Achtentuch Family Collection

The collection was acquired via the Austrian Heritage Collection; it holds the following documents:

Translation of original birth certificate (from Russian into German, July 1899 by Solomon J. Horowitz); Matriculation diploma, University of Vienna, Medical Faculty, 1910; Document attesting to citizenship for the local community, by the City of Vienna (1920); Citizenship declaration (1918); Certificate of enrollment as citizen in the local community of Vienna, (Heimatschein, 1930); Identity certificate issued by the Jewish community of Brody (1918), certifying that Dr. Hersch Achtentuch and Dr. Hermann Achtentuch are the same person; Military command order to provide accommodations in a private house for Dr. Hermann Achtentuch (1918); Supplies booklet issued by military hospital in Albania (1918); Discharge certificate for Dr. Hermann Achtentuch (1918); Diploma from the Kaiser Jubilaeum Hospital (Surgical division) in Vienna attesting that Dr. Hermann Achtentuch served as surgical resident from Nov. 1916 to July 1917; Diploma from the Kaiser Jubilaeum Hospital (Gynecological division) in Vienna attesting that Dr. Hermann Achtentuch served as resident from July 1917 to January 1918; Diploma attesting that Achtentuch served in the delivery section of the First University Gynecological Clinic from 1/1918 to 2/1918 and from 12/1918 to 5/1919; Vienna Physicians Organization certifying that Achtentuch was registered for the practice of medicine in 1920; Membership card for the Economic Organization of Physicians in Vienna (1920); Austrian Identity Card (issued April 3, 1936); Prescription blank (Achtentuch, Vienna); Marriage certificate for Dr. Hersch Achtentuch and Paula Kohn (May 26, 1921); Gun permit for Achtentuch, 1924; Austrian War Memorial Medal award for Achtentuch; Letter to Achtentuch from the Military command in Vienna, dated 12/7/36, inquiring whether he would be ready to serve as examining physician for recruits in case of mobilization; Register of physicians for the 10th district of Vienna (May 1937); Letter from the Vienna Physician Organization announcing that Achtentuch has lost the right to practice medicine in accordance with the law of July 1938 (November 1938); Letter from the Vienna Physician Organization certifying that Achtentuch does not appear in the disciplinary register of the organization (March, 1938); Workers’ Sickness Insurance Institute certifies that Achtentuch served as physician for the institute from 5/20/1919 to 7/31/1938; Various diplomas from the State Board of Medical Examiners of New Jersey certifying Dr. Hermann Achtentuch as a licensed physician (May, 1944); Death certificate for Herman Achtentuch (6/1/1950); Eulogy for Achtentuch by the Passaic County Medical Society (12/13/1950); Eulogy for Achtentuch from The Beth Israel Hospital (June, 1950); Condolence letters from The Beth Israel Hospital and the Passaic County Clerk’s Office (June, 1950); New Year’s booklet by the Jewish community of Fuerth (1938); Family history of the Rosenberg family (1908); Booklet with personal accounts of Holocaust survivors (Jewish Community Center of West Hempstead 1990); Personal recollections and newspapers clippings, prepared by Herbert Achtentuch (1938-1988); Austrian passport (1938); Matriculation booklets; Original pencil drawing depicting Dr. Hermann Achtentuch in a medical ward in Albania during World War I (1918).

Addenda: Invitation for the Bar Mitzvah of Herbert Achtentuch (1935); Oneg Shabbath program during ship passage to the United States; Newspaper congratulations for the engagement of Hermann Achtentuch and Paula Kohn; Original document for donation to the Jewish National Fund at the occasion of the wedding of Paula Kohn and Hermann Achtentuch and Ketuva (1921); Telegram congratulations for their wedding; Original medical diploma for Hersch Achtentuch; Diploma for Achtentuch’s residence in the delivery clinic of the First University Gynecological Clinic 6/1919); Marriage certificate for Dr. Achtentuch and Paula Kohn (May 26, 1921); Austrian War Memorial Medal Certificate (October 8, 1934).

Photographs: Dr. Achtentuch amidst colleagues at the Vienna Kaiser Jubilaeums Hospital in Vienna (1916-1917); Family portrait; Dr. Achtentuch in a military hospital during World War I (Hungary, 1918).

Clippings: Jewish newspaper Die Stimme (various editions between 1928 and 1938); Neue Freie Presse (1915); Die Neue Welt (1927); Juedische Jugend (1936 and 1937), newspaper for the Jewish Youth of Austria; Jugend Tageblatt (1935).