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No full textMemoir by Oskar Pick written in 1998; description of family life in the Sudeten area of Bohemia; memories of the family estate and textile industry; recollections of his upbringing, which involved his resolute grandmother and various nannies; member of the Jewish sport's club "Makabi"; his father's journey to purchase land in Palestine in the 1930s; nervous disposition of his father due to a head injury of World War I; participation at the Makabiade in Zilina, Slovakia in 1936; escapades of his school time; after a certain incident Oskar was sent to a sport's boarding school near the Austrian border; in 1938 the school was transferred to Salzburg, Austria; ski trips; after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 the entire school was ordered back immediately; annexion of the Sudetenland area; the entire family had to flee to Prague; first confrontation with antisemitism; his father was offered a job in Egypt, where he tried to get "Palestine" affidavits for his family; occupation of Prague; Oskar's mother took refuge with her sons in Italy; they managed to get their affidavits for Palestine; arrival and reunition with their father in Tel Aviv in 1939; Oskar started an apprenticeship at "Mercedes Benz" in Israel; member of the organization "Blau-Weiss"; end of World War II; facing the tragedy of the loss of their entire family in the Holocaust; encounters with survivors; marriage to his fiance "Ande" in 1947; declaration of the state of Israel in 1948; activities in the emerging military; victim of meningitis epidemic; war with Egypt; six-days-war; career at BMW; job offer in Kaiserslauten, Germany; cultural differences in the mentality of the local inhabitants; move to Cologne with his family from Israel, where Oskar Pick still lives today.The author was born as the oldest son of a well-to-do Jewish family in December 1923 in Sudeten, north Bohemia. He emigrated to Israel in 1939. Oskar Pick lives in Cologne, Germany
Juden in Jueterbog : Spurensuche in der Stadtgeschichte.
No full textThesis about the Jewish community in the village of Jueterbog in Brandenburg.Also included are clippings about former Jewish residents of Jueterbog.Synopsis in fil
Dr. Georg Goldstein, der Bauherr des "Hauses auf der Alb" : Biographie eines liberalen Deutschen: Breslau-Wiesbaden-Kleine Festung Theresienstadt.
No full textGeorg Goldstein was director of GKE, a German society that provided recreation homes for merchants. He was born in Breslau in 1877 and died in Theresienstadt in 1944
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No full textJulian Hass was born on 02/28/1919 in Waidhofen/Th, Niederosterreich (Lower Austria), Austria. From 1929-1937, he went to "Realschule" in Klagenfurt, Austria. After the Nazis’ rise to power he fled to Israel and joined the British Army. He was drafted in 1941 and discharged in 1946. In January 1961, he immigrated to the US, settling in Queens, New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Vienna and The Ides of March 1938 : (A reminiscence) /
No full textShort article about commemorative sessions on March 13, 1998 in remembrance of Jewish victims of Nazi rule in Vienna, Austria, specifically at the University of Vienna and its medical school
Das "Freie Juedische Lehrhaus" in Frankfurt : Ein Beitrag zum juedischen Selbstverstaendnis in der Weimarer Republik.
No full textM.A. thesis for Modern History at the University of Cologne, August, 199
Scholarships (Box 106, Folder 6)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 106. Folder originally titled: Scholarships - 1998.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Former Soviet Union Trip--Rally near "The White House," Moscow (Box 106, Folder 7)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 106. Folder originally titled: Rally - Moscow - April 9, 1998.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Emil Schoen.
No full textEmil Schoen was born in Vienna in 1925. He lived in the second Viennese district at Kleine Pfarrgasse 31/3, and went to school at Hauptschule Schwarzingergasse. He was a member of a Zionist youth group. He escaped from the Nazis in 1940 and then lived in Shanghai from 1940 to 1948; in Tel Aviv from 1949-1954; and then he immigrated to the US.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Emil Schoen Collection (AR 10672
AHC interview with Rosa Gelfman.
No full textRosa Gelfman (née Schoen) was born in Vienna in 1915. She left Austria for Shanghai in April of 1939 and stayed there until 1949. She lived in Australia from 1950 to 1959 and then immigrated to the US. Rosa Gelfman died in Westfield, New Jersey in 2004.Austrian Heritage Collectio