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The life and times of Werner Jacob Cahnman.
No full textDraft for a biography of Werner J. Cahnman, parts of which were presented by the author as lectures and in previous publications.digitizedWerner Jacob Cahnmann (later Cahnman) was born in Munich on September 30, 1902 to Sigwart and Hedwig Cahnmann. He had five siblings: Hans, Eva (later Chawa), Fritz (later Fred), Augusta ("Gusti"), and "Lilo" (Lieselotte, later Rachel). Werner Cahnman studied at the universities of Munich and Berlin, taking courses in economics, history, political science, and sociology; his doctoral dissertation on the work of economist David Ricardo was published in 1927, and earned him a Dr. oeconomiae publicae. On the basis of this degree Werner Cahnman would later work as a sociologist in the United States. It was during the interwar years that Werner Cahnman became increasingly involved in Jewish social and political affairs, and in 1930 he was asked to be the Syndikus of the Bavarian branch of the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith). In November-December 1938 he was incarcerated in the Dachau concentration camp. The following June Werner Cahnman left Germany, first immigrating to England to stay with his cousin Hedwig Ettinghausen, then continuing on to the United States, where he settled in Chicago.After arriving in the United States, Werner Cahnman took part in the American Seminar for Foreign Scholars, sponsored by the American Friends in Wolfsboro, New Hampshire. Werner Cahnman then spent 1940-1943 at the University of Chicago as a visiting doctoral student, where he became acquainted with sociologists such as Robert E. Park and Louis Wirth as well as with Gisella Levi, whom he married in 1943. He also became a part of the editorial board of the journal The Reconstructionist, to which he often contributed articles. Much of his time during these years was also spent assisting his family members in emigrating from Germany; although his siblings found various ways to leave the country, his parents and aunt Clementine Kraemer did not. Sigwart Cahnmann died in 1941 in Munich, while his aunt was deported to Theresienstadt and his mother died in Poland.Werner Cahnman spent the next several years as a visiting professor or lecturer at various universities, including Fisk University, Vanderbilt University, Atlanta University, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Yeshiva University, and the New School for Social Research. Finally he joined Rutgers University through the efforts of Joseph Maier, where Werner Cahnman taught from 1961 until becoming professor emeritus eight years later. From 1969-1970 he taught as a visiting professor at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Munich under the Fulbright program. Werner Cahnman died in New York in 1980.See also: Werner and Gisella Cahnman Collection, AR 25210.The idea to write a biography of Werner J. Cahnman was suggested by Ira Jolles, President of the Cahnman Foundation, and researched largely at the Center for Jewish History in New York
AHC interview with Eric Thuna
No full textApril 12, 2010Digital imageEric (Erich) Thuna was born on Nov. 1, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, where he lived in the 4th District (Schoenburgerstrasse 25). Mr. Thuna attended elementary school in Waltergasse from 1932 to 1938. After ‘Anschluss’ Eric Thuna fled to Luxemburg where he stayed until October 1940. He went to Marseille, France, where he was interned (Bayonne, Kay Mousserole), then to Spain and Portugal, before he finally arrived in the United States in June of 1941. He was a car mechanic and then a plant manager until his retirement to Coconut Creek, Florida in 1989
AHC interview with Antonie Blum
No full textApril 14, 2010Digital imageAntonie Blum, née Hant, was born 1927 into a family of Eastern European ancestry. Leaving Vienna in 1939, she and her family fled to her relatives in Poland and subsequently to the Ukraine. Upon her father's refusal to obtain Russian citizenship, which would have cancelled his application for a US immigration affidavit, the family was expelled to Siberia. Her father died in Siberia due to the difficult environment and poor health conditions
The Werthan family of Rotenburg an der Fulda : Hesse Kassel. /
No full textEllen Stepak’s story of her genealogical journey to discovering and researching her roots in the region of Hesse, Germany.Ancestors from Pinsk, Belarus; Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany (and in the US from 1854); Belozerka, Ukraine; Kupiskis and Vabalninkas, Lituania; Lodz, PolandFamily surnames mentioned: Brenn; Gotthelf; Kling; Klots; Krukstein; Posenitzky; Raymond; WerthandigitizedEllen Stepak, née Goldenberg grew up in Huntington, Indiana. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin she emigrated to Israel in 1969. Since 1995 she has been engaged in amateur genealogical research; she is a member of the Isreal Genealogical Society.Bibliography : p. 104Family trees: pp. 106-12
Artist David Friedmann : A daughter's search for lost and stolen art.
No full textMaterials about the artwork and the biography of David FriedmandigitizedBibliography : p. 27
London, Paris, Laupheim : August 2010.
No full textTravelogue of a trip by Henry Rieser and his son, Ari, to the ancestral home in Laupheim, Germanydigitize
[Oma’s and Opa’s stories].
No full textdigitizedLotte Marshall, née Landes was born in Munich and grew up in Mannheim. After Kristallnacht she and her mother escaped to France, where they were interned in Camp de Gurs. In 1941 they immigrated to the United States.Walter Marshall was born in Mannheim, Germany. In 1933 he moved to France and in 1940-41 he served in the Foreign Legion. In 1942 he escaped France via Spain to Portugal and then immigration to the U.S
AHC interview with Malvine Kleiner.
No full textMarch 4, 2010Malvine Kleiner, née Geller was born in May 1923. She went to high school at the Chajes-Gymnasium in Vienna. Thanks to Youth Aliyah she managed to leave Vienna in October 1938 for Palestine, where she received her education as a nurse. She got married, and in 1952 she moved to the United States, wher she continued to work as a registered nurse. She eventually retired to in Florida.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Walter Benjamin Feiden.
No full textMarch 16, 2010Walter Benjamin Feiden was born on April 13, 1928 in Vienna, Austria, where he grew up in the 9th District (Alsergrund). At age 13 he and his parents were deported to the Lodz Ghetto. Later he was interned in Auschwitz. After surviving Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald, Walter Feiden returned to Austria, where he stayed for 15 months. In 1947 he immigrated to New York, where he worked as a watch importer and in other professions.Austrian Heritage Collectio
An interview with Jean Naggar; January 6, 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 1930's to 1980's.Received: 1-12-10Interviewee : Jean Naggar.Interviewer: Shelomo Alfassa