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Allan has an older brother, Howard Struletz. Allan is married to Lori Draluck Struletz. Allan has two sons, Adam and Scott. Allan’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Ida Struletz, were immigrants from Russia. Simon first settled in New York City in 1909 and, later, LaGrange, where he operated a scrap metal business. Allan’s maternal grandparents lived in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. Allan grew up in LaGrange. LaGrange had separate bathrooms, separate water fountains, and “separate but equal” schools, libraries, and institutions. Allan attended Harwell Avenue Elementary School, West Side Junior High, and LaGrange High School. By the time Allen attended high school, the public schools in LaGrange had integrated. Allan attended services at Congregation Beth El in LaGrange with his family. He received his religious instruction at Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, Georgia. His childhood summers were spent in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where his maternal grandparents lived. He spent time socializing with his friend Joey Moskowitz in Columbus, Georgia. In Columbus he was a member of the Jewish youth group AZA [Aleph Zadik Aleph] and he attended dances there. In LaGrange, he socialized at the Callaway Educational Association and at clubs in school. Allan spent many Sundays at Callaway Gardens at the lake and at picnics with other Jewish families from LaGrange. Allan graduated from the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, with a degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design. Allan lives in Marietta, Georgia. He continues to return to LaGrange for High Holy Day services each year.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28461"]}},{"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"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAllan Struletz was interviewed by Mike Weinroth on January 17, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAllan Struletz was born in LaGrange, Georgia on July 1, 1953. His mother was Rosalind Olshan Struletz, born in Brooklyn, New York. His father was Isaac Struletz, born in LaGrange. Allan has an older brother, Howard Struletz. Allan is married to Lori Draluck Struletz. Allan has two sons, Adam and Scott. Allan’s paternal grandparents, Simon and Ida Struletz, were immigrants from Russia. Simon first settled in New York City in 1909 and, later, LaGrange, where he operated a scrap metal business. Allan’s maternal grandparents lived in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York. Allan grew up in LaGrange. LaGrange had separate bathrooms, separate water fountains, and “separate but equal” schools, libraries, and institutions. Allan attended Harwell Avenue Elementary School, West Side Junior High, and LaGrange High School. By the time Allen attended high school, the public schools in LaGrange had integrated. Allan attended services at Congregation Beth El in LaGrange with his family. He received his religious instruction at Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta, Georgia. His childhood summers were spent in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where his maternal grandparents lived. He spent time socializing with his friend Joey Moskowitz in Columbus, Georgia. In Columbus he was a member of the Jewish youth group AZA [Aleph Zadik Aleph] and he attended dances there. In LaGrange, he socialized at the Callaway Educational Association and at clubs in school. Allan spent many Sundays at Callaway Gardens at the lake and at picnics with other Jewish families from LaGrange. Allan graduated from the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, with a degree in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design. Allan lives in Marietta, Georgia. He continues to return to LaGrange for High Holy Day services each year.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"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"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/101/417/small/Struletz_Allan.mp4_1607448212.jpg?1607430213","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Struletz_Allan.mp4"]},"duration":2297.796,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/101/417/small/Struletz_Allan.mp4_1607448212.jpg?1607430213","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/101/417/original/Struletz_Allan.mp4?1607430211","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2297.796,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Allan Struletz [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEINROTH: Good morning.\n\nSTRULETZ: Good morning.\n\nWEINROTH: We have the privilege of interviewing Allan Struletz this morning.\nToday is January 17, 2007. Allan, we're going to begin by just asking you a few\nquestions. First tell us a little bit about your own background.