Life in Europe

Transcript at age 101. Part of the transcript is confusing as it is not the usual typed format. Difficult to tell what she said and what was paraphrased by the person typing it.

Interesting as she remembers aspects of life during both world wars

Single newspaper article relating Holocaust experience to ethnic cleasing in Bosnia.

One 4x6 color photograph is of Serene Hackel. Rest of photos are of various objects inside her house, pieces of art made by her father, including a ceramic dish with the names of people he fought. January 18, 2012.

Topics discussed in interview: Father's (Johnnie Sheppard) career as a Prize fighter, his immigration to London from Roumania, then later to America via Canada, and his career as a furrier and an artist. Also includes her family history in New York and Connecticut.

This document contains a translation of an interview conducted in French on the behalf of the Shoah Project with Bronia Hacker, who is the sole survivor of a once large Jewish family who lived in Poland before WWII.

Subjects: History of Jewish Education. Europe, America, Hartford, school construction synagogues, programs, interactive, working with public systems, colleges and universities special education, teachers, day school, religious education outreach, reading,

Speaker: Alfred Weisel