Oral History Archives

Research Society Burgenland

Interviews

Palestine / Israel as country of refuge

Menahem (Ernst) Breuer

b. 1934 in Eisenstadt
Childhood in Eisenstadt
1939 Escape to Palestine via Hungary.

Mordechai Grünsfeld

b. 1913 in Lackenbach
d. ?
Childhood in Lackenbach
1938 Escape to Palestine.

Alice Howson (neé Holzer)

b. 1920 in Pinkafeld
d. 2003 in Manchester
Childhood in Pinkafeld
1938 Escape to Palestine via Triest.
1949 Return to Vienna. 1951 England.

Sofie Kobrinsky (neé Rothstein)

b. 1921 in Güssing
d. 2012 in Tel Aviv
Childhood in Güssing
1938 Escape to Palestine.

Gertrude Kritzer (neé Blum)

b. 1923 in Krumbach, Lower Austria
d. 2016 in Vienna
Childhood (Summertime) in Wiesen
1938 Escape to Palestine via Italy.
1951 Return to Vienna

Meir Leker

b. 1926 in Oberpullendorf
d. 2020 in Paris
Childhood in Oberpullendorf
1938 Escape to Palestine via Triest.
1947 Studies in London.
1951 Return to Israel, 1967 Paris.

Izchak Roth

b. 1928 in Gols
d. 2018 in Kfar Saba/Israel
Childhood in Gols
April 1938 marooned with others on a barg on the Danube River near Rajka/Hungary.
1938 arrival in Palestine via Yugoslavia, Romania.

Josef Weiszberger

b. 1917 in Mattersburg
d. ?
Childhood in Mattersburg
1938 Escape to Palestine.