\n\nSTRULETZ: It's Allan Struletz. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia which is maybe 80\nmiles south of Atlanta. I stayed there until going to school at University of\nGeorgia [Athens, Georgia] in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1972. After graduating with a degree in Landscape\nArchitecture and Environmental Design I came to Atlanta and have been here the\nrest of my life.\n\nWEINROTH: So where were you born?\n\nSTRULETZ: Born in LaGrange, in LaGrange city hospital.\n\nWEINROTH: What were your parent's names?\n\nSTRULETZ: Father is Isaac Struletz and mother is Rosalind Struletz. Her maiden\nname was Olshan. O-L-S-H-A-N. She was from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Brooklyn, New York [City]. My father\nwas actually born in LaGrange.\n\nWEINROTH: What drew them to LaGrange? Your family?\n\nSTRULETZ: The story that I have from my grandfather [Simon Struletz] is that he\nleft Europe, left Russia without his wife, my grandmother [Ida Struletz]. They\nhad one child at the time. It would have been my uncle Izzy, or Isadore. He came\nto America into New York. He worked at the docks. When the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"workers went on\nstrike he didn't have a job but he was trying to raise money to get his family\nto America. One of the Jewish organizations gave him money in order to go to\nMiami where he could get work on the docks. The story goes that he got on the\ntrain. He made [it] to LaGrange. He ran out of money. And that's where he ended.\n\nWEINROTH: Now your grandparent's names?\n\nSTRULETZ: Simon and Ida, I-D-A, Ida Struletz.\n\nWEINROTH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had just enough money to go to LaGrange?\n\nSTRULETZ: She was not with him at the time. He was here by himself. When he got\nto LaGrange he ran out of money, and that's where he ended. There was a small\nJewish community there.\n\nWEINROTH: Do you know about what year that was?\n\nSTRULETZ: That would have been in 1909 ... is when he actually came to America,\nat the age of 27. In LaGrange he was there by--we think--around 1913.\n\nWEINROTH: When he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"settled in LaGrange around 1913 what line of work did he do?\n\nSTRULETZ: It's funny. I always thought that he was a peddler and eventually went\ninto scrap metal business, old rags, and eventually into parts business. But\nreading some articles or some letters from old residents from LaGrange it said\nthat he actually started off in the shoe repair business. That I wasn't aware\nof. It wouldn't surprise me. He eventually sold that business and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then started\nthe scrap metal business.\n\nWEINROTH: Who were some of the other Jewish families that were in the community\nthat he would have found when he settled in LaGrange?\n\nSTRULETZ: Dating back to that time there would have been the Goldstein family.\nThey were, again, a little bit before my time, so it would have been Goldsteins,\nthe Kaminsky family. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"families that I know would have been the next\ngeneration. And ...\n\nWEINROTH: ... and what kind of businesses were these other people in?\n\nSTRULETZ: These people were in ... there was an attorney, one person was an\nattorney. They were mostly in the dry good business. They had shops throughout\nthe city.\n\nWEINROTH: So this is the Goldstein family?\n\nSTRULETZ: Correct.\n\nWEINROTH: Kaminsky.\n\nSTRULETZ: Edelson. Eventually it would have been Moskowitz family. They came\nfrom New York. Coolick family, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"several others.\n\nWEINROTH: The bulk of the Jewish community in LaGrange, about when would you say\nthey settled? Would you know?\n\nSTRULETZ: Apparently they started in the... around 1910 was really when they\nwere coming to LaGrange. Apparently prior to that there were some families that\nwere settling in other neighboring communities like West Point. In LaGrange, the\ninflux was about the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1910's, 1920's. Then later on, 1930's, it would have been\nthe Moskowitz and that family coming.\n\nWEINROTH: So would you know from your own memory Allan, what the peak time would\nhave been when probably the largest Jewish community existed in LaGrange?\n\nSTRULETZ: I would think probably in the 1950's.\n\nWEINROTH: In the 1950's.\n\nSTRULETZ: Late 1940's, 1950's, would have been the prominent ... right when they\nwere ... when the congregation ... when ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Jews there got together and bought\nthe building for the synagogue. So I would say late 1940's, 1950's.\n\nWEINROTH: What is your earliest memory of growing up in LaGrange? Just an early\nmemory that you have.\n\nSTRULETZ: Jewish? In the Jewish?\n\nWEINROTH: Yes.