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AHC interview with Franz Leichter.
No full textMarch 31, 2009Franz Leichter was born on Aug. 19, 1930 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Kaethe Leichter and Otto Leichter, who both were highly active socialist journalists and authors. In February 1934, the family, including Franz’s brother Henry, had to emigrate to Zurich, Switzerland because of the Austrian civil war and the actions of Chancellor Dollfuss against the Social Democrat Party. In September 1934 the Leichters came back to Austria and became members of an underground socialist movement, the ‘Revolutionaere Sozialisten Oesterreichs’ (RS). After the Anschluss, Franz Leichter was smuggled out of Austria as the alleged son of a former maid. His father was able to flee with a fake passport, but his mother was betrayed by a former friend of the family and imprisoned. She ultimately died in the concentration camp Ravensbrueck. Franz, his father and his brother Henry were reunited in Paris. Shortly before the “Fall of Paris” they went to Southern France and immigrated via Lisbon to the United States. In the U.S. Franz Leichter went to Harvard Law School. In addition to his law firm he became politically active, serving as a Democratic Party representative first in the New York State Assembly and then in the New York Senate.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Elli Carroll.
No full textMay 12, 2009Elli Carol was born on June 19, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. In 1939, after experiencing the Anschluss and the November Pogrom the family left via Holland to Santiago, Chile. She finished school there and in 1950 immigrated to the US. She attended Cornell University and afterwards worked as a language teacher and raised her children.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ilse Ruth Ober.
No full textMarch 24, 2009Ilse Ruth Ober was born on Nov. 15, 1927 in Vienna, Austria, where she lived with her parents in the 20th District (Brigittenau). Her father owned a small stamp shop. She experienced the Anschluss and the Reichskristallnacht in Vienna before she left for England with the help of a Kindertransport and spent a year and a half at a boarding school. When her parents were able to leave Vienna, they came to pick her up and they immigrated to New York. Her father started a stamp business again and Ilse Ober went to college in evenings, eventually becoming a civil service for the State of New York, taking care of workers’ compensation.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Fred (Siegfried) Feuerberg.
No full textSeptember 21, 2009Siegfried Feuerberg was born in Vienna on May 14, 1908. He grew up with his brother and his parents in the 5th District. During WW I he was sent to Holland with a relief organization, but came back after a month. His father died two years after WW I ended, because he had suffered from mustard gas poisoning. After finishing elementary school in Vienna, Siegfried Feuerberg went to high school for a few years and then ran a business that imported brushes and combs, together with his mother and his brother. In 1938 he got arrested for four days. After he was released he and his wife immigrated to the US. In New York he became a production manager at a watch making company and later a watch importer. He worked in this profession until the age of 85.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Rita Pick Golomb Robinson.
No full textApril 6, 2009Rita Golomb Robinson was born as Rita Pick on Feb. 2, 1919 in Vienna (Austria). Her father was a physician. She went to the Realgymnasium Wenzgasse in the 13th District. Right after the "Anschluss" in March 1938 she got an affidavit from her aunt in the United States, allowing her to immigrate. She went to New York, where she got a job as a "Kinderfrauelein" (nanny) through the National Refugee Service. She became a social worker, after graduating from Hunter College in 1960.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Descendant report for Mendel Beer.
No full textOutline of the descendants of Mendel Beer (ca. 1765-1794) from Forbach in Lorraine, France.digitize
'Und dann war sie weg ...' : Das kurze Leben der Doris Katz.
No full textdigitizedPublished in: Einsichten und Perspektiven, Bayerische Zeitschrift fuer Politik und Geschichte, 1/10, pp. 54-79Doris Katz was born on Nov. 2, 1924 in Erbach, Germany. She grew up in Michelstadt. In November 1938, her parents sent her to Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, where she lived in a Jewish orphanage for girls. From there, she was deported to the transit camp Westerbork in Feb. 1943, and in March to the death camp in Sobibór, where she was killed.Bibliography : p. 78 f
Der gruenderzeitliche Antisemitismus in Wien am Beispiel von Adolf Wahrmund : Diplomarbeit.
No full textThe author describes books by the German orientalist Adolf Wahrmund as examples for a “cold” phase of European anti-Semitism, which was typical for negative attitudes toward Jews, widely expressed in Austria and Hungary during the last quarter of the 19th century.Mag. Phil. Diplomarbeit (M.A. thesis) at the University of ViennaBibliography : p. 89 f
AHC interview with Kurt Greene.
No full textMay 13, 2009Kurt Greene was born on Nov. 13, 1926 in Vienna, Austria, where he lived with his parents in the 2nd District. In 1939 the family left via Hamburg for the United States and arrived in New York in August 1939. Kurt Greene went to City College in New York and studied Engineering. After finishing his masters degree at Newark College for Engineering, he worked as an engineer, amongst others also as a civilian for the US Army.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Memorial to Jewish Fellow Citizens.
No full textFour bound typescripts pertaining to the creation of a memorial wall on the schoolyard of the Löcknitz primary school in Berlin-SchönebergdigitizedA published book has been removed to the LBI LibraryThe Memorial to Jewish Fellow Citizens was nominated for the Obermayer German Jewish History Award 201