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AHC interview with Ilse Matalon.
No full textMay 4, 2080:01:42-0:08:05, 0:32:01-0:34:41 Childhood memories0:08:07-0:19:02 Father sent to camp and escaping Vienna0:19:04-0:22:18 Arriving in Montreal0:22:19-0:24:51 Being taken to Nazi rallies0:24:53-0:27:09 Recollections of “Kristallnacht”0:27:12-0:28:31, 0:53:09-0:54:52 Returning to Vienna0:34:42-0:36:02 Memories of mother Augustina Werner Gottfried0:36:03-0:42:20 Cultural and religious life0:42:21-0:49:31 Emigration route0:54:57-0:57:41 Life in Antwerp and obtaining papers0:57:42-1:02:25 Moving to Montreal1:04:32-1:05:59 Anti-Semitism1:07:51-1:11:11 Life in Montreal1:11:12-1:15:41 Austria’s dealing with its NS-past1:15:42-1:23:38 World citizen identity1:23:39-1:35:35 Thoughts on Israel and Zionism1:39:08-1:42:21 Final messageIlse Matalon née Gottfried was born on July 29, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up with her parents, her older brother and a nanny in an apartment in Flachgasse in Vienna’s fifteenth district. Ilse went to school in Vienna until she left Austria with her family in early December 1938. They fled with a Jewish organization across Germany and Holland to Antwerp. The family stayed in Antwerp for about five months until Ilse’s father succeeded in getting a Romanian passport. They boarded a ship in La Havre, France that brought them to Montreal in the summer of 1939. Ilse attended primary and high school in Montreal. She went to McGill University from ’49 –’53, followed by a year at Simmons College and settled down in Montreal.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Walter Fischer.
No full textMay 2, 20180:00:16-0:04:31, 0:36:28-0:43:03 Escape from Vienna, emigration to Montréal0:04:37-0:05:30, 0:58:36-1:03:28 First years in Montréal, founding a family in Montréal0:05:38-0:12:17 Parents Baruch Fischer and Johanna Lorenz0:12:18-0:15:01 Parental home0:16:47-0:18:42, 1:03:34-1:06:05 Languages, adjustments and integration in Canada0:18:42-0:21:45, 0:43:07-0:45:24 Education and work in Vienna, Switzerland and Canada0:21:45-0:25:15 Family life and his relationship to his mother Johanna Lorenz0:25:17-0:30:43 Religious life0:31:18-0:35:57 “Anschluss” and its impact0:48:24-0:53:13 Arrival in Canada and going from Halifax to Montréal0:53:15-0:58:31 Nazi-sympathizers on the ship from Southampton to Halifax1:06:05-1:09:03 Political opinions, anti-Semitism1:11:29-1:13:54 Awareness of the “Final Solution”1:13:57-1:17:31 Mixed and segregated neighborhoods, differences between Israel and Montréal1:17:22-1:19:55, 1:25:24-1:28:17 Judaism, education and anti-Semitism1:19:56-1:25:07 Israel1:28:18-1:37:39 Visiting Austria1:37:43-1:40:34 Austrian news1:42:19-1:47:09 Holocaust memorials and commemoration1:48:16-1:51:30 Vienna and Viennese cuisine1:51:31-1:54:44 Discussing family documents and pictures1:54:44-2:10:22 Anita Fischer’s family history and her thoughts on religionWalter Fischer was born on June 29, 1930 in Vienna, Austria, where he grew up in the city’s first district. His parents, Baruch Brum, recte Fischer, a tailor, and Johanna née Lorenz, a seamstress divorced in 1932. Walter stayed with his mother, who was not Jewish. Immediately after the “Anschluss”, he and his Jewish father left for France, accompanied by an apprentice at his father’s tailor shop. On the way to Marseille, Walter’s father got sick, and the apprentice took Walter to the internment camp in Gurs. Baruch (Brum) Fischer died on his way to Marseille. When the Germans occupied southern France in 1942, Walter left Gurs and made his way to Switzerland. There, he worked on farms during the summer months and went to school in winter for several years. In 1947 he left for Southampton in England and further emigrated to Canada in 1948. Walter settled in Montréal and became an accountant. He met his wife Anita at the Combined Jewish Appeal in Montréal; they had three children.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Dina Kupferstein.
