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AHC Interview with Paul Schratter.
No full textOct. 1, 2003Paul Schratter was born on March 6, 1922 in Vienna. He lived on Schmalzhofgasse in the 4th district of Vienna, and attended the Bundeslehr und Versuchsanstallt fuer Textilindustrie (1936-38). He left Vienna on December 19, 1938, and boarded the liner "Europa" in Bremerhaven, Germany. He arrived in the USA on December 28, 1938. His wife, coming from Germany, also had to flee from the Nazis. They met in New York City and got married. Paul Schratter worked as a marketing manager.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Paul Schratter Collection (AR 10868), Margarethe Schratter's memoirs (ME 1181), and Paul Schratter's memoirs (ME 1396
AHC Interview with Irene Butterfass.
No full textIrene Butterfass, nee Katzner, was born on March 20, 1917, in Vienna. She lived with her family at Schoenbrunnerstrasse 141 in the fifth Viennese district. From 1935 until 1938, she was a student at the philosophical department of the University of Vienna. She fled from Vienna to the USA after the Nazis' rise to power in Austria.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Your heritage in transition.
No full textThe memoirs were written in 2003 in Florida, United States. Description of family history and life in an affluent assimilated German Jewish household. Hal's father was a partner in the banking firm of his father and later directed the "M. Molling" department store of his father in law. Early recollections of political unrest and inflation in the aftermath of World War One. Hal and his siblings grew up in a houshold with servants and a governess, who kept in touch even during the Nazi time. The children had piano and violin lessons and once a week gymnastic lessons with a private gym teacher, Fritz Strube, who later published a book on physical education. Summer vacations at the North Sea. Hal went to the Gymnasium (high school) where he was the only Jewish student. He became an apprentice in Krefeld with a business friend of his father in 1932. Life under the Nazis. Preparations to leave for Ecuador. Hal left Germany together with his friend Paul Klein for Guayaquil via Amsterdam and arrived in January 1936. Life in Ecuador. Excursion in the Andes. In 1938 he was granted a visa for the United States, where he arrived in September of the same year. Life in Dallas, Texas in the aftermath of the depression. His father in Germany was arrested during the November Pogrom (Kristallnacht) and taken to Buchenwald. After his release the family emigrated to England. In 1944 they came to the United States. Hal enlisted in the US army in 1941 even before the United States officially entered the war. He was appointed officer and took part in the "D" Day landing on Omaha Beach in France. Hal became part of an army intelligence unit in Berlin. Return to the States after the war and live with his family in New York. Courtship and marriage with Anne Pick in 1945.Hal Goldshaw was born as Hans Ludwig Gottschalk in August of 1918 in an assimilated Jewish family in Hannover, Germany. His parents were owners of a department store and had six children. Hal emigrated to Ecuador in 1935 and to the United States in 1938. He was a veteran of World War Two and settled in Boca Raton, Florida.Synopsis in fileHindenburg, Paul von, 1847-1934HanoverGuayaquilGermanyAssimilationChildhoodEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Germany, history, 1918-1933Military service, World War IINazi Germany, persecution of Jews, 1933-1941Professions and occupations, bank ownersProfessions and occupations, businessmenProfessions and occupations, department store ownersRevolution, 1918-191
Vignettes from my early life : Remembered fifty+ years later /
No full textThe memoirs were written between 1998 and 2000. Description of family apartment house built by his grandfather in Mariahilferstrasse, Vienna’s 6th district. The family lived in the penthouse designed by the Viennese architect Ernst Plischke. The Boehm family was the owner of textile factories in Bohemia. They had a governess and a English language tutor. The family was one of the few in Vienna to own a car. Their mother Gertrude was a passionate driver, who participated in various Road Rallies. She was a university graduate and had earned a PhD in chemistry in 1921. Their father was a war veteran of World War One. Summer vacations in Italy and Czechoslovakia. They also spent a few summers in a rented villa in the outskirts of Vienna. On Christmas vacations the family went skiing in St. Anton. In 1935 Heinrich Boehm was enrolled in the “Theresianum”, an elite private school in Vienna. Plans to become a physicist with the encouragement of the author’s mother. In 1937 he contracted Legg-Perthes disease and was sent to a Sanatorium to recover. Private tutoring. Very first encounter with antisemitism at the sanatorium in February of 1938. Transfer back to Vienna. Recollections of the weeks leading up to Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany in March of 1938. Life in Nazi Austria and preparations for their emigration. Conversion in order to assimilate better in their emigration. The family was able to leave the country in September of 1938 for Czechoslovakia. Henry’s sisters were placed to boarding schools in Great Britain with the help of their father’s uncle Frederick Bach, who resided in England. From Czechoslovakia they immigrated to Belgium, where Henry was enrolled in school again. In February of 1939 they left for Great Britain. Life of émigrés in London. Recollections of wartime England. Passport procedures and visa preparations.Detailed description of the family’s departure from Great Britain to the United States via Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo on board of the “Andalusia Star” in 1941. The “Andalusia Star” was sunk a few months after their arrival in the United States. Recollections of their stay in Brazil and Uruguay. Detailed description of the German submarine war. Arrival in New York on April 7th 1941, where the family was reunited with their father.Henry Bohm was born as Heinrich Boehm in 1929 to an assimilated Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. His mother Gertrude Boehm held a PhD in chemistry, his father Victor Boehm was a textile factory owner. After the Anschluss to Nazi Germany the family escaped to Czechoslovakia in September of 1938. In February of 1939 they emigrated to Great Britain. The family arrived in the United States in April of 1941. Henry Bohm became a US citizen in 1946 and received a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1958.See also: Joseph Bohm, About my Family (ME 1350)Austrian Heritage Collectio
The Nuremberg trials : The death of the rule of law (in international law).
