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She has a brother who is three years older than her, Irvin. Helen attended Commercial High School. After high school, she attended the University of Georgia night school while working at the Georgia Department of Public Health as an accountant. Helen married Mendel Gordon in 1954 at Ahavath Achim. Shortly after, the couple moved to Delaware. They two have three daughters together. \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eHelen Gordon begins the interview by discussing her family history and how they came to the U.S. She talks about their occupation and lifestyle in the U.S. Gordon then talks about her brother, Irvin, and their sibling dynamic. She discusses her neighborhood, in which she details her religious upbringing. Gordon talks about her time as a Sunday school teacher. She reflects on her education at the University of Georgia while working for the Georgia State Health Department. Gordon goes back to her upbringing and discusses her mode of transportation growing up. She talks about her experience as a Jewish person in Atlanta as well as with segregation. Gordon reflects on how she met her husband and their time together. She details what her daughters were like growing up as well as their current lifestyles. Gordon concludes the interview by reflecting on her hopes for the future and her feelings on the contemporary world. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29052"]}},{"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":["University of Georgia (corporate name)","Immigration (topical term)","Atlanta, Georgia (geographic term)","Poland (geographic term)","Ahavath Achim Synagogue (corporate name)","Jewish Traditions (topical term)","Racial Segregation (topical term)","Jewish National Fund (corporate name)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eHelen Gordon interviewed by Majorie Diamond on November 8, 2018, in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen Citron Gordon was born in 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia. She has a brother who is three years older than her, Irvin. Helen attended Commercial High School. After high school, she attended the University of Georgia night school while working at the Georgia Department of Public Health as an accountant. Helen married Mendel Gordon in 1954 at Ahavath Achim. Shortly after, the couple moved to Delaware. They two have three daughters together.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHelen Gordon begins the interview by discussing her family history and how they came to the U.S. She talks about their occupation and lifestyle in the U.S. Gordon then talks about her brother, Irvin, and their sibling dynamic. She discusses her neighborhood, in which she details her religious upbringing. Gordon talks about her time as a Sunday school teacher. She reflects on her education at the University of Georgia while working for the Georgia State Health Department. Gordon goes back to her upbringing and discusses her mode of transportation growing up. She talks about her experience as a Jewish person in Atlanta as well as with segregation. Gordon reflects on how she met her husband and their time together. She details what her daughters were like growing up as well as their current lifestyles. Gordon concludes the interview by reflecting on her hopes for the future and her feelings on the contemporary world.\u0026nbsp;\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/000/174/623/small/Gordon_Helen.m4v_1676396433.jpg?1676396434","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Gordon_Helen.m4v"]},"duration":2617.115,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/623/small/Gordon_Helen.m4v_1676396433.jpg?1676396434","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/174/623/original/Gordon_Helen.m4v?1676396432","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":2617.115,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Gordon, Helen [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"DIAMOND: Hello, this is Marjorie Diamond, volunteer, oral historian. I am\nhere with Helen Citron Gordon, memoirist on November 8, 2018. We are at the\nWilliam Breman Jewish Museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you for agreeing to\nparticipate in the Taylor Oral History Project at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Breman Museum. I would\nlike to start by saying thank you.\n\nGORDON: You're welcome.\n\nDIAMOND: I'm sure that you've given this a good bit of thought because you have\nspoken with your daughter on tape in the past, and I'd like to hear from you.\nWhat would you like to say first?\n\nGORDON: I'm open to questions. I don't really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have any prepared comments at the moment.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. Let's start with your family history. All right. Tell me what you\ncan about your family.\n\nGORDON: My mother and father both came from Poland. My father came when he was\nabout ten to the United ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"States. My mother came when she was about 17. They were\nfirst cousins. My mother came to stay with her aunt, who was my father's mother\nwhen she came over, when she was about 17. She's from Poles, she was from\nPoland. I think my father was also from Poland, but I didn't have too much of\nhis European youth, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"European experience because he came over when he was ten. My\nmother came when she was about 17.