LANGUAGE OF EMIGRATION
an ongoing project I started in 1999 - interviewing and photographing mostly german speaking emigrants from Europe who came from approx. 1930 - the early 1950s - victims of Nazi terror
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration
Kurt Frankfurter, 1999
4 images 20x 24 inches / 1 b/w and 1 color image on a board of 20 x 34 inches
DVD 55 min, Edtion 3/3
born / Geboren: Wien 1920
Emigration: Vienna /Wien – Belgium / Belgien 1938, Belgium /Belgien – Auschwitz 1942, Auschwitz – Buchenwald 1945, Buchenwald – Theresienstadt 1945, Theresienstadt – Belgium / Belgien 1945, Belgium / Belgien – New York 1952
Profession / Beruf: waiter (retired) / Kellner in Ruhe
Interview: New York 12/26/1999
Video and individual images of Kurt Frankfurter
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration
Gustav Freud, 2000
5 images 20x 24 inches / 1 b/w and 1 color image on a board of 20 x 34 inches
DVD 104 min, Edition 3/3
born / Geboren: Wien 1920
Emigration: Vienna /Wien – Belgium / Belgien 1938, Belgium /Belgien – Auschwitz 1942, Auschwitz – Buchenwald 1945, Buchenwald – Theresienstadt 1945, Theresienstadt – Belgium / Belgien 1945, Belgium / Belgien – New York 1952
Profession / Beruf: waiter (retired) / Kellner in Ruhe
Interview: New York 12/26/1999
Video and individual images of Gustav Freud
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration
Erika Stone, 1999
6 images 20x 24 inches / 1 b/w and 1 color image on a board of 20 x 34 inches
DVD 45 min, Edition
born / Geboren: Frankfurt 1924
Emigration: New York 1936
Profession / Beruf: photographer
Interview: New York, 11/27/1999
Video and individual images of Erika Stone
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration
Irene Lewis, 1999
6 images 20x 24 inches / 1 b/w and 1 color image on a board of 20 x 34 inches
DVD 62 min, Edition 2/4
Born in Karlsruhe 1920
Deportation in 1942 to concentration camps in Estonia, Talin, Danzig and Posen
Emigration, New York 1947
Profession: retired nurse
apprx. 60 min Video, 8 photographs (
24 x 20 inches, 61 x 51 cm)
Video and individual images of Irene Lewis
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration
Bertold Adler, 2005
9 images 20x 24 inches / 1 image 20 x 34 inches
DVD 70 min, Edition 3/3
Born in Huettengesaess / Ronneburg 1928
1935 Frankfurt Main
1941 deportation from Frankfurt to Minsk, concentration camps in Budzin, Flossenburg Liberation: April 1945
New York 1946
Retired1992 worker
Video and individual images of Bertold Adler
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration
Barbara Haimerl, 2000
6 images 20x 24 inches / 1 b/w and 1 color image on a board of 20 x 34 inches
DVD 54 min, Edition 3/3
born / Geboren: Zachenberg, Bayern, 1925
Emigration: New York 1951
Profession / Beruf: Cleaning lady (retired) ss/ Raumpflegerin in Ruhe
Interview: New York 3/31/2000
Video and individual images of Barbara Haimerl
Sprache der Emigration, Ilse Kahane / Language of Emigration, Ilse Kahane, 2005
born: Frankfurt / Main 1925
deported: 1942 to Talin, Estonia follwing camps: Jagula, Reval, Erida, Golofilz, Stutthof, Ocksenzoll/Neungamme, Bergen-Belsen (Liberation 15. April 1945 from Bergen-Belsen)
Emigration to New York: 1946
retired: artist
Pictures of Emigration / Bilder der Emigration
Mary Silverman, 2008
15 images 24 x 32 , DVD
Video and individual images of MARY SILVERMAN
Language of Emigration / Sprache der Emigration: Hannelore Marx
born / Geboren: 1922 Stuttgart
Deportation to Riga 1941, various concentration camps: Jungernhof, Meteor, Kaiserwald, Stutthof; liberation: 1945 March
New York 1946
Profession / Beruf: various jobs including work in the jewlery business
Interview: New York 3/10/2010
Hannelore Hahn - Dresden
Sprache der Emigration, Hannelore Hahn / Language of Emigration, Hannelore Hahn, New York 2006
geboren/born in Dresden, 1926
Emigration/ emigration 1937 > Tschechien /Tchec republic > 1938 New York
Beruf / profession: writer and founder of The International Women's Writing Guild
3 families: Lederer, Indenbaum, Schlanger
Clara Ringel - survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Sprache der Emigration, Ilse Kahane / Language of Emigration, Clara Ringel, 2005
born: deported: Emigration to
retired:
Ralf Freedman - force emigration 1939 from Hamburg -- interview is transcribed