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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Brickman, Shirley (personal name)","Atlanta, Ga (geographic term)","World War II (named event)","Young Judaea (corporate name)","Emory University (corporate name)","dentistry (topical term)","grocers (topical term)","Chattanooga, TN (geographic term)","community involvement (topical term)","Conservative Judaism (topical term)","William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum (corporate name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eShirley Berkowitz Brickman interviewed by Nancy Pollard on November 12 and 21, 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShirley Berkowitz Brickman was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1935.  Her parents, Irving and Rose Berkowitz, owned a grocery store.  Shirley grew up in their home above the store and also worked in it.  She attended public schools and received her religious education in Sunday school.  Her family belonged to Ahavath Achim congregation.  She married Stanley Perry Brickman, an oral surgeon in Atlanta.  They have three children: Jeffrey, Lori and Teresa.  Shirley has been active in many organizations in Atlanta including Hadassah, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, and the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum where she is a docent.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShirley talks about her ancestors and the extensive influence her parents had on her values, her work ethic, her religious perspective, and her views on raising her own children.  She reflects on her life in Atlanta as a child and how the city and the Jewish community, in particular, have changed during her lifetime.  She discusses meeting her husband, dating, their early marriage, the development of his career as an oral surgeon, and their life together.  Shirley talks about the influence of their travel during several Jewish Federation mission trips and how she became more observant, keeping a kosher home, observing the Sabbath, and eventually moving from Ahavath Achim to attending Beth Jacob, the Orthodox synagogue not far from her home.  She talks lovingly about her children and grandchildren.  She also discusses her work with various Jewish organizations over the years including the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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We are in Atlanta, Georgia. My name is\nNancy Pollard. I am conducting an interview with Shirley Brickman. Shirley's\nhome is the place of the interview at 1731 Reindeer Drive ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Northeast, in Atlanta.\nPlease state your name.\n\nBRICKMAN: Shirley Berkowitz Brickman.\n\nPOLLARD: You had a middle name when you were born?\n\nBRICKMAN: I did and I would rather not divulge it. Shirley Brickman, 'middle\nname unknown.'\n\nPOLLARD: Did you ever have a nickname that you were given as a child?\n\nBRICKMAN: Interestingly enough, there were three girls in our house. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother\nused to call me 'Jingle Bell' because she said I was very lively. It could have\nmeant noisy, but she would say, \"Jingle Bell, come in here.\" I knew that was me.\n\nPOLLARD: Was your first name a name that was chosen because it was named after somebody?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was named after my mother's Uncle Shmuel who was born and raised in\nEurope. I asked about him and why she had chosen that name. She said that he was\na very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good-natured man. He was very kind to her, and she loved him very much.\nThat was a compliment to him and certainly one for me.\n\nPOLLARD: When were you born?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was born August 22, 1935, in Atlanta, Georgia at Georgia Baptist Hospital.\n\nPOLLARD: What is your ethnic background?\n\nBRICKMAN: Jewish, born and raised.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: What was your mother's name before she was married?\n\nBRICKMAN: Her maiden name was Rose Silverzweig... S-I-L-V-E-R-Z-W-E-I-G. When\nshe came to America in 1921 and went to work, she shortened it to 'Silver.' I do\nnot know if she did it officially, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rose Silverzweig was her maiden name.\n\nPOLLARD: Can you tell me your mother's date of birth?\n\nBRICKMAN: Mama, may she rest in peace, was born on April 12, 1902.\n\nPOLLARD: The place of her birth?\n\nBRICKMAN: She was born in Warsaw, Poland.\n\nPOLLARD: What was the size of her family?\n\nBRICKMAN: Mama was one of three girls. She had an older sister whose name was\nMolly. [Mama] was the middle one and she had a younger sister whose name was Anna.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: The town that she came from?\n\nBRICKMAN: All of them were born in Warsaw, although my mother moved when she was\nabout seven years old to a small town called Zamosc [Polish: Zamość] ...\nZ-A-M-O-C-S -- maybe a 'z' is thrown in there, too -- Poland. Would you like for\nme to explain why she moved? My mother's mother, my grandmother, had three girls\nas I just mentioned. She was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married to my grandfather, Sam. He went to visit a\nfriend of his who had typhoid fever. My grandmother said she thought that was a\nvery poor idea. A lot of people were sick in town from typhoid, typhus. He\ninsisted. It was a very good friend of his. He went to visit him. When he came\nhome, shortly after that he was stricken with the same thing. He got well,\nmiracu1ous1y. My grandmother got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"typhoid fever and she died. My oldest aunt,\nTante -- which is Yiddish for 'aunt' -- Molly, was almost five at the time. My\nmother was about two and her younger sister was about nine months old. My\ngrandfather was very concerned because he had three little girls. It was very\ndifficult or impossible for him to work and take care of them. He quickly\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married my grandmother's sister, Hinda -- 'Hilda' in English. That was not an\nuncommon thing to do in those days. People did not live as long. They did not\nhave the antibiotics we have today to get rid of diseases and health problems.\nHe married Bubba Hinda very quickly. When Mama was about seven years old, her\ngreat-aunt -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Elder Tante [Leah], came to visit. She said it was a lot for them\nto take care of. She would take one of the children to live with her. She chose\nmy mother, which was very fortunate. My mother had been born in her home about\nseven years earlier. She said -- I am thinking in Yiddish, so I will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have to\nthink in English--\" I'll take this child to me because she was born by me,\"\nmeaning in her home. Mother was very lucky. This aunt and uncle, who had no\nchildren of their own, had a little bit more financially than her stepmother did.\n\nPOLLARD: What were their occupations?\n\nBRICKMAN: My uncle had a granary of some kind. He also owned his home, which was\na little bit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"unusual. There was a lot of poverty in the early 1900's amongst the\nJewish people in this particular part of the country. He owned his home, which\nmeant that you could send a child to school if you owned property. If you\ndidn't, you couldn't go to a regular school. Mama was able to go to school which\nher other two sisters were not able to do. She got a very nice education. She\nstayed with this great-aunt until ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came to America in 1921. I will back up a\nlittle bit. My grandfather, once he remarried, wanted very much to come to\nAmerica, so he left Zamosc. He came back once or twice; each time my mother's\nstepmother was pregnant with another child. There were the three girls to begin\nwith. An aunt, an uncle, and then one more was born in America ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when the whole\nfamily came in the 1920's. That aunt is the only one who is still living. My\nAunt Pearl was born on July 4th. None of the sisters or uncles are living,\nexcept Aunt Pearl. She talks very funny because she lives in New York.\n\nPOLLARD: How old is she now in 2002?\n\nBRICKMAN: She is in her eighties. If I am 67, she is probably in her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"early\neighties and a wonderful woman.\n\nPOLLARD: When your mother came to this country, did she have an easy time? What\nwas her description of her life as a new immigrant?\n\nBRICKMAN: She lived with this great-aunt. When the other part of the family had\nbeen sent money by my zeyde -- my grandpa -- to come to America, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he did not\ninclude my mother. He said, \"You are living with someone who can take care of\nyou. You have a pretty good life. You're fed, you're going to school, she buys\nyou clothes, you have friends. Why don't you just stay in Europe? The rest of\nthe family can come to New York. We'll start a new life in the free world where\nyou can make a little more and have an easier life.\" My mother was very upset by\nthis. At the time, it was 1921. She was maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"18, 19 years old. She was\ndistraught. She wrote to her mother's brother, who lived in Atlanta, Georgia, my\n[great] uncle, Max Blank. At that particular time, he was very involved with\nQuality Service Stores, which was the name of the organization that oversaw a\nlot of the little grocery stores. She wrote to him saying, \"I am so sad. My\nwhole family is going to a new world, and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"want to go, too. What can I do?\" He\nsent her passage money. She got on the same ship as her stepmother and her\nlittle sister. She was very excited about that. Her older sister had gone with\nGrandpa. It was a horrible trip across. It was a long time ago. The trip took\nmore than three weeks across the ocean. She was sick.\n\nPOLLARD: Did she ever mention the cost of the passage?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRICKMAN: She said she felt so sick most of the way. She remembers how they were\nsleeping in bunks that were not very comfortable. When they got to America, got\noff the ship, and came through Ellis Island, they noticed that her stepbrother,\nUncle Harry, had some skin disorders. They were going to send the whole crew\nback. The [family] said that they would be willing to stay, have someone check\nit out, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and maybe they could all remain in America. They were very frightened by\nthis. After about three days, they let them stay here. When you come to this\ncountry, you have to have someone responsible for you. Her dad was here. He met\nthem when they came in and took them to some little apartment on the Lower East\nSide in New York [City -- New York]. That is quite a crew coming in at the same\ntime. I have the manifest from the trip. They list who was on there, how old\nthey were, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and how much money they brought with them, which was next to nothing\n-- less than $10. It was a new world. This was 1921 and that was really toward\nthe end of quota systems. You weren't allowed to come in too much after that.\nShe was quite fortunate.\n\nPOLLARD: Did she bring anything from the family in the way of possessions that\nstill exist today?\n\nBRICKMAN: Lots of stories. I asked her when she was still alive, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"may she rest in\npeace, \"What did you bring from your great aunt's home?\" \"Nothing.\" I said, \"I\nnotice that you had a picture with this.\" She had on a beautiful locket. \"I left\nit.\" She used to go in great detail telling me how good her great-aunt was with\nher hands. She sewed beautiful things, did crochet work, and did rug making. She\nbrought nothing with her except memories. This aunt and uncle ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"passed away of\nillness and old age in Europe prior to the Holocaust. They kept in touch with\nMama for many years. She stopped getting mail and realized they weren't here\nanymore. They were very good to her.\n\nPOLLARD: Did she stay in New York for some time?\n\nBRICKMAN: Mama came to New York in 1921. She lived on the Lower East Side for a\nshort period of time. She never was excited ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or close to her stepmother -- not\nthat she knew her mother -- but the woman had a hard time. She did not have a\nlot of money. That was my step-grandma. She was not a stingy woman, but Mama had\ncome from a home that had given her a little more. She had worked hard. She had\nalways helped at home. This woman had a difficult time and was very, very\nstrict. Mother was not accustomed to that.\n\nPOLLARD: When your mother got here, what occupation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did she take up?\n\nBRICKMAN: She went to night school right away. She could sew, as a lot of women\nwho came from Europe could. They had a lot of talents we have forgotten today.\nThey have even cut out Home Ec. She got a job in a sweat factory making the\nlinings of the inside of caps. After she had worked there a short period of time\nand going to night school at night, she decided she did not want to live with\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her stepmother anymore, which was not a very common thing. You stayed with\nfamily, crowded as it was. One night, in night school, she was talking to one of\nher friends, Nettie... N-E-T-T-I-E. I cannot remember her last name. [My mother]\nsaid, \"Where do you live?\" [Nettie] said, \"I live in someone's apartment, in a\nlittle room by myself. I know a woman who has an extra room, and you can be a\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boarder,\" which was not uncommon then.\" You can stay there, pay her a little\nrent money, go to work with me, go to night school with me, like we've been\ndoing. You might be happier.\" She introduced my mother to this lady whose name\nwas Dora Budah... B-U-D-A-H. She offered Mother this tiny room with a bed and a\ndresser. Mother took it. She had lived there for a while and Mrs. Budah said to\nher one day, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I have a very nice younger brother I would like for you to meet.\"\nMother said, \"I'm not interested in boys. I just want to work and make a\nliving.\" She said, \"He's very nice.\" \"How old is he?\" [Nettie] told her. \"What's\nwrong with him?\" \"Nothing.\" \"Is he a nice boy?\" \"He's my baby brother and I love\nhim to pieces.\" \"I'll meet him.\" She introduced Mama to this man, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whose name was\nIrving Berkowitz. The first time she met him, she said to her friend, \"He's such\na baby. He's like a little boy. I'm not interested in somebody like that. I want\nsomebody more grown up who can take care of me.\" My daddy, bless his heart, was\nan adorable man with a great personality. He must have really smitten her\nbecause they went together for a while, eventually got married, and lived in New York.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: What year did they marry?\n\nBRICKMAN: February 22, 1930, in a big hall in New York. Remember, Mother had no\nmoney so she could not sponsor the wedding. My father's father said, \"I like her\nand I'll give you money for the wedding.\" It was a beautiful wedding. I have a\ngorgeous picture here. I will show you. I said, \"Mother, your gown was\nmagnificent. Where is it?\" \"I rented it.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"And your veil is so beautiful.\" \"I\nrented it.\" \"And the pearls?\" \"I rented them.\"\n\nPOLLARD: This was this a common way of obtaining weddings?\n\nBRICKMAN: In those days, when you did not have a lot of money, you did. I have\nnone of those treasures. She said, \"Your papa was so excited the night of the\nwedding, he danced the whole night and the bow tie that was supposed to be in\nthe front was in the back.\"\n\nPOLLARD: How long did they know each other before they married?\n\nBRICKMAN: About three years.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: Did he have other family besides his sister?\n\nBRICKMAN: He had two older brothers, Uncle Phillip, Uncle Abe, his sister, Aunt\nDora, and Daddy. His mother and father were also living in New York at that\ntime. His mother's name was Tema... T-E-M-A, after whom our middle daughter is\nnamed. His daddy's name was Meyer. Wonderful people. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Unfortunately, I only\nvisited with them about three times while they were alive. In those days, we\nwould take a train to New York for a special occasion, someone's khasene\n[Yiddish: wedding], or G-d forbid a funeral. My Grandpa came to Atlanta one\ntime. I really did not see them much. I did not have the kind of relationship\nthat we can offer to our children here, which is too bad. I do have a lot of\nstories about them. They were very good, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"honest, hard-working, precious people.\n\nPOLLARD: When your grandparents passed away where were they buried?\n\nBRICKMAN: New York, in the Bronx. In fact, all of the family that was in New\nYork remained in New York. My father was the only child on his side who left New\nYork and came to the South, which was very difficult for them to understand. It\nmade no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sense to them.\n\nPOLLARD: This was after your parents married?\n\nBRICKMAN: They married in 1930. They both worked in the sweat factory. My father\nwas making the leather for the tops of shoes. He has an interesting background,\ntoo. Should I back up and tell you a little about that? Daddy was born the same\nyear Mama was. He was born in a very small town called Lask... L-A-S-K, or Lusk\n[Polish: Łask] as it is pronounced in Poland. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They did not know each other in\nEurope. His father came to America very early, the early 1900's, as a lot of\nthem did. My father was raised by his grandfather. His grandfather did some kind\nof work that had to do with saddles. My father remembered these awful odors from\nsaddle making leather goods he worked with. They had a very poor background. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He\nremembered that the floor of his house was dirt. His Mama was a sweet,\nwonderful, hard-working woman. Zeyde -- Grandpa -- raised my father. Taught him\neverything Jewish. He walked to shul with him on a weekly basis. He learned how\nto be a good Jewish boy. He loved this man. He was very good to him. They were\nvery close. Zeyde, my great-grandpa, remained in Europe, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but my father's mother\nand father eventually came to America. My father came here in 1919 by himself.\nHe was a young boy. He tried coming a few years earlier, but they stopped him at\nthe border for some unheard-of reason. They said that he could not legally pass\nat that time. He was a kid. He said, \"I remember going across fields late at\nnight just trying to find my way to a border.\" It is not like today ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when you get\non a plane with a ticket, you take off, and you know where you are going. He\nknew nothing. He said the guard, when he found him, had slapped him across the\nface, turned him around a couple times. The force of the slap flipped him a\ncouple of times and they sent him back to his hometown. Very shortly after that,\na couple of years later, he tried it again. This time, his zeyde took a picture\nof him, tore it in half, gave half to my father, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably bribed someone at the\nborder, and they matched up the picture when he came through. Do not ask me the\ndetails. That is the story I heard. He came across by himself. He was very\nyoung, maybe 17. He could not come through Ellis Island. They sent him to\nCanada. He stayed in Canada about a year before he had the opportunity to come\nto New York. His father was in New York and could sponsor him. Somehow or other,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think he had to remain in Montreal or Toronto [Canada]. I cannot remember\nwhere they sent him. He stayed up there for a short period of time. He came to\nNew York to the home of his father. His mother followed very shortly thereafter.\nAn older brother was already here with Grandpa. He lived with him for a while,\ngot a job and then, fast forward, he met my mother at his sister's house.\n\nPOLLARD: His name ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was Irving?\n\nBRICKMAN: Irving, Itzchak... I-T-Z-C-H-A-K. That was his Hebrew name, Itzchak. I\nhave a lot of family members who have changed their name from Berkowitz to\n'Berkley' to 'Berke.' I even have a distant cousin whose father went to England\nwhen my grandpa came to America. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That young man, whom I met about 15 years ago,\nchanged his name from Berkowitz to 'Berkley' to 'Berke' to 'Barclay'...\n[Clifford] B-A-R-C-L-A-Y. He became an economics professor in England some\nplace. He never met my father until 15 years ago. They were first cousins. It\nwas very interesting.\n\nPOLLARD: If you were to describe your father's personality, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what would you say?\n\nBRICKMAN: As my mother described him, he was a 'live wire.' That is a W-I-R-E.\n\nPOLLARD: What did he look like?\n\nBRICKMAN: He was not very tall. Daddy was about 5 feet 4 inches, maybe. Mama was\nlittle. He had a wonderful personality, and he was always happy, even if he\nwasn't. I don't think you would ever know it. He was very hard working, and he\nwas very appreciative ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of everything.\n\nPOLLARD: What else would you say about your father that you feel is important?\n\nBRICKMAN: The way Daddy led his life, and Mother as well, was an instruction\nsheet for the children. We watched and we learned. If we watched and didn't\nlearn, they would remind us that that is the kind of person they wanted us to\nbe. Because my parents came from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Europe, they were very close to the children.