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AHC interview with Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher
No full textJune 11 & 15, 2012Prof. Ulrich Knoepflmacher was born on June 26, 1931 in Munich, Germany. Just five years after moving to Vienna (Margaretenstrasse in the 5th district), the Knoeplmacher family decided to leave the country, because of the social turmoil Jews were facing. They took the train to Belgium and Holland, from where they embarked to South America on the SS Aconcagua. They arrived in Bolivia in early May 1939. Knoepflmacher attended the Anglo-American High School in Oruro. After graduation, he moved to California to pursue studies of architecture at the University of California in Berkeley. He went on to do a Master's degree in English literature and later got his PhD in the same subject from Princeton University. Ulrich Knoepflmacher became Professor of English literature and taught at Berkeley and at Princeton University.Digital recordin
AHC interview with Herbert Wolfzahn
No full textDigital recordingNovember 28, 2012Herbert Wolfzahn was born in Aug. 10, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. His parents had emigrated from Galicia to Vienna some years before. He had a Jewish orthodox upbringing, and he was a member of a Zionist youth group, Jugendalijah. He escaped Austria in 1939 together with some other members of his group Youth Aliyah to Palestine, where he studied and worked in a Kibbutz for two years, joining the Jewish military organization Haganah. In the late 1940s he emigrated to Canada where he studied pharmacy at McGill University. He eventually had his own pharmacy in Scarsdale, New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ruth B. Mandel
No full textMay 31, 2012Ruth B. Mandel was born Ruth Blumenstock in Vienna, Austria.Austrian Heritage CollectionRuth B. Mandel is the author of the book 'Jewish women in politics'.Digital recordin
AHC interview with Henry Schmelzer
No full textFebruary 29, 2012Henry Schmelzer was born March 28, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, where he went to school until 1938, when he left Austria with the help of Kindertransport to Dovercourt, England. Henry Schmelzer attended Whittingehame Farm School until 1941, when he joined the British Army, serving for two years. He studied at London School of Economics until 1951.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
Waronker 100
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
Waronker 137
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
AHC interview with Otto Mandler.
No full textDigital recordingJune 5, 2012Otto Mandler was born 1930 as son of a physician. He grew up in Vienna and in the nearby town of Baden. After Kristallnacht he and his sister were sent to London with a Kindertransport. In 1940 they came to New York to live with their parents in Washington Heightsk. Otto Mandel studied at Universities in New York and in Basel, Switzerland and became a physician. He revisited Vienna in 1969. He has been married three times and has one child.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Robert Mentken
No full textAugust 20, 2012Robert Mentkewicz was born Jan 18, 1934 in Vienna, Austria. His father David Mentkewicz and his mother Regina had a hatter’s business. In 1938 Robert and his family left for the United States via Belgium. Robert visited a school for art and then worked in the advertising industry.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Lily Phillips.
No full textDigital recordingOctober 15, 2012Lily Phillips was born 1922 as Lily Renée Wilhelms in Vienna, Austria. In late 1938 she left Austria with the help of Kindetransport for England, where she stayed with the family of a pen friend. The family didn’t treat her very well; when the mother said that Lily would not know whether her parents were still alive, she decided to leave the family. She walked to Leeds and got a job as a mother’s helper. In the meantime her parents managed to get affidavits for the United States and wanted her to join, but Lily was considered to be an enemy alien and wasn’t allowed to leave Leeds. In 1940, she escaped to London, where she was jailed by the police, but after one night a nice Scotland Yard officer believed her story. He took her to the ship to New York, where she reunited with her family.Lily Phillips became one of the first female cartoon artists in the US, where she became well known for her diverse work under the name of Lily Renee.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Irene Friedman Terte and her family /
No full textA biography about the author’s American born mother Irene Friedman Terte (1898-1988), as well as about her German parents, Sol and Adele Friedman, richly illustrated with copies of original correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, publications and photographs.The biography describes Irene Friedman Terte’s education and her theatrical career in New York and in Kansas City. It also touches on Irene’s mother Adele Friedman, who – after emigrating from Germany to the US in the 19th century - was very active in promoting US entry into WW I. Also mentioned is Leo Friedman, an American composer of popular music