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Monnig, Alex

Summary: Offers readers a compelling look into the lives, challenges, and successes of German immigrants. Additional features include a Fast Facts page, a timeline, informative photo captions, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic glossary, additional resources for further study, and an index.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.049 MON

Russell, John Andrew

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3774 RUS

Smith, Clifford Neal.

Contents: pts. 1, 2, 3, and 4A: Surnames A through J -- 4B: Surnames K through Z -- 4C: Appendices.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.377177 SMI

Wolff, Alexander

Summary: "A literary gem researched over a year the author spent living in Berlin, Endpapers excavates the extraordinary histories of the author's grandfather and father: the renowned publisher Kurt Wolff, dubbed "perhaps the twentieth century's most discriminating publisher" by the New York Times Book Review, and his son Niko, who fought in the Wehrmacht during World War II before coming to America....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOL

Sprow, Harry Pohlman

Summary: In addition to listing families married into Sprau family 1651-2007, the book includes brief but more detailed synopses of Gummo, Haass, Leusenrink, Niemeyer, Pohlmann, Schneider, Walliser and Burgderfer families, plus a brief German history and related facts concerning the Rheinland-Pflalz region.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gateway Press 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 SPRAU Sprow

Heilman, Robert A.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1990

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929 DEA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1981

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.343

Kilar, Jeremy W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTP

Stapinski, Helene

Summary: "An exuberant true-life adventure following two very different men - a loveable huckster turned publisher of DC Comics and the man he helped escape from 1930s Berlin - as they cross paths with icons of midcentury pop culture in pursuit of the American dream"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 Fir

Krug, Nora

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "A revelatory, visually stunning graphic memoir by award-winning artist Nora Krug, telling the story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family's wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history."--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KRU

Duffy, Peter

Summary: An account of a virtually unknown pre-World War II counterespionage operation describes how naturalized German-American agent William G. Sebold became the FBI's first double agent and was a pivotal figure in the arrests of 33 enemy agents for the Nazis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 DUF

Jacobsen, Annie.

Summary: Details how the U.S. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little Brown & Co 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 JAC

Willner, Nina

Summary: "In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family--of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B WILLNER

Eschenbach, Virginia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: V. Eschenbach 1983

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 ESC

Baxter, Angus

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1994

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.1 BAX

Schweitzer, George Keene

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Schweitzer 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 SCH

Baxter, Angus

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.1 BAX

Burgert, Annette K.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picton Press 1989

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 Burge

Zimmerman, Gary J.

Contents: [1] 1847-1854 -- [2] 1855-1862 -- [3] 1863-1867 -- [4] 1868-1871.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 1985

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.343 Z
1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.343 Zimme

Minert, Roger P. (Roger Phillip)

Summary: For the first time a book examines the nature of each vowel and each consonant in German and describes the kinds of changes that can occur in the spellings of German personal names and place names. Variations of name spellings in Germany and between Germany and North America are featured. The book is designed for both novice and expert researchers; while the former can discover why specific...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: GRT Publications 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.343 Minert

Anderson, Chris

Summary: Discover your roots! This guide provides proven strategies for tracing your family history, whether it originates in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Alsace Lorraine, or other Germanic regions. From maps and translations to pedigree charts, inside you'll find the information you need, featuring basic instruction for gathering, verifying, recording and organizing your findings. Inside you'll...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Betterway Books 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.1 AND

Schrader-Muggenthaler, Cornelia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Closson Press 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3 BAD

Kuhns, Oscar

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gryphon Books 1971

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 917.4803 KUH

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