\nNot only because Mother did not have a mother, but she wanted to be a good\nmother. She and Daddy wanted to impart to the children the importance of\nrespect, honesty, good work ethics, Judaism, being appreciative of what you\nhave, and not looking in someone else's pocketbook for what they have because it\ndid not matter. It is what you had and what you could do with it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have a note\non my refrigerator that I have had for 30 years. \"Who is happy? He who is\nsatisfied with his own portion.\" That is what we were taught. Daddy, as lively a\nperson as he was, a great personality, a lot of fun, and a tease to Mama. She,\non the other hand, very quiet, going about her business all the time, and on us\nall the time. We had to behave in the house, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out of the house. Not in a mean\nway, just in a loving way. She would wake us up in the morning. It wasn't, \"Get\nout of bed.\" It was, \"Ah nay tog. Haib zikh aroyf.\" [\"It's a new day. Get\nyourself up.\"]\n\nPOLLARD: Did you only speak Yiddish at home?\n\nBRICKMAN: At home, Mama and Daddy spoke Yiddish to us most of time. We answered\nin English. After all, this was America. I understood every word, but I never\nuttered a sentence in Yiddish. Ever.\n\nPOLLARD: Did they ever begin to speak English to each other?\n\nBRICKMAN: Oh yes, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they did. With an accent. That is how I learned that, too. You\nhear the \"v\" is a \"w\" is a \"v\". I do not know how you are going spell 'w.' That\nis how we learned. When I was going to school, Mother would have to write notes,\nan excuse when you were out for a Jewish holiday. At the first of it, I would\nwrite it and she would copy it in English. Then she learned to do it on her own.\nShe was a good student with wonderful handwriting. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Neatness was very important\nto her, how you look, what you do, how you put food on the table. All that went\ninto my head.\n\nPOLLARD: Tell me how your parents made the decision to come South.\n\nBRICKMAN: Daddy decided, mostly my mother, that he did not want to remain in New\nYork. He didn't like that kind of life. It was a hustle bustle, rush-rush,\npush-push, a lot of people. He had heard that my mother had an uncle in Atlanta.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He knew he wanted to move to the South. He knew zero about it. He had no\nbackground whatsoever.\n\nPOLLARD: What year was this?\n\nBRICKMAN: In 1930. Right after they were married, he started thinking about it.\nMy oldest sister, Helen, of blessed memory, was born in 1931. In December of\n1931 or January of 1932, they had already contacted the same Uncle Max who said,\n\"If you'll come to Atlanta, Georgia, I know there are little grocery stores\nthroughout the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"city in different areas. Maybe you could come here, buy a little\nstore, own the grocery store, and work in Atlanta, Georgia.\" My mother was not\nexcited. Georgia sounded like a foreign country. She asked my father if they had\ndiaper pins here. She asked if they had food here that we could eat. They came\nhere on the train, which was a 24-hour deal, with my older sister. They had no\nplace to stay. They moved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in with my mother's mother's brother, and his wife and\nfamily. They stayed with them for several months until they bought the store and\nmoved over there to start a whole new life for themselves. They started working.\nThey bought a little grocery store. I have a picture of it.\n\nPOLLARD: Where was that located?\n\nBRICKMAN: At 139 Chestnut Street, Atlanta.\n\nPOLLARD: Does that street exist today?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRICKMAN: They changed the name. Brawley Drive. They have changed all the street\nnames, but I will tell where it was. It was right about a block before the\nAtlanta University complex, which is a black university center: Morehouse\n[College], Morris Brown [College], Clark [Atlanta University], Spelman\n[College], and Atlanta University. All black students. The store was in between\nall of these college campuses. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What did it look like? The store was about the\nsize of my den, just a couple of rooms. It was not a self-service store like you\nhave today with Publix and Kroger. It was a take you by the hand, walk you\nthrough, and say, \"May I help you?\" And \"what would you like today?\" There were\nno buggies that you put your groceries in. You took an item off a shelf, and you\ntook it up to the counter to check out. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were no adding machines. You got a\nbig brown paper bag the size that you needed. You wrote on the side in pencil\nhow much each item was. My folks could, and I can to this day, add numbers\nquickly. You say, \"Miss So and So, that'll be $2.32.\" Did they pay for it? Not necessarily.\n\nPOLLARD: What types of items did they sell?\n\nBRICKMAN: Grocery items: bread, bagels, milk, cheese, fish, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"vegetables, fruits,\ncanned goods, bread items.\n\nPOLLARD: What was the name of the store?\n\nBRICKMAN: They certainly could not call the store in that area of town\n'Berkowitz's' because no one could pronounce it. Daddy decided to call it\n'Irving's Market.' They were in that store for 35 years. We lived upstairs in\nthat area until I was 14.\n\nPOLLARD: You lived above the store?\n\nBRICKMAN: I sure did. He was known as 'Mr. Irving.' ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mama was 'Mrs. Irving.' I\nand my sisters were called 'Little Miss Irving.' Not 'Little Mrs. Irving,' but\n\"Li'l Miss Irvin...\" I-R-V-I-N, because the 'g' was always missing. That is what\nI was known as. Sometimes I was called 'Shirley,' but most of the time it was,\n\"Hey, Lil Miss Irvin, how you doing today?\" I loved it. We lived above the\nstore. We had three rooms. There were five of us, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one bathroom, no sink in the\nbathroom, just a tub. How did you wash your face? You bent over. How did you\nwash your hair? You bent over. It is a long way down. What was it heated with?\nLittle gas stoves that you would have to light. How many times did I hear as a\nchild, \"Don't go close, you'll burn yourself.\" We were taught very differently.\nThere was no A/C [air conditioning] and no central heating. It was a three-room\nplace with one bathroom, three girls and Mama, which are four girls. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We stayed\nthere until 1949.\n\nPOLLARD: You have been mentioning your siblings. Let us make the record clear\nabout who they were.\n\nBRICKMAN: My oldest sister's name was Helen. She was named after my mother's\nmother, Chaya. C-H-A-Y-A... Chaya Baila... B-A-I-L-A. Mama called her 'Helen\nBobbie,' named after her real mother. I was the second child. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born four\nand a half years later. Before I was born, my mother was pregnant with another\nchild, a little girl. When she was born, the [umbilical] cord had wrapped around\nher neck. She died very soon after delivery. Mother became pregnant with me\nafter that. My oldest sister and I were four-and-a-half years apart. Five years\nlater, Mother had her third little girl, my sister Marilyn Marks. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Helen's name\nwas Helen Tulis. My younger sister was Marilyn Marks... M-A-R-K-S. We all lived\nabove the store. It was a wonderful way of life because we did not know any\nother kind. We shared a room, the three of us. I shared a bed with my older\nsister until I got married. I have never had a bed of my own.\n\nPOLLARD: What was the size of the bed that you shared with your sister?\n\nBRICKMAN: A double bed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and another single in there. When Helen became a\nteenager, Mama got a twin bed for her and Marilyn and I shared a bed. It was a\nsimple place with a linoleum floor that was spotless. Mother worked in the\nstore. As soon as we went to school, she ran down these 16 steps and worked with\nDaddy hand in hand. Those were called 'Mama Poppa' stores.\n\nPOLLARD: They never had another employee?\n\nBRICKMAN: They had a butcher. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"His name was Gene. He worked there a long time. My\nfather had worked in a sweat factory. He knew nothing about slicing meat, treif\nmeat at that. He learned. He had another guy after that. Gene was first, then\nLester. He had a couple of grocery boys who delivered the groceries. In fact, I\nlearned to ride a bike on a boy's bike because who knew that you could buy a\ngirl's bike? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you fell, you ended up adopting your children. I learned to ride\na boy's bike because my older sister taught me how. She let go of me one day and\nsaid, \"You can do it.\" I did not know if she had let go. When I was 10, Daddy\nbought me a pair of skates. You do not know how exciting it is to get gifts in\nthis kind of situation. He got me a pair of metal skates. I have them downstairs.\n\nPOLLARD: Did you celebrate Jewish holidays?\n\nBRICKMAN: Every single one.\n\nPOLLARD: What would Shabbat be like in your home?\n\nBRICKMAN: Very different than Shabbat is in my home ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today. My mother, I\nremember, would light Shabbat candles every Friday. Did that mean she was\nupstairs, and we sat around a table for a Shabbat meal? Absolutely not. Friday\nnight was a busy night in the store. Saturday was the busiest day of the whole\nweek. At our particular grocery store, as was common throughout these periods of\ntime, you did not necessarily pay for all of your groceries. They would come and\ncharge it if you did not have the $2.73. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had a little book with a carbon\npaper in it. We would write down the name of the customer and itemize the items\nthey had purchased. Then you would put a record of it in a McCaskey [Credit\nRegister] alphabetically.\n\nPOLLARD: What is that word that you...\n\nBRICKMAN: ...it's a big... it looks like an accountant would have. A big metal\nbox that had shelves or a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"metal notebook. You alphabetize the names and keep\ntheir little card in there so that when they came to the store on Saturday night\nand said, \"Ms. Irving, I can pay you part of my bill today,\" you could pull the\nbill. This was prior to computers. They would pay you part of it, rarely all of it.\n\nPOLLARD: You said the word was McCaskey?\n\nBRICKMAN: McCaskey. I don't even know if that's proper. It could have been a\nname brand. I was about eight. I asked my father if I could make out a bill for\nsomeone when they were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not very busy. He said, \"Sure.\" I thought I was doing a\npenmanship course in school, and I would write very carefully: \"Mrs. Suzy Smith,\n173 Beckwith Street.\" He saw how much time I spent on writing that out and\nreally jumped me privately. \"If you take that long to write one thing, you won't\nbe able to help but one customer and we won't make a living. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, write it fast\nor don't do it.\" So, I learned to write last name only, forget the address. I\nknew who they were. They knew who we were. No one cheated anybody and it worked.\nWhen I was about five, my father and mother told me that they would trust me\nwith displaying the chewing gum, or the snuff, or the tobacco. I thought that I\nwas in marketing in some big store. I was becoming a CEO [Chief Executive\nOfficer] in displaying things. It kept us busy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where were we going to play?\nThere were not any children to play with. This is a black neighborhood. In those\nperiods of time people would say, \"How you doin'?\" You did not go to their\nhouse, and they did not come to yours.\n\nPOLLARD: Where did you go to school? Was it in that neighborhood?\n\nBRICKMAN: It was 12 blocks away. The school was called Lee Street Elementary\nSchool. It was in West End, which still exists today. Daddy took us. My older\nsister was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five years ahead me in school. They did have kindergarten then. When\nI was in kindergarten, she was in fifth [grade] so she was only at that school a\nyear or so with me. Then she left and I was the only Jewish child in that school.\n\nPOLLARD: What it a segregated school?\n\nBRICKMAN: Oh, yes. There were black elementary schools all around the store. You\ncould not go there.\n\nPOLLARD: Can you tell me what it was like living in a black neighborhood, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going\nto a white school, and your awareness of the concept of segregation of the races?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was very little. I saw and knew nothing during my early years. I\nwill tell you why. The customer relationship with my parents was very different\nthan you will see today. A lot of people who lived in this area owned their own\nhomes. There were apartment ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buildings around there, but they owned their own\nhomes. Might not have been a palatial place. They may have rented those homes.\nThere were not a lot of apartments in those areas. These people were hard\nworking, middle class people. What did they do for a living? Domestic [workers],\nbut a lot of railroad employees and post office employees. They worked different\njobs for different people, but they were middle class. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were honest and\nfriends to my mother and father. They could have gone to other stores all around\nthere. Daddy would find out. \"What do you need? What do you want? I'll bring it\ninto the store.\" He was learning, too. Can you imagine coming to this country to\na black neighborhood from New York with a very heavy Eastern European accent, no\nknowledge of marketing, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"displaying, PR [public relations], accounting,\nordering... zero? It took them a very short period of time to learn. Why?\nBecause you have to eat.\n\nPOLLARD: Was there competition, store-wise?\n\nBRICKMAN: Every three or four blocks was competition. A lot of Jewish people\nowned stores all around us. Daddy had a personality that was a magnet to these\npeople. They not only came in to shop but to chitchat. Mama was the one who\nordered. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was the one who stocked the shelves. Daddy went to the Farmer's\nMarket every morning in West End to bring fresh vegetables and fruits. Things\nwere not packaged then. You popped a brown bag. I can still pop it. In fact, I\ndid it at Publix the other day and one of the employees almost passed out. He\nsaid, \"How you did that?\" I said I did it for 14 years.\n\nPOLLARD: A brown paper bag?\n\nBRICKMAN: There were no plastic bags and no grocery carts. You popped the bag.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Mrs. Jones, what do you want?\" \"I want two potatoes, Mrs. Irving.\" \"Okay.\" We\nput them on the scale and weighed it. \"That will be six cents.\" \"That's good.\nThat's all I want.\" \"Mrs. Jones, don't you think you'd like some carrots to go\nwith that?\" \"Well, I don't know, Mrs. Irvin. I don't know if the children like\ncarrots.\" \"Let me tell you how to make them. Let me tell you, if you make\ncarrots...\" I really wanted a piece of streak o' lean bacon. Mama would get very\nsick when she heard that because she did not eat any of that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Maybe you want a\nchicken?\" \"No ma'am, that's too much money. Have y'all got any catfish today?\"\n\"Sure.\" \"You got any mullets?\" \"Yes, we have that, too. You go to the back and\nIrving will get you that. But, when you come up front, maybe I can show you some\nfresh fruit.\" She added to their menu so they would eat like she ate. It was\nimportant to Mother for people to eat right, a variety. The women were friends\nof hers. They would sit down with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her on the upside down of a bushel basket and\ntell her their problems. She would tell them hers and they were friends. No one\nwas ever called by a first name. It was Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Key, Mrs. Star, Mrs.\nParson. I remember the faces. I can tell you where the houses were. If they had\ntoo much to carry, Mama would say, \"Shirley, go with Mrs. Smith and help her\ncarry her things home.\" I would. Tips? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who ever thought of that? Mrs. Smith and\nI would walk the two blocks and I would take her groceries in for her.\n\nPOLLARD: Are you talking about in... you were born in 1935.\n\nBRICKMAN: In 1935. This is early 1940's.\n\nPOLLARD: Let me ask you a question. Let' s get back to Lee Elementary. Do you\nhave memories of teachers?\n\nBRICKMAN: I can name every teacher I ever had. I had Mrs. Heinz in kindergarten.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember she had a rear-end that stuck out. She had white hair that was not\nvery attractively combed. I adored her. It was my first connection to a world of\nchildren my age. I had no one to play with. Everyone was five. Everyone was\nsweet and kind. Everyone believed in Jesus except me. No one told me that I was\na 'dirty Jew.' That happened in fifth grade. As I got a little older, I could\nwalk to school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"myself, 12 blocks through a black neighborhood. At a certain\npoint, it became a white neighborhood. No one ever bothered me. No one ever\naggravated me at all. I would walk to school, which took about 35 to 40 minutes,\nevery day except when it was raining. I had Mrs. Heinz. In first grade I had\nMiss Jones. In second grade I had Elsie McCormick. In third grade I had Beulah\nCoates. In fourth grade, I had Mrs. Brooks. She was my teacher in fifth, as\nwell. In ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[sixth] grade, I had Mrs. Baker, Ruby Baker. They were going to change\nthe schools and we had to move to a junior high. The year that I finished sixth\ngrade, they changed it to where you had to go to seventh grade in the same\nschool. Mrs. Baker remained my teacher two years. Instead of junior high, they\nchanged it. Eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth [grades were] high\nschool. They cut out the junior high schools. The first year I had not moved\nyet. Let me back up a little bit. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"loved elementary school. It was great. It\nopened the door to all kinds of learning. I loved going to school and the\nfriendships. I had two very good friends in elementary school, Mary Ann Weaver\nand Jeanette Samples. Jeanette and I wore our hair the same way. Hers was blond\nand mine was dark. Because my name was Shirley, Mama used to comb my hair like\nShirley Temple wore hers. I hated it. A part on the side, three curls up top,\nand about eight curls all around. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I left the house each morning, as soon as\nI left, I would shake my head so I wouldn't have that dumb-looking hairstyle. On\nevery school picture when I was young, Mother would say, \"What happened to the\nbeautiful hair style?\" I said, \"The wind was blowing,\" or, \"I was on the\nplayground or on the monkey bars.\" It just did not stay like that. I never liked\nit, although she thought it was pretty. Jeanette, Mary Ann, and I were very good\nfriends. Did I ever go to their home to play? No, I was never invited. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They gave\nme a Christmas present at Christmas time.\n\nPOLLARD: Were they aware that you were Jewish?\n\nBRICKMAN: That's exactly why I was not invited. I can assure you that of all the\nfriends in school and I knew many by first names. Wansley Weimes, and all of\nthem. They never asked me to come to their home to play because I was a Jewish\ngirl. That was a 'no-no.'\n\nPOLLARD: Would they have come to your house?\n\nBRICKMAN: Absolutely not, and I knew that.\n\nPOLLARD: Did not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"issue an invitation?\n\nBRICKMAN: I did not. I got lots of phone calls at night. \"How did you do the\narithmetic?\" And \"What was that geography? Can you go over it with me?\" Jeanette\nand I were competitive as far as grades were concerned. Mary Ann was a good\nstudent, too. People were always saying, \"What book did you get?\" \"What was the\nstory about?\" \"How did you do your homework?\" But no one ever said, \"Come play\nwith me.\" Did I know that? Not really. It never entered my mind because on\nSunday, when I was young, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we went to Shearith Israel Synagogue. I went to Sunday\nschool and that answered my needs for playmates. I loved school. In fact, when I\nwas in sixth grade, every morning we had prayers about Jesus. They would read\nfrom the Bible. The teacher always read it. It was allowed then. There was no\nseparation of church and state. I never thought anything about it. They would\nsing, God Bless America and \"I pledge allegiance to the flag...\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If they sang\nanything else, sometimes Onward Christian Soldiers, or whatever else. I did not\nsing it.\n\nPOLLARD: Did they ever have a Christmas program that you participated in?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was in it. In fact, I was invited when I was in sixth grade by one\nof the radio stations to read The Night Before Christmas. My teacher suggested\nit and I read it. I thought I was going to Hollywood right after that. It was in\na station across the street from the Fox Theatre in the lower part of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old\nGeorgian Terrace Hotel. They taped it and I read it on radio. I remember my\ndaddy dropped me off. He had to go back to the store because he might miss a\ncustomer. I remember waiting outside at the Fox Theatre for over an hour after I\nhad finished for him to come back. If he was busy selling, he just didn't leave\na customer to go pick up his child. First, he made the deal, and then he picked\nup his child. I took music lessons from the time I was eight ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to 12 at the Loew's\nGrand Theatre. I would sit and wait for my daddy to pick me up for the longest\ntime. During that period of time, I learned how to occupy myself. I would watch\npeople, all the different kinds of people, that make up this world. That would\ngive me something to do while was waiting for him. I never was lonely or afraid.