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THE BURGENLAND BUNCH NEWS - No. 308 April 30, 2020, © 2020 by The Burgenland Bunch All rights reserved. Permission to copy excerpts granted if credit is provided. Editor: Thomas Steichen (email: tj.steichen@comcast.net) BB Home Page: the-burgenland-bunch.org BB Newsletter Archives: BB Newsletter BB Facebook Page: TheBurgenlandBunchOFFICIAL Our 24th year. The Burgenland Bunch Newsletter is issued monthly online. The BB was founded in 1997 by Gerald Berghold, who died in August 2008. |
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1) THE PRESIDENT'S CORNER (by Tom Steichen)  Well,
we are not virus free yet, so please stay safe! However, there is some good news leaking out... talk of reopening the
economy and even factual documentation of actual recovery. I've concluded that the world will not end from this... so hang
in there!As for this month's collection of bits and pieces (Article 1), it is truly more upbeat than last month's edition! I begin with a minor "plan for the future," one for the immediate future of BH&R. Frank Paukowits has set a goal... and asks for your help in attaining it! I then toss out a few "hotkeys" I found (hope you find them useful). I follow that with a short "status report" on Matriken.at, then jump into a longer, two-part bit on the "village of Apetlon," (which somehow became a five-part bit that includes Mariasdorf!). If Apetlon (or Mariasdorf) is one of your villages, you should read this bit. The next two bits are corona-related... the first being an optimistic status report on the "corona virus epidemic in Austria" (contrasted by a few US states) and the second being about "schools reopening in Burgenland" (I suspect parents in Burgenland are groaning with pleasure over that thought!). The next bit reports that BB member Ed Marx has made available a "transcription of Strem birth records" ...I'm always happy to report on such things! Before closing with our regular tidbit features, the monthly BB Facebook report, book sales, (no) recipe and a humor item, I share a truly "heart-warming video" (and if the little girl in it doesn't twist your heart strings like the way she twists her hair braid, yours are made of tougher stuff than mine!). Article 2 is about ORF, The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. ORF had its birth back in 1924 and quickly became a primary ingredient in flavoring the knowledge that Burgenländers received about the world. It is still a dominant media resource in Austria and its "local" state-based component in Burgenland (ORF Burgenland) is my go-to resource when I want to share current Burgenland happenings with you. Writing this article also let me point out both a book series and a television mini-series, as it was the ORF-supported mini-series that started me thinking on this topic. The remaining articles are our standard sections: Historical Newsletter Articles, (no) Ethnic Events and Emigrant Obituaries.   Reaching
a BH&R Milestone (Frank Paukowits): The Burgenländers Honored and Remembered (BH&R) module on the BB
site, at https://www.the-burgenland-bunch.org/BH&R/home.htm,
currently provides a listing of 24,263 names of deceased emigrants from Burgenland who settled in the USA and Canada. Along
with their names, the entries include the years of birth and death for each emigrant, town
of origin, where the emigrant is buried (cemetery name and location), and the
maiden names of women if married and a Burgenländerin. Not only is the BH&R a great resource for those
studying their ancestral roots, it represents a lasting tribute and memorial to our deceased Burgenländer families and
friends.However to reach our new goal of 25,000 names in our database, we need our members to provide additional names and particulars. The target date for attaining this goal is early 2021, which is the year when Burgenland will officially be celebrating its 100th anniversary of becoming part of Austria. If you have, or can get, the appropriate information for inclusion to the BH&R module, send it to either Frank Paukowits or Bob Strauch's attention at (BHandRProject@gmail.com) If you don't have all the information, send along what you have and we will try to fill in the rest. Also, if you have any questions, please send them to this email address. Hotkeys in FamilySearch Viewer: I stumbled across a few hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts) available in the FamilySearch image viewer. I'm not sure if these are documented anywhere but, if so, I've not found that documentation. Anyway, I'll share what I found and also ask that each of you tell me of any others you have found (so I can share them with the full membership). Do note that you must have clicked in the image (i.e., set the focus to the image) for these hotkeys to function.
