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AHC interview with Edith Tavon.
No full textDigital recordingFebruary 13, 2013Edith Tavon, née Wilker was born on March 13th, 1925 in Vienna, where she attended various schools before she was forced out in 1938. The day before "Kristallnacht" the family decided to leave Austria by train to Germany and they crossed the border to Belgium on foot and by car. Edith and her family stayed in Belgium into the mid-forties, when they immigrated to the US. Edith’s father died shortly after their arrival in New York, and her mother worked in a factory in order to feed her children. Edith Tavon worked many years as an occupational therapist.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Kurt Duldner
No full textDigital recordingMay 7, 2013Kurt Duldner was born on Jan. 9th 1923 in the 21. District (Floridsdorf ) of Vienna, Austria, the son of a piano teacher and a manager in the metal business. He went to elementary school and high school until 1938 when his school was separated into a Jewish and a gentile part. At the end of 1938 he and his brother fled to Brussels, where they lived under harsh conditions. When the family in Vienna decided to emigrate to Shanghai, the two brothers joined them in 1941, going via Paris and Marseille. In Shanghai Kurt Duldner started to work at a company in the chemical business; the company sent him to New York in the mid-1940s.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Paul Ehrlich
No full textDigital recordingAugust 13, 2013Paul Ehrlich was born on March 13th, 1932 and spent his early childhood in Baden bei Wien where he and his family lived at Theaterplatz 1. In June, 1938 they left Austria for the US via Schwitzerland and Normandy.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Lily Perry.
No full textMay 13, 2013Lily Perry, née Bickel was born in 1928 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up in a middle class, Jewish orthodox family; her father had a leather goods business. A brother of her father lived in the US and sent an affidavit to the family to come the US via France. Lily later became a teacher.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Interview with Rabbi Nosson Vershubsky
No full textOral history interview with Nosson Vershubsky, former Chief Rabbi of Voronezh and former Soviet Jewish Refusenik and Prisoner of Conscience.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Mordehai Liwshitz
No full textDigital recordingApril 18, 2013Mordehai Liwshitz was born as Paul Liwschitz on January 14th 1923 in Vienna, Austria, where he went to high school at Chajes Realgymnasium. The school was closed in 1938 and the family left the same year for Belgium and later by ship to Palestine. He attended school and college in Israel and became an engineer. In 1957 he immigrated to the United States, where he worked in telecommunications for many years.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Robert Roper
No full textDigital recordingOctober 16, 2013Robert Roper was born in Vienna, Austria near Hundsturm, where he lived at Diehlgasse 19/3. His father, who had been born in Rzeszów, Poland and had learned the men's clothing trade there, opened a shop in Vienna. He then went back to Poland for an arranged marriage with Robert’s mother. They survived Kristallnacht in an apartment on Neubauguertel, which was ransacked by SA troopers and their wives; then they were forced to move to Leopoldstadt, where they lived with another family. A few days before the war broke out the family fled to London. His father was taken to the Isle of Man as an enemy alien, but he joined the family shortly before they embarked for America. In the U.S. Robert continued his education at City College and then at NYU where he earned his Ph.D. in 1957. He worked as a chemist.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Lilly Port
No full textDigital recordingAugust 20, 2013Lilly Hahn was born on May 13, 1913 in Vienna, Austria, where she grew up in a middle class environment. She did not evaluate the political situation in Austria as serious as her father, who took his own life in anticipation of what might happen to him. Lilly and her mother fled to Yugoslavia, where they worked at her father's colleague’s company for half a year. Then, they left for London and stayed with family friends, whom Lilly had known since her teenage years. In 1941 Al Bruck sponsored her to immigrate to the U.S. and soon afterwards they got married. She worked for Macy's and General Foods. She then was married to David Leo Lieb and finally to Charles Port.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Hadassah Hersh
No full textOctober 2, 2014Digital recordingHadassah Hersh was born in Vienna, Austria as Hella Goldwurm on the 23rd of August 1932. The family lived in Foerstergasse in Vienna’s 2nd District. Hella's grandparents as well as her parents were born in Poland and emigrated to Austria, where the grandparents established businesses and her parents met and married. Her father was employed at the Jewish Community in Vienna and worked as a ritual slaughterer. The family considered themselves orthodox Jewish, the household was kept kosher, holidays were observed and Yiddish was spoken in the family.Hadassah Hersh never went to school in Vienna, since it was torched on her first day of school. Her father fled to Italy to avoid deportation; Hadassah, her mother and her siblings left Austria in March 1939. They traveled to Antwerp and stayed there until hiring a smuggler in 1941 to get to France, where the father rejoined his family. They went into hiding in Lyons, but paid another smuggler in 1942 to take them to Switzerland. The family was taken to the border town Annemasse and told to walk straight ahead until reaching Geneva. Hadassah Hersh consequently spent the remaining time of the war in Switzerland. She stayed with an adoptive family and went to school, while her parents were interned in a camp in Morgins. The family immigrated to the US after the war. They arrived in February 1946 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and later moved to Brooklyn, NY.Hadassah Hersh attended high school as well as Brooklyn College and taughtr mathematics. She worked at several schools, including City College and Manhattan Community College, settlings in Washington Heights, Manhattan.Austrian Heritage Collectio