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AHC interview with Celia Radzyner.
No full textJanuary 12, 2010Celia Radzyner, née Kampf was born in 1922 in Vienna, Austria, where her family lived in the 3rd District. She was a member of Blau Weiss Wien. Her father owned a textiles store, which flourished until her father became sick and eventually died. With rising anti-Semitism, the behavior of the customers changed as well. It manifested itself in less compliance to credit agreements. In the face of falling business income and the dislocation policies after the Anschluss, Mrs. Radzyner and her family moved into an apartment with several other inhabitants. She was arrested three times over the course of less than a year. In December of 1939 Mrs. Radzyner immigrated to the United States; she worked as a bookkeeper and attended business school at night.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with George Brummer.
No full textFebruary 24, 2010Austrian Heritage CollectionDigital audi
Interview with Pamela Cohen
No full textOral history interview with Pamela Cohen, a prominent American Soviet Jewry Movement activist. Cohen was active in the Chicago Action for Soviet Jewry (CASJ) and served as the national president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews (UCSJ) for ten years.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Peter Spielberg
No full textOctober 19, 2010Peter Spielberg was born on July 2, 1929 in Vienna as the son of Heinrich (Henry) Spielberg and Erna née Kulka. The family left Vienna in March 1939 for Czechoslovakia and immigrated to the United States on August 15, 1939. He studied at City College of New York and at New York University and finished his doctorate (Ph.D.) at the University of Buffalo. He taught English at Brooklyn College and is the author of several books of fiction
AHC interview with Rose Norwat
No full textMay 3, 2010Digital imageRose Norwat, née Rosa Baron was born in December 1921 in Vienna, Austria, where she went to school until 1939. In February 1939 she immigrated via Paris to the United States, where she found employment in a factory producing Christmas decorations
The Kohen/Kohsen family by generations
No full textDescendents of Salomon Abrahams Cohen (1746 – 1838) from the Netherlands.The Kohen/Kohsen family by generations is a more extensive family tree than the one provided by Julius Kohsen in his memoirs
Interview with Philip Spiegel
No full textOral history interview with Philip Spiegel, Soviet Jewry movement activist and author of the book Triumph Over Tyranny: The Heroic Campaigns that Saved 2,000,000 Soviet Jews.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Isidor Gettinger
No full textJuly 29, 2010Digital imageIsidor Gettinger (Goettinger) was born on Jan. 11, 1921 in Vienna, Austria, where he grew up with his two brothers in the 2nd District. At the end of 1938 he left Vienna and went to England, where he was interned in Kent for one year. In 1939, he immigrated with his parents and with his brother, Walter to New York (his other brother, Israel, was killed in Auschwitz). After college, he started his own feather company, 'Gettinger Feather Corporation'
AHC interview with Ilse Melamid.
No full textSeptember 3, 2010Isle Melamid, née Hoenigsberg was born on Jan. 25, 1928 in Vienna, Austria. She left Austria in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England. After she finished school, she moved to relatives in Melbourne, Australia, where she finished her studies. In 1959 she immigrated to the United States, where she got married. When her husband, a university professor, lectured in Vienna for a year in 1988, she lived there again.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Eva Eulogy.
No full textEulogy for Eva Goldschmidt (1921-2010), written by her grandson.Eva Goldschmidt was born as Eva Maria Loewenfeld in Munich, Germany, daughter of Phillip and Lotte Loewenfeld. In 1934, the family escaped Nazi persecution to Switzerland and immigrated to the United States in 1938. Eva Goldschmidt studied History at the University of Chicago and Library Science at Columbia University. She was – among other professions – a cataloger of German books at the Leo Baeck Institute until her retirement in 1987.digitize