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1. Oral history interview with Lori Shearn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.257 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0257
Date:
interview: 1994 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lori Shearn discusses her childhood in Vienna, Austria; her family life; the changes she experienced after the Anschluss in March 1938; the increased…
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 … they had to have done while they went out and worked. This was during the war. Austria was at war. And all the eligible young men disappeared. And her…
2. Otto and Monna Weinmann papers
2013.374.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2013.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
bulk: 1943-1945
…Otto Weinmann was born in Vienna, Austria, on January 12, 1903. When he was six years old, his family moved to Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, where he…
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 … further information about this collection Processing history: Rebecca Erbelding, September 2013 Biographical note Otto Weinmann was born in Vienna, Austria…
3. Rattner and Breindler families papers
2018.626.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.626.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1971
…, Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine) or Vienna, Austria. He made his way to England and enlisted in the British Army in May 1940. Beno met and married…
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 … Accession number: 2018.626.1 Creator: Rattner (Family : Vienna, Austria) Additional creator: Breindler (Family : Vienna, Austria) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (9…
4. Oral history interview with Herma Rappaport
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.45 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0045
Date:
interview: 1989 May 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Herma Rappaport, born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, discusses her childhood in Vienna; Kristallnacht; her family being put on house arrest for five…
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 … Europe. And he came home in February of 1938 and said come on, let's get out of here. Hitler is going to March into Austria. And everybody laughed at him…
5. Heinz Bauer memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0026 | RG Number: RG-02.083
Date:
1940
…Heinz Bauer was born in Austria to Jewish parents, and he was a student at the University of Vienna during the Anschluss. After the Nazi seizure of…
6. Egon Feldmann collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1945
… his mother, Sofie, before and during the Holocaust in Vienna, Austria, and Egon's immigration to Basel, Switzerland with his first wife, Else, in 1939…
7. Cloth badge depicting a flag owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.19
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
8. Oral history interview with Trudy Small
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.532 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0532
Date:
interview: 1991 October 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Trudy Small discusses her childhood in Vienna, Austria; her education in a Catholic school and the discomfort she experienced at this school; the…
9. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
…Alfred (Freddie) Traum was born on March 22, 1929 in Vienna Austria to Elias Traum and Gita Alster Traum who ran a business. He had one sister, Ruth…
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 …, 1929 in Vienna Austria to Elias Traum and Gita Alster Traum who ran a business. He had one sister, Ruth (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled…
10. Latin book of psalms owned by a Jewish Austrian survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2019.611.5
Date:
publication: 1800
Title:
Liber Psalmorum ad editionem Hooghtianam
Alternate Title:
The Book of Psalms for the Hooghtian edition
… and Geller items from Vienna, Austria, duirng the Nazi era include identity cards, financial statements, citizenship and right of domicile…
11. Oral history interview with Mr. Kapralik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.537.18 | RG Number: RG-50.862.0017
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives.…
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 … the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in May 1955. They discuss post-war Austria. Kapralik mentions that he received the merit award “Grosses…
12. Badge depicting Finland's coat of arms owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.20
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
13. Commemorative Boy Scout stamp owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.13
Date:
commemoration: 1912-1937
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
14. Cloth badge depicting an American flag owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.18
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
15. Commemorative Boy Scout stamp owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.12
Date:
commemoration: 1912-1937
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
16. Accordion and case owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré
Object | Accession Number: 2019.605.2 a-c
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
17. Elisabeth Orsten papers
2000.417.1 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2000.417.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Elisabeth (Liesl) Ornstein was born on November 8, 1927, in Vienna, Austria, to Hildegard Fulda, born in 1900, and Dr. Paul Ornstein, born in 1898…
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 … records, 1939‐1941 Indexing terms Jews‐‐Austria‐‐Vienna. Jewish refugees‐‐England. Jewish children in the Holocaust‐‐England. Kindertransports…
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 … Vienna, Austria, the first child of Dr. Paul Ornstein, a physician, who was the director of a private Viennese clinic, which was particularly known for…
18. Oral history interview with Lisa Brinner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.290 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0290
Date:
interview: 1997 August 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Lisa Brinner, born in Austria, describes going on a Kindertransport to London when she was 15 years old with her younger brother; living with a…
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 …: Lisa Brinner was born in Austria. At age 15, she was put on the Kindertransport to London and eventually found herself in San Francisco. In 1940, Lisa…
19. John Honig family papers
2018.490.6 Book Enclosure1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2018.490.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2014
bulk: 1938-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…John Honig (1923-2020) was born Gerhart Honig on October 30, 1923 in Vienna, Austria. He is the only son of Walter Honig (1896-1952) and Gertrude…
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 … Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England…
20. Silver fish knife with fish design owned by the Orsten family
Object | Accession Number: 2020.344.7
…Berndorf (Lower Austria, Austria)…