No full textApril 24, 2018.0:00:24-0:12:34, 0:19:33-0:21:03, 1:06:06-1:09:51 Childhood, especially schooling and how it changed in 1938 with the “Anschluss”0:12:47-0:19:28 Hillel Tauber’s (nephew) experience and attitude towards Germans (and Austrians) as a child of Holocaust survivors0:21:03-0:26:12, 0:32:25-0:34:41 Kristallnacht0:26:12-0:32:25, 0:34:42-0:36:10 Preparing for the escape0:36:10-0:47:35 Arrival and first years in the United States0:47:57-0:50:38 Contacts with Nazis and humiliation by the Hitler youth in Vienna0:50:38-0:51:44 Faith in God0:52:15-0:58:40, 1:00:12-1:05:32 Parental home0:58:40-01:00:02 Visiting Vienna and connections to Austria1:09:51-1:16:34 Discussing family photos and documents1:16:36-1:18:29 Effect of the escape on the parents1:18:29-1:19:44 Maternal grandfather, Rabbi Josef BaumgartenMalvine (née Lederer) Spitzer was born on Dec. 16, 1929, in Vienna, Austria, the younger sister of Dina (née Lederer) Kupferstein (born Sep. 15, 1928). They grew up in a middle-class Ashkenazi- orthodox family with seven more siblings in Vienna’s 2nd district. They went to the Jewish kindergarten and elementary school “Jesod Hatora”. Dina continued school after the “Anschluss” in a so called “Judenschule” (Jew-school) on Vorgartenstraße. Their father Leopold Lederer had a bakery and was an active member at the Kultusgemeinde(Jewish congregation) and charitable Jewish organizations. Their mother Esther (née Baumgarten) Lederer was the daughter of Josef Baumgarten, who was a rabbi at the synagogue Wiener Schiffschul. She also worked in the bakery, which was closed after “Kristallnacht”. When the family tried to get papers to leave the country, a stranger from the United States, Benjamin Königsberg, who worked for the same organization as Leopold Lederer (Kollel Shomrei HaChomos Reb Meir Baal Haness), signed affidavits for the whole family. They left Vienna on Nov. 26, 1939 for Genoa, where they boarded the ship “Vulcania”, arriving in New York on Dec. 6, 1939. The family settled on the Lower East Side where they started a bakery again. Malvine and Dina had to work there every day after school. In later years, Dina became a substitute teacher and a bookkeeper. Malvine became a bookkeeper too, running a custom jewelry-business with her husband Joseph. They both settled in Brooklyn.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Lowensteins of Schornsheim, Germany; ... Memphis, Tennessee; and New York City : Family tree and biographical history /
No full textThis is the history of the department store ‘Lowenstein’s’ in Memphis, Tennessee, introduced by historical abstracts of the Jewish communities in Schornsheim and in Memphis. Also included is a family tree of "The Lowenstein family of Schornsheim, Germany and their descendants".Benedict Lowenstein from the village of Schornsheim near Mainz in the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, immigrated to the US in 1850, founding the dry-goods store B. Lowenstein & Bros. in Paris, Tennessee. The store moved to Memphis, where it grew into a prominent department store; it changed owners in 1923 and closed in 1982
AHC interview with Leo Dortort.
