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Correspondence sent to Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner, following his emigration to Palestine (1939-1942), from his parents in Vienna, Josef and Regina Flaschner, who were subsequently deported to Maly Trostinec and perished there. Also includes other related correspondence sent to Kurt Flaschner, dating from approximately 1940-1950, from relatives in Czechoslovakia and Austria, and friends in Palestine. Contains ...

At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter ...

Hessy Levinsons (now Hessy Levinsons Taft) is the older daughter of Jacob and Pauline (Levine) Levinsons, both talented singers who came from Latvia to Berlin in the 1920s and studied voice at the Hochschule fuer Musik. The two were married in 1928 in Latvia but returned to Berlin to pursue their careers. In 1932, using his legal stage name, Yasha Lennsen, Jacob signed a contract with the Breslau opera ...

In de collectie van het Letterenhuis – een omvangrijk geheel van archivalia, documentatie en iconografisch materiaal – vinden we heel wat stukken die voor deze gids relevant zijn. De onderwerpsmappen bevatten doorgaans vooral krantenknipsels, brochures, programmaboekjes, publicaties, flyers, affiches, uitnodigingen en vaak ook losse archiefstukken. Via de Agrippa-databank kan men bladeren in de collectie, ...

This collection contains, in colour and black-and-white, six sketches, one painting and 11 ‘educational’ caricature drawings informing the Jewish staff at the Dossin barracks about daily life and procedures at the camp. This art was created by the Jewish artist inmates of the 'Malerstube' (painters workshop), among whom Gyorgy Bekeffi, Irene Spicker-Awret, August (Alexandre) Polak and Kopel Simelo ...

A collection of cabaret pieces and some serious poems produced in Theresienstadt. The editor's introduction (pp. 11-55) describes the wealth of cultural activities in the ghetto - concerts, theater, opera, cabaret, lectures - both in the early months when they were carried out clandestinely and under the most difficult conditions, and after September 1942 when the SS encouraged and supported them for ...

Title: "Streets of Paris. Cafes on the Champs-Elysees. Arc de Triomphe. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Place de la Concorde." Sightseeing in Paris, including street scenes, cafe with red tables and chairs, Arc de Triomphe, Eternal Flame for Unknown Soldier (WWI) with wreath and flowers, French police, Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, statues, cars on Champs d'Elysee, and aerial views from the Eiffel ...

Benjamin Morris Gasul (1898-1962) was born in Latvia. He traveled to the U.S. on the "Empress of Russia" ship at the age of 16 and settled in Kenosha, WI. He graduated from Rush Medical School in Chicago and continued his studies in Vienna where he married American Lala Rosenzweig (she sang in the opera house). Dr. Gasul practiced pediatrics until 1945 when he became focused on heart disease in children. ...

"In Terezín, a Nazi camp where 35,000 people died, a remarkable community of musicians and artists answered despair with creativity. Here is their astonishing world, captured firsthand in lively concert critiques by composer, scholar, and prisoner Viktor Ullmann. We meet Terezín's choirs and solo artists, luminaries of European cabaret and opera, and a generation of accomplished composers silenced ...