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Through hell with a guardian angel : [1900-1998] /
No full textMemoires by Dr. Ruth Gutman, written June-August 1998 in Haifa, describing mainly her family's history in Bosnia and Austria, her experiences in Yugoslavia during World War II, and her survival of Auschwitz and other concentration camps.Ruth Gutman, a physician, was born in Bosnia 1911. She and her family had to leave Bosnia after World War I. They settled in Vienna. 1939 she went to Yugoslavia, later to Hungary. She survived several concentration camps. After resettling in Yugoslavia after the war she emigrated to Haifa in 1951.Synopsis in fileEdith Hacker was a friend and colleague of Ruth Gutman and is mentioned in the memoirs. She donated Ruth Gutman's memoirs to the LBI Archives.BosniaSerbiaHungaryHaifaGuben (Concentration or internment camps
Names Calling / Prague Winter / Flight to England.
No full textThe memoirs were written in 1998. History of the Stein and Eisenberger family. The author’s mother Erna was the daughter of the well-respected solicitor Dr. Wilhelm Eisenberger. She got married to a Gentile, with whom she had a daughter, the author’s older sister Anna. After their divorce she got married to Arnold Stein, father of the author. Brief recollections of the author’s childhood. Jump to life in Karlsbad under the Nazi rule in 1938. Move to Prague. Fervent preparations in order to be able to emigrate. With the help of Trevor Chadwick Gerda was sent to England on a children’s transport in March of 1939.Gerda Mayer was born as Gerda Stein in 1927 in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia. She emigrated with a Kindertransport to England in 1939.See also Arnold and Erna Stein Collection (AR 5085)Stein, ArnoldStein, KamillaStein, Philip, 1839-1932Anti-SemitismChristmasHolocaus
Microcassette: Unlabeled--Call to Pavel Re.: Vinokurov Roitman Shtraydman Zolomatina and other Refuseniks : Pamela B. Cohen Papers (P-897) box 46 microcassette 16
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
AHC interview with Judith Langer-Weiss.
No full textJudith Langer, née Weiss, was born in Vienna in 1921, where she lived at Malzgasse 7, in the second Viennese district. She was an orphan. After the Nazis' rise to power, she was forced to scrub streets. She fled Vienna for England, where she stayed from 1939 until 1945. Until 1957 she lived in Israel, when she immigrated to the USA.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Judith Langer Weiss Collection (AR 10702
AHC interview with Joseph Hirsch.
No full textAustrian Heritage CollectionSee also Joseph Hirsch Collection (AR 6538
Karl D. Zukerman, Ben Zion Leuchter, Max Fisher, Representative John Lewis (Box 49, Folder 5)
No full textThis folder of material was originally labeled 6L9. Folder originally titled: K.D. Zukerman, B.Z. Leuchter, M. Fisher, Representative John Lewis (D-Georgia).Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Jūrmala, Latvia—Jewish community dinner dedicated to Kerry and Julia Kramer (Chicago, Illinois); Bat Mitzva
No full textDigital recordingDigital finding aid
Moscow (Box 114, Folder 3)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 114. Folder originally titled: Moscow - 1998.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar and the Jews.
No full textArticle by Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith : "Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar and the Jews", in: The Journal of Progressive Judaism (10) 1998, pp. 5-1
