Susi Friedmann Kirsch Family Collection 1846-2007 Bulk dates: 1914-2007
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This collection contains the papers of Susanne (Susi) Friedmann-Kirsch (1926-), documenting her family’s history in Austria, Eastern Europe, and Israel, from the mid 1800s to the 2000s. The collection mostly holds vital documents and genealogical materials, including family trees, photographs, correspondence, family narratives, diaries, and other writings. ; The following families are mentioned in this collection: Fessler, Fraenkl, Friedmann, Kirsch, Kohnberger, Morberger, Ostwald, Schmidl, Speyer, Strassmann, Taussig, and Wallach. ; The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Richard Beer-Hofmann, Peter Michael Braunwarth, Otto Frankl-Lundburg, Arnold Friedmann, Else Friedmann, Sidonie Friedmann, Susi Friedmann-Kirsch, Gad Gerhard Kirsch, Karl Edgar Kirsch, Hansi Kirsch-Schmidl, Gerty Perger, Clara Ruge, Hugo Wilhelm Schmidl, Johann Sara Schmidl, Johanna Schmidl (1898-1993), Samuel Schmidl, and Nanny Speyer Wallach. ; Susanne (Susi) Friedmann-Kirsch was born in 1926 in Vienna, Austria. Friedmann-Kirsch, her brother Gerhard (Gad), and their parents Karl Kirsch and Johanna (Hansi) Schmidl Kirsch fled Vienna on August 17, 1938 to Yugoslavia. In Sarajevo, they were issued German passports without a Jewish demarcation and were able to travel throughout Central and Eastern Europe on various travel visas. During this time, Gerhard received a visa and emigrated to Tel-Aviv. In 1940, the family obtained Argentinean passports and moved to Turkey. In Mersin, they received passage on a freighter headed toward Haifa, Palestine, where they docked on May 1, 1941. They were arrested, and sent to Atlit, a camp for illegal immigrants. Eventually, the family was released and by 1943, was settled in Tel-Aviv. In 1949, Friedmann-Kirsch married Arnold (Aron) Friedmann and immigrated to New York in 1950. They had two children, Daniel (1954) and Ronald (1957). In 1972, Arnold took a teaching position at the University of Massachusetts, and the family moved to Amherst, MA. ; Austrian Heritage Collection ; Processed ; digitized
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Susi Friedmann Kirsch Family Collection 1846-2007 Bulk dates: 1914-2007
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Friedmann-Kirsch, Susanne |
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