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Experiences of Albert Gompertz : from Nazi Germany to America.
No full textAutobiography and family history of Alfred GompertzAlbert Gompertz, January 2000Albert Gompertz was born on November 15, 1921 in Krefeld. His family owned a fur store and factory. He immigrated to the United States in 1939.Synopsis in fil
AHC interview with Siegmund Forst
No full textSiegmund Forst was born in Vienna in 1904. He left Vienna in February 1939, went to Hamburg, Germany, and took a ship to the US, where he designed graphics for Hebrew textbooks and Haggadot.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Siegmund Forst: A lifetime in Arts and Letters (MS 391); published version available in LBI library (DS 135 A93 F67 L54 1997
Seasonal Greeting token 1998
No full textObverse: Emblem of the Israel Government Coins and Medal Corporation.
Reverse: Stylized menorah with number fifty in the middle part.Digital imagedigitize
Jewish Life in the Old Austrian Emperor's Empire that Vanished (1790-1908) : Family remembrances as told to and remembered /
No full textFred Grubel was born in Leipzig in 1908. He studied law in Freiburg and Leipzig and completed his dissertation in 1930. Before completing the bar exam he was dismissed from the law profession and became the director of the Jewish community in Leipzig. In 1938, he immigrated with his wife Lisa and their son Henry to England. Two years later, the family settled in the United States, where he worked as an accountant for the Joint Distribution Committee. At the end of the war, he traveled through Europe monitoring assistance for displaced persons. He later worked as an accountant at serveral hospitals, before joining the Leo Baeck Institute in 1966. He became its executive director in 1968. Fred Grubel died in 1998.Synopsis in fil
Felix Rothschild.
No full textRecollections by Nora Rothschild about her father, Felix Rothschild (1868-1962).Part 1: Felix Rothschild, 6 pagesPart 2: Father's professional activities, 14 pagesPart 3: Father's relationship with Samual B. Horovitz, 4 pagesPart 4: Notes and recollectionsJudge, born 1868 in Frankfurt. Died in Cambridge, MA in 1962.Synopsis in fil
Austria before and after the Anschluss : Personal experiences, observations and comments /
No full textThe memoirs contain observations and reflections on the events before and during the Nazi period in Austria (circa 1914-1994). Also included are David Lehr's CV and a bibliography of his writings.Early childhood recollections during World War One. Detailed account of the fate of his uncles as soldiers during the war. Experiences of antisemitism during David Lehr's schoolyears at Gymnasium and anti-Jewish riots at university. Detailed account of his years as a medical student and his internship in the Wiedner hospital. Friendship with the Gentile family of Alma N. Graduation from Medical School in May 1935. David obtained a position as a faculty member of the Pharmacological Institute of the Vienna University. Recollections of the civil war of 1934 and the declaration of the autocratic Christian Democratic regime. His plans to leave Austria as early as in 1937 were met with discouragement in his family. Quotations of contemporary literature on Austria's history during the Nazi period and critical remarks. Recollections of the "Anschluss" in 1938. David was expelled from his position at the faculty soon thereafter. Detailed account of life in Nazi-Vienna. Arrest of his father and uncle. Experience at the Gestapo headquaters in an attempt to free his father. David was rounded up by SA stormtroups in the streets and forced to clean streets, but was released due to his professsion. He worked as a volunteer in the Rothschildspital (Jewish hospital). Recollections of a Goebbles speach in Vienna.With the help of a former colleague in Sweden, Maya Stroemberg-Grossman, David received an official invitation from the Medical School in Lund. Detailed account of the procedures to obtain his papers. He emigrated to Sweden in July 1938 and came to the United States after the war. Addendum: Reflections on post-war Austria and its reluctant dealing with its Nazi past. Fiftieth "Matura" anniversary with his classmates from Gymnasium 1979 in Vienna and reflections on their different biographies. Extensive thoughts about anti-semitism in Austria.The following individuals and families are mentioned:Bauer, Richard; Brueck family; Eiselsberg, Anton; Finsterer, Otto; Goebbels, Joseph; Gold, Ernst; Grossmann, Stefan; Prof. Hochstetter; Hohenberg, Erich; Loewenherz, Richard; Pick, Ernst Peter; Scherf, David; Schnitzler, Julius; Sternberg, Carl; Tandler, Julius; Dr. Trevani; Unna, Klaus; Unna, Paul Gerson; Weill, Kurt.The physician David Lehr was born as the fourth child of an orthodox Jewish family in 1910 in Vienna, Austria. He was a medical student at the Vienna University from 1929 to his graduation in 1935. David Lehr emigrated to the United States via Sweden in 1938.Synopsis in fileLundNew YorkSwedenAnschluss movement, 1918-1938Austria, history, 1938-1945ChildhoodConcentration and internment camps (Dachau)Education, primary and secondary, 1918-1933Emigration and Immigration, 1933-1945, SwedenFriendshipGestapoHospitalsMedicineProfessions and occupations, pharmacistsStroemberg-Grossmann, May
Tiraspol, Ukraine, visited by Dr. Robert Spector from Chicago
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Annual Report
No full textFolder originally titled: HIAS Report, 1998-1999Digital ImageDigital finding aid
Woman with Grandchild Begging on Street in Kiev, Ukraine (Box 115, Folder 16)
No full textThis folder of material was located in Box 115. Folder originally titled: Woman with Grandchild Begging on Street in Kiev, Ukraine.Digital ImageDigital finding aid