\n\nDIAMOND: Do you have any knowledge of your grandparents?\n\nGORDON: Actually, my mother married . . . her first cousin and my grandmother\nwas my father's mother. The one that they both lived with.\n\nDIAMOND: What was her name?\n\nGORDON: Her name was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Citron. Last name Eva.\n\nDIAMOND: Eva Citron.\n\nGORDON: Yes. Okay.\n\nDIAMOND: You said your family was from Poland. Why did they leave Poland?\n\nGORDON: Probably because of racial problems. It was not easy to live in Poland\nat that time, which is like 1970 or something like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that.\n\nDIAMOND: What was difficult about living in Poland in 1970.\n\nGORDON: It was the way Jews were treated.\n\nDIAMOND: Could you elaborate on how Jews were treated?\n\nGORDON: All I know is that there was discrimination and very little opportunity\nfor Jews in Poland. It was the, there were pogroms. That type of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing.\n\nDIAMOND: Your mother's maiden name.\n\nGORDON: Szczepanski. Would you like from his spell?\n\nDIAMOND: Certainly.\n\nGORDON: S-Z-C-Z-E-P-A-N-S-K-I\n\nDIAMOND: Szczepanski. When . . . ? Your parents came. What did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they bring with them?\n\nGORDON: My father came when he was about ten, so I don't really know. My mother\ncame when she was 17 and she came to stay with her aunt, who was my father's\nmother. I don't think they brought anything with them except their clothing and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"their . . .\n\nDIAMOND: No family heirlooms from Poland. No Trinkets or . . . ?\n\nGORDON: No, No.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. What brought . . . Where did they go when they came to America?\n\nGORDON: They went to Atlanta, Georgia. Usually people didn't go to Atlanta,\nGeorgia, when they came from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Europe. Somehow or other, my father's father came\nto Atlanta.\n\nDIAMOND: Did they know? Did he know anyone here?\n\nGORDON: Not really.\n\nDIAMOND: He just picked Atlanta.\n\nGORDON: I guess so. I don't really know. My mother came to be with her aunt, who\nwas my father's mother.\n\nDIAMOND: Right.\n\nGORDON: She came to Atlanta ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because they were there.\n\nDIAMOND: Alright. What have they shared with you about what Atlanta was like in\nthe early 1900's?\n\nGORDON: I don't know about the early 1900's, but I was born in Atlanta in 1927.\nFar as I know, it was, there was a . . . it was a city ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just like any other city.\n\nDIAMOND: What did your father do?\n\nGORDON: He was, he worked for a milliner. He was really a bookkeeper by his own\nprofession. He never graduated from college, but he was well-educated, so he\nworked as a bookkeeper. 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She could do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that at home.\n\nDIAMOND: That's . . . She did that at home. She didn't go outside to do that?\n\nGORDON: I'm not sure because by the time I was born, she wasn't doing it\nanymore. That's what she did.\n\nDIAMOND: How many siblings do you have?\n\nGORDON: One. Just one, was my brother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and he was my older brother. His name was\nIrvin. I-R-V-I-N. He was a chemist. [He] went to Georgia Tech. He lived in\nIsrael for quite a while. He wrote poetry. That was his hobby.\n\nDIAMOND: When you were growing up together, how much older was he?\n\nGORDON: Almost three years.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so you had time together. What was your time with your brother\nlike for you?\n\nGORDON: Interesting. He was an interesting person. He was not . . . What do you\ncall it? He was not dexterous. He was not good with his hands. He had a great\nmind. He also wrote poetry. He could write ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"essays. He could write almost\nanything. He kept diaries for years. Before his death, I think he . . . my\nsister-in-law says he must have thrown them all away. He got rid of everything\nhe wrote before he died.\n\nDIAMOND: He got married?\n\nGORDON: Oh, yes, he was married. He didn't have any children of his own, but he\nhad a stepson. Howard. Howard ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Pest [sp] was my nephew's last name.\n\nDIAMOND: How long ago did your brother pass?\n\nGORDON: Pretty close to ten years now.\n\nDIAMOND: You've outlived everybody that was alive when you were born.\n\nGORDON: My brother was three years older than me, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and . . . yeah, I guess that's true.\n\nDIAMOND: I guess one thing I'm struck by is that you're in your nineties.\n\nGORDON: I'm 91, right?\n\nDIAMOND: 91. Your mind is amazing. What do you attribute your long life?\n\nGORDON: Good upbringing.\n\nDIAMOND: And the fact that your mind is sharp.