As you can see, Austria was no longer in exponential growth. Although the graph does not show dates, the departure from exponential growth occurred on March 26th. Unless another wave hits, it is safe to say that Austria is recovering. My local press often refers to "flattening of the curve," which is somewhat different from "falling off the
line" in a graph like the one above. "Flattening the curve" is more targeted at stabilizing the current case load at a
manageable level (for hospital resource purposes). A "flattened curve," if presented like the above graph, would have the
right side of the plotted data become horizontal. That is not a bad thing, but falling of the line is much
better!
As you can see above, recent (right-most) data for Pennsylvania seems to be drifting along a horizontal line somewhere
over a thousand new cases a day; there have been enough of those days now that there is a fairly clear difference between
the exponential growth phase and this flattened curve phase. The flattening began somewhere in the
April 2nd to 9th time span. The linear fit line added to this data strongly suggests no departure from exponential growth nor a flattening of the curve (whereas, adding a similar line to the Pennsylvania data shows a clear misfit of the line to the data). To me, these charts indicate that the epidemic is "local" in nature, being in a particular stage at differing times for
different locales, making it impossible to have a universal or national "best" approach for all regions at any
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2) ORF: THE AUSTRIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION  There
is a new (2019) "psychological thriller" television series available via my local PBS station entitled "Vienna Blood,"
a series that my wife and I have been watching. It is a joint British-Austrian production, filmed in Vienna and Lower
Austria but with English-speaking actors, and is based on the Liebermann Papers, a series of novels by
Frank Tallis. The books follow Max Liebermann, a doctor and student of Sigmund Freud, as he assists police detective
Oskar Rheinhardt in investigating disturbing murders in fin-de-siècle Vienna (fin-de-siècle
is from the French, literally meaning "end of the century" but also implying "end of an era", the era
here being that of the Habsburg Empire).I have previously mentioned other books set in this time and place, specifically The Little Book by Selden Edwards (see Newsletter252#04) and the suite of novels written by J. Sydney Jones known as the Viennese Mystery series or the Karl Werthen novels (see Newsletter263#04). Like the above-mentioned books, the Liebermann series spends much of its time in cosmopolitan, upper-class Vienna... which seldom was the reality of our Burgenland ancestors. Nonetheless, the novels also make their way into the working-class neighborhoods that surrounded imperial Vienna, including a number of districts that I know the sons and daughters of Burgenland inhabited as they worked in the homes, shops and factories of Vienna. As for the Vienna Blood programming, it is not clear to me that the series will cover all of the Liebermann books... but I have not yet seen all of the episodes nor read all of the books so cannot know for sure. Author Frank Tallis is British and the titles of his Liebermann Papers books, should you be interested, are Mortal Mischief [A Death in Vienna], 2005; Vienna Blood, 2006; Fatal Lies, 2008; Darkness Rising [Vienna Secrets], 2009; Deadly Communion [Vienna Twilight], 2010; and Death and the Maiden, 2011 (some of the novels were renamed for the American market; those titles are given in []).  My purpose in mentioning this, however, was not to tell you about the books (though that is an added benefit from this effort).  Rather,
I had noted that ORF was listed in the credits as a "commisioning broadcaster" and a "production partner" for
the television series (with ZDF Germany), and I told my wife that I often presented in the BB newsletter material about
modern-day Burgenland that was based on articles or ideas from the ORF website. She, of course, had to do me the
disservice of asking what exactly ORF was and what the letters stood for... to my embarrassment, I didn't completely
