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AHC interview with Evelyn Wyman.
No full textAugust 4, 2016Evelyn Wyman née Schreck was born on Dec. 7, 1933 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up with her brother in Colloredogasse in Vienna’s 18th district, Waehring. On March 2, 1933, the family left for London via Switzerland. In 1939 they were arrested for being enemy aliens and were sent to the Isle of Man. In 1941, they were released and the family went to London, where Evelyn’s father opened a clothing business. In 1948, they emigrated to Montreal, Canada, hoping to get a US visa. In 1953, they immigrated to the US.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ruth Steinberg.
No full textJanuary 12, 2016Ruth Steinberg, née Rafael was born on 2/13/1935 in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of Friedrich Jacob Rafael and Rosa Rafael née Lederer. The family lived in the first district of Vienna, on Parkring 18. Rosa worked as a physical therapist, and Friedrich participated in his parents' advertisement business. In order to protect his family from further persecutions because of the company's Anti-Hitler publications in 1938, Friedrich turned himself in right after the Anschluss and was then sent to Dachau and eventually to Buchenwald.Ruth's grand-aunt, Hanni Schwarz, who had immigrated to the US long before, provided affidavits and visas for most of the Jewish family members. In December 1938, Ruth and her mother immigrated via Antwerp to New York on board of the ship "Westernland". First, the family lived with Hanni Schwarz on Manhattan’s West Side in New York, until Rosa got a job as a physical therapist, when the family moved to Washington Heights. Friedrich Steinberg was released from Buchenwald almost a year after his incarceration and joined his family in New York in May 1939.Ruth graduated from Bronx High School of Science and earned her BA in English from Hunter College. She worked primarily in public relations. Ruth married a former German refugee, and the couple had two children. They lived in various places in the US, including Greenwich Village in New York, Maryland, and New Jersey.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Harry Weinrauch.
No full textSeptember 28, 2016Dr. Harry Weinrauch was born on August 27, 1928 in Vienna, Austria to a Polish mother and a Rumanian father, who was a veteran from the First World War. They felt secure in Vienna until Kristallnacht when a Polish temple close to Harry Weinrauch's school was burned down. He then changed to a Jewish school in Vienna’s "Stadttempel" in Seitenstettengasse. As soon as the invasion of Poland had started in 1939, the Gestapo came to pick up Harry Weinrauch's father. They took him to the Danube river, beat him up and left him for dead until an old Austrian policemen who had found Harry's father heavily injured on the beach of the Danube River brought him to a Jewish hospital. - Due to an affidavit of an American relative, the family got a visa for the United States and permission from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration to emigrate. The Weinrauchs left for Genoa, where a ship brought them to the USA. Here Harry Weinrauch studied at New York University and completed his medical studies at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Roger Gimbel.
No full textSeptember 20, 2016Roger Gimbel, the husband of the Austrian emigrant Evelyn Wyman, was born on July 28, 1930 in Mannheim, Germany, where he lived in Karl Ludwig Strasse 29. In 1938 the family fled to Metz in France. When Germany invaded they went further west and crossed the border to Spain, where they took a train to Lisbon and then a boat to Rio de Janeiro. After seven years in Brazil the Gimbel family got affidavits from an American relative and they immigrated to the U.S. In 1948 Roger Gimbel joined the army; he then worked as a salesman in his father’s business, before building his own import company, traveling extensively in Germany and other parts of Europe.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Josef Korngruen,.
No full textFebruary 11, 2016Josef Korngruen was born 1/17/1925, the son of Rudolf Korngruen and Sara née Goldberg. They lived with Josef’s two older sisters, Doris and Kitty, in Doebling, Vienna’s 19th District. Two days after the Anschluss, the Korngruens were forced to abandon their apartment and move in with an unknown lady in the 18th District. When SS came to look for Rudolf Korngruen, he hid in the chimney.Josef’s sister Kitty emigrated to Palestine in early 1939. Josef himself left Austria by taking the train to the Netherlands and finally to Norwich, UK, where he stayed with his great-uncle and worked full-time at his cousin's factory for women's clothing. Rudolf Korngruen emigrated to Belgium while Sara stayed in Vienna; both were murdered in the Holocaust.In October 1939, Josef’s oldest sister Doris immigrated to the US with an affidavit provided by an uncle. She immediately started saving money to provide an affidavit for Josef. In the meantime, Josef moved to London and worked as a sewing machine operator, eventually moving to a farm in Bentley, Hampshire. In 1944, Josef obtained his affidavit for the US due to Doris's hard work. On 12/17/1944 Josef set sail in Liverpool and arrived in Halifax, Canada, on 1/2/1945. From there he took the train to Montreal and ultimately arrived in New York on 1/5/1945. He first lived in Washington Heights, Manhattan, starting a career in the needle industry. He attended City College in New York until his first son was born.Austrian Heritage Collectio
„Das Erbe Leo Baecks deutlich machen“ : Zur Arbeit des neuen Berliner Büros des Leo-Baeck-Instituts /
No full textTranscript of a broadcast from Deutschlandfunk in Cologne, Germany about the branch of the Leo Baeck Institute in Berlin, Germany. The broadcast was part of a series “Shalom” about Jewish life in Germany today
AHC interview with Lisl Steiner.
No full textFebruary 23, 2016Lisl Steiner was born on 11/19/1927 in Vienna (Austria), where she lived with her parents Arnold Steiner and Katharina, née Hohnberger. Arnold Steiner, who was born in Györ (Hungary), worked as a medical specialist for injured soccer players, while Katharina was a housewife. Arnold's two brothers had emigrated to Argentina and Chile sometime before 1938.In September 1938, the family went to Trieste, Italy, and they sailed three months later on the ship "Oceania" via North Africa to a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After attending art school in Buenos Aires, Lisl made her way into professional photography, excelling with memorable shots of Fidel Castro, Richard Nixon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Armstrong and others. In 1960, Lisl moved to the United States and eventually got married. She became an American citizen and settled in Pound Ridge, New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Theodor Schneider.
No full textApril 21, 2016Theodor Schneider was born on Oct. 12, 1919 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Isidor and Ida Schneider (née Mohnheit). Theodor had a sister, and the family lived in Vienna’s 20th district. Isidor Schneider was a teacher for geography and religious education in the Jewish school in Malzgasse, in a girls’ school in Obere Augartenstrasse, and in other schools.Five weeks after the Anschluss, Theodor and 350 other young Austrians emigrated illegally to Palestine in an organized effort called "Die Aktion" (Operation Action) by Dr. William Perl. The group travelled through Yugoslavia to Greece, where they took the ship "Artemisia" to Netanya in Palestine. Theodor performed odd jobs before joining the Israeli army. His parents emigrated to Palestine in 1940, while his sister safely emigrated to Manchester with the Kindertransport. Due to a lack of job opportunities, Theodor immigrated to the United States in 1952; his cousin, a citizen of the United States, provided the necessary affidavits. Theodor lived in New York City as a truck driver and then as a flight dispatcher for TWA.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Vera Chapman.
No full textVera Chapman née Friedmann was born in February 1938 in Vienna, Austria. When she was still a baby her family fled via Aachen to Belgium and from there via Marseille and Egypt to Palestine. She went to the US to attend college.August 29, 2016Austrian Heritage CollectionJewish Hote
Der Macht die Wahrheit sagen.
No full textManuscript of Prof. Ismar Schorsch’s lecture at “Theologische Tage 2016 – Judentum und Protestantismus”, an event organized by the Martin Luther University of Halle‑Wittenberg in January 2016.digitize