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AHC interview with Liane Wizniter.
No full textFebruary 8, 2016Liane Wizniter, née Wieselberg was born Feb. 4, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. She was raised in Vienna’s Eighth District on Josefstaedter Strasse 51, where her father owned a fur business. Liane attended gymnasium at Albertgasse 18-22. During his business trips to Germany, Liane’s father became well aware of the danger from the Nazis and invested in foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and in the UK with the help of his brother-in-law.On the day of Anschluss, Dana was forced to scrub the streets. In spring 1939, the family obtained visas for the UK. They took the train via Aachen to Belgium and then a ship to London.After living a year and a half in Cricklewood, London, Liane's uncle and aunt provided affidavits, and the family immigrated to the United States. Initially the Wieselberg's lived in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and then moved to Manhattan. Liane started working in the fur business and eventually became a fur designer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Frieda E. Wells.
No full textFebruary 16, 2016Frieda Ellen Wells, née Weiss was born in Baden, Austria, on 8/12/1930. She then lived on Hauptplatz in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria with her parents Heinrich and Julia Weiss and brother David. Dr. Heinrich Weiss was the chief-rabbi of Lower Austria; Julia Weiss was originally from Vienna.Shortly after the Anschluss, the family moved to Julia's mother in Vienna. Eventually, the family left Austria and went to Bratislava before going to Prague, where the family obtained their affidavits through Dr. Weiss's cousins in the US. The Weiss family went to Belgium by plane and took the SS Penland from Antwerp to New Jersey. On 1/4/1939 the family arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey. Heinrich Weiss's cousin owned a kosher catering business, which provided the income to rent an apartment for the Weiss family.Julia worked as a nurse, and Rabbi Heinrich Weiss was head of a Yeshiva in New York. Frieda lived with her family on the Upper West Side until she began her science studies at Brooklyn College, New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Interview with Edith Lenneberg.
No full textTranscript of an interview conducted in Corrales, NM, July 13-14, 1995:This interview details Edith's memories of her childhood in Hamburg during the 1920s, and her experience after Nazism came to power. She shares details of her family's customs and values, music, and the dismissal of her father Richard G. Salomon from the University of Hamburg. The social ambience of the Nazi period, schooling and friendships, touring and cultural attitudes are also addressed. Her immigration to the United States and the experience of landing in New York, as well as her postwar relations with her old German connection are also discussed.digitizedEdith Maria Salomon Lenneberg Rosenblatt (1922-2005) was the daughter of the historian Richard G. Salomon. Frank Salomon was her nephew.Six (6) audio cassettes removed to A/V collectio
AHC interview with Leona Levitt.
No full textFebruary 3, 2016Leona Levitt was born Liane Rapaport on Feb. 2, 1933, the daughter of Karlman Rapaport and Dana, née Danaka Schotten. They lived in Vienna’s Third District, where the family owned a pharmacy on Radetzkystrasse.Soon after Anschluss, Karlman Rapaport got arrested for a short time. While relatives in Pennsylvania worked on providing affidavits for the whole family, the Rapaports escaped to Karlman's family farm in what is today the Czech Republic. In 1939 the family moved to Budapest, where Leona attended school for almost a year. In 1940, the family immigrated to New York; Dana Rapaport found employment as a housekeeper, but Karlman couldn’t find a job because of his poor health. Leona lived in a foster home with the Brown family in Connecticut until Karlman found a job.Leona attended pharmacy school at the University of Connecticut. After her marriage she shortly lived in Washington but spent most of her life in New Jersey.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Paula Neufeld : The artist, my aunt /
No full textA biography of the German-American painter Paula Neufeld, richly illustrated with examples of her artwork and other documents.Paula Neufeld (1884-1967) was born in Posen on February 11, 1884, the youngest of Samuel and Dorothea Norden Neufeld’s eight children. She studied art in Berlin 1919-1921. In the 1930s she documented life and work in the Hachschara camp Gut Winkel. Neufeld was a highly acclaimed painter in Germany until she was expelled from the Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste in April 1935. She relocated to her family in Kansas City Missouri, where she went on to be a successful painter
AHC interview with Edith R. Taussig.
No full textApril 13, 2016Edith Renate Taussig, née Loew was born on Feb. 8, 1926 in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Otto Loew and Friederike Loew, née Lauberg. The family lived in Obkirchergasse 14, in the 19th district of Vienna. Otto Loew worked at "Wiener Kreditanstalt", located on Schottenring. Edith attended elementary school on Silbergasse in the 19th district, and then went on to high school at "Frauenobeschule".During the events of March 1938 (“Anschluss”), Edith’s mother was forced to scrub the streets and her brother got arrested by the Nazis. Soon after, Otto Loew escaped to Zagreb, believing it would be safer to hide in Yugoslavia; Friederike, who believed that Hitler would not stay for long, decided to stay in Vienna with Edith. They had to give up their apartment and were assigned to move into the 4th district. Edith was expelled from school and had to attend the Jewish school on Sechskruegelgasse in the 3rd district. While Edith’s mother worked as a nurse in Vienna’s Jewish hospital on Malzgasse in the 2nd district, the “Organization for non-mosaic and Christian Jews" on Wollzeile offered Edith an apprenticeship to become a kindergarten teacher; she then worked in a children's home on today's Tempelgasse for so-called “half-Jews” who had been "voluntarily" given away by their parents.In March 1944, Fredericke Loew was deported to Theresienstadt and then in December to Bergen-Belsen, where she died soon after. Edith survived the war in Vienna; as a “displaced person” she worked for the United States Forces, registering refugees who passed through Vienna. She got married and immigrated with her husband to the United States, where she reunited with her father Otto Loew, who had immigrated in 1946. She arrived in New York on board of the MS Stuart on Sep. 4, 1949. Three weeks after her arrival, Otto Loew died and the young couple stayed in his apartment. Edith worked in a factory, and her husband polished watches. After attending evening school, Edith became a dental assistant in Manhattan; her husband successfully entered the textile business designing furniture.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Lichtvolle Rueckblicke auf die Vergangenheit der Familie Blitz : [Transcript and English translation].