\n\nGORDON: I don't really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know. Both my father and mother never were senile. Of\ncourse, they didn't live this long, although my mother was close to 90, about\n90, when she passed away. My father was only about 69.\n\nDIAMOND: What about your grandmother? Did they . . . did your mother . . . ?\n\nGORDON: My grandmother died of cancer at a fairly young age, I guess ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"under 60.\nI'm not that sure.\n\nDIAMOND: That's young today, but that wasn't young a long time ago.\n\nGORDON: It wasn't, but it seems young to me.\n\nDIAMOND: In your neighborhood were there both Jews and non-Jews alike?\n\nGORDON: In the neighborhood where I grew up . . . were mostly non-Jews. 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That was just Sunday classes and . . .\n\nDIAMOND: Did you say you were a teacher?\n\nGORDON: Yeah, a Sunday school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teacher. Then after I was married, I was the\nadministrative principal of a Hospital of Islam religious school. That was what\nI did.\n\nDIAMOND: What was your education life prior to that point.\n\nGORDON: Judicially or both? I had I have a college ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"degree from the University of\nGeorgia. I went to school at night. I worked in the daytime. I work for the\nState Health Department as an accountant. I went to school at night. I got a\ndegree in accounting from the University of Georgia. I started working at 17.\n\nDIAMOND: Did you go to Athens?\n\nGORDON: No, no, no. It was a night school. I went to six ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years. Did not go\nduring the summer, but I went to six years of nine months each year, and I got a\ndegree in accounting. By profession, I was an accountant.\n\nDIAMOND: What do you attribute your interest in the principal shape of the\nreligious school? How did you get from one place to the other?\n\nGORDON: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Oh, I really don't know. I was a pretty good student. I started teaching\nSunday School's, Sunday school classes when I was about 17 and a half to 18, I\nguess. Rabbi Harry H. Epstein was the rabbi of a hub asylum and he sort of\nencourage me to spend some time there. I taught Sunday school ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"while I was\nworking at the State Health Department in Georgia, in Atlanta. That's what I\ndid, and it sort of stuck.\n\nDIAMOND: What kind of transportation did you have growing up, or when you got to\nthis point where you're working and going to school and trolleys?\n\nGORDON: We had no car. My father never had a car. 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I probably did.\n\nDIAMOND: Was being Jewish an issue in Atlanta like it was for your family in Poland?\n\nGORDON: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No. No, I don't remember ever thinking that we had any problem being Jewish.\n\nDIAMOND: Did you have friends who weren't Jewish?\n\nGORDON: Oh, yeah. A lot of friends. People I went to school with. Most of them\nweren't Jewish. A lot of them were, but most of them weren't. They were very\ntolerant. I thought, well, I didn't even think about it. 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I mean, we went on picnics,\nand they weren't dismissive or unkind or anything else.\n\nDIAMOND: Were there any African American people as part of your group?\n\nGORDON: No, because in Atlanta there was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"segregation. I knew the Negro\npopulation. We had a family who lived in the back, they called it. In the back\nof 461 Washington Street. I was friends with the little girl. I have the scars\nto prove it. She tried to pick me up. I could pick her up, but she was younger\nthan me, so she tried to pick me up, and dropped me. I have a nice ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"scar on my\nknee from that. Yeah, there definitely was segregation. The schools were segregated.\n\nDIAMOND: It sounds like the schools were segregated, but Washington Street was integrated.\n\nGORDON: No, it wasn't integrated because you lived in the front or the back. We\nlived in the front. 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I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know\nthat it was segregated, but there weren't many if they were there. I didn't\nnotice that.\n\nDIAMOND: What about your job at the State Department? What was that like?\n\nGORDON: I don't remember that there were colored people at work there except as\njanitors. I don't know. Somehow or other. I was naive enough not to think about\nit. 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I don't remember a black person\nthat I really knew personally as I was growing up.\n\nDIAMOND: How did you feel about the civil rights and the changes in the South?\n\nGORDON: I don't know that I thought about it much.\n\nDIAMOND: Not part of your world.\n\nGORDON: It just was not talked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about. It was not it didn't appear as a topic of\nconversation. People did watch it. I mean, I think about it now and I wonder how\nI didn't wonder about it then because there were water fountains for blacks and\nwater fountains for whites. 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I think it would faze me now\ngreatly, but it didn't faze me then.