AHC interview with Ernest Haim

October 21, 2014Digital recordingErnest H. Haim was born 7/2/1932 in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in the mainly non-Jewish third district of Vienna, Landstrasse. Ernest Haim attended grade school in Vienna until the age of seven. He and his family were smuggled out of Austria into Germany and subsequently via a double partitioned truck ferried into Belgium by the underground. The Haim family left Belgium on December 29, 1939, only two months before it was invaded by Nazi Germany. They arrived in the U.S. on March, 21, 1940. Others in his extended family emigrated to France and settled there. –In the U.S, the Haims lived at their uncle's apartment in Newark, New Jersey until 1950, when Ernest graduated from high school. Afterwards, he moved to Brooklyn and studied at the Pratt Institute. During the Korean war, Ernest Haim was drafted into the army and stationed in France. 1959-1967, he returned to France as an army instructor. He then worked as a freelancer on the digitization of graphic design for numerous publishing houses and magazines both in England and the U.S., settling in Warwick, NY.Austrian Heritage Collectio