Made Into America: Immigrant Stories Archive

Henry Schreiber emigrated from Vienna, Austria with his family in 1939 to flee Nazi persecution. They moved to Brooklyn, New York.  Here he is interviewed by his granddaughter.         Austrian flag from 1934-1938, the time when my grandpa was growing up there.   Q: What was life like for you in Austria before you left? How did ... Read More »

My mother was born in Germany in 1927. Her dad was a dentist and her mom was a housewife. They lived in Bamburg and had a nice, comfortable, multi-story house. With the rise of Hitler, things became increasingly worse for her family. Mom, along with all the other Jewish kids in the Catholic school she attended, was thrown out of ... Read More »