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AHC interview with Elly Stein
No full textMay 8, 2012Elly Stein, née Intrator, was born on January 26th in Vienna, Austria. She grew up in a upper middle class neighborhood in Wieden, the 4th district of Vienna. Her father owned a candy factory in Landstrasse (3rd district). In early 1939 the Intrator family fled to France, living first in Troyes near Paris and later in Lyon. With several other Jewish families they paid a truck driver to take them to the Swiss border, where they were arrested immediately. Elly Stein's aunt, who lived in Basel, took her in; she was later joined by her mother, but her father stayed in a refugee camp until the end of the war. After WW II they immigrated to the US, where they settled in Long Beach. Elly Stein studied education at Queens College, New York and became a elementary school teacher. In the 1950s she lived in Tel Aviv, Israel, for two years. After coming back to the United States, she met her husband Elias M. Stein (a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University); they have two children.Digital recordin
AHC interview with Gerda Lederer.
No full textDigital recordingDecember 12, 2012Gerda Lederer, née Heim was born on April 9, 1926 in Vienna. She went to high school in Vienna until the family left the city in September of 1938. Gerda, her parents and her sister moved to Paris and lived there nearly one year before they got their immigration visas for the United States. Gerda graduated from NYU and became a teacher; at the age of 61 she graduated again in psychology.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ulrich Bauer
No full textOctober 12, 2012Digital recordingDr. Ulrich Bauer was born 1933 as Ulrich Bauernfreund in Vienna, Austria. His father was a physician, and his mother was a pianist. In January 1939, Ulrich and his mother left Vienna for the Netherlands. His father was interned in Buchenwald but was released upon the intervention of a relative in the Netherlands. The family immigrated to New York in October 1939. Ulrich Bauer later went to Basel, Switzerland to study medicine.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Peter Flack.
No full textDigital recordingDecember 5, 2012Peter Flack was born on Feb. 10, 1928 in Vienna into an assimilated Jewish family. His father was a learned watchmaker who started an American-style dry cleaning business called "Dandy Express" during the great depression. Right after Anschluss in March 1938, a Nazi who had been a friend of the family advised his father to leave. His father left for Belgium, but Peter Flack and his mother remained in Vienna until 1939, when they joined the father in Brussels. Peter’s mother went on to England, and Peter Flack joined her on one of the last Kindertransports to England. His father went to Vichy, France, was caught by the Nazis and perished in Auschwitz. Peter and his mother came to the US in 1945. He first worked in various jobs, studied engineering in the 1950s and later founded a successful consulting engineering company, Flack & Kurtz.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Kurt Flascher
No full textAugust 21, 2012Digital recordingKurt Flascher (Fläscher) was born 1928 in Vienna, Austria. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States, where he got involved in the Civil Rights Movement
AHC interview with Harry Weiner.
No full textHermann (Harry) Weiner was born on Jan. 9, 1925 in Vienna, where he stayed until his immigration to the US in August of 1939, arriving in New York on Sep. 23, 1939. After graduating school in New York City, he established a fur business, which he managed until he retired.Austrian Heritage CollectionAugust 8, 2013Digital recordin
Waronker 102
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
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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