\n\nSTRULETZ: You know it goes back to ... I remember going to my grandfather's\nhouse for holidays, for Passover. I remember going to the synagogue ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably as\nearly as six years old. In my life I've never ... I've only been away from the\nsynagogue for High Holy Day services one time. That was the first year when I\nwent to college. Other than that I've been there for every service since being\nin LaGrange.\n\nWEINROTH: Where did you go to school?\n\nSTRULETZ: My first semester I actually went to Georgia Southern [University] in\nStatesboro [Georgia] and then transferred to the University of Georgia.\n\nWEINROTH: What about in public schools?\n\nSTRULETZ: Public ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"schools started out ... it was all public. We started out at a\nprivate kindergarten and then moved up to Harwell Avenue Elementary School,\nwhich in the sixth grade burned to the ground. So that year I had ... we had\nsplit sessions, only had to go to school half a day which was great. I then\n[went] onto West Side Junior High and then to LaGrange High School.\n\nWEINROTH: Was there just the one high school in LaGrange?\n\nSTRULETZ: In the city there was ... we were just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"changing from being segregation\nat that time. So prior to ... when I went into junior high [school] was when\nthey started desegregating the schools. So they were still operating separate\njunior highs and high schools. By the time I got into high school it became just\none high school in the community. The other, actually two high schools but they\nwere both integrated. And then there was a high school in the county.\n\nWEINROTH: That ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a dual school district because of the city and the county.\n\nSTRULETZ: Correct.\n\nWEINROTH: So you were in the city school district?\n\nSTRULETZ: I was in the city school district.\n\nWEINROTH: How would you describe your interaction with non-Jewish peers?\n\nSTRULETZ: Growing up, I never saw, never had a problem of being Jewish. My\nparents instilled in us that we know about our Jewish heritage and our identity.\nWe were always proud of it. 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Do you\nknow its ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"history, or how it became established and began, and that sort of thing?\n\nSTRULETZ: Apparently, back in the 1940's they would... the community was having\nFriday night services. They were conducting the services at the home of Harry\nand Marie Behr. They had again a ladies ready-to-wear store downtown. Harry Behr\nactually was from South Africa. 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I also found out that during that period they were having morning minyan\nat the back of the store of Harry Behr who had a ladies store in downtown.\nDuring the 1940's, Harry Edelson, also a store owner, started a campaign to\nraise money to buy an old church, an Episcopalian ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"church. That congregation was\nbuilding a new facility and their building was going to be available. So with\nthe help of a fundraiser and help from Fuller Callaway, who owned Callaway\nMills--his foundation--they were able to raise money. In 1945 they purchased the\nbuilding on Church Street. They called it ... at that point it was LaGrange\nJewish Community Center and later became Congregation Beth El.\n\nWEINROTH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Were there any incidents regarding the development of this synagogue\namong people, non-Jews there? Were there any issues that came up?\n\nSTRULETZ: Not that I'm aware of. There never has been.\n\nWEINROTH: So there was actually Fuller Callaway money that went toward...\n\nSTRULETZ: Yes.\n\nWEINROTH: ...purchase?\n\nSTRULETZ: Fuller Callaway gives money--or his foundation continues to give\nmoney--to all the congregations in LaGrange, of all denominations.\n\nWEINROTH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As you grew older in LaGrange, how would you describe your life there?\n\nSTRULETZ: Growing up in a small town was great. We did whatever we wanted. We\nwent wherever we wanted to. I had one really good Jewish friend who was my age,\nJoey Moskowitz. He actually lived down around the corner and we did a lot\ntogether growing up. 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Growing up in a small town really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a lot of advantages.\nTo me the disadvantages as a young person--although I do appreciate it now--was\nthat we were far from a large Jewish congregation. For our education, my parents\ntook us to Atlanta. We also belonged to Shearith Israel. Even my grandfather had\nbelonged to Shearith Israel. He brought my father and aunts and uncles to\nAtlanta back then for services and for education. 