History of Pribram Jews First mentioned in 1238, one of the oldest Jewish settlements in the Czech lands. In 1568 the Jews were expelled from the town. Historical sources refer to their number at the time as “sizeable.” In 1853 the first Jewish family moved back, in 1880 there were 332 Jewish citizens, in 1900 [...]
Our Year of Living Torah: My Journey By Judy Mannaberg-Goldman Originally printed in CBB's Voices magazine, Spring 2013 (page 15). In the summer of 2011, I became involved with the restoration of our Czech Holocaust Memorial Scroll #35 from the Czech town of Pribram. My connection was extremely personal; my paternal family was from Czechoslovakia so my [...]
How the Scrolls Were Saved After the defeat of Germany, a free and independent Czechoslovakia emerged, but it was a country largely without Jews. Most of the surviving Jews in Prague and the rest of Bohemia and Moravia were from Slovakia and further east from Subcarpathian Ruthenia. Prague, which had had a Jewish population of [...]
Bob and Dora Wechter Oct 9, 2015 in your home Tell the story of how you met and where you were in the time of your life when you met D: I was two yrs before a divorce. Went to Temple with my then husband. Bob;s daughter was in charge of a youth group which [...]
Born in Cornis, Utah December 4, 1924 90 years old Volunteered for U.S. Airforce as B-17 bomber pilot. Flew 29 missions over Europe. Pearl Harbor 1:48- I was skiing and we came down off of the mountain. We were about 30 miles from home, so we stopped at a drugstore to get something to [...]
Born in Minnesota. Volunteered for the US Army Was rejected from combat units (too skinny) Stayed in USA working for the Army on secret radio and communications projects. 4:03 He’s a certified art teacher, graduated from the Walker Arts Center in Minnesota and also went through Chouinard Institute out in L.A. and L.A. trade tech. [...]
Born in 1926 in Germany in a small town , 89 years old. Enlisted in the U.S. Army. Served in the Pacific in the Infantry as rifleman. In 1938 I was one of a very small group of Jewish kids from Germany who were on a kinder transport. You’ve probably heard of kinder transports to [...]
Born Brooklyn, NY. 92 years old. Volunteered in U.S. Army Aircorp as a B-29 bomber navigator and radar officer. Flew 27 missions. 1:50-3:50- story about horse sculpture, study for a dream about horses running from east to west side of Berlin wall. 4:00 Born October 4, 1923 in Brooklyn, was 171/2 living in NY [...]
Born in Germany and fled the Nazis. Volunteered for U.S. Navy as engineer. Did not serve overseas. Supervised German prisoners in the USA and did training/jobs stateside. worked for Raytheon after service. Has 21 patents on various gadgets, equipment that the Navy or Army uses Was born in Vienna Austria in 1925. My parents had [...]
When they first called me I was 18 with the 18’s and we were for 6 weeks infantry training then we were distributed to different regiments which were going overseas right away When I was 18 years old I was living with my parents 1:40-5:31- Story about wife and how they met. 5:40- I was [...]