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My Father’s Great Escape: A Few Answers, Far More Questions

June 18, 2020 by Edie Jarolim 6 Comments

When I talk about my parents' forced departure from Vienna, I generally focus on the tragic outcome: the death of almost all their immediate family members, except for my father's brother, Fritz. On this Father's Day, I'd like to focus on the bravery -- combined with what must have been ingenuity and a bit of luck -- that got Paul Jarolim to America from Nazi-occupied

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Survival in Vienna: My Badass Cousin Bruno

April 23, 2020 by Edie Jarolim 6 Comments

Here's another long-time-coming post from my blog archive, this one dating back to July when my cousin Andreas Oberndorfer first discovered this blog and contacted me. I wrote about Andreas's fascinating past, the missing links in his family -- and mine -- in the post Redheads, Resisters, & Red Light Districts, 1: Valerie Oberndorfer-Kornmehl.  I have many excuses,

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19 Berggasse: A Twice-Famed Address

May 1, 2013 by Edie Jarolim 8 Comments

I've mentioned many times that this blog is a cousin magnet. I don't even have to try to attract relatives; they just gravitate towards the Kornmehl name. This is a wonderful thing, especially when I've been too busy to blog and I can entice one of the  cousins to write a guest post. A brief note.  You'll be hearing more soon about Lary Ecker, my third cousin once removed

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