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Shulamith Ben Dror : Recollections 1919-1944.
No full textThe memoirs are a transcript of a taped conversation with Ursula Borchardt by George Rothschild in 1998. Description of her family background. Ursula lived with her parents in an apartment building in Schlierbach, near Heidelberg. She attended a private Jewish kindergarten. Ursula was frequently taken care of by relatives, since her parents were traveling a lot. After the early death of her mother, Ursula was taken care of by nannies. Friendly relations with her father’s first wife, the pianist Martha Heynemann and her half-siblings of that marriage. Trip to Holland via Cologne in 1929. In 1931 Ursula moved with her father to Berlin. Recollections of a somehow chaotic household, where she was left to herself frequently. She attended Tielien Schule. First signs of rising Nazism. Her father received a warning and fled to Holland during the elections in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power. Ursula was left to live with her father’s first wife, Martha. She joined her father in April of 1933 in Laren, Holland. She went to live with friends of her parents, the conductor Peter van Anrooy and his family in Hilversum. She learned Dutch and went to a Gymnasium in Hilversum. Language exchange trip to Paris in 1935 and London in 1937. German occupation. Marriage to Herbert Kalmann in 1940 and changing her name to Shulamith. Birth of their son Micky (Peter Kalmann) in 1941. Breakup with her husband in the same year and move in with her father. In 1943 they were forced to leave their apartment and move to Amsterdam. Deportation to Westerbork camp in June of 1943. Her father was deported to Auschwitz in November of 1943, where he died on arrival. Emergency affidavits for Shulamith, her son and her father arrived weeks after his deportation in Westerbork.In 1944 Shulamit was transported with her son to Bergen-Belsen, where they waited for their exchange to Palestine. Description of the dreadful conditions of the camp. Start of the typhoid fever among camp inmates. In mid 1944 she was moved with her son to another part of the camp, where they were seperated from the main camp and lived under somehow improved circumstances, forming the Group 222 to be exchanged for German templars in Palestine. Transport to Palestine via Vienna and Turkey in June and July of 1944. Arrival in Haifa and start of a new life in a kibbutz.Includes family tree of the Borchardt family.Shulamith Ben Dror (Ursula Borchardt) was the daughter of the writer Georg Hermann (Georg Borchardt) and the editor Lotte Samter. She was born in 1919 in Heidelberg, Germany. Her mother died when Ursula was six years old. In 1933 she emigrated with her father to Holland. In 1941 she was deported to Westerbork together with her son and father, who perished shortly thereafter in Auschwitz. Ursula and her son were deported to Bergen-Belsen and selected as part of the “Group 222” who was exchanged for a group of German Templars in Palestine. She arrived in Palestine in July of 1944.See also ME 1314 and Georg Hermann Collection AR 7074Braunschweig, familyHirsch, familySamter, Lotte, 1896-1926Samter, familyCologneHaifaNeckargemundCommunismEducation, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Group 222Professions and occupations, editorsProfessions and occupations, pianistsProfessions and occupations, writer
Memoirs : [1931-1998].
No full textThe first few pages describe Lucy Mandelstam's family life in Vienna, Austria. The Anschluss markes a turning point in their lives. Pages 6-24 detail her family's persecution through the Nazis, the horror of the concentration camps. The second half of the memoir details the post-war era, DP camps and her way to Palestine. The last pages summarize family events up to today.Lucy Mandelstam was born as Lucie Drachsler in Vienna on 6/24/1926. She grew up with her sister Evelyn in Vienna's second district, living together with her parents (who were first cousins) and her grandparents. Soon after the Anschluss, Lucy's father Otto Drachsler, a chiropodist, was interned in Dachau from November 1938 until May 1939. The family did not manage to emigrate, Otto Drachsler was deported in October 1939. Lucie Drachsler, her sister Evelyn and her mother Marianne were deported to Theresienstadt in 1942. Lucy fell in love with a Czech inmate and they even managed to live together in a shack in the back of a barrack. In 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz. In mid 1944 they were transferred to Stutthof, a sub-camp, and soon after, Lucy was chosen to work on fields close to Marienburg. Evelyn and Marianne Drachsler both perished in concentration camps. Her father managed to escape from his internment camp to Kiev. It took them 20 years to see each other again. In 1945, Lucy Mandelstam managed to escape from a death march. After a long Odysee that took her through towns and DP Camps in Italy, she decided to emigrate to Palestine. She had joined a Kibbutz in Gersfeld, Germany where she prepared for her Alija. Her first attempt to emigrate was not successful as the boat was held up by the British Army and she was interned on Cyprus. Lucy Mandelstam finally arrived in Israel in 1948, where she wanted to start her life all over again. Charles Mandelstam, her second husband and father of the youngest of her three children died 12/24/1997 in Israel. Lucy Mandelstam now lives in Netanya in the north of Israel.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Microcassette: "Alex Pyatetsky I" : Pamela B. Cohen Papers (P-897) box 46 microcassette 10
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 B'rith Kodesh, Rochester, NY (Box 0S 6, Folder 9)
No full textTorah mantlesDigital ImageDigital finding aid
A personal history.
