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AHC interview with Eve Metz
No full textEve Metz (nee Singer) was born on July 24, 1928, in Vienna where she grew up in the 18th district. She left Vienna on April 14, 1940, and immigrated on the ship "SS Saturna" to the United States via Italy. She had to remain at Ellis Island for two weeks. She attended high school in New York, and later art school. She became an art director and worked in the field of book design
AHC interview with Charles M. Roman
No full textCharles M. Roman, 2004Charles (Karl) Roman was born in Vienna in 1927. He went to elementary school in Blumauergasse in the second Viennese district, where he later also went to high school, at "Realschule" located on Josef Gall Gasse. He left Vienna shortly after November 19, 1938 and was interned in France, first in Strasburg from December 1938 until January 1939, then at Rivesaltes, until August 1942. He received the certificad d'etudes in Chabannes, France. He then lived in Italy from 1943 until 1949, when he came to the United States on a displaced persons transport. In the United States, he worked as factory assembly worker from 1950-1951 and was later self-employed. Mr. Roman took the only pictures available of Jews (around 1000 people) fleeing over the Alps from France to Italy after the Italian capitulation. These pictures are published widely, mainly in Italian historical publications, and are available as copies at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C
AHC Interview with Eleanor Gottholde Paul
No full textEleanor Gottholde Paul, nee Lustgarten, was born in Vienna on March 18, 1927. She and her parents had to leave the country after the Nazis took over power in 1938. The family Lustgarten left Europe from the harbor of Antwerp, Belgium and arrived on October 12, 1938 in New York City. She worked as a nurse and is now living in Syosset, New York
Memoirs of Gerhard Langer, 1923-1939 : A Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany.
No full textThe memoir was written by Gerhard Langer in 2003 and 2004, and covers his childhood and youth years during the Nazi era in Jena, Germany, until his arrival in the US in 1939. Among the included photographs are a picture of Gerhard in Hitler Youth uniform, and a picture of Villa Zuckerkandl under construction, the family home, a famous Walter Gropius building.Gerhard Langer was born in 1923 in Jena, Germany. His family lived in a famous Bauhaus building designed by Walter Gropius. Gerhard's father was a Gentile, his mother was 3/4 Jewish. His grandfather was the Austrian economist Robert Zuckerkandl. Gerhard Langer had joined the Hitler Youth (Hitler Jugend) before fleeing from Germany to the USA in 1939. In the US, he attended Purdue University until he was drafted into the US Army in 1944. After the war, he became a research scientist in physical sciences
History of my family.
No full textThe memoir starts with a short description of political events in Austria before the Anschluss in the 1930s. He gives an account of Hitler's welcomed arrival in Vienna in March 1938, where he observed cheering crowds close to his apartment. He talks of the background and origin of his grandparents in Zablotov, Galicia, and Witznitz, Bukowina. Alfred Fox writes about childhood memories where the family went to Prater amusement park, made trips to spas at Bad Voeslau and boat trips on the Danube. Then he writes about the Anschluss, the November Pogrom where he saw synagogues burning, and where his father was taken to Dachau concentration camp. The family's emigration was difficult because of the quota system in the USA. They decided to leave for Belgium. He describes the ride on the train from Vienna to Cologne, were denied entry at the border to Belgium close to Aachen, but were told by a German officer a way how to sneak into Belgium. His father worked in Brussels as a tailor. The family fled from the German invasion to France (Bordeaux), and stayed in the Pyrenees until spring of 1941, went to Lyon and stayed there until spring of 1942. They went over the Alps into Switzerland with smugglers. They were put into a refugee camp in Zurich. He started to attend ORT organization's trade school class in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1947, he went to the USA, with the help of his uncle. The last 25 pages cover his time in the USA since. He married his wife Susanne (Pistiner) on September 17, 1950, who was also born in Vienna, joined the US army and the Korea War. The memoir illustrates Alfred Fox's life story with many personal & family photographs as well as a map of his emigration route.Alfred Fox was born on 06/23/1927 in Vienna where he lived under his prewarname "Fuchs" at Bauerlegasse 20 in the 20th district, where his father had a tailor shop. Mr. Fox attended the Brigitta Realgymnasium in the 2nd district of Vienna. Mr. Fox fled from Vienna at the beginning of the year 1939, passing Germany (Cologne) to Belgium, where he stayed until 05/1940. Then he came to France, then Vichy France, Switzerland, and finally he arrived in the USA on 12/23/1947. There, he completed a BSc in engineering, at The Cooper Union, NYC, and thereafter he got a degree in MS Mech Eng, at NJIT, Newark, New Jersey, and worked as an engineer at the Metallurgical Research Div. of Bell Labs, in Murray Hills, NJ, for 30 years. He now lives in Delray Beach, FL.Austrian Heritage CollectionHammel, LeibHammel, RoseKronenfeld, MosesFuchs, FriedaSimon, BerthaAntisemitismLeisure activitiesEducation, primary and secondary; 1933-1945ORT organizationSynagogues; KlukytempelJews. Liturgy and ritua
Arabesques: Otto Weininger and his "1901--02 Studien" (an analysis and a translation).
