gb-003348-wl1873
has or had some members with language: deu
title: Eva Williams: Family papers
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/gb-003348-wl1873/alternateIDs/1
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has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1900-01-01
biographical history: Emanuel Kolm (born Kohn) was born in 1880 in Vienna to Jacob Kohn and Lina née Schwarz . He was instrumental in saving many Jews from deportation through his work as an organiser of re-training courses for the Viennese Jewish community in the early 1940s. Both he and his wife Sophie were deported to Terezin but survived and returned to Vienna after the war. They had one daughter, Eva, born Vienna, 1924. Richard Kohn, Eva's first cousin, was born in Vienna in 1920, to Alfred Kohn and Franziska Augusta, and later lived with his family in Döbling. His parents, sister and brother were all deported to Latvia and murdered by the Nazis. His father was a locksmith, who having become disenchanted with the Social Democrats, became a Communist. The family was very poor and Richard went to work in a Haschara camp so there would be one less mouth to feed. Under the Nazis Richard was sent with many others to Nisko in Poland as a slave labourer to build a concentration camp. He managed to escape to Russia shortly after the outbreak of war. He stayed initially on a farm in the vicinity of Lemberg, then after a long and tortuous journey ended up in Kazakhstan, where he met his wife, Bronislava née Tischler, an Usbeki from Tashkent, who like many women of the region worked in the coal mines. Richard had his leg amputated after a terrrible work accident. He remained in Kasakhstan, working as a theatre adminstrator where he and his wife had two daughters. In 1993 the family emigrated to Israel, then with his wife to Vienna.
has record set type: Collection
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1980-01-31
related material: See also Treffpunkt: Maimonides Zentrum Ed. Traude Litzka, 2006 Boehlau Verlag, chapter 'Eine Reise ins Ungewisse- Erzaehlungen eines Fluechtlings' by Richard Kohn
has or had holder: gb-003348
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conditions of access: Open
record resource extent: 1 folder
identifier: WL1873
has or had some members with language: eng
scope and content: This collection comprises the papers of Emanuel Kohn including certificates and testimonials, photographs, copy Red Cross telegrams, family tree; also letters from Kazakhstan from Richard Kohn to Eva Williams, 1983-1997.
type: RecordSet
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results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/gb-003348-wl1873/acquisitions/1
record resource structure: Chronolgical by family member