know!Thus I was forced to do some research... and that research turned into this article about ORF... so here goes: The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (= Österreichischer Rundfunk = ORF) is Austria’s largest media provider, operating four national television and twelve national radio channels, as well as a comprehensive range of associated websites. ORF is a public-service foundation under Austrian law (similar to our PBS stations) and, as such, must fulfill a number of duties and mandates laid down in the establishing ORF Act of 1967. Being a public-service radio and television company, ORF is not profit-oriented; it invests all revenue—half of which comes from radio and TV license fees, the rest from advertising and other income—directly into the programs and services it provides to its ORF audiences. ORF’s main headquarters and studios are located in Vienna, but the company also operates regional studios in all nine Federal provinces and maintains a worldwide network of correspondents who contribute to its varied range of programs in all three media. Roots of ORF The roots of ORF can be traced back to 1924, when the public Radio-Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (= Radio Communication Company Ltd = RAVAG), a joint-venture of the Austrian Federal Government, the City of Vienna and several bank companies, was awarded the initial concession to begin radio broadcasting in Austria. Regular transmissions began on October 1, 1924 from provisional studios (inside the War Ministry building) that were to become known as Radio Wien. By the end of its first month it already had 30,000 listeners and then 100,000 by the start of 1925. Relay transmitters were established across the country during the next 10 years, ensuring that all Austrians could listen to Radio Wien (at a monthly fee of two schillings). The abolition of the First Austrian Republic and the implementation of the Austrofascist Ständestaat by Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß in 1934 was when politics first seriously affected the radio broadcasts. Dollfuß, a Fascist, became Chancellor in 1932 and attempted to suppress the Socialist movement during what became known as the Austrian Civil War (which was really just some skirmishes between Fascist and Socialist forces in early 1934). When he also banned the Austrian Nazi party, he was assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents. His successor Kurt Schuschnigg, maintained control until Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in 1938. In the course of the Austrian Civil War and the Nazi putsch, the RAVAG studios were demolished, so were replaced by the new Radiokulturhaus buildings (present-day Funkhaus Wien) that were erected from 1935 to 1939. The Schuschnigg government widely used RAVAG broadcasts for propaganda activities in an attempt to counter the massive cross-border Nazi propaganda broadcasts aired from German transmitters in the Munich region. With the Austrian Anschluss to Nazi Germany and the invasion of Wehrmacht troops in 1938, RAVAG was dissolved and replaced by Reichssender Wien, which was subordinate to the Nazi German Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft network in Berlin. During World War II, Reichssender Wien transmissions were used for bombing alerts. As a consequence, the Funkhaus center was damaged by Allied bombs in January and February 1945 and also during the following Red Army Vienna Offensive. Reichssender Wien last aired on 6 April 1945, then retiring SS troops blew up the transmitter. Following the end of WW-II, independent Austrian RAVAG radio broadcasting resumed in Allied-occupied Austria on 24 April 1945. A new Radio Wien station was founded and broadcasts resumed from Funkhaus Wien via a provisional transmitter on the rooftop. As the Funkhaus was located in the Soviet occupation sector of Vienna, the Western Allies established their own radio stations. The RAVAG/Radio Wien transmissions were limited to the eastern-Austrian Soviet occupation zone and, as the Cold War progressed, were increasingly considered Communist propaganda broadcasts. As a result, the Western Allied broadcasts had a significantly higher popularity rating than the outdated RAVAG transmissions and, in 1955, the various regional stations were brought together as the Österreichisches Rundspruchwesen ("Austrian Broadcasting Entity") which, in 1958, became the Österreichischer Rundfunk GmbH, the direct forerunner of today's ORF. As part of the consolidation in 1955, the company began broadcasting television.  However,
the 1955 consolidation also placed the company under direct Austrian political control, with the various political
