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AHC interview with Gertrude Kaplan.
No full textMay 1, 2008Gertrude Kaplan, née Haber was born on Aug. 7, 1930 in Vienna, Austria. She escaped from the Nazis to Antwerp, Belgium, and immigrated to the United States in March 1939.Austrian Heritage Collectio
The Weinkrantzes and the Lindenbergers.
No full textThe text explains the entanglement of two German Jewish families whose members posed for a photograph on occasion of the wedding of Meta Lindenberger and Alfred Weinkrantz in Berlin, April 1921digitizedAlso included are a photograph and a short abstract of the Stein family, related to the Weinkrantz and Lindenberger families
AHC interview with Eva Maria de Becker.
No full textJanuary 24, 2008Eva Maria de Becker, née Arany was born on October 29, 1919 in Vienna, Austria, where she lived in an apartment in the 8th District. Her parents owned a jewelry store. She left Vienna after Anschluss, first to England and then to Canada. She arrived in the US in 1952.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Homecomings and homemakings: Stefanie Zweig and the exile experience in, out of, and nowhere in Africa.
No full textThis dissertation is intended to address German-Jewish refugee life in Kenya, which represents a lacuna in exiles studies and simultaneously a thus far relatively unknown chapter in the history of the relationship between Kenya and Germany. The touchstone of my project is the autobiographical novels by Stephanie Zweig (1932-- ), who in 1938 came to Kenya as a German-Jewish refugee. Her narratives reflect the peculiar paradox that the Jews in Kenya lived: on the one hand they were victims of Nazi racism, on the other hand they often found themselves in the position of colonizers.In my study, I look at Zweig's works as "Zeitstucke" and read the German author's depiction of the German Jewish refugee situation in Kenya in the context of several oral and written witness accounts by other former Kenya refugees. The documents that I use for my project reveal a consistent core of shared memory and form an invaluable source for research in exile studies. Drawing on Adorno's notion that a writer who lost her or his home tries to create one in her or his texts, I also address possible scriptotherapeutic effects of autobiographical writing. Moreover, my dissertation is intended as a challenge to the categorization of Zweig's works into the genre of the exoticist, belletristic Africa-novel (Afrika-Roman), which has gained immense popularity in Germany over the last decade. I offer a reading that proposes to approach Zweig's work chronologically, as a work in progress, in which the author continually assesses and reassesses her relation to Africa and simultaneously revises her literary portrayal(s) of this continent. I argue that the author in her earlier narratives demonstrates a restorative nostalgia and thus assumes a position resembling that of British colonial writers Elspeth Huxley and Karen Blixen. In her later texts, however, Zweig shifts to a more reflective form of nostalgia and distances herself from her earlier claim for an African Heimat. My study also addresses a number of tropes and metaphors of white settler writing that Zweig incorporates in her work. My main argument, which I develop around Zweig's narrative representation of the Mau Mau movement in Kenya, is that such settler writing must be read as symbolic appropriation of African (Kenyan) space and history.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2008.School code: 0030
AHC interview with Augusta Appel.
No full textAugusta Appel was born on Oct. 16, 1908 in Drohobycz, Galicia (Poland) as Augusta Marienberg. She grew up in Vienna’s 17th District and attended Realgymnasium, the local high school. She participated early in her life in the Jewish sports organization Hakoah, and she met her husband, Leon Apfelschnitt, in a ballroom at the famous Hotel Metropole, a building that was later used by the Nazis as Gestapo headquarters. After Hitler's Anschluss of Austria, she had to stand in line at the Gestapo for many days to get information about her husband, who had been arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp. She was arrested in the streets of Vienna in 1938, but could escape later in 1938, immigrating to the USA via London, England. Augusta Appel and her husband settled in Plantation, Florida.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Marianne Bernett.
No full textMarianne Bernett, née Knoll, was born on June 28, 1919, in Vienna, where she lived in the 9th District (Maria Theresienstrasse 9), together with her parents and her sister, Sophie Feldbau (AHC 1383). She went to high school in Vienna where she graduated in 1937, and then to the business college “Handelsschule Wien”, where her education was interrupted by the “Anschluss” in March 1938. She emigrated to London in August 1938, and a month later to New York where she found employment as an office worker. 1943 to 1947 she attended New York University, acquiring BA and MS degrees in chemistry. She worked as a research chemist until her retirement in 1983.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Norman Graber.
