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1. Fred Ederer account of Kristallnacht in Vienna
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0054 | RG Number: RG-02.087
Date:
creation: 1988
…Fred Ederer account of Kristallnacht in Vienna…
2. Schifferes family papers
2003.134 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2003.134
Date:
1930-1939
…Liese Strauss Schifferes (1916-1956) was born in Vienna to Dr. Hugo Strauss and Sophie Kurz Strauss. She immigrated to the United States in November…
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 … property belonging to Stephan Schifferes’ relatives, the Siebenschein family, in Vienna. Languages: German, English, Italian, French Administrative…
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3. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
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… three brothers, Max (b. 1923), Bernhard (b. 1926), and Joseph (1928-1944). In 1931, the family moved to Vienna, Austria where Mendel opened a kitchenware…
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 … [bulk 1913-1949] Accession number: 2017.101.1 Creator: Morgenstern family (Barycz :Poland) Merkur family (Vienna :Austria) Extent: 12 folders, 1 oversize…
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4. The autobiography of Irene Katz
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0302 | RG Number: RG-02.185
Date:
1990
…Describes the author's experiences in Nazi-occupied Hungary and Vienna, Austria.…
5. Concentration camp from Oct. 1941 to May 1945
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0167 | RG Number: RG-02.148
…Elizabeth Reif lived in Vienna, Austria, with her mother before being deported to the Łódź ghetto in 1941. Her mother was deported to…
6. Not a moment too soon
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-02.192
…Describes the author's (b. 1926) childhood in Vienna, Austria; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; author's emigration to Belgium and his subsequent escape…
7. "Lost and Waiting to be Found"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.450.1
Date:
2011
…Consists of one memoir, 59 pages, entitled “Lost and Waiting to be Found,” written by Jackie (Jacky) Young (born Jona Spiegel), originally of Vienna…
8. T. Scarlett Epstein diary
2007.302 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2007.302
Date:
1937-1938
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…Consists of a diary kept by T. Scarlett Epstein (Trude Grünwald), originally of Vienna, Austria, in the summer of 1937 and in the summer and fall…
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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 … papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and…
10. Oscar Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.209.1
Date:
creation: 1938-2016
…Oscar Stein was born in Vienna in 1923, one of three children of Baruch and Serena Stein. Following the German annexation of Austria and the…
11. Lilly Geringer Drukker memoir
2012.365.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2012.365.1
Date:
creation: 1994
…Lilly Geringer Drukker was born in Vienna on 13 January 1927. Her parents were Sophie (nee Karpel) and Josef Geringer, and her maternal grandparents…
12. Peter Ornstein memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2009.336 | RG Number: RG-02.247
Date:
publication/distribution: 2009
…Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In…
13. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
…Joseph Weiss (1903-1986) was born in Vienna and married Margaret Goldstein (1903-1983), with whom he worked at the Anglo-Austrian Bank (later Anglo…
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 …, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, cardboard tags, and photographs documenting Joseph and Margaret Weiss’s immigration to the United States from Vienna…
14. Eva Rindner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.645.1
Date:
inclusive: 1895-circa 2004
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…Eva Rindner was born Eva Schutzmann on 5 June 1928 in Vienna, Austria to Lola and Herbert Schutzmann (1890-1937). Her mother Lola (née Zipser, later…
15. 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
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…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…
16. Charles Gross memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0201 | RG Number: RG-02.110
Date:
undated: 
…Charles Gross (later Karl Grosz, Vienna, Austria, 1911 - ) was born to Jewish parents. He emigrated to the United States in 1939.…
17. Lilli Wolff papers
1999.A.0041 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0041
Date:
inclusive: 1870-1983
… Kristallnacht. She moved to Vienna and hid in the home of her friend, actress Dorothea Neff (1903-1986). Schmitt and Driessen helped sustain her with parcels of…
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 …, correspondence, photographs, playbills, and a clipping documenting Lilli Wolff’s career as a costume designer and dressmaker in Köln and Vienna, her experience…
18. Weidhorn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.29.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2006
undated: 
bulk: 1932-1948
…Manfred Weidhorn was born on 10 October 1931 in Vienna, Austria to Aron and Anne Weidhorn. His father, Aron Weidhorn (1900-1948), was born in Rava…
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 … Anne and Aron Weidhorn, including their flight from Vienna, Austria after the German- annexation of Austria in March 1938, Aron’s immigration to the…
19. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
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…Martin Freud (1889-1967) was born in Vienna, Austria to Dr. Sigmund Freud, the psychiatrist, and Martha Bernays (1861–1951). In 1908 Martin entered a…
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 …: approximately 1901-2004 and undated (bulk 1919-1954) Accession number: 2010.401.1 Creator: Freud (Family: Vienna, Austria) Extent: 1 linear foot (2 boxes and 2…
20. Emil Schattner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.129.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2005
… family moved from Bobowa to Vienna, Austria in 1933. Three days after the German annexation of Austria (Anschluss) the family fled Vienna for Milan, Italy…