parties having proportional representation in the company's management. In 1964, a group of newspaper editors and
journalists launched the first Austrian referendum intended to free ORF from political influence. The referendum was
a huge success, eventually leading to the ORF Act of 1967 that restored independence.Management of Modern-Day ORF ORF is led by a Director General who is appointed every 5 years and is the sole managing director of the whole organization. The Director General is the ORF representative to the public and is responsible for conducting business conformable to the law. The actual control body for ORF is its 35-member Board of Trustees. The board appoints the Director General and, at his proposal, the directors and state directors. It also approves budgets, accountings and legal transactions. The members of the Board of Trustees are appointed for 4-year terms in accordance with the provisions of the ORF Act: the Federal government appoints six members in accordance with the strength of the political parties in the National Council, plus another nine unrestricted appointees; the nine Provinces appoint one member each; the General Council (of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank) appoints six members; and the final five members are appointed by the Central Works Council of the ORF employees. There is also an Audience Council that assesses and determines the content direction of the ORF productions. ORF Offerings ORF is still the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media, in large part because Austria was the last country in continental Europe to allow nationwide private television broadcasting. Although commercial TV channels from neighboring Germany have been present in Austria on pay TV and via broadcast overspill in the border regions since the 1980s, Austrian television remained a government-owned monopoly until 1996. Currently, Austrian households can receive up to 101 TV channels (and 96 radio channels) in German, but ORF's TV channels have managed to hold on to its television market leadership in Austria with a 35.3% share (as of 2015). ORF TV Channels  ORF
1 and ORF 2 broadcast a variety of programs consisting of current news, in-depth information, documentaries, TV
magazines, reports, talk shows and movies and TV series.The target group of ORF 1 (with a 11.8 share; 2015) is young cosmopolitan and urban audiences. Its offerings includes children's programs that are free of advertisement and violence, major sports events, as well as contemporary films and TV series from Austria and the rest of the world. ORF 2 (21% share; 2015) addresses a more mature and traditional audience, broadcasting in-depth information, documentaries, and debates. Culture, religion and science also feature prominently in ORF 2 programs. ORF III is a special-interest channel for information and culture. ORF Sport Plus is a special-interest channel for sports. The ORF television channels are broadcast over-the-air and via cable and satellite. The satellite ORF 1 and ORF2 are encrypted, forcing Austrian residents to pay the Austrian television license fee (Gebühren Info Service, "GIS") to watch them. ORF2 Europe is unencrypted and receivable via satellite in Europe. ORF Radio Channels Ö1 is a special-interest channel specializing in culture and information, placing an equally-strong focus on science, religion and debates on socio-political issues. It is free of advertisement and is one of Europe’s most successful public-service radio channels. Ö3 is the mainstream radio channel of ORF, providing a mixture of music, information, comedy and services. The channel has a loyal family of listeners who regularly join in its active participation campaigns for humanitarian and social projects. FM4 focuses on contemporary youth and popular culture outside the mainstream, broadcasting in both German and English, also featuring news in French. The former Ö2 has been replaced by nine regional channels:
All of these radio channels are broadcast on FM and digitally via satellite. Further, all of ORF's domestic radio
