Language:
German
Pages:
11
,
typescript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
2003
Former Title:
Untitled
Keywords:
Haber family.
;
Uri family.
;
Uri, Max,
;
Haganah (Organization)
;
Antisemitism.
;
Education, Secondary
;
Jews Persecution 1938-1945.
;
Orthodox Judaism.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Austria History Anschluss, 1938.
;
Palestine Emigration and immigration.
;
United States Emigration and immigration.
;
Vienna (Austria)
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were written as a letter in January of 2003. The author's grandfather was a producer of military uniforms during World War One. Max Uri attended 4 years of the Gymnasium and 4 years of business school (Handelsschule). He came from an orthodox Jewish family. Recollections of his school years and rising national socialism among his fellow students. Max was only one of 8 Jews in his class of 50 students. Memories of the author’s years at the Gymnasium, where he frequently encountered anti-Semitism due to his orthodox upbringing. Recollections of the terrors of the Kristallnacht in November of 1938, when he was arrested and beaten and only narrowly escaped transportation to Dachau concentration camp. His family managed to get the children out of the country. His sisters were sent as domestic help and his younger brother with a Kindertransport to England. Max managed to be accepted for an agricultural school in Palestine. He enrolled in the “Haganah” and became an officer. In 1941 he got married to Fritzi Haber. Their son was born in 1942. Max Uri participated in the war efforts of the Jewish Brigade and the British army during World War Two. Difficulties to establish a household in Palestine. Move to Vienna together with his family and his in-laws. Decision to leave for the United States, where Max Uri lived with his family for 10 years. He came back to Vienna to take over his father in law’s furrier business.
Note:
German
,
Synopsis in file
URL:
http://digital.cjh.org/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=401588&custom_att_2=simple_viewer
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