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Samuel’s family were active members of Congregation Shearith Israel. Samuel attended Commercial High School and enjoyed playing basketball at the Jewish Educational Alliance.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, Samuel married Sylvia Lev (1924-2014). He was soon drafted into the United States Army and sent to basic training in Texas. Samuel served with a Field Artillery Battalion that participated in the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach and liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Samuel was wounded in Germany at the end of the war.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter he was discharged from the military, Samuel returned to Atlanta. He and his brother-in-law soon bought a liquor store. After a few years, they sold the liquor store and Samuel bought a grocery store. Eventually, he owned three grocery stores. He later sold his stores to become a manager of the Associated Grocers Co-Op in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel and Sylvia raised three children and were members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Samuel was an active supporter of Israel Bonds, the Jewish Federation and the Jewish National Fund. Samuel died on October 1, 2019.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eSamuel introduces his family. He recalls his childhood in Atlanta. Samuel talks about growing up with his brother and sister behind a grocery store his parents owned and later moving above a shechita. He remembers his many friends from the Jewish Educational Alliance with whom he played basketball and went on double dates with. Samuel shares how he was drafted and became part of a Field Artillery Battalion after high school. He recollects where he was when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Samuel describes his experiences on D-Day. He explains how he was wounded in Germany at the end of the war. Samuel tells how he was shipped home to a hospital and then returned to Atlanta. He describes incidences of antisemitism he experienced in the army. Samuel talks about liberating the Buchenwald concentration camp. He discusses what it was like to return to civilian life after the war. Samuel outlines his early career, buying a liquor store and then a series of grocery stores. He explains why he sold his stores and went to work for the Associated Grocers Co-Op. Samuel details his efforts to build up the business. He considers the interactions between Jewish mom-and-pop stores and the black community. Samuel recalls gambling and playing cards at the Jewish Progressive Club. He talks about his fundraising for Israel Bonds. Samuel introduces his children. He talks about how he handled the trauma of D-Day. Samuel shares his opinion of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan and the differences he sees in his generation and the younger ones. He remembers what it was like to jump out of the LST when it arrived at Omaha Beach. Samuel explains what he shared about his war experiences with his brother-in-law, wife and children. The interview concludes with Samuel’s feelings about Israel.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28471"]}},{"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\u003eSamuel Weissman interviewed by Sandra Berman on April 27th, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Weissman (1923-2019) was a first generation American, born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1923 to Morris and Sara Weissman. He had a brother, Jack, and sister, Gertrude.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a child, Samuel’s family lived above a grocery store they operated. Later, the family moved above a kosher butcher. Samuel’s family were active members of Congregation Shearith Israel. Samuel attended Commercial High School and enjoyed playing basketball at the Jewish Educational Alliance.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1942, Samuel married Sylvia Lev (1924-2014). He was soon drafted into the United States Army and sent to basic training in Texas. Samuel served with a Field Artillery Battalion that participated in the D-Day invasion at Omaha Beach and liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. Samuel was wounded in Germany at the end of the war.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter he was discharged from the military, Samuel returned to Atlanta. He and his brother-in-law soon bought a liquor store. After a few years, they sold the liquor store and Samuel bought a grocery store. Eventually, he owned three grocery stores. He later sold his stores to become a manager of the Associated Grocers Co-Op in Atlanta.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel and Sylvia raised three children and were members of Ahavath Achim Synagogue. Samuel was an active supporter of Israel Bonds, the Jewish Federation and the Jewish National Fund. Samuel died on October 1, 2019.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel introduces his family. He recalls his childhood in Atlanta. Samuel talks about growing up with his brother and sister behind a grocery store his parents owned and later moving above a shechita. He remembers his many friends from the Jewish Educational Alliance with whom he played basketball and went on double dates with. Samuel shares how he was drafted and became part of a Field Artillery Battalion after high school. He recollects where he was when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Samuel describes his experiences on D-Day. He explains how he was wounded in Germany at the end of the war. Samuel tells how he was shipped home to a hospital and then returned to Atlanta. He describes incidences of antisemitism he experienced in the army. Samuel talks about liberating the Buchenwald concentration camp. He discusses what it was like to return to civilian life after the war. Samuel outlines his early career, buying a liquor store and then a series of grocery stores. He explains why he sold his stores and went to work for the Associated Grocers Co-Op. Samuel details his efforts to build up the business. He considers the interactions between Jewish mom-and-pop stores and the black community. Samuel recalls gambling and playing cards at the Jewish Progressive Club. He talks about his fundraising for Israel Bonds. Samuel introduces his children. He talks about how he handled the trauma of D-Day. Samuel shares his opinion of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan and the differences he sees in his generation and the younger ones. He remembers what it was like to jump out of the LST when it arrived at Omaha Beach. Samuel explains what he shared about his war experiences with his brother-in-law, wife and children. The interview concludes with Samuel’s feelings about Israel.