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AHC interview with Gertrude Berg
No full textOctober 23, 2013Digital recordingGertrude Berg, néee Hammerschlag, was born 1919 in Vienna, Austria, where her family lived in the Gersthof section of Vienna’s 18th District, Währing. After Anschluss in March 1938 they obtained affidavits from relatives in New York, but only Gertrude left Vienna on November 1, 1939, arriving in New York on November 17. Her parents stayed behind; her father died in Russia, and her mother was killed in the Kulmhof (Chelmno) concentration camp. - Gertrude lived with her family in the Bronx, working in various jobs. She and her husband, Jimmy Berg, who worked for the Voice of America, met at Café Vienna. They both retired early and became part of New York’s club scene, he playing the piano and she singing.Austrian Heritage Collectio
My Story /
No full textdigitizedSee also Stephan Shiffer’s Autobiography, ME 1470, and his oral history interview with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1800.Stephan Shiffers was born 11/21/1909 in Vienna, Austria. He attended elementary school and grammar school in Vienna (18th district) and studied law at Vienna University (grad. 6/1934 (Dr. iuris)). Since he was active in Jewish athletics he got a scholarship to the "Turn und Sportschule" in Stuttgart, Germany. There he was arrested on 11/12/1938 and interned in Concentration Camp Dachau until 4/1/1939; Stephan Shiffers came back to Stuttgart and there he was given an agricultural permit be Hechaluz in Stuttgart, Germany that allowed him to emigrate to England. He moved back to Vienna and left again on 3/22/1939 to London, England. There he worked first at a farm and later at a nursery. In 8/1939 he was notified that his U.S. visa came up and so he arrieved at Ellis Island in 8/26/1939. In New York he worked as a exterminator, masseur, manager of health club, merchant and finally as a businessman. He has been in Austria about five times since he lives in the USA, he used one of those visits to talk to some students of his old school. Stephan Shiffers died on 6/30/2004 in Washington, DC.Stephan Shiffer’s interview with AHC is transcribed here on pages 39-60 of 60
AHC interview with Herbert M. Balin.
No full textLoud bachground noisesDigital recordingFebruary 18, 2013Herbert Balin was born on July 3, 1928 in Berlin. His parents, who traveled extensively because their occupations, had originally come from Vienna and moved back there, when Herbert was a child. He went to a Jewish boarding school, the Kinderkolonie Wien. The day before the "Anschluss" in March 1938 Herbert’s mother decided to leave Austria immediately. The family went by train to Italy, then to the Ile the France, and finally to New York. Herbert Balin became a lawyer and retired in 2013.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Oskar Grassel.
No full textDigital recordingMarch 13, 2013Oskar Grassel was born on August 4, 1920 in Vienna. At the age of 14 he became a locksmith's apprentice. When his grandfather died in 1937, Oskar took over his hardware business. On November 10th 1939 he left Vienna by train for Shanghai. His parents stayed in Vienna and were later deported to Lublin where they perished. His sister escaped with the help of a Kindertransport to Sweden. Oskar worked for the Shanghai Gas Company as a supervisor. He married in 1944 and left Shanghai together with his wife for San Francisco. In the US he worked as a steamfitter and as a mechanic for an airline.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Arthur Schickler
No full textDigital recordingMay 8, 2013Arthur Schickler was born on May 16, 1925 in Vienna, Austria, where the family lived in public housing (Gemeindebau). After Anschluss the family had to move to another apartment. They tried in vain to move to Holland, and then went in 1940 to Russia instead, where the trans-Siberian railroad brought them to Japan. Eventually, they immigrated to the US. Arthur Schickler worked as a jeweler for many years.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Gesture in late 19th and early 20th century German and Jewish literature of the Austro-Hungarian Empire : : Focusing on the works of Franz Kafka and his writings on Abraham /
No full textKafka's use of silence and gesture in depictions of violence are meant to evoke empathy in the reader. One of the most sophisticated examples of this stylistic move occurs in his aphorisms and parable on Abraham. The use of silence and gesture as well as the turn toward aphorism and parable are factors of Kafka's heritage as a writer in fin de siècle Austria-Hungary. The similarities of style and theme between the German and Jewish literary traditions, both of which influenced Kafka, has led to an imbalance in scholarly understanding of the origins of Kafka's style. Ignoring both the influence that German-language intellectual trends had on Kafka as well as the works of Kafka's that appear prior to 1912 - the year that Kafka wrote ‘Das Urteil’ and the year after his first encounter with the Yiddish theater -leads to a misunderstanding of the origins of Kafka's style. It is easily demonstrable that Kafka's style is rooted in German letters, and that many fundamental elements of his style, such as the use of silence and gesture, occur in works prior to 1912.digitizedA dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Humanities, University of Louisville, Louisville, KentuckyBibliography : pages 350-36
AHC interview with Herbert Orner.
No full textDigital recordingJanuary 29, 2013Herbert Orner was born on Dec. 26, 1926 in Vienna, Austria. He went to various schools until the family left Austria after the "Kristallnacht". His father escaped the Gestapo because he was a decorated veteran after WW I, when he had saved the Gestapo commander’s brother on the battlefield. The family traveled to Belgium where Herbert worked as a furrier in a factory that supplied the Wehrmacht, thus keeping him and his family from deportation. He also became part of the Belgian underground resistance movement. The Orner family stayed in Belgium through the war and immigrated to the US in 1948.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Eva Cohen
No full textDigital recordingOctober 8, 2013Eva Anne Morgenstern was born on October 29, 1933 in Vienna, Austria, where she lived with her parents and her sister in Vienna’s 20th District, Brigittenau. When they obtained visas for the US, they left on a train to Holland and after a short stopover in Rotterdam the family departed on a boat to America and arrived in Hoboken on August 15, 1939. They lived with a distant relative in Brighton Beach. After finishing High School she went to Brooklyn College and worked at nights. She attended a graduate program at NYU, where she met her future husband. They moved to Greenwich Village and later on to Washington Heights. They had three sons and four grandchildren.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Lists from Museum of Jewish Heritage (Box 2, Folder 20)
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Eppler : Eine jüdische Familie aus Mutterstadt.
No full textGenealogy of Eppler and Eppstein families in Germany since the 14th century and specifically of the descendents of Joseph Mayer Eppstein, later known as Joseph Eppler