\nI would make up stories in my mind about the people that I saw. Sort of a\ncreative occupation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so the time would pass quickly. He never apologized for\nbeing late and I never said, \"You are late.\" It was a way of life and I accepted that.\n\nPOLLARD: This is Side B of an interview with Shirley Brickman in Atlanta,\nGeorgia on November 12, 2002. We were speaking of your teachers. If you had to\npick one out one who influenced you in a positive way, can you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think of one\nparticular episode?\n\nBRICKMAN: I loved all of the teachers and I loved school. There was one teacher\nwho did something very special for me when I in third grade and I was eight.\nThat was Beulah Coates. I was very sick for about two weeks. I had some\nintestinal I-don't-know-what. I had to remain home from school for 10 school\ndays. She came to my house. Most unusual. I did not live near the school, and\nshe was not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"familiar with where I was. She came to my house and brought me a\ncopy of Lassie Come-Home, which I still have. I thought that was the most\nmagnificent thing that any teacher could do on her own. I have the book. The\nolder grandchildren have read it. It is a treasure. I loved her for that because\nshe reached out to touch me. Miss Brooks I thought was fabulous. She had blond\nhair, blue eyes, and she had the most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful personality. When she was\nteaching, you did not even know you were learning. She also gave me quite a bit\nof guidance with regard to writing things. She corrected me. She gave us such\nexciting topics.\n\nPOLLARD: What grade was this?\n\nBRICKMAN: Fourth and fifth. I just loved the writing part of it and I loved her.\nShe was so outgoing. Some of the teachers were good, but they were the typical\nteacher, quiet, reserved and \"Sit in your seat.\" Miss Brooks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was great. I\nremember Miss McCormick in second grade. Her husband was in the Army. She used\nto tell us about what was happening to him, which we thought was very exciting.\nIt was like hearing about something I knew nothing about. I was in school during\nWorld War II.\n\nPOLLARD: Can you tell me about your awareness that there was a war going on, and\nhow that affected you as a child?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well aware that there was a war because my parents were very\nconcerned about what was happening in Europe. We were familiar with what\nhappened during the Holocaust, not that my parents lost people there whom they\nknew. They probably lived in all these little towns [and my parents] were not\nthat connected to them. Mother's family and Daddy's family, thank G-d, had come\nto America. They did lose some distant relatives, but those they only knew\nslightly. I knew there was a war going on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because my sister was five years older\nthan me... current events, her comments, radio news, Walter Winchell every\nSunday night. Radio broadcasts were telling what was going on, and big flashes\nin the newspaper. Although I was reading the comics, on the front page I would\nsee it. Also, the food was rationed, and everyone had rationing coupons. My\nfather, in his business, rationed butter, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eggs, cigarettes, gas, and meat,\nthings like that. Customers would come in and he would have to tear off a\ncertain amount of coupons for whatever they were purchasing. My job, with my\nolder sister on Sunday night, was to put these coupons in certain order. We were\nthe junior accountants on Sunday night. That is when Daddy would count the\nmoney, he had taken in that week but had not put in the bank. We would put all\nthe dollar bills ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"facing the same way. George Washington with the face up. The\nother ones with the face up. To this day, when I get money from a bank, I have\nto turn them all the same way and fold it in the middle, properly. When I hand\nsomebody money, I remember he told me, \"Fold it and hand it to them. Don't give\nthem crumpled up money. It's not respectful. Don't go around holding money up in\nthe air. Somebody could walk by and take it from you. Don't talk money.\"\n\nPOLLARD: Was there any crime in the neighborhood?\n\nBRICKMAN: You opened up a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whole three-hour session right here. Let us see. We\npassed elementary school and the war. I do remember when [President Franklin\nDelano] Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945. My older sister came home off the\nstreetcar and was hysterical. April 12th was my mother's birthday. I do not\nthink I will ever forget that the train that went through, and all of the news\nthat followed.\n\nPOLLARD: So, you were 10 years old?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was 10 in 1945 when it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"over. That is pretty much all I knew. I\ndid have cousins who were in the service. I had cousins in the Navy and some in\nthe Army. I do not think there was anyone in the Air Force. Fort Benning was not\nfar from here. Some of the soldiers who were stationed here used to come to us\nduring Pesach and eat at our tables. You invited somebody, or a cousin was\naround, or there was somebody during the war years who came through Georgia for\nsome ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"reason or other. They would call Aunt Rose and Uncle Irving and come to us.\nThe clubs that existed then, the Mayfair, the [Jewish] Progressive, and the\nStandard, particularly the Progressive Club, would have huge Passover seders for\nall the soldiers who lived around here.\n\nPOLLARD: Did your family participate in any club life?\n\nBRICKMAN: That's later. During the early 1940's. Why did they have clubs? You\ncould not join the Christian clubs, not that you wanted to. The Standard Club\nwas formed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"first, specifically for German Jews. They came to this city first,\nhad established themselves, and considered themselves on a different level than\nthe Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe. They may have dressed differently. A lot\nof the Ashkenazi were keeping kosher homes, maybe ate differently, and they were\nmore observant. There was a very distinct separation for many years. Whether it\nexists ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"today? I don't think so, but I think that it really did a lot then. We\nnever dated anybody from the Temple if we belonged to a synagogue. We did not\nexpect it, did not look for it, and did not miss it. The same thing was true\nwith the Sephardic shul that came here in the early 1900's, Or VeShalom. There\nwas not a real connection. I remember the first wedding of a Sephardic Jew and\nan Ashkenazi Jew. Arnold Zipperman married Esther Amato. That was a big deal.\nNow it is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nothing. When I was a teenager, we started dating different people,\nnot those from the Temple, but those from Or VeShalom. My teenage years are a\ncompletely different topic. It would take me three days to tell you that.\n\nPOLLARD: Let me get back to something that you briefly mentioned. You said that\nyou were not the object of antisemitic behavior until about the fifth grade. Can\nyou tell me about that incident?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was walking home from school one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day, and Mack Jones -- not that I\nremember the name, he was a low life anyway -- he shoved me off the sidewalk\ninto the street. \"You dirty Jew.\" It frightened me. I had a long way home still\nto go. I was about two blocks from school. My heart was beating so fast. I will\nnever forget that. I put my head down, picked up my little book bag or satchel,\nand I walked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at a clip that was the fastest in the world. He did not follow me.\nHe was in my class. I was going to see him the next day. I completely ignored\nhim, and he did not bother me. Scared me to death.\n\nPOLLARD: What year was this?\n\nBRICKMAN: When I was in fifth grade, I was ten, 1945, and old enough to know\nthat I was different. I always kept a low profile. During Passover I brought\nmatzah and everybody else was eating bread. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I heard, \"What's that, Shirley?\"\n\"What's that cracker? Is that Jew food?\" \"Yes, it is.\" \"What's on your sandwich,\nShirley?\" They had peanut butter and pimiento cheese for 74 years. I had sliced\nbrisket on rye or tuna fish or egg salad or bananas with peanut butter with\ncrushed pineapple. I had fresh fruit, but no chips. I always had a homemade\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cookie or cake. My lunch was not ever the same and I got it for 12 years. There\nwere repeats, but not in the same week.\n\nPOLLARD: Did your mother make your lunch?\n\nBRICKMAN: Every day and toasted my bread. I never had a piece of plain bread.\nNow, when I make lunches, I never gave my children plain bread. I toasted the\nbread all the time. My mother, for real variety, would use two or three pieces\nof toast. On one layer she would put ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cheese, lettuce and tomato. On the next\nlevel, she would put grated carrots or something. She would cut the sandwich\ninto thirds and put a toothpick in the middle, so it looked like Rich's\n[Magnolia] Tea Room sandwiches. I want you to know that that was always a big\nhit at the lunch table.\n\nPOLLARD: Did you carry a metal lunch box?\n\nBRICKMAN: No, I had a brown paper bag from the store with my name on it. Mother\nmade ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lunches for the three of us for 12 years. I made lunches for my kids for 12\nyears. I never had a school lunch in my life. I did not want it. I did not ask\nfor it. My lunches were always like, \"What you got today, Shirley?\" I said, \"I\ndon't know.\" \"Did your mama make those cookies?\" I said, \"Mama makes all my\ncookies.\" I was very excited about that. Passover caused a little ruckus. \"Can I\ntaste it?\" \"You can taste it, but you can't have all of it.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was another\nthoughtful, beautiful thing. She did not do that because she had to or because\nit was a job. It was love.\n\nPOLLARD: Other than that incident with the boy who called you a 'dirty Jew,' was\nthere ever any other reference?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes. I used to perform in the sixth grade. We performed at the Wren's\nNest, which is West End, the home of [the author of] Uncle Remus Joel Chandler\nHarris. We were going over there for a maypole event once. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mother was hemming my\ndress. I was standing on a chair in our place above the store. Someone who did\nnot like Jews saw the light on and threw a rock through the window. It scared my\nmother. It really frightened her. She said, \"Don't worry. Don't worry. It's not\ngoing to happen again.\" She would close the Venetian blinds. She just kept on\naltering the length of that dress. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When you are very young, you really do not\nknow what is going on, but n the back of my mind, I thought, \"You're different.\"\nPeople do not like different people. That is unfortunate because the world is\nmade up of different people. I never said or did anything that would aggravate\nor cause attention to myself.\n\nPOLLARD: Did a teacher ever say anything about you being Jewish in front of the\nother children?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, she did. She would say -- I do not know if she meant it in a\nderogatory way -- \"Now ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we're going to sing a certain song. Now Shirley, since\nyou're a Jewish child, if you don't want to, you don't have to, but we're all\ngoing to sing.\" When we had Christmas songs, I sang every one of them. I knew\nthem from memory. They were beautiful songs. I did not even think two seconds\nabout it. When we were in plays and they had something to do with that, I was in\nthem. I never said Jesus' name ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out loud. For some reason, I thought that was a\nno-no. Nobody told me not to.\n\nPOLLARD: Where did you get your clothing as a child? Did you mother make it or\nwas it store bought?\n\nBRICKMAN: Mother bought us things, not \"at\" -- she would say -- \"by\" Rich's.\nSometimes \"by\" Davison's, which is Macy's now. There was a seamstress a half\nblock up the street. Her name was Mrs. Ryden... 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Mother also used to get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"flour in\nflour sacks that were pretty colorful. My mama made pillowcases out of all of\nthose. It was a muslin, but softer. She made pillowcases out of that because we\nwere taught not to waste anything. She wasted nothing. When it came to buying a\ndress or something, we would have a couple of things for Sunday school and the\nother things for school. When we came home from school, we took off our school\nclothes and put on a junky pair of pants ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or junky outfit. I remember we always\nhung it up in that little bitty closet. We did not change shoes because we had\ntwo pairs of shoes. One was a pair brown Oxfords with laces that came from\nThompson Boland-Lee [shoe store]. Good shoes. They were weird looking. I hated\nthem. On Sunday, we had nice shoes. I always had shoes on Sunday that I did not\nthink were so cute. A lot of the girls had patent leather shoes. I begged for a\npair of baby doll patent leather shoes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Finally, when I was 12, Mother let me\nbuy a pair. I thought they were just the most magnificent shoes I had ever seen\nin my life. A lot of my clothes were hand-me-downs. What was bought for my\nsister came to me, and mine to my younger sister. Mother always bought dresses\nthat would have to take a big hem because you could wear it longer. When the hem\nwas finally let out and you could see the line, you would have to put a little\npiece of rickrack or lace, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"either to lengthen it or cover it up, so you could\nwear it longer. It was costly and we did not want to waste any.\n\nPOLLARD: What toys did you play with as a child that you remember?\n\nBRICKMAN: I created my own games. I had one doll my whole life. It was a Shirley\nTemple doll. My daddy had gone to New York for a wedding in 1939 or 1940. I went\nin 1939 to a cousin's wedding. I will never forget that. That was great. He went\nto a wedding and brought me back a Shirley Temple doll. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She was gorgeous. She\nwas an exact duplicate of the movie star. I was five, so that was 1940. She had\non a red-and-white polka-dot Swiss dress that was accordion pleated. There were\ntwo satin ribbons that tied to her little wrists, so when you extended her\nhands, the skirt would extend. She was magnificent. I loved that doll. I\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"occupied myself for hours and hours playing with her. My little sister got angry\none day, took her head off, and broke it. I was about 10 then. That devastated\nme. I did not understand why she would do something like that. I did not have\nany other dolls. Paper dolls... long hours with paper dolls. I played school a\nlot because my oldest sister was five years ahead and she could use me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as the\n'dummy student.' She could be the teacher. She became a wonderful teacher. In\nfact, she was Teacher of the Year a couple of times.\n\nPOLLARD: What did she teach?\n\nBRICKMAN: English.\n\nPOLLARD: In high school?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, she taught at Fulton [High School -- Atlanta, Georgia], Chamblee\n[High School -- Chamblee, Georgia], Georgia State [University -- Atlanta,\nGeorgia] and Oglethorpe [University -- Atlanta, Georgia]. She taught in New\nYork's 'Blackboard Jungle' before she came back to Atlanta. She had a way about\nherself that anything she said to us was great. I always wanted to do what she\nsaid because she was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so much fun. We used to write plays, and both took music,\nso we would do our own shows. We were in recitals where we did duets together.\n\nPOLLARD: What instrument did you play?\n\nBRICKMAN: Piano, classical music. I always thought it would be fun to take\npopular music. All the friends I knew took that, but Daddy and Mother said that\nthat was not for us. Coming from Europe, I think they leaned toward classical,\nquiet music that meant more to them than the other. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had a piano.\n\nPOLLARD: What kind of piano?\n\nBRICKMAN: Junky, but after it was tuned it was not bad. We spent hours and hours\nplaying that way, especially my older sister and I. I wanted to skate. Daddy\nbought me a pair of skates. I wanted to learn to play basketball. I do not know\nwhere I got that. He went to the Farmers' Market to bring back the vegetables\nand fruits. He decided that if you cut the bottom out of a bushel basket and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hung it in the backyard that was about 9 by 12 inches. He got me a tennis ball\nor a little rubber ball so that I could play basketball. I learned how to play\nbasketball that way... at least how to put it in the hole. When I was a\nteenager, I was a good basketball player. I won 'Most Athletic' for my chapter, too.\n\nPOLLARD: As a child, did you have any Jewish friends?\n\nBRICKMAN: On Sunday, because we joined Shearith Israel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very early.\n\nPOLLARD: Where was that located when you were a child?\n\nBRICKMAN: Washington [Street], down near the area. Ahavath Achim Synagogue [AA]\nwas down there. Shearith Israel was down there about three blocks apart. You\ncould walk from one to the other. On Yontif on the holidays, people would walk\nfrom Ahavath Achim to Shearith Israel and back. It was sort of a social thing.\n\nPOLLARD: Who was the rabbi of your synagogue then?\n\nBRICKMAN: First, [Rabbi Tobias] Geffen. He did a lot of his sermons in Yiddish.\n\nPOLLARD: What was his first name?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRICKMAN: Tobias Geffen. There were other rabbis that followed him. Rabbi\nDeKoven. Or was he at AA? I am mixed up. I was at Shearith Israel for a while. I\nloved Sunday school.\n\nPOLLARD: Did you have any contact as a child with the rabbi where he spoke to you?\n\nBRICKMAN: \"Hello.\" My mother always said, \"When you see someone, you say\n'Hello,' even if you don't know them. Put a smile on your face and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say, 'Hello.'\nBecause if you say good morning, if you say 'Good yontif,' they'll say, 'A good\nyear.' If you say one thing, they'll answer you. They have to answer you.\" We\nalways, at first, had to say \"Hi.\" After that, it became automatic. If I go in a\nroom where I do not know a soul, it does not bother me one bit to say, \"Hello,\nmy name is...\" Then they'll start talking. Sunday school was great. I had a very\ngood friend at Shearith Israel named ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Dottie [Dorothy] Sweet. She lives in\nColumbus, Ohio. She is principal of a school there. She is great. She lived in\nMorningside. I lived on Chestnut Street. She invited me to her home on Beech\nValley Road, which is in Morningside. I thought, \"This is the greatest thing in\nthe world. Her daddy was a salesman. He sold flavors of some kind. The car\nalways smelled like vanilla and almond flavor. I loved Dottie. Rochelle Borstein\nwas a friend of mine. I liked her.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: How do you spell her last name?\n\nBRICKMAN: B-O-R-S-T-E-I-N. Her father was Reverend [Paul] Borstein. She lived\nnear Washington Street. I had a lot of friends at that synagogue. Daddy changed\nshuls in 1949. He went to the farmers' market one day and met a man named Sol\nGlazer. Sol Glazer had one daughter. Her name was Norma. She was an only child.\nThey lived in West End. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were talking one day and [Sol] said, \"You've got a\ndaughter?\" [Daddy] said, \"Yes.\" [Sol] said, \"I got a daughter, too. How old is\nshe?\" \"Eleven.\" [Daddy] said, \"I do too. Maybe she should call her.\" So I called\nNorma. She and I became friends at the age of 11. I would spend the night at her\nhouse. She would spend the night at my house. She was going to school in West\nEnd. There was another school. She went to People Street [Elementary] School\nwhen I was going to Lee Street. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We would get together every now and then. That\nopened up a whole new world for me. Norma and I remained friends for... I do not\nknow many years. She passed away several years ago from cancer. She was a\nwonderful girl who took classical music, was a fabulous pianist, and sang\nbeautifully. We went all the way through high school together. We were in chorus\ntogether for five years in high school. High school and teenage years are\nsomething else. Daddy joined AA [Ahavath Achim] because Mr. Glazer said there\nwere a lot ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more young people. \"Maybe you should join.\" My father was so anxious\nfor us to be a part of the Jewish community. I had joined Young Judaea when I\nwas about 11 or 12. That was fun. I met even more people. We went to meetings at\npeople's homes on Boulevard in that area on Sunday. Then I joined BBG [B'nai\nB'rith Girls] when I got to ninth grade. We moved in 1949 and I enrolled at\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Grady High Schoo1 [Atlanta, Georgia]. I have to tell you something. That was the\nhappiest day of my life. Interestingly enough, Norma moved, too, that same day.\nHer moving truck and our moving truck passed each other. We were in cars behind\nthem, and we waved. We lived two blocks away from each other. It just worked out\nlike that. She lived on Johnson [Road, NE] and I lived on Pasadena [Avenue]. We\ncould walk to each other's houses. Teenage years are an entirely different\nsubject. There may be other things about the war [World War II] years you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"might\nwant to know about. We sat and counted ration points. Daddy let us know why we\nhad to ration things and what was going on in Europe to the best of his ability.