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1. Géza and Margarete Fisch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.218.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1995
… (donor), and son Heinz (Heinrich) as they fled Vienna, Austria in November 1938. Géza, born in Detta, Hungary, was unable to immigrate to the United…
2. Ehrenhaft family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.328.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
… Anne Polacek Ehrenhaft, who were originally of Czechoslovakia but lived in Vienna, Austria in the 1930s. Includes extensive pre-war documentation related…
3. Kurt Schwarz papers
2015.580.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.580.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2001
bulk: 1938-1941
…Kurt Schwarz (1917-1985) was born in Vienna, Austria on 19 May 1917, to Ludwig Schwarz (1886-1963) and Helene (née Klemperer) Schwarz (1893-1942…
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 … documents related to the immigration of Kurt Schwarz, originally of Vienna, Austria, to the United States by way of Italy and Cuba, 1938‐1940; as well as…
4. John Kafka collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0102 | RG Number: RG-10.239
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1995
undated: 
…Dr. Eduard Bloch (1872-1945) was a Jewish medical doctor who practiced in Linz, Austria in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Eduard was born in…
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 … their daughter, Grete (b. 1913) Paul died. In 1919 Klara married Egon Kafka and moved to Linz, Austria. Egon passed away in 1927. In the mid-1930s John…
5. Andrew Romay collection
Document | Accession Number: 2021.170.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2017
…Austria.…
6. Henny Wenkart papers
2015.578.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2015.578.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2013
bulk: 1928-1939
…Henny (Henriette) Wenkart was born in Vienna, Austria on 5 July 1928, the daughter of Hermann (b. 1896) and Rose (b. 1904, nee Stein) Wenkart. In…
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 … (Henriette) Wenkart from Nazi-occupied Austria as one of the "50 Children" on the transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in June 1939. Includes…
7. Pilpel family papers
2015.546.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.546.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
… lived in Vienna, Austria, until the late 1930s, when following the German annexation of Austria, the family decided to emigrate. Franz Josef left first…
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 … daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the…
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8. Gertrude and William Nagel papers
2017.527.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.527.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-circa 2000
bulk: 1938-1946
… Vienna, Austria, on 10 December 1914. William’s father, Fritz, was the proprietor of his own business and the family resided in Leopoldstatdt, the 2…
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 … Gertrude and William Nagel’s prewar experiences in Vienna, Austria as well as their wartime immigration to the United States, William Nagel’s service in the…
9. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
…Erwin Tepper was born on November 14, 1931, to Juda Ber and Schifra Heller Tepper in Vienna, Austria. His parents were originally from Galicia, his…
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 …, related to the immigration of Erwin Tepper and his parents to the United States from Austria, as a result of Nazi persecution, in 1939. In particular…
10. Henry Bund collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.361.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2005
…, Austria. Includes information about his education in Austria, emigration to the United States in 1938, pre-war, wartime, and post-war employment, and his…
11. Max Vielgut papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.166.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2010
…Max Vielgut, the younger brother of the donor’s mother, was born in 1909 in Vienna, Austria, where he studied music and worked as a musician. After…
12. Peaked cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.5
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… successful businessman. The Muschel family lived comfortably and were very religious. Increasing anti-Semitic sentiment and new restrictions in Austria made it…
13. Combination fur scraper and stretching block brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.2
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… successful businessman. The Muschel family lived comfortably and were very religious. Increasing anti-Semitic sentiment and new restrictions in Austria made it…
14. Rectangular cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.6
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… successful businessman. The Muschel family lived comfortably and were very religious. Increasing anti-Semitic sentiment and new restrictions in Austria made it…
15. Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.537.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2005
… Ehrlichs had a daughter, Leonore. Following the annexation of Austria by Germany and the Nazi seizure of power in 1938, the Ehrlichs sought to emigrate…
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 … persecution of the Jewish community following the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, and the reconstitution of that community after the deportation of…
16. Linhard family papers
2017.259.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2017.259.1
Date:
inclusive: 1846-1993
bulk: 1938-1939
…Alfred Linhard was born on September 25, 1923 in Vienna, Austria, to Bernhard and Regina Blum Linhard. Bernhard was born on October 28, 1888, in…
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 …: 2017.259.1 Creator: Linhard family (Vienna : Austria) Extent: .5 linear feet (10 folders, 1 oversize box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
17. Rittershausen fur sewing machine brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1911-1938
use: approximately 1924-1996
… successful businessman. The Muschel family lived comfortably and were very religious. Increasing anti-Semitic sentiment and new restrictions in Austria made it…
18. Schulder and Sons furrier’s knife brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.3
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… successful businessman. The Muschel family lived comfortably and were very religious. Increasing anti-Semitic sentiment and new restrictions in Austria made it…
19. Loschner and Klein families collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.101.1
Date:
1939-1995
…Vienna (Austria)…
20. Ross Baker collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2005
bulk: 1933-1938
… year 1937-1938. The boys attended school while in Europe and the family travelled during the summers. During that time, Austria was in the midst of an…
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 … living in Austria and documents the Anschluss in 1938, the treatment of Jews, and the family’s experiences as a non-Jewish American family living in Vienna…