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Interview with Aba and Ida Taratuta
No full textOral history interview with Aba and Ida Taratuta, former Refuseniks and Soviet Jewish activists from Leningrad, later residing in Israel.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
Aspects of Austria’s dealing with her National Socialist past : the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in Vienna (DOEW) in post-war Austria
No full textAnother chapter : From Nuremberg to Hadley 1997-2009
No full textAddendum to Arnold Friedman’s memoirs, covering his life 1997-2009digitizedArnold FriedmannBorn in Nuremberg in 1925
AHC interview with Kurt H. Meyer.
No full textFebruary 17, 2009Kurt Meyer was born on Nov. 2, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, where he lived with his parents and his younger brother in the 9th District. His uncle had emigrated to the United States in the early 1930’s and arranged for Kurt Meyer’s family all necessary papers. In November 1938, after the Anschluss and the Reichskristallnacht, he immigrated to the U.S., were he had several jobs until he joined the US army in 1942. He went to Europe, interpreting and interrogating prisoners of war. After his discharge, he started his own business selling car seat covers, eventually ending up co-inventing inflatable structures for storage space.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Thomas Bishop.
No full textJanuary 21, 2009Thomas Bishop was born on Feb. 21, 1929 as Thomas Bischofswerder in Vienna, Austria, where he lived with his brother and his parents in Vienna’s First District. Thomas Bishop went to elementary school in Hegelgasse 1935-1938. In March 1938 he and his family left Vienna for Budapest, Hungary, and then to Paris, France. There he went to school for two years. In 1940 he hand his family immigrated to the US, where Thomas studied at the Bronx School of Science and at New York University.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ann Buchsbaum.
No full textFeb. 18, 2009Ann Buchsbaum was born on Apr. 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria, where she lived in the 4th District (Favoritenstrasse). She experienced both, the Anschluss and the Kristallnacht and was able to escape from Austria on a Kindertransport that took her to Holland, where she stayed for 9 months. In 1939, she got her visa for the immigration to the United States, where she stayed with her uncle and aunt in New York. As she had to support herself, Ann Buchsbaum could not go back to school, so she started working in a factory. After several jobs, she ended up going to college to get a degree in art history. She married another immigrant from Vienna and they had one son. She retired to Forest Hills, New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
A history of the Anspacher family /
No full textFamily tree of 488 individuals from 267 families reaching back to Nathan in Kairlindach (Bavaria, Germany), c.1685-1732?digitizedFolder 1: A history of the Anspacher familyFolder 2: Anspacher family chartFolder 3: Documents (photocopies): records; correspondence; translation
AHC interview with Curtis B. Hayworth.
No full textOctober 7, 2009Curtis B. Hayworth was born as Kurt Haimowitz 1920 in Vienna, Austria, where he lived with his parents and his brother in the 3rd District. When he entered high school, he became a member of the "Bund Sozialistischer Mittelschueler" (the organization of socialist high school students). He was also a member of the Zionist youth organization BETAR and of the Jewish sports club Hakoah, where he played water polo. He left Vienna in July 1938 for Antwerp, but was arrested on the Belgian border and imprisoned in Aachen for four days. He stayed in Antwerp until the fall of 1939, when he immigrated to the United States. He studied chemical engineering in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Kurt Steiner.
No full textDecember 16, 2009Kurt Steiner was born 1912 in Vienna, Austria. From 1923 to 1927, he attended the Realgymnasium Albertgasse, in the 8th District of Vienna. He later worked as a salesman for a small ladies' hat factory. In November 1937, he married Nora Korn. Two months after the 'Anschluss', he lost his job. He helped people move and pack their belongings when they were forced to leave their apartments. He also earned some money taking photographs for the ID cards Jews had to carry. After collecting all necessary documents at the Palais Rothschild in Vienna, Kurt and Nora Steiner managed to immigrate to the US in May 1939. After a number of various jobs, Kurt Steiner was rejected from military service in 1943, and forced to go into war production. He became an apprentice toolmaker in a plant making surgical instruments for the US Armed Services. He stayed with that company for 34 years, the last 16 years as supervisor of several production departments. In the United States, Kurt Steiner benefited from the Holocaust survivors’ support group Café Europa. He retired to Cranford, NJ.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Irving Deligdish.
No full textSeptember 21, 2009Irving Deligdish was born on Aug. 18, 1916 in Vienna, Austria. He attended a technical high school and served in the Austrian military in 1937. He had to leave Austria for Palestine in 1938. In 1939 he left Palestine and immigrated to the United States, living first in New York and settling finally in New Jersey.Austrian Heritage Collectio