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falk valentin grinfeld v’mapel hiio.
No full textHebrew translation of “Falk Valentin Gruenfeld und sein Werk” from a privately printed edition, Berlin 1934, by Joel Freudenberg.Falk Valentin Gruenfeld was born in 1837 in Leschnitz (Silesia) to the local teacher, cantor and slaughterer. He started his business career with a textile store, founded a laundry and finally established the Gruenfeld linen weaving-mill. He died in 1896.Heinrich Gruenfeld, the son of Falk. V. Gruenfeld, was born in Landeshut (Silesia) in 1865. He inherited the weaving-mill of his father and was the president of the "Hauptgemeinschaft des deutschen Einzelhandels" until 1933. He died in Berlin in 1936.Fritz V. Gruenfeld was born in Landeshut (Silesia) in 1897. He was the grandson of the founder of the Gruenfeld linen weaving-mill, Falk V.Gruenfeld. He studied economics and settled in Berlin. His wife Hilde Osborn was the daughter of the art historian Max Osborn. Their house in Berlin became a meeting point for intellectuals and artists. In 1938 the Gruenfeld family emigrated to Palestine, where he started with a laundry business. Gruenfeld was one of the co-founders of the ATA business in Israel.published (private printing, Berlin 1934); Brief summary in Max Kreutzberger: "Leo Baeck Institute New York, Bibliothek und Archiv; Katalog": C 140; Published in Monika Richarz: "Juedisches Leben in Deutschland": Vol. I 28 + II 22; Published in Joseph Walk: "Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden, 1918-1945": p.128.published (ed. S.Jersch-Wenzel, Berlin 1967); Published in Joseph Walk: "Kurzbiographien zur Geschichte der Juden, 1918-1945": p.12
AHC interview with Kurt Goldberger
No full textMarch 6, 2012Digital recordingKurt Goldberger was born on August 5, 1925 in Vienna. He went to elementary school and then on to Gymnasium Stubenbastei (high school) until he had to leave school after “Anschluss”. On July 4, 1939, Kurt Goldberger left Austria on a Kindertransport for England, where he went to school in Croydon and learnt English. His mother was classified as enemy alien and was imprisoned. At the same time his father, who was still in Vienna, managed to get an affidavit for the USA and organized the immigration of his wife, his daughter and his son Kurt. They all went to the US in March 1944. Kurt Goldberger worked for MGM and later for a trade company that imported goods from Austria to the US
AHC interview with Melitta Anderman
No full textJuly 18, 2012Digital recordingMelitta Anderman, née Feuer, was born Dec. 13, 1929 into a well-to-do family in Vienna, Austria. The family lived in a spacious apartment in Biberstrasse 10 in the first district of Vienna. In March 1939 Melitta and her parents immigrated to the USA. There, they lived in a small apartment in the Bronx. Melitta worked as a secretary and later married a pharmacist, settling eventually in Manhattan.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Eric Gewurz
No full textOctober 10, 2012Digital recordingEric Gewurz (Gewürz) was born 1928 in Vienna, Austria. His mother was born in Budapest and she and her family moved to Vienna in the early 20th century; his father’s family came from Poland, but he was already born in Vienna. Eric Gewurz’s father was arrested at the events of the so called "Kristallnacht". He was imprisoned in Dachau and then in Buchenwald, only to be released after his wife managed to get immigration visas for the United States by contacting distant relatives. The family left Europe in 1939 on board the ship SS Europa from Bremen. In the United States, Eric Gewurz became a lawyer. He and his wife visited Vienna several times; at their first visit in 1964 they still experienced anti-Semitism, but this subsided in later years
AHC interview with Anitta Ruth Fox
No full textJanuary 7, 2012Researchers may also want to consult ME 1476, Fox's memoir "The Road Back to Life - Work & Happiness"Anitta Ruth Fox was born as Anitta Ruth Bojko on September 26 1924 in Vienna, Austria. She left Vienna in February 1939 and went to France. She arrived in the United States in late March of 1939. During World War II, she worked on a farm maintained by the 'American Work Camps For Democracy', initiated by Eleanor Roosevelt. She went to Hunter College and earned a degree in biology. She also earned a certificate in occupational therapy (graduation in 1945). She worked as a rehabilitation therapist until her retirement and settled in Hillside, New Jersey.Digital recordin
AHC interview with George Rainer
No full textDigital recordingOctober 25, 2012George Rainer was born as Georg Frantz Rainer on Jan. 13, 1925 in Vienna, where the family lived in the fashionable 18th district His father had a clothing store, and his mother was a piano teacher. George was an active member of the sports club Maccabi Hazair in Vienna. After ‘Anschluss’ the family managed to sell their villa in Vienna. On his 14th birthday in 1939 he left Vienna for London where he had an uncle and attended school there. His parents meanwhile went to Italy. In May 1940 the family reunited in New York. George Rainer attended NYU and became a successful consulting engineer and urban planner. He married Renata Urbach (AHC 749) in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Erika Breier-Vadnai.
No full textDigital recordingMay 30, 2012Erika Breier-Vadnai was born Erika Weigl in Vienna, Austria on June 13, 1930. The family lived in Malzgasse 12 in Vienna’s Second Ddistrict. During “Kristnallnacht” in November 1938 her father was taken away by the Gestapo. Right after “Kristallnacht” Erika left Vienna for Budapest, Hungary, where she was forced to move to the Jewish ghetto in Kazinczy Street in October 1944. In January 1945, the ghetto was liberated by the Russians; in Autumn of 1945, Erika and her mother went back to Vienna, where she stayed until 1952, when she moved to England. She immigrated to the U.S in March 1953.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Eric Willner
No full textNovember 9, 2012Digital recordingRabbi Dr. Eric Willner was born as Erich Willner on October 20, 1926 in Vienna. He went to public school until he had to change to a private one after ‘Anschluss’. Erich left Vienna shortly after ‘Kristallnacht’ with the help of ‘Kindertransport’ for England, where he stayed in various children’s homes before living with a non-Jewish family. In the meantime, his family in Vienna had acquired affidavits for immigration to the United States from distant relatives, and Eric Willner left England in 1940. In the United States, he went to various Jewish schools and studied at Yeshiva University to become a Rabbi
AHC interview with Jean Malkischer.
No full textDigital recordingJune 13, 2012Jean Malkischer, née Adler, a resident of Hopewell Junction, was born in Austria. Her family tried to flee to Switzerland after the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, but was turned away at the border. In August 1942, they were sent to Theresienstadt in what is now the Czech Republic, before being transported to Auschwitz in Poland in September 1944. In November of that year, Malkischer and her sister were transferred to the Dresden area in Germany to work in forced labor in a munitions factory. As Soviet army units advanced, Jean Malkischer and her sister were put onto open coal cars to go back to Theresienstadt but the train was abandoned. She was reunited with her mother and immigrated to the United States in 1951.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Memories of Eva Luzia Greenberg (1929--2012) : Notes of loving remembrance from her family and friends.
No full textIn addition to the notes by friends and family written after her passing, the manuscript contains some of Eva Grenberg’s own published writings.digitizedEva Luzia Greenberg née Mueller was born in 1929 in Vienna, Austria. She immigrated to the US via Rotterdam in February of 1939. 1947-1951 Eva Luzia acquired her BA in Romance Languages at Radcliffe College (Harvard University). Later in life (1973-1975) she completed her studies in Library science with an MLS from Kent State University.Austrian Heritage Collectio