\n\nPOLLARD: Was it ever brought up that the Jews were being persecuted during the war?\n\nBRICKMAN: I never heard that. I heard Mother and Daddy whisper a lot about\nthings. When I got to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"high school and took history, or when I was in Sunday\nschool, and somebody casually mentioned it. I was not aware. I will tell you\nthis. When Israel became a state in 1948, there was an enormous celebration at\nthe Progressive Club. I have a picture somewhere in my files of this\ncelebration. We all went. It was, \"Israel belongs to us now and everybody can\ncome. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Refugees can come.\" In the early 1950's, refugees were coming to Atlanta.\nI met a lot of them because my folks had come, with an accent, to a new world to\nstart over. They were friends with a lot of these people. I began to hear little\nstories. That is when I was made more aware that there were horrible things\ngoing on in Europe and that these people were fortunate enough to have made it\nthrough. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When they visited with my family, I would not interrupt, but I would\nsit and listen. If they shared anything at all, I heard it. That opened my head\nto a lot of different things. It was unreal.\n\nPOLLARD: During the years of growing up, did your parents participate in any\nsocial activities?\n\nBRICKMAN: Limited. Their life was made up of go to work, provide for your\nchildren, teach them how to behave, be sure they know how to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"read, get them\neducated, and be respectful. I did go to a Yiddish shul, the Arbeiter Ring,\nwhich was every day after school from the time I was seven, eight, nine, 10, 11.\nMaybe five years. When I came home from school at 3:30, a bus would pick me up.\nOscar was the driver -- a black driver, a wonderful man -- and take me to the\nArbeiter Ring, which was a school where you learned Yiddish. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I understood\nYiddish, but I learned to read it and to write it. Mr. Blushstein [sp] was my\nteacher. He was wonderful. I did that for several years. Daddy said he would\nnever join as a member because he was not happy with the fact these were\nsocialists. He was not. They leaned a little too far that way, to the left.\nDaddy said, \"I want you to learn.\" He really said, \"I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"vant you shud lern the\nlangvage, but I'm not going to belong because I belong to a shul, and I want my\nchildren to go to synagogue.\" Most of the people during those periods of time\ndid not belong to a shul.\n\nPOLLARD: Where was the Arbeiter Ring?\n\nBRICKMAN: Near Capitol Avenue, Washington Street, all around there. It was one\nbuilding with about three or four rooms and a big auditorium. They had social\nactivities down there, lectures on Sunday, picnics ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sometimes in the park. On\nSunday when the weather was nice, Mother would pack a lunch. We would go to\nPiedmont Park and have picnics out there. That was nice and that was a social life.\n\nPOLLARD: Did you ever go on a vacation?\n\nBRICKMAN: No. I never went anywhere. I did not ask for it. I never went to camp.\nI did not know you could. My oldest sister went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Camp Daniel Morgan, Rutledge,\nGeorgia. She went to Cejwin, a Jewish camp up in Port Jervis, New York, when she\nwas 14 for two months. I never said, \"Can I go?\" I occupied myself in the\nsummertime. At that time, we belonged to the Progressive Club. I could get on\nthe streetcar, transfer, get over to 10th [Street] and Techwood [Drive], swim,\nand find every teenager imaginable on Sundays. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sometimes during the week in the\nsummer, swim, and get something to eat. That was fabulous. Especially during the\nsummer, once they joined the club, sometimes on Sundays Daddy and Mother would\ntake us over there for dinner, which was a very big deal. We would eat in the\ncafeteria sometimes and see a movie. I did not see a lot of that. We did a lot\nof reading.\n\nPOLLARD: Did you go to the library?\n\nBRICKMAN: All the time. I went to the library every single ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time I had a music lesson.\n\nPOLLARD: Which library?\n\nBRICKMAN: There was only one. The Carnegie Library was downtown.\n\nPOLLARD: What kind of books did you like?\n\nBRICKMAN: I just loved biographies. I loved stories where you could get on a\nmagic carpet and travel with them. My life was pretty much centered around my\nlife, so make believe was always just fabulous for me. I remember reading books\nin a series, Star Light, Star Bright. Who knows what it was about? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Probably a\nlittle girl. I loved stories about animals, but people always fascinated me. In\nthose days, you had to do book reports. You did summer vacation reading for\nextra credit. If you had to read 10 books, I would read 30. What else was I\ndoing? Nothing. We had a long hallway in our house. The sunshine used to come in\nthrough that one window and I had a little chair. I would sit there in the\nsummer for hours and read. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When my oldest sister Helen and I would go for our\nmusic lesson in the Loew's Grand building, where by the way Gone With the Wind\nwas shown in 1939, we had a music teacher named Anna Mae Nimick... N-I-M-I-C-K.\nShe was weird. She used to drink carrot and celery juices. This was in the early\n1940's. I never heard of anything like that. Carrot, celery, okay. But juice?\nShe wore a lot of bracelets. She always had candies. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you had a good lesson or\nif you were waiting for your lesson, which was 30 minutes, then you could have\nsome candy. Keep in mind, my father and mother had a grocery store with all\nkinds of candy. They never brought it upstairs. We never said, \"Can we have it?\"\nOnce in a while, Mother would bring up a Mounds [Bar], which has two sections.\nShe would cut it into thirds. I never had a whole candy bar in my life because\nshe said it is too sweet, it is not good for you, and it is not necessary. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That\nwas fine because her pound cakes that layered with her homemade chocolate icing\nand crushed pineapple were just as good. Her chocolate chip cookies were\ndelicious. Why should I even want candy? We did not bring cold drinks upstairs.\nThe only time we had cold drinks was on Sunday when we would stop by Gold's\nDelicatessen on Ponce de Leon [Avenue] on the way home from Sunday school. We\nwould get corned beef and Jewish rolls, a rye bread, white fish or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whatever, and\nkosher pickles. We would have potato chips, sandwiches, and a Coke. That was a\nbig deal. To this day, I do not bring all that junk in this house, and I did not\ndo it when the kids were growing up. They do not snack on that kind of stuff. If\nyou want something, get a piece of fruit. You want something to drink, get juice.\n\nPOLLARD: What was your neighborhood like when you moved to your first home that\nwas not the one above the store?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRICKMAN: It was 1350 Pasadena Avenue. A Jewish person had practically every\nhouse. I could walk to anyone's home at any time and find somebody to be with.\nWe took the bus to school. We took it from the 16 Noble. You walked up Pasadena,\ntook a right, crossed the street, and took the 16 Noble. You would go down to\nVirginia Highland and transfer to the next bus, which would take you to Grady\nHigh School. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were just so many Jewish kids in school. The neighborhood\nback to Pasadena surrounding me were, and still are, Homestead [Avenue], Noble\nDrive, Zimmer [Drive], Reeder Circle, University Drive, and Johnson Road. All\nthose streets were loaded with Jewish people. They had started moving over here\nin the 1930's. When we got here in 1949, at least the early 1940's, they were\nhere already. They had originally ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived around the synagogues in southwest\nAtlanta. They made their shift earlier. We took longer for two reasons. For one,\nDaddy didn't have the money. Secondly, living above the store was convenient. He\nwas robbed many times during those years and was having different problems. On a\nSaturday night when he closed the store, he would be held up for the money he\nhad. That happened so many times, they began to think, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Maybe we need to get the\nchildren out of here.\" Mother used to cook in the store. In the back of that\nstore was a little kitchen, big enough to hold a four-burner stove, an oven, and\na table with a bench next to it. Mother made the most unbelievable foods back\nthere in between customers. Her soups, meats, or chickens. Can you imagine the\nsmell that would go through the store ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and out the front door? Customers who\nwould come in were mesmerized. \"Oh, Ms. Irvin', whatchu cooking today?\" She\nwould tell them. \"Let me see how you make it.\" A lot of these meats were\ndifferent. \"You makin' veal chops?\" Daddy said, \"If you want to, the next time I\ngo for meat, I can buy you some.\" Not an expensive cut, but he was trying to\nchange these people from what they were eating. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Instead of sausage, he wanted\nthem to eat ground meat. They could not afford that. Mother made wonderful\nthings back there. When she was going at night from the store, she would hide\nthe money in her corset -- in her bra -- with the pots and cooked things. Daddy\n[had] his key ring with the 6,000 keys on it. By the time you turn out the\nlights, double lock the door, and run to get in your car, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you can be stopped.\nThey would stop them with a gun. \"Give me your money,\" which he would do,\npraying nobody would shoot him. On one occasion, three guys came in. [It was]\nSaturday night, they were getting ready to close. They stayed open until 11:00\nor 12:00 sometimes during the war. They told Daddy to give them his money. He\nwas so aggravated and annoyed because he had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"worked so hard to make the couple\nhundred bucks. He picked up a jar and threw it at this guy, which was a foolish\nthing to do. The guy got afraid and ran out. He had picked up a jar of pickled\npigs' feet. The next day, the headlines said, \"Grocer throws robber in a\npickle.\" That wasn't smart. He could have shot him. People were shot all the\ntime. There was a Jewish grocer, not far from us, by the name of Mr. Vittner,\nbless his heart. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He had a gun. He was a good shot, too, and he got a couple of\nthem. Daddy would not do that. He did not even know how to handle a gun. They\ngot afraid many times. They came in and held up my parents in the 1950's after\nwe had already moved. [It was] three black guys, [it was] late, and they locked\nthe door. They put my daddy's head on the butcher block, took a cleaver, put it\non his neck, and said if he said a word and did not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"give them all the money,\nthey would chop his head off. They took my mother and locked her in the walk-in\nfreezer box -- cold in there -- and said, \"If you don't give me every nickel\nyou've got, I'll chop your head off.\" They said, \"Take whatever you want.\" They\nleft. How lucky was he? The police came and they said they had to go down to the\npolice station to identify these people. Mother and Daddy went down there.\nMother recognized two of the three. Daddy recognized all of them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"I\ndon't know anybody. I don't see anybody I know.\" Mother said, \"I know this one\nand this one. I know he was the one.\" They were all put into jail. They finally\nidentified them. Many, many years later, our son Jeffrey worked for DeKalb\nCounty as a prosecuting attorney [prosecuting] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"robbery, rape, and murder. He was\nfollowing a case once and flipped back on the information that he had. He saw\nthat one guy he was going to be against had robbed a store in the 1950's at 139\nChestnut Street. The owners were Mr. and Mrs. Irving Berkowitz. He went to his\nboss and said, \"I don't think I can take this case ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because that's my grandpa and\ngrandma, and they did that to them.\" He said, \"You can have it.\" He went to this\nguy and said, \"You are guilty of what you've done this time. Let me tell you\nsomething and why I'm going to prove it. I am the grandson of the person you did\nthus and so. Believe you me, you ain't got a fighting chance.\" He said, \"That\nwas a long time ago. I was in jail.\" He said, \"You're going back.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He did. My\nhusband went down and watched that case. It was fabulous. What goes around comes around.\n\nPOLLARD: You mentioned a change in your teenage years, as we all go through.\nWhat are your strongest memories of your teenage years in Atlanta?\n\nBRICKMAN: When we moved over here, and we went to a new school. Grady High\nSchool was fabulous. So many ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kids were there, great teachers, and everything. We\nmoved here the year that I turned 14, so it was August. In February of 1950, I\nwas elected 'Sweetheart' of a Boys' chapter. I don't know why. There were a lot\nof nice kids all around. It was the first 'Sweetheart' they had ever had.\n\nPOLLARD: The boys' chapter of what?\n\nBRICKMAN: AZA [Aleph Zadik Aleph]. Young Judaea, AZA. What does that mean? It\nmeans that you can go to their meetings, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their basketball games, and you can go\nto the parties. It was fun. I was also a member of BBG then, which I loved. We\nhad activities and did things for other people. We had a softball team and a\nbasketball team. I loved all the sports. All of this took place down at the\nJewish Educational Alliance on Capitol Avenue, which preceded the JCC [Jewish\nCommunity Center]. It was a shmatteh [Yiddish: cheap, shoddy] building, a\njunky-looking place with a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gym not attached to the building. When you went out\nyou froze. You could smell everybody perspiring before you even got in the\nbuilding. They did have a little group there that sold hot dogs, things like\nthat, and sandwiches. Next door was a kosher deli. I think Danneman's [Super\nMarket]. I cannot remember. We used to take the streetcar and transfer to go\ndown there. Our meetings were only 15 cents membership every time you went. I\nmet a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people that way. That was before the Jewish Community Center\nopened. Those years of 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 were fabulous. I went to BBYO\n[B'nai B'rith Youth Organization] conventions in Hendersonville [North Carolina]\nat Blue Star. We had conventions here in town. During those years when you were\n14 and 15, you were dating already because the college campuses here were not\nco-educational. Emory [University−Atlanta, Georgia] was a boys' school. Agnes\nScott [College−Decatur, Georgia] was a girls' school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Georgia Tech [Georgia\nInstitute of Technology−Atlanta, Georgia] was a boys' university. The Jewish\nboys who came here had no one to date, so they would have to dip down and date\nthe high school girls. When I was 15, I was going to rush parties. It was not a\nbig deal, and everybody behaved. The guys would rent a car and you would have\nfour or five couples in a car. Nobody had the money to have their own car. I met\nmy husband when I was 14.\n\nPOLLARD: How old was he?\n\nBRICKMAN: 16. He came to Emory when he was 16. He was born in Chattanooga, [Tennessee].\n\nPOLLARD: What is your husband's name?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRICKMAN: Perry... P-E-R-R-Y. He came here in 1949. I met him in the spring of\n1950. I did not meet him. He said he saw me. I went to a BBG/AZA dance at the\nGeorgian Terrace Hotel across from the Fox [Theatre]. He said he saw me dancing.\nHe said, \"Who is that?\" Somebody told him. He said he was going to call me and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ask me out. He didn't. I did not know he existed. I was having fun. A friend of\nmine who lived in my neighborhood said to me that spring, \"The AE [Alpha\nEpsilon] Pi's at Emory are playing in a touch football game. You want to go?\"\n\"No.\" I did not go to those things. I did not want to. \"You've never been.\" I\nsaid, \"I'm not going to go. Don't need to go.\" \"A bunch of us are going to go.\nGo one time.\" I said, \"Okay.\" I went one time. The AEPis were playing the TEPs\n[Tau Epsilon Pi]. A group of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"AEPis who were not in the game were walking across\nthe lawn. I said to somebody, \"Who is that guy right there?\" They said, \"Perry\nBrickman. He's from Chattanooga. He's so cute.\" I had already made that\ndecision. When he came by, I noticed he had on a leopard vest. I wasn't ever\nshy, and I said, \"Where did you get that vest?\" He said, \"My uncle shot a\nleopard.\" [I said] \"Jews do not shoot\" [He said] \"My uncle shot a leopard and I\nhad it made.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Oh,\" thinking \"Smart aleck remark,\" but so was mine. I\nlet it go. He called me up and he asked me out. I fell in love with him right\naway. I was dating other people and so was he. It did not matter. He was\ndifferent. He was special. He was bright. He was quiet and so cute. We just hit\nit off right away. He just stayed at Emory two years in undergrad[uate]. Then ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he\nleft here and went back to Chattanooga. He was in dental school here. That's\nanother story. They flunked a lot of Jewish boys at Emory Dental School because\nthey were Jewish. He was an all A student. When he got to dental school there\nthat the first year, he did great. They flunked him the second year. They\nflunked... I could list I do not know how many of them. They found out that the\ndean was an antisemite, Dean [John] Buhler.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: How do you spell Buhler? Do you remember?\n\nBRICKMAN: M-O-M-Z-E-R. The Anti-Defamation League, specifically Irving\nGoldstein, Marvin Goldstein, Ted Levitas too probably, they raised hell. They\nwere flunking Jewish boys like crazy. Bright, capable Jewish boys.\n\nPOLLARD: Why did they let them in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"only to flunk?\n\nBRICKMAN: You got in after two years of undergrad. You did not have to go four\nyears. They were excellent students. They were good with their hands, and they\nwanted to be a dentist. When this guy came in, he just slowly found a way to\ndump them, so Perry left. He went back to Chattanooga. It killed me. He was\nupset, too. He got into the University of Tennessee [Memphis, Tennessee] right\naway. He was an outstanding student and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"made fabulous grades. Because of what\nthis dean did, the Jewish people in town fought him so, that they threw him out.\nIt was a well-known fact that they threw him out because he was an antisemite.\nThat was at Emory University, which was a Methodist private school that today\nhas more Jewish kids in it than you can imagine. They had a lot of guys from\nMiami [Florida] and New York who came there. The man hated Jews. That was his\nway to get rid of them. They did not do it in medical school but did it in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dental school. It is a well-known fact. Perry, who has always been a fabulous\nstudent, did quite well. He then went on from dental school to do oral surgery\nresidency and training. Many, many years later, he opened his practice, but that\nis another part of history. Where are we at this point?\n\nPOLLARD: We were talking about your teenage years, but you have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mentioned the\nwork ethic of your parents. Can you elaborate on how that resonates with you\neven to this day?\n\nBRICKMAN: I do not ever remember seeing my folks sit down and just sit. We were\ntaught, especially by Mother, that if you do not have anything to do, find\nsomething to do. If you are really bored, \"Geyn und klapn dein kop oyf di vant.\"\n\"Go knock your head on a wall ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if that's all you have to do.\" \"Create something.\nMake something. Do something. Talk to me about something that is important.\"\nDaddy told us, \"Always read the paper.\" When Ralph McGill was editor, Daddy\nsaid, \"You have to read his article. If you read the comics, you have to read\nhim because with foolishness, there has to be sound sense.\" If you do something,\nwhat did you learn from it? If you are going to work, you work to the nth\ndegree. Don't do it if you are not going to do it 100 percent. If you are\nhelping me, don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"tell me you are tired. There is no such thing, my folks said,\nas being tired. Tired people are nothing people. They give up easy and make an\nexcuse. \"I'm tired. There is no such thing as 'I'm tired.' What have you done\nanyway? You are just a kid.\" What we watched was two people who got up at six\no'clock, went to the store downstairs, or got in the car, and were at the store\nat seven o'clock once we moved.\n\nPOLLARD: This is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Tape of an interview with Shirley Brickman in Atlanta, Georgia,\nNovember 12, 2002. The interviewer is Nancy Pollard. This is side 1 of Tape 2.\nWhen we ran out of room on the last tape, you were talking about your parents'\nwork ethic and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that they never rested.\n\nBRICKMAN: Mother always told us, \"Don't be afraid of work. Let work be afraid of\nyou. Find something to do and do it to the very best of your ability. If you're\nin school, do your best. If you work with someone, do your best. Don't show up\nat the last minute. Get there ahead of time. Don't turn things in late. If\nyou're doing a project, make it just the very best, as if it's the only thing\nyou'll ever have to do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If you get in a habit of doing it to the best of your\nability, you'll be more proud of yourself. Otherwise, you'll be a disappointment\nto you, to me, and to the whole world.