Children in an Austrian-Jewish preschool learn to cook.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 66584

Date: 1939
Variant Locale: Wien
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Austria (pre-1938) -- School/University/Youth Groups
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Dottie Goldstein

Biography: Dottie Ekerling Goldstein is the daughter of Samuel Ekerling and Liesl (later Alice) Breuner Ekerling. Samuel and Alice married in May 1938, just two months after the Nazi takeover of Austria. Samuel used the money he had saved for their honeymoon to purchase tickets to the United States. Samuel left first and immediately made arrangements to bring the rest of his family to America. He succeeded in bringing over his wife, parents, and almost twenty other people. Alice came to the United States in January 1939. His father received a letter from the Gestapo ordering him to report for a transport on October 27, 1939. That same day he received tickets for America from Samuel and safely emigrated from Nazi Austria.
Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS)
CHILDREN/YOUTH
FOOD (PREPARATION)
KINDERGARTENS/PRE-SCHOOL
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Dottie Goldstein

Source Record ID: Collections: 2003.381
: Record last modified: 2005-04-22 00:00:00
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