\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/000/112/582/small/Weissman_Samuel.mp4_1620654177.jpg?1620639779","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Weissman_Samuel.mp4"]},"duration":3925.944,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/112/582/small/Weissman_Samuel.mp4_1620654177.jpg?1620639779","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/112/582/original/Weissman_Samuel.mp4?1620639775","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":3925.944,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Weissman_Samuel [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Today is April 27, 2009. I am with Samuel Wiseman, who has agreed to do\nan interview for the Ester and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the\nWilliam Breman Jewish Heritage Museum. My name is Sandy Berman. I am the\narchivist with the museum. I am so pleased that you have agreed to participate\nin our project. I would like to begin by asking you a couple of questions about\nyour early background, where you were born, your parents' names. and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where they\nwere from.\n\nWEISSMAN: I was born here in Atlanta and my parents . . . My father is from\nRomania. My mother is from Russia, a little town called . . . I can't even think\nof the name now.\n\nBERMAN: That is fine.\n\nWEISSMAN: We can skip that. What else do you need?\n\nBERMAN: Their names.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: Morris I. Weismann and Sara Weismann.\n\nBERMAN: When were you born?\n\nWEISSMAN: In 1923.\n\nBERMAN: What brought your parents to Atlanta? How did they end up here?\n\nWEISSMAN: They both first went into New York and they went through at . . .\nEllis Island. They stopped in New York. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"His father was in New York and they got\na job in factories. Papa made different things and Mama made clothes. Then they\nall moved to Atlanta, the whole family.\n\nBERMAN: What drew them south? What was the reason?\n\nWEISSMAN: They heard that [it] was easier to make a living here and they could\nget into a grocery business real cheap. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's when they came here and they\nbought a small store.\n\nBERMAN: Where was it located?\n\nWEISSMAN: The store at that time was located where the Omni is now. It was down\nin the whole . . . I don't remember the name of the street.\n\nBERMAN: What about the store name?\n\nWEISSMAN: The store name was just Weismann's.\n\nBERMAN: Was it general merchandise?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Grocery or general merchandise?\n\nWEISSMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was in a black area and it was just everything that they could carry.\n\nBERMAN: What were your earliest years like? Where did you go to school?\n\nWEISSMAN: I went to school. Where did I go to school? I can't even think of the\nname of the place. We lived in the back of the grocery store in a black\nneighborhood and I went to a school with mostly all black, a few ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"whites. We\ndidn't have nothing. We were the poorest people in Atlanta, I think.\n\nBERMAN: How was that for you, going to school with a lot of black children? Was\nit difficult?\n\nWEISSMAN: It wasn't too bad at that time, except that my father could not buy no\nclothes. I had to wear what they called overalls. I remember that. He would give\nus a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"quarter for lunch every day. That was it. Going to school, the kids weren't\ntoo bad. I kind of took part in everything they had. The teachers were nice.\n\nBERMAN: Were there any other Jewish children there?\n\nWEISSMAN: No.\n\nBERMAN: Were your parents able to join a synagogue?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, they belonged to Shearith Israel the whole time.\n\nBERMAN: Was it in walking distance?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, it was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mangum Street, I think it was, because we walked. I use to\ncome to Hebrew school and I walked all the way from Mangum Street to Washington Street.\n\nBERMAN: Pretty far. Were your parents at all active with Shearith Israel? Do you\nremember Rabbi [Tobias] Geffen?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, very much. We were very active at the time.\n\nBERMAN: What can you tell me about Rabbi Geffen?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: He was one of the nicest persons you ever met. You could sit down, and\nyou could talk to him, and he'd either talk with you in Yiddish or English,\nwhichever one you wanted. He was really a nice man. He married us, but my wife\nsaid she don't know what he said. It was all in Jewish.\n\nBERMAN: I want to get back to living behind the store. You had what you truly\ncalled a 'mom-and-pop' ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"store, your parents. How many rooms were in the back of\nthe store?\n\nWEISSMAN: Two rooms.\n\nBERMAN: How many siblings did you have?\n\nWEISSMAN: A brother and a sister.\n\nBERMAN: There were five of you in two rooms? What do you remember about that?\n\nWEISSMAN: Fighting with my brother about who goes to the bathroom first.\n\nBERMAN: What was your brother's name?\n\nWEISSMAN: Jack. He died of cancer.\n\nBERMAN: I am sorry. And your sister?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: Gertrude, she's living in San Diego [California] now and she is having\na hard time. Her husband is dying right now.\n\nBERMAN: I am sorry again. Let us talk about happier times. You fought with your\nbrother about who could get to the bathroom. Was the bathroom in the house?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes. I tried to borrow some of his clothes. He would never let me wear\nnone of his clothes. It was something else. We got along ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"though, not bad. My\nfolks just never made a living. They just . . . He went bankrupt in that store.\n[My father] could just never make a living.\n\nBERMAN: Did you live there your entire growing up or did you move anywhere else?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, he had another store somewhere. I don't remember the name of it.\nHe didn't make there and went bankrupt in that store. Then we moved over to\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Washington Street over the shechita, where they kill the chickens. We lived upstairs.\n\nBERMAN: Was [Reverend Paul] Borstein the shochet?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, his name was [Reverent Abraham] Edestein. He used to do all the cooking.\n\nBERMAN: When you moved to the other area, were you then with Jewish children\nwhen you were on Washington Street?