\" We tried to do that. I don't mind\nworking. I feel good when I am working. They didn't take vacations. If the\nchildren were happy, they were happy. That was their vacation.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: You were talking about your parents, how hard working they were, and\nhappy times. What would they say to you about making the best of things?\n\nBRICKMAN: I think the happiest time of my life was the year that we moved. It\nopened up a whole new world to me, socially and educationally. It was just\nwonderful. As far as Judaism, it was fabulous. That was the happiest time. I saw\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them happy, too.\n\nPOLLARD: Do you remember what one would have to pay for a house in those days?\n\nBRICKMAN: I can tell you what they paid for a house. They paid $21,500. I paid\n$22,500 for this one. The one down the street just sold for $386,000. They moved\nthere and Daddy had worked very hard with Mother, together, hand in hand. That\nwas for us. Those were happy times. When we were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"growing up, often there was a\nlot of conversation in our house. At mealtime there was conversation. In a car\nthere was conversation. If you were sitting doing homework, conversation. They\ncame home from the store. We would go down and help them bring up things and\nhave conversation. What did you do? \"What did you learn? Where did you go? What\nhappened today?\" They would put down their groceries, sit down in the middle of\nthe kitchen, and say, \"What did you do today?\" It came out, \"Vat did you do today?\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: Did they talk about politics? American politics?\n\nBRICKMAN: Between them they did.\n\nPOLLARD: Do you remember who they liked?\n\nBRICKMAN: They were Democrats. They thought [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt was\nwonderful. Of course, had they known a little bit more about him they wouldn't\nhave been as impressed. They were happy and proud to vote. Being American\ncitizens was a whole big deal. We were often instructed on making the best of\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything, no matter what it was. \"You flunk a test? Do better on the next one.\nYou should have studied more.\" \"Somebody knocks you down, get up. If you stay\ndown there, you will be down there all by yourself.\" \"If things are difficult,\nthey can get better. How are they going to get better? You are going to make\nthem get better. If you do not do it, nobody is going to come in with a magic\n'vand' and make it better for you.\" If you have a positive attitude -- I am\nusing my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"words instead of theirs -- if you have a positive outlook on\neverything, even if it is fake, after a while you believe it. As far as\nsickness, when we didn't feel good and said, \"I don't feel good. My throat\nhurts,\" they would say, \"Go to school, you'll feel better.\" \"But it's killing\nme.\" \"Call me from school.\" If you said, \"I think I'm going to throw up.\" \"Throw\nup at school. Call me and I'll come get you.\"\n\nPOLLARD: Did your parents ever worry about polio?\n\nBRICKMAN: No. Perry, my husband, was in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"junior high when there was a polio\nepidemic in Chattanooga. Football team participants were practicing down where\nthere was some water and a couple of guys got polio. I think one of them died.\nThe other one was completely paralyzed. They closed the school, made them go\nhome, and they did home study for a while. That happened there, but we didn't\nhear about it here. We were told that if you do not feel good, if you go to\nschool, you will feel better.\n\nPOLLARD: We touched briefly earlier on growing up in segregated Atlanta. You\nmentioned how your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"father was very respectful of people of all races. I'm\nwondering if you were aware of things like the separate drinking fountains? How\ndid that affect you?\n\nBRICKMAN: It didn't affect me. I noticed it, but what did I know? That is the\nway it had always been. My father would loan money to a lot of his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"customers.\nThey would say, \"Mr. Irving, I sure need a new refrigerator.\" \"How much do you\nneed?\" \"I need about a hundred dollars.\" \"I'll loan you the money.\" No interest,\never. They paid him back. The postman came once. \"I need a new so-and-so, Mr.\nIrving. I ain't got the money.\" \"I'll loan you the money.\" He would make a\nlittle piece of paper that said, \"I gave Mr. Williams this much money and he is\ngoing to pay me back.\" Each week, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when they came in for their groceries, they\nwould pay him back. I do not mean 50 people. Could have been a dozen people. One\nwould tell the other. If they were a good candidate, he loaned it to them. If\nthey weren't, he said, \"I don't have the money.\" We watched that and that was\nreaching out to help other people. It was an automatic thing that you put in\nyour brain. If somebody needs something and you can help them, help them. The\nsame thing was true with tzedakah, to give. People ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"always were coming to the\nstore to collect for something. Many times, I would hear Daddy say to Mother,\n\"Open the register, here comes an emitser, a somebody.\" He never turned them\ndown. It did not matter how much you give them, but you give them something. He\ntaught us, as children, to always put away for a rainy day. Mother, too.\nAccording to their outlook, every day was going to be thunderstorms. You always\nhad to have something for tomorrow. If you put away, you will have it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do not\nbuy what you do not need.\n\nPOLLARD: Did your parents ever have any luxuries for themselves?\n\nBRICKMAN: No. They bought clothes and what they needed. They always had a car.\nWe always had plenty of food.\n\nPOLLARD: What kind of car did they drive?\n\nBRICKMAN: They had a Dodge. Daddy had a Chevrolet, I think, before that. Later\non in life he bought a new car and paid for it. He said that if he could not pay\nfor it, he did not want it. He never bought anything on time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"If you\ndon't have it, you don't need it. You don't have the money? Don't buy it. And\ndon't charge anything.\" Mother had a Rich's charge account. She thought that was\na big deal. She would go buy something and she thought it was cute. It was a day\nout with her hat and gloves downtown. She would take the five-cent shopper from\nDavison's, Macy's, down to Rich's, look around, and buy something. She would\ncome home and try it on. \"Oh, I don't know if I need that.\" She would take\nanother little trip downtown with the hat and gloves and give it back. It was a\nway out of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store. It was sunshine. It was away from her normal routine, and\nshe could dress up a little bit. On the days we had piano lessons, sometimes\nthey would come down, meet us, and we would go to a cafeteria for dinner. That\nwas a big deal. There was no wastefulness. You open up a can of peas and if\nthere is some liquid in there, you do not throw that down the drain. You put\nthat in vegetable soup. You got a leftover meal? Make something out of it the\nnext day. You absolutely did not throw out anything. I still do not.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: What were your birthday celebrations like as a child?\n\nBRICKMAN: My mother was a wonderful baker. She always made a birthday cake for\neach child. We would have it in the backyard of the house. There were no guests.\nMaybe her sister and her sister's children. It was a three-layer cake. I have\nthe recipe. She would cut the cake into three layers or make three layers in a\nnine-inch pan. She would always put ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wax paper on the bottom, oil it slightly,\nand she would ice it with her own icing, chopped pecans, and crushed pineapple\nwith all the juice out. We would sing \"Happy Birthday,\" and that was it. I do\nnot remember ever getting a present. I did not know you got presents. The cake\nwas a gift. Everybody was singing \"Happy Birthday.\" That was a big deal. I don't\never remember getting birthday gifts until I was grown and married. Daddy would\nsend me a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"check for maybe $25. That was good. Holidays were fabulous growing up.\n\nPOLLARD: What would be your favorite holiday?\n\nBRICKMAN: Hanukkah. My mother made the best latkes in the world. You could smell\nthem so far away. She grated those potatoes on the small hand grinder. I still\ngrate potatoes by hand. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cuisinart is here. I do not use it. I grate carrots by\nhand. She made the best, biggest, fattest, most delicious latkes. She was a\nwonderful cook. Cooking was not a chore. It was a gift. When she put something\non the table, it was colorful and delicious. Each plate would have a green\nvegetable, salad, and a meat or fish. It was prepared for you. We did not serve\nourselves. She made the plate. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She put it down and you were responsible for\nconsuming it whether you wanted to or not. Breakfast was beautiful. Nobody ever\nslung a bowl of cereal in front of me in my life.\n\nPOLLARD: Who did the dishes?\n\nBRICKMAN: Mama. I never helped her a day in my life.\n\nPOLLARD: Did she have a washing machine, or did she do it by hand?\n\nBRICKMAN: Remember, in those days, in the 1930's and 1940's, you could hire\ndomestic help for $3 a week. There were people who lived ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"around the store who\nwould come in a couple of days a week. Maybe three days a week. We had a couple\nof gals. One was Josephine and one was Naomi. I remember them because Josephine\ntaught me how to jitterbug when I was about 10. I learned all the dances. She\nwas a great dancer. They would help clean. No one ever cooked a thing for my\nmother, ever. They would watch us sometimes when we were very small. From the\ntime I was five on, I do not remember any ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"help around the house... maybe for\nMarilyn, my little sister. We didn't go anywhere or do anything. They did not\nhave to say, \"Where are you going?\" Where was I going? I could not leave the\nstore. It was a two-block area. I could go on this side of the street or that\nside of the street.\n\nPOLLARD: Did you go to the movie theaters?\n\nBRICKMAN: Once in a while. When we went to a movie, my father would always say,\n\"So what did you learn?\" I said, \"What do you mean, 'what did you learn'?\" If\nyou went to the movie and it cost you 25 cents or 35 cents, what did you learn?\"\nI said, \"Daddy,\" I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember once saying, \"Nothing. It was a musical. What could\nyou learn?\" He said, \"You could learn how to dance.\"\n\nPOLLARD: Did you have television?\n\nBRICKMAN: No. I didn't not have television when I was married. Daddy and Mother\ngot a TV when I got married. I was already gone. I think Perry and I got our\nfirst TV in 1958. We still have one TV in our house. We have never had but one.\nWe do not watch it much. We listen to the radio, listen to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"NPR [National Public\nRadio], read, and talk. We don't watch TV.\n\nPOLLARD: Let us go back to the time when you said you saw Perry and you liked\nhim right away.\n\nBRICKMAN: He went out of town after about a year or so and we corresponded. We\ndid not do a lot of long distance calling because nobody had any money. I used\nto write. He would write. I have every letter he has ever written. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He is a very\nserious, straightforward, honest, and generous person. Generous in every respect\nbecause if you want something, you can get it. I know that, but I do not need\nit. In fact, he played a trick on a friend of mine and on me, too. We were out\nof town in San Francisco [California] for some dental meeting. We went by this\ngorgeous store. He and his friend said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Why don't you girls go in there and buy\nwhatever you want?\" It was a knockout store. My friend and I from Birmingham\n[Alabama] went in there and spent about an hour. She didn't buy anything. I\ndidn't buy anything. \"What did you get?\" I said, \"Nothing.\" He said, \"I knew you\nwouldn't.\" I did not need anything. He gives beautiful, gorgeous presents. He\nbuys clothes for me for an anniversary, birthday, or Mother's Day -- an outfit\nthat I would not even look at. He has very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good taste. He is a very good father.\nHe does everything in a very quiet manner. He is dependable, always around, and\nalways listens. I have always chatted, aggravated, and talked, and khakt\n[Yiddish: chopped] him to pieces. He has never said, \"I've heard enough.\" It was\nalways, \"Do you feel better now?\"\n\nPOLLARD: When you were courting, at what point did you get around to talking\nabout getting married ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and how did it come up?\n\nBRICKMAN: Perry was from Chattanooga, and I was from here. He went to dental\nschool in Memphis, Tennessee from 1952 to 1955. It was three years because they\nwent year-round. They did not go four years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was graduating high school in\n1953 and was going to go to dental hygiene school. In the back of my mind, if he\nhad gone to be a dentist and I was so fond of him, maybe I could be a dental\nhygienist and work in the office. We never said, \"I'm going to marry you,\" or\n\"You're going to marry me.\" We were dating different people. I was more than him\nbecause he was in school in Memphis. I went off ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to the University of Alabama\n[Tuscaloosa, Alabama] for one year. I was going to finish and be a teacher,\nsecretary, nurse. That's what everybody was doing. I was going to be a teacher.\nThen I thought, \"I am going to get married pretty soon.\" We were getting very\nserious with each other. He did not have two cents and neither did I, but it did\nnot make any difference. We had tomorrow. He said to me one time, \"Are you\nreally coming to dental school here, to hygiene school?\" I said, \"I will.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6510.0,6540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At\nthe last minute, I had registered. I changed my mind. I thought, \"If I am up\nthere, he is up there, and we are both in school, I am not going to pay\nattention to what I am supposed to do. I am going to 'drey' his 'kop' too.\" I\nsaid, \"I'm not going to do it.\"\n\nPOLLARD: Drey his kop... do you mean turn his head?\n\nBRICKMAN: Turn his head. I said, \"I will not do that.\" I went to Alabama and\nloved it. Sorority life, school, more courses, and learning. It was great. I\nloved it. I really did. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I came home and said, \"I have to go to work. If we're\never going to make anything as a twosome, I need to be able to do my part in the\nbargain.\" His folks were sending him to school. I wasn't going to live on that.\nIt was December of 1954. I had worked in the summer at camp as a day camp\ncounselor and music director. I wanted to get a job. I knew how to type. I knew\nhow to do speedwriting, not shorthand, but speedwriting. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Helen told me, \"Go take\nthat course and you can always get a job in an office.\" I went to see Dr. Harold\nLevin, a dermatologist. I had a little thing on my lip. It was December of 1954.\nHe had an office on West Peachtree [Street]. He said to me, \"You know, my front\ngirl was in a terrible automobile accident yesterday and she can't come to\nwork.\" That is unusual for somebody to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"start a conversation with a patient. \"You\nthink you could get the phone for me for a little while?\" We had talked a little\nbit. I was 18. I said, \"Sure.\" Not knowing anything, I said, \"I'll get the\nphones.\" I went up front. As patients were calling, I got the phone, appointed\nthem the times they wanted, and checked out people who were leaving that day. I\ndon't know what I was doing. He said to me at five o'clock, \"You want to come\nback tomorrow? I could use you for a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couple of days.\" I said, \"Sure.\" \"I'm\ngetting ready to move,\" he said, \"from West Peachtree to the Strickler\nBuilding\", which was one of the first office buildings on Peachtree [Street]. It\nwas across from where the [High] Museum is now. \"If you want to, you can work\nfor about a week until I can hire somebody.\" I said, \"Fine.\" I worked for him\nfor that week and he said, \"You think you'd like a job? I could pay you $50 a\nweek. We work six days a week and we work from 9:00 to 500 and work on Saturday\nhalf day, maybe until 2:00.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Fine.\" I thought I had been given a gift from\nabove. I worked for him for about seven months until I got married. The December\nbefore, Perry came in town. For about a week, I had a job at a place called\nSurgical Supply Company. I didn't like it because someone had just left and the\nlady I took the job with said, \"I'll help you and show you how to move into this\nbusiness.\" The Reismans owned it. She didn't help me do anything. I did not know\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6690.0,6720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what I was doing. She was of no assistance. I thought, \"I do not need this.\" I\nleft there. I stayed a week. Before I got this job with Harold Levin, Perry came\nto town over the winter break and gave me an engagement ring, which was a big\nsurprise. We were going to the wedding of Bernie [Bernard] Palay and Sandy\n[Sandra] Kingloff. I said, \"I won't tell anybody anything because I don't want\nto take away from her excitement.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That ring on that finger was just the most\nbeautiful thing. I just loved it. He said to me, \"An engagement ring is a\nserious thing.\" I remember going to Chattanooga the April before that when I was\nat [the University of] Alabama during spring break. I remember meeting his\nparents for the first time.\n\nPOLLARD: What was that like?\n\nBRICKMAN: It was okay. I was not nervous or anything. I went on the train to\nChattanooga. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You didn't drive then. Who had a car? We had one car at home. I\nremember Mother bought me a new spring coat to go. I was going to stay a couple\nof days. Perry had a younger sister, a beautiful, sweet girl named Rita. I\nstayed in her room. I remember talking to his mother and daddy one night when I\nwas there. I only stayed a couple of days. My future mother-in-law said to me,\n\"Now, if you all are serious with each other, exactly what do you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"intend to do\nin order to be able to support each other? Now I'm going to send Perry to\nschool. What do you do?\" I made up something. I told her that I could work doing\njust about anything. When I finished school, I wasn't going back after that\nfirst year and I was going to get a job. I could always work. I do not know how\nthat sat, but I felt pretty good when I got through. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6810.0,6840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I did not want anybody to\nscare me into anything because it just wasn't going to work. I loved him and\nwould have done anything to be able to make a future together. He said nothing.\nHe just sat there. I didn't get any support, but that was okay. Now that I knew\nI had made a promise, I had to follow through on it.\n\nI worked for Harold Levin, who was great to me. I learned everything about front\noffice work. This was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1954. In 1962, when we came back to Atlanta and Perry\nopened his office, I established his front office. He eventually had two\npartners with three offices. I worked the front office and the back. I worked\nwherever I had to for 40 years and learned everything I had to learn along the\nway. I loved working those years. Loved working with his two partners, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Harvey\nSilverman and Charles Rosenberg. They were wonderful. We were in two different\noffices. We were in three different places. We never rotated, but we always got\nalong. It was a wonderful learning experience for me. It gave me an\nunderstanding of where a dollar comes from, which I had established initially\nworking at the store. When we first got married, we lived on nothing. You can\nalways stretch. I learned to appreciate a dollar. I knew where it was coming\nfrom. I knew where it was going. I learned ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6900.0,6930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"business. I learned everything. That\nwas a real plus for me.\n\nPOLLARD: When were you married? Can you give me an idea of your wedding?\n\nBRICKMAN: June 26, 1955. We got engaged the December before. We had a big family\ndinner at the Progressive Club. Everybody came in from out of town. It was a\nbeautifu1 engagement party. I got married in June. I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five bridesmaids, my\nsisters, a couple of friends, and a cousin of mine. Perry had his ushers, who\nwere friends of his.\n\nBRICKMAN: The wedding was at the Progressive Club. Rabbi Harry H. Epstein\nmarried us. I loved him. Still do. Jerry Horowitz sang at my wedding. Jerry's\nsister was a very good friend of mine. Still is. Jerry had a beautiful voice. He\nused to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sing in the choir. I did not even think that you hired people to do\nthat. He said he would. He sang two beautiful songs and made it lovely.\n\nPOLLARD: What were the songs?\n\nBRICKMAN: I Love You Truly and I forgot what the other one was. It was a\nbeautiful wedding. I remember most of it. Mother bought me a gorgeous gown.