No full textMarch 3 and 4, 2018Interview Part 10:00:27-0:09:43, 0:23:53-0:26:05 Childhood and school years in Graz and how it was impacted by the “Anschluss”0:09:48-0:16:50, 0:26:13-0:34:45 Growing anti-Semitism from 1937 on, anti-Semitic laws forcing the family to move0:16:50-00:23:50 Parental home and parents’ stores0:34:51-0:37:16 Fear of revealing information about uncles Simon Josefsberg and Markus Körner0:39:54-0:46:44 November pogrom and arrest of father Franz Dortort0:46:47-0:49:33 Rabbi David Herzog0:49:35-0:53:24 Father’s return from Dachau0:53:30-1:01:12 Sending boxes with property to uncle Louis Dortort in France1:01:15-1:11:29 Escaping to Maribor and to Leskovac on March 12, 1939 with his parents and two uncles (Arnold and Isidor)1:11:34-1:24:22 Staying in Leskovac, Zagreb and Fužine, conditions for refugees in Yugoslavia1:24:23-1:44:07 Joining the Kladovo Transport, talking about the book “Gescheiterte Flucht” by Gabriele Anderl and Walter Manoschek1:44:12-1:52:47 Leaving the Kladovo Transport to Šabac, integration into the local community1:52:53-2:07:03 Opportunity and decision to go to Palestine in spring 1941, coming to Haifa via Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Aleppo and Beirut2:07:10-2:10:37 German bombings in Haifa2:11:16-2:16:15, 2:20:50-2:29:41 Schooling at the “Kinderheim Ahawah” in Kiryat Bialik2:17:06-2:20:50, 2:29:43-2:33:07, 2:34:35-2:38:33, 3:09:11-3:18:21 Training camp and service for the paramilitary police in Afula in 1946, Israeli war of independence, Zionism2:40:16-2:46:30 Contact with sister Blanka Dortort and other family members2:50:44-3:00:56 Parents Anna (née Körner) and Franz Dortort killed by the Nazis3:03:30-3:05:43 Partisans, Serbia’s politics during WW II3:05:43-3:09:09 Studying political science and other courses at university3:18:23-3:19:21 Aftermath of the Shoah and its impact on him3:19:24-3:26:05 News coverage during WW II, joint guilt of many countries3:26:08-3:33:25 Connection to Austria today, keeping in touch with his cousin Leo Josefsberg3:33:28-3:43:34 Decisions to go back to Graz and to emigrate to Canada3:43:36-3:54:33, 3:58:25-4:06:05, 4:15:24-4:17:26 Graz in the post-WW II-era, Austrian way of dealing with the Nazi-past3:54:33-3:58:23 Difficulties with residence status in Graz and Paris, Israeli citizenship4:06:05-4:07:47 “Anschluss” and marching in of German troops into Graz4:07:47-4:10:28 Maid Hermine4:10:31-4:15:22 Decision to emigrate to CanadaInterview Part 20:00:20-0:12:00, 0:13:03-0:15:33 Religious life in Graz and how it changed under the Nazi regime0:15:56-0:18:33, 0:20:25-0:21:24 Paternal and maternal family, parents (Anna Körner and Franz Dortort) moving from Budapest to Graz0:18:33-0:20:25 Languages spoken in the family0:23:08-0:25:19 Death of grandmother Fanny (née Rand) Körner0:28:15-0:33:56 Family’s attitude towards Zionism, Jewish and Austrian identity0:37:38-0:40:29 Family members in Berlin, great-grandfather David Schlomo Dortort0:40:32-0:45:45 Decision to go to Palestine, situation for refugees in Yugoslavia0:46:07-0:48:31 Thoughts on remembering and forgetting0:48:38-0:57:06 Arrival and first job in Canada0:57:06-1:05:24, 1:08:11-1:13:51 Emigrant community and Jewish life in Montréal, first places of residence1:05:26-1:07:46 Coming to Montréal from Bremerhaven via St. Jones (Brunswick)1:13:51-1:21:28, 1:33:51-1:37:43 Further career in Canada and the United States1:21:32-1:33:50, 1:37:47-1:44:01 Jewish Community, high society and film industry in Hollywood1:44:06-1:57:30 Moving back to Montréal, marriage and divorce with Aida Co, working for a food company’s industrial division1:57:34-2:14:29 Children (Francis Eytan Dortort and Ariel David Dortort) and their interest in Austrian background2:14:29-2:17:53 Visits to Graz and thoughts of going back2:17:59-2:34:12 Visits to Israel, Yad Vashem, Israeli politics2:34:11-2:38:13 School years in Kiryat Bialik and Graz, German