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AHC interview with Miriam Mostow
No full textSeptember 17, 2014Digital recordingBorn in 1932, Miriam Mostow née Nachimowicz grew up in the 2nd district of Vienna. Her parents were Polish citizens and ran a feather business in cooperation with Miriam's paternal gradparents in Poland. The family liked to spend their leisure time in the spa "Dianabad". Miriam attended a Montessori preschool near Naschmarkt until the family left Vienna in August 1938 with the help of an uncle, who provided an affidavit. They went to Le Havre, France by train, stayed there for roughly one week and continued their journey to New York by boat. The family spent their first week in New York in their uncle’s apartment in Washington Heights, before moving on to the Bronx. Miriam Mostow attended elementary school in Washington Heights. She later went on to Junior High 44 in the Bronx, Roosevelt High School as well as NYU, where she studied to become a teacher. Throughout her professional career, Miriam Mostow worked at several schools. She never returned to Austria, but made several trips to Europe.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ingrid Naidech
No full textSeptember 16, 2014Digital recordingIngrid Eva Naidech, née Wahle was born 1/9/1932 in Vienna, Austria. She lived in Schoenbrunnerstrasse 44 in a large apartment and was 6 years old when the Anschluss occurred. Her father, an architect, was arrested during Kristallnacht in 1938, even though he had been an army captain in the first world war. They fled - with their furniture - to America in May 1939 via Brussels and settled in Philadelphia, where they had relatives. Ingrid Naidech went to high school in Philadelphia and then went to college at Penn State and studied engineering. Afterwards she went to Temple University and acquired her master degree in sociology. Subsequently she enrolled at Law school in Michigan and became an attorney in the international food industry, where she worked for over 18 years. She and her husband settled on the East side of Central Park in New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Mark Abramowicz
No full textJune 27, 2014Digital recordingMark Abramowicz was born 1934 in Vienna, Austria, the son of socialist physician, who was forced to leave his apartment and give up his practice after Anschluss. The family escaped Vienna with French papers on a train across Germany to Saarbruecken, where they took a taxi to the border and then proceeded to Paris, France. After 6 weeks they took the boat to America, living first with the father's cousin in Syracuse, New York, before moving to New York City. After two years, the father passed his examination for immigrant doctors and the family moved to South Dayton outside of Buffalo, New York, eventually returning to New York City. Mark's father died tragically in an accident in 1943. Mark went to boarding school in Manchester, Vermont, while his mother went to nursing school in Boston, Mass. Marc finished high school in Boston and went to Harvard, where he studied political science, but then went to medical school in St. Louis. He started his career at Boston City Hospital before being drafted to the army. After the war, he kept on working as a physician, teaching and working on a medical journal. He got three children with his second wife.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Myra Hatterer.
No full textJune 23, 2014Myra Hatterer, née Schatzberg was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria to parents of Polish origin. Her father was a dentist in Vienna; her mother was a housewife. After the Anschluss the family succeeded in acquiring emigration visas with the help of a cousin in the US. They left on a boat from Trieste and arrived in New York on January 2nd 1940. The Schatzbergs had lost all their property and had to start from scratch in New York. Myra did very well in school, graduated from medical school and became a well known psychiatrist. Her younger brother settled as a physician in California. Myra got married in her third year of medical school; she had two daughters.Austrian Heritage CollectionAllgemeines Krankenhaus Wien ; Ellis Island ; Catskills ; Berlin ; HIAS ; B'nai B'rit
The Sinnreich genealogy : 1898 to 2014 from Czernowitz to Texas, to California and to New York /
No full textRichly illustrated family history of the descendents of Jakob Sinnreich, particularly about the family of his son, Nathan Sinnreich, father of Henry Sinnreich.digitizedJakob Sinnreich was born 1875 in Wiznitz, Bukowina. His son, Nathan Sinnreich was born 1903 in Radautz, Bukowina
AHC interview with Franz Allina
