AHC interview with Alfred Hellreich

August 5, 2014Digital recordingAlfred Hellreich was born Aug. 23, 1934 in Vienna, Austria, the son of Anna (born 1907) and Hermann Hellreich (born 1901). His maternal grandfather had accumulated wealth after WW I in real estate. His father owned a jewelry business in Vienna. The Hellreich family lived in a grand apartment on the Ring boulevard, in the same building with the Hotel de France. Shortly after Anschluss in March 1939 the family left Vienna for Abazzia (today Opatija in Croatia), where they stayed until March 1939, when they took the "Ile de France" from Le Havre, France to New York, arriving on March 15th 1939. They settled in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where Alfred could finish his schooling. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and graduated from SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1959. He specialized in dermatology, settling in New York City.Austrian Heritage Collectio