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My seven years under Nazi rule as a Jewish young man /
No full textWalter Loeb was born and raised in Birkenau im Odenwald. Three days before ‘Kristallnacht’ he attended the closing ceremony in the town’s synagogue, which had been sold to the mayor. Walter Loeb was interred at Dachau concentration camp for two months. In 1940 he immigrated to the United States via Italy. His parents joined their other son in Argentina via Russia
„Die symbolische Hauptbedeutung“ : Ist die Rückkehr des Leo Baeck Instituts nach Deutschland möglich ? /
No full textTranscript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk in Cologne, Germany about the possibility of establishing a branch of the Leo Baeck Institute in Berlin, Germany. The broadcast was part of a series “Shalom” about Jewish life in Germany today
Atomic Spice /
No full textThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.Mary Frances Behrens was born in 1921 and grew up in Manchester. Her father’s mother was German. As a young woman, Mary married the political fugitive, mathematician Oscar Bünemann, who had been imprisoned by Nazis for left-wing political activities. Their first child, Peter was born in 1943. The family moved to Berkeley, California, where Oscar Buneman worked with the Manhattan Project for the development of the atomic bomb. Their second son, Michael was born in 1945. The family then moved to Montreal, before settling in April of 1946 in the English town of Harwell, where Oscar Buneman joined a group of scientists, who were to form the Theoretical Physics Division of the newly established Atomic Energy Research Establishment under the leadership of Dr Klaus Fuchs; the second head of that Division was Brian Flowers, who later became Mary’s second husband. Mary describes her friendships with nuclear physicists, who engaged in the creation of an Atomic bomb for Great Britain, including the Italian nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo (1913-1993), and Klaus Fuchs, who was sentenced as a spy for the Soviet Union in 1950. Around the time of Klaus Fuchs’ trial, Mary suffered a mental breakdown. She and her sons spent time with her sister in South Africa. Shortly after, she broke up with Oscar Buneman to marry Brian Flowers, who took over the job from Fuchs in 1952. Mary Flowers died in January 2016 at the age of 94
AHC interview with Curtis F. Pearl.
No full textSeptember 24, 2009Curtis F. Pearl was born on March 30, 1917 as Kurt Perl in Vienna, Austria. His parents were non-religious Jews, who identified themselves as social democrats. After graduating from university at a very early age, he completed his obligatory military service and began to work for a private engineering company. Being fired immediately after the Anschluss, Kurt Perl applied for a visa for Columbia and immigrated via Switzerland and Italy. Upon arrival he found a job with Texaco, constructing facilities for oil transportation. With the German occupation of Norway, Texaco lost its entire see fleet, because its ships were all registered under Norwegian flag. After the law, Curtis Pearl immigrated to the United States with the help of his brother who had arrived earlier. In the US, Pearl continued working as a mechanical engineer. In retirement, he joined a reform synagogue in Manchester, NJ.Austrian Heritage Collectio
An interview with Nina Weiner; September 22, 2009
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.Interviewee : Nina Weiner.Interviewer: Shelomo Alfassa.Received: 11-24-200
Interview with Leah Lieberman
No full textOral history interview with Leah Lieberman, co-founder of the Brooklyn Coalition for Soviet Jewry.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
Interview with Rabbi David Hill
No full textOral history interview with Rabbi David Hill, a Rabbi and businessman in New York City. Rabbi Hill served as the national president of the National Council of Young Israel and ran Operation Lifeline. He was also a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and an officer of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry.Digital recordingDigital finding aid
AHC interview with Nina Ottolenghi.
No full textSeptember 15, 2008Nina Ottolenghi was born in Vienna in 1917. Her parents had a textile business in Vienna and in Poland. Nina lived with her parents, her sister and her brother in Vienna’s 13th district. Her brother was arrested in 1938 and held in Dachau for 3 month. Nina Ottolenghi managed to leave Vienna, and went to Merano (Italy); a few month later the family was reunited in London. Nina Ottholenghi stayed in London until 1945 and then immigrated with her husband to New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Edith Himmel
No full textJune 8, 2008Edith Himmel, née Loebl was born on Nov. 12, 1923 in Lackenbach, in Austria’s eastern province Burgenland. Her family moved to Vienna when she was a small child. There was a lot of culture and sports in her youth and she had a happy life in Vienna until 1938. Her father’s siblings had come to the United States after WW I and were able to obtain the necessary papers for Himmel’s family. They arrived in New York in June 1939. She finished high school and started working in the buying department of a company. In 1947 Edith Himmel got married. She and her husband had two children, and she retired in New York, NY.Austrian Heritage Collectio
