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Family tree of Manfred and Elizabeth G. Vorenberg.
No full textHandwritten family tree of the Vorenberg, Gumbel, and Goldwein families, with information from the 18th century through the end of the 20th century.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
AHC interview with Anne Blatt.
No full textDigital recordingAnne Blatt was born as Anny Blatt on January 18, 1928 in Vienna. She lived in the second Viennese district, at Baeulegasse 26, and from 1934-1938, she attended high school, the "Oeffentliche Hauptschule fuer Maedchen". She fled form Vienna on January 14, 1940, and immigrated to the United States via Italy. Her family was killed in Auschwitz. In the USA, she received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1962, an M.L.S. from Columbia University in June 1964, and an M.A. again from Columbia University in December 1971.See also Anne Blatt Collection (AR 11044)Austrian Heritage Collectio
Window on a Miracle: The Rebirth of Jewish Community in the Former Soviet Union
No full textDocumentary by JDC (Joint Distribution Committee).Digital recordingDigital finding aid
How do you like America? : A family chronicle.
No full textThe memoirs were written in 2000 in California and contain some of the author's diary entries during the years of the family's emigration and reminiscences of the author's father. Detailed description of family history going back to the early 19th century. The author's grandfather Moses Stern had a rawproduct business in Gelsenkirchen, Westphalia. His father Max Stern took his graduate exam (Abitur) at the Jacobsohn boarding school in 1904 and was sent to a business school in Brussles, Belgium. Work in the family business M. Stern AG. World War One and rise of the family business with branches throughout Germany and offices in New York, London, Milan and Stockholm. Due to political unrest at the end of the war the business administration moved to Essen. Description of the family background of Beate Herzberg, the author's mother. Courtship of his parents and marriage in 1922. Birth of his sister Annelore in 1923. Martin Stern was born in 1924. Description of the family household and domestic life in a well-to-do family in the 1920s. Friday visits to the synagogue and celebration of Jewish holidays. Vacations at the Baltic Sea and skiinig in the Alps. Martin attended a Jewish elementary school. Rising Nazism. After Hitler came to power in 1933 the author's father immediately started preparations for the family's emigration, but was persuaded to stay by his family. Life under Nazi rule. Martin attended Gymnasium and was one of only two Jewish students in his class. Antisemitic incidents. Private lessons in piano and Hebrew. Bar Mitzvah in 1937. Recollections of performances of the Kulturbund.Lessons in Italian and preparations for emigration. The family left Germany for Turin, Italy in 1937. Life in Italy and sign of spreading fascism and move to France in 1938. Life in Paris and lessons in French. Move to Grenoble. Description of various schools in Italy and France. German invasion in 1940. Fervent attempts to leave the country for England failed. The family escaped to Marseilles, Bordeaux and Bayonne and failed attempt to escape to Marocco. Finally the family succeeded in leaving for Algiers, where they arrived on July 4th of 1940. They went to Morocco and were granted exit permits for the United States. The family left for the United States via Portugal in August of 1940. They arrived in New York in September 1940.Martin Stern was born in 1924 in Essen, Germany and grew up in a well-to-do Jewish family, owners of the M. Stern AG. He attended Gymnasium during the Nazi years in Germany. The family left for Italy in 1937 and emigrated to France in 1938. After the German invasion they escaped to Algiers in 1940 and arrived in the United States in September of 1940.Synopsis in fileAplerbeckChamberyGrenobleHachenOramTorinoChildhoodEducation, Jewish, 1918-1933Education, primary and secondary, 1933-1945Jews, liturgy and ritua
Memoirs of an immigrant and his ashtray
No full textThe memoirs were written in 1999. Childhood memories in a small town in Lower Austria. Passion for playing football (soccer). Recollections of daily life with rituals of coffeehouse visits and family dinners in the countryside. First experiences of antisemitism in the mid 1930s. Rising Nazi movement and illegal meetings in the local community. Annexation of Austria in 1938. First encounters with anti-Jewish regulations and discrimination by neighbors and acquaintances. Walter experienced severe difficulties at school and was frequently insulted and beaten up. Decision to leave school. The family was forced to leave Eggenburg soon thereafter, and the town declared itself "Judenfrei" (free of Jews). Move to Vienna, where they stayed with relatives. Walter, who had been brought up as a Catholic, suddenly saw himself confronted with orthodox Jewish people of different customs. Increasing restrictions for Jews. Walter was enrolled in a program at the Vienna Jewish community to learn carpentry. Recollections of the terror of Kristallnacht. Walter and his brother Ludwig were signed up for a children transport to England by the Quaker organization and left Vienna in December 1938. Difficult feeling to depart from their parents. Arrival in Harwige. They were taken to a camp in Lowestoft. Cultural differences. Walter and his brother were sent to a training farm in Parbold. Simple living conditions and difficult circumstances. Farm work and school lessons. Outbreak of the war. Scarce news of their parents, who tried to leave for Argentina. Walter's older brother Ludwig was sent to an internment camp in Adelaide, Australia. After two years he volunteered in the Pioneer Corps and returned to England. In 1941 their parents finally managed to emigrate to Argentina. Walter decided to join them, and in 1943 he left for Buenos Aires. During the passage on the Atlantic the ship was sunk by a German submarine. Rescue by the US Army. Continuation of his trip via New York.Internment at Ellis Island and release with the support of HIAS. Arrival in Buenos Aires in October 1943 and reunition with his parents. Work for a steel company and studies of mechanical engineering at the University of La Plata. Graduation in 1949. Military coup and political instability. Walter Altbach founded his own business, which became a successful enterprise. Marriage in 1951. Move to Peru in 1967. Recollections of his first trip to Austria after his emigration in 1968.Walter Altbach, 10/17/2000Walter Altbach was born in Eggenburg, Lower Austria in the 1920s. His father was a lawyer, who owned a furniture manufactory. In 1938 the family was forced to leave their home and moved to Vienna. Walter and his brother Ludwig were sent to England with a "Kindertransport" of the Quaker organization. In 1941 he joined his parents in Argentine. Walter Altbach lives with his family in Peru.Buenos AiresHarwigeLimaLiverpoolLondonLowestoftParboldAustraliaBermudaCubaEnglandHollandLower AustriaAssimilationChildhoodChristmasConcentration and internment campsConverts from JudaismDomestic Life, 20th centuryEducation, primary and secondary, 1933-1945Emigration and immigration, 1933-1945, EnglandNazi Germany, 1933-1941Professions and occupations, carpentersProfessions and occupations, lawyersProfessions and occupations, manufacturersQuakersRural LifeUniversities and collegesVoyages and travel
The Hungarian Holocaust.
