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Rescue and survival of Jews in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH), 1941--1945.
No full textThis dissertation focuses on the rescue of the Jews in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The central thesis is that, despite the brutalities of the Nazis and the Ustashe (Croatian Fascists), assistance came from all strata of the society: from officials in the NDH government, the Catholic Church, from national and international humanitarian organizations, the Italian 2nd Army, as well as thousands of ordinary citizens, family friends, neighbors, strangers and even individual Ustashe. The reasons, the means, and the ways of offering rescue and assistance varied, but most of those that reached out to help took great risks and put themselves in harm's way. They offered shelter, provided food, obtained forged exit visas, transported Jews across enemy lines and rescued children whose parents either had joined the Partisans or had been deported to concentration camps. However, due to the hostile and complicated political, religious and social environment in NDH, 30,000 Jews (77%) lost their lives. Thus, it is not surprising that contemporary historiographic literature focuses for the most part on the annihilation of the Jews. But there is a second side to this story: 9,500 Jews were rescued and survived.In this dissertation, I attempt to answer the following questions: (1) how did 9,500 Jews survive? (2) Who were the rescuers? (3) Was rescue the result of random acts or deliberate and purposeful actions? (4) Who was rescued and for what purpose? (5) Which territories of occupation had the highest rate of survival and why? The answers to these questions provide enough information to understand how rescue took place in NDH and in the territories under German and Italian occupation.Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2005.School code: 0046
AHC Interview with Liane Thurau
No full textLiane Thurau, nee Loewenheck, was born in Vienna on July 17, 1929. She lived for several years in France, where she was supported by the French underground with papers and a home
AHC interview with Claude Wachter.
No full textNovember 17, 2005Claude Wachter was born as Kurt Waechter on Oct. 16, 1922 in Vienna, Austria. After 'Anschluss' he left for France, where he was interned from Oct. 1939 to June 1940 and again in Aug. 1942. After that he served in the French army until 1945 and eventually immigrated to the United States.Austrian Heritage Collectio
The Frank, Orthenberger, and Greding family album. 1960-2005.
No full textScrapbook dedicated to Charlotte Engel Levison’s extended family
Rodis Memorial Hall, Harare, Zimbabwe, 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
Harare Hebrew (Ashkhenazi) Congregation Synagogue, Harare, Zimbabwe, 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
Progressive Jewish Congregation Building, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 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
AHC Interview with George Alfred Kemeny
No full textGeorge Alfred Kemeny was born in Vienna on May 10, 1925. He lived with his family at Kaulbuchstrasse 20 in the 12th Viennese district. He fled from the Nazis on August 8, 1938 to former Czechoslovakia (Brno and Prague), then to Paris. In late 1938, he went to Havana, Cuba and left again after 2 years for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He later joined the United States Army Infantry (military police) from December 1943 to February 1946. He went to school in Pittburgh at Carnegie Institute of Technology, from 1946 to 1948, and received a Bachelor of Science in electronic engineering. He then moved on to the University of Pittsburgh for a Master of Science. He worked as an engineer, manager, art appraiser, and author ("Tiffany-Desks Treasures"). He still lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
le cimetière juif et la Communauté israélite de Wissembourg.
No full textStudy about the cemetery of the Jewish community in Wissembourg in Alsace, France.Also included is a CD with materials from a 2005 lecture by Auguste Muller about the Jewish cemetery of Wissembourg; it contains primarily photographs of the tombstones.digitizedThe town of Wissembourg was known as Weissenburg in Elsass