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It was a two-hour trip and my parents did\nthat every single Sunday.\n\nWEINROTH: As we talk about growing up in LaGrange and the social dynamics, in\nhigh school, dating, that sort of thing... .\n\nSTRULETZ: That's interesting because my mother had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"rule. You only dated one\ntime. [You dated] the same girl only one time so that you could not create any\nkind of relationship that might turn into intermarriage. That was a very strong\npoint. Sometime we would do it and she may not have known, but that was the rule.\n\nWEINROTH: How did you meet girls?\n\nSTRULETZ: It was typical. They were in our class. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LaGrange was interesting. The\nCallaway Foundation provided all kind of things for the town. In Atlanta you\nwould have the Jewish Community Center that the kids would meet. We had the\nCallaway Educational Association. It was a place that you went for sports or\njust for socializing. The school had activities. We belonged to clubs even\nthough they may have started every meeting with a prayer and everything else. We\nstill belonged. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We just did what we had to but we always had our identity that\nwe were Jewish.\n\nWEINROTH: You probably gravitated to Columbus as far as social things?\n\nSTRULETZ: Sometimes we went to Columbus. We belonged to AZA in Columbus. Later\non my friend Joey, who I talked about earlier, moved to Columbus when he was a\nsophomore in high school. So there was a place I could go to stay in Columbus.\nThere were dances, and all kind of things with the Jewish children. In fact, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm\nstill friends with several of them that live in Atlanta now.\n\nWEINROTH: Did you have a social life in Atlanta too, to a certain extent,\nbecause of the synagogue?\n\nSTRULETZ: It's funny... Atlanta... my brother [Howard Struletz] had more of an\nactive life with his peers in Atlanta. He was really into sports. He used to be\nactive in programs at the Jewish Community Center here playing sports. I, on the\nother hand, was not a sports person so I never got into that. 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Their first stop would be going\nup the street to Fred's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Deli and they would place their order for what they're\ntaking home. [They would] not only have their order but they'd have everybody in\ntown. Then they would meet up with some friends and do things in the morning.\nAfter school, Sunday school, then we would have lunch with either another family\nor somewhere in Atlanta. We would go to Mammy's Shanty and all these places that\nused to be here. After that then we'd either go visit somebody--it was mostly\nfriends of my parents--or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that point I had an aunt and uncle living here. We\nmay go visit them, and then we would go back to LaGrange.\n\nWEINROTH: As far as food is concerned did you all observe kashrut?\n\nSTRULETZ: My family did. Well actually my family, all the Struletz's did. Yes.\n\nWEINROTH: In LaGrange you kept a kosher home?\n\nSTRULETZ: In LaGrange. That's why we would bring the deli home on the weekends\nif we needed meats, chickens, or whatever. 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[With] the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"school starting to be integrated, he became friends with\nseveral of the black students because of sports.\n\nI'll never forget one time they would come to our house and we'd play\nbasketball. It was nothing for the neighbors. They would be coming by, and we'd\nbe playing basketball. That's just the way we were. Then my mother got a call\nfrom the neighbors who told her not to have them come back.\n\nWEINROTH: They didn't like that.\n\nSTRULETZ: They didn't like it. That's the only incident that I can ever remember\nlike that.\n\nWEINROTH: What is your brother's name?\n\nSTRULETZ: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Howard. He now lives in New York.\n\nWEINROTH: How much older is he than you?\n\nSTRULETZ: He's two years older.\n\nWEINROTH: You've just really sort of touched on this too. What was it like for\nyou in a small Jewish community during the Civil Rights Era of the 1950's and\n1960's? Are you old enough to even remember that transition of time?\n\nSTRULETZ: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember. LaGrange again was a very interesting place. It truly was\na segregated city for many years even after the Civil Rights Movement. The\nFoundation of LaGrange would do what they would call equal development. If the\nwhite community had an old age home, then the black community would have one. If\nthe Foundation built ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a library they would build a library for the blacks. So\neverything was really segregated. In fact there was really no marching. I don't\never remember anybody coming down from the Civil Rights Movement. It was one of\nthese things where I believe the leadership in the town, in the city, was pretty\nmuch saying: we will provide for everybody equally, maybe not together, but\nwe'll provide equally if you leave us alone. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's the way they wanted it.\nSlowly it all changed in time, but it did take a long time.\n\nWEINROTH: What about shopkeepers and merchants? Were any lines drawn in terms of\nwho their customers would be?\n\nSTRULETZ: I don't recall any of that. I do remember reading some books that talk\nabout this and their stories, The Jew Store, and those books. They talk about\nthat. I never remember that. In my father's business it was not one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that we had\nthat situation. I don't remember anything really of that type.\n\nWEINROTH: I think you told me too, Allan, that early on your dad had\nAfrican-Americans working for him.\n\nSTRULETZ: Absolutely.\n\nWEINROTH: So they were a part of the fabric of his business?\n\nSTRULETZ: Right.\n\nWEINROTH: The circumstance?\n\nSTRULETZ: Correct.\n\nWEINROTH: Did you ever regret not living in a larger city?\n\nSTRULETZ: If I ever regretted it, it would have been ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"maybe in my high school\nyears. Prior to that, no.\n\nWEINROTH: What do you think you might have missed?\n\nSTRULETZ: I think the social life. What would happen--and part of the reason\nthat I just didn't become very active in the Atlanta area--is every community\nhas their cliques. Children that know each other, that have their own way of\ndoing things. We were always an outsider and always felt that way. In Columbus\nit was a little different. I felt a little bit more accepted in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Columbus, maybe\nbecause it was a smaller community. I knew my friend was there and I got to be\nwith his friends. That was probably the drawback.\n\nWEINROTH: Going back to the Civil Rights Era, do you remember any particular\nincidents that remain with you today? Any kind of marches or any kind of violent\nthings that might have happened?\n\nSTRULETZ: No. There's no violent... when it comes to that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time I just remember\ngoing into the Five and Dime Stores, or whatever, and they had separate\nbathrooms. There were separate water fountains. I do remember seeing all that. I\njust don't ever remember the town ever having marches or anything that was in\nthe public. I'm sure all this was going on behind the scenes. As far as a public\ndemonstration, we never saw this.\n\nWEINROTH: I know a little bit ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about LaGrange. Tell us just quickly a little bit\nabout Charlie Joseph's.\n\nSTRULETZ: Charlie Joseph's is a hamburger and hot dog stand that I believe has\njust celebrated its eighty-sixth anniversary. It is on Bull Street. It was\nstarted by a Lebanese family and it's just a landmark. It would be like the\nVarsity in Atlanta, except you don't drive in. It's two counters. I do remember\nseeing signs, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they would only serve... blacks were only welcomed from the\noutside windows. You had to order from the outside windows. Whites would go in\non both sides and sit. As it started changing... it changed to one side was\nwhite, one side was black, and then it was mixed later on. Old institution, old institution.\n\nWEINROTH: I know a little bit about that. I was also curious that there seems to\nbe a presence of Middle Easterners in LaGrange of Middle Eastern descent that is\nnot Jews.\n\nSTRULETZ: Correct.\n\nWEINROTH: How? Do you know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything about how that evolved?\n\nSTRULETZ: I don't know how they came to LaGrange but it's the Mansour family,\nthe Solomon family, and the Joseph family. I don't know. They were all Lebanese.\nWe got along with them great.\n\nWEINROTH: I was just going to ask.\n\nSTRULETZ: We had a great relationship. And still do.\n\nWEINROTH: When you drive through downtown LaGrange you still see these stores.\n\nSTRULETZ: Oh absolutely. You have Mansour's, which is the main department store\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"as you come down. Then you would have Kaplan's which is still open. It's a men's\nstore. The family, it's two brothers and a sister. They must be in their\neighties, maybe nineties and they still operate this store. Next to them is\nSolomon's and then Charlie Joseph's. That's it, there's no other. And then,\nEdelson's. You have Stephen Edelson who is third generation running the\nArmy-Navy Store and I believe they just celebrated their fiftieth anniversary.