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AHC interview with Liselotte Sperber
No full textDecember 8, 2011Liselotte (Lisl) Süss was born Jan. 12, 1912 in Mannheim, Germany, the youngest daughter of Julius Süss (1878-1976) and Rosa Süss, née Einstein (1884-1940). At the age of 15, Liselotte Süss began to study at the Nationaltheater under Hildegard Grethe and then under her successor, Ida Ehre. At age 16 she gave her first stage performance. Next to gymnastics, tennis and membership in the August Lamey B'nai B'rith Lodge, she sang in the singing group Liederkranz and participated in the Sprech-Chor directed by Paul Epstein. By her late teens Lisl Süss had become a Zionist.In, 1933 she married Manfred (Fred) Sperber, an Austrian citizen. When Fred lost his job due to the Nazis the couple moved to Vienna, where their daughter Aenne was born on June 20, 1935. In Vienna Fred was comptroller of the Jewish Community.In May 1939 Lisl and Aenne planned to emigrate to Cuba from Cherbourg on board of the ship Orinoco. But the ship never sailed, and they were retained in Cherbourg for five months. When they received American immigration visas, they left France in October 1939. Fred joined them in New York in 1940 when he found passage on the last trip of the Italian ocean liner Conte di Savoia.Digital recordin
The Wolff family of Euskirchen /
No full textA history from 1645 to the present of the Wolff family of Euskirchen, Germany. Includes a family chart of 585 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 19th and 20th centuries.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Hirschbach, Wolff.The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Arnhem; Brussels; Camberg; Euskirchen; Kircheim; Köln; New York, N.Y.digitize
The Cohen story.
No full textA history from 1762 to the present of the descendents of Levi HaCohen from Rotenburg, Germany. Includes a family chart of 538 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 19th century.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Anspacher; Cohen; Cohn.digitize
AHC interview with Frances Gruen
No full textSeptember 22, 2011Frances Gruen was born as Friederike Wang in Vienna on January 24th 1912 as the eldest of three children. After Kristallnacht, her family was forced to move to the 2nd district, which was a Jewish neighborhood. A family friend in South America got them a permit to enter Bolivia. They left Austria for Bolivia in June 1939 via Italy. In Boliva, Frances worked in a hospital as a bio-chemist. In 1946, Frances Gruen immigrated to the U.S., where she immediately found a job in a private laboratory due to her experience in tropical diseases.Digital recordin
Levy family story /
No full textA history from 1745 to the present of the descendents of Levi from Minden in Rhineland-Westphalia. Includes a family chart of 425 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 19th century.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Anspacher; Levy; Samuel; Solomon.The following individuals are mentioned in this manuscript:Agnes Salomon Van Bulow; Sigfried Salomon. .The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Altona; Brunswick; Kiel; New York, N.Y.digitize
The Mariampolsky story /
No full textA history from 1825 to the present of the Mariampolsky family of Mariampole, Lthuania. Includes a family chart of 245 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 19th and 20th centuries.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Bregstein, Mariampolsky, MarkThe following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Honesdale, Kaunas, Malmö, Mariampole, New York, N.Y., Panemunė, Stockholm, St. Pau
The Schebsches story /
No full textA history from 1756 to the present of the Schebsches family of Kaunas, Lthuania. Includes a family chart of 244 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 19th and 20th centuries.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Kubelsky, Schwalbe.The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Kaunas, Lazdijai, Neidenburg, New York, N.Y.digitize
Waronker 106
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 107
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
6. 9. 42 – Der letzte Transport der Judem Marburgs und Umgebung nach Theresienstadt : Erkundungsreise zu den Ursprüngen in den Dörfern Roth, Fronhausen, Lohra, Merzhausen im Land Hessen.
No full textDescription of a trip to the villages in Hesse, Germany, where members of the author’s family had been persecuted and deported during the Holocaust.digitize