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AHC interview with Franz Alt.
No full textFranz Alt, 1999Franz Leopold Alt, a mathematician, was born in Vienna on November 30, 1910. He earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Vienna in 1932. He immigrated to the United States in 1938. He belongs to the founding members of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and served on the first ACM Council for 11 years, as president and vice president. From 1948-1967 he was the deputy chief of the Applied Mathematics Division of the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, DC. From 1967 until his retirement in 1973 he worked as a deputy chief of the Physics Information Division at the American Institute of Physics, New York.See also Franz Leopold Alt Collection (AR 10856)Austrian Heritage Collectio
Microcassette: "Rabbi Greenberg Interview Would not Talk" : Pamela B. Cohen Papers (P-897) box 46 microcassette 11
No full textThe recordings found in this collection contain notes, opinions, statements and allegations that may or may not be substantiated. American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any findings, conclusions, recommendations, opinions or statements expressed in the recordings.Digital recordingRussianDigital finding aid available
Temple Emanu-El, Westfield, NJ (1 of 2) (Box 0S 7, Folder 5)
No full textTorah ark curtainDigital ImageDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Helen Amelie and Walter Easton
No full textWalter Easton (Eisenstaedter) was born in Vienna on October 7, 1914. He lived at Schaumburgergasse 13 in the fourth Viennese district. He was a member of the boy scouts and attended trade school in Vienna, the "Handelsakademie". He immigrated to the USA via England (London) and Kenya (Nairobi). He served at the British Army from 1942 until 1946 in the Intelligence Corps. He deceased in Rockville Centre, Nassau, New York, in 2002.His wife Helen Amelie (nee Fuerst) was born in Vienna on December 15, 1915. She lived at Sternwartestrasse 46 in the 18th district. She went to school at "Schwarzwaldschule". After the Nazis' come to power, she emigrated to Kenya (Nairobi), and then via England to the USA, where she became a bookkeeper. As her husband, she deceased at Rockville Centre, Nassau, New York, in 2001.Austrian Heritage Collectio
"Was wir zur Nazizeit erlebt haben, war grausam" : Flucht vor dem Holocaust, exemplarisch dargestellt an ehemaligen juedischen Mitbuergern der Stadt Schweinfurt.
No full textTerm paper for a history class at the German high school Olympia-Morata Gymnasium in Schweinfurt: history of the Nazi time and the life of surviving Jewish citizens of Schweinfurt
Two families.
No full textFamily history of the related Wolfsohn and Schiff families, covering 1776-1982.The following names are mentioned: Mordehai Akdon; Prince Czartoryski; Andrea Guarneri, 1626-1698; Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, 1687-1742; Leopold Krakauer, 1890-1954; Arturo Toscanini, 1867-1957; Richard Wagner 1813-1883Book 1: The Wolfsohn familyBook 2: The Schiff familyMarianne Barton was born on July 5th, 1924 in Elberfeld. She emigrated to Palestine in 1937.Synopsis in fil
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
Shimon Gottschalk with his wife Jo and family on his 70th birthday; Florida Portraits Family
No full textFront row left to right: Tikkun, Back row: the twins, age 8, Shimon's wife Jo,, right: Ariela, age 28, the eldestDigital ImageShimon Gottschalk is the great nephew of Alfred Laurence and is related through the nineteenth century Sterns of SoestShimon Gottschalk, born 192
Dwelling house in a sacred space : reused synagogues in Germany.
No full textContribution to the Congress "Sacred and Secular Buildings," Washington, May 1999, describing a project of the Institute of Architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig in cooperation with the Center for Jewish Art in Jerusalem, which has been working on a documentation of synagogues, cemetery chapels, and ritual baths in Germany since 1994.Kessler in part 1 describes methods of documentation and reconstruction; Knufinke in part 2 gives examples of reused synagogues in North and East Germany between 1994 and 1999.Katrin Kessler & Ulrich Knufinke, May 1999.Technische Universitaet Braunschweig. Institut fuer Bau- und StadtgeschichteHaller, WilhelmOppler, EdwinBueckeburgDornumEgelnGenthinHalle (Saxony-Anhalt)MagdeburgNorderneyNiedersachsenSaxony, LowerSachsen-AnhaltSaxony-Anhal
Jewish vital records : Moenchsdeggingen (Bavaria) Germany ca. 1808-1875 /
No full textThis collection contains a typescript compilation by Rolf Hofmann of vital records of the Jewish community of Mönchsdeggingen, Bavaria.According to the abstract, Hofmann compiled the records from various microfilms. The microfilms are reproductions of originals destroyed during the second World War (1939-1945) and are located in 'various State Archives and. . .[records of] Jewish Communities.'Rolf HofmannProcessed for digitization bydigitize