No full textDraft of a critical look at the Nuremberg War Crime Trials, to be published in Loyola Law Review (Louisiana).Earlier version was published in Ellis Washington: The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law (University Press of America, 2002
Erika's Tagebuch : [von 1937 ... bis April 1943] /
No full textTyped transcript of an originally handwritten diary, started in 1937 at age 13 in Bamberg, Bavaria till April 1943 at age 19 in Quito, Ecuador:Description of cultural activities such as visits at the museum and concerts organized by “Juedischer Kulturbund”. Visits at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. Passion for cinema and sports. Participation at several sports festivals. Passover holidays in Thueringer Wald near Hamburg, where the family held a festive Seder together with the extended family. Visits at the synagogue. Friendship with Dorothee Samson (“Theechen”). Summer vacation in Altona and Blankenese. Private English lessons. Encrypted description of the terror of the “Kristallnacht”. Christmas and Chanukah celebration at her grandmother’s in Augsburg. First indication about the family’s fervent attempts to emigrate. Stay in Riessen at her friend Theechen. Private studies due their expulsion from the regular school system (1939). Bookbinding classes in order to prepare them for their emigration. Farewell from departing friends on their way to emigrate. Return to Bamberg. Difficulties in their emigration plans. Passover of 1939 and parallels to the time of the exile. Bar Mitzvah of her brother Werner in May of 1939. First expression of the family’s increasing despair regarding their emigration. In June of 1939 their fervent prayers were answered and Erika and her brother Werner were able to emigrate to England, where they attended the “Bunce Court School” in Kent.Declaration of war in September of 1939. Worries about their parent’s fate. Internment of their male teachers and older classmates in 1940. Ceasing to speak in German. Evacuation and move to Shropshire. News of their parent’s succeeded emigration to South America (Ecuador) via Russia and the United States. Erika and Werner passed their school examinations. Preparations for their journey to Ecuador in order to join their parents. In August of 1942 they started their journey and arrived in Quito in October of 1942. Life with their parents in Ecuador.Also included are a short biographical abstract, New York, 1945; information about the Löbls’ business in Bamberg, ‘Elektro-Grosshandlung Hugo Löbl’; and a list of Erika’s friends and family.Erika's TagebuchIn's neue LebenErika Loebl-Steinberger was born in 1924 in Bamberg, Germany. She attended “Lyzeum der Englischen Fräulein” in Bamberg. In June of 1939 she emigrated together with her younger brother Werner to England, where they stayed in a boarding school. In August of 1939 they joined their parents in Ecuador. Erika established a Montessori Kindergarten (“Villa Erika”). In 1945 the family immigrated to the United States. Erika worked in a Kindergarten in New York and got married to Ralph Steinberger in 1947. The couple had two children.Aufhaeuser, AlbertAufhaeuser, DavidLöbl, Erika, 1924-1996.Löbl-Steinberger, Erika, 1924-1996.Loeb familySamson familyAltonaBlankeneseHamburgLondonRiessenShropshireThueringer WaldEmigration and immigration, after 1945, United StatesJuedischer Kulturbund‘Landschulheim New-Herrlingen’ at Bunce Court in Kent, EnglandProfessions and occupations, businessmenProfessions and occupations, chemist
Reply for Albert : a family chronic.
No full textThis is the story of the Hepner family from Germany – the lawyer Enrique Hepner; Kaethe née Halberstam; and their children Klaus, Ernst and Lore – who were forced to emigrate in 1939.The original Spanish language manuscript is available in the LBI Library, call number F 3285 J4 1990
“Neu ist, dass die Leute sich nicht nur für die Einsteins interessieren“ : Die Geschichte des jüdischen Alltags in Deutschland vom 17. Jahrhundert bis 1945, herausgegeben vom Leo-Baeck-Institut, wurde bei einem Symposium im Berliner Jüdischen Museum vorgestellt.
No full textTranscript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk Köln about the presentation of a book on Jewish everyday life ((17th century to 1945) during a conference at the Jewish Museum Berlin.The broadcast on August 15, 2003 was part of a series “Schalom - Jüdisches Leben heute”.The book, Geschichte des juedischen Alltags in Deutschland vom 17. Jahrhundert bis 1945 / Muenchen : C.H. Beck, 2003, is available at the LBI Library, call number DS 135 G3 G48