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AHC interview with Peter Kollisch.
No full textPeter Kollisch was born in Vienna in 1928 and lived in Baden bei Wien, Niederoesterreich. He went to elementary school at the "Volkschule Baden" from 1934 until 1938, and junior high school at "Hauptschule fuer Knaben in Wien 1020" from September of 1938 until June of 1939. He left Vienna on children's transport ("Kindertransport") to England (Bristol) in July of 1939, and finally arrived in the USA (New York City) in March of 1940. In his professional life, he became a social worker.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Peter Kollisch Collection (AR 10717
The story of the Lindauer and Weil families /
No full textLife of two Jewish families of cattle dealers in the small Wuerttemberg town of Jebenhausen, ca. 1750-1865; Jewish customs in rural communities; includes family tree.English translation of ME 235
AHC interview with Eva Stone.
No full textEva Stone (née Kodicek or Koditschek) was born on February 22, 1921 in Vienna where she lived at Zirkusgasse 34 in the second Viennese district. She went to high school at "Schwarzwaldschule" from 1933 until 1937, then to the "Gewerbeschule", a school for sewing and design, until 1938. She left Vienna in 1939 for England where she interned on the Isle of Man. She immigrated to the United States in 1947 where she worked as a fur finisher.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Eva Stone Collection (AR 11122)See also her cousins' memoirs - Walter B. Schaffir 'My First 6701 Days' (ME 970) and Kurt H. Schaffir 'My personal History' (ME 980)See also Walter B. Schaffir's AHC Interview (AHC 2231)Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Benjamin Meltser.
No full textBenjamin Meltser was born in Sniatyn, Poland, in 1915. He then lived in Krakau, Poland, where he went to university and became a member of the Historical Faculty from 1933-1938. He was a member of Betar from 1931 until 1932. He fled from Poland to the USSR, and joined the Red Army. Before immigrating to the USA, he worked at the Law Institute in Minsk, Belarus, in 1947.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Benjamin Meltser Collection (AR 10900)Digital recordin
Temple Adath Yeshurun, Syracuse, NY (Box 0S 5, Folder 6)
No full textTorah mantlesDigital ImageDigital finding aid
Contested canon : Simmel scholarship at Columbia and the New School.
No full textThe article describes approaches in sociological research of the work of Georg Simmel.Published in "The American sociologist", Summer 1999, pages 4-18
My story [1915-1999]
No full textDescription of Vienna of the author's childhood. Childhood memories of World War One with frequent visits at the maternal grandparents in Budweis. His father, Jakob Gutmann, was an engineering executive with Austrian Siemens-Schuckert. His mother, Margarete Pick, had been born in Altbunzlau, Czechoslovakia and moved to Vienna some time before 1914. The family lived in a modern apartment house in the Second District. Description of domestic life with maids and laundresses. The author and his younger sister Hanne had French governesses and piano lessons. Summer vacations in the countryside. Recollections of his school days in the 'Realgymnasium' and rising National Socialism. Bar Mizwah celebration in 1928. Political unrest. Death of his father in 1931. In the fall of 1934 Friedrich Gutmann entered the Engineering College at the Technical University of Vienna. Recollections of "Anschluss" and detailed description of life in Nazi Germany. Shortly after the "Anschluss" he was suspended from university. He tried to escape to the Netherlands from the Westphalian town Bocholt. During "Kristallnacht" the author was arrested and spent a week in prison. When his visa for the US came through, he was released. He went back to Vienna to prepare for his emigration. His sister had already left for England, where she got married soon after. Friedrich Gutmann left Vienna in February, 1939. Via England, he arrived in New York on March 15th of 1939. He lived with distant relatives in Ohio and worked in a factory. In 1941, he enrolled in Fenn College, Cleveland as a transfer student, taking night classes in engineering. He graduated with the Fenn College class of 1942, with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Still in Vienna, his mother Margarete was deported to Minsk, in September 1942, where she probably perished. In June 1943, Fred Gutmann was drafted to the US Army. He servedin England and France and was later stationed in Frankfurt, Germany. In August 1945, he came back to Vienna, where he met his future wife, Bertha Rothberger. They married in Vienna in 1946 and went to the USA in 1947. Fred Gutmann worked in various engineering jobs, settling in Caldwell, NJ.Fred (Fredrick Theodore) Gutmann was born Friedrich Theodor Gutmann on September 10th, 1915 in Vienna. He grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family. Fred studied at the Technical University of Vienna and was expelled after the Anschluss in March of 1938. He emigrated to the United States via England in 1939.See also Fredrick Theodore Gutmann Collection AR 11331New YorkEnglandGermanyHollandUnited StatesAustro-Hungarian EmpireChildhoodEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Emigration and immigration, 1933-1945, EnglandHolidays, JewsJews, liturgy and ritualMilitary service, World War I
Tomb in the Jewish cemetery in Hofheim am Taunus (Wallau).
No full textDigital ImageRecord added to DigiTool. Aleph record suppressed. J. Palmisano 09/15/2010.Medenbac
Kosovar Refugees, Macedonian Camp--Leonard Glickman (Box 114, Folder 4)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 114. Folder originally titled: Leonard Glickman's Macedonia Trip - June 1999.Digital ImageDigital finding aid