Austria

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Lilly Scheuermann of the Vienna State Opera Ballet performs in an unidentififed dance during the company's North American tour debut.

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Max Bieler's handwritten application for admittance to JCRS. Includes information such as age (22), place of birth (Austria), and occupation (plumber). He was single and his nearest relative was his father in N.Y.C. On the backside it reads he was admitted as an emergency case on November 9, 1906, and left on November 13, 1906.

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Max Bieler's fourth handwritten application for admittance to JCRS. Includes information such as age (28), place of birth (Austria), and occupation (plumber). He was single and his nearest relatives were his mother and brother-in-law in N.Y.C, and a friend in Denver. On the backside it reads he was admitted on August 5, 1911, and left on April 17, 1912.

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Max Bieler's second handwritten application for admittance to JCRS. Includes information such as age (25), place of birth (Austria), and occupation (plumber). He was single and his nearest relative was his mother in N.Y.C. On the backside it reads he was admitted as an emergency case on May 12, 1908, and left on May 29, 1908.

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Max Bieler's third handwritten application for admittance to JCRS. Includes information such as age (27), place of birth (Austria), and occupation (plumber). He was single and his nearest relative was his mother in N.Y.C. On the backside it reads he was admitted on February 21, 1911, and left on May 21, 1911.

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Morris Wang's handwritten application for admittance to JCRS. Includes information such as age (3), place of birth (Austria), and occupation (tailor). He was married and had two children, and his nearest relatives were in New York.

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Morris Wang's second handwritten application for admittance to JCRS. Includes information such as age (30), place of birth (Austria), and occupation (tailor). He was married and had 2 children, and his nearest relatives were his wife and cousin in N.Y.C. On the backside it reads he was admitted on September 13, 1911, and left on January 3, 1912.

Abstract Topics covered: Family background in Austria, father was a Rabbi, 9 children, 3 sons all became rabbis; fleeing Austria after Hitler took power, end of family in Europe; memories of life in Austria, came to America in 1910, first in family to come, came to New York first for 3 years, missed the mountains and came to Denver; became a sewing teacher at a factory, efforts in Denver to unionize, always working in a clothing factory, move to ready to wear made it harder to make a good living;...

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Israel Kreiner came over from Austria when he was 7 years old. He traveled across the country in a group with other Jewish families on a train from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Was part of a Jewish cooperative colony. Talks about his family and wife. His father had semicha.

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Topics covered: Early life in Austria, Chedar education, only surviving child of 10 boys (all others died in infancy, mother died at tuberculosis, Czarist Russia, Polish/Russian relations, came to US at 15 years old, memories of his grandparents, ended up in South Bend, Indiana with his uncle working with horses, went to night school to learn English, farm work, Austrian Army, married and lived in Toledo.