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AHC interview with Kurt Ronis.
No full textDigital recordingJanuary 16, 2013Kurt Ronis was born on July 27th 1927 in Vienna, where he went to school until he was dismissed after the Anschluss. His father Leo Ronis was arrested during "Kristallnacht" and escaped by luck. The family left Austria immediately and moved to Palestine, where they waited for their immigration papers to the US. Once they arrived, they lived in Brooklyn. Kurt Ronis served in the army and later became a civil engineer.Austrian Heritage CollectionWechsler Coffe
My tree of life.
No full textManuscript and family tree detailing the history of the Jacobson family.The following families are mentioned: Mirvish family; Garner family; Baum family; Schwed family; Hellman family; May family; Kuttner family; Jacobson, Myer.digitizedDigital Imag
Association culturelle Israélite de l’agglomération d’Annecy : Son histoire. 1963-2013.
No full textAn account by Jewish refugees from North Africa, describing the establishment of a Jewish community in Annecy, France.digitizedIn the early 1960s, some 60 Jewish refugees from North Africa settled in the Annecy area, establishing the core of the Jewish community.Prior to WW II only few Jews lived in this area: In 1938, Rodolphe (Rudolf) Moos (1901-1997) from Ulm and Karlsruhe in Germany, moved to Annecy, where he established a steel business. He arrived with his father, Salomon Moos, his wife Ruth, née Haas, and his son Henri
AHC interview with Ruth Caroline Robbins.
No full textDecember 11, 2013Ruth Caroline Robbins, née Ornstein, was born in Salzburg, Austria, on August 21st 1932. In 1938 she and her older brother Louis were sent to live with their mother's sister in Bury St Edmunds, England, while the parents left for Paris. Ruth's father was interned in a camp in France and then inducted in the French army. After 9 months she and her brother joined their parents in Paris; they fled to the south of France near Marseille hoping to be able to emigrate to the US. In the summer of 1941 the family got on a boat from Lisbon to New York. - A Jewish organization found an apartment for them in Manhattan, and the parents started a raincoat business, while Ruth and Louis attended a school with other refugee children. Later on Ruth attended the London School of Occupational Therapy, while the parents retuned to Salzburg. When the Korean War broke out, the parents felt the need for the family to move back to the US. Louis joined the army and fought in Korea.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Susanne Kupper
No full textDigital recordingOctober 3, 2013Susanne Kupper née Braun was born on Sep. 13, 1918 in Vienna, where she lived in the 3rd District near Sophiensäle at Kollergasse 17. Her father had a shop called "Taschentücher" (handkerchiefs) in Salvatorgasse 10 and a private retail store on Tuchlauben, both in the 1st District. Susanne attended a fashionable private school for four years and then a semiprivate school in Hegelgasse, which had been attended prior by her mother and aunt, but which was anti-Semetic. Her grandparents were best friends with the owner of the conservative daily, "Wiener Journal". She would go dancing in Kursalon with Baron Heinz von Kuhnenfeld and Baron Kagra von Stein. Susanne left Vienna in September 1938 for London. She went on to live in Chicago 1940 – 1942, before settling in New York and working in the Garment Center.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Leo Rechter
No full textDigital recordingAugust 9, 2013Leo Rechter was born on Sep. 6, 1927 into a Jewish middleclass family in Vienna, Austria. His father Josef Rechter had a kosher butcher shop, his mother Jyte (born Kippl) was a housewife. The family lived in the city’s 20th District, Brigittenau, where Leo attended high school (Gymnasium) at Unterbergerstrasse. After Kristallnacht in December 1938 or January 1939 the family managed to leave Austria for Antwerp, Belgium. In 1941 they were interned in Waterschei by the Germans. Leo Rechter’s father was forced to work with the military engineering group ‘Organisation Todt’ and later perished in Auschwitz. Leo Rechter, his mother and two younger siblings meanwhile went into hiding in Brussels where they survived the war. After the war he joined a group of Zionists and went to Israel. In 1957 he came to the U.S. He lived in New York, attended university and worked as a bank executive for 20 years.Austrian Heritage Collectio
It’s not the fatherland’s fault!? – Keep the letters for later : Dr. Otto Meyer, from gunner to lieutenant, a German-Jewish war career /
No full textA biography of Dr. Otto Meyer, who fought as a German soldier in World War I, documented with translations of his letters and entries in his diary. Also included are copies of Meyer’s photographs, as well as facsimile copies of Otto Meyer’s illustrated letters from the western front, 1915-1918.digitize
AHC interview with Eva Louise Reiman.
No full textDigital recordingMarch 12, 2013Eva Louise Reiman was born Dec. 5, 1927 in Berlin, Germany. She and her family moved to Vienna in 1933 and lived there until the "Anschluss" in 1938. Her uncle, who was a high official in Czechoslovakia, got passports for the Reiman family, which they used to get into Tunisia and after that into Algeria. In 1945 a friend of the family organized affidavits and visas for the United States. Eva Louise finished her schooling in the USA and became a librarian.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Gerald A. Pollack.
No full textDigital recordingJanuary 28, 2013Gerald (originally Gert) Pollack was born 1929 in Vienna. His father Stephan worked in a successful family millinery, producing hats. The family lived in an apartment in Vienna’s 13th District, Hietzing. His father and his mother Bettina (née Herschel) were both assimilated Jews and adherents of the theosophical movement. Gerald attended elementary school in Vienna, which he could attend even after the Anschluss, because he was registered as creedless. Gerald’s mother, who was active in the animal rights movement, met an American citizen in London, who got the Pollacks affidavits. The family immigrated in June 1938; Gerald’s parents split up, and he, together with his mother, lived in Pennsylvania, together with the man who had enabled their immigration. Gerald Pollack attended college and studied economics at Princeton University. After World War II he was drafted in the army and went to Germany as a cellist in a military orchestra; he also visited Vienna. He worked as an economist for several companies and retired with his wife to Old Greenwich, NY.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Lisl Malkin
No full textDigital recordingMay 2, 2013Lisbeth Malkin née Steiner was born on Oct. 11, 1925 as the second daughter of Richard and Charlotte (née Deutsch) Steiner. The family lived in Vienna’s 13th District (Hietzing); her father worked as an engineer. After Anschluss she was expelled from the Lyceum and left for Czechoslovakia in August 1938. In 1939 she returned briefly to Vienna to go with Kindertransport to London. In April 1945 she left London in order to reunite with her parents in New York. She first worked as a secretary and later worked as a social worker.Austrian Heritage Collectio