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A history of my family.
No full textBound family history written by David H. SolomonThe following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Adler family; Bauer family; Blitstein family; Fist family; Frank family; Gompertz family; Hanft family; Heldman family; Herman family; Hesse family; Kaichen family; Krouses family; Leon family; Marks family; Naumburg family; Oppenheimer family; Solomon family; Teomim family; Weintrob family.The following municipalities are mentioned in this manuscript:Altenkunstadt (Germany); Demmelsdorf (Germany); Ermreuth (Germany); Gochsheim (Bavaria, Germany); Hainstarth (Germany); Hamburg-Altona (Hamburg, Germany); Heldenbergen (Nidderau, Germany); Sötern (Germany); Stadthagen (Germany); Witzenhausen (Germany); Zeilitzheim (Germany)
Erwin Panofsky and Walter Benjamin: German Jewish cultural traditions and the writing of history in Weimar Germany.
No full textIn this thesis, I have analyzed how Erwin Panofsky's and Walter Benjamin's attitudes toward historical interpretation developed within the fragmented culture of Weimar Germany. I have evaluated the function served by the classical tradition--in particular the works of the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer--in the political and cultural rhetoric of the Weimar Republic and in Panofsky's and Benjamin's methodological studies. I specifically focus on how Panofsky's theory of iconology and Benjamin's allegorical philosophy intersect with German idealist thought and with German-Jewish political and philosophical traditions.I have compared their writings to studies by other German writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries including Frederich Nietzsche, Aby Warburg and Thomas Mann and have attempted to evaluate how Panofsky's, Benjamin's and Aby Warburg's use of language is consistent with the Nietzschean rhetoric circulating within Weimar culture. In concluding, I have compared Panofsky's 1943 monograph of Albrecht Durer with Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1948). Although these two works were written after the National Socialists came to power, I have regarded them as "mournful" tributes to Weimar culture. In this chapter and also throughout the dissertation, I have tried to show how Panofsky and Benjamin utilized the Renaissance and classical traditions as metaphors for their own commentaries about the death and/or survival of enlightened German culture.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1998.School code: 0054
AHC Interview with Therese Wiedmann 1909-1998
No full textDescription of the family history. Her maternal grandparents were amber merchants from Bruenn, Czechoslovakia. Her mother was the eldest child of six. Many of her mothers siblings emigrated prior to World War One to England and the United States. Therese Wiedmann’s paternal family was a court manufacturer of k&k uniforms. Her paternal grandfather, who came from Hungary, was an honorary citizen of Vienna and a member of the local Jewish community. He was a passionate hiker and world traveler and, according to Therese, one of the first people in Austria to climb the Mont Blanc. Therese Wiedmann grew up in an assimilated Jewish family in the 7th district of Vienna. Her family belonged to the readers of the “Neue Freie Presse” and shared liberal political beliefs. Music played an important part in their lives: The family had a subscription to the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Her father was a passionate amateur pianist, her mother used to take singing lessons, her sister played the piano and Therese took lessons in Violin. She was a student of the “Freie Schule”, one of the first co-ed schools in Vienna. In addition, Therese and her sister received private lessons in French and English. Memories of her school years at the Albertgasse Gymnasium. Most of her teachers were non-Jewish, the majority of the students at the school though were Jewish. Therese has no recollection of anti- Semitism during these years. She became a member of the girl scouts (Wandervoegel) and was in a group lead by Marie Jahoda. After graduation from Gymnasium she enrolled at the Vienna University, where she studied History, Psychology and Philosophy. Journey to England in 1929. Therese took an English teaching exam at a private language institute. Various skiing trips. Vague recollection of the political unrest in post-war Austria. After her graduation in 1935 Therese started to work at her family’s business.Her dream to become a teacher could not be fulfilled due to the religiously discriminating teaching regulations in Austria. Memories of the Anschluss and life in Nationalsocialist Vienna. Therese received an affidavit from relatives in the United States. She left Austria in August 1938 for England and arrived in New York in October 1938. Beginning of a new life. Work as a nanny and a sales assistant. In 1942 she got married and moved to New Jersey, where she found a position as a legal secretary.Therese Wiedmann was born in June 1909 in Vienna. Her paternal family were the owners of “Tiller AG“ - a prominent manufactory of k&k uniforms. Therese was a student of the “Freie Schule”. She was a passionate violinist and skier and graduated from the university of Vienna in 1935. She immigrated to the United States via England in 1938, where she worked as a secretary for several law firms. Therese Wiedmann lives in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Trudi Jeremias; New York : [1925-1998].
No full textBorn in 1925, family immigrated to USA from Vienna in 1939; family settled in New York; life in New York; education in high school and college at Alfred University in New York state; work for Sabena airlines; engagement to Swiss man; lived in Vienna for three years, work in record shop in Vienna; life in New York; reflections on identity as Austrian/Jew/American.Trudy Jeremias, née Epstein, was born in Vienna on 9/20/1925, and lived at Gloriettegasse 45, in the thirteenth district of Vienna. She attended the elementary school "Am Platz", located in the 13th district as well. From 1936 until 1938, she attended the "Gymnasium" at Wenzgasse. She left Vienna in December 1938, and went via Switzerland to England. She finally arrived in New York, USA, on 1/26/1939. From 1945-49, she studied Ceramics at Alfred University, and in the late 1950ies she was educated for one term at the "Hochschule fuer Angewandte Kunst" in Vienna, the University for Applied Arts in Vienna. She lived and worked ('Musikhaus 3/4', Seilergasse) in Vienna for three years. After WW II, she also worked for Sabena Airlines at JFK International Airport, in charge of non-English speaking passengers and unaccompanied children (most of them German orphans or children of American GIs in Germany/Austria). Up to now, she is working as a jewelry design instructor at Adult Education Dept. in Great Neck, NY and at Westchester Art Workshop in White Plains, NY. Since the 1990ies, she is also a member of the Oskar Maria Graf Stammtisch.Synopsis in fileAustrian Heritage CollectionEducation; primary and secondary; 1933-1945Education; higher; after 194
AHC interview with Cecyilia Federman.
No full textCecylia Federman (nee Hirschfeld) was born in Przemysl, Galicia, Poland in 1912. She was a member of Hashomer Hazair, and was interned at ghetto Lwow and ghetto Warsaw. She immigrated to the US via Israel. In the US, she worked as a researcher. Cecylia Federman passed away in New York in 2005.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Kissler, Gerald and Sandy (Box 0S 4, Folder 18)
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[Jüdische Medizinstudentinnen an der Universität Bern].
No full textEmail containing a list of female German Jewish medical students who received doctor of medicine degrees at the University of Bern between 1933 and 1940. The list includes the students' first, last, and maiden names; birth dates; and countries to which they immigrated.digitize
A balance sheet of life.
No full textThe memoirs were written 1998 in London. The author describes the Rothenberg family's history going back to the late 18th century. Helmut Rothenberg's great-grandfather Emil Rothenberg was born 1853 in Goettingen. His mother died three years later, and Emil was brought up with relatives. In 1879 Emil Rothenberg married Fanny Karpf, whose ancestors came from southern Germany. Emil and Fanny lived in Nuernberg and had seven children. Their oldest son Isaak, the author's father, was born in 1880. He became a senior manager at the brass works of Aron Hirsch & Son in Halberstadt. In 1914 Isaak Rothenberg married Dora Moses, who came from a large orthodox family. Isaak and Dora Rothenberg had two sons; Helmut, born in 1915, was the oldest. His brother Karl-Heinz was born in 1917. In 1920 the family moved to Frankfurt, where Isaak Rothenberg joined a manufacturing business. Memories of the Rhineland occupation by French troops and the time of inflation after World War I. Helmut attended "Musterschule", a school based on Johann Pestalozzi's principles of education. School trip to London in 1930. Private piano lessons and growing interest in music. Rising Nazism. Helmut Rothenberg graduated in 1933, shortly after Hitler had become chancellor of Germany. A few months later he left Frankfurt for England. He stayed with friends of his father in Cheshunt, where he started to work as a chartered accountant. Helmut's brother Heinz (Henry) joined him in 1934, as the condition in his school in Frankfurt had become intolerable. Summer vocations with their parents in Suffolk. In 1939 Isaak and Dora Rothenberg were able to emigrate to England - shortly before the outbreak of war with Germany. Henry joined the Pioneer Corps in 1939, while Helmut worked for the War Office. The family moved to London in 1940. Recollection of air raids and situation as enemy aliens.Helmut Rothenberg started his own business in 1945, and shortly thereafter he married his fiancée Annema Hannes. In 1946 their son John Daniel was born. Description of his professional accomplishments. Memories of colleagues and friends. Their second son Robert Michael was born in 1950.Helmut Rothenberg was born in 1915 in Halberstadt, Germany. He emigrated to England in March 1933, where he started work as a chartered accountant. His brother Henry joined him in 1934. Their parents Isaak and Dora Rothenberg managed to emigrate to England shortly before the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939. In 1945 Helmut married Annema Hannes, a former medical student and Jewish émigré from Breslau. They had three children together and two children from Annema's previous marriage.Synopsis in fileChildhoodIn 1959 Judith Kay was born. Their children and grandchildren live in London, Israel and New York
Juedischer Friedhof "Am Vinckenbrink" in ... Hattingen.
No full textThis collection contains two lists of names from tombstones at the Jewish Cemetery "Am Vinckenbrink" in Hattingen (Ruhr).digitizedDigitized photographs of tombstones are available in the LBI Digitial file