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Robert Bosch und der Widerstand gegen das NS-Regime.
No full textShort essay about Robert Bosch's life and his engineering company; their opposition against the Nazi regime and their attempts to help Jews.Hahn, Paulschl
Die juedische Bevoelkerung von Daubringen und Mainzlar.
No full textRevised manuscript of a brochure published in 1990 for an exhibition about Jews in the town of Staufenberg since the middle ages
[Descendants of: Joseph Plaut].
No full textThis collection contains a genealogical chart entitled "Descendants of Joseph Plaut" (born 1590 in Vacha, Fulda), tracking his descendants into the
late 20th century. Accompanying this genealogy is a printout of an email describing efforts to research Plaut family history.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
HIAS 120-Year Celebration--Eric H. Cahn (Box 107, Folder 7)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 107. Folder originally titled: 120 Stories - Cahn.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Das Schicksal der Familie Brueg aus Gera und ihre Beziehungen zu Leipzig.
No full textA compilation of documents pertaining to Guy Bishop’s (formerly Guenter Brueg’s) years in Gera, Germany and his escape to England.A short typescript is accompanied by photocopies of letters, documents and family photos. Also included are published materials about the history of the Jewish community in Gera; the "Kindertransport" rescue mission; and the fate of the Brueg family during the Holocaust.Guy Bishop (formerly Guenter Brueg) was born 1926 in Gera, Germany. He attended the "Juedische Schule" in Leipzig and lived in the attached boarding school. He lived through the night of the November pogrom in 1938. His father died after his release from Buchenwald concentration camp. Guenter reached England with the last "Kindertransport" in 1939. Due to his artistic talent Guenter became a protégé of Arthur Sanderson and attended an art school. He volunteered for the British army and was one of the youngest officers. After the war he reunited with his sister Hannelore, the only other survivor of the entire Brueg family.In the US Guy Bishop studied at Oxford and Columbia University. He was a successful translator and the first one to translate the work of Heinrich Boell into English.Synopsis in fileSee also: Simsohn, Werner: Juden in Gera (DS 135 G4 G47 S56)HanoverAntisemitismChildhoodConcentration and internment camps, Bergen-BelsenHolocaust, survivorsNazi Germany, persecution of Jews, 1933-1941Professions and occupations, artistsProfessions and occupations, translator
AHC Interview with Edmund Engelman.
No full textEdmund Engelman was born in Vienna on May 21, 1907. He attended the "Technische Hochschule" in Vienna from where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1932. He was arrested in May of 1938 at the "Polizeikommandantur Rossauerkaserne", a police station. He immigrated to the US via France and Italy. He deceased in New York on 4/11/2000.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Edmund Engelman Collection (AR 10985
Musik macht frei: Choral music composed and performed in the Nazi concentration camps, 1938--1944.
No full textWe have learned about the horrors of the Holocaust through history books, documentaries and feature films, through harrowing photographs, and most importantly, through the voices of those who survived. Confronting these horrifying statistics and the nightmare of this chapter of history leads us to one weighty and unanswerable question: How could human beings do this to other human beings?While this query will keep sociologists and historians engaged for centuries to come, another astonishing phenomenon emerges as a heartening insight into the complexities of human nature. Amidst the atrocities and unspeakable conditions of the concentration camps, Jews continued to make music together until either their last breath or their liberation. Everything from small choirs to fully staged operas were set against the unlikely backdrop of prison camps, performed either in secret or with the ironically sinister consent of Nazi officials.This study documents examples of choral activity from within the various prison camps of the Nazi Holocaust. Included are the historic accounts of the organization of choirs, prisoners who composed for choirs and significant performances of choral repertoire in the camps. Special attention is given to the transit camp of Terezin due to the unusually large amount of information that survived. Also included as a significant part of the study are the personal stories of some of those for whom the pursuance of musical activity, specifically choral singing, served as a coping method during captivity. These interviews and testimonials are vital to the survival and preservation of this unique musical history; these individual accounts are in some cases the only accessible records of what occurred within the tight security of the Nazis' prison camps.Finally, a study of the varied roles that singing played in concentration camps accentuates a unique communal characteristic of choral singing that extends beyond the music itself. Nowhere is this aspect of singing, the creation and intensification of community bonding, more dramatically realized than in the choral activities of inmates in the Nazi concentration camps.Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Southern California, 2001.School code: 0208
AHC interview with Alba Lorman.
