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Dora Shamos, audio and transcript

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“ … history collection. Tell me your name for the tape. Dora Shamos : Dora Shamos LB: And could you tell me where you were born? DS … ”
In Lucille W. Brown and Stephen M. Berk Oral Histories of American Jews

Abstract

Born in Ternivka in the Russian Empire in 1884, Dora was the youngest daughter of a businessman. Her mother died when she was seven and she was raised by her older sister and then two successive step-mothers. Dora emigrated to Atlanta, Georgia in 1911, following her husband Jacob who had preceded her there in 1908.

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