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Righteous and courageous in the face of Nazism: Austrian Resistance against the Nazis : myths and realities
No full textWaronker 101
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
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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
AHC interview with Joseph Schabes.
No full textMay 13, 2008, New York CityJoseph Schabes was born on Feb. 1, 1922 in Baden bei Wien, Austria. In 1939 he left for Belgium and a year later to France, where he was interned, first in camp St. Cyprien and then in Gurs. In 1942 he finally reached Geneva, Switzerland, where he studied at the local university. Joseph Schabes immigrated to the United States in 1945.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Shulamit S. Locker.
No full textSeptember 11, 2008Shulamit Locker was born as Sonia Fiderer on March 7, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. She went to elementary school in Vienna and experienced the “Anschluss” and the so-called “Reichskristallnacht” in Austria. She emigrated shortly after the war broke out, precisely on Dec. 25, 1939, with a children’s transport organized by the Youth Aliyah via Italy to Palestine. She stayed with a family in Jerusalem until she went to a children’s village, where she finished high school and was prepared for the life in a Kibbutz. She then visited her father in New York for one year and went back to fight in the war of independence as a radar operator. She met her future husband in Israel and they went to London in 1953, where her husband studied. The couple eventually immigrated to the US and settled in New York City, where she embarked on a career as a Laboratory technician.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Finding home in Babel: Transnationalism, translation, and languages of identity.
No full text"Finding Home in Babel" examines literary representations of (im)migrant identity formation and translation, or the ways in which cultural identity is created and articulated at linguistic crossroads. It explores the constructions and processes attending gendered accounts of immigration, Holocaust survival, and multilingual Polish, Yiddish, and English authorship in the autobiographical writings of three Polish Jewish American writers: Jadwiga Maurer, Irena Klepfisz, and Eva Hoffman. Through poems, short stories, and memoirs, these authors illustrate how immigrant identities are formed in the process of acquisition of American English, the adopted language, which informs and frames their own lives, as well as the lives of their fictional protagonists.While tracing the linguistic transitions in Maurer's, Hoffman's and Klepfisz's works, this project also examines these writers' conceptualization of home and homeland, and argues that they rest as much in language as in geography. In an exploration of synchronic and diachronic accounts of immigration and Holocaust survival, "Finding Home in Babel" combines literary examinations of culturally and linguistically displaced lives. It further highlights their distinctive voices by drawing upon extended interviews with all three writers. It proposes a fundamentally linguistic and transnational understanding of immigration that Hoffman, Klepfisz, and Maurer depict as interwoven with the history and memory of the Holocaust. Such a mix of literary analyses, oral history, and critical genre shows how Maurer's, Hoffman's and Klepfisz's representations of language and identity illustrate the ways that displacement and translation provide specific, often ambivalent, points of view on border crossing, home, and homeland. It provides a broader view of how immigrant writers create literary representations that make it possible for them to integrate their past experienced in native language(s) with their present lived in American English.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2008.School code: 0127
AHC interview with Susan (Susi) Therese Singer
No full text3/27/2007Susan (Susi) Singer, née Steinhard, was born on Sep. 8, 1922, in Vienna, Austria, She left Austria with the help of the 'Kindertransport' organization in April 1939 for England, where she stayed for a year. She then went to Canada and reached the USA by bus in June of 1940.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Eva E. Newman : her story.
No full textThe biography of Eva E. Newman, née Feilchenfeldt (1908-2007), written by her son.digitizedRobert G. Newma
AHC Interview with Bert Nachum Zelman
No full textBert Nachum Zelman was born on Feb. 25, 1934 as Norbert Zelman. After Anschluss, his father was interned in Dachau until August 1939. Norbert escaped via Kindertransport to London and then immigrated to the United States in 1942. In New York, he was a member of the Zionist youth organization Hashomer Hatzair, and 1954-1956 he spent three years in Kibbutz Nachshon, Israel, while studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He died on Apr. 3, 2011.January 18, 200
AHC interview with Bertram Kornfeld.
No full textNovember 20, 2007Bertram Kornfeld was born in Vienna, Austria in Feb.1925, living in Vienna’s 3rd district. After the "Anschluss" the family boarded the "SS Bremen" to New York. In February 1944 Kornfeld joined the US Army. He was taken prisoner of war by the Germans after the battle of the Bulge and was liberated by Russian forces. Back in the US, Kornfeld worked as a teacher and school principal until his retirement in 1989.Austrian Heritage Collectio