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: Yes, that's right close to the Jewish Educational Alliance. We all had\nplayed basketball and everything there.\n\nBERMAN: Who were some of your friends?\n\nWEISSMAN: Let us see, there was Morris Silver, and there was Asher Edelstein,\nand there was . . . Victor Leaf.\n\nBERMAN: I have heard of all these guys.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: Yes, most all of them are dead.\n\nBERMAN: What can you tell me about the Jewish Educational Alliance? Was it a\ngreat hangout?\n\nWEISSMAN: That's what it was, a hangout. We had a good time there. We used to\nplay basketball. Edelstein, they use to call him . . . He was \"Deadeye\nEdelstein.\" He could always shoot the bucket.\n\nBERMAN: What was your ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"team? Did you have a team?\n\nWEISSMAN: It was called XYZ.\n\nBERMAN: I have heard of that. What about the Nordau? Do you remember the Nordau Club?\n\nWEISSMAN: No.\n\nBERMAN: That was Meyer Balser, I think was the coach of that one.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Do you remember Meyer Balser?\n\nWEISSMAN: Very well. I remember him very well.\n\nBERMAN: What can you tell me about him?\n\nWEISSMAN: He was a nice guy. He always was in charge of everything there. He\ncleaned out the slot ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"machines because, at that time, we had slot machines in the club.\n\nBERMAN: Was that at the Jewish Education Alliance or at the Progressive Club?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, at the Alliance.\n\nBERMAN: You had slot machines at the Alliance?\n\nWEISSMAN: For a while, but then they caught us and they took them out. Didn't\nlast long. We used to go every Sunday morning when everybody was there Saturday\nnight at a dance or something. 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We met every\nSunday there.\n\nBERMAN: What about Shearith Israel Juniors?\n\nWEISSMAN: No.\n\nBERMAN: You grew up in Atlanta, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you went to school. Do you remember which high\nschool you went to? Was it Boys?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, I went to Commercial High. It was boys and girls, on Pryor Street.\n\nBERMAN: Do you remember the principal? Was that Annie Wise?\n\nWEISSMAN: I don't think so.\n\nBERMAN: Maybe she was before your time.\n\nWEISSMAN: Maybe it was.\n\nBERMAN: Did you want to go to college ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or did you know you would just go into the\nbusiness world?\n\nWEISSMAN: I wanted to go, but we were not able. I never went to college. I just\nwent to high school. I did not even graduate high school. I went until the\neleventh grade.\n\nBERMAN: What year was that?\n\nWEISSMAN: You're asking me to go way back.\n\nBERMAN: I want to know how old you were when World War II broke out.\n\nWEISSMAN: In World War II, I was nineteen years old ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when I went into the army.\n\nBERMAN: Did you get drafted or did you enlist?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, I got drafted.\n\nBERMAN: What branch of service?\n\nWEISSMAN: The Field Artillery.\n\nBERMAN: Where were you?\n\nWEISSMAN: We went to Texas. We had our basic training there. Then we shipped out\nto . . . I think we went to Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] and went to board a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ship\ncalled Carnarvon Castle. It was an English vessel with 5,000 troops on it.\n\nBERMAN: What year was that?\n\nWEISSMAN: That was in 1942. That's when I went into service--in 1942--and got\nout in 1945.\n\nBERMAN: Do you remember where you were when you heard about Pearl Harbor?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, I remember it well. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We were sitting in the park, and making love,\nand heard it on the radio, my wife . . . girlfriend.\n\nBERMAN: Was it your wife or another girl?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, it was my wife. I wouldn't say that. We were listening to the\nradio. Boy, we were really upset about it, too.\n\nBERMAN: Did you see action? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where were you in Europe?\n\nWEISSMAN: We went over . . . I was over in D-Day.\n\nBERMAN: Tell me all about this.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You joined the service after 1942. Right after the bombing of Pearl\nHarbor, you were drafted.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, [in] January [1942].\n\nBERMAN: You participated in the D-Day invasion.\n\nWEISSMAN: Right.\n\nBERMAN: Can you describe that, what you remember, what it was like?\n\nWEISSMAN: We went through basic training and everything. We were shipped over to\n. . . I don't remember the place we were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at. We had to wait six days. We went\nover, and we were sitting, and waiting because the weather was bad. They didn't\nwant to start until the weather cleared up. They kept waiting, but [General\nDwight D.] Eisenhower decided we're going.\n\nBERMAN: What was that waiting period like for you boys?\n\nWEISSMAN: It was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"crazy. Everybody was scared. They didn't know whether they were\ncoming back or not. But we all stuck together, and talked about what would\nhappen if we didn't come back, and what would happen if we did. We went through\neverything in six days of waiting.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have a lot of good friends in your unit?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good.\n\nBERMAN: Then you got word that you were on the way. What was it like crossing\n[the English Channel] in that water? What kind of craft were you in?\n\nWEISSMAN: The LSTs let down. That's what we went on. It would open up and we\nwould jump out in the water. When we got over there, they started jumping ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out,\nand then you'd see heads flying here.\n\nBERMAN: Were you on Omaha Beach?\n\n[Sam nods his head to indicate \"yes\"]\n\nWEISSMAN: The water turned red.\n\nBERMAN: It must have been just so awful. What rank were you?\n\nWEISSMAN: At that time, I was a corporal. This friend of mine, Jogi ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jorgenson,\nwas from Norway, tall big guy. We were real close. We went over together, jumped\nout together, and he was killed immediately.\n\nBERMAN: The water must have been freezing.\n\n[Sam nods his head to indicate \"yes\"]\n\nBERMAN: The Germans were very well entrenched.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ever think you would get up to those bunkers?\n\nWEISSMAN: We crawled inch by inch. