AHC interview with Alexander Stolzberg.

March 13, 20170:00:00-0:06:50 short summary of life story0:06:50-0:08:00 grandparents0:08:00-0:08:50 grandparent's descent0:08:50-0:09:40 parents’ occupation0:09:40-0:11:05 religion0:11:05-0:11:45 Hebrew/Yiddish spoken in the family0:11:45-0:12:45 location of home in Vienna0:12:45-0:13:50 neighborhood0:13:50-0:15:15 parental friends (were they mainly Jewish?)0:15:15-0:16:05 description of home0:16:05-0:17:00 schools attended0:17:00-0:19:40 the day of the Anschluss, arrest of father0:19:40-0:20:50 fleeing Austria for Yugoslavia0:20:50-0:22:50 Germans invade Yugoslavia in 1941; flight to Hungary0:22:50-0:26:15 Belgrade and Subotica0:26:15-0:31:45 internment camp Kistarcsa, Raoul Wallenberg, Red Cross camp0:31:45-0:32:35 liberation0:32:35-0:34:15 jail in Subotica0:34:15-0:36:15 life in the Red Cross home0:36:15-0:37:15 the day of liberation0:37:15-0:41:30 liberation of Auschwitz, mother searches for Alexander and his brother0:41:30-0:44:35 London0:44:35-0:47:05 mother's search for Alexander and his brother; Hias0:47:05-0:50:00 life in London0:50:00-0:51:30 immigration to US0:51:30-56:50 life in New York56:50-57:30 November pogrom57:30-1:00:00 antisemitism after the war1:01:00-1:03:30 work in London1:03:30-1:07:15 Israel1:07:15-1:10:00 Israeli-Palestinian conflict1:10:00-1:11:15 remaining connections to Austria1:11:15-1:12:35 revisiting Austria1:12:35-1:13:45 German language1:13:45-1:14:40 children1:14:40 present political situation and final statementAlexander Stolzberg was born in 1934 in Vienna, Austria. He lived with his parents and his brother in an apartment building like many others in Vienna’s 2nd District; their home was directly above the father’s grocery store in Glockengasse. Shortly after the “Anschluss” Alexander’s father died, but the family stayed in Vienna until 1940. At that point they decided that it was necessary to leave Austria, and they fled illegally to Yugoslavia. After staying with relatives for a while, the Stolzbergs went on to Belgrade, where they lived for six months. When the Germans attacked, the family fled to Hungary, where they lived in Hungarian occupied Subotica. In 1944 they were arrested and sent to the internment camp Kistarcsa close to Budapest. After approximately four weeks, Alexander and his brother got the chance to live in a Red Cross home. This was arranged for them by Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary. The two brothers stayed in the Red Cross home until the Russian army liberated Budapest, and they were freed. Their mother was deported to Auschwitz, where she survived. She returned to post-war Hungary to look for her sons and found them outside of Budapest, where they had been taken care of by the organization Hias. The Stolzbergs stayed in Budapest until the middle of 1946, when relatives in London took Alexander and his brother out of Hungary. They stayed in London for a couple of years, before Alexander got a visa for the United States, where he went to College and got a government job.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with Liane Winrow Lunden.

February 27, 20170:00 family history4:30 short description of life story18:15 information about affidavit19:30 family background21:05 childhood in Vienna26:05 Anschluss and aftermath28:25 emigration30:15 living in the US34:55 connections to Austria today39:20 feelings as a survivor41:50 politics in Europe42:50 her children44:20 Israel and Zionism46:45 conclusion and talk with her son about her volunteer workLiane Winrow Lunden was born as Liane Weihrauch on May 15 1930 in Vienna, Austria. Her grandparents were of Polish descent, but her parents were both born in Vienna. Liane grew up in Floridsdorf and fled Austria in August 1938, immigrating to the United States. In 1945 she changed her last name to Winrow.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with Norbert Shapiro.

November 30, 2016Norbert Shapiro (Schapira) was born on July 17, 1928 and raised in the 2nd District of Vienna. After the November-Pogrom, when his school was burned down, he escaped to the United States, where he lived with relatives in Philadelphia, before pursuing a career as a teacher.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with Harry Weinrauch.

September 28, 2016Dr. Harry Weinrauch was born on August 27, 1928 in Vienna, Austria to a Polish mother and a Rumanian father, who was a veteran from the First World War. They felt secure in Vienna until Kristallnacht when a Polish temple close to Harry Weinrauch's school was burned down. He then changed to a Jewish school in Vienna’s "Stadttempel" in Seitenstettengasse. As soon as the invasion of Poland had started in 1939, the Gestapo came to pick up Harry Weinrauch's father. They took him to the Danube river, beat him up and left him for dead until an old Austrian policemen who had found Harry's father heavily injured on the beach of the Danube River brought him to a Jewish hospital. - Due to an affidavit of an American relative, the family got a visa for the United States and permission from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration to emigrate. The Weinrauchs left for Genoa, where a ship brought them to the USA. Here Harry Weinrauch studied at New York University and completed his medical studies at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with Vera Chapman.