No full textHistory of Blitz family in Wittmund, reaching back to the 14th century; mainly on Bible translator Jekutiel Blitz, who was born in Wittmund and later moved to Amsterdam.This folder contains a typed transcript of the original manuscript, written in old German script, and an English language translation.digitizedThe merchant Eduard Blitz was born in Wittmund (East Frisia) in 1840. He was a descendant of Jekutiel Blitz who translated the Bible in Amsterdam (1676-1679) into Western Yiddish
AHC interview with William Julius Bank.
No full textTopics discussed in the course of the interview:0:00-5:25 : 1938 - leaving Wiener Neustadt, life in Vienna5:25 : confinement in the school10:00: arrest of Josef Bank and deportation to Dachau14:45: getting the visa; emigration route16:20 : starting life in the US19:00 : arrival of Josef Bank in New York; further life in the US21:45-27:40 : family background and history; religious practice31:10 : grandparents, Łódź Ghetto36:30 : William Julius Bank's school in Vienna37:00 : confiscation of Café Bank, confrontation with the new owner after the war41:00 : parade of Nazis in Wiener Neustadt44:30 : assembling all documents for the visa to the US46:00 : school in New York and living in the US55:00 : relation to Austria today (2016)1:02:00 : opinion about the present political situation (2016)1:06:00 : attitude towards the State of IsraelOctober 21, 2016William Julius Bank was born in September 1934 to Josef Bank and Grethe Bank, née Ehrenhaft. Josef Bank was the owner of Café Bank, the biggest coffee shop in Wiener Neustadt. Shortly after the Anschluss Josef Bank was arrested and sent to Dachau; the coffee shop and the family's belongings were confiscated. In 1938 Grethe Bank had to leave Wiener Neustadt with her two children, William Julius and his brother Peter, and move to Vienna, where they lived with the children's grandparents in Porzellangasse. After they had been in Vienna for about six months the family was able to get Josef Bank out of Dachau by providing him with a ticket to Shanghai, China. Until 1947 Josef Bank stayed in Shanghai. Grethe Bank and the children stayed in Vienna until 1941, and William Julius Bank went to school. It was in 1941 that the family, along with many other families, was interned in this very school. There it was decided whether or not people should be sent to Poland or were allowed to leave. Fortunately, Grethe Bank's brother who had escaped via Switzerland and England to the US managed to get visa for the family, who then could emigrate via France, Spain and Portugal to the US. William Julius Bank’s grandparents stayed in Vienna and, as William Julius Bank later found out, were deported to the ghetto in Łódź.In the US the family first lived with Grethe Bank's brother, but moved on to San Francisco, after Josef Bank had been able to get to the US in 1948. William Julius Bank became a physician and spent most of his career in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Gertrude Lessem.
No full textAugust 3, 2016Gertrude Lessem née Goldmann was born on April 25th 1919 in Czechoslovakia. She grew up with her three older brothers on her parents’ farm. In 1928 her family moved to Vienna. Though her father worked on a farm in Burgenland the rest of the family lived in Vienna from 1928 until March 1938. After the Anschluss she went to Czechoslovakia and spent some months with her grandparents on the countryside. In 1939 she went to Prague for further education. Since her quota number for an American visa was very high she decided to leave for England in May 1939. She took the train to Belgium from where she took a ship to Folkstown and then to London. In July 1939, she took a boat to Australia where she spent two and a half years in Perth. After she had finally got her American visa, she decided to go to America in the hope to get American visas for her parents in order to get them out of the concentration camps. Her ship to America arrived in May 1941 in San Francisco. She took the train via Chicago to New York. In New York she worked as a nanny from 1941 to 1944. Later, she started working for a housing project in Queens and for clinics, where she took care of children with difficult backgrounds or whose upbringing had been effected by the war. Getrude Lessem studied Psychology and child care.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Das Archiv im Leo Baeck Institut in New York.
No full textArticle about the history and the holdings of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York.The article was written for a Festschrift, „Jüdische Archivalien – Die Wiege des österreichischen und europäischen Judentums“, published by the Archives of the Jewish Community in Vienna, Austria on occasion of the archives‘ 200th anniversary in 2016