\n\nPOLLARD: Where did you get your gown? 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I owed them everything for\ntaking us in. I would have done the same thing. She did not hesitate.\n\nPOLLARD: Were your sisters already gone from home by then?\n\nBRICKMAN: My oldest sister had just moved out of mother's. She came back from\nNew Jersey and bought a house on University [Drive]. My youngest sister was at\ncollege somewhere.\n\nPOLLARD: This was the house that you had grown up in? The second house?\n\nBRICKMAN: On Pasadena. That worked out ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"okay. Then, while I was in the hospital,\nPerry went to Decatur [Georgia], drove around and said, \"Oh, my gosh. There's a\nbuilding going up and there's no oral surgeon out here. I think I'll open a\npractice out here.\" I said, \"Fine, since we have to eat.\" He opened in February\n1962. I got help at home and went to work with him right away. I did that for 40\nyears. After we lived with the folks for a year, we decided that we should buy\nour ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"own place. We found this house on Reindeer Drive. I have been here 40 years\nand I love it. This area has changed considerably, too.\n\nPOLLARD: I wanted to, for the record, have you give me the names and birth dates\nof your children.\n\nBRICKMAN: Our oldest daughter, Lori, was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee,\nNovember 20, 1956.\n\nPOLLARD: Spell that?\n\nBRICKMAN: L-O-R-I.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7410.0,7440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: Who was she named for?\n\nBRICKMAN: She was named after Aunt Leah, who raised my mother. Teresa was the\nsecond one. She was born in Massachusetts while we were in the Air Force. She\nwas born June 26, 1958, on our third anniversary. It is not only our anniversary\nand Teresa's birthday, it is also the birth date of our grandson, Jeffrey and\nSusan's son, also born June 26. That is a very special day. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jeffrey, our son,\nwas born September 15, 1961, in Atlanta. We had one in Chattanooga, one in\nMassachusetts, and one in Atlanta.\n\nPOLLARD: Teresa was named after your mother's...\n\nBRICKMAN: ...my father's mother, Tema. Jeffrey, that's a story. Perry and I had\ndecided to name him -- not Jeffrey, it was something else. 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Because I loved this man so much, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we named him after my father-in-law's\nfather, Joseph Herschel Brickman and called him Jeffrey Herschel Brickman. When\nour grandson was born, we named him, in full, after my father-in-law. He was a\nvery special man.\n\nPOLLARD: What was his name?\n\nBRICKMAN: Paul Myer Brickman. The Hebrew name is 'Pesach Michel.'\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7530.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: What was your mother-in-law's name?\n\nBRICKMAN: Chaya. One of our grandchildren is named after her.\n\nPOLLARD: Chaya was also the name she was called in English?\n\nBRICKMAN: No, Ida. Ida Brickman. They called her 'Chiakeh,' a little nickname.\nShe was very special. She was a very bright, special young woman whose lifestyle\nwas so completely different from my mother. Mom was American born, a bridge\nplayer, a golf player, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a real outgoing woman with lots of friends. She always\nwent to parties, lunches and stuff, although she worked hard. Perry's folks had\na coal yard and they worked long hours together. My mother didn't know any of\nthat. They got along and respected each other. I would not say they were \"bosom\nbuddies.\" They lived in different towns. They had a great deal of respect for\neach other. My father-in-law was a jewel of a man. 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I would get up to\nthe feed the baby, sit, have breakfast with him, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7620.0,7650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we would talk in Yiddish.\nMy mother-in-law understood Yiddish but never said a word. When she got older\nand got ill, she started to talk to me in Yiddish. She was interesting.\n\nPOLLARD: How long did each of your parents live?\n\nBRICKMAN: My father-in-law died when he was about 62. My mother-in-law lived to\n80. My daddy lived to 85. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother lived to 95 almost, a week shy of her\nninety-fifth birthday.\n\nBRICKMAN: What year was that?\n\nPOLLARD: Mama died in 1996. All of these people had their seykhl to the day they\nleft this earth. They knew who they were, who we were. You could carry on a\nconversation with them. I miss them very much. All four of them were wonderful\npeople. We were lucky. Sometimes you get lucky and you get the right parents. I\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"got the right parents and I got the right in-laws. It was nice. We learned a lot\nof things from them, which you try to transfer to your own children. Whatever we\nlearned... I say we... you try to be an example to your children. Some things\nare very positive things, working hard, being honest, keeping quiet, not sharing\ntoo much, not gossiping, and being mentshlekh, behaving yourself. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because you\nnot only represent yourself when you go out of a house, you represent your whole\nfamily name. It is very important. You are going out of your house as a child of\nMr. and Mrs. So-and-So and also yourself. You have to have a good image of\nyourself and behave yourself. You do not want any bad things to travel back\nhome. It is a full-time job. It is exhausting, but it is worth it.\n\nPOLLARD: In the early years of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"raising your three children, what would you say\nsome of the highlights were of your life as a young mother?\n\nBRICKMAN: I have always been involved in volunteer work. Not only because I love\nit and I love people, but to show the children that you have to do things for\nsomebody else other than yourself. You cannot go through life with blinders on,\nnot looking to the right or left. Then you spend too much time on yourself. We\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7770.0,7800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived in this neighborhood where we are now. There was a tremendous amount of\nJewish kids all around here. They went to public schools. They went to the\nKittredge School, Briarcliff High School. They went to Sunday school and Hebrew\nschool at Ahavath Achim. They were good children. I never had any problem. I\nknow that sounds goody-goody, but I never had any problems out of the ordinary\nwith these three children. Lori and Teresa were 19 months apart. Jeff is three\nyears ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7800.0,7830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"away from Teresa. They were good students. They were fun kids. Still are.\nThey are fun to be with. When the three of them get together, it is like\nSaturday Night Live or Comedy Central. They are great. They write well. They've\ngot open, good personalities. They are very generous children. You learn that\nfrom what you see and feel. They are teaching that to their children. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7830.0,7860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When we\nhave an opportunity to get together, I just wish everyone lived in the same\ntown. Our Lori lived in Dallas [Texas] for many years. She just moved back here\nabout two years ago. Our Teresa lives in Orlando [Florida]. Jeff lives here.\nThere are five grandchildren with one on the way. Most of the time that we spend\ntogether is holiday time where I'm in the kitchen.\n\nPOLLARD: Which particular holidays?\n\nBRICKMAN: They are always here ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7860.0,7890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Thanksgiving and sometimes Passover. They are\nhere for Hanukkah a lot because Perry's birthday is December 23 and sometimes\nHanukkah falls on it. This year, Hanukkah is going to fall right at\nThanksgiving. The Friday after Thanksgiving is the first night of Hanukkah. I\ntry to make the latkes that Mama made. Maybe not as big as hers, but they will\nsmell as good if you grate the potatoes on the small grater. The kids get\ntogether. They are wonderful at correspondence. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7890.0,7920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"email each other all the\ntime. Perry and I email during the day. I had to work. I have never called him\nat work. I don't call him at work and say, \"How are you doing?\" It is a waste of\ntime and silly. You have to handle something? Handle it yourself. If you cannot\nhandle it, then wait until he gets home. Another thing we established in our\nearly married life. If somebody comes home and have been gone all day, do not\nhit them at the door with the problems you've got. Let them get in the door. He\ntold me that once. I must have been doing it. \"Let me get in the door, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"put down\nmy things, change my clothes, and then you can approach me with what's on your\nmind. I can't handle it at the door.\" That is true. You learn to reprogram\nyourself in order to make things smooth and work right. You try to complement\neach other with desires so that it works. You want your children to see that,\ntoo. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It is all according to who you marry.\n\nPOLLARD: What type of activities did you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7950.0,7980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"participate in with your children?\n\nBRICKMAN: PTA [Parent Teachers Association] involvement all the time. I was\nalways there for any sports activities. Daddy could not always go. If it was on\nSunday, he was there. They did not take piano, music, or dance. I do not know\nwhy. They were involved in all kinds of school activities, very active in school\nand clubs and everything else. What did we do as a family? We maybe took three\nvacations together. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=7980.0,8010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lori and Teresa did go to summer camp.\n\nPOLLARD: Where?\n\nBRICKMAN: They went to Birch Trail Camp in Minong, Wisconsin, for eight years.\n\nPOLLARD: Is that a Jewish camp?\n\nBRICKMAN: It is a Jewish camp with children from all over. They are still\nfriends with some of the friends they met there. Loved it. Jeff was a very good\ntennis player, busied himself with tennis and different things. The kids had odd\njobs in the summer when they could... Burger King, Mr. Steak, Ruby Tuesday's,\nwhatever. Jeff worked at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8010.0,8040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"office one summer, thinking maybe he would like to\ngo into oral surgery. After he had to stand up all day and the long hours, he\nsaid \"This is not for me. I'm not interested.\" Lori is great in sales. She has\nalways been able to sell. She has the most creative mind of the three kids. She\nis good in art. Teresa went to law school and she is an immigration attorney.\nJeff went to law school and got his Master's in prosecuting. He is at the United\nStates Attorney's office. They're good children. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8040.0,8070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're good parents. They are\nvery dear. They keep things from long ago for memory's sake. Our Lori has a\nscrapbook in chronological order of every letter she ever got from my parents\nand in-laws. Jeffrey can remember anything that has ever happened. Teresa is so\ngood with details of what happened and when. She is our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8070.0,8100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"genealogy consultant.\nShe has researched it and found people we wanted to find. She has found some we\ndidn't want to find, either. Put those back in the closet.\n\nPOLLARD: You have five grandchildren and one on the way. Tell me who your\ngrandchildren are, their ages now, a little bit about them, and your\nrelationship with them?\n\nBRICKMAN: I hope it is a good relationship. I love the children. I hope they\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8100.0,8130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"respect and love us in that order. Jason is 17. He is Lori's oldest. Lori got\ndivorced about three years ago, unfortunately. Unfortunate because it split up a\nfamily, but fortunately because it was time to start a new life. She moved back\nto Atlanta. Jason is a senior at Yeshiva High School[ Atlanta, Georgia]. He has\nTourette's syndrome. It is a neurological disorder, which is very difficult. He\nhas had it since he was three, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but he is trying to step over it with a great\ndeal of effort. As a teenager, you just want to be like everybody else. He is a\ngenerous sweet child with a good heart. We hope that will work out for him.\nJessica is 14. She is in ninth grade at Yeshiva High School. Jason is a good\nathlete and an A-B student. Jessica is a straight A student and a heck of an\nathlete. She is on every team there is. If there is not one, she wants to form\none. She is a very outgoing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8160.0,8190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"child. They are a lot of fun to be with. They are\ngood kids. Teresa and Paul's children are Elena and Talia. Elena is 10. She goes\nto a Hebrew day school. Talia is at a special school. She has developmental\nproblems, but she is stepping over that. Their mommy is pregnant with a third\nchild at this point [Anna Finer]. All we hope for is a normal happy child.\nJeffrey and Susan's little boy is Joseph. He is seven. He is the only child they\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8190.0,8220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can have. He goes to the Greenfield Hebrew Academy and is in first grade. They\nare fabulous to have as grandchildren because when they come over here, I can do\nthings with them that I can't do out of town. We tell stories and talk about\nwhat was. I want them to remember everything that I remember so that when I am\nnot here, they can tell their children. They're already history buffs. They can\nalready do my mother and daddy's accent. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8220.0,8250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They are very good with accents. They\nare interested in stories. Storytelling became a part of their life as soon as\nthey were old enough to understand what we were saying. We play games. I'll\nstart a story, stop in the middle and point to them. They can pick it up and\nmove it. Real ones, make believe, I don't care. I want them to be able to be\ngood students. First, I want them to be good, understanding and generous\nchildren. I also want them to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8250.0,8280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"respectful and honest. I want them to be able\nto work hard and not complain. I don't like complainers. I do not have the\ntolerance for people who kvetch and complain all day. It will drag you down.\n\nPOLLARD: What makes you happy?\n\nBRICKMAN: Just being here. When you wake up in the morning and look outside --\nyou will see when you leave today -- there is a magnificent tree outside. It is\nbeautiful. It is fall time. It is pretty and golden. The earth and world are\nfull of beautiful things. If you wake up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8280.0,8310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and you've got your good health,\nsomething to eat and something to wear, what are you supposed to get? Door\nprizes every day? You make your own door prizes. You have to be appreciative of\nwhat is around you. You have to make a happy day out of every day. You'll feel better.\n\nPOLLARD: We in the United States are going through some difficult times now\nwhile we consider whether we are going to war with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8310.0,8340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Iraq. Do you let\ninternational news affect your moods or life?\n\nBRICKMAN: I'm very concerned about what is going on in the world. I am concerned\nabout what is going on in Israel. I am concerned about what is going on\neconomically in this country. I read the paper from front to back. I listen to\nNPR [National Public Radio]. I get news off of the computer to keep up with what\nis going on. I'm not going to let it change my whole ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8340.0,8370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"outlook in life. I am\nconcerned, but I'm not going to get in a hole with it. I cannot do more than I\ncan do about it.\n\nPOLLARD: I know that you and Perry over the many years have been extremely\nactive in the Atlanta Jewish community. I think it is very important to hear\nexactly what you have been involved in. We will talk about why you have chosen\nthese particular involvements.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRICKMAN: We were both active in BBYO growing up. That was an eye-opener. I\ncan't speak for Perry, but knowing how he operates, I would think he feels the\nsame way. Giving has always been an important part of our life because we learn\nthat as...\n\nPOLLARD: This is the second side of the second tape of the interview with\nShirley Brickman, also recorded, continuing on November 12, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"2002.\n\nBRICKMAN: I know what we were talking about, Nancy. Let me say this first. Daddy\nsaid to me, \"If you got money in your right pocket and you give it, that pocket\nis going to fill up again.\" What he was saying is, \"If you work hard, run your\nlife right, and you give, you will have some more to give later.\" It was very\nimportant for them to give. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8430.0,8460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The amount did not matter. It was not that they were\ninvolved in the community, it is that they were tzedakah givers all their\nmarried, working life. We saw that. I remember trying to teach our Jeffrey when\nhe started Sunday school. I said, \"They're going to come around and collect for\nan organization called Keren Ami. Here's some money. Give it.\" He came home that\nfirst ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8460.0,8490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day from Sunday school and he put the money back on the breakfast room\ntable. I'll never forget it. He asked me, \"Who is it going for?\" I said, \"It's\nfor children who don't have what you have... not a lot of toys, no shoes, not\nsuch fancy clothes. Always give it.\" He came home and put the money back on the\ntable. I said, \"Why didn't you give?\" He said, \"They came around and a little\ngirl asked for it today. I gave it to her and looked at her. She had on patent\nleather shoes and a pretty skirt, so I took it back.\" I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8490.0,8520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I'll have to\nchange synagogues now.\" I hadn't explained it properly. I realized I did not\ntell it like it really was. I said, \"It's not for her. It's for someone else.\"\nThat is how we learn. Giving was important. When I came back to Atlanta in 1962,\nI joined... in 1961... in 1962, I joined Hadassah. Why? That is what all women\naround here belonged to. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What did I know about Hadassah? Nothing. It was\nconnected to Israel. I knew my mother said, \"I know Hadassah is a good group.\" I\njoined it because a friend of mine said, \"You ought to belong.\" Fine. I got very\ninvolved with Hadassah. We did plays, had meetings, and big luncheons. I loved\nit. We belonged to Ahavath Achim synagogue. I was involved in Sisterhood. I\nloved all of that involvement. Plus, it was a chance to meet people. When you\ninvolve yourself, you not only ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8550.0,8580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do it for a social reason. I did socially and\neducationally. You learn from other people because the world is made up of\npeople with all kinds of ideas, and culture, and brains. You can learn from\nthem. I love that. In about 1962 or 1963, I got involved in the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation, now the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta. It was located at 41\nExchange Place downtown, not far from Georgia State [University] in a schlock\nbuilding, upstairs with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8580.0,8610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very small quarters. We were fundraising for campaign.\nWhen I first started, I had no idea what I was doing, but I learned and liked\nit. The money was going to the right place. I stayed in touch with that for all\nthese years because it was great. I was involved in synagogue and Sister[hood],\nbut moved away from Hadassah a little bit. I did not have the patience for all\nthe meetings. I still support every organization there is: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"B'nai B'rith, ORT,\nyou name it. I loved the Federation work. They had missions to Israel, women's\ngroups, lectures and presentations. It was fascinating to me. Perry was equally\ninvolved. In fact, he was president of Federation from 1990 to 1992. We have\nbeen to Israel 18, 20-something times. Every time we went, it opened my eyes to\nsomething else. We went to Russia for 10 days to meet with Refuseniks. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8640.0,8670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That is a\nlecture in itself. We went to Poland, Auschwitz, Birkenau and Treblinka. We saw\nthe Jews who made it through and did not have anything. After a visit to Poland,\nI came back and kashered my kitchen. I felt, in 1983, if some of the people I\nhave seen can find a way to have a kosher kitchen, what am I not doing that I\nshould be doing? Before I kashered my kitchen, I called my mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8670.0,8700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and Is said,\n\"Mama, I'm going to kasher my kitchen.\" She said, \"It's a lot of vork. If you\nvant to do it, you can do it.\" I said, \"I'm going to do it for Pesach.