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He was educated in Savannah Public Schools and Georgia Tech, and served in the US Army during World War II, where he received the Purple Heart. He was the owner of Stuart Industries, a mattress distributor. He was a devoted member of Congregation Mickve Israel and served as President of the congregation for a time. Along with his religious activity, Mr. Leffler was a Master Gardener and a Mason, serving as Master of Clinton Masonic Lodge No. 54 in Savannah in 1964. He passed away on April 6, 2003 in his hometown.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatiel Ann Roos was born in Savannah, Georgia on January 1, 1926 to David I. Roos, Sr. (1886-1976), and Beatrice Shoenig Roos (1900-1993), both Georgia natives. She was educated in the Savannah public school system and attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of the Sigma Delta Tau Sorority and the Panhellenic Council. She was a Past President of the Sisterhood of Congregation Mickve Israel and a past Chairwoman of the United Jewish Appeal in Savannah. She passed away on July 14, 2017 at age 91 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Leffler and Matiel Roos married on October 12, 1946, and they had three children, Nancy Leffler Sonenshine (b. Jan. 2, 1952), Ann Leffler Davis (b. April 23, 1948), and Martin Leffler, Jr. (b. Oct. 17, 1964).\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eMartin and Matiel Leffler reflect on their family histories, early lives, and raising a family within the Jewish community in Savannah. They discuss their children, and how their family has expressed their Jewish identity through the years. Martin describes his grandfather and father’s lives, the Leffler family business, and their involvement in Congregation Mickve Israel. He recalls his jobs in highs school and college, registering for the draft after the United States joined World War II, and meeting Matiel after returning from the army.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatiel discusses her own family history, her marriage to Martin, and raising their family. Matiel also describes her involvement at Temple, serving as a past president of the Sisterhood as well as past president of the National Council of Jewish Women. She talks about her perception of generational differences within the Jewish community throughout her lifetime.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing up on his earlier comments, Martin recalls his integration into Matiel’s family’s mattress business, which he would later own.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27949"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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":["Savannah (Ga.) (geographic term)","Georgia Mattress and Canvas Company (corporate name)","Martin Leffler (personal name)","Matiel Roos Leffler (personal name)","Jewish life (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMartin and Matiel Leffler interviewed by Harriett Meyerhoff on July 25, 2006 in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartin Stuart Leffler was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 9, 1917 to Edwin (1880-1942) and Miriam Herman (1885-1972) Leffler, both Georgia natives. He was educated in Savannah Public Schools and Georgia Tech, and served in the US Army during World War II, where he received the Purple Heart. He was the owner of Stuart Industries, a mattress distributor. He was a devoted member of Congregation Mickve Israel and served as President of the congregation for a time. Along with his religious activity, Mr. Leffler was a Master Gardener and a Mason, serving as Master of Clinton Masonic Lodge No. 54 in Savannah in 1964. He passed away on April 6, 2003 in his hometown.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatiel Ann Roos was born in Savannah, Georgia on January 1, 1926 to David I. Roos, Sr. (1886-1976), and Beatrice Shoenig Roos (1900-1993), both Georgia natives. She was educated in the Savannah public school system and attended the University of Georgia, where she was a member of the Sigma Delta Tau Sorority and the Panhellenic Council. She was a Past President of the Sisterhood of Congregation Mickve Israel and a past Chairwoman of the United Jewish Appeal in Savannah. She passed away on July 14, 2017 at age 91 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Leffler and Matiel Roos married on October 12, 1946, and they had three children, Nancy Leffler Sonenshine (b. Jan. 2, 1952), Ann Leffler Davis (b. April 23, 1948), and Martin Leffler, Jr. (b. Oct. 17, 1964).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMartin and Matiel Leffler reflect on their family histories, early lives, and raising a family within the Jewish community in Savannah. They discuss their children, and how their family has expressed their Jewish identity through the years. Martin describes his grandfather and father’s lives, the Leffler family business, and their involvement in Congregation Mickve Israel. He recalls his jobs in highs school and college, registering for the draft after the United States joined World War II, and meeting Matiel after returning from the army.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatiel discusses her own family history, her marriage to Martin, and raising their family. Matiel also describes her involvement at Temple, serving as a past president of the Sisterhood as well as past president of the National Council of Jewish Women. She talks about her perception of generational differences within the Jewish community throughout her lifetime.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing up on his earlier comments, Martin recalls his integration into Matiel’s family’s mattress business, which he would later own.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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He died October 1911 in Savannah. He came to this\ncountry in the early 1850's, lived in Philadelphia for a very short time, then\nmoved to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Milltown, Georgia, which is very close to Savannah. He married--his\nfirst marriage was to Elizabeth Beckhardt, who was born in\nRhein-something-something, Bavaria, Germany, October 5627 (that was what was on\nthe gravestone), and she died when she was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"35 years old in Milltown, Georgia.\n[He had 3 children by this marriage.]\n\nMEYERHOFF: Can we stop right here, for a minute, and just let me see how--go ahead.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: His second marriage was to Mary Lilienthal, who was born in\nApril of 1848 and died [in] December 1910. They had six [three] children, my\nfather being the youngest one.