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It took about a half day.\n\nBERMAN: What was your pack like? What kind of equipment did you have?\n\nWEISSMAN: We had everything that you could put in a backpack. You had a\nraincoat, a shovel, you had a mess kit, and you had some kind of boots to put on\nyour shoes--rubber ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boots--and . . . I don't remember.\n\nBERMAN: And a riffle, I am sure.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, a carbine [lightweight, shorter rifle]. It didn't shoot but one\nbullet at that time.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have a pistol as well?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, I was issued a pistol. I was in a Headquarters Battalion. It was\nfive battalions.\n\nBERMAN: After you were able to secure Omaha Beach, what happened next? What was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your progression?\n\nWEISSMAN: We went on through Germany [to] Cologne and all through there. [We]\nwent through the Black Forest. We met up with [General George] Patton at one\ntime. We were kind of ahead of him, because we had the ammunition and that's\nwhat he was looking for, the ammunition. He stopped ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we would unload the\nammunition for him. This outfit I was with was the 767th Field Artillery\nBattalion and it was what they called a 'bastard outfit.' It moved every night.\nWherever they needed trouble, we moved.\n\nBERMAN: That must have been rough.\n\nWEISSMAN: It was fun. Every night, we didn't know where ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we were going, but we\ngot through it. That's all that mattered.\n\nBERMAN: Where were you at the end of the war, when it was almost over? What was\nsome of your final . . .\n\nWEISSMAN: I'll tell you what happened. When it was almost over, I was . . . I\ndon't remember where we were located. We were located in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Germany. All I know is\nthat I was in a jeep, and I was going somewhere either to pick up mail or\nsomething, and I got blown out of the jeep. Three weeks or four weeks before the\nwar was over.\n\nBERMAN: What happened?\n\nWEISSMAN: I don't know. I was in the hospital for about five months. That's\nwhere I ended up, in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hospital, and came home on the hospital boat.\n\nBERMAN: You probably had enough points to come home.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, I went to Finney Hospital in Thomasville, Georgia. That's where\nwe unloaded. They asked me, \"Do you want to go home on points or do you want to\nstay here and get a medal?\" I said, \"Nope, I want to go home.\" I made a mistake.\nI could have got a pension. I could have got something if ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had stayed and got a\nmedical discharge. This way, I only . . .\n\nBERMAN: I don't blame you for going home. It probably was not a mistake. Your\nparents must have been notified after you were wounded?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, my wife was.\n\nBERMAN: You were already married?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, I was married. When I was drafted, we were married.\n\nBERMAN: Did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you write a lot home to your wife?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, she'd send me the . . .\n\nBERMAN: V-mail.\n\nWEISSMAN: Whenever it caught up with us, I'd have four or five letters, because\nwe moved an awful lot.\n\nBERMAN: Did you save any of those letters?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, I should have.\n\nBERMAN: How was it being Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the army? Was it hard?\n\nWEISSMAN: I'll tell you. When I was in the 752nd Field Artillery, when we first\ngot over, there were a bunch of . . . There were only two Jewish boys, me and\nanother one was a medic. Can't think of his name right now. Damn, I know him\nlike ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yesterday.\n\nBERMAN: It will come to you.\n\nWEISSMAN: The rest was hardnose yokels. We was having a rough time for a while.\nI really was having a time with one. The other guy was in the medics, so it\nwasn't too bad. I can't think of his name now. Anyway, he said one day, \"Sam, I\ntell you what. I'm going to get rid of this guy for you.\" I said, \"How you gone\ndo ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that?\" He says, \"That's alright. I'll do it.\" He called him in and we had a\nwhat you call a physical. He said, \"You got a bad heart. I'm gone have to ship\nyou out.\" And he got rid of him.\n\nBERMAN: What was he doing to you, the guy?\n\nWEISSMAN: He kept calling me 'Jew boy' and all that. We'd get into fights all\nthe time. I hated it and I wouldn't take it. I told him I wasn't going to put up\nwith this.\n\nBERMAN: Was he from the South, too?\n\nWEISSMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. Then we had . . . I worked in the office a lot. I could type\nsixty words a minute and they had me setting up the battalions and everything.\nThey sent me off to a school in Mississippi and I was supposed to come back as a\nMasters Sergeant. But when I got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back to the base, the colonel wouldn't five me\nmy stripes. He was a real mouser. There was a captain there that was really\nnice. He said, \"Sam, I tell you what you do. You take my jeep and you go up and\nsee the general.\" I said, \"What?\" He said, \"You go, and see the general, and\ntell him that this guy is not treating you right, and outside of that, you were\nsupposed to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"getting a commission.\" I went up to see the General and boy, I\nthought he was going to kill me. I woke him up late at night.\n\nBERMAN: Which general was it?\n\nWEISSMAN: It was not one of these real big generals, he was just a one-star\ngeneral over the camp. He said, \"Okay, Sam. You go back there and I'll take care\nof ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"everything.\" I just said, \"Well, ain't nothing going to happen.\" But he came\ndown the next day and he got on this Colonel and he transferred me out. That is\nwhen I went from 752nd to 767th.\n\nBERMAN: Did you get your stripes?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, I got the stripes. But I had taken the exam for a Warrant\nOfficer. I passed it, but at the time when I took the exam, we were getting\nready to go ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"overseas. I got a pass for three days to come home and see my wife\nand then I got back. I thought I would be able to get it, but when I got back,\nthey were standing in the streets waiting to load up to go overseas. I never did\nget it.