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In Alumni Files

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In Alumni Files

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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In this interview, Sarah remembers her family's life in Bialystok and the conditions that led to their leaving for the United States in 1911.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Morris Fischer tells his story of rising up from poverty and hard times which came from war, revolution and pogroms. His mother died young, leaving six small children. His father, a laborer, had trouble feeding his young family.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Morris (Moishe) Wax remembers his father as a pious man who was a little "progressive" for his times. Before World War I, he'd had a thriving atelier making the latest Paris fashions for the landowner ladies in their district. World war came, then the Russian Civil War, chaos, starvation, and pogroms. Morris' father died in 1922 as a result of the injuries inflicted on him by pogromchiks. With no father to provide for them, Morris, his mother and sister hoped to join an older brother and sister in the United States. They were able to get to Antwerp, Belgium where they awaited passage to the United States. While in Antwerp, the U.S.passed the Immigration Act of 1924 limiting the number of Jews, along with other groups, who could enter the country. Morris' mother was allowed to go. Her two teenage children stayed in Antwerp for three more years.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Olga Prince, nee Kolker, by Lucille Brown of Union College. Olga was born in Odessa in present day Ukraine in 1906.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Marie Golden Wexler by Lucille Brown of Union College. She was born on September 29, 1900 in Sernye, Hungary.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Beatrice Kaufman by Lucille Brown of Union College. Beatrice was born on April 11, 1900 in Priluka, Russia.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Israel Schochet by Lucille Brown of Union College. Israel was born in 1898 in Strijavka, Ukraine.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Harry Cokin by Lucille Brown of Union College. Harry was born in Senno, Russia in 1895.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Rivka Woll by Lucille Brown of Union College. Rivka was born around 1900 in a small time called Lyelchitz in Russia.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Milton Prince by Lucille Brown of Union College. Milton was born in 1900 in Knyazha, Russia.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Irving Skolnick by Lucille Brown of Union College. Irving was born in Bratslav, Ukraine in 1902.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Conversation

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Audio and transcript of an interview with Boris (Benjamin) Wexler by Lucille Brown of Union College. Boris was born in Odessa, Russia on July 12 in 1894.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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The seventh of eight children born to a leather manufacturer, Julia Kay became a successful clothing designer and business owner in Lodz just before the Second World War began. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, her life came to a crashing halt.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Matthew (Matty) Kaufman grew up with three other subjects among these interviews: Phillip (Pinah) Charash, Solomon (Shlomo) Wernick and Sonia Uchin Wernick. The three boys shared their early lives together in Novye Priluki. In this interview, Matthew Kaufman recalls those days. Because Matty had an older brother, Morris, already living in the United States, he was able to leave Russia in 1912, before the First World War, the Russian Revolution and Civil War and the pogroms which devastated Priluka. Beatrice Borko Kaufman, whose interview is also in this collection, was married to Matthew's younger brother Nathan. Beatrice and Nathan joined this group of Priluka landsmen in New York City in 1923.

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In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

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Conversation

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