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AHC interview with Marianne Ehrlich Ross.
No full text00:00 short description of life story1:50 family background5:35 life in Vienna and awareness of situation in Germany8:00 emigration8:30 religious traditions of family11:10 going back to Vienna13:55 emigration17:55 living in England24:55 antisemitism in Europe26:05 being refugees in England28:05 coming to the US33:45 Israel and Zionism37:20 connections to Austria today38:15 children39:45 speaking German40:30 identity today41:50 opinions on Austria and Europe49:15 final statementMarch 17, 2017Marianne Ehrlich Ross was born on July 8, 1934 in Vienna, Austria, where she grew up in the 2nd District. Because her father had Czech citizenship, her family first fled to Prague, and then they then emigrated to England, where they spent the war years. In 1948 Marianne came to the United States.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with William Kestenbaum.
No full textOctober 26, 2016William Kestenbaum was born on Sep. 19, 1921, in Vienna. He grew up in an upper class house at Schottengasse 10 in the 1st District of Vienna. His father Alfred Kestenbaum, a famous eye surgeon, taught at the university of Vienna, and during WWI he had been running an eye hospital in Sarajevo. William Kestenbaum's mother Adelheid Kestenbaum was a physician as well. Both of his parents had been raised in Vienna and had met at the university of Vienna. After primary school, William Kestenbaum attended “LEH Grinzing”, a private school in Vienna and graduated in July of 1938 after Hitler had come to Austria. After the Anschluss a former American student of Alfred Kestenbaum had offered to send an affidavit, which the family gladly accepted: they left Austria for the USA in August 1938 after William Kestenbaum had finished his education. The Kestenbaums left, leaving all their money and their belongings except for their furniture behind. After having taken the train to Paris, they borrowed money in order to pay for the passage on the SS Normandie to New York.In New York William’s mother did not renew her medical degree, but his father studied to be a doctor again. Unfortunately, he was not as successful as he had been in Vienna. William Kestenbaum attended George Washington high school for a year in order to learn English and then went on to College. After graduating he got a job with Western Electric, which he held until he joined the Navy in 1944. In 1946 he returned to his old job at Western Electric.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Gertrude Lessem.
No full textAugust 3, 2016Gertrude Lessem née Goldmann was born on April 25th 1919 in Czechoslovakia. She grew up with her three older brothers on her parents’ farm. In 1928 her family moved to Vienna. Though her father worked on a farm in Burgenland the rest of the family lived in Vienna from 1928 until March 1938. After the Anschluss she went to Czechoslovakia and spent some months with her grandparents on the countryside. In 1939 she went to Prague for further education. Since her quota number for an American visa was very high she decided to leave for England in May 1939. She took the train to Belgium from where she took a ship to Folkstown and then to London. In July 1939, she took a boat to Australia where she spent two and a half years in Perth. After she had finally got her American visa, she decided to go to America in the hope to get American visas for her parents in order to get them out of the concentration camps. Her ship to America arrived in May 1941 in San Francisco. She took the train via Chicago to New York. In New York she worked as a nanny from 1941 to 1944. Later, she started working for a housing project in Queens and for clinics, where she took care of children with difficult backgrounds or whose upbringing had been effected by the war. Getrude Lessem studied Psychology and child care.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Harry Weinrauch.
No full textSeptember 28, 2016Dr. Harry Weinrauch was born on August 27, 1928 in Vienna, Austria to a Polish mother and a Rumanian father, who was a veteran from the First World War. They felt secure in Vienna until Kristallnacht when a Polish temple close to Harry Weinrauch's school was burned down. He then changed to a Jewish school in Vienna’s "Stadttempel" in Seitenstettengasse. As soon as the invasion of Poland had started in 1939, the Gestapo came to pick up Harry Weinrauch's father. They took him to the Danube river, beat him up and left him for dead until an old Austrian policemen who had found Harry's father heavily injured on the beach of the Danube River brought him to a Jewish hospital. - Due to an affidavit of an American relative, the family got a visa for the United States and permission from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration to emigrate. The Weinrauchs left for Genoa, where a ship brought them to the USA. Here Harry Weinrauch studied at New York University and completed his medical studies at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Roger Gimbel.
No full textSeptember 20, 2016Roger Gimbel, the husband of the Austrian emigrant Evelyn Wyman, was born on July 28, 1930 in Mannheim, Germany, where he lived in Karl Ludwig Strasse 29. In 1938 the family fled to Metz in France. When Germany invaded they went further west and crossed the border to Spain, where they took a train to Lisbon and then a boat to Rio de Janeiro. After seven years in Brazil the Gimbel family got affidavits from an American relative and they immigrated to the U.S. In 1948 Roger Gimbel joined the army; he then worked as a salesman in his father’s business, before building his own import company, traveling extensively in Germany and other parts of Europe.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Alice Terner.
