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Opfer der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft.
No full textArticle about victims of the Holocaust in Schriesheim, published in Schriesheimer Jahrbuch 2005, pages 23-38
Die Leere in Slonim.
No full textdigitizedDonated by Luba Abramovich via AHCLjuba Abramovitsch was born in Slonim, Poland, in 1920. She was a member of the partisan unit 'Einheit 51'. In 1996 she moved to the United States. Mrs. Abramovich lives in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with George Berlstein
No full textGeorge Berlstein was born on August 11, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to England with the help of Kindertransport after the ‘Anschluss’. In November of 1940, he immigrated to the United States and eventually attended the Ivy League College, Yale. He became a lawyer and settled in New York City
AHC interview with Robert Susser.
No full textSeptember 9, 2005Robert Joseph Susser was born on Jan. 29, 1933 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Salomon Suesser and Ida née Stolper. The family left Austria in July 1938 for Rotterdam and then to New York. Robert Susser became a Psychologist in New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Our Austrian ancestors.
No full textIncludes CD with portfolio of selected works (paintings). This memoir was written by Gusti Wyman at the age of 84. She begins by discussing her current life in Colorado, and then recounts her experience in Austria in 1937. Gusti Wyman had moved from Austria to America in 1938. Gusti had been trained in Austria as an ice skater. She relied on this training to carve a way for herself as a teenager starting out in the US. Gusti discusses her family and the lives they made for themselves in America. Photos accompany the text. Gusti's father, Julius Goldberg, was a musician who played with a small group in Austria, before moving to America. On page 72 there is a photo of Julius Goldberg seated with Albert Einstein and August Piccard, at a musical session in Professor Ehrenhaft's house in Vienna in 1937.digitizedGusti (Augusta) Wyman was born on May 19, 1921 in Vienna. She immigrated to America in 1938, together with her parents and her younger sister Mary Ann. Her parents settled in Iowa and she moved to New York to start a life for herself as an artists and a professional ice skater. She lived with her sister in New York, but then they each got married. Gusti moved with her husband Eddie to Connecticut where they had a son Larry. At the age of 50, Eddie died of Lymphoma.Wyman, Gust
No stone unturned : Letters from Bamberg 1938-1941
No full textLetters from the Kuhn family in Bamberg (Germany) to Hans and Gustav Kuhn in the United States, translated and edited by Philip Kuhn.digitizedPhilipp Kuhn and his wife Helene, née Schmidt ran a Butcher shop in Bamberg. Their son, Hans immigrated to the United States, where he joined his uncle Gustav (Philipp’s brother) who had arrived earlier. Philipp’s and Gustav’s father, Lehmann, as well as their sister, Helene were in Bamberg as well.Philip Kuhn is the son of Martin Kuhn, Philipp and Helene Kuhn’s second son.Senta K. Simo
AHC Interview with Edith Kramer
No full textEdith Kramer was born in Vienna on August 29, 1916. She is a niece of writer Theodor Kramer and actress Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel. From 1929 to 1934 she attendet the reform-pedagogical Schwarzwald school. From 1934 to 1938 she was an art student of Friedl Dicker. Among her parents' friends were many artists and psychoanalysts, as Siegfried Bernfeld, Wilhelm and Annie Reich. Here she got inspirations for padagogy inspired by psychoanalysis. After the Nazis gained power she fled to New York where she could establish art therapy in children homes and hospitals. Later she published the book "Childhood and art therapy" and taught about art therapy at George Washington university and New York university. She also painted and had many exhibitions. Edith Kramer lives in New York.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Charlotte R. Carter.
No full textNovember 15, 2005Charlotte R. Carter, née Wissboeck, was born in Vienna, Austria on June 23, 1928, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a catholic father. The family lived in a housing development in Favoriten (Vienna’s 10th District), but after the Anschluss in March 1938 they had to move to the 2nd District, where they lived with several other people in a small apartment. Carter’s mother secured a quota number for US immigration, and in July 1939 they left Austria for Belgium and the United States. In New York Carter finished high school and graduated from college; she worked as a payroll manager until her retirement.Austrian Heritage Collectio
