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Heine : Genealogical data and notes.
No full textThomas W. and Nancy High have been researching the Heine family of Germany since the early 1990s, concentrating on the descendants of Chaijm, who lived in Rinteln and Deisel in the 1600s. These two volumes summarize their work.Scans and abstracts of supporting documents and research materials are available on 2 accompanying CD-ROMs
Waronker 116
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 Bacharach family from Mansbach.
No full textGenealogy of the descendents of Kallmann Bacharach from Mansbach (Hesse), ca. 1775 to ca. 1845
Mandel family letters, 1938-1946 : Letters and other documents concerning the experiences of Hermann and Tony Mandel, of Vienna, during the time of the Nazis /
No full textContains original German transcripts of letters and documents and English translation with additional information.Hermann Mandel and his wife Tony (Tina) Kramer were both born in Wisniowczyk (Poland) in 1905. Their son George was born in Vienna in 1937. Hermann was a self-employed electrician and Tony was a dressmaker. Hermann and his mother were able to escape to Great Britain in August 1939. In October 1942, Hermann Mandel was deported to Minsk and perished
AHC interview with Inge Schulhof.
No full textJune 15, 2006Digital recordingInge Schulhof née Engelhardt was born 1930 in Jakarta, Indonesia. She grew up as an only child living in Dostojewskigasse in the 13th district of Vienna in a not particularly religious family: holidays were observed, but the household was not kept kosher. After the "Anschluss", Inge was expelled from school. Her father's business and her parental home, including most possessions such as furniture, valuables etc. were taken away. Inge had to move in with her grandmother who lived in Vienna's 2nd district; she and her mother were forced to scrub the streets. She remembers the so called "night of broken glass", when a friend of hers was beaten up by Hitler Youth members. The family left Austria in early 1939, first travelling to Italy and later to Bolivia, where they stayed for 15 years. Inge's father, August Engelhardt, who intended to re-emigrate to Austria after the war died in La Paz, Bolivia in 1943. Inge Schulhof and her mother Grete Lampl eventually arrived in the United States in 1955, settling in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