language2:38:58-2:54:39, 2:55:26-2:56:10 Holocaust-commemoration and his personal involvement2:59:26-3:05:01 Austrian politics, refugee crisisLeo Dortort was born on September 18, 1928 in Graz, Austria, where he and his sister Blanka grew up with their parents Anna (née Körner) and Franz Dortort. The parents, who both had moved from Hungary to Graz after WW I, ran a haberdashery and a confectionary store. Leo went to the Jewish elementary school, and the family was highly active in the Jewish community. After the “Anschluss” their store was liquidated, and the family was forced to move to a group apartment for Jews. During the November pogrom of 1938 Leo’s father was arrested and sent to Dachau. After approximately two months he was released, signing that he will leave the country within the next three months.Together with his parents and two uncles (Arnold and Isidor Körner) Leo escaped to Yugoslavia on March 12, 1939. In 1940 the family joined the Kladovo Transport to Palestine. In spring 1941, as the transport was stuck in the port of Šabac, Leo seized the opportunity to go to Palestine by land. Both of his parents were murdered by the Nazis, who caught the transport.In Palestine, he reunited with his sister Blanka, who had already gone there on November 2, 1938. He stayed in Kiryat Bialik where he was schooled at the children’s home “Ahawah”. In 1946 he joined the paramilitary police in Afula and later became a Non Commission Officer for the Haganah, fighting in the Israeli war of Independence.In 1950 Leo Dortort went back to Graz for restitution matters and then emigrated to Canada in 1954. In Montréal, he started working as a travelling salesman for multiple optic companies and continued this job in the United States. He returned to Montréal in the early 1980s, where he started a new job and married Aida Co. After their divorce he became a single parent of his two sons Francis Eytan and Ariel David Dortort. He eventually settled in Côte-Saint-Luc, Quebec.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Sidi Shernofsky.
No full textMay 3, 20180:00:16-0:04:37 Overview of the life story0:04:49-0:08:39 Memories of life in Vienna0:08:40-0:09:01 Leaving Vienna0:09:10-0:13:11, 1:03:30-1:06:12 Religious life0:13:12-0:15:12 Background of parents0:17:57-0:20:58 Recollections of the “Anschluss” and father getting arrested0:21:05-0:22:11 Obtaining papers0:22:12-0:25:40, 0:55:42-0:59:04 Emigration route0:25:40-0:38:35 Life in Shanghai0:38:35-0:39:28 Leaving Shanghai0:39:29-0:43:20 School in Shanghai and Montreal0:43:21-0:47:37 Jewish community in Shanghai0:47:38-0:50:01 Recollections of the end of the war0:52:53-0:55:41, 0:59:05-1:03:27 Life in Montreal1:07:35-1:10:45 Family members in Vienna1:10:46-1:17:03 Family trip to Austria1:17:04-1:18:38 Thoughts on Israel and Zionism1:18:44-1:19:36 Final messageSidi Shernofsky née Terner was born on July 1, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up as an only child with her parents, Leon Terner and Leontyna Terner, and her maternal grandmother in an apartment in Kellinggasse 9 in Vienna’s 14th district. Sidi started elementary school in Vienna. Following the November pogrom of 1938, her father was interned in Dachau and Buchenwald. He was released as soon as the family was able to obtain visas to go to Shanghai. Sidi and her parents took a train to Genoa in late March of 1939. There they boarded the ship “Conte Bianco Mano”, which brought them to Shanghai. Sidi’s mother passed away shortly after their arrival. Sidi and her father first lived in a private house, but then had to move to the Shanghai Ghetto in the Hongkou District. Sidi attended a private school outside of the ghetto. Her father was able to obtain work as a jeweler. In 1947 they left Shanghai and went to Montreal via San Francisco and New York. Sidi finished high school in Montreal, where she settled.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Irene Etlinger.
