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Created March 24, 2022
www.harveyabrams.com

Latest updates JANUARY 14, 2026

Many updates are coming to this site during 2026. Contact me via email. Meet me in Pennsylvania for breakfast or lunch by appointment only.

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Harvey Abrams

PO Box 732
State College, PA., USA 16804
(USA) tel: (814) 321-4018
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Vienna, AUSTRIA
(AUSTRIA) tel: Ask via email:
email: Olympicbks@aol.com

I will be updating all the websites below in 2026!

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Directory & Links
I host several websites,
all are linked below


Jewish Cemetery in Floridsdorf
Ruthnergasse 24 - 26
1210 Floridsdorf, Vienna, AUSTRIA
My page is partially open - go visit....



January 14, 2026 update....
For news about the Floridsdof project click on this link:

re.Member Vienna
on FACEBOOK.

Volunteers are needed to help restore this cemetery.
Wear work clothing and sturdy shoes, garden gloves are useful.
Tools and supplies are on hand.
Everyone is welcome - no religious limitations.
Men are asked to wear hats in accordance with Jewish tradition.
No food or eating is permitted inside a Jewish cemetery.
Group meal take place after the cleanup session.




I am available to take photographs in the various Jewish cemeteries to assist you with genealogical research.
If you had family in Vienna, and know their former address, I may be able to photograph the building (or street)
where they resided, should it still exist. There are many "stolpersteine" memorials in Vienna that can also be photographed.
I charge a very small fee of $25.00 or 20 euros for visiting locations within Vienna to pay for my lunch.
My outings normally take between 3-5 hours.

CLICK HERE to READ about the "stolpersteine project"
and the artist, Gunter Demnig.
Visit his website and make a donation
to support his very distinguished project.



I can also travel to most of Europe for taking photographs or doing historical research on your behalf.
My fee is $900 per day ($3,500 for 5 days) which covers ALL of my expenses
(transportation, hotel and meals, most fees related to the research
such as entry fees or permits), More details are available upon request.

All of my photos are copyrighted (© Harvey Abrams)
and may not be published elsewhere without my written permission.
You may download copies for your own, non-commercial use.
The images are extremely large on purpose -
so use your computer to enlarge them to see very fine details.
This is necessary to read and translate the inscriptions.

The artwork on the stones is also very interesting and worthwhile to observe.
Hebrew and German are the primary languages so if your only language skill
is English then you will need translation assistance.

Under Construction

My Jewish Vienna


The history of the Jewish community in Vienna with photographs,
documentation and many links to other sources.
This is about Jewish life and history in Vienna,
which was a large and vibrant community of 200,000+ until World War II.
Approximately 140,000 fled Austria but 65,000 perished during the Holocaust.
Their names have been memorialized on a wall in a SHOAH memorial.


CLICK HERE to visit the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna, AUSTRIA

Today there are approximately 20,000 people of the Jewish faith in Vienna.


New Non-profit corporation


The Name will be announced soon

I am creating a new non-profit corporation in the summer of 2026
for the purpose of developing educational memorials for the Holocaust (Shoah).
More to be announced in the summer of 2026.



Under Construction

The Stolperstein Project in Vienna

 I will try to photograph all the Stolpersteine that have been placed in Vienna.
In addition to Gunter Demnig's project there are five Austrian Vereine
that also place similar memorials but are not associated
with the "STOLPERSTEINE" project of Demnig.
This seems to be a uniquely Austrian version.



Open...go visit....

International Institute for Sport History
Library & Museum

 The IISOH is a Pennsylvania non-profit educational, literary & research corporation
under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code.

It is organized to operate a library and museum for the History of Sport,
Physical Education, Recreaton, Dance, Sport in Art and the Olympic Games.

I founded this non-profit in 2001 and serve as the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. My professional experience has been as a Health and Physical Education teacher (BS, MAT, Ph.D/abd) in the USA and Germany. My Ph.D. specialty was History of Sport (specializing in Olympic Games) and my minor was American History. In 1979 I created an antiquarian book business to develop my own collection and help others to develop theirs. In this experience I became passionate about archival management and the preservation of history -- hence the IISOH was created. We will have a major fundraising event in 2026.

Visit our website at www.sportlibrary.org

Open...go visit....
Harvey Abrams-BOOKS


Founded in 1979.
Harvey Abrams-BOOKS is my antiquarian book business.

The main purpose was to develop my own research library for my Ph.D. in Physical Education.
My specialty was History of Sport and my minor was American History.
My Doctoral Dissertation was on the 1904 Olympic Games.

My original business focus was on selling books and printed matter.
After living in West Berlin, Germany in the early 1980's I expanded the business interests to include posters,
artwork, medallic arts and collectables. This business helped me to develop my own personal collection,
a research library that grew into one of the largest private collections on the Olympic Games in the world.

I sell new, used & rare books, posters, medals & collectables on the Olympic Games
and most sports subjects via print catalogs to libraries and collectors worldwide.

This led me to create the IISOH non-profit corporation, a separate entity than this business.
The purpose is to develop a multi-lingual Library & Museum for the History of Sport and the Olympic Games.

Harvey Abrams - BOOKS
www.harveyabamsbooks.com

Open...go visit....

Central High School of Philadelphia 226
(Class of 1967)



I created and host a website
in honor of, and in memory of the 482+ classmates from
the 1967 graduating class - the 226th class to graduate from
Central High School of Philadelphia.

Central High School of Philadelphia was founded in 1836 and is the
2nd oldest high school in the USA formed right after Boston Latin High School.

Entrance was, and continues to be, strictly limited to
high scoring students from all the junior high schools
in the city of Philadelphia. The school was originally only
a boy's high school. The Girl's High School was across the street.
Since the 1980's Central has become coeducational.

The school awards a Bachelor of Arts degree plus the high school diploma.
Students who meet the qualifications receive a BA degree instead of the diploma.

Graduating classes have been numbered since the first class graduated
in the 1800's and I was in the 226th graduating class... 1967.

www.chs226.org

Under construction since September 2022...
Private access only

Abrams / Stein / Spiegelman Family
Genealogy Project

Private access section devoted to the genealogical research on the Abrams, Stein and Spiegelman families that emigrated to the United States from Jewish communities in Russia in 1905. Family members may have access upon request and the access codes will be sent by email. Photographs are based upon the collection of Harvey Abrams and the family albums dating back to the 1930's.

All family members may submit photos to be included in the site.


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Updated July 28, 2022
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