AHC interview with Isabella Deutsch.

May 8, 2015Isabella Deutsch, née Geller was born 1/14/1927 in Vienna, Austria, the second child of Nathan Geller, who was in the textile business, and Pepi Geller. Both parents hailed from Poland, where they had been raised in orthodox Jewish households. Isabella’s family lived in Adamsgasse 4 in the 3rd district of Vienna. They liked to spend their weekends on "Ausfluege" (leisure trips) or visiting their uncles and aunts. Family vacations were spent in Reichenau and Payerbach, both popular tourism destinations at the time, and her parents “took the waters” in the thermal springs of Bad Schallerbach.Until September 1938, Isabelle attended primary school followed by high school in "Radetzky -Realgymnasium". After Anschluss" in March of 1938, some of her own and her parents’ non-Jewish friends avoided her family. Isabelle's older brother Max was arrested on September 10th, 1938 and sent to Dachau; after his release several weeks later, he immigrated to the US, followed by Isabelle and her parents in late November 1939. Affidavits were provided by an aunt of Pepi Geller. After their arrival, the family moved to Belleville, NJ where Nathan Geller had found work. Isabelle Deutsch graduated from Belleville High School in 1945 and subsequently enrolled at NYU, earning her bachelor's degree in accounting in 1949. She worked at real estate companies until marrying Louis Deutsch in 1951; she later got a teaching certification in math.Austrian Heritage Collectio