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[Sunstein family history].
No full textThe document contains biographical notes on the parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents of Ted Kheel and Ann Sunstein Kheel; family tree of the Sunstein family
from 1819 to 1998, with some birth and death dates and locations; family tree and article on the descendants of the Vilna Gaon (Elijah Ben Solomon); family tree of the Fink family from
1843 to 1998; family tree of the Kingsbacher family from 1840 to 1998, with some birth and death dates and locations; family tree of the Winklein family from 1833 to 1998, with some
birth and death dates and locations; and timeline of the Friedenheit family from 1833 to 1987.Processed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Congregation Beth David, Saratoga, CA (Box 0S 4, Folder 5)
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AHC interview with Adolph Wald
No full textSeptember 4, 1998Austrian Heritage CollectionAdolph Wald was born in Vienna in 1923, where he lived at Obermuellnerstrasse 17 in the second Viennese district. He went to high school at "Gymnasium Sperlgasse". In 1938, he was arrested in Vienna. He immigrated to the US via France. In the US, he got initial support by the relief organization Hias. He died in New York in 2004.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Adolph Wald Collection (AR 10800
AHC interview with John Austin.
No full textJohn Austin (Hans Aufwerber) was born on April 10, 1910 in Brno, Moravia. He was interned at Isle of Man, England (7/1940 - 10/1940) before he immigrated to the US.Austrian Heritage Collectio
My granddaughter wanted to know...
No full textThe memoir was written in 1998 in Argentina. Gabriel Groszman describes the family history reaching back to the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Anti-Semitism and the blood libel trial of Tisza Eszlar. His father, who was born in the Habsburg empire, fought in World War One. In 1918 counter revolution in Hungary under Admiral Horthy, who established a semi-fascist regime. Childhood memories of the Jewish life in Vamosmikola, a small Hungarian village of 1500 inhabitants and 25 Jewish families. Both of his grandparents had small stores and did fairly well. Encounters of anti-Semitism in a predominantly Catholic environment. With Hitler's rise in Germany Admiral Horthy became encouraged to reinforce Anti-Jewish regulations. Gabriel's father was forced to give up his grain-business, because agricultural related buisness was prohibited for Jews. Move to Budapest. Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944. Imi, Gabriel's 18 years old brother, was taken to a copper mine in Yugoslavia. Gabriel himself at age 14 had to clean up factories after air raids. He got a position as a messenger boy at the Jewish community committee (Judenrat). Large Jewish population in Budapest (300.000) delayed the Nazi efforts of deportation. Concentration of the Jewish population in designated houses under restricted circumstances. House searches by the Nazis. Growing danger of deportation. Raol Wallenbergs intervention with the Swedish embassy provided the family with a special document of protection. They moved to the "Swedish house". In December 1944 the Nazis did not respect any longer the immunity of the protected Jewish families and started deporting people from there as well. The Nazis established a Jewish ghetto in a district of Budapest to prepare the final deportation of the Jewish population in Budapest. Approaching Russian troops cut the roads and crossed these plans. The family of Gabriel Groszman was still able to stay in the "Swedish house", though with limited protection.Mass killing of Jewish people who were taken to the river Danube and shot by Hungarian Nazis. Gabriel's father bought forged papers for the family, stating them as Eastern Hungarian refugees. They moved out of the Ghetto and the "Swedish house" to the gentile district with forged identities. Air raids and advancing Russion troops. Their landlords discovered their true identity and restrained from denouncing them. After a few weeks Budapest was liberated by the Russians. The family moved to Vienna and lived there for three years, before they emigrated to Argentina.Gabriel Groszman was born in 1930 in Vamosmikola, a small Hungarian village. The family moved to Budapest. They survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary under the protection of the Swedish embassy and later on under forged identities in hiding. In 1945 liberation by the Russian troops. The family emigrated to Argentina in 1948.Synopsis in fileYugoslaviaAustro-Hungarian EmpireBlood libelEmancipation, AustriaForced laborJewish communitiesJudenratMilitary Service; World War, 1914 -1918Revolution, 1918-191
Aftershocks : a biographical memoir / 1938-1998
No full textThe memoir was published in German under the title "Nachbeben" in 2005 by the Czernin Verlag, Vienna (available in LBI library). The English manuscript has 350 pages. The memoir starts in the year 1939, previously talks about Vienna, and Maribor, and soon moves on to the years 1941 when Marianne and her mother were living again in Vienna.digitizedMarianne Lieberman, nee Winder, was born in Vienna in 1927 to a Jewish father (a physician) and a non-Jewish mother. She lived with her parents in the eighth Viennese district. The Nazis disrupted her education at a Viennese high school and made her flee with her mother to Maribor, Yugoslavia, in 1939 where she continued her education. After the war she returned to Vienna where she could study dress design for one year, even under the harsh conditions of the Nuremberg Laws. In 1947 she came to the USA. Marianne Liebermann is married and lives in North Carolina, USA.Ms. Lieberman, Mariann
Ludwig Levy : Biography /
No full textBiography of the author's father Ludwig Levy, a cattle dealer from Esens in Lower Saxony, Germany.A happy lifeEverything changesA new life in the New WorldRachel Stern, 1998Ludwig Levy was born in Esens in 1909.Synopsis in fileProfessions and occupations; butchersProfessions and occupations; slaughterer
Hans history : Part A [1920-1947].
No full textPart A: The first 27 years: from the beginning to arrival in Cambridge, MA in June 1947.Hans F. Loeser was born in Kassel, Germany in 1920. He went to England in 1937 and immigrated to the United States in 1940. After serving with the US Army in Europe during WW II he became a lawyer with the Boston law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot, distinguishing himself as a fighter for civil rights. He was married to Herta née Lewent. Hans F. Loeser died in 2010.Synopsis in fil