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: What was your father's first name?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: My father's name was Edwin Leffler. No middle initial. He\nmarried--wait a minute; let me give you the--\n\nMEYERHOFF: That's okay.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: He married Miriam Triest Herman. Her parents were Samuel Herman\nof Huddlestadt, Bavaria. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was born in April of 1843. Her mother was Cecelia\nTriest of Charleston, born [in] April of 1846. Grandmother Herman died [in] June\n1914. My Grandfather Herman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"died [in] August 1903.\n\nMEYERHOFF: What about your father, do you want to tell us about your father and mother?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: My father went to Peekskill Military Academy in New York,\nsomewhere up in New York. Then he went to the University of Virginia and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduated as an attorney. When he came back, I don't think he practiced law\nlong, and he went into my grandfather's business, A. Leffler \u0026 Co., Wholesale\nGrocers, on Bay Street, right where the Morning News is now. And right next to\nthat was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[A.] Ehrlich \u0026 [Bro. Grocery Co.], another Jewish wholesale grocer that\nsold the same things that my father and grandfather did. And on the corner of\nBarnard and Bay Street was Cooley's Laundry. That was another Jewish operation.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Do you recall what year that was? Would you know? It's okay if you don't.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: No.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay, go ahead.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MARTIN LEFFLER: It might be in that--\n\nMEYERHOFF: That's okay. That's okay. It's not important, then.\n\n[Inaudible conversation with Martin's wife, Matiel Leffler, about the date.]\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: Before then.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Before the 1920's. Okay. Just give an idea.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: They were cotton merchants, they sold whiskey in the barrel,\nthey sold groceries, they sold--I remember down in the basement of this place on\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Bay Street, great big sides of fatback [pork]. And vinegar. I remember barrels\nof vinegar. They would take out half the vinegar and then add water to fill up\nthe barrel again. I had a very enjoyable childhood and young life. We lived ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on\nthe corner of 35th and Drayton Street and I went to Pape School for the first\nsix years and then public school the rest of the way. I can remember when\nDrayton Street was a dirt street. I had one brother, no sisters, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one brother who\nwas four years older than I. His name was Edwin Leffler, Jr. We got along real\nnicely until the Great Depression when my father lost everything that he had. It\nwas tough going for him since then. During high school, I worked at the\nGrocerteria, which ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a large public market on Barnard Street, Barnard and\nCongress. I was paid $1 a day, plus my meals. I also raised chickens in the\nbackyard, and I sold the eggs. I was able to save enough money ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go to the\nWorld's Fair in Chicago in 1933 off of egg money. There were three of us [who]\nwent: Martin Kirschbaum, Jr., Samuel Herman, and myself. I graduated from--is\nthis what you want?\n\nMEYERHOFF: Yes, go right ahead.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: I graduated from high school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in 1935 and went to Georgia Tech\nfor about a year and a half and was asked to leave due in part to scholastic\nstanding. 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When I came back, I got a job with\nSchulte-United, that was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kind of a five and ten cent store. I was in Savannah\nfor a while, I was in Atlanta for a while, and then they transferred me to\nRoanoke, Virginia, where I was drafted. In those days--it was either 1940 or\n'41, I've forgotten which one--every young man had to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"register for the draft for\none year. I was on my 11th month when Pearl Harbor came along and I couldn't get\nout. I was single, had no dependents, and I had no excuses to get out, so I\nwound up with five and a half years of military service. I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"discharged [on]\nDecember 22, 1945, and I came from Augusta, that was the discharge place,\nSeparation Center, excuse me. I came home and mother told me that the\nGarfunkels, who lived on Gwinnett Street, were having a party for returning\nservicemen ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and also to announce Bennie [Garfunkel] and Charlotte's engagement. I\nwent there on the 23rd, or whenever, I think it was the 23rd. And that's where I\nmet my charming wife. And we have lived a very interesting and happy, 50, almost\n51, years.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Martin, I'm going to stop right here. I'm not going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stop\nrecording, but I'm going to stop you at this moment, and ask you to go back a\nlittle bit. What are your early memories of growing up in Savannah in relation\nto the Jewish community, also with the non-Jewish community? You as a Jewish\nyoung person relating to other Jewish people in the community and also to\nnon-Jewish people in the community as far as religion or Hebrew School ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or\nreligious events.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: We were members of Mickve Israel Synagogue. And, by the way,\nthat brings up another thing. Both of my grandfathers, my Grandfather Herman and\nmy Grandfather Leffler, were on the Building Committee of the Temple,\nCongregation Mickve Israel's Temple, which was built in 1874. 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I've never had any problems ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"getting\nalong with either [group] that I know of.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you find there was any racial problems or anti-Semitism? Do you\nrecall any of that?