\n\nWEINROTH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Are there any memories that you have that are just really positive?\nSomething that you really think about and it's really a positive thought about\ngrowing up in LaGrange other than what you've already touched on?\n\nSTRULETZ: LaGrange had the... Hadassah in LaGrange was very active. My mother\nwas very active in that organization. I remember she would be going to\nconventions. It was a time that she would go away to conventions ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and my brother\nand I loved it because we would go out for breakfast in the morning. My dad\nwould take us for breakfast before school, get us to school. We did other things\ntogether, the three of us, while she was gone. They were active in the\ncommunity. They did clothing drives. They were very active in the community.\nThey raised... I remember they raised money by selling flower bulbs, Holland\nBulbs. That was one of their big fundraisers every year. They sold to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everybody.\nMrs. Callaway would come down to the synagogue to pick up her bulbs. She'd carry\nthem herself. She didn't send anybody. She came there and everybody did. I\nremember them always having dinners and socials at the synagogue for Hadassah,\nfor Israel Bonds, or just the rabbi from Columbus used to come to LaGrange. He\nwould have a study session or whatever. It was very active and I do remember\nthat, playing bingo, they played Bingo down there and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cards. The ladies all\nplayed Mahjong. The guys played cards.\n\nWEINROTH: Jewish Community Center?\n\nSTRULETZ: Absolutely. During the summer when we'd get back from New York the\nthing to do on Sunday mornings was Callaway Gardens. Everybody packed up and\nwent to Callaway Gardens. They had the lake which was really their beach. In the\nafternoon we all got together in the same spot where all the tables were. It was\nmaybe seven to eight families from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LaGrange, Jewish, that would have a picnic\nthere. It was a really nice community and everybody really got along very well.\n\nWEINROTH: Allan, did you ever work along in your dad's business?\n\nSTRULETZ: I used to help him very seldom in the business. It was not something\nhe wanted me to be. I don't... I think he knew LaGrange was not where we were\ngoing to settle, my brother and I.\n\nWEINROTH: He did not encourage you in that direction?\n\nSTRULETZ: No. He encouraged us to do what we wanted to do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Later on, after he\nand my mother passed away, I did have to go down and basically close the\nbusiness. I ran it for about two years.\n\nWEINROTH: How did you meet your wife?\n\nSTRULETZ: More importantly, I think what you'd be interested in is how my father\nmet my mother. That'd probably be more interesting.\n\nWEINROTH: Why don't you tell me about that?\n\nSTRULETZ: As a young male in LaGrange always wanting to meet somebody, he had an\nopportunity to go to New York. It's funny. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One of his best friends in LaGrange,\nJack Moskowitz, his family was distantly related to my mother. They were invited\nto a wedding in New York. So Jack and Mildred Moskowitz, and Lou Moskowitz--\nbecause he wasn't married at the time I don't believe--were going to New York\nthho... it would've been my aunt's wedding on my mother's side. My father said,\n\"Well, if you're going to New York I'll go with you.\" He drove with them to New\nYork. When they got to New ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"York my grandparents on that side said, \"If you're\nhere, you've got to come to the wedding.\" They were also very giving people.\n[They] said, \"You're not not coming.\" He went to the wedding which was my aunt's\nwedding, met my mother, and brought her to LaGrange.\n\nWEINROTH: That's a great story. I wonder if that was a difficult transition for\nher. To move from New York to LaGrange?\n\nSTRULETZ: I believe she was around 18 and it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really a shock for her. When\nshe came down, it was almost hard to even find an apartment to live in. They did\nfind an apartment. One of my mother's good friends--who I visited with just\nabout a year ago--when I found a picture of her, the friend ... There was a\npicture of her sitting in front of the apartment and I gave it to her. She said,\n\"You know I remember coming to LaGrange and that you father said, \"As many times\nthat you can come I will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"pay your way to come down to be a companion to my\nmother because she was having such a hard time making the adjustment.'