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Family saga 1923-2000
No full textIn his memoir, Joseph Ripp decribes "some of the events that drove them out of Europe and brought them to safety in the United States". He describes the fate of each family member, and their later lives in the United States. Then Joseph Ripp focuses on the time of persecution thorugh the Nazis. In school they were taught the discriminatory racial doctrines, in the outside world his father's business suffered from all different kinds of assaults on his property. It became clear that they had to emigrate. In 1938, young Joseph could take part in a small program sponsered by the American Jewish community which enabld a few hundred children from Germany to escape. He was about to end up in St. Paul, Minnesota. Before that, they made a stop in New York, where he stayed with his aunt Bertha Geller. He describes how impressed he was by all the new things he got to see in New York. After his arrival, he took on several jobs to help his family survive the struggles of war. The memoir moves back to Nazi-Germany and its persecution of Jews. There is an account of Kristallnight and Joseph Ripp's brothers' escape to Holland and England. His parents are dispersed over Europe, his father being held at St. Cyprien internment camp in France, his mother stuck in Antwerp, Belgium. Finally there is a family re-union in the USA. Joesph Ripp then writes about his family's fate in the US. He joins the army and combats in Europe. He receives education from Columbia University, and then meets his future wife, Mimi, a refugee child as well. Both go back to Europe in the 1950s. Joseph Ripp accepted a job offer in Brussels, Belgium, from his wife's uncle. The memoir closes with the upbringing of the next generation. There are several family photos and documents included in the appendix.digitizedJoseph Ripp was born in Bochum, Germany, on April 30, 1923. His father descended from a Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian empire, and volunteered for WW1. His parents worked together in their own business in Bochum. The Ripp family emigrated to the USA after the Nazis' rise to power in Germany. Joseph Ripp fist came to St. Pual, MN, and then settled down in New York City. He received an MA degree in history from Columbia University, and later worked in various jobs--from diamont cutting to sales, and Wall Street brokerage.Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson
AHC interview with Agathe Nadai.
No full textAgathe Nadai, born on October 23, 1932 in Vienna, Austria, was the only child of Anny and Alexander Nadai, a self-employed mechanical engineer and inventor, educated at Vienna's Technical University. His patents garanteed an upper middle-class lifestyle untill the 'Anschluss' in 1938. The assimilated family had to flee. Their route of emigration brought them to Yugoslavia, with a short stay at relatives in Budapest, Hungary. In Zagreb, Yugoslavia they hardly survived the persecution of the USTACA and the denunciation of the population. In Split, on the Croatian shore of the Adriatic Sea, they managed to make a living without any property and shared the fade among other Jewish refugees. Permanent war actions (Italian, German troops) and persecution by the Nazis made them leaving for Mussolini's Italy. First in Siena, Toscany and later in Rome the family survived with the help of Italian friends and lucky surcumstances. They escaped the Nazi-persecution, while protected by high ranking 'fashists'. Almost adopted by post-war Italy they descided to emigrate to the United States with the perspective of better job opportunities for Agathe.See also Agathe Nadai Collection (AR 11223)Austrian Heritage Collectio
Immigrants (Box 115, Folder 21)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 115. Folder originally titled: Miscellaneous.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Leonard Glickman Portraits (Box 117, Folder 1)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 117. Folder originally titled: Title of Box: Color Prints and Slides - Leonard Glickman - HIAS Past President Headshots.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Scholarship Awards Ceremony (Box 120, Folder 16)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 120. Folder originally titled: Photographer James Douglas- Rolls 8917-8921.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
The Terrace memoirs.
No full textDiary from childhood to old age (as described in the biographical note), which includes a few family photographs taken in the 1930s and 1940s.Werner Warmbrunn was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1920. He lived in Frankfurt at the "Eschenheimer Anlage", and attended a Jewish elementary school, the "Philantropin", and then the "Goethe Gymnasium", later the "Musterschule". He was a member of a youth group, the "Schwarze Faehnlein". In 1936, he left Germany for Amsterdam, Netherlands, together with his family. His father hoped to improve his business which suffered from the political situation in Germany. Werner Warmbrunn went to Hervormd Lyceum (agricultural school), and stayed until February 1941 in Amsterdam, when he got a visa for the US. His parents had already left earlier and had arranged the visa. He went on an organized trip with other children to Berlin, Germany, where he boarded an airplane (Lufthansa, Junker 52) passing Munich, Marseille, Madrid, to Lisbon where he boarded the ship "SS NYASSA" to New York.Frommel, Wolfgan
Gewaltsam verschleppt aus Oberhessen : die Deportation der Juden im September 1942 und in den Jahren 1943-1945.
No full textArticle (offprint) about deportations of Jews from Upper Hesse, 1942-1945, in: Mitteilungen des Oberhessischen Geschichtsvereins in Giessen, NF 85 (2000), PP. 5-95digitize
Family and Friends - Correspondence (ASF AR 8, Box 5, Folder 22)
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