\n\nDIAMOND: At what point in your life did you start seeing a bigger world?\n\nGORDON: Probably ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after college. I went to school at night. I went to night\nschool for college. I worked during the day. I went to school at night, and I\nremember working at the State Health Department in Georgia, in Atlanta. We had\nno colored people working in the office at the, say, health department. It\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"didn't even enter my mind at the time. It just was not a topic of conversation.\n\nDIAMOND: What kind of work did you do?\n\nGORDON: I was an accountant.\n\nDIAMOND: You had graduated in accounting and did that.\n\nGORDON: Right.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay. Let's talk about your husband. How did you end up? Did you date\nfirst and what was that courtship ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like?\n\nGORDON: I think you could say that the person who collected stuff for charity\nfrom Jewish homes. The one she collected from our home. She came to collect the\nboxes and the money. [She] knew Mandel's parents, and she recommended to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them\nthat their son call me, which he did. That's how I got to know him.\n\nDIAMOND: Had you dated other people before? Was there a lot of people?\n\nGORDON: No, I didn't do a lot. I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too busy to date. I didn't.\n\nDIAMOND: This lady that came around to collect the boxes. Were those Jewish\nNational Fund boxes?\n\nGORDON: Yeah.\n\nDIAMOND: JNF? How did the boxes get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"full?\n\nGORDON: My mother gave to charity by putting money in the stock box every week.\nShe never missed. We were not rich. We were on the poor side. She always put\nmoney in on Friday before Shabbos. I can even tell you, her name. I don't know\nif you would know her. Mrs. Sykora [sp] collected the boxes.\n\nDIAMOND: She kind of acted as matchmaker and box collector.\n\nGORDON: I had no idea. I don't know how many other matches she made, but she did\ntell Mendel's parents that she knew a family who had a daughter who was about\nthe same close to their son's age. He did call me. Before ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I met him, he actually\nknew my brother. They were in the same school. My brother was a year ahead of\nhim at school, He knew and my brother knew my husband's mother because . . .\nthey were active in a different synagogue from where my brother belonged, but he\nwas active in the synagogue. 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What did you do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"together?\n\nGORDON: He took me dancing. He took me to parks. I don't know.\n\nDIAMOND: Where did you go dancing?\n\nGORDON: Biltmore Hotel . . . I didn't think I could dance, but he didn't seem to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mind. It was, as I say, his . . . He knew Mendel because he knew him from\nschool. They went to Boy's High School, and he knew my brother. My brother was\nolder by a year, so they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were not friendly in terms of, you know.\n\nDIAMOND: How long after you met did you get married?\n\nGORDON: About a year.\n\nDIAMOND: Where did you live after you were married?\n\nGORDON: We first lived on Park Avenue in an apartment. Then he got a job with\nDuPont, and we moved to Wilmington, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Delaware. I forget I'm in Atlanta, so let's\nsay he moved here. He didn't move here. We were married in 1954. We moved to\nWilmington in 1955.\n\nDIAMOND: How was that for you? Leaving your family and going north?\n\nGORDON: It's what one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did. I mean, after all, my mother moved from Poland. I\ndidn't have that much of a move. He, I mean, we lived in L.A. [Los Angeles,\nCalifornia] for a year before we moved. When he got the job at DuPont, we had to move.\n\nDIAMOND: Did you work once you got to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wilmington?\n\nGORDON: I don't think so. I worked in Atlanta before we moved, but I was . . . I\nhad my first child in 1955. It was very soon after we were in Delaware, so I\ndidn't really get a job in Delaware. I worked for the state health department in Atlanta.\n\nDIAMOND: How many children did you have with him?\n\nGORDON: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Three. I have three daughters.\n\nDIAMOND: Three daughters. God bless. Tell me about being a young mother, raising\nyour children.\n\nGORDON: My mother was a big help. She came from Atlanta with each child and\nstayed for a couple of months each time. I mean, it really wasn't that\ndifficult. She was, she loved her grandchildren and her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"granddaughters. My\nfather didn't raise any objections to her coming. She stayed for a couple of\nmonths with each child. She was a big help.\n\nDIAMOND: How lucky for you.\n\nGORDON: That's right.\n\nDIAMOND: How did she get back and forth?\n\nGORDON: Train. She didn't fly.\n\nDIAMOND: What were your challenges as a mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"raising three children in the fifties?