\n\nBERMAN: When did you first hear about what was going on in the camps about the\nJews in Europe?\n\nWEISSMAN: We heard about that a long time before the war. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We wondered why we\nwere not doing nothing about it. [President Franklin Delano] Roosevelt wouldn't\ndoing a damn thing.\n\nBERMAN: When you were over there, did you get near any of the camps?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, we liberated one.\n\nBERMAN: Which?\n\nWEISSMAN: It was Treblinka.\n\nBERMAN: No, it wasn't Treblinka because that one was already gone by then.\n\nWEISSMAN: It was another one. I know we went through the camp and we . . .\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Was it Buchenwald?\n\nWEISSMAN: That's it, yes.\n\nBERMAN: The American troops liberated Buchenwald.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, we did. It was sickening to see people coming out, just\nskeletons, and their bodies all . . .\n\nBERMAN: I know it is difficult, but can you describe just walking in there?\n\nWEISSMAN: We thought we was looking at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dead people walking around. It was really\nrough and the bodies were lying outside in the trenches. All we wanted to do was\ncapture some of those Germans and kill them. That's all. We weren't taking no prisoners.\n\nBERMAN: Did you?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Were there a lot of Germans left in the camp at that time?\n\nWEISSMAN: There were a few, but there weren't too ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"many. But there were none that\ncame out alive, I know that.\n\nBERMAN: Did you identify yourself as a Jewish American soldier? What did the\ninmates think of that?\n\nWEISSMAN: They didn't know. Their minds were just . . . They wanted something to\neat and you couldn't feed them because it'd make them sick. You had to give them\nnothing that would really hurt them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had to wait until they took them off\nand fed them somewhere else. They wanted everything and we wanted to give them\neverything. We gave them chocolate. That's all we could give them. Anything\nelse, they said would hurt them until they really got . . . They were so thin,\nthey wasn't nothing but bones.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have a different reaction, being Jewish, than the rest of the\nsoldiers in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"your unit?\n\nWEISSMAN: I did, but they were pretty upset. They were really bad. They wanted\nto killed everybody.\n\nBERMAN: We are going to leave World War II because I know I am upsetting you. We\nare going to go back to when you are in the hospital and you are ready to go\nhome. You get back to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta and your wife is waiting for you. That is a good\nthing. What did you decide to do with your life?\n\nWEISSMAN: We also had a baby at the time.\n\nBERMAN: I did not know that. First of all, tell me your wife's name.\n\nWEISSMAN: Sylvia L. Weismann.\n\nBERMAN: What is her maiden name?\n\nWEISSMAN: L-E-V, Lev. When I got home, got out of service, they only give you\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"$300.00. Three hundred dollars was no money. My folks were poor. They didn't\nhave nothing. We lived in a house. My brother in-law, at the same time, he came\nhome from the army. We had my brother in-law, his wife, my wife, two kids, and\nmy mother in-law, and a boarder living in one apartment on Washington Street.\n\nBERMAN: How many rooms?\n\nWEISSMAN: I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think there were five and one bathroom.\n\nBERMAN: Did you go into the grocery business then?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, my brother in-law and I . . . We both didn't have any money, but\nwe pulled together, and we borrowed a little bit. We first bought a beer and\nwine store next to the Varsity.\n\nBERMAN: Really?\n\nWEISSMAN: Right next door. We were in that for a while. Then he got out of it\nfirst. He didn't like it. It got rough ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sometimes. I stayed another few years.\nThen, I sold out.\n\nBERMAN: What was the name of that store?\n\nWEISSMAN: The beer and wine store? It was . . .\n\nBERMAN: That is alright. We can come back to it. Then what?\n\nWEISSMAN: Then, he got out and bought a grocery store in East Point, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"GA. I got\nout and I bought a little store. We both had to borrow money everywhere to go\ninto business. I bought a little store on Woodward [Avenue] and I think it was\nConnally [Street], near the Capitol Homes Project. It was big enough for one\nshopping cart. I stayed there a few years. I had shpilkes [Yiddish: nervous\nenergy, anxiousness, restlessness]. [I felt like] this ain't for me and I got to\ndo better. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sold it and I bought another store. I bought one on Forrest Avenue.\nIt belonged to a Mr. [Sam] Schaffer. I had that one for two years. Then, it\nburned down. Somebody threw something in there and they burned it down to the\nground. Then, I went over and I bought a store when I had that [insurance]\nmoney. I bought ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a store in the Municipal Market . . . It was a Kroger in there\nand I bought that store with the money I had from the fire. I kept that one a\nwhile. It was good hours. We used to have Wednesday afternoon and they closed on\nSunday. Grocery stores are open all the time. I really enjoyed doing that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I\nstill got shpilkes. I wanted to do more. My brother in-law was in East Point and\nhe was driving a long ways. He said, \"Sam, if you want to sell it, I'll buy it\nand I'll sell mine, 'cause I'm too sick to be able to drive this far every day.\"\nI did. I sold my store to him. Then I just messed around for a while. Then, this\nfriend of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mine, Bernard Halpern, he built me a new store on Simpson Street [in\ndowntown Atlanta].\n\nBERMAN: He was a Holocaust survivor, wasn't he?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes. It was a brand-new building, so I went in and I borrowed money\nfrom Associated Grocers at that time. We put in all new fixtures and we fixed it\nup real nice. It was about four thousand square ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"feet.\n\nBERMAN: Was this in the 1950s or 1960s?