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AHC Interview with Julie Schachter
No full textThe interview was conducted in Lakewood, NJ in the presence of Julie Schachter’s husband, David Schachter (AHC 1905), as well as her son and her stepdaughter.Julie Schachter, née Korn was born on December 25, 1925 in Deutschkreutz, Burgenland, Austria. She grew up in an orthodox family and held on to Jewish orthodoxy throughout her life. Julie Korn left Vienna on a Kindertransport to London. Her mother immigrated to the USA in 1940, but her father was deported to Poland where he died. In England, Julie Korn lived in Nottingham and then in Manchester with a German-Jewish woman who did not respect her orthodox lifestyle. Julie Korn came to New York on February 18, 1944 and started working as seamstress, initially in the business of a cousin. In 1951 she Married David Schachter; they lived in Brooklyn; Monsey, NY; and Lakewood, NJ.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Dr. Josef Müller und Nathan der Weise.
No full textThis PDF provides a summary of the provenance of a first edition of Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" that originally belonged to the industrialist Ignaz Petschek and was donated to the Leo Baeck Institute Library in 2011
AHC interview with Hermine M. Kreinces-Kovacs
No full textSeptember 22, 2011Hermine Kreinces-Kovacs née Rauch was born March 25, 1914 in Vienna, Austria, where she was raised on Engels-Platz in a single parent home, her father never had been living with her family. She worked as a designer for Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur in Vienna. After having tried unsuccessfully to emigrate to Switzerland, Hermine Rauch managed to go to England in 1938, were she worked as a designer. She kept on working as a designer in the US as well, which she reached in 1948. Hermine Kreinces-Kovacs lived in Brooklyn until her employer relocated to Florida in 1963.Digital recordin
Waronker 138
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
A History of the Blättner and Hirschbach families.
No full textA history from 1740 to the present of the descendents of David Hirsch from Schwanfeld, Germany, who took the name Blattner; and of his descendents, living in Koeln, who took the name Hirschbach. Includes a family chart of 620 individuals, name index, and copies of family documents from the 19th century.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Bensdorf; Blattner; Hirschbach; Marx.The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Koeln; Mannheim; New York, N.Y.; Schwanfeld.digitize
History of the Carlebach family of Heidelberg /
No full textA history from 1700 to the present of the descendents of Yechiel Carlebach from Heidelberg, Germany. Includes a family chart of 2,260 individuals, name index, and family documents from the late 18th and 19th centuries.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Bensdorf; Benzinger; Carlebach; Haas; Karlebach; Marx; Rothschild.The following individuals are mentioned in this manuscript:Joseph Tvi Carlebach; Salomon Carlebach; Shlomo Carlebach; Haim Cohn; Ludwig Haas.The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Bruchsal, Heidelberg, Heidelsheim; Mannheim; New York, N.Y.; Pforzheim; Stuttgart.digitize
Interview with Alan Pesky
No full textOral history interview with Alan Pesky, an activist in the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, later renamed the Coalition to Free Soviet Jews.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
AHC Interview with Eugene Goldschlag
No full textApril 13, 2011Eugene Goldschlag was born March 8, 1921 in Vienna, where he studied architecture. In August 1938 he and his family went to Switzerland; when they reached their quota number in December 1939 they immigrated to the US
Auf verlorenem Posten : der einsame Kampf des Heinrich Dreuw gegen Syphilis und Salvarsan /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 196-203)
History of the Strasburger family /
No full textA history from 1740 to the present of the Stasburger family of Mannheim, Germany. Includes a family chart of 172 individuals, name index, and family documents from the 18th and 19th centuries.The following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Marx, Strasburger.The following place names are mentioned in this manuscript:Mannheim; New York, N.Y.digitize