\n\nGORDON: I don't know. I don't . . . just probably trying to keep them judicially\noriented probably was the biggest ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"challenge. I remember I used to tell them to\ntell the teacher they were going to be absent on the Jewish holidays. My oldest\none wouldn't do it. She wouldn't tell. My middle one had no problem telling them\nwhatever. She was just, she could do that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Now, remember, with a third, by that\ntime it was, you know, tell them or I wrote a note or whatever. They were just\ndifferent. They did stay out. We went to synagogue.\n\nDIAMOND: What was your synagogue?\n\nGORDON: Ahavath Achim.\n\nDIAMOND: Not in Atlanta, in Delaware.\n\nGORDON: In Delaware. 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If you could tell the future\nanything, what would you tell them?\n\nGORDON: Be grateful for what you have. That would be my advice.\n\nDIAMOND: Is there anything that you'd like to share that we haven't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"covered?\n\nGORDON: I don't think so. I don't think so.\n\nDIAMOND: I think I forgot to ask you how long you were married.\n\nGORDON: We were married in 1954. I'll let you figure it out.\n\nDIAMOND: When did your husband die?\n\nGORDON: 2010.\n\nDIAMOND: Okay, so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whoever's doing this transcribing will figure it out. I don't\ndo numbers in my head.\n\nGORDON: Right.\n\nDIAMOND: How do you feel about the politics of today?\n\nGORDON: You don't want to hear the answer to that. Bad. I don't feel good about.\nThe presidency. I don't feel good. I can feel good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about that there are so many\npeople that are against the president. Other than that, I like our\nrepresentatives. Former representative. Biden. I remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Biden from when it was\nlike . . . . [He] spoke at my oldest daughter's high school graduation. When I\nfirst started. Very young.\n\nDIAMOND: What is your wish for the Jewish future?\n\nGORDON: Success and continuation.\n\nDIAMOND: How best do you think that would happen?\n\nGORDON: It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was it would happen best by people feeling the one, pleasure and\nsecond, the necessity for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"continuation.\n\nDIAMOND: I know this is jumping back and forth in time and space, but was your\nbrother bar mitzvah?\n\nGORDON: Oh, yes.\n\nDIAMOND: What about you?\n\nGORDON: There were no apartments when I was growing up. It was a, an Orthodox\ncongregation. This didn't happen until about a year after I was 13. The rabbi's\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/transcript/41741/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"daughter was almost my age. For her coming of age they did institute at bat\nmitzvah program, but I refused to do it at the old age of 14.\n\nDIAMOND: All right. Well, I truly appreciate your giving your time to the Breman\nMuseum project. 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Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=2610.0,2640.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Gordon, Helen [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePoland is a country located in Central Europe. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA milliner is a person who makes or sells women’s hats.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The time of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929, when the American stock market crashed, and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the twentieth century. The Great Depression is often seen as the major turning point in 20th-century world history. In Europe, World War I had a long-term impact on the economy and financial stability. Postwar inflation spiraled into hyperinflation by the 1920’s and European banks struggled to stay open. Exasperating the situation were skyrocketing unemployment rates. The Great Depression had immediately visible political and social ramifications in Europe, including increased antisemitism and nationalism.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Georgia Institute of Technology is a public research university and institute of technology located in Atlanta, Georgia, founded in 1885.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIsrael is a Middle Eastern country on the Mediterranean Sea. 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The final service in the Washington Street building was held in 1958 to make way for construction of the Downtown Connector (the concurrent section of Interstate 75 and Interstate 85 through Atlanta). The synagogue moved to its current location on Peachtree Battle Avenue in 1958. As of 2022, Ahavath Achim is the largest Conservative synagogue in the Atlanta area and its current Senior Rabbi is Laurence Rosenthal\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86288/file/174623/annotation_set/983/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eRabbi Harry Hyman Epstein (1903-2003) served as rabbi of Ahavath Achim Synagogue in Atlanta, Georgia from 1928 to 1982, when he became rabbi emeritus. 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