AHC interview with Lillian Tobin.

June 5, 2012Digital recordingLillian Tobin, née Nussbaum, was born on May 15th 1925 into a religiously observant upper middle class family. They left Austria on March 12th 1939, taking a train to Hamburg and immigrating to New York. They first lived in Brooklyn, but moved to Patterson, NJ, soon after. After struggling with different jobs, she ended up teaching at Kean University in Hillside, NJ.Austrian Heritage CollectionTandelmarktgasse, Im Werd, Kleine Pfarrgasse, Ueberfallkommand

AHC interview with Elly Stein

May 8, 2012Elly Stein, née Intrator, was born on January 26th in Vienna, Austria. She grew up in a upper middle class neighborhood in Wieden, the 4th district of Vienna. Her father owned a candy factory in Landstrasse (3rd district). In early 1939 the Intrator family fled to France, living first in Troyes near Paris and later in Lyon. With several other Jewish families they paid a truck driver to take them to the Swiss border, where they were arrested immediately. Elly Stein's aunt, who lived in Basel, took her in; she was later joined by her mother, but her father stayed in a refugee camp until the end of the war. After WW II they immigrated to the US, where they settled in Long Beach. Elly Stein studied education at Queens College, New York and became a elementary school teacher. In the 1950s she lived in Tel Aviv, Israel, for two years. After coming back to the United States, she met her husband Elias M. Stein (a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University); they have two children.Digital recordin

AHC interview with Ulrich C. Knoepflmacher

June 11 & 15, 2012Prof. Ulrich Knoepflmacher was born on June 26, 1931 in Munich, Germany. Just five years after moving to Vienna (Margaretenstrasse in the 5th district), the Knoeplmacher family decided to leave the country, because of the social turmoil Jews were facing. They took the train to Belgium and Holland, from where they embarked to South America on the SS Aconcagua. They arrived in Bolivia in early May 1939. Knoepflmacher attended the Anglo-American High School in Oruro. After graduation, he moved to California to pursue studies of architecture at the University of California in Berkeley. He went on to do a Master's degree in English literature and later got his PhD in the same subject from Princeton University. Ulrich Knoepflmacher became Professor of English literature and taught at Berkeley and at Princeton University.Digital recordin

AHC interview with George Walter Steininger

September 19, 2011Georg Walter Steininger was born in Vienna on Jan. 5, 1932 to Susan Walter and Rudolf Steininger. He and his parents fled to France, where they stayed a year before moving on to Spain and then finally getting on a ship to the U.S from Portugal. They arrived in New York City in 1940, where he and his mother were sheltered by the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS).Digital recordin