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AHC interview with Eric Offner
No full textDigital recordingJuly 16, 2013Eric (Erik) Delmonte Offner was born on June 23, 1928. he grew up in a well-to-do Viennese family. His father Sigmund worked for a bank, and he was also a writer and columnist for a left wing newspaper. His mother Kaethe came from a wealthy family of bankers. Erik Offner attended school in Vienna’s 19th District (Doebling). After Anschluss, his father left for England, but Erik, his mother and his grandmother were arrested on Kristallnacht. They were released soon through the intervention of SS officer Riehmann, who had worked for Erik’s father. In December 1938, Erik and his mother left for England via Holland. The family then moved to Brazil in 1940 and immigrated to the US in 1941. Eric Offner later became a lawyer and a jazz producer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Memoirs of Yankl Nirenberg
No full textNewspaper clipping about Nirenberg's memoirsDigital ImageDigital finding aid available
Departures and returns : A memoir /
No full textThe memoir is partially made up of excerpts from the author’s mother’s memoir, ‘A time of fear, a time of hope’ by Brigitte Steiner, which describes her and her family’s life in pre-war Germany, their immigration to and beginnings in the United States in the 1930s, and visits to Germany after the war. In addition, the author draws from his maternal grandmother’s diary during her years in wartime Germany, when she witnessed his paternal grandmother’s deportation to a concentration camp. Finally, the author describes various later events, like the laying of a “Stolperstein” in front of his grandparent’s former home in Germany.digitize
Alcantara [The diary of Joseph Winn] 1962-1971
No full textAnnotated English translation of Joseph Winn's diary, 1962-1971, pepared from the original Czech, German, English, French, and Latin by his daughter Marie Winn in 2012-2013.Joseph Winn, born 1901 as Josef Wiener in Podiebrad, Bohemia (today Poděbrady, Czech Republic) was a psychiatrist and a writer. He wrote short stories, aphorisms and commentaries mainly in a satirical and comical style under his pseudonym Alcantara. His works were published largely in “Lidové noviny,” “Tribuna” and “Dobrý den” (satirical biweekly magazine edited by Karel Poláček). Josef Wiener was also a friend and the physician of the members of the “Liberated Theater” Osvobozené Divadlo, a famous Czech avant-garde theatre (1926-1938)
AHC interview with Gertrud Buchler
No full textDigital recordingJuly 22, 2013Gertrud Buchler née Kunstadt was born on Nov. 5, 1918 in Vienna, Austria, the older of two children of Sandor and Johanna (née Oppenheimer) Kunstadt. Her father had a textile business. In 1938 the family left Vienna for England, where Gertrud worked as a maid. In November 1939 she came to the US. Together with her husband she started a manufacturing company for medical instruments.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Egon Schwarz
No full textDigital recordingOctober 22-23, 2013Austrian Heritage Collectio
Die Menorah von Oberstein : Eine Geschichte zur Reichspogromnacht in Idar-Oberstein und Mannheim.
No full textAccount about Kristallnacht in the town of Oberstein and about the fate of families in the region in light of Nazi racial laws
AHC interview with Edith Hamberger.
No full textApril 22, 2013Edith Hamberger, née Mandl was born in 1927 as the second child of Judith and Sigmund Mandl. The family lived in the 2nd District of Vienna, Austria. The father worked as a clerk for a private bank. After the Anschluss she had to stop schooling. In September 1938 the family left for Brussels. The brother went back to Vienna to get the affidavits for the US. He was caught by the Gestapo but managed to flee. In February 1940 the family arrived in the US. Edith had to attend kindergarten at the age of 13 because she hardly spoke any English. She later attended high school, college and university and became a high school teacher for languages.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Heads or tails.
No full textThe memoirs of Angelica B. Melchior Pimentel.Angelika Beate Melchior was born 1932 in Berlin, the daughter of the Jewish businessman, engineer and consultant Reinhold Melchior and his gentile wife Elisa née Engel, who was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, but grew up in Hamburg, Germany. Angelika had an older brother, Jörg Dieter (1930-1956).In 1934 the family moved to Spain, settling in Mallorca. After the Spanish civil war her father had to leave the country and he escaped to Brazil in 1940; his family joined him soon after and they settled in Rio. Eventually, Angelica left her parental home and lived in Niterói, where she married her common law husband José Eduardo Pimentel. They had three daughters, Beatriz (Bia) born in 1955; Irene born in 1956; and Myriam, born in 1961
AHC interview with Rose Wachtel
No full textDigital recordingApril 17, 2013Rose Wachtel was born as Rosa Nussbaum on September 4th 1923 in Vienna, Austria, where she went to a public high school until "Anschluss" in 1938. Her father was a ritual slaughterer (Shochet) for the official Jewish community in Vienna (IKG Wien). In March 1939 the family immigrated to the US, where Rose attended an American high school. She worked as a secretary and bookkeeper until 1948 when she became a homemaker.Austrian Heritage Collectio