No full textSeptember 12 and 19, 2014Digital recordingFranz Allina was born May 19, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. His mother worked with Wiener Werkstätte and was an amateur photographer; his father was an officer in the Austrian army. The family lived in Vienna’s 16th district at Brunnengasse 48; they liked to spend their weekends skiing in the alps. Erich Allina, Franz' father, died in a skiing accident in 1936, aged 37. The Austrian-American economist Fritz Machlup, Franz Allina's uncle, who lived in the United States, organized affidavits, and the family left Vienna on December 28th, 1938, travelling to Prague and Rotterdam, and departing for New York on the 31st of December on SS Volendam. Fritz Allina and his mother Helene stayed with their uncle Fritz, before moving to Snyder, NY. Helene started a new career as a photographer after winning 2nd price at the World Fair's photography competition. Her business did fairly well, but she suffered from major depressions and was treated in a psychiatric hospital in Baltimore. Helene committed suicide.Franz Allina attended public schools in Snyder, NY from 1939 - 1948 as well as the Park School of Buffalo from 1948 - 1950. He went on to study at Swarthmore College until 1954. He started his professional life as an office boy at The Times Newspaper. He went on to work for the Free Europe Press as well as Benjamin Sonnenberg, representing a major client, Philip Morris Inc. He later did public affairs work for WMCA, a prominent New York radio station, changed to the Agency for international Development (AID), writing speeches and testimonies, and becoming the personal assistant of Frank Stanton, president of CBS. During his time at AID, Allina researched free speech rights and published several articles in the Washington Post. He was offered a grant to study cable broadcasting and became subsequently involved in the Sesame Workshop - he was president and a director of Children’s Television Workshop Communications, Inc. He also worked in Hawaii, cooperating with a Canadian cable broadcasting company. Franz Allina later established The Radio Company Inc. and proceeded to buy radio stations in New York, Connecticut and California. He sold the stations after 5 years for approx. $ 20 million and decided to study law at the Cardozo School of Law. He went on to become an attorney working with capital punishment cases. He also became involved with the Committee to protect Journalists (CPJ), became a regular contributor and conducted missions to Malaysia as well as Haiti and Indonesia, eventually serving as director of CPJ and settling in Riverdale, Bronx, NY.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Harold Rudolph Brown
No full textNovember 18, 2014Digital recordingHarold Rudolph Brown was born as Heinz Rudolf Braun on June 7, 1933 in Vienna, Austria. The family lived at Laurenzgasse in Vienna’s 5th District. His father Karl Wilhelm Braun was an attorney-at-law with an office in Kaerntnerstrasse; his Polish born mother Rosa worked as a maid; he also had an older brother, Felix Hermann. The family liked to spend their free time in the countryside; the parents went to Vienna’s "Staatsoper", and Harold's mother attended a bridge club. After the "Anschluss" the family was forced to sell their apartment and moved in with their grandparents. Harold and his brother Felix left for the UK in Summer 1939. They were taken care of by a minister and his wife in Applecross, Scotland, an idyllic village with only a few hundred inhabitants. Their parents stayed in Austria until a friend of Harold's father organized affidavits. Rosa and Karl's escape to America was indeed a close call, for they were already at the platform waiting for a train to Dachau, when an announcement was made for Dr. Braun to come to the office, where he was notified that their visa application was successful. In 1940, Harold and his brother embarked on an ocean liner headed for New York.After landing in Ellis Island, they rejoined their parents who had arrived several months prior and had gotten an apartment in the South Bronx. Later the family moved to Kew Gardens, Queens. Harold's father could not practice as a lawyer and hence got a job teaching accounting. Harold attended elementary school at Cyprus Avenue, Clark Junior High School as well as Stuyvesant High School. He was awarded a scholarship for Columbia College and graduated with a Liberal Arts degree in 1954. The same year, he joined the Navy and became a navigator on several types of naval planes. He was discharged in 1964 (1965?) and joined Grumman Aerospace as a systems engineer for flight testing. Later he worked in project management until retiring and settling in Manhattan, New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Harry Scher
