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Edgar Jaffé, Else von Richthofen and Their Children. : From German-Jewish assimilation through antisemitic persecution to American integration A century of family correspondence 1880-1980.
No full textAn explanatory essay accompanying the correspondence of Edgar Jaffe and Else von Richthofen Jaffe as collected in the Christopher Jeffrey Collection, LBI Archives call no. AR 25348.digitizedGuenther Rot
August Cohn - anti-fascist : His life under Nazi tyranny and American Repression.
No full textAs a young man, August Cohn was a political activist, fighting against the Nazi party in Germany, and as a result was arrested in April, 1933. He spent the next twelve years in Nazi prisons and concentration camps, persecuted as a political prisoner and as a Jew. A bona fide hero, he played a significant role in the resistance while in the camps.digitizedAugust Cohn was born in Fulda, Germany on May 10, 1910. He grew up in Oberkaufungen, Hesse (Germany) and joined the communist party as a counterweight to Nazism. 1933-1945 he survived concentration camps; after being liberated by the American Army, he met his wife Maria in Oberkaufungen, and they immigrated to the United States. Due to his pre-war affiliation with the communist party in Germany, August Cohn was harassed by American authorities during the McCarthy-era. He died on Feb. 22, 1986.Bibliography : pp. 47-56Appendixes in pp. 57-219 hold reproductions of numerous official documents and correspondence; ca. 1952-1996
Comments by Frank Adler on selected individual pages of Ele Toldot (ET), Part C.
No full textList of possible errata in Ele Toldot : [Burial records of the Jewish community of Frankfurt am Main], AR 524
AHC interview with Lisl Hirsh
No full textMarch 1, 2012Lisl Hirsh, née Zuckerbacker was born May 1, 1925 in Vienna. Her father had a store for leather goods on Mariahilferstrasse and the family lived a typical Viennese middle-class life. At the age of 13, shortly after "Kristallnacht", Lisl left Austria for Holland. Lisl was separated from her family and imprisoned at a refugee camp until the Germans marched in and she was brought to the Westerbork camp in 1943. When the camp was liberated in 1945 she joined the Canadian army as a nurse. In April 1946 the family immigrated to the US, where Lisl Hirsh worked as a nurse until she retired in 1992.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
AHC interview with Martin Bandler.
No full textOctober 4, 2012Dr. Martin Bandler was born Oct. 2, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. In 1938, his father was imprisoned in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp until his mother managed to get him out in 1939. They left Austria to Italy by plane and then travelled on through France and Spain to Portugal, where they got emigration visas for Canada and left on board the ship Serpa Pinto. In Canada Martin Bandler learned English by reading comic books. He became a physician and immigrated to the US in 1954, where he worked at the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
AHC interview with Eva Sher
No full textOctober 24, 2012Digital recordingEva Tschaikowsky Sher was born November 27, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. Her father was a distant relative of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. After "Kristallnacht" Eva decided to leave Austria against the will of her family. She and her husband went to France via Germany. The United States consulate in Paris rejected their affidavits, but the one in Marseille issued immigration visas in April 1939. The Shers first settled in New York, but they moved south when her husband found employment as a textile designer. She returned to New York after her husband died
AHC interview with Frederick Max Kafka
No full textAugust 7, 2012Digital recordingFrederick (Fritz) Max Kafka was born December 12, 1924 in Vienna, Austria into an upper middle-class family. After "Anschluss", in August 1939, he and his family emigrated to the United States, where he served with the Armed Forces until the end of World War II. When Frederick Kafka came back from the war, he set up his own business
AHC interview with Helen Kotler.
No full textDigital recordingMay 29, 2012Helen Kotler, née Helene Urbach, was born in Vienna, Austria. She and her family lived in an apartment in her grandfather’s building, where he also had his own bakery. In March 1939 she left on a Kindertransport for England, where she lived in an orphanage run by the Church of England and then went to a boarding school for refugees. In 1947 she immigrated to the United States, where she worked for the New York Public Library for 25 years.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Renée Wiener
No full textNovember 26, 2012Renée Wiener was born as Renate Kurz on May 14, 1924 into a Jewish-orthodox family. Her father had a hardware store and an automate-café. After Anschluss the family escaped via Italy to Belgium. When the Germans annexed Belgium in 1940 the family was arrested, but then managed to escape to France. After an unsuccessful attempt to go to Spain, the family went to Nice, where the father was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. Renate (Renée), her sister and their mother however could hide. Renate (Renée) joined a resistance movement, which sabotaged infrastructure and liquidated Nazis and collaborators. They also helped children escape to Switzerland. After the war she remained in France for two years, before immigrating with her mother and sister to the United States, where Renée Wiener worked as a social worker for many years.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Descendants of Ruben (Klestadt).
No full textGenealogical table of the Klestadt family from Bueren, Germany containing data from the late 18th to the early 20th century.The descendant tree of Ruben Klestadt from Bueren, Germany was created by Gerald Stern using data from Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen in Detmold, and information from Statdarchiv in Büren. This corrects a descendant tree published in 1995 by Heimatverein Büren in a book ‘Über die früheren Verhältnisse der Juden in Büren’ (p. 64f.) by the historian Hans Liedtke.digitizedBüren is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.Liedtke, Hans, 1926- : Ueber die frueheren Verhaeltnisse der Juden in Bueren / Bueren : Heimatverein Bueren e.V., 1995 is available in the LBI Library, call number DS 135 G4 B844 L54 199