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: No. I hadn't come across it. Maybe I'm too stupid to know, but--\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you find the community split in any way as far as the Jewish\ncommunity? Be honest!\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: Yes, I did.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay, we want to hear ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"this! If you can give the year, approximately\naround what years, when you were going to Sunday School?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: I remember going through high school.\n\nMEYERHOFF: High school. What year was that?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: It was in the 1930's.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Okay.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: I didn't go to the Alliance much. 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Were you friendly with\nBennie Garfunkel?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: Yes, always been friendly with Bennie.\n\nMEYERHOFF: That's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good. Okay.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: I've always been friendly with the Garfunkels, and Sylvan when\nhe was alive and--\n\nMEYERHOFF: But as far as socializing with families, the Mickve Israel\nexperiences were separate?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MARTIN LEFFLER: We always had a Jewish home and we observed the holidays. My\nfather was Vice President of the Temple for a good number of years and my mother\nsang in the choir and she taught Sunday School--Sisterhood and all that business.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were you, what were your positions ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with the Temple? Did you hold any\nkind of position in the Temple?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: Yes, I'm a past president of the Temple.\n\nMEYERHOFF: And you were on the Board of the Temple?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: I was on the Board for a while, but I got rotated off. 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They were mingling with the other Jewish people in town much ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"more\nfreely than I did. They were members of BBG's--\n\nMATIEL LEFFLER: Nancy met Gerald at a BBG--thing. It was a blind date when they\nwere 15 years old.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Your daughter, Nancy--BBY, AZA and BBG. You found that your children\nassimilated more than you did. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Times had changed in 40 years.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: Much more. Now, whether that was due to the parents of the\nvarious children. I mean, me being the parent of my children and my mother being\nthe parent of me. I think that had a lot to do with it.\n\nMEYERHOFF: I'm sure it did. Did you like the fact that they did mingle with\nother people from other synagogues or temples?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: Sure.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Right? Well, that's good. 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As far\nas Christmas and Hanukkah was concerned, we always had a [Christmas] tree. It\ndidn't have any religious significance on the tree at all. It just had a bunch\nof presents around the bottom. And when Matiel's mother and father would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"come\nfrom Atlanta, they would come loaded [with gifts]. I don't know how they saw out\nthe window to drive down here for all of the packages that they had. 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We went up, excuse me, she was living in Atlanta, and she ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"told us that\nshe had her tree in one room and a yahrzeit candle for my mother in another.\n\nMEYERHOFF: When did you stop, when did the time come when you finally stopped\nusing the Christmas tree? I'm just curious.\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: It wasn't a Christmas tree.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Oh, it was just a tree. Excuse me. Just a plain tree. Excuse me.\nSorry. 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While we had this tree, it didn't make any difference, in\nour opinion, for its being Jewish or not Jewish. It was just a fun thing.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Did you celebrate Hanukkah at all at that time? Did you relate to it?\nDid it mean anything to you?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: No, we did not.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Well, you knew about it, but you didn't celebrate. Okay. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Through the\nyears now, your children and all of you, do you relate to Hanukkah now?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: We sure do. Instead of putting the Christmas wrapping on the\npresents, we put Hanukkah wrappings.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Is there anything else you would like to have listed in this archive\nbook that's going to be compiled? [Anything] that you think would be important\nfor other people to know about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you as a young man growing up here in Savannah or\nnow, through the years, as you look back on the years in Savannah? Is there\nanything else that you would like to say about the community then versus the\ncommunity now?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: As far as anti-Semitism goes, I think that the individual brings\nan awful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot of it on himself. I have never run into it. I have never hidden\nfrom the fact that I was Jewish. I never went around advertising it, but I never\ndenied it. And I think I have gotten along pretty well with everybody. I have a\nlot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Christian friends.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Is there anything else you would like to say?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: No, but why don't you try my friend here [referring to Matiel]?\n\nMEYERHOFF: This is Matiel Leffler speaking:\n\nMATIEL LEFFLER: Well, I was born in Savannah, Georgia as were my parents. My\nmother was born in Thomasville, Georgia, and my father was born in Savannah. 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Everybody went to public school.