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AHC interview with Leo Haas
No full textApril 8, 2010Digital imageLeo Haas was born in November 1926 in Vienna, Austria, where he joined the Zionist youth organization Betar. In late 1938 he left Austria and emigrated to Belgium, where he survived the war as a laborer on a farm. In 1947 he immigrated to the United States, where he met his wife. He worked as an auctioneer and an appraiser, before retiring to Florida
AHC interview with Hermine Hanlin.
No full textDigital imageMay 12, 2010Hermine Hanlin was born as Hermine Spitzer on Jan. 20, 1929 in Vienna, Austria, where she and her sister grew up in the Catholic faith in a 'Gemeindebau' (public housing). In 1939 she and her sister escaped to England with the help of the ‘Society of Friends’; they stayed near Nottingham with various foster parents. Hermine Spitzer went to school and college in Mansfield. After the war she went back to Vienna, where she worked for the British Military. Later she emigrated to the US where she worked in the music industry.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Albert Martin Wojnilower.
No full textDigital imageSeptember 16, 2010Albert Martin Wojnilower grew up in Vienna, Austria in a Jewish orthodox, kosher household. From fall 1936 to spring 1938 he attended Volksschule (primary school). In May 1938 he went to The Hague, from where he immigrated to New York in September 1939. There he attended Stuyvesant High School in Brooklyn (1943-1947) and Columbia University (1947-1960), where he achieved his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in economics. He worked for the Federal Reserve Bank and in the private sector.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Mathilde Freund
No full textJuly 13, 2010Digital imageMathilde Freund née Nadler was born on Aug. 8, 1916 in Vienna, Austria. She and her brother grew up in Vienna’s 20th District (Engelsplatz). In August 1938 the family escaped to Lyon, France, where they went into hiding, but nevertheless she was imprisoned by the Gestapo. After the war she went to Colombia, and 4 years later she immigrated to the US where she worked as a social worker
Aftershocks : a biographical memoir / 1938-2009
No full textThe memoir was published in German under the title "Nachbeben" in 2005 by the Czernin Verlag, Vienna (available in LBI library). The English manuscript has 350 pages. The memoir starts in the year 1939, previously talks about Vienna, and Maribor, and soon moves on to the years 1941 when Marianne and her mother were living again in Vienna.digitizedMarianne Lieberman, nee Winder, was born in Vienna in 1927 to a Jewish doctor and a non-Jewish mother. She lived with her parents in the eighth Viennese district. The Nazis disrupted her education at a Viennese high school and made her flee with her mother to Maribor, Yugoslavia, in 1939 where she continued her education. After the war she returned to Vienna where she could study dress design for one year, even under the harsh conditions of the Nuremberg Laws. In 1947 she came to the USA. Marianne Liebermann is married and lives in North Carolina, USA.An earlier version of the manuscript is available in ME 1541Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- )--Austri
AHC interview with Stella Hershan.
No full textJanuary 21, 2010Stella Hershan, née Kreidl, was born 1915 in Vienna, Austria. She immigrated to the USA in 1939, where she became a successful writer. Her novels, most of them based on historic figures, include ‘The Naked Angel’. She also wrote books about Eleanor Roosevelt (The Candles She Lit - The Legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt’, and the Austrian Empress Elisabeth (‘In Dankbarkeit, Elisabeth’).Austrian Heritage Collectio
An interview with Dora Litow ; 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 1930's to 1980's.Received : 02-18-2010Interviewee: Dora Litow.Interviewer: Shelomo Alfass
AHC interview with Annemarie Levitt.
No full textFebruary 2, 2010Annemarie Levitt, née Gratzinger was born on March 27th 1921 in Vienna, Austria., where she grew up with her mother and her sister in the First District. She left Austria in 1938 and immigrated via Italy and France to the US. In New York she started working for the Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Painting and Sculpture as the secretary to the museum collection. In 1945 she went to Germany to work for the Nuremberg war trial. After 11 months she came back to New York and continued her job at the MOMA. Later she worked as a volunteer at the museum.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ruth Ohrenstein.
No full textJanuary 27, 2010Ruth Ohrenstein née Silberstein was born in December 1931 in Vienna, Austria. Soon after Anschluss she and her family migrated via Italy first to Greece and then to Cairo, Egypt, where she attended the French Elementary SchoolAustrian Heritage Collectio
[Nominees for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award 2011] : Nominees: Waltraud Becker-Hammerstein M.A. & Dr. Werner Becker.
No full textThis collection consists of a binder of clippings, booklets, correspondence and ephemera collected in a binder, pertaining to the former Jewish communities in and around the town of Nassau in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and efforts on the part of Waltraud Becker-Hammerstein and Werner Becker Collection to preserve and promote it. This material was assembled as part of their nomation for the 2011 Obermayer German Jewish History Award.Waltraud Becker-Hammerstein and Werner Becker were nominated for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award 2011Processed for digitizatio