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AHC interview with Sophie Schall
No full textSeptember 22, 2003Digital imageSophie Schall (nee Rattner) was born in Vienna in 1922. She had belonged to various youth organizations. She went to public elementary school, then high school. She left Vienna in December of 1938, and arrived a few days later in New York, where she continued high school, and from 1942 until 1945 studied social sciences at the New School, New York. She was married to Prof. Hugo Burghauser until 1953, a ploitical refugee from Vienna who had been a Vienna Philharmonic bassoonist , and a close friend to Richard Strauss. She later worked as bookkeeper, office manager, and international tour manager
AHC interview with Simon Erber.
No full textOctober 28, 2003Simon Erber was born in Vienna on October 21, 1912. He was arrested in Vienna and after his release fled from Vienna on August 30, 1938. In Cologne, Germany, he has been imprisoned for 4 months. He then went to Antwerp and to France and finally arrived in the USA in June 1941.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with Rudolph Friedlander
No full textRudolph Friedlander was born in Graz, Austria, on October 22, 1915, where he lived at Schiesstattgasse 55. After the Nazis' rise to power he emirgated via the Netherlands to the USA. He did different manual jobs until he established his own business.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with Eva Costabel
No full textEva Costabel, nee Deutsch, was born in Zagreb, Croatia on November 20, 1924. She was a member of the Jewish gymnastic club Maccabi in Zagreb. During World War II, she was interned at camps in Croatia and Italy. She stayed in Bari, Italy for two and a half years, then in Rome, where she stayed for 3 years. She then came to Paris, France, and finally arrived in New York in 1949. She works as an artist and lives in New York, New York
AHC interview with Erich E. Schiller.
No full textErich Schiller was born in Vienna in 1923. He went to school at the "Sperlgymnasium" in the second Viennese district, and was a member of the Hashomer Hadati youth group. He immigrated to the US in spring of 1938.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with Edgar Grant.
No full textEdgar Grant was born under his prewar name Edgar Guensberger in Vienna, Austria, on August 29, 1921. He lived with his family on Wohllebengasse in the fourth Viennese district. She went to school up to 6th grade at Akademisches Gymnasium, and was for a short time a member of Makkabi Hatzair in Vienna. He fled from Vienna on 08/10/1939 to England where he was interned at Kitchener Camp until fall 1942. He came to Canada and then to the USA in 1948. He worked as a travel agent and lives in New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with William Gross.
No full textWilliam Gross was born in Vienna in 1922. Until March of 1938 he went to high school at "Amerling-Gymnasium". He left Vienna in 1938 and immigrated to London, where he lived until 1952, when he moved to Montreal, Canada. In 1956, he immigrated to the US. In London, he was in the Civil Defence during the Blitz. He went to the University of London, and received there a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1945. In the USA, he worked as a mechanical engineer with Colgate - Palmolive Co. from 02/1957 until his retirement in 05/1988.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with Marc Monies.
No full textOctober 20, 2003Marc Monies was born in Vienna on April 19, 1921 under the name Marcel. He lived on Brunnengasse in the 16th Viennese district and was a member of Hanoar Hatzioni, a Zionist Youth Group. He fled from Vienna on November 3, 1938, to Holland where he stayed for three days, then he went on to the USA. He studied physics at New York City College from 1939 until 1947. In between, from 1943 untuil 1945, he had joined the US Army and served in the US Army Signal Corps in China, Burma, India and in the Philipines. He worked as engineer and machinist, and then became a partner in a manufacturing company. He retired in Douglaston, NY.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC Interview with Alice Weiss
No full textAlice Weiss, nee Weisz, was born in Vienna on February 9, 1926. She lived on Sandwirtgasse in the sixth Viennese district. She was interned in Hungary and Auschwitz, Poland. After her liberation, she stayed at a displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria. Then she went to Munich and Bremen, Germany, and on the ship "Erny Paul" to New York in 1947. She worked as salesperson
AHC interview with Paul David Berger.
No full textPaul David Berger was born in Vienna in 1922. He was a member of Macabi Hazair, and lived with his family at Stanislausgasse 5 in the 3rd Viennese district. Mr. Berger left Vienna in August 1938 and immigrated to Tel Aviv via Trieste, Athens, and Alexandria. He immigrated to the US in 1951. He was drafted by the British Army in May 1941, and discharged in 1946. In July 1959, he graduated as civil engineer from New York University, and in 1963 he received a Masters degree in business administration from Baruch college.Austrian Heritage Collectio
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