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3) HISTORICAL BB NEWSLETTER ARTICLES Editor: This is part of our series designed to recycle interesting articles from the BB Newsletters of past years. I again go back twenty years, to when Gerry wrote a sequence of articles about the emigration process... this one was about ports of entry into the US. THE BURGENLAND BUNCH NEWS - No. 79B April 30, 2000 PORTS OF ENTRY (G. Berghold) If you were to guess that New York was the port of entry for your Burgenland ancestor, you'd probably be right most of the time. However, if your ancestors arrived before 1880 or in the late 1920's, or if they settled in the West or Midwest, or in the deep South, there is a possibility that another port might have been involved. In 1986, the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies (Philadelphia, PA) held a conference entitled "Freedom's Doors: The Other Ports of Entry to the United States." This resulted in a series of essays edited by M. Mark Stolarik and published by The Balch Institute Press, 1988. Some of what follows has been extracted from that source. While recognizing New York as the major US port (and certainly the major port of entry for Burgenländers) the essays offer as alternatives the ports of Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore as well as Miami, New Orleans, San Francisco and Los Angeles. To this I would add Galveston (prior to 1861) since I know at least one "Germanic" group arrived through this port in 1850. It included Chrisine (sic) Berghold, age 20, Fried, age 45, Jacob, age 28 and Ludwig, age 18. I've not been able to link them to my family and, from their given names, I'd guess they were either north Germans or Austrians from Styria. It is well established that there were (are) Germanic enclaves in Texas. We can't determine which of the above ports may have been used by Burgenländers since statistics merge Austrians with Germans, and Hungarians with "eastern Europeans" (a common Burgenland ethnic research irritant since we have a foot on both sides of the border); however, we can still get some guidance based on other known factors, among them being the shipping lines using particular ports. Referring to the previous article [in BB Newsletter 79B] concerning ships in excess of 15M tons, we can see that most berthed in New York, although some either continued on to Boston or arrived in Boston. I would also assume that ships under 15M tons might be more prone to using Philadelphia or Baltimore due to bay and inland waterway restrictions [for larger ships]. While ships as large as the Queen Elizabeth II (66M tons), as well as mammoth US Navy carriers, have berthed in Philadelphia and Baltimore, there are navigation difficulties. The Delaware Bay and River channels are narrow and shallow, as are the Chesapeake Bay shipping lanes. Some comments concerning these "other doors"... BOSTON This was a destination for ships from Liverpool, going well back in the age of sail, which carried a large number of English and Irish (Boston population was 75% Irish in the 1850's) immigrants, as evidenced by the heavy concentration of those ethnic groups still found in the area. There may have been a minor Germanic element, but there is not a Burgenland enclave to my knowledge. Since some German shipping firms included Boston in their scheduled sailings, I would expect it may have been the destination for Burgenländers headed to the interior or even to Canada. A good possibility for "indirect" crossings. PHILADELPHIA Another port which, in the age of sail, saw thousands of Palatinate emigrants (so-called Pennsylvania Dutch) arriving beginning 1727 and continuing well into the 1800's. Rupp, in his book "30 Thousand Names," lists the Palatinate surnames found in hundreds of ship manifests. There undoubtedly are a few Hungarians and Austrians in this group, although most are Swiss, Rhine Hessen, Würtemburgers, Bavarians, etc. It was with the coming of the steamship that Philadelphia emerged as another major port of immigration for central Europeans. In the late 1800's, the American Line was founded by the Pennsylvania Railroad and opened an immigrant station in South Philadelphia. Their ship the Ohio, began an immigrant service, Liverpool to Philadelphia. Three other steamers, the Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois joined the fleet. Later the Kensington, Southwark, Haverford and Merion joined them and immigrant entry peaked at 20M per year. The service was leased to the White Star Line in 1921. The Red Star Line connected Philadelphia to Antwerp in 1873 and operated until WW-I. The Allan Line began service from Glasgow in 1884. The Hamburg-American Line started service from Hamburg, which would have carried the bulk of the Austro/Hungarian immigrants wishing to go