No full textNovember 25, 20170:00:19-0:03:40 Growing up in Vienna0:03:41-0:06:45 Education in Vienna0:06:46-0:11:20 Religion0:11:21-0:16:01 Summers in Czechoslovakia and Carinthia0:16:02-0:17:55 Awareness of Nazism0:17:57-0:24:09 Café Eiles and the day when Hitler marched in0:24:14-0:27:50, 2:50:15-2:51:51 Father getting arrested0:27:51-0:30:23 Memories of her maid Poldi0:30:41-0:33:11 Receiving an affidavit from the Pallays family0:33:13-0:36:13 Obtaining papers0:36:14-0:44:17 Living with Simon Levi in London0:44:17-0:49:22 Living with the Nathans family0:49:23-0:52:41 Moving to a farm in Somerset0:52:42-1:00:51 Emigration route to New York1:00:51-1:07:17, 2:58:10-2:59:31 Ellis Island1:07:17-1:16:02 From Ellis Island to Portland1:16:03-1:23:11 Living with the Pallays and going to high school1:23:53-1:27:35 College and first job1:27:35-1:31:35 Getting married and family life1:31:36-1:42:00 What happened to the family in Vienna1:42:10-2:07:13 Life with parents in Portland2:07:17-2:13:35 Career and life in the US2:13:50-2:16:35 Grandmother Rosi Reiner née Barth2:19:57-2:31:40 Religion2:32:02-2:48:11 How spare time in Vienna was spent2:48:14-2:50:11 Parents’ reaction to the Nazis rise to power2:51:52-2:53:29 Recollections of “Kristallnacht”2:53:33-2:56:32 Keeping in touch with parents2:56:35-2:58:08 Enemy alien status in England3:00:10-3:12:38 Love-hate relationship to Vienna3:14:40-3:16:22 Austria’s dealing with its NS-past3:16:23-3:19:50 Opinion on world politics3:22:34-3:26:45 How war shaped life and identity3:26:47-3:28:20 Final messageIrene Etlinger née Reiner was born on September 8, 1922 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up as an only child with her parents, Hugo Reiner and Ludmilla, née Jakubec Reiner and a maid in an apartment in Taborstrasse 25 in Vienna’s second district. She attended elementary school in Johannesgasse in the first district, and in 1932 the family moved to a new apartment in Blechturmgasse 7 in Vienna’s fifth district. Irene went to the school of the women’s organization Frauenerwerbsverein for four years and then transferred to Handelsakademie for two years until Hitler marched in. Soon after the “Anschluss” her father and uncle, who owned a business together, were accused of improper bookkeeping and tax evasion and were arrested for two days. The family had to leave their home and moved to a place in Aegidigasse in the fourth district. Through an uncle of a schoolmate, Irene received an affidavit from the Pallays family in Portland, Oregon in August 1938. On December 9, 1938, she left by airplane via Prague and Rotterdam for London to wait for her US quota number, staying with the Pallays’ distant cousin, Simon Levi. She did not get to the US until one year later, when she took a ship from Liverpool to New York via Halifax and arrived on Ellis Island in New York on January 3, 1940. She was let out in New York within a day, stayed with relatives of the Pallays in Brooklyn for three weeks and then took a bus to Portland, Oregon. Irene went to Lincoln High School for a year and then to a business college. She stayed with the Pallays until she got married to Harry Etlinger in 1944. Irene’s parents came to Portland in 1947 and stayed with Irene, her husband and her two children.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Liane Winrow Lunden.
