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AHC interview with Ruth Loewy
No full textApril 9, 2010Digital imageRuth Loewy née Berger was born on May 31, 1924 in the Viennese suburb of Perchtoldsdorf, Austria. She lived with her family in Vienna’s 9th District (Nussdorferstrasse 4). After “Anschluss” she escaped to Palestine, where she attended an Art Studio and stayed until 1948, when she immigrated to the U.S. Ruth Loewy was a painter and retired to Pembroke Pines, Florida
AHC interview with Rochelle R. Lambert
No full textRochelle (Rachel) Lambert, née Habermann, was born on December 23, 1920 in Vienna, where she lived with her parents and her brother, Joshua in the 3rd District (Landstrasse). She was expelled from Radetzky Realgymnasium after ‘Anschluss’ and was not allowed to finish school in Austria. Her parents arranged visas for the United States and sent her along with her brother to relatives in New York in 1938. Joshua Habermann was accepted to the rabbinical seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio and became a rabbi in Washington. Rachel Habermann was able to continue her education with a scholarship from the Schmidlapp Foundation and became a beautician. Her parents joined her in New York in 1940, and they opened a store together
Aufbau : Die Entwicklung einer Emigrantenzeitung zum Medienunternehmen.
No full textThe development of ‘Aufbau’ from a newspaper for German Jewish immigrants to a media enterprise.digitizedWissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Master Artium (M.A.) der Universität HamburgBibliography : p.100-109Christian Zec
AHC interview with Erich Sachs
No full textJanuary 7, 2010Erich Sachs was born on July 19, 1919 in Baden bei Wien. Growing up in Vienna’s 2nd District, he graduated from Realgymnasium Sperlgasse in 1938. Recognizing the Nazi threat, he decided to immigrate to the US independently of his family. His parents joined him in the US after having lived in the Shanghai Ghetto for some time. Erich Sachs joined the US Army in 1942 and served until the end of 1945, including deployments to France, Germany and Austria. Upon his return to the States, he started to work for a manufacturing business.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Lilly Conn.
No full textJanuary 15, 2010Lilly Conn was born Lilly Weiss on Sep.13, 1922 in Vienna, Austria, where she grew up in the 13th District (Hietzing), and where she went to school at Gymnasium Wenzgasse. After ‘Anschluss’ she was expelled from her school and learned baby nursing. In 1938 she went with her family to Brno in Czechoslovakia, where they had relatives. Lilly Weiss Conn got a job in a day care center. Many relatives of her extended family did not escape from Austria and were murdered in concentration camps. After some difficulties she and her immediate family got their affidavits from non-related people in the US through the services of B'nai B'rith, and on February 2nd 1940 they arrived in New York City. Through HIAS, Lilly Conn got her first job as a nanny. After jobbing in different factories, she finally worked for Medicare.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Robert Max Kaufman.
No full textJanuary 26, 2010Robert Max Kaufman was born on November 17, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He and his sister escaped to England thanks to a Kindertransport in December 1938. Their father was imprisoned in Dachau; after his release it in May 1939 he emigrated to England. Robert Kaufman’s mother joined them in August 1939, and the family immigrated to the USA on December 30, 1939. Upon arrival, Robert Kaufman attended high school and continued his education at Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, becoming a renowned attorney and economist.Austrian Heritage Collectio
An interview with Allegra (nee Halfon) Gordon ; January 28, 2010 /
No full textOne of a collection of interviews with Sephardic figures and individuals. Interviewees are from the fields of politics, philanthropy, and the arts, and have backgrounds in a number of different fields and organizations from Sephardi and Mizrahi lands from around the world who immigrated to and settled in the United States. The experience about which the interviewees speak cover roughly the period from period from 1920's to 1980's.Received : 02-18-2010Interviewee: Allegra Gordon (nee Halfon)Shelomo Alfassa
AHC interview with Ernest A. Powers.
No full textFebruary 23, 2010Ernest Powers was born in April 1922 in Vienna, Austria, as Ernst Pollak. He attended 3 years of “Gymasium" and one year of "Buergerschule". He crossed the border to Czechoslovakia illegally and lived there until 1940, when an organized transport took him to Palestine. There he was interned by the British, but in the fall of 1941 he joined the British Army, serving for 5 years and 31 days in Palestine, Egypt, Italy and Vienna. From 1947 to early 1949 he served in the Israeli Defense Force before immigrating to the United States.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Lawrence Bauer.
No full textMarch 2, 2010Lawrence Bauer was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922 as Ludwig Bauer. He grew up in a politically conscious social democratic environment and was a member of ‘Blau Weiss’. When he had to leave Handelsschule in 1938, he emigrated to Bratislava, Slovakia where he was interned in a camp by local security forces. With the support of the local Jewish community, he managed to survive and find his way to Palestine illegally. Upon his arrival, Mr. Bauer was interned by the British and finally released after 9 months. He worked as a private and military bus driver for several years. Few years after the War of Independence, Mr. Bauer immigrated to the United States, where he worked as a waiter in eastern and southeastern states.Austrian Heritage Collectio
The Chewrah Kadischa of Remagen.
No full textPaper for a course in bilingual history at Nicolaus Cusanus high school in Bonn, Germany.This is an account of the burial society of the Jewish community in the town of Remagen since 1825, including biographical abstracts for some prominent members, such as Salomon Cahn; Abraham Cahn; Moritz Fassbinder; and Karl Hirsch