to Philadelphia. By WW-I, four ships sailed regularly with a stop in Boston. Other lines like Holland America, Italia and North German Lloyd followed suit. Following WW-I, quota restrictions gradually put a stop to wholesale immigration and operations gradually ceased. A number of post-WW-II refugees and a smaller group of Hungarian freedom-fighter refugees in the 1950's were also processed through Philadelphia. Living and working in Wilmington, Delaware at the time, I had occasion in the 1960's to visit Philadelphia and drive through the closed and abandoned immigrant dock areas. It was always a most haunting experience, thinking of the large numbers of immigrants who had filed through those vast warehouses. On a misty, foggy day with the river traffic sounding foghorns, you could almost see the immigrants embarking. BALTIMORE Frequently used as an early gateway to the American West, more ships carrying immigrants arrived there than its situation at the head of Chesapeake Bay would suggest. By 1830,, there were firm trade links with Liverpool and Bremen. There was a German Society, whose president, Albert Schumacher, helped create a link between German steamship lines and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. In 1867, the B&O signed an agreement with North German Lloyd to allow immigrants to purchase a ticket that would carry them across the Atlantic by ship and then west by train. If your ancestor settled in the west (without an eastern stay), there's a good possibility he came via Baltimore. Steamer Baltimore arrived with first shipload of such immigrants in 1868. Hamburg-American and Baltimore Mail Lines followed suit. An immigration station was established at Locust Point. A large hostel (boarding house) was located nearby; cost of room and board was 75 cents/day while waiting for rail transport. By 1913, immigrants averaged 40M per year. MIAMI Mostly received immigrants from the Caribbean, Bahama, Cuba and Haiti. NEW ORLEANS Much immigration occurred between 1820 and 1860, about 550,000 immigrants. Cotton ships traveling to Liverpool, Le Havre, Bremen and Hamburg needed return cargo and found it in human cargo. It was a longer voyage but cheaper (travelers' market) and a good route to the American frontier. A German Society to protect immigrants was formed in 1847. Croats from Dalmatia (Trieste area) came in the 1850's. Following the Civil War, Caribbean and Mediterranean immigrants made up most of the diminished traffic. [Ed. (TJS): My Schaefer ancestors from northern Germany arrived via New Orleans on ship "New Orleans" in 1856, then went up the Mississippi to Minnesota. It was a Schaefer man who married my Burgenländer grandmother there.] SAN FRANCISCO-LOS ANGELES Mostly Asian and Hispanic ethnic groups. |
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4) ETHNIC EVENTS (none! ...blame the virus!) LEHIGH VALLEY, PA (none) NEW BRITAIN, CT (none) ST. LOUIS, MO (none) UPPER MIDWEST (none) |
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5) BURGENLAND EMIGRANT OBITUARIES Joseph Franz Kaufmann  Joseph Franz Kaufmann from Tuckerton,
NJ, passed away suddenly on March 29th, 2020. Born on July 2, 1950, in Strem, Burgenland, Austria.In November 1954, at the age of 4, Joseph immigrated to Toronto, Canada, and continued on to New Jersey in 1963. Joseph was the son of the late Franz Kaufmann and Maria (Domitrovits) Kaufmann. Joseph is survived by not only his mother Maria but also by his wife Laurel (Kelly) Kaufmann, sister Rosemary (Kaufmann) Marino, brother-in-law Joseph Marino, nephew Anthony Marino, sister Annie (Kaufmann) Daidone, brother-in-law Thomas Daidone, nephew Maxwell Cataldo and niece Olivia Cataldo. Joseph was a graduate of Cliffside Park High School in Cliffside Park, NJ, and a graduate of Pace University in NYC. He spent many years working for FIAT and went on to work for Compass Maritime in Teaneck, NJ, until retirement. Joseph was an avid boater and had a deep love for family, the ocean and golf. Maria Jelosits (née Gröller) Maria T. Jelosits, 80 of Danbury,