\" \"It's a\nlot of vork.\" I called my daddy the next day. \"Daddy, I want to kasher my\nkitchen.\" What he said really touched me. He said, \"My mother would be so proud\nof you.\" His mother had been dead 20 years. Remembering back, to have a kosher\nkitchen and kosher home ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really meant a lot. We found mezuzot. We put them on\nevery door. We learned a lot of things and became more involved in Judaism.\nPerry loves it. He is at study groups and lectures. We are at shul every\nShabbos. We belonged to Ahavath Achim for 49 years, then moved to Beth Jacob\nabout 10 years ago. The involvement in community remains, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but not as much as it\nwas before. I'm older. He is older. He is not involved in his practice as much\nas he was. We are still very supportive of everything. We loved Jewish\neducation. That is our real emphasis as far as tzedakah is concerned. If a\nJewish child is educated, he can fly. You really want to provide every child\nwith some Jewish background.\n\nPOLLARD: Have you been involved in the [Jewish] day school movement here?\n\nBRICKMAN: We supported ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"every day school there is before our kids were in a day\nschool. With two kids at Yeshiva, one down in Florida, and another one at the\n[Greenfield Hebrew] Academy, that makes me very happy. None of our children went\nto day schools. When they were growing up, the Hebrew Academy had just started.\nWhy was I going to send them to a day school? They were going to Hebrew School\nand there were umpteen Jewish kids up the street. If I had it to do over again,\nI would have done it differently. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It wasn't popular at that time. I do not know\nif you had to do things that were popular. It just was okay to do what we were\ndoing. Being involved in the Jewish community, I have watched this place grow.\nThe [Jewish Community] Center was a nothing little building that offered us\neverything when we were growing up. To have a building like this at Zaban [Park]\nright now and one in Cobb [County], it blows my mind every time. It looks like a\nshopping mall rather than a place ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for social activities. [From] three synagogues\n-- Ahavath Achim, Shearith Israel, Anshi S'fard, and the Temple when I was\ngrowing up to 37 synagogues. It is unbelievable. [From] 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 Jews\nto 100,000 plus. I have watched this place grow and I am lucky to live in a\ncommunity like this. You have everything Jewish, if you want it. You have all\nkinds of culture, if you want it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No one is throwing it down your throat. If you\nwant to expand your horizons and get involved, you can. You can be gone every\nnight of the week to a lecture or program. If you don't, you're missing out on\nlearning, furthering your Jewish education, as well as anything else that is offered.\n\nPOLLARD: Who are some of the Jewish personalities that would be well-known in\nAtlanta that you might have some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8880.0,8910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"personal words about?\n\nBRICKMAN: I loved Bill Breman. He gave us the [William Breman] Jewish [Heritage]\nMuseum. I work there as a docent. I have been doing that since 1983, before we\nhad a museum. We used to do exhibits at the Schatten Gallery [of the Robert W.\nWoodruff Library at Emory University]. I appreciate what he has done for us. I\nam very appreciative of people who are no longer here, like Dr. Irving Goldstein\nand Marvin Goldstein, his brother. They were very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8910.0,8940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved in the Jewish\ncommunity and really kind of put Perry in that direction. Marvin, having been an\northodontist here, said to him, \"You ought to get involved.\" \"In what?\" \"Work\nwith the Jewish fraternity, with this, with that.\" He listened to Marvin. I\nthink that put him on that path. Those are good people. Abe Goldstein worked\nvery hard with ADL and all the other organizations that he was involved with.\n\nPOLLARD: Who were some of the women?\n\nBRICKMAN: Marilyn Shubin really turned me on to the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8940.0,8970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Federation. She was the\nWomen's Division Director way back in 1969. I had just been involved a little\nbit. I remember the Federation started a group called Shalom Atlanta. I was its\nfirst chairman.\n\nPOLLARD: What is that?\n\nBRICKMAN: A welcoming committee to Jews who moved to the city. I was chairing\nthat. I remember the first party we had at the old Federation building on\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=8970.0,9000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Peachtree at the 41 Exchange. The two of us were schlepping chairs out to get\nready for that first evening. We expected 30 or 40. We had close to 90 people\nthere. I remember standing up on a chair thinking, \"This has got to be the\ngreatest thing.\" These people are coming from all over the United States, and we\nare saying \"Welcome to Atlanta.\" She was a big influence on me. She was bright,\nstraightforward, honest, educated, a hard worker, and I loved everything she\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9000.0,9030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ever did. I always enjoyed working with her. When she left, I was sad. I still\nam proud of what I have done. It bothers me a little bit right now because when\nI call people, they say, \"How much do you want?\" rather than, \"Hello, how are\nyou?\" I have to change my introduction to, \"Hello, how are you? This is how much\nI want.\" It is not going in my pocket. I never hesitated about soliciting\nbecause it is for somebody else. It doesn't worry me to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9030.0,9060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"solicit. I was involved\nwith Israel Bonds. I was very fond of working for Israel.\n\nPOLLARD: I know you have been honored by Israel Bonds.\n\nBRICKMAN: I hear what my parents say, \"Honor, 'shmonor.' It does not make any\ndifference.\" It is the fact that you are bringing money in for a country who\nneeds it for infrastructure and social needs that need to be there. It is not\ngiving. It is an investment.\n\nPOLLARD: You have mentioned, not for the record yet, about your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9060.0,9090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"increased\ninvolvement in Jewish religious life. Would you elaborate on where you belong\nreligiously in the community now and personal religious beliefs?\n\nBRICKMAN: I was brought up as a Conservative Jew. We celebrated the Jewish\nholidays. I went to Sunday school. I was at synagogue for a variety of things. I\nwas there many times later on in my married life on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9090.0,9120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Saturdays. When my parents\nsold their store, they immediately started going to services on Friday night and\nSaturday. We sat a long row, all of us together, which was nice. My parents are\nnot here anymore; may they rest in peace. Things were changing at Ahavath Achim.\nRabbi Epstein became Rabbi Emeritus. Rabbi Arnold Goodman, a very bright,\nintelligent man, became the rabbi there. Chazzan Goodfriend was the chazzan. We\nloved him to pieces. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9120.0,9150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Things started changing a little bit. On Saturdays, part of\nthe Torah wasn't read. There was a lot of activity on the bimah. People were\nkissing people on the bimah, celebrating birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries.\nIt just was sitting a little bit differently. My husband said he thought that he\nmight just want to go over to Beth Jacob, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9150.0,9180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is an Orthodox synagogue not far\nfrom me that has always been here for 25 years. I drive right past it and never\npaid two minutes' attention to it. He said, \"I think I want to go over to Beth\nJacob and see what they do over there.\" I said, \"You can go by yourself. I'm\ncertainly not going with you.\"\n\nPOLLARD: Why is that?\n\nBRICKMAN: People [men and women] sit separately. They are very observant --\nultra-religious, far right. Not for me, friend.\n\nPOLLARD: Was he seeking more spirituality?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, he was looking to fill up some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9180.0,9210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"holes. He came from that, loved\nit, and there had been a hole in that. He went a couple of a times and I said,\n\"Yontif, the High Holidays, I'm still going to AA. I'm going to pick up my\nmother and we'll go together.\" When I came without Perry, many people said to\nme, \"Are you all getting a divorce?\" I said, \"No.\" \"You're not with him.\" I did\nthat once or twice and I said, \"Whither thou goest, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9210.0,9240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I will go. Your people shall\nbe my people.\" That is from Shavuost and a confirmation that I remember reading.\nI said, \"No, way, friend, I'm going where he goes.\" I have never had any problem\ngetting along with people. I know people from every shul in this town. Any one I\ngo into, I am comfortable. I went over there once. The first time that I went, I\nwalked because people walk to Beth Jacob. I was not brought up as an Orthodox Jew.\n\nPOLLARD: How far do you live from there?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9240.0,9270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BRICKMAN: Seven blocks. I am not 'FFB'... frum... observant from birth. I do\nunderstand and respect Judaism. I am not extreme. I do not wear a sheitel, a\nwig. I said, \"Let me see what's happening over there.\" First Shabbos I went over\nthere, the warmth that I felt in that synagogue. People I hardly knew would come\nover and say, \"I'm so glad that you're here. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9270.0,9300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How are you? My name is 'so and\nso.' Would you like to come to my house for Shabbos lunch?\" I never heard that\nin all the years I was at AA. Do you know why? I was going to Lenox [Square\nMall] after shul to go shopping.\n\nPOLLARD: What year was this?\n\nBRICKMAN: We moved over there about 10 years ago, right after Perry was\nfinishing up his presidency at Federation. And while he was president of\nFederation, I might add, he always went into the building, into Jewish\norganizations and ate kosher meals ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9300.0,9330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with a kippah on his head. People thought\nthat was weird. He said, \"If you eat kosher food, you go into a building where\nit's a Jewish organization, out of respect stick a kippah on you. What's the big\ndeal?\" Now they are already beginning to think he is really leaning very far to\nthe right. He is getting weird. I am, too. My friends were thinking, \"She has\nlost it.\" I was thinking I had gained. I had kashered my kitchen. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9330.0,9360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For me to stay\nhome on a Saturday after going to services is like you're locking me in a jail.\nIt took two weeks. I started reading. I started not turning my lights on and\noff. I don't drive on Shabbos anymore. I don't answer the phone on Shabbos\nanymore. I'm not telling you that I have turned into an Orthodox Jewess, but\nhave changed my ways for two reasons. For one, why not? Three reasons. Two, as\nan example for my children not to forget where they have come from. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9360.0,9390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You ought to\nknow where you have come from in an effort to find out where you are going. I do\nnot want them to let go of Judaism. I want them very much to stay a close part\nof the world we came from thousands of years ago. You don't have to be as\nobservant as I am, although all children have a kosher home now. Some did it on\ntheir own, and some did it so that we would have a place to eat. It becomes a\nway of life. The children see that and they think Judaism is okay. It is a\nbeautiful religion ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9390.0,9420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and heritage. Why not practice what it preaches? Now we are\nhome on Shabbos. People come here. I go there. You walk, big deal. If it is\nraining or pouring down, I do not have to go. Perry goes. I do like it. I love\nFriday night. Lighting the Shabbos candles is the most beautiful scene in the\nworld. People can be together, sit together, share time together, express\nfeelings, and share things about Judaism. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9420.0,9450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It works. How far I can go with it? I\ndon't know. I am trying to learn as much as I can, but it has not taken over my\nentire life. I still am involved in different things with different people. I\nhave made different friends, too. Sometimes, when my old friends call me right\nbefore the Sabbath on Friday, I hear them say, \"Good Shabbos,\" rather than \"See\nya,\" or \"Give me a ring.\" It works. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9450.0,9480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Perry and I are really satisfied with it. He\nis a real student. He is a wonderful student and has a mind that just sponges in\neverything. To sit at a table on a Saturday afternoon and talk about a Torah\nportion rather than who won the football game, is more meaningful to me. I just\nhope it makes an impact upon our children so that they feel as strongly about it\nas we do.\n\nPOLLARD: I have been in the audience when you have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9480.0,9510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had the opportunity at\nwomen's events to be a storyteller and performer. How did you get involved in that?\n\nBRICKMAN: In 1976, we had a whole community celebration about the Jewish history\nof Atlanta. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9510.0,9540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do not know if it was Phyllis Freedman or Lois Blonder. Somebody\ncalled me and asked if I would give a presentation about the history. I said,\n\"Okay.\" I wrote up something. I researched and wrote it up. I really loved it.\nIt was fun and an educational experience. I did that. One thing picked up to\nanother. When my mother was here, someone asked me to talk about growing up\nJewish in Atlanta. She was feeding me all the material. When Daddy passed away,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9540.0,9570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mother got very funny. She was very quiet for a while, but then she started\nmaking comments that I thought were so delicious. I thought they ought to be\nshared with other people. I would just write them on a little piece of paper and\nthrow them in a box. Someone asked me to give a presentation. I cannot remember\nwhere since it has been since 1976... maybe it was in the 1980's. It was one of\nthe synagogues or the women's organizations, maybe Hadassah, maybe the\nFederation. I gave a presentation about her. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9570.0,9600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The name of it was, And Then She\nSaid. I started doing it with different topics and found that I could share real\nthings. My mother, bless her heart, slipped away from me in 1996. I didn't have\n'a writer' anymore. I had to turn to the grandchildren. I can try to put\ntogether presentations about many topics: growing up Jewish in Atlanta, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9600.0,9630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what the\ncity was like then, what it is like now, why I do I feel the way I do, what Mama\nsaid that was so funny, beautiful and meaningful about living a Jewish life. I\nalso talk about what she taught me and Daddy, too. I talk about what the\nchildren say that are so precious. It does not have to have Jewish content, but\na lot of it does. I want the children to feel that. If you feed the topic to\nthem, they will come back with clever things.\n\nPOLLARD: Is there anything that you could share with us that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9630.0,9660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a grandchild has said?\n\nBRICKMAN: Joseph said the other day that another grandchild said to him, \"Do you\nlike coming over here?\" He did not even bat an eye and says, \"I've been coming\nover here for seven years. Why wouldn't I like it?\" I try to throw in a little\nYiddish when I am with him because he has been spending the night here for seven\nyears. I told him that if something is neither here nor there -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9660.0,9690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was relating\nit to something that happened here one day -- it is called 'nisht aher und nisht\nahin.' 'Neither here nor there.' It must have gone into his brain. His daddy,\nJeff, was making him lunch one day and he said, \"Joseph, I don't have enough\nAmerican cheese for you. I don't have a lot of the other mozzarella either, so\nI'm going to make you a grilled cheese with a little American and a little\nmozzarella.\" From his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9690.0,9720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"play with Legos, he [Joseph] said, \"That's called 'nisht\naher und nisht ahin.'\" My son almost passed out. He said, \"How do you know\nthat?\" \"From Grandma,\" he said. \"It's not this and it's not that.\" I find that\nlittle children learn quickly. That is just an example of what they can learn\nand how they learn. Pretty soon, it is not a burden, it is a game. If you play a\ngame, a child can learn much quicker.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9720.0,9750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: You mentioned in passing about your many trips to Israel, and then you\ntalked about your trip to Russia and to Poland, and the [concentration] camps.\nIs there any episode from those travels that you feel is particularly\nsignificant to record for posterity?\n\nBRICKMAN: When we went to Israel on one of the many trips, we went to a malben\nwhich is a home for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9750.0,9780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"seniors. A lot of them spoke Yiddish. The group we were with\ndid not and I did. They said, \"Go talk to somebody.\" I remember going to speak\nto an elderly woman, a little hunched over lady. I was talking to her in\nYiddish. She said to me, \"You want to come see where I live?\" I said, \"Sure.\" I\nwent down the hall to this small neat little room with her treasures in it...\npictures and everything. I had such a beautiful conversation with her. She was a\n[Holocaust] survivor. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9780.0,9810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She told me about how she had escaped. I said, \"I'm going\nto write you a letter.\" She said, \"In Yiddish?\" I said, \"I'll write you in\nEnglish. I can't write Yiddish,\" I said, \"but I'll write you in English.\" She\nsaid, \"I'll get my daughter to read it for me. She lives in Israel.\" She got her\ndaughter to answer me. I wrote her again and her daughter answered me. I wrote\nher again, but I did not hear from her. Her daughter wrote me about four or five\nmonths later and she said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9810.0,9840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"My mother has passed away. I found on one of her\nshelves three of your letters tied up in a little ribbon.\" That meant a lot to\nme. It meant that hearing from someone from the United States was evidently a\nbig deal for her. For me to have heard from her was a treasure. I just thought\nthat was very special. Meeting with the refusniks in Russia was outstanding. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9840.0,9870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nhave so many stories, but it would take forever. It made me realize how very\nlucky we are that we live in this country. We took all kinds of things over to\nRussia. For example, books, prayer books, hosiery, lipstick, basics for women.\nFor men, items of Judaica which you weren't supposed to bring in, but it was a\ntime where things were a little bit more lax.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9870.0,9900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: When was that?\n\nBRICKMAN: 1987. Five of us went over there for 10 days: Perry, Ben Rabinowitz,\nJeff Ram, Allen Belinky, and me. Four guys and a girl. We went over there and\nspent 10 days. We took all of our food because we all kept kosher. For 10 days,\nwe ate tuna fish, drinks, and soups ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9900.0,9930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that we heated up. I thought we were going\nto be sick of it by the time we had finished our trip. It was a fascinating\ntrip. We went to a variety of the refusniks' homes. Everything was very\nsecretive. We were followed by the KGB. We went one night to visit a man whose\naddress we had, but we could not find [the apartment]. There was a guy who had\nbeen walking behind us. We thought he was just on the street. He came over and\npointed to the upstairs apartment and said, \"That's where he is.\" He knew where\nwe were going. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9930.0,9960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We did not make any phone calls from our hotel room because the\nphones were bugged. I realized how very special life was in a free country\nagain. I will never forget that trip. We also went to Denmark. We also talked to\nfishermen who had taken Jews across to Sweden. Every mission was special. It\njust made me feel even ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9960.0,9990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more connected to who I am and more appreciative of what\nI have. It inspired me that when I came back to do even more. That is why I\nloved those trips.