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AHC interview with Edith Mason
No full textDigital recordingApril 28, 2013Edith Mason née Greif was born on Aug. 8, 1925 as the second child of Mandel and Helene Greif. The family lived in an apartment in the 5th District of Vienna (Margareten). Her father worked as a shoemaker. After Anschluss she was not allowed to go to school anymore. Her father was arrested during Kristallnacht and died soon after under unexplained circumstances. In March 1939 Edith, her mother and her older brother Oswald immigrated via Cherbourg, France to New York, where relatives of her father had arranged for affidavits. The family first settled with Mandel Greif’s brother on the Upper West Side of New York City. Later, Edith became a seamstress.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Eva Yachnes
No full textDigital recordingAugust 2, 2013Eva Yachnes née Steiner was born 1932 in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Ernst Steiner and Leonie Obersohn-Steiner. Her father was a communist who worked in Russia for some time during the 1930s. She attended a Jewish kindergarten. After Anschluss her mother went to England as a cook, and in Dec. 1938 Eva followed her on a Kindertransport to England. She was first adopted by an English minister before returning to her mother. Later, the family reunited in the US.Austrian Heritage Collectio
And there is no going back : A story of patience, persistence, and perseverance /
No full textdigitizedSee also Stephan Shiffer’s Autobiography, ME 1470, and his oral history interview with the Austrian Heritage Collection, AHC 1800, as well as My story by Stephan Shiffers, ME 1652
Waronker 118
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
Continents apart : A voyage of discovery and adventure. /
No full textThe story of the Levi family from Stuttgart, Germany; the Kienzle family from Fiji in the South Pacific; and the Levy family from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.digitize
AHC interview with Kurt Malkischer.
No full textDigital recordingJune 19, 2012Kurt Malkischer was born on June 20, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. He grew up as an only child in a struggling middle-class family in Neubau, Vienna’s 7th District. After “Anschluss”, he was expelled from school and his parents’ hat business lost all customers. His father tried to get visas to the U.S., Australia, South America, South Africa but was denied entry to any of these places. At last, the family got a visa to Shanghai, China and left Vienna on January 15, 1939. They stayed in Shanghai till December 1948, when they left for Israel. There, Kurt Malkischer joined the Israeli Navy. He immigrated to the US in April 1951 and joined the U. S. Army.Austrian Heritage Collectio
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No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
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No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
The critic as patron and mediator : Max Brod, modern art, and Jewish identity in early twentieth-century Prague /
No full textNicholas Sawick
AHC interview with Edmund Rosenblum
No full textFebruary 22, 2012Edmund Rosenblum was born July 27, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. He and his family left in December 1938 and arrived in the U.S. in February 1939. Upon his arrival Edmund Rosenblum started working as a tailor and attended school at night. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the U.S. army.Digital recordin