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"Experts in misery"? : American consuls in Austria, Jewish refugees and restrictionist immigration policy, 1938-1941.
No full textThis dissertation analyzes the role that American consuls stationed in Austria had in Jewish immigration to the United States following Austria’s annexation to Germany in 1938. Building off of new research that clearly outlines the importance of consuls in the administration of visas, Melissa Jane Taylor seeks to discover whether American consuls in Austria were unique and more lenient in their application of the law than their counterparts in Greater Germany. Additionally, she questions how annexation influenced consular interpretation of restrictionist immigration law. The dissertation provides insight on interaction between the Department of State and consuls, consular interaction within Greater Germany, and the interaction between the consul and applicant.This was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History University of South Carolina
Connecting with the past : Histories of my German and French ancestors.
No full textFamily history written by David H. SolomonThe following families are mentioned in this manuscript:Adler family; Bauer family; Blitstein family; Fist family; Frank family; Frank family; Glueckel of Hameln family; Gompertz family; Hanft family; Heldman family; Herman family; Hesse family; Kaichen family; Krouses family; Leon family; Leon family; Marks family; Naumburg family; Oppenheimer family; Solomon family; Teomim family; Weintrob family.The following communities are mentioned in this manuscript:Altenkunstadt; Altona; Demmelsdorf; Ermreuth; Gochsheim; Hainstarth; Heldenbergen; Soetern; Stadthagen; Witzenhausen; Zeilitzheim.digitizedDavid H. Solomon 2006Witzenhause
AHC interview with Gustav Freud.
No full textFebruary 6, 2006Gustav Freud was born on Sep. 2, 1914 in Vienna, Austria. When he was a child, he once met his distant relative Sigmund Freud. One week after the “Reichskristallnacht” in 1938, Gustav Freud left Vienna for Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he stayed with a Jewish family for 2 months. Following Sigmund Freud’s advice, Gustav emigrated to Trinidad in January 1939. He was able to bring his parents to Trinidad too, and then the family finally immigrated to the US. After a short stay in Ohio, Gustav Freud moved to New York together with his wife, whom he had married shortly before. In New York he worked as a bookseller; at the New York Public Library; and with the US Postal Service. He also attended City College until his retirement in 1980.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Waronker 129
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 Paul Winkler.
No full textMay 4, 2006Paul Winkler was born on Feb. 17, 1924 in Bucharest, Romania and grew up in Vienna, Austria. In 1939 Paul Winkler and his mother went back to Bucharest. They stayed there throughout the war; Paul Winkler finished his high school education and studied on the Polytechnic Institute to become an engineer. In 1965, his uncle in New York enabled Paul Winkler’s, his wife’s and his daughter’s immigration to the United States, where Paul Winkler worked as an engineer.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Cemetery Chapel, Swakopmund, Namibia, Exterior 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
AHC interview with Edith Eisler
No full textAugust 2, 2006Edith Eisler was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925. High culture played a very important part in her family’s life: the family attended concerts, the opera, theater performances, and lectures of Karl Kraus. Most of her parents’ friends belonged to the intellectual circle. The majority of them had a Jewish background but did not live a religious life. After the ‘Anschluss’ the family emigrated to Czechoslovakia and a year later to England. During her stay in England Edith Eisler played the piano. She continued to be a pianist after her family’s immigration to the United States in 1945.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Hakak, Herzl and Balfour, interview, Israel
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