AHC interview with Gerda Lieselott Garbatzky.

Abstract

September 28, 2017,0:00:32-0:02:26 - Anschluss, Hitler's speech at Heldenplatz0:02:26-0:02:56 - Education in England0:02:58-0:04:22 - The "Blitz"0:04:24-0:04:53 - Coming to the US0:05:36-0:06:14 - Persecution by the Nazis0:06:14-0:06:45 - Memories of Vienna0:06:46-00:09:27 - Family history and the effect of Nazism00:09:05-00:10:08 - Father's soap factory / restitution00:10:09-00:13:00 - Memories of her family, friends and her husband, David Garbatzky00:13:45-00:14:40 - Emigration route / "Kindertransport"00:14:38-00:15:03 - Memories of the "Blitz"00:15:32-00:17:18 - "Kindertransport"00:17:49- 00:20:52 - Education and life in Birmingham00:21:55-00:24:02 - Christadelphian religion00:24:12-00:25:10 - Anti-Semitism / discrimination experienced in Birmingham00:25:41-00:29:44 - Anti-Semitism in Vienna and the Shoah00:30:05-00:33:39 - Arrival and social life in Birmingham0:33:43-0:39:37 - Immigration and settling down in New York0:39:40-0:43:06 - Parental home in Vienna and Czechoslovakia, memories of her mother0:43:12-0:49:00 - Adjustments in Great Britain and the United States, differences to Austria, Café Vienna0:49:06-0:56:32 - Recollections of her husband, David Garbatzky, US citizenship and family life0:56:34-0:59:10 - Memories of and relationship to Vienna / Austria today1:00:01-1:00:55 - German language, memories of her mother1:03:43-1:05:10 - Effect of the "Blitz"1:05:11-1:07:01 - Memories of her social life in New YorkGerda Lieselott Garbatzky, née Brahmer was born on November 11, 1929 in Vienna, Austria. She grew up, in Strohgasse 7, in Vienna’s 3rd District, living mostly with her father Richard Brahmer and her grandmother; her mother Olga Brahmer died of breast cancer, when Gerda was a little child. Her father was a co-owner of a soap factory. In June 1939 she left Austria with a "Kindertransport" via the Netherlands to Great Britain, where she stayed in Birmingham with a family of Christadelphian faith and had to experience the "Blitz" during the war. In March 1947 she immigrated to New York to stay with her aunt and uncle, Helene and Moritz Lackenbacher, the only ones of her relatives, who had survived the Nazis. Gerda Garbatzky made a living in New York and settled down to family life.Austrian Heritage Collectio