No full textA series of lengthy Oral History Interviews conducted by Peter Farquhar. For more than six hours over several days Paula Brings told her life as a girl and young woman in Vienna, the escape to the Philippines, the terror and destruction of the Japanese conquest, the builiding of a new independent Philippines in the post-war years, becoming a Philippine citizen, raising a daughter, teaching in Philippines schools and participating in the local academic community, the international social community, and the community of Jewish survivors. Attached at the end is an extensive index list.digitizedPaula Brings was born in Vienna as Paula Katz on 03/13/1905 where she lived at Waehringer Guertel 107, in the 18th district of Vienna. She belonged to the Austrian Social Democratic Party and was a high school teacher. She was one of the early women climbers and skiers in the Alps during the 1920s and '30s. She sung under Bruno Walter and debated politics in the cafes; she married a physics professor at the University of Vienna. After the "Anschluss" she fled through Germany to the Netherlands, from there to Ceylon, Australia, where she took another ship to the Philippines.Austrian Heritage Collectio
The last carefree summer.
No full textIn the first short memoir, Hedi Ballantyne describes her family's summer vacations at the Austrian countryside during the summer of 1938. Her family was forced to leave abrubtly because of protesting Hitler Youth. In her second writing, Hedi Ballantyne describes her family's appartment at Karolinengasse 14 in the 4th district of Vienna, her recollections of the "Anschluss" and of antisemitism.digitizedHedi Ballantyne was born Hedi Stoehr on April 9th, 1927 in Vienna. She lived with her parents Marie and Richard Stoehr in the fourth district. Hedi Ballantyne attended the 'Evangelische Privatschule in Wien'. After the Nazis’ rise to power Hedi Ballantyne's father immediately lost his job at the Academy of Music in Vienna and immigrated to the USA. Her brother went to Norway. Hedi Ballantyne herself left on a Kindertransport to England where she spent the war years. In 1946 she arrived in the USA where she joined her father. Hedi Ballantyne's mother, who was non-Jewish, had to spend the war years in Vienna and also joined them in Montpellier, Vermont in 1946 where Hedi Ballantyne's parents remarried (they had had to divorce in 1938). Hedi Ballantyne graduated from the University of Vermont and received in BA in Education. Thereafter she received an MA in German. She was a high school teacher for German and French for more than twenty years. She and her husband Charles Ballantyne had two daughters and a son.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Tula, Russia—Hasdey Neshama klezmer ensemble performance
No full textPerformance was recorded for the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
Restructuring and rediscovering a woman's oeuvre: Chana Orloff, sculptor in the School of Paris, 1910 to 1940.
No full textChana Orloff, a Russian Jew born in 1888, emigrated with her family to Palestine in 1905 in response to political oppression. There she developed her talents and expanded her ambitions and in 1910 with the aid of her brother, left for Paris to study art and discover herself as a sculptor. In the vanguard of artists now called "L'Ecole de Paris," she created a highly original and personal body of work in which she projected her sense of herself as a woman.Orloff won the accolades of patrons, critics, and the French nation in the decades before the Second World War. In the intervening years her work has been largely unknown and unappreciated despite the fact that many male sculptors of the same era have now been rediscovered.Orloff's brief experience as a sketcher in the couture firm of Paquin is explored for the confluence of fashion and art. Her wood-block prints in the magazine SIC and that avant-garde magazine's early promotion of her sculpture is discussed. The antique art as seen in the Louvre, the gothic sculpture of Chartre Cathedral, the ritual art of Africa, as well as the work of contemporaries especially Constantin Brancusi, Elie Nadelman, and Amedio Modigliani in the early decades of the century, are all considered for their relationship to Orloff's development as a sculptor.Examples from Orloff's large body of works in the areas of animals, portraits, and personal subjects are discussed; careful consideration yielding insights into her personal concerns. The issue of her being called a Jewish artist is explored. Her sculptures are compared to the work of well-known male sculptors who ostensibly deal with the same themes. Orloff's work after World War II and her relationship to Israel until her death in 1968 is briefly discussed.A meaningful examination of Orloff's oeuvre allows a contemporary understanding of the productivity of this Jewish French woman sculptor and enhances our understanding of the work of women. A reconstruction of her work provides a new appreciation of the contribution and importance of the artist Chana Orloff.Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 1998.School code: 0046
AHC interview with Joan Frome.
No full textJoan Frome (Johanna Schwarz) was born in Vienna in 1923. She immigrated to the US via Belgium.Austrian Heritage Collectio
