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AHC interview with Kurt Schaffir.
No full textAugust 31, 2015Kurt Schaffir was born 1925 in Vienna, Austria. When Kurt was seven years old, his father died, and Kurt and his older brother Bruno Walter were raised by their mother Lola Schaffir, née Schwadron. They lived at Taborstrasse 21a in Vienna’s second District. At the day of the “Reichskristallnacht” Kurt witnessed humiliations against Jewish people, windows of shops that were broken, and a burning synagogue. Shortly after the Schaffir family got kicked out of their apartment and moved to Lola Schaffir’s parents. When Kurts' brother was arrested by the Gestapo and held for a short time, the family decided to send the two boys to the Netherlands, with the “Kindertransport”. At that time Lola Schaffir found relatives of her husband living in Cleveland, Ohio. These relatives provided affidavits, and the Schaffirs could apply for US- visas. The Schaffirs left the Netherlands on two different boats: Lola got the US on the “New Amsterdam”, and Kurt and his brother took the “New Penland “ two weeks later.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ruth Millet.
No full textJune 17, 2015Ruth Millet was born 8/6/1925 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up in Alserbachstrasse in the 9th district, Alsergrund and attended primary school there. Ruth Ruth Millet, née Stupp, was born 8/6/1925 in Vienna, Austria, growing up in the 9th district, Alsergrund. She had a twin sister, Renee, and an older sister, Francis. Her father, Oskar Stupp, owned a company importing coffee and tea, mostly from El Salvador. His wife Ella Stupp, née Rosenblatt worked in the office too. The Stupp family owned a car and made trips in the surrounding areas on weekends.In November 1938, after Kristallnacht, her father, Oskar Stupp left Vienna for Italy, and two months later Ruth’s mother followed with her three daughters. They had found in an American phonebook somebody by the same surname, who agreed to provide affidavits for the Stupp family, but due to the quota system, their visas arrived only at the end of 1940, when they lived in Costa Rica, where they had arrived in 1939.Ruth attended primary school in Costa Rica and picked up Spanish, as did the other family members, while being supported by the small Jewish community that provided food and shelter. By the end of 1940, the Stupp family made it to New York City, where they settled in Brooklyn. Her father founded a new coffee import-export business. At the age of 21, Ruth got married to her first husband, with whom she had two daughters; he was also from Vienna and had escaped with a Kindertransport to England. In her twenties, Ruth Millet worked as a designer in the jewelry business. She settled with her second husband in Stamford, CT.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Paul Sub.
No full textJune 23, 2015Paul Sub was born 10/12/1930 in Vienna, Austria, the only child of John Sub and Anna Sub, née Delfin. The family lived in Vienna’s 16. district, Ottakring. John Sub had a grocery store and the pianist in a 4-men band, performing in cafes, bars and other venues around Vienna. Anna Sub owned and operated a coffee shop near the famous “Prater” park.Paul attended Hebrew school, but then changed to public school in order to avoid anti-Semitism directed against students. After the annexation of Austria, numerous family members became victims of anti-Semitic humiliation and persecution before being able to flee the country. Anna Sub was forced to scrub the sidewalk when two storm troopers approached her in her café. John Sub was forced on a truck with others but rescued by his wife and son. During the pogrom in November 1938, the family hid under the kitchen table of their apartment, seeking shelter from rocks thrown at the building. All stores at ground level were vandalized. In March of 1939, Paul and his mother fled to Amsterdam, where they embarked on a ship to New York. Relatives in the USA had provided affidavits of support. Her coffee shop was sold under its real value; the grocery store was closed and left behind. Paul’s father had left two months earlier, emigrating to Shanghai. He was reunited with Paul and his wife when arriving in New York in 1942.The family stayed in the Bronx for the first few years, and then moved to Brooklyn. John Sub worked as a presser in a laundry business, and his wife took a job in a supermarket. Paul Sub attended Lafayette High School and then Baruch College's business school in Manhattan.. He married at age 23 and took over a clothing store that his father had opened for him; it was later converted into a liquor store. Additionally, Paul Sub owned bars and night clubs in New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with David Jeffrey Wynne.
No full textMay 13, 2015David Wynne was born 5/24 in 193 in Vienna as Erwin Sass. His father had earned a PhD from the University of Vienna in Eastern European History and tutored in Vienna. David’s mother owned a store selling women’s clothing. The family left with almost no money for England; eventually, David’s father taught school in Yorkshire, England. David attended school in London, but with the onset of Blitzkrieg he moved to Yorkshire. Nevertheless, David experienced some bombing raids and hid with his family in a shelter in London. In December of 1948, the family left for America, settling in Philadelphia, where David’s father taught at a local college. After attending Overbook High School, David enrolled at Temple University and obtained degrees in liberal arts and in business administration. In 1955, David Wynne was drafted into the army for two years, doing his duty at an Air Passenger’s center in Germany. After his return he worked for 28 years as a civil servant in the federal governmen. During Ronal Reagan’s presidency, David Wynne’s department closed down and he was fired. He continued to work in the N.G.O. sector in Pennsylvania.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Robert Freiberger.