\n\nWEISSMAN: In the 1950s. I always bought the best meat we could find. We bought\nthe best produce. We bought everything real good. These shvartse [Yiddish:\nblacks] had never seen nothing like that. When I had my opening, that day was on\na ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Monday. I had Mr. Louie Verono. He came down and helped me. Them people came\nin there, and they emptied the store, and bought everything out.\n\nBERMAN: That is wonderful.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, we had to restock the next morning. They just cleaned it out.\nThey were happy to see good merchandise. [There] was a store across the street.\n[There were] four stores on four corners. But, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"opened a nice store, and I gave\nthem good food, and I gave them right nice prices, and they liked it. It was\nreal nice. I kept that store. I was making real good money. Then I got shpilkes,\nso I said, \"Okay, I am going to open another one.\" I opened one on Bankhead\n[Highway]. That one was a pretty store. [Bernard Halpern] built that one, too.\nIt done real well. I had two stores. [I decided] I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"need one more in a white\nneighborhood. I opened a store on Briarcliff [Road] and Lavista [Road]. It was\ncalled Food Town. Then I had three stores to worry about. I was satisfied then.\nI didn't know if I wanted another store or ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not. I had two [in one part of town]\non Simpson Street [and] Bankhead, and [one in another part of town on]\nBriarcliff. I did still have the one in the Market. No, I sold that to my\nbrother in-law. I had three stores. But Associated had a manager there that was\ngetting old and he wasn't doing a good job running the warehouse. You probably\nknow him. At that time, it was Jack ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maziar. They wanted to get a new manager in\nand they asked me if I would run the warehouse--I didn't know anything about\nrunning a warehouse--until they got somebody. I did and they could not find\nanybody so they asked me if I would do it. I said, \"Well, I got to sell my three\nstores. I can't run this without selling it.\" I sold the three stores and I ran\nthe warehouse. It was doing a 100 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"million. I built it up to about 200 million. I\ngot more customers. Then, we moved into a new warehouse. We were in East Point.\nWe moved to College Park. It was twelve acres under roof. We could put 20 rail\ncars in there. In one side, they'd unload meat, and produce, and dairy. On the\nother side, they'd unload ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grocery. That warehouse got us in a lot of trouble\nbecause we only had four million dollars and it ended up costing nine million\ndollars to do all this. We bought the land from the railroad for $90,000, forty\nacres, because they wanted to build this. Anyway, I didn't know what I was going\nto do. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"You know, we got a big note. We got the other warehouse.\" We\ndidn't sell it, so we had two warehouses. I didn't know what we were going to\ndo, but, I said, \"We got to do something.\" I went to Chicago [Illinois] and I\nwent to a meeting with bankers. I met this guy from Goldman Sachs. I told him I\nneeded nine million ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dollars. He laughed at me. He said, \"What you mean you need\nthat?\" I told him I had a warehouse that was worth twice that much, but I need\nthe money because the loan I have on it, the people won't renew the loan and\ngive us more money. He said, \"I'll come out and see you.\" He sure did. He\nbrought three people, came out the next week, walked the place. He said, \"Sam,\nI'll have your money tomorrow.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That took care of that deal, but we still had a\nlot. We still had the other warehouse to sell. I had to get more business. A\u0026P\nwas closing up. I said, \"You know, I could buy all these stores.\" We had the\nmoney. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"warehouse had at that time a credit union to loan members money. We\nhad an insurance company. We had people could set up stores. We had everything\nit would take to put people in the grocery business, but we needed more\nbusiness. When these A\u0026P came up--I think there was twenty-five--I got my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"man to\ngo out and take pictures of all the stores. Then, I went to Washington, [D.C.] I\nwent to see the SBIC.\n\nBERMAN: What is that?\n\nWEISSMAN: Small business investment company. I told them, \"I need some money to\nbuy out these A\u0026P stores,\" and I showed them pictures of it. They said, \"How\nmuch money you think it would take?\" I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I need to get volume in this\nwarehouse I got.\" We needed more volume or we couldn't stay there. The guy says,\n\"I'll tell you what. If you put up a million, I'll loan you three.\" They loaned\nus three million dollars. We bought all the stores and we put people in them. We\nput managers in them--some Jewish; some not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish. When they came in to make\nthe loan on the store, we asked them for whatever kind of collateral they could\ngive us. They would give their house if they had it. Some would give a car. Some\ndidn't have nothing, but they were good managers. We put people in all of them.\nThat helped the business an awful lot, [having] twenty-five ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stores. In ten\nyears, I never lost a nickel. They paid it all back.\n\nBERMAN: That is amazing. How did Associated Grocers get started, and why?\n\nWEISSMAN: It got started way back there with . . . I don't know who was it that\nfirst started it. I know Jack Maziar was in there later. I know it got started\nto help Jewish people go into business, so they started where they could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"buy in\nquantities. It was cheaper, like chains. They had to get competitive with all\nthe other stores, even the little stores. They started it out that way. It ended\nup as a big place. It had everything the store would need. It had set up men\n[that] could set up a new store. We had insurance for all the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stores if they\nwanted it, or for their houses--our own insurance company. We paid our own\nclaims. Whatever it took [for] who wanted to go into business, like I did. They\nfinanced me to get started. Then you paid back everything. We sent out an order\nbook every week, and they just mark in there everything they wanted, tear off\nthe strips, and send it to the warehouse. [A] computer would spit it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"out and\nwe'd send them their groceries.\n\nBERMAN: Is Associated Grocery still around?