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Interview No. 958, Esther Rollansky
Interview No. 958, Esther Rollansky
Combined Interviews
Her mother was born in the colonies and her father, Samuel, was born in Poland. Samuel was a journalist for Jewish papers, a theater critic, a scholar, and the head of the Kultur Congress. He initiated love of Jewish culture and traditions- as well as socialism-into his children. They didn't only speak Yiddish at home, they lived Yiddish culture. She attended state (public) and Yiddish laic schools and became a teacher in various Jewish schools.A s a young girl she practically lived in the Yiddish theater. She met famous people in Yiddish culture from abroad, who visited her parent's house. …
Interview No. 956, Sara Salon
Interview No. 956, Sara Salon
Combined Interviews
Her parents met in Smyrna and her father sent for her mother after he got to Posadas. They married in Paraguay because the Argentine officials didn't want to officiate over the marriage of a minor. Her mother was illiterate, yet she knew how to handle business affairs and was a musician. They participated in the small Turkish community. They moved to Corrientes and her mother's large family joined her there. The Turkish community in Corrientes was large. Her mother, with her friends, held singing and dancing sessions on Sundays to raise money to build the synagogue, which became the Asociación …
Interview No. 953, Anita Lang
Interview No. 953, Anita Lang
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Born 1918, Lang came to Argentina with her parents from Russia when she was five years old. Her parents and grandparents also were in the theater.Although her dad didn't want her to be an actress, she became one anyway. She enjoyed a happy adolescence studying and going to the Hebraica and Macabi. She started in film when a film personality saw her on the beach and asked her to come for a tryout. She acted in 8 films, one of them about a prostitute ("una mujer"). Then she got married and had two children. When she separated from her husband,s …
Interview No. 960, Bertha P. De Braslavsky
Interview No. 960, Bertha P. De Braslavsky
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Born 1913 in small town in Entre Rios, Argentina. Her parents had lived in the colonies. They were not very interested in their daughter's education, but because they moved to Buenos Aires, she was able to go beyond the 3rd grade. She finished normal school and then studied physics at the Profesorado for secondary school teachers. Here, and at the university later, she experienced persecution because of her student activism and interest in Marxism. As a result of her expulsion from her studies in 1936, she joined the Communist Youth. Eventually she earned a degree in Pedagogy from the Universidad …
Interview No. 952, Luna And Salomón Mayo
Interview No. 952, Luna And Salomón Mayo
Combined Interviews
Luna de Mayo is 98 years old and her son Salomón, a retired doctor, is in his 70s. She met her future husband in her uncle's home and her aunt said she would marry him. He was 20 and she was 17, when they arrived to Argentina. They headed straight to Posadas (by train), where he had sisters. Posadas was very poor then, and their lives were very difficult. They lived in a one room wooden house with a well and no running water. Household tasks and raising 7 children on her husband's initially meager earnings, selling in the street …
Interview No. 954, Maria Eisser
Interview No. 954, Maria Eisser
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She was born in Vienna in 1922. Her father was an Austrian industrialist and her mother a Hungarian pharmacist- the first woman to graduate with this specialty in Hungary. They lived in Vienna until she was 16, when the Nazis took over and they left for Hungary. At her mother's prompting, they left Hungary in1942 for Argentina; the trip had been planned for two years and was extremely dangerous. They took the last ship that sailed the Atlantic for South America. They were supposed to go to Brazil but wound up in Argentina instead, their stay in this country facilitated …
Interview No. 955, Eugenia Sacerdote
Interview No. 955, Eugenia Sacerdote
Combined Interviews
Born in Turin in 1910. Very antifascist-saw Peronism as reply to fascism. Father died when she was about 10 years old so, was brought up by mother. Women couldn't study at that time, so she attended the Liceo Femenino, which didn't feed into the university, and then stayed home for a year. She and her cousin, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize, and who was brought up in an even more restricted fashion, studied for one year to be able to pass certain courses to get into the university. She experienced much prejudice in medical school, but …
Interview No. 959, Ruth De Sommer
Interview No. 959, Ruth De Sommer
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Sommer left Germany at the beginning of the Third Reich, for Holland; she saw how bad the antisiemitism was. She left when she was 16, and she lived in Holland with a family, working as a nursemaid (niñera). Then she came alone to Buenos Aires in 1936; her parents arrived later. When she arrived, since she was alone (without parent's written consent) and only 20 years old, she wasn't allowed to leave the port until her aunt arrived to vouch for her. She lived with her uncle and aunt in Belgraro until her parents arrived.Her parents rented an apartment in …
Interview No. 957, Simone Barbouth
Interview No. 957, Simone Barbouth
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She was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1942. Her father had been born in Turkey, but he moved to Italy and went to Egypt to escape the racial laws. Her mother's family was also from Turkey, but she was born in Egypt. In Alexandria her family lived a very cosmopolitan life, speaking French among themselves and hardly learning Arabic. Her great-grandmother's generation of women could not read or write, although the men generally went to the university. In 1947 they moved to Italy, and in 1953 to Argentina. Some members of her father's family were living in Buenos Aires. For …
Interview No. 951, Mina Fridman
Interview No. 951, Mina Fridman
Combined Interviews
Parents from the Ukraine. She was born in Argentina in 1922. Lived much of her life in Rosarió. Though her father was of a good economic position, she imbibed communism from her Yiddish teacher. The Spanish Civil War also awoke her desire for social change. She entered the Communist party in 1940. She had been active in the Comisión de Ayuda a la Unión Soviética y Países Aliados and previously in Organización Popular contra el Racismo y Antisemitismo. She was also involved in solidarity work for political prisoners including her own husband.She her self was jailed twice. Her other activities …
Interview No. 1356, Antonio Mendoza García
Interview No. 1356, Antonio Mendoza García
Combined Interviews
Mr. Mendoza briefly talks about his family; initially, he heard about the bracero program through the radio; during the 1960s, he enlisted in the bracero program; he went through centers in Durango and Monterrey, Nuevo León, México; the center in Monterrey was a sports stadium, and people often went by to give the men free food as they waited; once in the United States, he was medically examined and deloused, like an animal; the powder used smelled horribly, and he had to wait two hours before he could wash it off; he and others were then packed into trailers like …