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[Obermayer Award Nomination for the Arbeitskreis Landsynagoge Roth] : /
No full textThis collection consists of an award nomination for citizens of Roth in Weimar (Lahn) for restoring the former synagogue.Materials pertaining to the restoration of the former synagogue in RothThe Committee for the synagogue of Roth (Arbeitskreis Landsynagoge Roth) was nominated for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award 2011Processed for digitizatio
AHC interview with Lilly Hollander.
No full textAustrian Heritage CollectionJanuary 13, 2010Lilly Hollander née Benedikt was born on July 31, 1928 to a middle class Jewish family in the 2nd District in Vienna. She went to Czernin School until she was expelled after Anschluss for being Jewish. She immigrated to the USA via France and Canada in 1938. Starting to work for part-time jobs at the age of 13 she finished high school and attended Cooper Union College. She settled in New York, working as an artist and art restorer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Eva Susanne Wayne.
No full textJanuary 20, 2010Eva Susanne Wayne née Weiss was born January 1926 in Vienna, Austria, where she attended the high school for the daughters of civil servants, "Beamtentoechter Gymnasium" until November 1938. In January 1939 she left Austria via the Netherlands and England to immigrate to the United States, where she found employment as a sales person.Austrian Heritage Collectio
The Kindertransport : history and memory /
No full textThe Kindertransport, a British scheme to bring unaccompanied mostly Jewish refugee children threatened by Nazism to Great Britain, occupies a unique place in modern British history. In the months leading up to the Second World War, it brought over 10,000 children under the age of seventeen into the United Kingdom without their parents, to be fostered by British families and re-emigrated when they turned eighteen. Mostly forgotten in the post-war period, the Kindertransport was rediscovered in the late 1980s when a fiftieth anniversary reunion was organized. Celebrated as an unprecedented act of benevolent rescue by a generous British Parliament and people, the Kindertransport has been subjected to little academic scrutiny. The salvation construct assumes that the Kinder, who were mostly silent for fifty years, experienced little hardship and that their survival more than compensated for any trauma they suffered. This study challenges the prevailing triumphant narrative and its underlying assumptions by examining the government policies that allowed the children to come to England and the effects of these policies on the children's lives. The British government's decision to bring only children and not their parents left a majority of them orphans after their families were murdered in the Holocaust. Exacerbating the trauma of separation was the government decree that the program be entirely privately organized and funded and that the children's welfare be overseen by non-governmental agencies, which were ill-equipped for such a task. Relying upon Kinder testimony, the official documentation of the rescuers and parliamentary debate proceedings, this study analyzes and contests the redemptory narrative and examines how it has been shaped and reinforced by the government, the rescuers and the Kinder themselves in the seventy years since the program's inception.Thesis (M.A., History) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2010.Bibliography: leaves 195-203
AHC interview with Marianne Elling.
No full textDigital imageOctober 6, 2010Marianne Elling, née Medina was born 1920 in Vienna. She grew up in the 1st and 2nd District and moved to Paris in 1939, to help her aunt as a maid. She left France in Nov. of 1939 for New York, where she met her husband at a HIAS dinner. Her parents were murdered in Auschwitz.Austrian Heritage Collectio
The lucky guy : Memories of Nachum Ariel ca. 1914-2010
No full textdigitizedNa(c)hum Ariel was born 1922 in Berlin as Hans Hermann Apfelbaum, the son of Adolf Apfelbaum and his wife Paula, née Klaubauf. The family emigrated to Palestine via England in 1940. In Israel, Nachum Ariel was first a banker and then a lawyer.Nachum Arie
AHC interview with Alice Kantor.
No full textAugust 6, 2010Digital imageAlice Kantor was born on Sep. 8, 1921 in Vienna, where she and her brother grew up in the 18th District (Waehring). Alice Kantor attended Gymnasium until 7th grade and then left for France, where she stayed for 3 years. After ca. 3 months in Cuba she got her visa and immigrated to the US. She studied chemistry and worked as a laboratory assistant and later as a science journalist for Time-Life and CBS. The Austrian museum Albertina returned to her a drawing by Gustav Klimt, which had belonged to her parents.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Charlotte Cooper
No full textApril 15, 2010Digital imageCharlotte Cooper was born into a family of actors, who formed a traveling theater company that traveled throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Consequently, she became a member of this company at a very young age, attending school in winter semesters and traveling in the summer. After ‘Anschluss’ she was sent to Rumania, where she attained papers to come to the US thanks to an invitation of a theater owner. In the US, she continued to do theatre throughout her life
AHC interview with William Schurtman.
No full textDigital imageJuly 30, 2010William Schurtman was born as Wilhelm Schurtmann on Jan. 13, 1932 in Vienna, where he grew up in the 9th District (Alsergrund). In 1938 the family went to Shanghai, China, where they lived until 1947. After 3 years in Bolivia they arrived in the United States. In New York William Schurtman worked as a publishing executive and as a lawyer, building eventually his own law firm.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ilse Korkes.
No full textDigital imageSeptember 22, 2010Austrian Heritage Collectio