\nIt was just a whole different ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"feeling than it is now.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were you real involved in the Jewish community at that time, at your\nyoung married age and growing, raising your children? Were you, yourself,\ninvolved in the Jewish community? With the Temple?\n\nMATIEL LEFFLER: Yes, I was very involved at the Temple. I'm a past president of\nthe Sisterhood. I'm a past president of National Council of Jewish Women here.\nAs far as Jewish activities, I've served on both of the Boards and I served on a\nlot of civic boards.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MEYERHOFF: What about the Jewish Federation?\n\nMATIEL LEFFLER: I was thinking about earlier than that. I served on the Jewish\nFederation and was past Women's Division Chairman. I worked for years on that.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Is there anything else that you would like to add about that time\nversus times now as far as the community? 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It wasn't on West Broad, it was on Fahm.\n\nMEYERHOFF: It probably was, because Sam always talks about the Daubs, that's\nwhere they lived.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MARTIN LEFFLER: When I came home from the service, I was looking for something\nto get into, some job, some business. After I met Matiel, I found out that her\n[mother's] two brothers, Norman and Alvin Shoenig, were in the mattress\nbusiness, Georgia Mattress Company.\n\nMEYERHOFF: Were those your uncles?\n\nMARTIN LEFFLER: Uncles. 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Our customer base was declining rapidly--the mom and pop\nfurniture ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/transcript/22173/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stores, which were our customers, started disappearing. In 1991, I\nclosed the business. I am enjoying retirement very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=1890.0,1920.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eElizabeth’s grave, as well as records in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), put Elizabeth’s birth in 1831 in Hesse, Germany—possibly in Reinheim, Hesse, Germany, based on Martin Leffler’s recollection. She died on October 23, 1866 in Berrien County, Georgia, and is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSamuel Herman’s 1890 U.S. Passport Application states his place of birth as “Heillgonstardt, Bavaria.” This could possibly be Heiligenstadt in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA. Leffler \u0026amp; Co., Wholesale Grocers was located at 159 Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia. 1886’s The Industries of Savannah (published by JM. Elstner \u0026amp; Co.) notes that Abram Leffler had been active in the Savannah business community since the 1850s. Originally founded in 1866 by A. Gorman, the grocery was acquired by Abram Leffler in 1870, who became the sole owner in 1877. The business dealt in groceries, dry goods, liquor, and tobacco. Leffler is described as paying special attention to customer relationships and being “devoted” to his business.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Groceteria opened in 1920 at 32-38 Barnard Street in Savannah.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as “Georgia Tech” or “Tech”) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia. The educational institution was founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eStrachan Shipping Company was founded in Savannah by Scottish immigrant Frank Garden Strachan and George P. Walker in 1886. the company provided steamship agency services and stevedoring contracts. In 2002, Strachan Shipping Company merged with Kerr Norton Marine and Norton Lilly International.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia is one the oldest congregations in the United States. Sephardic immigrants from London who arrived in the new colony in 1733 originally organized it. The original synagogue was granted a charter in 1799 by General James Edward Oglethorpe, who established the colony of Georgia for England in 1732. In the late nineteenth century, it began to shift to Reform Judaism. The current building was consecrated in 1858. The actual synagogue building was built on a plot of land given to the congregation by the city of Savannah. The cemetery, however, was established in 1733 on a plot of land given to the congregation by James Oglethorpe in the name of King George III. It is currently (2021) led by Rabbi Robert Haas.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eConfirmation marks the culmination of a special year in the life of Jewish students between ages 16 and 18; a period of religious study beyond bar or bat mitzvah. 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In 1914, two years after the original charter, the JEA leased a building on the northeast corner of Barnard and Harris streets. The JEA opened its own structure January 27, 1916, located at 328 Barnard Street at the corner of Barnard and Charlton streets. World War I disrupted activities, but after the war, the JEA had become a strong social force in the Jewish community offering family nights, dances, socials, plays, contests, lectures, concerts, and sports. The JEA also offered social services such as transient relief, unemployment and social case work that were later taken over by the Savannah Jewish Council, now the Savannah Jewish Federation. In December 1950, the JEA purchased 11 acres on Abercorn Street just north of DeRenne Avenue for their second building which opened in the spring of 1955.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation Agudath Achim is a synagogue in Savannah, Georgia, that is affiliated with the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. It formed in 1903 as a small congregation following orthodox ritual. The original founders and incorporators of the Congregation were all prominent in the early growth and development of the Agudath Achim. Samuel Tenenbaum, Isaac Feinfeld, Joseph Greenberg, Joseph Kronstadt and others later joined the early leaders, men such as Joseph Kaminsky, J. Laskey, Sam Kaminsky, and A. J. Fineberg. The current (2021) rabbi is Rabbi Steven Henkin.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/29407/file/97089/annotation_set/334/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCongregation B’nai B’rith Jacob. It is an Orthodox synagogue, founded in 1861. 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I was on my 11th month when Pearl Harbor came along and I couldn’t get out. 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