Vera Chapman née Friedmann was born in February 1938 in Vienna, Austria. When she was still a baby her family fled via Aachen to Belgium and from there via Marseille and Egypt to Palestine. She went to the US to attend college.August 29, 2016Austrian Heritage CollectionJewish Hote

AHC interview with Roger Gimbel.

September 20, 2016Roger Gimbel, the husband of the Austrian emigrant Evelyn Wyman, was born on July 28, 1930 in Mannheim, Germany, where he lived in Karl Ludwig Strasse 29. In 1938 the family fled to Metz in France. When Germany invaded they went further west and crossed the border to Spain, where they took a train to Lisbon and then a boat to Rio de Janeiro. After seven years in Brazil the Gimbel family got affidavits from an American relative and they immigrated to the U.S. In 1948 Roger Gimbel joined the army; he then worked as a salesman in his father’s business, before building his own import company, traveling extensively in Germany and other parts of Europe.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with William Kestenbaum.

October 26, 2016William Kestenbaum was born on Sep. 19, 1921, in Vienna. He grew up in an upper class house at Schottengasse 10 in the 1st District of Vienna. His father Alfred Kestenbaum, a famous eye surgeon, taught at the university of Vienna, and during WWI he had been running an eye hospital in Sarajevo. William Kestenbaum's mother Adelheid Kestenbaum was a physician as well. Both of his parents had been raised in Vienna and had met at the university of Vienna. After primary school, William Kestenbaum attended “LEH Grinzing”, a private school in Vienna and graduated in July of 1938 after Hitler had come to Austria. After the Anschluss a former American student of Alfred Kestenbaum had offered to send an affidavit, which the family gladly accepted: they left Austria for the USA in August 1938 after William Kestenbaum had finished his education. The Kestenbaums left, leaving all their money and their belongings except for their furniture behind. After having taken the train to Paris, they borrowed money in order to pay for the passage on the SS Normandie to New York.In New York William’s mother did not renew her medical degree, but his father studied to be a doctor again. Unfortunately, he was not as successful as he had been in Vienna. William Kestenbaum attended George Washington high school for a year in order to learn English and then went on to College. After graduating he got a job with Western Electric, which he held until he joined the Navy in 1944. In 1946 he returned to his old job at Western Electric.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with Fernanda Steinhauser.

September 6, 2016Fernanda Steinhauser née Jentschmann was born March 7, 1921 in Zurich, Switzerland, where she grew up. Her parents were emigrants form Poland. Fernanda got married to the Austrian refugee Marcel Steinhauser, who had fled the Nazi regime and upon coming to Switzerland was interned in a labor camp for immigrants. In 1951 the couple got affidavits from Marcel Steinhauser's American relatives and immigrated to the US, where they started a restaurant.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with Alice Terner.

November 3, 2016Alice Terner née Katz was born on October 4th 1925 in Vienna. Her father, who was from an orthodox family in Transylvania, owned an animal feed company in Vienna’s 21st District. Her mother was an artist from Vienna. When Alice started to attend school in 1930, her sister was born. Alice's father was arrested under Nazi rule due to false accusations of money shifting, and the Nazi-regime confiscated his company, even though he was a Romanian citizen. While Alice's father was in prison, her mother sent Alice and her sister on a train to Paris, from where they left for the US with affidavits from their aunt. After arriving in New York Alice and her sister lived with their aunt, for whom Alice worked as a maid. In New York City she met her future husband, whom she had already known in Vienna. Consequently her husband joined the Army.Austrian Heritage Collectio

AHC interview with Ludwig Rudel.

00:00 family background and short description of life story13:55 family history24:05 family history and Jewish traditions in the family43:05 school and antisemitism in Vienna46:10 the name Rudel (Hans Ulrich Rudel)54:05 life in Vienna1:01:55 philosophy and history1:09:10 politics and antisemitism in Austria before the war1:12:50 family attitude towards Zionism1:15:55 Anschluss and feelings towards Austria during the war1:20:00 emigration1:34:25 Kristallnacht and war while in the US1:36:55 coming to New York1:40:05 continuing education and way into professional life1:50:45 opinions on Israel and Middle East2:01:00 Austria2:16:05 US politics2:21:30 speaking German2:23:00 Holocaust memorialsMarch 15, 2017Ludwig Rudel was born in Vienna, Austria on May 7, 1930. His father died of pancreatic cancer when Ludwig was still a child, and his brother immigrated to the United States in spring of 1938. Since Ludwig and his mother could not go to the US before October 1938, they fled from Vienna to Italy, where they were hiding for about 6 weeks. From there they emigrated to Switzerland, where they received visas to come to the United States. In October 1938 they departed from Le Havre, France to New York. He continued his education in the States and worked for the US Army. He eventually became a diplomat.Austrian Heritage Collectio