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, when I retired, we were doing 250 million dollars. They hired a\nguy from New Orleans [Louisiana] I think it was. I told them, \"Don't hire this\nman. He's a crook.\" They wouldn't listen to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me. They hired him. He was stealing\na hundred thousand dollars a month and sending it somewhere, trying to develop\nsomething for a sun tan lotion. They finally caught up with him, but when they\ndid, they were already in bad shape, they had lost so much money. They found his\nwife in a hotel room shot to death and him tied to a car and burned up, tied to\nthe steering wheel.\n\nBERMAN: My gosh. When was this?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: I retired in . . . I was there 20 years, so you tell me when it was.\n\nBERMAN: In the late 1970s?\n\nWEISSMAN: It was too late. The place had already gone down. They lost so much money.\n\nBERMAN: What can you tell me about the grocery in the 1960s with the black\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"community? I know there was a lot tension.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, there was. Like the time I had two stores in the black community.\n[They were] big stores, with [long] windows. When Martin Luther King, Jr. got\nkilled, they tore all the windows out, threw out everything in the stores, and\nwent in to try and have the store. It was murder. I had a watchman and I went\nout with a gun and stayed at one store. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was unreal.\n\nBERMAN: Why do you think they were so angry at the Jewish grocers?\n\nWEISSMAN: Nobody knows that, why. We didn't do nothing to them. We were always\nvery good with the blacks, but they had to take it out on somebody.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think that was the end of the little mom-and-pop stores? Did that\nstart the decline?\n\nWEISSMAN: Very much. I know when I manager of the warehouse, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I serviced all of\nthem, but now there is not a one. See, mom-and-pop stores educated their kids so\nthey wouldn't have to go into the grocery business.\n\nBERMAN: There are no more little stores?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, the Indians and the whatchamacallit got them all. I don't think\nthere's one Jewish little store.\n\nBERMAN: I do not think ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so. It was a great place for Holocaust survivors to go to\nafter World War II, wasn't it?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, sure was. We helped them go into business . . . Yes, we would\nfinance us. They would come to us for a loan and everything. They didn't have no\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"collateral. They didn't have nothing, but we still made loans. I never turned\ndown any of them to go into the grocery business. I'd say ninety percent of them\nwere Jewish in the small stores. They never went into bigger stores. When Kroger\nand the other ones started getting bigger and bigger, it was hurting them very\nmuch. They could buy and sell as cheap as they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"do, but when you send stuff out\nto them stores, they mark it up so damn high, that's what made the blacks mad.\nThey can go to other stores and its ten or fifteen cents cheaper on an item.\nThat would upset them. Of course, I know in my store--when I had three--[the]\none on Simpson, I got held up five times in a row.\n\nBERMAN: Did you really?\n\nWEISSMAN: This guy come in on Saturday night, and pointed a gun at my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"head, and\n[said], \"Open the safe.\" The first time he come, I couldn't open it. I said,\n\"You go ahead and shoot. I can't open it.\" But then he kept coming back until I\nsaid, \"I can't stay in business this way.\" I had a gun waiting on him. When he\ncame in and went out, I shot him in the street.\n\nBERMAN: Did you get him?\n\nWEISSMAN: I got him in the leg. The police locked him up, charged him with all\nkind of stuff.\n\nBERMAN: That must have been so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"frightening.\n\nWEISSMAN: I wouldn't let my wife . . . My wife was in the store for a while and\nI wouldn't let her come no more after they started getting hold ups. I had my\nsister in-law in the other store and she didn't want to stay there because she\nwas held up.\n\nBERMAN: Leaving the grocery store business for a minute, did you like growing up\nin Atlanta?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, I like it. I enjoyed it. 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I went up there and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I got in this craps game. I\nwas betting along with everybody else, $20 at a time. About 12'oclock, my wife\nsays, \"You come on downstairs.\" I said, \"Honey, I am coming.\" I was winning. I\ndon't know why. I just kept on picking up money, stuffing it in my pocket. When\nwe got home, I emptied my pockets out. We were living in an apartment ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then. You\nwouldn't believe it. I had 13,000 dollars.\n\nBERMAN: I bet she was happy.\n\nWEISSMAN: We bought that first house for $13,000 dollars on Briarcliff.\n\nBERMAN: That is a fantastic story.\n\nWEISSMAN: It was an unreal story.\n\nBERMAN: Were you welcomed at the Standard Club? I mean, it was at that point, a\nlot of German Jews. Did you feel like you fit in?\n\nWEISSMAN: At ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the Standard? No, at the Progressive.\n\nBERMAN: You were at the Progressive Club?\n\nWEISSMAN: I couldn't go to the Standard Club. Like you said, they were all\nGerman high-class Jews.\n\nBERMAN: You were at the Progressive Club?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: I wanted to clarify that . . .\n\nWEISSMAN: Not the Standard Club, no.\n\nBERMAN: . . . because I knew the Progressive Club had a lot of gambling going on.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, they had slot machines and everything until they got caught up.\n\nBERMAN: You won $13,000. Were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you friends with Max London? I know he was over\nthere a lot.\n\nWEISSMAN: I knew him, but wasn't friends with him. But I knew him. It was a lot\nof big gamblers there [like] Sidney Stein and some other people [that] owned a\nhat factory or something.\n\nBERMAN: Did you ever gamble again after that?\n\nWEISSMAN: Nope, not there. I just got back from Las Vegas [Nevada]. I stayed on\nthe craps table the whole time. I won ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"$4,000.\n\nBERMAN: Then you could become a $5,000 member.\n\nWEISSMAN: My wife never won anything on the slot machines. Over there, she hit\nit for $1,000 or $950.