No full textAlba Lorman (nee Wexberg) was born in Vienna in 1919. She worked in a bookstore until shortly after the Anschluss and was a member of the Social Democratic Party. She immigrated to England in November 1938 and then immigrated to the US in 1953, where she became the executive secretary to editor-in-chief of a publishing company.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Bernard Lichtenstein Collection (AR 10416)Austrian Heritage Collectio
Under Swastika and the French flag.
No full textThe memoirs were originally written for the Harvard University competition in 1940 and were translated by the author in 2001. Reflections on his childhood in Germany and Austria. His parents were both from Poland. They moved to Vienna in 1921, where his father opened a haberdashery store in the Second district (Leopoldstadt). Otto attended primary school in Czerningasse. Birth of his sister Cecile in 1924. After his failing business endeavors his father decided to move back to Germany, where the family opened a department store in Elbing, East Prussia. Otto attended Gymnasium, where he was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Growing Nazi movement among students. Summer vacations on the Baltic Sea. Private piano lessons. Hitler’s rise in Germany and life under National Socialism. Bar mitzvah in 1933. Anti-Jewish boycotts. His father fled to Vienna in order to escape a rounding up of Jews. The family followed soon after to Austria. Otto attended Gymnasium in the Zirkusgasse and started to work as a tutor. Member of a youth group and hiking tours in the mountains. Recollections of the Anschluss in 1938. Fervent attempts to obtain an exit visa for the United States, where they had a relative in New York. Description of discriminations and frequent attacks on Jewish friends and relatives in the weeks after the Anschluss. Otto was picked up by Nazi stormtroops. He was forced to hold up an anti-Jewish sign and was walked up and down, receiving beatings and spittings in front of a jeering crowd. Detailed account of the atmosphere within the Jewish population. The Gymnasium Zirkusgasse was transferred into a Jewish school. Frequent attacks of Hitler Youths on the students. Preparations for the “Matura” despite the turmoil. In June of 1938 his father was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. After passing the final exams, Otto planned on leaving the country illegally, since he was subject to the Polish quota for the United States withlittle prospect of getting a permit. Constant danger of arrest for Jewish males in Vienna. He received a visa for France from relatives and left for Paris. Difficult beginnings and detailed account of the life of a refugee. Application for his visa to the United States. His girlfriend Rika joined him in Paris before she left for her agricultural training in Palestine. His mother and sister in Vienna received their exit permits and left for New York. Otto’s father was released from Buchenwald shortly after and joined his wife and daughter in the United States in April of 1939. Difficulties at the American consulate in Paris concerning his visa. Otto arrived in New York in July of 1939, five weeks before the outbreak of World War II. Description of his life in the United States. He trained to become a jeweler and got married in 1944. He lived with his wife and two daughters in Queens.Oscar (Otto) Scherzer was born in 1919 in Hamburg, Germany, where his parents had a small art gallery. His father, born in Poland, was a veteran of World War One in the Austrian army. The family moved to Vienna in 1921, where his maternal grandmother and family lived. After their return to Germany they moved back in 1933 to escape Nazi persecution. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 Otto left for France, where he stayed until his emigration to the United States in July of 1939.HamburgBuchenwald, concentration and internment campsUnited StatesAustria--Jews--PersecutionsChildhoodEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Germany, history, 1933-1945Jews, liturgy and ritualNazi Germany, 1933-1941Professions and occupations, business ownersYouth movementZionis