No full textRobert Freiberger was born on 7/1/23 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Edmund (born 1884 in Vienna) and Marianne Freiberger (born 1889 in Vienna). They lived with Robert’s sister Susan in Hietzing, Vienna’s 14th District. Edmund was as a salesman in a shoe factory and Marianne was a painter and artist after having inherited her fathers' business. During the November pogrom, Robert and his father were arrested but released soon after. The family escaped to London via Aachen. In London, Robert’s parents and his sister lived with an Austrian family, but Robert lived with the English Jacobes family. In November 1939 the family took the ship "Dutchess of York" to Canada, then went by train to St. George and Montreal and eventually arrived in New York on Christmas day of 1939. The Freibergers lived first in Spanish Harlem. The parents managed to find work: his father as a salesman for bakeries and his mother as a fashion and toy designer. After graduating from high school, Robert attended City College, before being drafted in 1943 into the army to South Carolina. He then took advantage of an engineering program in Boston, sponsored by the army and eventually graduated from medical school in Boston.October 23, 2015Austrian Heritage Collectio
Simon family of Gensingen & Bingen : Reunion - New York, October 10th & 11th 2015.
No full textRichly illustrated and decorated brochure dedicated to the Simon family from the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.Included in this brochure’s hardcopy (but not available in its digital form) is “The Simon family descendant tree”, reaching back to the early 18th century.Also included on pages 16-24 is a translation of the published brochure ‘Seligmann Simon : Weinbau u. Weingrosshandel, Bingen a.Rh.
AHC interview with John Peter Sputz.
No full textMay 21, 2015John (Hans) Peter Sputz was born 12/15/1933, the only child of Karl Sputz and Adele Sputz, née Just. The family lived in Berggasse in the Alsergrund district of Vienna; John’s father held a doctorate in geology from the University of Vienna, but made a living with his commercial agency "Dr. Karl Sputz Handelsagentur". John and his parents escaped from Vienna in 1939, boarding the USS Roosevelt, and arriving in the United States on 8/8/1939. Affidavits of Support had been provided by the Tischler-family, remote relatives and friends. They first settled in the Bronx. Karl Sputz taught the piano, worked for the “NY Institute for the Education of the Blind” and started a business with his wife, trading in religious jewelry. John Peter Sputz attended Christopher Columbus High School and subsequently City College. He graduated in 1956 with a degree in electrical engineering, married in 1957 and worked for Kearfott Corporation for 57 years in various positions. He then did consultant work and retired in 2013 to Oakland, NJ.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Elizabeth Sternberg.
No full textAugust 5, 2015Elizabeth Sternberg was born 1935 in Vienna, Austria, the only child of the owner of a paper factory and a pianist. The family lived in an apartment at Nussdorferstrasse in Vienna’s 9th District. They liked to vacation in the Semmering area.After the father had been arrested and held in a Gestapo prison for several nights, the family decided to leave the country. With the help of their maid’s boyfriend, who was a Gestapo official, the father’s release was achieved. Elizabeth and her parents left Austria in December of 1938. They embarked on a passenger liner called Orinoco in Bremerhaven, sailing to Cuba, where they stayed for approximately nine months in a boarding house (“Pension”). It had been acquired by refugees who later left Cuba and passed on to other refugees who were in need of shelter. When the family’s quota-number for immigration came up, they first stayed with a cousin of Elizabeth’s father in the Bronx, NY. After attending high school in Manhattan, Elizabeth graduated Hunter College in 1956. One year later she married Henry Sternberg (AHC 3724).Austrian Heritage Collectio
Deutsche Historiker im US-amerikanischen Exil : Der Einfluss der Exilerfahrung auf ihr wissenschaftliches Werk /
No full textThe master-thesis „German historians in exile in the United States“ analyzes the biographies of Paul Oskar Kristeller, Adolf Leschnitzer and Hans Rosenberg who fled to New York City after Hitler came to power. The research shows how the experience of exile took an influence on the scientific work of these historians. While Paul Oskar Kristeller focused on Renaissance Studies, Leschnitzer started to research the origins of anti-Semitism and Rosenberg analyzed the social and economic reasons in German history that lead to the advent of National Socialism.Bibliography : pages 126-15