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Field name | Value |
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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 |