No full textFebruary 27, 20170:00 family history4:30 short description of life story18:15 information about affidavit19:30 family background21:05 childhood in Vienna26:05 Anschluss and aftermath28:25 emigration30:15 living in the US34:55 connections to Austria today39:20 feelings as a survivor41:50 politics in Europe42:50 her children44:20 Israel and Zionism46:45 conclusion and talk with her son about her volunteer workLiane Winrow Lunden was born as Liane Weihrauch on May 15 1930 in Vienna, Austria. Her grandparents were of Polish descent, but her parents were both born in Vienna. Liane grew up in Floridsdorf and fled Austria in August 1938, immigrating to the United States. In 1945 she changed her last name to Winrow.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Edith Matous.
No full textNovember 28, 20170:00:15-0:01:10 Growing up in Vienna0:01:11-0:09:42 Parental home0:09:44-0:10:46 Impact of the “Anschluss”0:10:48-0:11:14 The day Hitler marched in0:11:21-0:12:40 School and religion0:12:42-0:17:58 Being expelled from school0:18:00-0:23:04, 1:38:07-1:39:43 Recollections of Vienna during the war0:23:05-0:24:46 Constant fear of being caught0:24:47-0:29:50 Work in a dry cleaning plant0:29:51-0:31:41, 1:42:30-1:46:07 Encounters with Gestapo0:33:48-0:37:20 Mother’s occupation0:37:21-0:40:53, 1:46:09-1:47:00 Classification as ”Halbjuden” and examinations by “anthropologists”0:42:07-0:43:46 Nazi propaganda0:44:32-0:48:55 End of war and Russian occupation0:48:57-0:53:18 Nursing school and work at Allgemeines Krankenhaus0:53:22-0:55:43 Getting married and obtaining visas0:55:44-1:00:00 Emigration route1:00:00-1:08:43 Life in Canada1:08:44-1:13:00 Educational life and career1:13:07-1:21:25 Memories of family members1:23:13-1:24:24 Relations to Austria1:25:05-1:27:30 Neighborhood and friends in Vienna1:34:14-1:35:17 Recollections of “Kristallnacht”1:39:45-1:42:26 Anti-Semitism2:01:38-2:09:07, 2:11:40-2:13:30 Thoughts on Austrian society2:09:08-2:11:37 Visiting her former apartment in Vienna2:21:23-2:25:38 Final messageEdith Matous née Weiss was born on September 5, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up with her parents, Markus Weiss and Marie Augusta, née Coen Weiss and her older sister Anny, married Kainz in a small apartment in Apollogasse 12 in Vienna’s seventh district. Her father was Jewish and her mother had converted from Catholicism to Judaism. Edith’s father died in 1933. After the “Anschluss” her mother converted back to Catholicism and Edith and her sister were baptized in the Catholic Church. They were classified as “Halbjuden” under the Nuremberg laws. Edith attended elementary school and then was transferred to a secondary Hauptschule, reserved for “half-Jews”. After having finished Hauptschule in 1941, Edith was not allowed to learn a trade; she and her sister were assigned to work in a dry cleaning plant, where she worked until the end of the war. Edith and her sister tried to get their classification as “Halbjuden” changed to “Aryan”, and they underwent examinations by “anthropologists”. During the war Edith and her sister refused to wear their yellow badges, except when facing authority such as the Gestapo. Their lives consisted of constant apprehension about being “discovered” and fear of deportation. When the war was over, Edith attended nursing school in Lainz for three years. She then started working at Vienna’s main hospital, Allgemeines Krankenhaus. She got married to Hans Matous in January 1951, and they both obtained visas for Canada the same year. They left Austria in November 1951, taking the ship Saturnia from Genoa to Halifax. They lived in various cities in Canada, and Edith worked as a nurse. Edith got her bachelor and master’s degrees and taught nursing in Papua New Guinea. She settled in Victoria, British Columbia in 1969.Austrian Heritage Collectio