No full textNormann Graber (his previous name in Vienna was Noe Graber) was born in Jaroslau, Galicia (Poland), before moving to Vienna, Austria, where he lived in the 16th District (Reinhartgasse 39). He attended Chajes Gymnasium from 1927 until 1930, before finishing his education at the business college “Handesschule Alina”. From May to Sep. 1938, he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp, and then in Buchenwald from Sep. 1938 to May 1939. He left for England, where he stayed for eight months and then immigrated to the USA, arriving in New York in April 1940. He went to college and worked for the US Government until 1976, before retiring in Fort Lauderdale, FL.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Helma Goldmark.
No full textJune 3, 2008Helma Goldmark née Bluehweis was born in Graz, Austria in 1926. Her mother died in 1937. During 'Kristallnacht' members of the SA seriously injured her father, and soon after he and Helma emigrated to Zagreb, Croatia (then Yugoslavia). Her father got arrested by the Ustasche and was deported to Jasenovac, where he perished. Helma emigrated in 1942 to Italy and from there to the United States, where she arrived in July of 1947.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Waronker 77
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
The social and economic history of Jews in Kiev before February 1917.
No full textMy dissertation describes the social and economic history of Jews in Kiev from the tenth century to the February 1917 Revolution. At the turn of the twentieth century the Kiev Jewish community was one of the largest and wealthiest in the Russian Empire. According to the all-Russian census of 1897 Jews were the third largest nationality in Kiev, after Russians and Ukrainians. In 1913 over 80 thousand Jews lived in Kiev.Kiev was the third most important city of Imperial Russia, after Moscow and St. Petersburg. The authorities gave a special meaning and status to the city due to its holiness to all Russian Orthodox believers; in 988 Prince Vladimir converted the local population to Christianity. Kiev was the capital of the old Slavic state Kievan Rus' and the Russian population always had a special sentiment toward their ancient capital.Unfortunately the special meaning and holiness of Kiev for the Russian people, as well as the dramatic and turbulent history of the city, had a negative impact on the status of Jews who lived there. The history of the Jewish community was interrupted several times due to religious intolerance and the Judeophobia of various Kiev authorities. In the periods when Jews where tolerated in Kiev, their conditions of life in the city were harsher than in many other places in Imperial Russia.But the city was always attractive for Jews in spite of the hostility of the authorities and many Christian residents. Kiev was a commercial hub, educational and cultural center and the only large city in the Southwest region. It had a reputation as a city where it was easy to make money. So none of the restrictions and bans by the authorities could completely "protect" Kiev from the Jews, many of whom lived illegally in the city. The authorities repeatedly expelled Jews from Kiev, but Jews always came back and despite all the restrictive measures the Jewish population of Kiev grew steadily from 1861 to 1917. While Judeophobes complained that Kiev had become a Jewish city, Jews saw this city as one of most hostile to them in the Russian Empire, Yehupets (Egypt) as it was called by Sholom Aleichem.The increase of the Kiev Jewish population benefited the Jews themselves, who found in Kiev better conditions of life than in the overcrowded shtetls. All residents of the city also profited as Jewish entrepreneurs contributed greatly to its economic development.In the Kiev Jewish population at the turn of the twentieth century there was a huge financial and social differentiation: there were a number of Jewish magnates who occupied the key positions in the Jewish community, while at the same time twenty percent of Kiev Jews lived below the poverty level. A number of Jewish philanthropic organizations and institutions provided aid to poor Jews in Kiev. However restrictions in residence in Kiev and education for the Jewish population created a cycle of poverty, which was very difficult to break.The dissertation focuses on the Jewish urban, social and economic history, the everyday life of Jews in Kiev, the social status of the Jewish population, development of Jewish enterprises and the contribution of the Jewish population in the development of the city. The history of the Kiev Jewish community, one of the oldest Jewish communities in Eastern Europe, illuminates many important processes and problems in Modern Jewish history.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2008.School code: 0021