Connecticut, passed away on Saturday, March 14, 2020 at her home in Danbury. She was the wife of Joseph Jelosits.Born in Gerersdorf, Austria, Maria was a daughter of the late Franz and Gisela (Wunderler) Gröller. She immigrated to the United States in April 1960. In addition to her husband of 52 years, Maria is survived by her two daughters: Anita Begley (Mike) of New Fairfield, CT; and Joann Reinhold (Lloyd) of Philadelphia, PA. Her four grandchildren: Madison, Ryan, Morgan and Megan Begley of New Fairfield, CT. Also surviving is her sister, Angela Krammer (Fritz), who resides in Vienna, Austria. She was predeceased by her brother, Franz Gröller. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30am on Thursday, Mar. 19, 2020 at St. Peter Church, Danbury. Burial will follow in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury. Friends will be received from 3:00pm-7:00pm on Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2020 at the Green Funeral Home, 57 Main St., Danbury. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Maria’s memory may be made to: Connecticut Children's Medical Center Foundation, Inc., 282 Washington St., Hartford, CT 06106 or go to: connecticutchildrensfoundation.org/ways-to-give. Anna Neubauer (née Luipersbeck) Anna M. Neubauer, 93, of Passaic, New
Jersey, formerly of Clifton, passed away peacefully on Monday night, March 30, 2020.Born in Northampton, Pennsylvania on February 24, 1927, she moved with her family at the age of two to Gerersdorf, Austria, and returned to the United States at the age of 18, living in the Clifton/Passaic area since. Anna retired from Smith Kline Beecham Co. in Clifton, at the age of 62 as a conveyor operator. Previously she worked at several other companies including Botany Woolen Mills, Passaic. She was a faithful parishioner of Holy Trinity R.C. Church, Passaic and was a member of the Burgenländer-American Society and the Golden Agers. She was predeceased by her husband of 66 years, John Neubauer (2016); her parents, Michael and Mary (née Tunkovits) Luipersbeck; two brothers, Franz and Joseph Luipersbeck; and her sister, Hedy Daber. She is survived by her two sons, John Neubauer and his wife, Kathleen of Clifton and Frank Neubauer and his wife, Rose of Bridgewater; four grandchildren, Carolyn of Lake Hiawatha, Michael and his wife, Rachel of Denville, Mark and Thomas of Bridgewater; and two great-grandchildren, Lorelei and Owen. All funeral services will be private. Mrs. Neubauer will be entombed with her husband at Calvary Cemetery, Paterson. Arrangements are by Bizub-Quinlan Funeral Home, 1313 Van Houten Ave., Clifton. Memorial contributions may be made to Holy Trinity R.C. Church, 226 Harrison Street, Passaic, NJ 07055. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.bizubquinlan.com. Ida Markezin (née Horvath) Ida Markezin, of Plandome Heights,
New York, passed away April 9, 2020 at the age of 101.Born in 1919 in Eberau, Austria, Ida was the daughter of the late Franz and Theresia (Schaffer) Horvath and the eldest of eight children. She came to the United States in 1929 and was a proud naturalized citizen of the United States. Widow of James, mother to the late Dean (Nancy), Elaine (Ross Veltri), Ernest (Mary), and grandmother to Christie, Jonathan (Courtney), Matthew, and Joe Veltri (Jaclyn Schrauger). Ida was an avid gardener, a skilled needle worker, and an accomplished cook and pastry chef. She delighted in feeding her family and extensive network of friends. She was an active member of the Hellenic Women's Club of the North Shore. She will be missed by family, friends, and neighbors. Services will be private with a memorial celebration to be scheduled at a later date. Gifts in her memory may be made to the Dean J. Markezin '66 Memorial Scholarship Fund at Lehigh University - Information Processing, 306 S. New St., Suite 500, Bethlehem, PA 18015-1652 or at giving.lehigh.edu/. Published on NYTimes.com from Apr. 11 to Apr. 12, 2020 Gustav Kanz Gustav Kanz, of Whitehall,
Pennsylvania, passed away on April 11, 2020 at the age of 88. He would have been married to his loving wife Margaret (née Medl) for 66 years this April 24th. Born in Rábafüzes (Raabfidisch), Hungary, he was a son of the late Gustav and Hildegard (Werner) Kantz. Survivors: wife, Margaret; daughters, Teri (Lou) Welnoski and Julie Tomasko; grandchildren, Matt (Traci) Welnoski, Jason (Kristy) Fiedler, Beth Tomasko, Alicia Tomasko, Robert Tomasko III; great-grandchildren, Grey, Tristan, Aubrey, Tyler; sister, Hilda Graf; and brother, William Kantz. He was predeceased by his sister Gabriella Eder and brother Rudolph. Services will be private. www.weberfuneralhomes.com Published in Morning Call on Apr. 12, 2020 Maria Messina (née Pfingstl) Maria Messina of Croton-on-Hudson,