No full textDigital recordingJanuary 14, 2014See also Scher, Harry, 1921- : A short history of the (Eisen) Scher family. Englishtown, NJ, 1989. ME 1473.Harry Scher was born on Nov. 17, 1921 as Harry Eisenscher in Vienna, Austria, where he lived with his parents and his sister in the 2nd District (Leopoldstadt), in the same building as the grandparents. The father was an umbrella salesman. The parents first started to worry when Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss was assassinated in 1934, but did not take any action for emigration; but when the Nazis marched in, the family registered for visas. Harry's uncle, also named Harry Scher, made it possible for Harry and a cousin to leave Austria: they took the train to Paris, then went to Le Havre from where they took a ship to the U.S. Harry’s sister, who was only 14 years old when Harry left, followed one and a half years later. His uncle got him a job in a rag factory. A year and a half later he worked as a shipping clerk in a garment factory. In 1942, Harry was drafted into the army. After the basic training his unit was shipped to Ireland. Four weeks after D-Day they landed in Normandy. His division worked its way through France to the German border. In the woods by the German border he got a bad rash and was sent to a hospital in Scotland, where they proved an allergy to wool. As a result, he was reassigned to a Civil Censorship Division. When the war was over he was transferred to Munich, where he learned that his parents had been deported from Vienna to the Ghetto in Lodz. In 1999/2000, he contacted the USHMM and finally found out that they were subsequently sent to Chelmno. This fact led Harry Scher to write down his family history. After his wedding Harry Scher worked as a taxi driver and went to TV school, eventually working as a technician at Wells Televisioning. Four years later he became head of the company. Later he worked as a tutor for English as a second language.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Dorothea Scher.
No full textDecember 2, 2014Dorothea Scher, née Hauptmann, was born on 7/14/1933 in Vienna, Austria to Kurt Hauptmann and Anne Hofmann. Kurt Hauptmann was an attorney, who had lost his license due to "dishonest behavior". Dorothea's mother however, descended from a rich upper-class family, whose father came up for all expenses: Alfred Hofmann was the CEO of the prestigious production community "Wiener Werkstaette", and in 1955 he donated thousands of fabric patterns and drawings to MAK, the Museum for applied arts in Vienna. http://www.mak.at/sammlung/mak-sammlung/wiener-werkstaette-archiv. Dorothea’s parents married in 1927 and divorced in 1937, two years before they fled Germany. Dorothea Scher was six years old when she left with her maternal grandparents and her mother to Trieste. From the Adriatic coast, they set sail on the "Vulcania" to New York, where the family decided never to speak German again, which was possible due to the fact, that all family members had acquired good English skills in Vienna. In 1945 Dorothea and her mother Anne Hofmann moved to their own apartment in New York’s Washington Heights. Dorothea’s father had come to New York in 1941 and took care of his daughter only on Sundays. He had his own shoe business, which failed and went bankrupt in the 1960s. In 1951, Dorothea graduated from High school in Washington Heights. After two years of College, she had to quit, since her father was not able to finance the studies of his daughter anymore. Subsequently, she started to work at "Life Magazine" in the PR-department. In 1955 she married "her high school love" and got her first of two daughters in 1957. in 1963 she started to work as a photographer's assistant and decided to commence a carrier as a freelancing photographer's agent/representative. She retired in 2000.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Jüdische Exilverlagsneugründungen : Aufbau einer Spezialsammlung im Leo Baeck Institute New York.
No full textThe paper describes the set-up of a special collection at the Leo Baeck Institute New York, dealing with Jewish publishing houses in exile, 1933-1945. Profiles for each publishing house, containing the history, the main focus and the published authors, were linked to the Leo Baeck Institute’s OPAC.After describing the history of the Leo Baeck Institute, the paper focuses on the reasons for going and living into exile, particularly into three main exile countries (Czechoslovakia, Palestine and the USA). In addition, options for émigrés after WW II are discussed.digitizedBachelor thesis at University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover, GermanyJanuary 22, 2013Bibliography : p. 44-4