\" That was\none reason why every summer we went back to New York. That was part of it. She\nwanted to continue her education in LaGrange but she was not able to go to the\ncollege [LaGrange College]. They wouldn't allow her to go because she was\nJewish. It was a Methodist school at the time. They did not allow, so she\ncouldn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"continue her education which she wanted to do. She just got involved\nwith the Jewish community, with the women. That's why she was so active in\nHadassah and all these organizations.\n\nWEINROTH: But she ultimately became fond of LaGrange.\n\nSTRULETZ: Oh, absolutely. She made great friends, Jewish and non-Jewish. I\nremember growing up. My brother and I played golf. We would play at the American\nLegion Golf Course with our friends. All of a sudden, each friend... 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We need to\nbelong to the country club.\" He said, \"Well, we can try but I'm not gonna\nguarantee that we can get in.\" He said, \"So don't be disappointed if we don't\nmake it.\" But we did.\n\nWEINROTH: What year was that?\n\nSTRULETZ: That would have been in the 1960's.\n\nWEINROTH: Now let me go back to asking how did you meet your spouse?\n\nSTRULETZ: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's funny [how] my wife and I met. Lori--it's Lori--she and I met at\nthe University of Georgia. And...\n\nWEINROTH: And she was from Atlanta?\n\nSTRULETZ: ...she's from, originally from Atlanta. She was a member of Shearith\nIsrael and [I] found out that actually her father [Maurice Draluck] taught\nSunday school to my brother.\n\nWEINROTH: There's a connection.\n\nSTRULETZ: There was a connection there too. Draluck.\n\nWEINROTH: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You've mentioned this before. Your family sort of steered you in the\ndirection of dating Jewish girls.\n\nSTRULETZ: Absolutely.\n\nWEINROTH: That was important to them?\n\nSTRULETZ: Absolutely.\n\nWEINROTH: Did you challenge that?\n\nSTRULETZ: No.\n\nWEINROTH: You were very compliant.\n\nSTRULETZ: I did exactly as I was told.\n\nWEINROTH: Do you remember where you and Lori went on your first date?\n\nSTRULETZ: Actually, we ... there was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a party at the apartments which I lived in\nat Athens. There was just a social thing. Everybody was there, and she was\nthere. That's really the first time we talked and got along. The reason that I\n... to go back, she invited me to a party that her sorority was having. So when\nwe got--this was over the break ... When we got back she had to be at that party\nand that's when we started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"talking.\n\nWEINROTH: But when you left University of Georgia, you went back to LaGrange and\nshe went back to Atlanta.\n\nSTRULETZ: We went ... She went to Atlanta and started teaching. My program was a\nfive-year program. I was at Athens a little bit longer. I went back to LaGrange\nonly as I was looking for a job.\n\nWEINROTH: How did you and Lori ensure that your children were going to receive a\nJewish education?\n\nSTRULETZ: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Our children started out early at Jewish Day School. They both started\nat the Epstein School and went through the program until the eighth grade. At\nthat point then they went on to private ... I mean, I'm sorry, to public school.\nBut their instilment of Judaism and all really has a lot to do with the\ncommunity in LaGrange. 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We have a large amount of people from\nthe Atlanta area who come down for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"services. What we do now is there's a bed and\nbreakfast in LaGrange and as many of us that can [stay] will stay there. Gail\nand Lori and some of the others get together with all the kosher food and\nprepare that in Atlanta. They bring it down for the holidays. They have this\nlarge parlor so we all meet there for meals and stay there. It's very nice.\n\nWEINROTH: We talked to the proprietor at the bed and breakfast and she said it's\nthe most wonderful time ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of her life during that year.\n\nSTRULETZ: They're part of our family now.\n\nWEINROTH: She said, \"They come in and kasher the kitchen and they take over the\nwhole bed and breakfast.\" They don't have to worry about any of the rooms being\nempty because they're all filled up.\n\nSTRULETZ: That's right. We're already booked for the next year.\n\nWEINROTH: She loves it. She says she can sit back sort of as a guest.\n\nSTRULETZ: She does. She sits with us and has...\n\nWEINROTH: I think it's a wonderful story.\n\nSTRULETZ: It is. It's great. As long as Effie can do this and as long as we can\nkeep the synagogue going, that's what we'll continue to do.\n\nWEINROTH: Is there anything you want to add ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or touch on before we close that you\nmay have missed?