\n\nPOLLARD: Have you made pleasure trips out of the country?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, Perry belongs to a lot of dental organizations and oral surgery\ngroups, so we have traveled. We have been to a lot of different places. I think\nI have been to Israel more than I have been anywhere else. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9990.0,10020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have been to a\nvariety of places. It is fun and I love it. Those are different kinds of trips.\nIt is a little bit different now when I travel out of town. I don't go anywhere\non Shabbos. Saturday is a day for a lot of activities. We went to an oral\nsurgery meeting out of town not far from Atlanta. No, it was an Alpha Epsilon Pi\nfraternity reunion. I remember we were down there and someone said, \"We're going\ninto town Saturday afternoon. Y'all want to go?\" We said, \"We don't drive ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10020.0,10050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on\nSaturday.\" The person said without batting an eye, \"Honey, you don't have to\ndrive. I'll drive you,\" which defeated the whole purpose. I thought, \"They don't\nquite understand it.\" It is no big deal. When we're out of town over a Sabbath,\nwe read, walk or look. You do not buy anything. You don't sign anything. You\ndon't handle money. You don't get on the phone, but you can look around. That is\nfree. You adjust to the situation. It is not so terrible. In fact, it is really\na pleasure ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10050.0,10080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because life should not all be so easy. You ought to be reminded of\nwho you are. That way, you know exactly who you are, and you can work on it even more.\n\nPOLLARD: When you are thinking about the changes in Atlanta as a city from your\nchildhood to your age now, what are the most striking changes that you would describe?\n\nBRICKMAN: The influx of Jews from all over the world... ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10080.0,10110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Americans, Russians...\nthey're from everywhere. The culture in our community has grown. Jewishly\nspeaking, we have expanded to over 100,000 plus. That's exciting to me. I used\nto be able to walk from shul to shul and name everybody I passed. I can't do\nthat anymore, and I don't care. I used to go to a meeting and know everybody. I\ncan't do that anymore, which is fine. Also, to see the city expand, grow and\nopen its arms ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10110.0,10140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to all kinds of people. All kinds make up this world. It is\nexciting to be here. The town has added a tremendous amount of culture and\nactivities. I'm delighted to say I am from Atlanta. It is beyond the cotton\nfields, mint juleps, and the plantation. It is a big town, it's a special town,\nand I love being here. I have always wanted to live here. I like being part of\n\"Atlanta, y'all.\"\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10140.0,10170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: Is there something that you would like to add to your comments so far\nthat would elaborate on or make anything more clear?\n\nBRICKMAN: I want to thank you for taking the time to do this for me. I have\nenjoyed it. It gives me an opportunity to think about certain things and expand\non it. You have opened my eyes to a lot of things I might have forgotten. I just\nhope that the community will continue to support all of its ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10170.0,10200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"agencies, schools,\nand all of the work that it does to offer Jewish children in the next generation\nand the one after that, the same opportunities that I have enjoyed. Many, many\nyears ago, some people established these things for me. I, for my children, just\nwould like to be sure that it's here for the generations to come. We are very\nlucky to live in this community. It is a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10200.0,10230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful community. It has been a\npleasure to be a part of it. I just want to stick around to see what happens.\n\nPOLLARD: We want you to stick around. You have been a wonderful person to\ninterview for this oral history project. You have embraced so many parts of our\nJewish history in Atlanta. You are such an articulate presenter of your life\nstory. Thank you so much, Shirley Brickman, for a wonderful few hours of\ncomments about your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10230.0,10260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"life in Atlanta and your family's life.\n\nBRICKMAN: You are very welcome.\n\nPOLLARD: This is an interview by Nancy Pollard with Shirley Brickman. This is\nSide A of the third tape. The date of this interview is November 21, 2002. We\nare conducting it at the Atlanta History Center. The subject of today's added\nmaterial to the initial interview ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10260.0,10290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"concerns Shirley's involvement in the\ncommunity. Shirley has had some experiences that I would like her to share.\nShirley, I know you have had experiences with people that you would like to\nrecord for historical posterity. If you could, just elaborate on some of your\nindividual experiences.\n\nBRICKMAN: Let us back up to Sunday school years at Ahavath Achim synagogue. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10290.0,10320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nhad a wonderful teacher in Sunday school by the name of Sidney Parks, may he\nrest in peace. Another was Sam Glass, who passed away a day or so ago. These two\nmen came on a weekly basis to teach us a variety of things. The way they\npresented the material used to be fascinating for me. Of all the teachers that I\nhad, I loved those two the most. I think Mr. Parks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10320.0,10350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was my senior teacher and Sam\nGlass was my confirmation teacher. When I got confirmed from Ahavath Achim\nsynagogue, there were 100 students in that class. That was probably around 1950.\nWe all wore white gowns -- the girls did. We all had parts where we spoke from\nthe bimah. Rabbi Epstein, who is alive today and may he live to 120, would take\neach ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10350.0,10380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"student into his office, look over the material he or she was going to\npresent, and underline the words that should be accented in the presentation. I\nwill never forget that. I still have my speech at home. When I hear it near\nShavuos time, I can go right along with the reading because it has stayed in my\nmind. Another few things that come to mind now are ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10380.0,10410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my involvement in a variety\nof organizations or agencies that were very special to me. One was when I was\nchairman of the senior adults at the Atlanta Jewish Community Center for about\nthree years. I thought that was very special because I love older people.\n\nPOLLARD: When was that, Shirley?\n\nBRICKMAN: Either 1984-1986 or 1985-1987. Mary Siegel was the director ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10410.0,10440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/349","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that\ntime. We used to have programs. Of course, the people came for lunch every day\nof the week. A bus would bring them or they would get a ride there. I should\npreface the Community Center involvement with the fact that this was the Center\nwhen it was located on Peachtree [Street]. I remember as a teenager that the\nCenter on Peachtree was an old building with three floors. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10440.0,10470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/350","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had our BBYO\nmeetings there. No A/C [air conditioning], nothing like that. I was a day camp\ncounselor there for two years. We didn't have any swimming facilities there. The\nchildren would come on the bus with us and we would go either to the [Jewish]\nProgressive Club or the Mayfair Club to take them swimming, and then return to\nthe Community Center on Peachtree. I did that for two years. It was great.\nWhat's interesting now... I think I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10470.0,10500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"17 or 18 in those years, I see children\nwho were my campers who are now mothers and some grandmothers. That was a very\nlong time ago. It was a great experience. I taught music and dance there. Did I\nknow how to dance? Not really. We made up what we did not know. It was a\nwonderful way to spend two full summers. I also remember soliciting Milton\nWeinstein, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10500.0,10530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/352","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of blessed memory, for funding to start the Weinstein Center, which\nright now is on the property of Zaban Park which is the JCC [Jewish\n\nCommunity Center] on Tilly Mill [Road]. I went to Mr. Weinstein's office and\ncarried with me a white apron that you could put over your neck. It had a pencil\npocket on the left-hand side. The reason I took that in the solicitation was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10530.0,10560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/353","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because Mr. Weinstein's father had owned Atlanta Linen. They used to deliver\nthese aprons to my father's little grocery store back in the 1930's and 1940's.\nI thought that would be a good thing to wear, not only as an introduction to\nremind him of how far back I know his family goes, but the fact that I had a\nconnection to him in a different kind of way. I approached him and told him what\nwe wanted. I do not remember the amount of money... $250,000 or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10560.0,10590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something.\nMilton listened to the presentation, bless his heart, and came through with it.\nThat was the beginning money for the Weinstein Center which has expanded many\ntimes since then. It is a very wonderful place for people to come who are\nelderly or not elderly but have problems such as Alzheimer's or need a place to\ngo for daytime activities. He did a wonderful thing by giving us that money so\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10590.0,10620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/355","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this place could be built to help those who needed some extra assistance.\n\nPOLLARD: I know you have been extremely active for years at the William Breman\nJewish Heritage Museum. Could you elaborate on your participation there?\n\nBRICKMAN: The Heritage Museum, named Breman Museum -- the Jewish Museum now --\nwas not in existence until July ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10620.0,10650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/356","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1996. Prior to that, the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation used to hang exhibits from the Schatten Gallery at Emory University.\nI started my involvement as a docent and a guide in 1983. One of the first\nexhibits that we had was the Danzig Exhibit. Sylvia Becker was our docent\nleader. We worked very hard, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10650.0,10680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/357","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"10 or 12 of us, taking children and adults through\nthat first exhibit. We even had one or two at the Atlanta History Center before\nit was the beautiful fancy place it is today. Since then, we have had a number\nof exhibits. I've been docenting since 1983. I love it. It is an opportunity for\nme to learn and share some very important information to children who come\nthrough by the thousands ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10680.0,10710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/358","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"each year.\n\nPOLLARD: Can you add anything specific about the exhibits at the Breman Museum?\n\nBRICKMAN: We have two permanent exhibits. One is the Holocaust Exhibit and 70%\nof what we have there came from survivors who live or lived in Atlanta. The\nother permanent exhibit is the History of the Jews of Atlanta going back to\n1845. Those remain and we have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10710.0,10740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/359","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"traveling exhibits that come through for short\nperiods of time. I remember one story in particular. One afternoon, we were\ntaking a group of children through from the south part of Atlanta. I remember a\nyoung fellow coming in hesitantly. He was uneasy about being there. I talked to\nhim for a while. He said he did not know if he could go through this. It was\nmaterial he was not familiar with. I think he was a 7th grader, maybe. 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He said to\nthe survivor, \"Mister, I want you to take this pen and write your name on the\nback of my white undershirt because I do not ever want to forget you, your name,\nor your story.\" That is just one example of how ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10800.0,10830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/362","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"these people have not only\neducated the children, along with the efforts of all the docents, but how\nimpressed they were -- many times as an introduction -- to this part of history.\nMr. Breman, in his generous way, gave a lot of money to our community. The\nBreman Museum is just one thing. I remember seeing him come through on a couple\nof occasions when we had children coming through. I would say, \"Bill, what are\nyou doing here today?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10830.0,10860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/363","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"I just went by and picked up two senior adults\nand didn't have anywhere to go and nothing to do and thought I would take them\nthrough the Museum, show them around, maybe take them lunch.\" It was very\nimpressive to me that a man who did such generous things brought people in who\nhad nowhere to go. He was a man who delivered Meals on Wheels. He could have sat\nin his living room and watched TV. 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My husband was president of Federation from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=11010.0,11040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/369","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1990 to\n1992. That opened our eyes to an even deeper understanding of what it is all\nabout. I love that kind of work because it has to do with people. People are my\nfavorite playmates.\n\nPOLLARD: We appreciate you giving us your time and all of your wonderful\nrecollections. This last tape ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=11040.0,11070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/370","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"includes added material that you thought of after\nwe terminated our first session. I am glad that we did have this opportunity for\nyou to say anything. Do you have any closing comments that you would like to\nfinish off with today?\n\nBRICKMAN: Yes, one closing comment. My oral history is not that impressive or\nspecial in any kind of way. 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The purpose of being involved to any extent is to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=11100.0,11130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/transcript/30502/annotation/372","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"return to the community\nwhat the community has given to us. Down the road, when I am old and in a\nrocking chair some place, I can sit back and relax and be thankful for the\nopportunities that were afforded to me. I just hope that people will constantly\nstay involved. This is a wonderful Jewish community. Thank you for taking your\ntime today, Nancy.\n\nPOLLARD: Thank you, Shirley.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=11130.0,11160.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Shirley Brickman [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/373","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYiddish is the common historical language of Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. It is heavily Germanic based but uses the Hebrew alphabet. 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The bulk of immigrants who came to New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to the Lower East Side, moving into crowded tenements there.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/377","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThroughout the 1930’s, isolationism and xenophobic sentiments allowed a restrictive immigration policy to prevail in the United States. Although aware of and sympathetic to the plight European Jews faced, President Roosevelt was also preoccupied by a severe economic depression. Fierce political opposition in Congress resulted in the failure to increase immigration quotas, refusing to allow the entry of the 900 Jewish refugees aboard the RS St. Louis in 1939, and their reluctance on a 1939 bill to admit 20,000 Jewish refugee children to the United States outside of the quota.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/378","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHome Economics or ‘Home Ec’ emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. Home Ec classes were taught in high schools across the U.S. to help girls learn how to cook, sew, and do other household tasks. By the 21st century, Home Ec classes disappeared from many high schools due to budget cuts. Today, Home Economics or Domestic Science is a field of study available at some colleges dealing with the economics and management of the home. (2017)\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/379","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSweatshop or sweat factory is a pejorative term for a workplace that has poor, socially unacceptable working conditions especially in the clothing industry, where manual workers are employed at very low wages for long hours under poor conditions and many health risks. 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The club was visited by Eleanor Roosevelt, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, mayors Ivan Allen and William Berry Hartsfield, senators Herman Talmadge and Richard Russell, and Governor Carl Sanders. Fire destroyed the Mayfair Club on December 4, 1964.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/406","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAshkenazi is an ethnic division of Jews which formed in the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1000’s. 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Wagner officially apologized to Jewish students who were wrongfully failed or otherwise harassed under Buhler’s tenure.  Here is a New York Times article about the scandal and Perry Brickman’s experience: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/education/emory-confronts-legacy-of-bias-against-jews-in-dental-school.html\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/440","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMomzer or mamzer is a Yiddish word that literally means illegitimate child or bastard.  In common usage it means a contemptible, untrustworthy person.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/441","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in 1913 “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” ADL fights antisemitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/annotation_set/535/annotation/442","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDr. Irving H. 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Is there any episode from those travels that you feel is particularly significant to record for posterity?","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9750.0,10267.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/index/48398/annotation/538","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"KGB","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Poland","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Russia","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"USSR","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=9750.0,10267.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/index/48398/annotation/539","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Community involvement, continued","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10267.0,11156.37551"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/index/48398/annotation/540","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"POLLARD: The subject of today’s added material to the initial interview concerns Shirley’s involvement in the community.  Shirley has had some experiences that I would like her to share.  Shirley, I know you have had experiences with people that you would like to record for historical posterity.  If you could, just elaborate on some of your individual experiences.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Partial Transcript"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10267.0,11156.37551"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919/index/48398/annotation/541","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta Jewish Federation","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Samuel Glass","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Schatten Gallery","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Weinstein Center for Adult Day Services","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/45819/file/118919#t=10267.0,11156.37551"}]}]}]}