Conversation with Kitty Weiss Penner, Fritzi Zinger Nozik, Henny Wenkart, and Robert Braun
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MPEG-4
Biographical History
Dana and Richard Knox donated the group conversation featuring Kitty Weiss Penner, Fritzi Zinger Nozik, Henny Wenkart, and Robert Braun to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2021. Dana and Richard Knox recorded the conversation by video conference call in October 2021. Kitty Weiss Penner, Fritzi Zinger Nozik, Henny Wenkart, and Robert Braun were joined on the call by Betsy Mendelsohn, daughter of Robert Braun; Shari Glauser and Gayle Herman Sorkin daughters of Kurt Herman, who became President of Brith Sholom; Charlie Penner and Jonathan Penner, sons of Kitty Weiss Penner; Julia Penner, granddaughter of Kitty Weiss Penner; Tina Coverman, daughter of Inge Weiss Michaels; Naomi Deutscher and E. Michael Deutscher, niece and nephew of Edmund and Siegmund Deutscher; Ari W. Epstein, son of Henny Wenkart; Joyce Davis and Seth Davis, children of Elizabeth Zinger; Mark Goldstein, son of Ella Spiegler; Marc Feldman and Dana Knox, children of Ruth Taub Feldman; Ashley Knox Schild and Madison Jade Schild, granddaughter and great granddaughter of Ruth Taub Feldman; Richard Knox, son in-law of Ruth Taub Feldman; Steve Rosenberg and Lisa R. Efron, son and daughter of Kurt Rosenberg; Honey Braun and Betsy Mendelsohn, wife and daughter of Robert Braun; David Milberg, son of Helga Weisz; Sidney Steinberger and Ruthie Pincus, son and daughter of Inge Braunwasser Steinberger; Julia V. Levitt and Staci Steinberger, grandchildren of Inge Braunwasser Steinberger; Jeffrey Haber, son of Fritz (Fred) Haber; Anita Lee, daughter of Klara Ratner Lee; Fredalyn Brown, daughter of Congressman Leon Sacks; Karina Schless, granddaughter of Robert Schless; Adam Denish of the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center; and USHMM curator Grace Cohen Grossman.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dana and Richard Knox
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Kraus, Gilbert, 1897-1975.
- Kraus, Eleanor, 1903-1989.
- Nozik, Fritzi, 1930-
- Braun, Robert.
- Wenkart, Henny, 1928-
- Penner, Kitty Weiss, 1933-
Subjects
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Persecutions--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Jewish children--Austria.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Jews, Austrian--United States.
Genre
- Oral History