New York, passed away on April 16, 2020 at the age of 96.Maria was born to the late John and Louise (Maier) Pfingstl on June 6, 1923 on a small farm in Grieselstein, Austria. She moved from Austria to the Bronx when she was 6 years old. Maria and her beloved husband Thomas Messina moved to Croton-on-Hudson from the Bronx in December 1959 where they raised their then 13 year old son Richard. Growing up Maria worked in her grandparent's Austrian bakery; as an adult Maria loved to cook and bake. She did volunteer work and was especially touched by her time spent nurturing babies at a local hospital. In recent years, Maria enjoyed attending Croton Caring Committee events and being an active member of the Croton Seniors and attending Mass at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church. Maria is survived by her cherished son Richard Messina, nephew Ronnie Peterson his wife Eileen and their children Ava and Kevin, and nephew Frankie Peterson and his son Alex. Maria was predeceased by her husband Thomas Messina in January 1989 and by her brother John F. Peterson. Maria loved and was loved by many close friends and will be missed by all who knew her. Published in the The Journal News from Apr. 22 to Apr. 23, 2020 Steven Karlovics Steven Karlovics, of Gurnee,
Illinois, passed away on April 17, 2020; was a self-made man; was a native of Schandorf, Austria; ...was a physicist; spoke 5 languages; led his high school soccer team to a national championship in Austria; was an engineer for the Zenith Corporation designing picture tubes; owned the El Rancho Motel in Gurnee; loved blue collar people and the Gurnee Legion; was friendly, approachable, generous; was quick to donate to charitable causes or help people in distress; was proud of his American citizenship and his Austrian heritage; and ...is survived by his wife, Irene, his sons, Paul and Peter, and his grandchildren Stephanie, Elizabeth, Michael, Matthew, Andrea, and Vincent. No flowers, please. Instead, send donations to the American Friends of Austria, c/o Trudy Nika, Treasurer, 7157 Dexter Road, Downers Grove, IL 60516. Published in a Chicago Tribune Media Group Publication on Apr. 24, 2020 Theresa Handlos (née Schreiner) Theresa Handlos, of Austin, Texas,
passed away peacefully on April 25, 2020, just one month short of her 97th birthday.She is reunited in heaven with her husband William A. Handlos and daughter Laura Handlos Blood. She was a devoted mother and "Oma," survived by daughters Marie Cleland of Austin, TX; Dianne (Yves) Parapel of Sheboygan, WI; and Lisa Radelet of Longmont, CO, as well as seven grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Theresa was born in Eltendorf, Austria, to the late Josef and Emma (Decker) Schreiner and immigrated to Milwaukee in 1936 at the age of 13, where she lived until moving to her daughter's in Austin in 2017. When travel is possible again, a memorial service will be held at Covenant Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, where Theresa had been a devoted member for many decades. Donations in Theresa's memory may be made to Covenant Lutheran Church, 8121 W Hope Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53222. Published in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel from Apr. 27 to May 3, 2020 |
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Online
Burgenland Catholic Church Books: It appears that the corona virus has stopped any progress on the Matriken.at site.
No noticeable change s have occurred, though the site remains open. The pay options remain: 10 EUR for 15 days, 20 EUR
for 3 months and 50 EUR for 1 year, and the count of available parishes online remains at 63 [of the intended 172
parishes].
Coronavirus
in Burgenland? Unfortunately, the answer remains "yes." As of April 28nd, the Burgenland government corona virus
website (
The
Facebook Bunch (from Vanessa Sandhu):
Update
for book "The Burgenländer Emigration to America": Here is this month's update on purchases of the English issue of
the 3rd edition of Dr. Walter Dujmovits' book "Die Amerika-Wanderung Der Burgenländer."
ORF’s
regional studios in the nine Austrian provinces each produce their own radio programs around the clock, as well as half an
hour of regional TV news every day, which are broadcast in "local windows" on ORF 2. Even though each state has its
own studio, most ORF productions are heavily focused on Vienna, since most shows are made there. Off the air, the
regional studios have established themselves as an important vehicle for local culture in their province.