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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 Erika Ben-David.
No full textNovember 10, 2008Erika Ben-David, née Walden, was born on Sep. 5, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. In November 1939 she joined an illegal Kindertransport destined for Palestine. They went to Bratislava by train and then boarded a ship. Unfortunately, the ship broke down and they landed in Yugoslavia, where Erika Ben-David was interned in Kladovo and in Šabac, living in tents and mills. In April 1941 she left Yugoslavia and went to Palestine. She worked as a secretary in Israel until, in 1953, she came to New York and was reunited with her parents. In New York she went to college and worked as an independent school psychotherapist.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Keetmanshoop Synagogue, Keetmanshoop, Namibia, Interior View
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, Kenya, and Ethiopia
Le Youpin.
No full textRose Braunthal was deported to Drancy and was subsequently killed. Her son compiled a manuscript about her final months, based on Rose’s letters to her neighbor, Marthe Gouyon
AHC interview with Erwin Pearl.
No full textMarch 13, 2006Digital recordingErwin Pearl, né Pohoryles was born 1924 in Vienna, Austria. He visited Sperl Gasse Gymnasium (high school) in Vienna’s 2nd district and immigrated to the United States via Antwerp, Belgium.Austrian Heritage Collectio
