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Ignaz Zollschan : An insider’s view of early twentieth century racial science and Zionism.
No full textdigitizedA senior thesis for Honors in History, University of PennsylvaniaThe Austrian Jewish scientist Ignaz Zollschan (1877-1948) had a leading role in fighting anti-Semitic racial science.Bibliography : p. 93-9
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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
From Hahnheim to New York and back again : A history of my Trum ancestors.
No full textHistory of the descendents of Isaak and Regina Liebmann Trum who immigrated to the United States in the 1850s, settling in New York City.digitizedHahnheim is a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
AHC interview with Bruno Goldstein
No full textJanuary 31, 2012Bruno Goldstein was born on March 13th, 1935 in Vienna. He and his family left Austria in 1939 for Belgium, where they lived in hiding until the end of WW II. In 1949 the family immigrated to the USA. In 1957 Bruno Goldstein graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the City College of New York.Digital recordin
AHC interview with Dorit B. Whiteman
No full textNovember 8, 2012Digital recordingDorit Whiteman, née Bader was born in Vienna, Austria. Her father was a physician; her mother had a doctorate in chemistry, was an accomplished pianist, and the proprietor of a renowned girls' boarding school. Persistent effort and luck enabled them to escape the Nazis to England in 1938, with nothing more than an overnight suitcase for each member of the family. In London, Dorit's mother sustained the family by working as a maid. Dorit attended a boarding school in Kent on a scholarship. During WWII she, together with thousands of English children, was evacuated to the countryside in fear of German bombings. There she lived in a bricklayer's house until her family received immigration papers for the United States in 1941. Dorit attended high school in New York, received an academic scholarship and earned a BA from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at New York University. While at NYU, she met a clinical psychology student, Martin Whiteman who was to become her husband. They settled in New York and eventually had two daughters and two grandchildren. Dr. Dorit Whiteman worked as a psychologist, wrote books, and gave presentations about the Holocaust.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Edith Silbermann
No full textFebruary to October 2012Digital recordingEdith Silbermann was born on March 7, 1935 in Vienna, Austria. Her mother found a job as a cook in England and took her daughter Edith with her; the rest of the family followed, and they lived in the United Kingdom until 1951. The Silbermann family arrived in New York in January 1951. Edith Silbermann went to Hunter College and worked as a teacher until she retired
Pedigree chart [of Ernest Ludwig Marx].
No full textFamily tree from Rheingönheim, Mainz, Frankfurt, and other places, reaching back to 1769.digitize
AHC Interview with David Schachter
No full textThe interview was conducted in Lakewood, NJ in the presence of David Schachter’s wife, Julie Schachter (AHC 4148), and their son, Nathan.March 7, 2011David Schachter was born as David Schaechter on December 13, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. He lived in Vienna’s 17th District, Hernals, where he went to school. In the early 1930s he left Vienna to study in Yeshivas in Slovakia and Poland (Krakow and Lublin). After the Anschluss he did not return to Vienna, but left for Tel Aviv, where he also attended a Yeshiva. He immigrated to New York in 1946 and started working without practical education, but ended up as manager. He married Julie Korn (AHC 4148), and they subsequently lived in Monsey, NY and in Lakewood, NJ.Austrian Heritage Collectio
