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[Proclamation to honor Ditha Bruncel Slowey].
No full textThis collection consists of typescripts of speeches given by Carol Cahn Strauss, then Executive Director of the Leo
Baeck Institute, and the descendants of Bruno and Erna Zucker, honoring Ditha Bruncel Slowey (as well as her parents Hedwig and
Hermann Bruncel, and aunt and uncle Martha and Fritz Rumpel) for assisting Bruno and Erna Zucker in Germany during World War
II.Ditha Bruncel, her parents and her aunt and uncle helped their neighbors, Bruno and Erna Zucker to survive the Nazi
regime in Lossen near Brieg (Silesia, then Germany, today Brzeg in Poland) during the early 1940s. In 2010, Ditha Slowey, née Bruncel
was honored in a ceremony by Bruno and Erna Zucker’s grandson, Oved Zucker, and the German Consul General in Melbourne, Anne-Marie
Scheich.Processed for digitizatio
AHC interview with Gertrude Weiss.
No full textThe interview was conducted in the presence of Gertrude Weiss’ son, who asked questions.Digital imageOct. 4, 2010Gertrude Weiss, née Meister was born on March 26, 1927 in Vienna, Austria, where she spent her childhood until 1939. She received an affidavit and immigrated to the United States, where she obtained a Masters degree from the University of Illinois in 1951. She settled in Maywood, NJ.Austrian Heritage CollectionFavoritenstrasse, dutch boat "Vendom", parents killed in Latvia, affidavi
AHC interview with Gloria Gray Katz.
No full textJune 7, 2010Gloria Gray Katz was born as Gerda Sukman on April 9, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. She and her sister, Alice grew up in Moedling, a suburb of Vienna. In 1939 the two girls and their mother went to England. Gloria lived with foster parents, until she got an immigration permit for the US in 1940. She settled in New York City and worked as an English teacher at several colleges, and as a court clerk.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with Helen Kohn
No full textHelen Kohn, née Altmann was born November 14, 1913 in Vienna, Austria, where she lived in the 16th District (Ottakring). She left Austria for England in 1938, emigrating to the Dominican Republic in 1939. After the war, she immigrated to the United States
Vom Aufstand und Kapitulation zum Bürgerkrieg : Italien 1943-1945 aus persönlicher Sicht.
No full textdigitizedArnold Paucker fought with the US Eighth Army in Italy, where he witnessed the fall of Italian fascism
[Kistallnacht commemorations].
No full textThese are survivors' stories of members of Congregation Beth Sholom, a synagogue in Teaneck, New Jersey. They were gathered over a period of three years and read during the Congregation's Kristallnacht programs held on November 9th of each year.The survivors are:Dorothy Baum; Irene Black; Martin Black; Eric Brunn; Curtis Hereld (Kurt Herzfeld); Gaby Hereld; Ruth Rosenberg; Marlo Epstein Schachter; Marianne Schainholz; Anne Schupak; Renata Schwarz; Fred Strauss; Jean Strauss.digitize
An interview with Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D. for Sephardic American Voices ; January 12, 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: 1-13-10Interviewee : Rabbi Elie Abadie, M.D.Interviewer : Shelomo Alfassa
Interview with Morey Schapira
No full textOral history interview with Morey Schapira, a prominent Soviet Jewry movement activist who held leadership positions in Action for Soviet Jewry, the Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry, the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, and the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Hannah Kit Ellenbogen.
No full textSeptember 11, 2009Hannah Bettina Ellenbogen, née Kauders was born on Feb. 4, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. She went to the Protestant Elementary School in Vienna until March 1938. After Anschluss, her parents sent her and her siblings to Italy, to board with Notre Dame Sion in Trieste. Soon after the parents joined their children and the family left for Palestine. Upon receiving their affidavits they immigrated to the United States via Baghdad and Bombay. In the US she concluded her high school education and went to college, before setting on a career as an educator and consequently as a lawyer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Daisy Klein.
No full textFebruary 27, 2009Daisy Klein, née Menkes was born on 11/10/1925 in Vienna, Austria. She lived in the 13th District (Hietzing) with her parents and her cousin, which her parents adopted and who was like a brother to her. After the Anschluss, her father went to the American consulate to apply for a visa for his family. In August 1938, Ms. Klein and her parents went to Brno (Czech Republic), where her mother had some relatives. Her cousin stayed in Vienna with Ms. Menkes-Klein’s aunt. They stayed in Brno until March 1939, when their visa came through and they were able to immigrate to the U.S. Ms. Menkes-Klein went to City College to study engineering, acquired a Master’s Degree from NYU and worked as an engineer in the construction business in New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio