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AHC interview with Walter Kuehne
No full textThroughout the interview, Walter Kuehne speaks with a pronounced Viennese accent. Towards the end, his wife intervenes.September 23, 2011Walter Kuehne was born on April 1st, 1922 in Vienna. He lived in the 17th district at Kalvarienbergstrasse 12, until he tried to escape from the Nazis. He was arrested in Belgium and thereupon spent four years in prison in Germany. After the liberation Walter Kuehne went to Paris where he met his future wife. Unable to obtain visas for the US, he and his wife decided to emigrate to Columbia, where he worked for Avianca Airlines in Bogota, before finally immigrating to the United States. Walter Kuehne and his wife settled in Miami, Florida.Digital recordingWienerisch, Maschinenbau, Avianca airlin
Mein 14. Geburtstag.
No full textRecollections of the author’s 14th birthday on Nov. 13, 1941 in Munich, Germany; about her own history; her family’s fate; and the one of Munich’s Jewish population under the Nazis.digitizedChristine Schurtman, née Roth was born 1927 in Germany, the daughter of a Catholic mother and a Jewish father. In 1939, her father escaped the Nazis by immigrating to the United States. Christine, her younger sister, and their mother survived the Holocaust in Munich and immigrated to the United States in 1946
Waronker 110
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 Wolff family of Durkheim /
No full textA history from 1730 to the present of the Wolff family of Durkheim, Germany. Includes a family chart of 222 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:Durkheim; Kallstadt; Köln; Mannheim; New York, N.Y.digitize
A Jewish girlhood in Berlin 1859-1879 : A memoir by Jenny Barth Bornstein, M.D. (1859-1951) /
No full textJenny Barth Bornstein's memoir covers the years 1859-1879, the years of her infancy, girlhood and adolescence.Bibliography : p. 112Olga Bornstein WiseJenny Barth Bornstein (1859-1951) was born, raised and schooled in Berlin; she married in 1880 and was widowed in 1891; she raised three children, studied medicine in Switzerland at a time when German universities were closed to women, and was licensed as one of the first dozen female physicians in Germany in 1902. She practiced medicine in Berlin until 1912. In 1935, two years after the Nazis came to power, Jenny emigrated from Germany to Palestine and from there to the United States. She died in Herrin, Illinois at the age of 91.A transcript of the original, German language memoir is in ME 1600b. A copy of the original, habdwritten manuscript may be found in the Jenny Barth Bornstein Collection, AR 1182
AHC interview with Elfrieda Prince
No full textDigital imageAugust 30, 2010Elfrieda Prince, née Tepper was born on Dec. 27, 1932 in Vienna, Austria. She had a sheltered childhood with conservative, very observant parents. After the Anschluss, her father - a doctor - was temporarily interned in Dachau, and the family’s apartment was confiscated. The Tepper family fled to Shanghai (outside of the ghetto in the French Concession), where the arrived in March 1939. Elfriede enrolled in the Shanghai Jewish School. In 1940, her father had his first major stroke, which paralyzed him on one side. The family went to America in 1947. From June to September 1947 the family lived in San Francisco, from then on in New York. She studied at City College and became a teacher at Public School 163, the Alfred E. Smith School. Elfrieda Prince was a member of B’nai B’rith from 1947 to about 1951. Her father died in 1955, and her mother, who had to be taken care of by her daughter in her later years, died in 1994.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Margaret Kohlhagen
No full textIn addition to Margaret Kohlhagen’s interview, there is another one with her grandson, Justin Kohlhagen.See also the memoirs of Otto Friedmann, Margaret Kohlhagen’s father, with the call number ME 898.Margaret Kohlhagen was born on September 14, 1930 as Margarete Friedmann in Salzburg, Austria, where she and her older brother grew up in an assimilated Jewish family in the Neustadt District (Haunspergstrasse). They left Austria right after "Kristallnacht" in November 1938 for Switzerland, France (Besançon, Perpignan, Marseille), Spain, and Portugal, arriving in the United States in July 1941. Margarete did not understand the political circumstances at the time, experiencing these three years as an extended vacation trip. In New York, she went to high school in Queens and acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree in early childhood education from Queens College. In the United States, Margaret Kohlhagen turned to orthodox Judaism, which resulted in conflicts with her assimilated parents. In 1993, she revisited Salzburg upon an official invitation of former Jewish inhabitants to the city
Zum 90. Todestag Marie Else, geb. von Kretschmann : mit Beiträgen zur Geschichte der Familie von Kretschmann.
No full textGenealogy of the Gustedt and Kretschmann families, focusing on Maria Else von KretschmannSome individuals mentioned in this manuscript: Julia Braun-Vogelstein; Lily Braun; Otto Braun; Gisela von GustedtdigitizedMaria Else von Kretschmann aka Maria de Victorica (1878, Posen – 1920, New York) was accused of having been a spy for Germany during WW IBibliography : Appendix p.
Interview with Sanford A. Gradinger
No full textOral history interview with Sanford A. Gradinger, a businessman from Rochester, New York and the co-founder of the Andrei Sakharov International Committee.Digital recordingDigital finding aid