\n\nSTRULETZ: There is so much. I just can't think of too many things. Again, the\nJewish community in LaGrange was one of just togetherness. I'm sure they always\nargued. There were always arguments about things. But basically they all got\nalong and they all supported each other. They knew it was important to all be\ntogether, at least to the public eye. The synagogue... I can't imagine what it\nwould have been like without the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue prior to that for the children that\nwould have been in LaGrange, you know, older children. To me it was just a sense\nof knowing who we were.\n\nEven though many years the building was only used three times a year, we knew it\nwas there and what it stood for, and the fact that the community knew that there\nwas a Jewish population. I had the privilege of really... the times that I had\nin New York ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my eyes were opened to a whole another world that a lot of people\ndidn't get that opportunity. I saw family or religion from two different sides\nand both of them were priceless. It was all about family. My kids [are] the same\nway. When Adam went to law school, he started at the [University of] New Orleans\nthe week before Hurricane Katrina. So he came back home and was able to go for\nRosh Ha-Shanna. When Yom ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kippur came he was ... he had to go into Houston. The\nschool moved to Houston and it was just impossible for him to stay for that High\nHoly Day. It was really heart-breaking that he couldn't be there, and [he] made\na point this year to get back. It was just something that I just can't explain,\nthe relationship that my children have with my parents. Again it was all about\nLaGrange. It was all about community, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/transcript/21053/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish [and] non-Jewish. It just meant a lot.\n\nWEINROTH: They would be fourth generation, were they not?\n\nSTRULETZ: They would've been, that's right, fourth generation. In LaGrange.\nThat's right.\n\nWEINROTH: We thank you very much for sharing your memory with us of LaGrange.\n\nSTRULETZ: Sure.\n\nWEINROTH: That's great. Thank you.\n\nSTRULETZ: Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=2280.0,2310.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe University of Georgia, founded in 1785, also referred to as UGA or simply Georgia, is an American public research university in the city of Athens in the U.S. state of Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIsaac Struletz (1918-1996) was a lifelong resident of LaGrange, Georgia. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He operated the LaGrange Disposal Corporation in LaGrange.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRosalind Olshan Struletz (1928-1999) was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to LaGrange, Georgia in 1949.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSimon Struletz (1883-1973) immigrated from Babruysk, Russia (now Belarus) to LaGrange, Georgia through New York City. In LaGrange, he operated several businesses such as a retail shoe store and a scrap metal supply company, Simon’s and Sons. He was a member of Congregation Beth El in LaGrange and Congregation Shearith Israel in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIda Reif Struletz (1884-1935).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIsadore Leon Struletz (1909-1997) was an immigrant from Belarus who lived in LaGrange, Georgia. He was a member of Congregation Beth El in LaGrange.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe anniversary of Israel’s liberation from Egyptian bondage.  The holiday lasts for eight days.  Unleavened bread, matzah, is eaten in memory of the unleavened bread prepared by the Israelite during their hasty flight from Egypt, when they had not time to wait for the dough to rise.  On the first two nights of Passover, the seder, the central event of the holiday is celebrated.  The seder service is one of the most colorful and joyous occasions in Jewish life.  In addition to eating matzah during the seder, Jews are prohibited from eating leavened bread during the entire week of Passover. In addition, Jews are also supposed to avoid foods made with wheat, barley, rye, spelt or oats unless those foods are labeled ‘kosher for Passover.’ Jews traditionally have separate dishes for Passover.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe two High Holy Days are Rosh Ha-Shanah (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGeorgia Southern University is part of the University System of Georgia, located in Statesboro, Georgia, that was founded in 1906 as a land grant college.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32595/file/101417/annotation_set/264/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHarry S. 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