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AHC interview with Edith Gerson
No full textDigital recordingMarch 11, 2014Edith Gerson, née Urbach was born 1924 in Vienna, Austria. In May 1939 she left on a Kindertransport. She lived in London and attended a rather conservative, religious school, although she had no prior religious background. For a short period she was interned on the Isle of Man, which she perceived as an interesting experience. Her first husband, whom she married in 1943, was a political refugee from Germany. When he returned to Germany after the war, the couple divorced, because Edith did not want to set foot on the European mainland ever again. In 1950 she immigrated to the U.S. with her second husband, returning regularly to England on visits. She studied at Pratt Institute and worked as an interior designer. After she retired, she settled in Midtown Manhattan.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Kurt Osinsky
No full textDigital recordingOctober 30, 2013Kurt Osinsky was born to Polish parents on Aug. 15th 1926 in Vienna, Austria. When the Nazis came to power in Austria the family lost their business and had to move to other apartments. Kurt's father was captured by the Nazis twice, but managed to return, the third time they took him to Buchenwald. When the whole family obtained exit visas the father was released. In 1940 Kurt, his parents and his siblings took the train to Genoa, Italy, and from there a ship to the United States. The family settled into an apartment on 2nd Avenue in New York City. The parents foundjobs in the fur business, and Kurt, his brother and sister went to school. When the father established his own business, Kurt started to work there and kept going to school. He met his wife, they got married and they had two children. Eventually he and his wife settled in Paramus, New Jersey.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Erika Potasinski
No full textDigital recordingJanuary 28, 2014Erika Potasinski, née Zimet, was born to Polish parents on May 8th 1933 in Vienna, Austria, where the family owned a grocery store. The family was kicked out of their apartment after Anschluss and found shelter in an empty store, dependent on provisions by their maid. Aunts of Erika had emigrated to Caracas, Venezuela earlier, and one of them worked in the house of an interim president of the country. He got visas for Erika, her parents and her paternal grandmother and let them stay in his house when they arrived in Caracas in 1939. Erika’s father worked first at a factory and then for the Jewish community; her mother found work at a store, which she eventually bought. Erika went to college in the US, where she stayed with an aunt. She met her husband, who was a Holocaust survivor. They got married in 1955 and had three children. In 1964 Erika and her family moved from Venezuela to Fresh Meadows in Queens. Erika's husband bought a chocolate factory and worked there for three years before he sold it. In New York, Erika Potasinski was president of her synagogue and the sisterhood.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Gertrude Berg
No full textOctober 23, 2013Digital recordingGertrude Berg, néee Hammerschlag, was born 1919 in Vienna, Austria, where her family lived in the Gersthof section of Vienna’s 18th District, Währing. After Anschluss in March 1938 they obtained affidavits from relatives in New York, but only Gertrude left Vienna on November 1, 1939, arriving in New York on November 17. Her parents stayed behind; her father died in Russia, and her mother was killed in the Kulmhof (Chelmno) concentration camp. - Gertrude lived with her family in the Bronx, working in various jobs. She and her husband, Jimmy Berg, who worked for the Voice of America, met at Café Vienna. They both retired early and became part of New York’s club scene, he playing the piano and she singing.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Manfred Seeman
No full textDigital recordingApril 3, 2014Manfred Seeman (Seemann) was born to Polish parents on March 7th, 1924, in Vienna, Austria, where he went to Realgymnasium. Shortly after Anschluss the family left Vienna for the United States, having been granted immigration papers on the Polish visa quota. They arrived in New York on June 19th 1938, where the father had four sisters. Manfred Seeman went to High School in New York and then attended City College at nights, working during the day. In 1943 he was drafted into the army and joined the US 37th infantry division in the Pacific, where he was wounded in the fight for Manila. He went back to College on the GI Bill, graduated in 1947 and then went to the Harvard Graduate Business School. He subsequently entered a long lasting career in the furnishing business. Manfred Seeman retired in Mystic, Connecticut.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Edith Miedzinski
No full textDigital recordingMarch 12, 2014Edith Miedzinski, née Beck, was born on Jan. 26th, 1924 in Vienna, Austria. When Edith's brother was brought to England on a Kindertransport, and her father fled to Palestine in 1938, she stayed with her mother behind; they were deported to Bergen-Belsen. - After their liberation, Edith and her mother were brought to Sweden, where she worked in a factory. She met her husband in Sweden, and they had two sons; they immigrated to the United States in 1957.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Mark Abramowicz
No full textJune 27, 2014Digital recordingMark Abramowicz was born 1934 in Vienna, Austria, the son of socialist physician, who was forced to leave his apartment and give up his practice after Anschluss. The family escaped Vienna with French papers on a train across Germany to Saarbruecken, where they took a taxi to the border and then proceeded to Paris, France. After 6 weeks they took the boat to America, living first with the father's cousin in Syracuse, New York, before moving to New York City. After two years, the father passed his examination for immigrant doctors and the family moved to South Dayton outside of Buffalo, New York, eventually returning to New York City. Mark's father died tragically in an accident in 1943. Mark went to boarding school in Manchester, Vermont, while his mother went to nursing school in Boston, Mass. Marc finished high school in Boston and went to Harvard, where he studied political science, but then went to medical school in St. Louis. He started his career at Boston City Hospital before being drafted to the army. After the war, he kept on working as a physician, teaching and working on a medical journal. He got three children with his second wife.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Edith Osinsky
No full textDigital recordingOctober 30, 2013Edith Osinsky, née Fink was born in Vienna, Austria, on Feb. 23, 1931. Shortly after Anschluss in March 1938 the family escaped to Milan, Italy, and then to Paris, France. Edith’s father moved on to Cuba and the family followed later on. In Cuba they waited for their US visas. Eventually the family left for New York and settled in Inwood in upper Manhattan. Edith’s father committed suicide in 1946, and her mother remarried. Edith attended Bronx High School of Science and later on went to College in Ohio with a major in biology. She and her husband lived in Queens, New York City with their first daughter and later moved to Paramus, New Jersey.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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