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AHC interview with Peter Bela Neubauer.
No full textPeter B. Neubauer was born in the small Jewish community of Krems an der Donau, Austria on July 5, 1913 as son of the liberal rabbi and teacher Samuel Neubauer and his wife Rosa Neubauer. As outsiders he and his siblings soon recognized their affiliation with the Socialist Youth Movement in a region of Austria which was then considered the stronghold of Catholic conservatism and (at that time illegal) National Socialism. Later they joined the Zionist youth organization of Hashomer Hatzair, which prepared them for emigration to Palestine. Because of their Jewish background and their political activities they left Austria even before the 'Anschluss' in 1938. His sister Ruth Gunzberg became a founding member of a kibbutz in Palestine, while his brother Siegfried Neubauer was killed in the line of duty while serving in a contigent of the British Army in North Africa. As the leader of the Jewish community his father stayed in Krems until he was arrested after the Germans invaded and the National Socialists took over. He managed to escape illegally to Palestine - Rosa Neubauer deceased after a short illness in 1936. Reading Siegmund Freud, Karl Marx and other theorists of the time Peter B. Neubauer never felt comfortable with the petty bourgeoisie of his place of birth. After the rise of antisemitism in the Austrian public and the political situation he left Vienna for Bern, Switzerland in 1933, where he continued studing psychiatry at the medical school and was influenced by the theories of Anna Freud and other psychiatrists. Finally, he immigrated to the United States in 1941, where he established his professional career and became one of the founders of modern pediatric psychiatry. He has received international recognition and honors as professor at the City University of New York, Columbia University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem, as well as through his numerous publications and lectures.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
The Frankels of Urspringen, volume I: 1680-1880 : A history of the Frankel and Dillenberger families from Lower Franconia /
No full textFamily tree of the Fraenkel family from Urspringen near Würzburg. The family tree was created 1927 by Clemens Fränkel in Munich, Germany.digitizedNathan Fränkel was born 1755 in Urspringen, Lower Franconia. The family took on the name Fränkel in 1817.This first part of the family history covers the period from 1680 to the middle of the nineteenth century, and describes the life of a rural German Jewish family
Seasonal Greeting token 1999
No full textObverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation.
Reverse: Menorah in the midddle of the zodiac symbols.Digital imagedigitize
A train to tomorrow: A Jewish child's odyssey of survival.
No full textA small booklet containing memoirs of Ms. Tepper and her brother Paul Zell, as well as 4 photographic prints of Ms. Tepper and her family members. The booklet was published by the Temple Adath Yeshurun in Syracuse, NY, 09/20/1999.Gertrude Tepper, 12/30/2003Gertrude Tepper, nee Zell, was born on 02/17/1923 in Vienna where he lived at Brigittaplatz in the 20th district. Ms. Tepper was a highschool graduate, with additionally attending a modern hebrow school. Moreover, she was an apprentice in dressmaking from 1937-38. In December 1938, Ms. Tepper fled via a children's transport to England and finally came to the USA in 02/14/1940. She now lives in Manlius, NY.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Alice Huppert.
No full textAlice Huppert, née Doktor, was born in Vienna on Oct. 26, 1913 as the daughter of Oskar and Gisela Doktor. Alice and her older brother Fritz were raised in a religious, but unorthodox, Jewish middle class household in Vienna's XVIII. District. Her father, a bookkeeper, was partner of Lilienleinwand Unternehmen, a textile company. After her school education Alice attended the Medical School and the Anatomic Institute of Dr. Julius Tandler at the University of Vienna, which she voluntarily left because of the antisemitic attacks by students and professors. She married Peter Huppert, a Polish student at Law School, and both left Vienna for Bielsko, Poland in 1936, where her father-in-law owned a textile business. After the raise of antisemitism and pogroms against Jews in Poland they returned to Vienna for a short while. Even before the Anschluss the couple emigrated to London, England, where they set up a new life. During the war they got split up. While Peter Huppert remained in New York after a business trip and was inducted in the US Army - Intelligence Service, Alice did not dare to do a boat trip across the Atlantic because of the U-boat war. They were reunited and applied for US citizenship in 1944. Alice's parents were both killed in concentration camps, her father in Theresienstadt and her mother in Auschwitz in 1943.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Alice Huppert Collection (AR 11097
AHC interview with Alice Mary Price.
No full textAlice Mary Price (née Diamant) was born in Vienna in 1910. She lived at Taborstrasse 2a in the second Viennese district. She went to a language school. After the Nazis' rise to power, she fled to France and boarded the ship 'Queen Mary' to the USA.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Urgrossmutter Hannah Jeremias-Trietsch erzählt ihre Geschichte für ihren Nachwuchs : und für alle, die mit ihr ein Stück Leben gelebt haben.