No full textThis dissertation explores life and work of the Austrian philosopher Otto Weininger (1880--1903) and offers an annotated translation and an analysis of his earlier works titled as 1901--02 Studien. They include his dissertation draft Eros and Psyche: biologisch psychologische Studien ("Eros and Psyche: A Biological-psychological Study"), sketch Zur Theorie des Lebens ("Toward a Theory of Life"), and two small pieces Excursus 1 and 2. The leading idea of Eros and Psyche is the universality of bisexuality. According to Weininger, there are innumerable "sexual intermediate stages" ("sexuelle Zwischenstufen") between an ideal Man (M) and an ideal Woman (W). He describes each person as a hybrid with a unique gender model, which is characterized by an individual quantitative and qualitative content of feminine and masculine elements. This model constantly undergoes mutation and transformation, according to various factors, including time and space. This dissertation discusses Weininger's new theories on: gender, gender models, sexual attraction (das Gesetz der Liebe), characterology, metachemistry (gender and sexuality at the molar and molecular level), the moral fulfillment in time, the theory of genius (die Theorie der Begabung), love, language (including his thinking on henids), and other subjects. This dissertation consists of a prolegomena and five chapters. The first chapter, "A Survey of Weininger's Life," offers biographical information and important events of Weininger's life. The second chapter, "Weininger's Reception," describes the critical reaction to Weininger's works, which focuses on the reception of his famous book Geschlecht and Charakter ("Sex and Character"). The third chapter, "Major Concepts in Weininger's Philosophy," briefly outlines important aspects of Weininger's philosophy, including the problem of I (das Ich), the principle of moral fulfillment in time, the phenomenon of projection, the concepts of soul and body, value, the problem of woman and the Jew, the problem of duality (consciousness/unconsciousness), the law of sexual attraction, the concepts of Form and Matter, and henids. The fourth chapter, "The New Science of Characterology," describes Weininger's ideas about human character, including the psychology of animals, archetypes (the molar approach of character), and metachemistry (the molecular approach of character). The fifth chapter, "An English Translation of Otto Weininger's Studien 1901--02," is my translation of Weininger's text from German into English. It is divided into segments according to the original. This dissertation also has two appendixes. Appendix 1) includes "Reflections on Weininger's Suicide." It offers a new view on Weininger's suicide. Appendix 2) includes "Rethinking Weininger's Theory of Gender and Sexuality." It offers a new perspective on Weininger's theory of gender and sexuality. The last part of the dissertation is a Bibliography.Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2004.School code: 0260
AHC interview with Felix M. Roth
No full textFelix Roth was born in Vienna in 1926, where he lived on Pfeilgasse in the eighth district. He went to school at the Robert Hammerling Gymnasium in Vienna, then the Chayes Realgymnasium in the second district. He left Vienna in March of 1939 for Switzerland where he stayed for about two months. He passed France on his way to the United States where he arrived on September 24, 1941. There he went to Newton High School in Massachusetts and from 1946-1948 to Pennsylvania State University where he received a Bachelor's of Science in industrial engineering. He later became an executive in engineering