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AHC interview with Frederick Terna.
No full text10 sessions from July 28, 2008 to Feb. 1, 2009Frederick Terna was born as Friedrich Arthur Taussig in 1923 in Vienna, Austria to a Prague Jewish family. His father, a doctor of law was a typical Prague intellectual. Shortly after Fred’s birth, they moved back to Prague. In 1926, Fred’s younger brother was born. Fred Terna went to school in Prague until 1939, when he was not allowed to continue. In early 1941 he was arrested by the Gestapo, and questioned for nearly an entire week. In October 1941 he was taken to his first camp, at Lipa, in Bohemia (Linden bei Deutschbrod). From there he was deported in March 1943 to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz in October 1944, and finally to Kaufering 4 (a subcamp of Dachau). When he was liberated from Kaufering in April 1945 he weighed about 35 kilos. The US Army took him to a hospital in Bad Woerishofen, which had been installed for camp survivors. In summer 1945 he was repatriated to Prague; he was the only survivor in his family. In 1946 Fred Terna got married to another camp survivor. They left Prague in fall of 1946 with fake documents and went to Paris, where he worked for the Joint Distribution Committee. He and his wife left for Canada in 1951, and in 1952 they immigrated to the USA. His first wife died of cancer, and he remarried in 1982. Fred Terna is a painter and artist in New York City. He has one son.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Paul Saunders.
No full textJune 1, 2008Paul Saunders was born as Paul Schoengut on June 16, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. After the ‘Anschluss’ in March 1938, he went to Czechoslovakia to live with his aunt. Then he went on to Leeds, England, where his uncle had got him a trainee visa to become a tailor. In 1940 Paul Saunders was interned as an enemy alien for 4 months. After the war, in 1948, he emigrated to Canada, where he stayed in Montreal and Vancouver, where he studied accounting. He married a woman from Germany and the two of them immigrated to the United States. Paul Saunders and his wife moved to San Francisco and finally settled in Arlington, Virginia where he worked as a negotiator for the US government.Austrian Heritage Collectio
My life so far : 1930 to 2008.
No full textComputer generated, bound and richly illustrated manuscript, documenting the author’s life and familydigitizedLisa Bernd was born on Feb. 22, 1930 in Vienna, Austria under the name of Liselotte Drucker, the daughter of Arthur Drucker (1890-1984) and his wife Selma, née Guttmann (1900-1986). The family (including Lisa Bernd’s younger brother, Franz) immigrated to the United States via Holland in Dec.1938. They settled in New York City. In 1951, Lisa got married to Addie (Adolf) Bernd (1921-2001), originally from Koeln, Germany.Janet Bernd Isenber
History of the Jewish community of Ostrowo
No full textAn English translation of 'Geschichte der israelitischen Gemeinde Ostrowo', by Aaron Freimann, prepared by Victoria Barkoff, Matthias Brandt, Peter Cullman, Nicole Heymans and Werner ZimmtThe original may be found in the LBI Library, DS 135 G4 O_87 F
AHC interview with Berthold Silberman.
No full textJan. 17, 2008Berthold Silberman was born 1928 in Vienna, Austria and grew up in his parents’ apartment (Herminengasse in Vienna II). In September of 1938, Berthold Silberman emigrated to Palestine. After the war he came back to Vienna, but didn’t feel welcomed, so he returned to Israel, from where he immigrated to the United States in 1959. He settled in New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ernest Newbrun.
No full textJanuary 16, 2008Ernest Newbrun (Ernst Neubrunn) was five years old at the time of the Anschluss. He grew up in an assimilated Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. Ernest Newbrun had vivid memories about Kristallnacht, the November pogrom in 1938. His father was arrested and imprisoned for a few weeks, but eventually released, because he had been an officer and wounded in the World War I. Ernest Newbrun remembered Hitler Youth gangs blowing a Shofar shortly after Kristallnacht. He emigrated via England to Australia and eventually settled in San Francisco, CA.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Robert Schwarz.
No full textRobert Schwarz was born 1921 in Vienna, Austria. In 1939, he left with a "Kindertransport" to England and immigrated to the USA in 1940. He taught history and philosophy at Carnegie Mellon College in Pittsburgh for 16 years and at Florida Atlantic University for 25 years.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with John Nemon.
No full textJohn Nemon was born on Nov. 28, 1921 in Vienna, Austria, where he lived in the 6th District, Mariahilf (Esterhazy Gasse 12). He was a member of a Zionist organization and of the Jewish boy scouts in Austria. He attended elementary school, high school and business college (‘Handelsakademie’) in Vienna. In February 1939, he escaped Vienna to Brussels (Belgium) and then on to London and Liverpool (England), before immigrating to New York on March 15, 1939. He joined the US Air Force 1943 – 1946 and became a member of the Jewish Welfare Federation.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ruth Martha Binder.
No full textJune 4, 2008Ruth Binder, née Wottitzky was born on Jan. 17, 1926 in Windigstein, Lower Austria. She and her family immigrated via Zurich, Switzerland and Paris, France and arrived in the US in April, 1939, settling in Washington, D.C. Binder went to high school and college, working in various jobs with Columbia Pictures and the National Geographic Society. She retired in 1989, but went on working as a volunteer at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.Austrian Heritage Collectio