No full textNovember 3, 2016Alice Terner née Katz was born on October 4th 1925 in Vienna. Her father, who was from an orthodox family in Transylvania, owned an animal feed company in Vienna’s 21st District. Her mother was an artist from Vienna. When Alice started to attend school in 1930, her sister was born. Alice's father was arrested under Nazi rule due to false accusations of money shifting, and the Nazi-regime confiscated his company, even though he was a Romanian citizen. While Alice's father was in prison, her mother sent Alice and her sister on a train to Paris, from where they left for the US with affidavits from their aunt. After arriving in New York Alice and her sister lived with their aunt, for whom Alice worked as a maid. In New York City she met her future husband, whom she had already known in Vienna. Consequently her husband joined the Army.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Hanna Klaus.
No full text00:00 short description of life story5:20 family background12:35 life in Vienna17:05 religion in family21:20 anitsemitism in Austria and Germany22:20 political incidents and politics in family24:05 family attitude towards Zionism25:05 life in Austria26:05 Anschluss and aftermath30:30 relating antisemtism to racism and segregation32:35 Kristallnacht and family in Holocaust33:30 emigration and life during war36:50 parents' emigration37:35 life in England38:45 coming to the US41:00 parents' religion and occupations44:55 own religion and antisemitism47:25 awareness of war and final solution49:40 Israel54:40 connections to Austria today57:45 European politics1:00:45 Holocaust memorialsMarch 16, 2017Hanna Klaus was born on Jan. 1, 1928 in Vienna, Austria. She left Austria in June 1939 with the help of Kindertransport to England. She lived in London and later in North Wales, where she attended school. After one year she immigrated to the United States, where she reunited with her parents.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with William Julius Bank.
No full textTopics discussed in the course of the interview:0:00-5:25 : 1938 - leaving Wiener Neustadt, life in Vienna5:25 : confinement in the school10:00: arrest of Josef Bank and deportation to Dachau14:45: getting the visa; emigration route16:20 : starting life in the US19:00 : arrival of Josef Bank in New York; further life in the US21:45-27:40 : family background and history; religious practice31:10 : grandparents, Łódź Ghetto36:30 : William Julius Bank's school in Vienna37:00 : confiscation of Café Bank, confrontation with the new owner after the war41:00 : parade of Nazis in Wiener Neustadt44:30 : assembling all documents for the visa to the US46:00 : school in New York and living in the US55:00 : relation to Austria today (2016)1:02:00 : opinion about the present political situation (2016)1:06:00 : attitude towards the State of IsraelOctober 21, 2016William Julius Bank was born in September 1934 to Josef Bank and Grethe Bank, née Ehrenhaft. Josef Bank was the owner of Café Bank, the biggest coffee shop in Wiener Neustadt. Shortly after the Anschluss Josef Bank was arrested and sent to Dachau; the coffee shop and the family's belongings were confiscated. In 1938 Grethe Bank had to leave Wiener Neustadt with her two children, William Julius and his brother Peter, and move to Vienna, where they lived with the children's grandparents in Porzellangasse. After they had been in Vienna for about six months the family was able to get Josef Bank out of Dachau by providing him with a ticket to Shanghai, China. Until 1947 Josef Bank stayed in Shanghai. Grethe Bank and the children stayed in Vienna until 1941, and William Julius Bank went to school. It was in 1941 that the family, along with many other families, was interned in this very school. There it was decided whether or not people should be sent to Poland or were allowed to leave. Fortunately, Grethe Bank's brother who had escaped via Switzerland and England to the US managed to get visa for the family, who then could emigrate via France, Spain and Portugal to the US. William Julius Bank’s grandparents stayed in Vienna and, as William Julius Bank later found out, were deported to the ghetto in Łódź.In the US the family first lived with Grethe Bank's brother, but moved on to San Francisco, after Josef Bank had been able to get to the US in 1948. William Julius Bank became a physician and spent most of his career in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Norbert Shapiro.
No full textNovember 30, 2016Norbert Shapiro (Schapira) was born on July 17, 1928 and raised in the 2nd District of Vienna. After the November-Pogrom, when his school was burned down, he escaped to the United States, where he lived with relatives in Philadelphia, before pursuing a career as a teacher.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with John Egon Garmat.
No full text00:00 short description of life story12:05 family background and religion in family15:00 life in Austria18:15 emigration19:35 looting of shops21:15 life in Vienna30:00 emigration35:10 awareness of Nazi threat before Anschluss36:55 family attitude towards Zionism38:20 Kristallnacht39:55 living in the US45:10 Israel48:25 connections to Austria today55:50 US politics58:35 childrenMarch 15, 2017John Egon Garmat was born as Egon Gyrmatti in Vienna, Austria on Feb. 17, 1933. He left Austria at the age of five by way of Prague and Le Havre. He and his family lived in the Bronx, N.Y. and after finishing his education he worked for the US government.Austrian Heritage Collectio
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