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Löwenthal Family History : The Chronicles of our Family in the Diaspora /
No full textThis is the partial translation of Ernst Livneh’s manuscript “From the history of our family in the diaspora”. The translated part deals with the family history of the Loewenthal family of Bützow and Schwerin.digitize
AHC interview with Ruth F. Sherman
No full textDigital recordingJanuary 6, 2014Ruth Sherman, née Fischer was born June 17, 1928 in Vienna, Austria, where they lived in Karl-Marx-Hof. He mother provided for the family as a milliner. Shortly after "Anschluss" the family had to move in with the grandparents, but they soon got US immigration pares and could leave Austria in November 1938. They went via Rotterdam per ship to New York and moved on to Chicago, where the family settled down. Ruth finished school and afterwards studied psychology at the University of Illinois. In 1950 she got married to David Sherman, a friend of her cousin, and the couple moved to New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ilse Korey
No full textAugust 12, 2014Digital recordingIlse Korey née Koenigsberger was born 1925 in Vienna, Austria, where she grew up at Kaiserstrasse 77 in Vienna’s 7th District (Neubau). The family lived with Ilse's maternal grandmother and her 12 years older half-brother from her father's first marriage. Although she describes the apartment and the living conditions as "middle class", the social environment was very "cosmopolitan and international". She went to the prestigious Albertgasse high school, and she had - unlike her parents - Jewish as well as non-Jewish friends. She was aware of Jewish holidays and her family observed them but did not go to synagogue regularly. Her father owned a manufacturing business, which produced buttons for clothes. Ilse did not pay attention to the media and was not involved in discussions in the household. After Kristallnacht in 1938, her father was interred shortly at KZ Dachau. In May 1939 the family fled to Italy and on the 10th of June 1939 the family boarded a ship in Bordeaux, France, arriving eight days later in Haiti. In December 1940 they came to New York City. Ilse Korey joined the Austro-American youth organization. She worked in a manufactory producing leather goods and went to a vocational high school, where she met her husband in French class. In 1941 Ilse Korey graduated from high school. She got married in 1947 and in 1951, after graduating from City College, her daughter was born, followed by two sons in 1954 and 1956. Next to raising her three children, Ilse Korey did community service and worked at a theatre. When her marriage broke up in 1981, she started to work in a health club in Brooklyn.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Inge Gaffney
No full textOctober 27, 2014Digital recordingInge Gaffney née Mintzeles was born on June 15th 1937 in Vienna, Austria. Her Vienna born father Emil owned a perfume store, her Polish born mother (maiden name Spergel) ran a jewelry business. After the Nazi's rise to power, Inge's father was arrested. Her mother managed to get him out. In such difficult times, a very close friend of Inge's mother, Emmi Krivanek (unsure of spelling) took care of Inge. The family emigrated to Belgium in the end of 1938/beginning of 1939. They had to return to Vienna to obtain visas for the United States, and eventually left Europe. The family had to stay in Trinidad for 18 months before arriving in the US. Samuel Spergel, a relative, provided affidavits and accommodation until the family moved to Delancey Street in New York’s Lower East Side. Inge's mother continued her profession and opened a jeweler's business, later buying other stores. When Inge’s father passed away aged 42, her mother got married to another Holocaust survivor, Esra. Inge attended Public School 160, Junior High School 188 as well as Thomas Jefferson High School. She went on to study at New York University and obtained a Bachelor's degree in education, teaching elementary school for 6 years, until moving to Jacksonville in 1971, where her husband was a Rabbi. She eventually returned to New York City, where she became a jeweler.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Uprooted : The story of a tree, a family, the internet, and the Jews.
No full textThe description of a family tree and its significance for the author’s genealogy.digitize
Kde domov můj ... : (Where is my home?) /
No full textdigitizedRenate Goldschmidt was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of René Goldschmidt (who was Jewish) and Annemarie née Heintschel (who was Protestant). She survived the war in occupied Czechoslovakia, while her father was in the British Army in England.After the war Renate moved with her mother to Vienna, Austria, where she studied to become a fashion designer. After living in Vienna, Brussels and Paris she and her husband Philippe Propper de Callejon settled in New York City
AHC interview with Lisa Sternberg Leblang
No full textDigital recordingMay 17, 2014Lisa Leblang, née Sternberg, was born on May 12, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. Her mother died giving birth, and Lisa grew up with her father and her aunts in Esterhazygasse, in Vienna’s 6th District, Mariahilf. Her father, who was an active socialist, owned a pharmacy on Esterhazygasse 23 and a photo shop on Thaliastrasse. Lisa went to a nursery school, whose owner knew the Bernhard family in the U.S. who was willing to take care of a child from Europe. Thus, Lisa and her aunt left for Antwerp, Belgium, to wait for all necessary papers, and Lisa went to a Flemish school for a year. In December 1938 she and her aunt took the "Volendam" to New York where Mr. Bernhard picked them up on December 31st, 1938. For a year they stayed with the Bernhards in Brooklyn and then moved to Manhattan.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Stop Thief! : The true story of Abraham Greenthal, king of the pickpockets in 19th century New York City, as revealed from contemporary sources /
No full textBiography and history of a Jewish thief who came from Germany to the US in the 19th century.Bibliography : page 14
AHC interview with Joseph John Wilder.
No full textJune 25, 2014Joseph (Josef) John Wilder was born in Vienna, Austria, on December 21, 1934. His father, mother and brother left Vienna on the day of the Anschluss, March 12th 1938; Joseph was sick and stayed with his grandmother in Klosterneuburg, but a few weeks later a nurse maid took him to Bratislava to meet his family. The family took an airplane from Prague to Brussels and then a boat to England. They lived in London for about one year and then immigrated to the US. Joseph grew up living in Yonkers with his family. After college he went to Alfred University and then had a few jobs, before he started to serve in the US army for 2 years. He was stationed in Munich, Germany. He eventually established his own piano business.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Mirjam Horowitz
No full textDigital recordingFebruary 18, 2014Mirjam Horowitz, née Tempelmann was born in Vienna on June 12th, 1923. The family lived in Adalbert-Stifter-Strasse 12 in the 20th District, Brigittenau. Her father was arrested during "Kristallnacht" and released ten days later after having promised to leave the country. Mirjam’s mother had eight siblings in the U.S. who provided the family with the necessary papers for their immigration. They took the train to Paris and arrived in New York on December 24th, 1938. Mirjam stayed with her aunt and uncle in Washington Heights, while her parents settled with relatives in Boston. She graduated with honors and worked as a bookkeeper. 1951 - 1954 she lived in Israel, where she met her future husband, who served in the army at the time; she worked for the Joint Distribution Committee as a tourist guide. After the birth of her first daughter she took up painting, continuing to work as a bookkeeper.Austrian Heritage Collectio