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Title Interview with Ottilie Danzig Auerbach
Date 2 Feb 1992
Document Type Oral History (Audio)
Name Danzig Auerbach, Ottillie
Interviewer Barocas, Susan H
Date of Recording 2 Feb 1992
Duration 01:27:33
Library / Archive Tenement Museum, New York
Description Ottilie remembers Orchard Street and her first experiences of the area, how her parents married, where in Europe her mother and father came from and her father’s gift for accumulating money. She talks about her brother working in factories during the First World War, how she left school and her two husbands and subsequent children.
Theme(s) Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations; Religion, Ethnic Identity and Community Relations
Country (from) Ukraine; Poland
Country (to) United States of America
Places Burlington, Vermont, United States; Danzig, Poland
Ports New York City, United States
Nationality German; Spanish; Polish; Ukranian
People Danzig, Harris; Danzig, Ada; Markowitz, Jacob; Markowitz, Rachel; Danzig, Belle; Danzig, Cherry; Danzig, Abraham; Elkus, Abram; Auerbach, Irwin; Bayer, Victor
Keywords children, marriage, sanitation, Jewish, religion, poverty, food, employment, finance, factory, munitions, First World War, education, vaccination, family
Language English
Copyright Tenement Museum, New York