, p. 1312-1316.
- Includes bibliographies and indexes.
- Reprinted in 1999 in München by K.G. Saur [ISBN: 3598114206 (set)].
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AA0269