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Waronker 125
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
Waronker 139
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
The Marx story /
No full textA history from 1705 to the present of the descendents of Mordecai from Heidelsheim, Germany. Includes a family chart of 4,265 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 18th-20th centuries.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Baer; Bensdorf; Carlebach; Eisemann; Haas; Horkheimer; Kuppenheimer; Marx; Rosenthal.The following individuals are mentioned in this manuscript:Joseph Carlebach; Solomon Carlebach; Ludwig Haas; Morris Lazaron; Abba Hillel Silver.The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Bruchsal; Heidelberg, Heidelsheim; Mannheim; Meckesheim; Pforzheim; Chicago, Ill.; Memphis; New Orleans; New York, N.Y.; Wheeling, W. Va.digitize
The Schwalbe story /
No full textA history from 1740 to the present of the Schwalbe family of Thedinghausen, Germany. Includes a family chart of 526 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Anspacher, Schwalbe.The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Achim, Kairlindach, Lunsen, New York, N.Y., Thedinghausen.digitize
AHC interview with Heinz Pasternak.
No full textThe interview was conducted in two sessions on September 22 and 27, 2011. In the first session, Will Colby assisted as camera operator. There is half an hour of additional video footage, with Heinz Pasternak showing his apartment and various personal items.September 22 & 27, 2011Heinz Pasternak was born on Feb. 27, 1919 in Vienna, Austria, where he grew up in the 13th District (Hietzing). He was a member of the Zionist organization Betar. His family had a visa for the US, but Heinz had to escape sooner because he had a fistfight with a Stormtrooper. He went illegally to Palestine with the help of Betar. He was a British soldier during World War II, and then he fought the British in the Israeli War of Independence when he managed the first Israeli tank school. In 1951, Heinz Pasternak joined his family in the USA.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital imag
AHC Interview with Alice Herb
No full textMay 10, 2011Alice Herb, née Hoenig, was born on February 17, 1933 in Vienna, Austria. She left Vienna in 1939 with her family and immigrated to the United States, where she studied law and became an ethicist.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with Henry Orion
No full textHenry Orion was born as Heinrich Sternlich on September 2, 1922in Krakow, Poland. He and his brother escaped to Palestine in 1939 with the Youth Aliyah. He worked as a police man and enlisted in the British army during World War II. In 1953 he immigrated with his wife Getrude Orion to the United States and studied economics.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Carlos Konig
No full textSeptember 24, 2011Carlos Konig was born as Karl König on Nov. 23, 1916 in Vienna, Austria. In 1937 he was drafted into the Austrian army. After “Anschluss” in 1938 he was dismissed from the army and left Austria for Paris, France. From there he emigrated to Colombia, and in 1953 he went to Venezuela , working as a journalist. 1993 he settled in Miami, Florida.Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital recordin
AHC interview with Lucy Foster
No full textOct. 14, 2011Lucy Foster, née Bryk, was born Dec. 22nd, 1931 in Vienna, Austria, where she lived with her family in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd District of Vienna. They left Austria in October 1938 to Budapest and then went to Yugoslavia where they spent almost a year before immigrating to the U.S. in October 1939.Digital recordin
AHC interview with Nellie Mandel.
No full textDigital recordingApril 27, 2011Nellie Mandel, née Müller, was born Nov. 25, 1921 in Vienna, where she went to school until 1937. In 1940 the family left for Rotterdam and immigrated to New York. Nellie worked as a seamstress before she became a bookkeeper.Austrian Heritage Collectio