Dora teitelbaum biography

Overview

Description

Consists of original and copyprint photographs of the family of Ascher and Dora Teitelbaum and their daughters Berta, Malka, and Bella. The photographs were taken between 1927-1944 in France, Switzerland, and Mechelen, Belgium. The photos depict the sisters during the war as well as photographs of extended family who perished in the Holocaust.

Date

inclusive:  1927-1944

Credit Line

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bertha Schwarz

Collection Creator

Teitelbaum family

Biography

Bertha Teitelbaum (now Schwarz, b. 1933) was born to Usher (Asher) Teitelbaum (born in Nowy Sacz on April 26, 1910) and Dora Teitelbaum (nee Ksias, born in Cologne, November 4, 1910). Usher was born to Eliezer Stamler and Rivka Teitelbaum. His family immigrated to Belgium in 1925, and his father died shortly afterwards of natural causes. Usher was the youngest of seven siblings, and all of the men worked in the diamond trade. Dora Ksias was the daughter of Yechiel and Leah Ksias of Cologne, G

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The Brest of Our Dreams

By B. Shlevin

(A chapter of a Novel)

Translated by Jenni Buch and Dr. Samuel Chani

It was the beautiful timeless period of our misty childhood at the beginning of the century (20^th). How strongly we believed in the renaissance – we felt it rather than understood it. But before we could really look at the world around us, all our securities and ideas were shattered to pieces, to pieces. Our entire Old World was blown away by the hot raging winds of newly arisen nations and class systems. At the same time the old Jewish self-sufficiency and autonomy collapsed into the dust in front of our eyes. After that everything seemed without mercy, without roots.

In our minds we still lived as in the past, as if everything was secure, safe, worthwhile and would permanently remain in its place.

How can one wipe out of one's memory the medium sized provincial city with its riverside streets, the noisy timber houses, the wide branched family trees, the 'Parisian' Jews, the prestigious Jews, the wealthy merchants and businessmen, and the s

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Miriam Hoffman

Miriam (Schmulewitz) Hoffman (born 1936) is a Yiddish language playwright and lecturer.

Hoffman was born in Łódź, Poland to a Yiddish-speaking family.^[1] While she was a child, her father was sent to a forced labor camp in Siberia, accompanied by Hoffman and her mother.^[1] After a difficult passage through several other countries, the family arrived in the United States in 1949.^[1] In 1957 Hoffman finished the Jewish Teacher's Seminary with a B.A. in pedagogy. In the 1970s she taught Yiddish at the University of Tel-Aviv, Israel. She received a B.A. from the University of Miami, cum laude, in 1981, and an M.A. from Columbia University, in 1983. From 1991 to 1994 she taught Yiddish and Yiddish Dramatic Arts in the Oxford University Summer Program. From 1992 until her retirement in 2017, she was a professor of Yiddish language and culture at Columbia University.^{[citation needed]}

Since the late 1990s Hoffman has been a columnist and feature writer for the Jewish Forward, where she has published over two thousand artic