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Waronker 134
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
[Autobiographical abstract].
No full textAfter introducing his family in Germany since early modern times, Joel Dorkam describes “Life in France” (1933-1942) and “Life in Spain” (1942-1944). He then moves on to Palestine and tells about his education and his participation in the Israeli war of independence as a soldier in the Haganah.Joel Dorkam wrote his autobiographical abstract while participating in an oral history project at Florida State College in Jacksonville, Florida, “German-speaking Jews in the fight for Eretz Israel”, documenting and archiving recollections of German-speaking Jews who experienced the escape from Germany, the arrival in and adjustment to Palestine and who subsequently served in the Haganah.Principal investigator for the project was Dirk Wendtorf, a Professor of Humanities at Florida State College.Joel Dorkam (formerly Dispeker) was born 1929 in Kassel, Germany. In 1933, he and his parents moved to France and then to Spain, and in 1944 he arrived in Palestine. After fighting in the Israeli war of independence, Joel Dorkam settled in Kibbutz Tzuba near Jerusalem in 1950
AHC interview with Lillian Tobin.
No full textJune 5, 2012Digital recordingLillian Tobin, née Nussbaum, was born on May 15th 1925 into a religiously observant upper middle class family. They left Austria on March 12th 1939, taking a train to Hamburg and immigrating to New York. They first lived in Brooklyn, but moved to Patterson, NJ, soon after. After struggling with different jobs, she ended up teaching at Kean University in Hillside, NJ.Austrian Heritage CollectionTandelmarktgasse, Im Werd, Kleine Pfarrgasse, Ueberfallkommand
AHC interview with Emil Schattner
No full textFebruary 10, 2012Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
The family tree of the family Walter and Herta Nord /
No full textFamily tree and chart of the Nord family.digitize
AHC interview with Anne M. Cembalest.
No full textMarch 7, 2012Digital recordingAnne Marie Cembalest, née Antler was born July 15, 1925 in Vienna, where she went to school until she had to leave Gymnasium in 1938. The Antler family tried to leave Austria as soon as Hitler marched in, and in February 1939 Anne, her siblings and her mother immigrated to the US. Unfortunately her father couldn’t secure an affidavit for himself, and he was killed in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Anne Marie Cembalest worked as a secretary in the US until she made name for herself as a ceramic artist.Anne Marie Cembalest is related to the Austrian publisher Oskar Bronner.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Elizabeth Heller Lewy.
No full textFebruary 27, 2012Digital recordingElizabeth Heller Lewy was born as Lisl Heller on Jan. 30th, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. She lived in Bad Voeslau with her middle-class family until the mayor told them to leave because the town had to be “judenfrei" (free of Jews). The family moved to Vienna and stayed there until they left Austria in January 1940. The travelled to Trieste and set sails towards the United States, after the family had gotten an affidavit from a very generous American, Mr. Sachs (Sachs was the maiden name of Elizabeth Heller Lewy’s mother). Elizabeth Heller Lewy studied at Sasmira College and at Columbia University.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Waronker 132
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
Memoirs of Henri Moos : Ulm, Karlsruhe, Annecy, 1922-1946.
No full textAn account of Henri Moos’ family, starting with his grandfather Salomon Moos in Ulm and Henri’s mother Ruth, née Haas in Karlsruhe, and ending in Annecy, France. It also looks at survival in occupied France during WW II.digitize
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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