Berta Geissmar (14 September 1892 in Mannheim – 3 November 1949 in London) was the secretary and business manager for two prominent orchestral conductors...

Through her family he met the Geissmars, a Jewish family who were leading lawyers and amateur musicians in the town. Berta Geissmar wrote, "Furtwängler became...

survived: Else Geissmar, the second daughter of Jakob and Elisabeth, emigrated to the US with her daughter Ruth in 1938. Berta Geissmar, the daughter of...

symphony, but was dissuaded by his assistant, Berta Geissmar, a Jewish refugee from the Nazis. Geissmar herself says that she simply passed on a message...

Allgemeine Zeitung 73, no. 551 (Sunday, 25 November): 1. Reprinted in Berta Geissmar, Musik im Schatten der Politik. Zürich: Atlantis, 1945. Reprinted in...

abusive verbal exchanges between him and his players at rehearsal". Berta Geissmar records an incident in 1938 when Mengelberg rehearsed the London Philharmonic...

MES/7033. Abaigh McKee. 'Jack Hylton', at Music and the Holocaust Berta Geissmar (1944), The Baton and the Jackboot, Hamish Hamilton, pp 374–75, 377...

Verlag, Frankfurt/M. 1984, ISBN 3-596-26902-4. Foreword and comments on Berta Geissmar: Musik im Schatten der Politik. Erinnerungen. Atlantis, Zürich 1985...

Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2011. Geissmar, Berta (1944). The Baton and the Jackboot. London, UK: Hamish Hamilton. pp...

of Conscience. New York: NNorton & Co. p. 690. ISBN 9781631492716. Geissmar, Berta (1946). Two Worlds of Music. New York: American Book-Stratford Press...