New York, New York

Subjects Subjects of interview include: early life in Springfield MA; father's settling on being a Peddler; religious observance; work for a newspaper; Springfield Boy's Club; Springfield Chassidim; brother's experience as a military morgue supervisor in Wold War II and as a glazier; Family involvement with zionism; Orthodox burials; funeral services; courtship and marriage; work in sales; membership in Agudas Achim; journey to Israel; Oxies; banking; Emanual Minyanaires; Meals on Wheels; Chevra...

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Subjects of interview include: Growing up in Germany before World War 1; getting drafted into the Austrian Army; work as ballet performer; mistreatment by SS; fleeing Germany; migrating around Europe before the war; moving to Italy; being stuck in Italian concentration camp; immigration to the United States; contintuation of dance as a profession; attendance of Yale University

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Celie discusses with Emma Cohen growing up in Hartford, organizations (such as Hadassah), the Jewish Community, Working with Mother with the Sick Education, Nursing children, and Family. She also talks about her Son fighting in WWII. The start of the interview includes Cohen listing off Pessin's Honors.

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Subjects covered during interview include: Family history, immigration, immigrants, Growing up Jewish, Jewish Education, Pogroms, family death Medicine, New York, blouse shop, husband, Cultural Club, helping the workers, chicken farming, family, choir, Jewish Fraternal Organization, family, picture of choir,

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This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.

This file also contains a color photograph labled "Opening night Colchester play, Marsha (Lotstein), Susan (Wasserman), and Chris (Bailey), "Mrs. Meil and the Chicken Hawk."