No full textThis research examined the Hungarian Holocaust, its causes and its outcomes. By 1944, Hiders Final Solution had destroyed the Jewish population in every Nazi-dominated nation in Europe. The only exception was Hungary and the neutral countries.The particulars of the Holocaust were endless. Germany maintained a facade about Hitler's obsession with the Jewish genocide and the killing centers. Research and personal experience proved that men and women were treated differently in the concentration camps. Living children were dumped into ditches of flame. Last but not least were the medical experiments under the infamous "Angel of Death," Dr. Joseph Mengele, whose research was feared morbidly at Auschwitz.Between June 1941 and May 1945, six million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. The Nazis were the murderers, but the Allies were the all-too-passive accomplices.The focus of this research, the story of the Hungarian Holocaust, was concentrated largely in the final months of World War Two. This story tests theories of functional rationality of Nazi totalitarianism---in contrast with transformational idealism of constitutional government. This story and theory reached into American politics, not simply European experience.Strong popular pressure for American action would have brought a much fuller government commitment for rescue and would have produced it sooner. Several factors hampered the growth of public pressure, among which were anti-Semitism and anti-immigration attitudes, both widespread in American society in that era and both entrenched in Congress. Mass media outlets failed to publicize Holocaust news, even though the wire services and other sources made most of the information available.In 1944 the United States War Department rejected several appeals to bomb the Auschwitz/Birkenau gas chambers, crematoriums and the railroads leading to them. Even so, at the same time massive American bombings took place less than five miles from the gas chambers.My autobiography and the story of my family are included here as a living testimony.Thesis (D.P.A.)--University of Southern California, 1999.School code: 0208
AHC interview with Peter Basch.
No full textPeter Basch was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1921. He attended Goethegymnasium in Vienna. His father was an actor and later film director in the USA and a cousin of the famous opera singer Richard Tauber. His mother Grete Freund was an opera singer and actress in Vienna and Berlin. In April 1933, Peter Basch left to the USA on the ship "SS Albert Ballin". He joined the US Army in 1942. He received training as a photographer in New York and Paris, and worked then as photographer internationally, including Germany and Austria. Peter Basch died in New York in 2004.Austrian Heritage CollectionPart 1; June 24, 1999, Part 2: July 1, 199
A personal evolution.
No full textThe autobiography of Henry Lehmann, written for his fourteen grandchildren and their offspring in 1999.digitizedPages 175-200 missingHenry Lehmann was born in Leipzig, Germany. He left with his parents in 1937, and after short sojourns in France and in Brazil, they immigrated to the United States, settling in New Orleans, LA. Henry Lehmann embarked in a career in electronic engineering which made him and his wife Elizabeth (Liz), née Lichtenberg, move to various parts of the country (New York, Pennsylvania, California, Maryland).Elizabeth Lichtenberg Lehman
AHC interview with Edith Karel.
No full textEdith Ruth Karel, nee Loebel, was born on January 3, 1912 in Vienna. She worked as a fashion designer. She immigrated via France to the United States in 1938.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Edith Ruth Karel Collection (AR 10915
Memoirs.
No full textThe memoir is divided into several chapters, entitled "Prewar Czernowitz", "Soviet Czernowitz", "German-Romanian Reoccupation", "Deportation to Transistria", "The Stone Quarry", "Tulchin", "The Orphan", and "Return to Czernowitz", "Romania". The memoir ends with the year 1961 when money from the USA arrived which enabled him to emigrate together with his wife Rodica, nee Brenner.via Albert Lichtblau, November 2004Gerhard Schreiber was born on on April 20, 1928, in Cerenauti, Romania, what belongs now to the Ukraine. In the 1920s Cerenauti was an old k.u.k. town, with a predominant Jewish German speaking majority. Mr. Schreiber was taught in German and his parents spoke mainly German as well. Mr. Schreiber and his family were deported to a concentration camp in Transnistria ("Cariera de Piatra" camp) and later to a camp in Tulchin, Ukraine. In 1944 they were liberated and went back to Bucharest, Romania. There Mr. Schreiber studied chemical engineering and graduated 1952. 1961 he went to Israel for one year and then emigrated to the USA. In the USA, Mr. Schreiber worked as a chemical engineer, and then was a technical advisor of an US-Engineering company in Paris, France. He lives in Cliffside, NJ.Synposis in file (written by Mirra Visson)ChernovtsyNazi Germany; persecution of Jews; 1933-1941Tulchin (ghetto