No full textThe memoirs were written in Nahariya, Israel between 1998 and 1999. Family history of her father David Trietsch, who grew up in a Jewish orphanage and immigrated to the United States. He returned to Europe for the First Zionist Congress in Basel 1897 and stayed. He went to work as an economist in Palestine, where he met his future wife Emma Tomaschwsky. The couple got married in Jaffa. Move to Berlin in 1908, shortly before the birth of their first child. Hannah, born 1911, was the third child of five. She attended the Cecilienschule (girl's school). Description of a well-to-do household. Vacations at the Baltic Sea. Vague recollections of World War One and its aftermath. Financial difficulties due to the inflation. Acquaintance with Else Lasker-Schueler, who was a close friend of her girlfriend's mother. Hannah and her friend Helga were members of the Zionist Youth group "Blau-Weiss". Collecting donations for Palestine (keren kayemet le Israel). After graduation Hannah enrolled in painting classes with Dietrich Roehling. Position in a nursery at "Juedische Kinderhilfe". Preparation for her Aliya and volunteering at an alternative Jewish children's home on a farm in the Black Forest (Winkelhof). Emigration to Palestine in 1931. Arrival at the Kibbutz Giwath Brenner. Initial difficulties in adjusting to the primitive circumstances. Relationship with her future husband Benjamin Jeremias. Move to the "Kwuzath Hachugin" with Benjamin. After a short time Hannah expected a child, and the couple got married in December 1932. Hannah and Benjamin left the Kibbutz and moved to a small house in Bnei-Brak near Tel-Aviv. Birth of their daughter Ada in 1933. Move to the newly built colony of Nahariya near Akko, where Benjamin found a position as an agricultural advisor.Recollections of their early life in Palestine. Incidents with the neighboring Arab community. After the birth of their second daughter Daniela in 1936, Hannah started a private nursery (Ganon) at her home. Proclamation of the state of Israel in 1948. Initiative of her husband Benjamin to start the organization "OLIVA" for cultural understanding between Jewish emigrés and young Germans. Cooperation with "Servas International". Addendum: recollections of her husband's childhood in Posen.Hannah Trietsch was born 1911 in Berlin. Her parents were active Zionists and planned their return to Palestine. Hanna was a member of the Zionist Youth group "Blau-Weiss" and emigrated to Palestine in 1931. She got married to Benjamin Jeremias in 1932 and the couple moved to Nehariya, one of the newly established colonies in Palestine.Synopsis in filesee also: "Trudy Jeremias" (ME 1122)Blumenfeld, Kurt, 1884-1963Brenner, Joseph Chaim, 1881-1921Ehrlich, JuliusJeremias, Benjamin, 1910-1992Roehling, DietrichWiener, GertaZlocisty, EugenAccoBaltic SeaBnei-BrakMannheimNiendorfRechowothAgricultural colonies--PalestineChildhoodDomestic life, 20th centuryEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933HachscharahKeren kayemet le IsraelOlivaPalestine (British Mandate, 1922-1948)--HistoryProfessions and occupations, gardenersProfessions and occupations, nursery-school-teachersProfessions and occupations, writersServas internationalZionist Congress, 1st, Basel 1897Youth movemen
Recollections of my life : An autobiography /
No full textThe memoir covers 1919 to 1999. Childhood memoirs of Beuthen, Upper Silesia, where Eva grew up as the third daughter of Hans Isaac and Regina Pagel. Her parents were highly respected members of the Jewish community as well as of the Zionist Movement. They owned a ladies' boutique and were rather affluent. Memories of Shabbat celebrations and observance of the holidays. Eva was enrolled in a Jewish public school. Hebrew school in the afternoons. At the age of eight Eva joined a Jewish youth group. Passion for books and theater. Recollections of the airship "Zeppelin Hindenburg". Trips to Berlin to visit her mother's parents. Holidays at her grandparents in Kempen (Kepno), where her father was born. After the Jewish primary school Eva attented the public girl's school (Gymnasium). Political tensions and the rise of Nazis. Emigration to Palestine via Romania, Hungary and Italy in 1932. Life in Tel Aviv, where her parents opened the first ladies' boutique "Ha Geveret". Difficulties of learning the new language (Ivrith). Member of the sport's club Maccabi, where Eva (Hava) was in the swimming team. Underground activities in the Haganah, the Israeli defense movement. Work as a photographer, in a kindergarten and in a flower shop. Recollections of the Arab uprising in 1936. Flow of new immigrants from Germany and Austria due to the dramatic political events in Europe. Outbreak of World War II. Friendship with an Australian soldier, who was stationed at Palestine. Marriage with James Tuckfield in April 1942. Difficulties with her father, who did not accept her Gentile husband. Birth of their son Raymond Gil. Emigration to Australia via Egypt and India in November 1944. Arrival in Melbourne in January 1945. Welcome by her husband's family in Adelaide, South Australia. End of the war and reunion with her husband. Birth of their daughter Judith Dawn in 1946 and move to Brownville. Birth of their son Allen David in 1948.Declaration of the State of Israel. Visiting her family in Israel in 1970. Trip to Europe and Israel together with her husband in 1973. Birth of their grandchildren. Death of her husband in 1979. Various journeys to China, Cyprus, Israel and Europe.Eva Tuckfield (née Pagel) was born 1919 into an orthodox family in Beuthen, Upper Silesia. Her parents were active Zionists and emigrated with the entire family in 1932 to Palestine. In 1942 Eva (Hava) Pagel got married to the Australian soldier Milton James Tuckfield and moved to Australia in 1945. The couple had three children and lived in the South of Australia.Synopsis in fileSydneyChildhoodCollective settlements--IsraelMaccabi Hatzai
Goethe und die Juden.
No full textTranscription of a speech. Speech examines the complexities of the historiography of the topic, as little has been written specifically on Goethe's attitudes towards
Jews. The speech examines the complexity of his views, which were at once anti-semitic but also permitted him to have close relationships with many noted Jewish figures.Irmgard H. RosenbergerProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize