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Microcassette: "Isobin--Appeal for Helsinki from Jewish Refusenik Women" : Pamela B. Cohen Papers (P-897) box 46 microcassette 18
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
Hitler's unwanted children : Children with disabilities, orphans, juvenile delinquents and non-conformist young people in Nazi Germany.
No full textEin Judenjunge durfte kein Deutscher sein.
No full textThis is the story of Harry Gruenbaum and the Gruenewald-Wolff families, featuring Jewish customs in light of Nazi persecution. Also included on pages 20-21 is a prayer by Rabbi Leo Baeck for Yom Kippur 1935.Synopsis in File
Die ehemalige Juedische Gemeinde Sien : Spuren und Erinnerungen.
No full textOverview of Jewish history in relation to the Jewish community of Sien.Alfred Moritz, 1999A partial English translation is available in MS 617.Synopsis in Fil
Die Situation der Juden in der gehobenen Berliner Gesellschaft (1890-1914) : Ein Fallbeispiel: Die Korrespondenz der Salonnière Cornelie Richter. /
No full textMasters thesis, Universitaet Passau, 1998, describing the history of Jews in Germany, especially focused on the situation of Jews in the high society of Berlin from 1890 to 1914. The correspondence of Cornelie Richter née Meyerbeer is examined in detail as an example of salon culture.Synopsis in fil
AHC interview with Irene Bloch
No full textIrene Bloch, 1998Irene Bloch, nee Steiner, was born on May 19, 1922 in Vienna. She lived at Rohrbacherstrasse 5 in the 13th Viennese district, and belonged to the Zionist youth group Maccabi Hatzair, which helped her to obtain a visa for Palestine. She left Vienna in 1939 and lived in Kiriat Anawim. She immigrated to the US in 1951.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Memory of an unhappy childhood.
No full textRecollections of childhood years in Heilbronn, 1933-1936.Synopsis in fil
[Pirmasens in der Pfalz ist meine Geburts- und Heimatstadt].
No full textPolitical background to rise of Nazis in Pirmasens; account of Kristallnacht in Pirmasens; expulsion of Jewish men from Pirmasens to France; forced return to Germany; march from the town of Schweix to Pirmasens; deportation to Dachau via Ludwigshafen; arrival in Dachau; life in the camp; death of father at Dachau; release from Dachau with brother.Synopsis in fileCharles Wolff was born in Pirmasens (Palatinate)
AHC interview with Greta Stanton.
No full textGreta Stanton, nee Wertheimer, was born in 1919 in Vienna. She lives at Bechardgasse 16 in the third Viennese district, and went to school at the "Gymnasium Kundtmanngasse", then the "Akademische Gymnasium", and made the English national certificate right after the Anschluss. She was a member of the sports club Hakoah in Vienna. She left Vienna in August of 1939 with a steamship ticket to the USA, was briefly stradded in Paris, got to London, Liverpool and was on the boat when Hitler entered Poland. In the US, she became a associate professor of social work.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also Greta Stanton Collection (AR 10891
AHC interview with Lisl Weil.
No full textLisl Weil was born in Vienna on June 22, 1910 where she lived at Lammgasse 12 in the eighth Viennese district. She worked as an illustrator for various AUstrian newspapers, and fled from Vienna in 1939 to the Netherlands (Amsterdam), and then moved on to the USA where she lived as an illustrator and writer of children books. She contributed her illustrations to more than 100 books. The book "To sail a ship of Treasure" (New York, 1984), deals with her Viennese childhood and her flight from Nazi Germany.Austrian Heritage Collectio