\n\nBERMAN: That is great. What other kind of social activities did you do? Did you\njoin or were you involved in the Jewish Community Center, or the Atlanta Jewish\nFederation, or Israel Bonds?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: Yes, Israel Bond. We had a dinner. I raised a million dollars. I got a\ngreat big old plaque in the house.\n\nBERMAN: You were given a big award.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, sure was, but that one's from the corporation. That was the first\none they ever tried. They asked me to do it. Then they went around the country\nand got everybody to do it.\n\nBERMAN: Let us just talk a little bit about the family. How many children do you have?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: I have three.\n\nBERMAN: And their names?\n\nWEISSMAN: It's Norman, Arlene and Harold.\n\nBERMAN: What do they do?\n\nWEISSMAN: Norman lives in Dayton, Ohio and he is . . . I don't know what you\ncall it. He helps set up warehouses, and lay them out, and everything for paper\ncompanies. He travels all over the country every ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"day. He's made a million\ndollars. He's a millionaire. I don't have to worry about him. He's got three\nnice kids, all of them in college in California.\n\nBERMAN: Wonderful.\n\nWEISSMAN: My daughter just finished. She taught 30 years as a teacher. Then, she\nwent back for half days and now she's finishing that up in May. She says she's\ndone enough. My young son is here and there doing something. I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know what\nhe's doing. He's been writing insurance and other kind of things.\n\nBERMAN: Wonderful.\n\nRuth: Mr. Weismann, if you don't mind me going back a little bit to the war. It\nis clear that it was a very emotionally difficult period from the very\nbeginning. I have two questions. First, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after being on Omaha Beach and that\nhorrifying day, how did you get through the rest of the war? Were you able to\nkind of stop having that much of an emotional reaction or were you just able to\ncope with it better? How did you go through the entire war after that?\n\nWEISSMAN: You were a soldier. You knew these things were going to happen, but\nwhen you saw bodies and heads rolling around, you just had to take it and move\non, because you know you're just one of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the lucky ones. That's all. I felt like\nI was one of the lucky ones.\n\nRuth: Did you continue to have that feeling after the war, that you perhaps had\nthis new lease on life?\n\nWEISSMAN: I done very well after the war. I just kind of forgot about it.\n\nBERMAN: I guess I have a question. Was it difficult to readjust to civilian life\nafter the war?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, it was for a while. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was difficult to even be home with the\nfamily, because I was jumpy, irritable, always mad, mad at the world.\n\nRuth: Could you talk about that a bit? How were you mad at the world? Why do you\nsay that?\n\nWEISSMAN: I don't know. I just felt like all this could have been avoided ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"if\nwe'd have gotten in the war a lot earlier. If Roosevelt had done something, a\nlot of those people over there would have survived.\n\nBERMAN: Speaking of the war, and ending it, and when we should have gotten in,\nwe ended the war with Japan with the . . . atomic bomb. Did you agree with that decision?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: Yes.\n\nBERMAN: Why so?\n\nWEISSMAN: Because I think it saved a lot of lives. In fact, when I got out of\nthe hospital over there in Germany, they wanted to send me to Japan. I said, \"No\nway. I ain't going. I'm going home.\" I just don't know what would have happened\nif they hadn't of dropped that bomb.\n\nBERMAN: Even today in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"retrospect, you still think it was a good decision?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, at that time, I think it was, definitely so.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think that this generation of young people are as patriotic as\nyour generation?\n\nWEISSMAN: No.\n\nBERMAN: Why not?\n\nWEISSMAN: I don't know. They just . . . I was nineteen when all this, and\nrunning a company doing 250 million dollars at the age of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"twenty-two, and going\nto Washington, and doing everything, and I was just a kid. These people are just\nkids. They don't grow up fast enough.\n\nBERMAN: Why do you think?\n\nWEISSMAN: I think they have it too easy. We had it rough to start with and we\nmanaged, but these kids today just got it too easy.\n\nBERMAN: Do you think if there was a real ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"call for arms, like there was during\nWorld War II, that there would be the same kind of response that your generation had?\n\nWEISSMAN: They would all go to Canada or somewhere else. I think they would. I\ndon't say that they won't, but I think a lot of them would. They don't want to\nfight in no war. It was a different generation.\n\nBERMAN: But what happened? What have we done to change that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: I don't know what we've done. I swear I don't know. Kids just feel\ndifferent today. All the kids I run around with, they all enlisted, or were\ndrafted, and everything else. I don't think you would find anybody that would\nwant to go to war today.\n\nBERMAN: You did not want to go to war, but you felt it was necessary?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, that's right. If they hadn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of drafted me, I would have\nenlisted. I was going to enlist anyway. But I don't know what it is today. I\ndon't know. I can't tell you. I know all these kids today got college\neducations. They got everything. They've been given everything. They don't want\nto fight in a war or do nothing like that. I didn't have nothing and I didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"care.\n\nBERMAN: You are one of our very few memoirists that was actually in D-Day and on\nOmaha Beach. You are in a real select little club. I mean, it is probably not a\ngreat club to be in, but a select club. Do you think of yourself as being\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"different for having endured that?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, I don't think so. There were a lot of them that didn't come back.\nI just feel lucky that way.\n\nBERMAN: Yes, you were lucky.\n\nWEISSMAN: I was very lucky. My friend right next to me-- Jogi Jorgenson was his\nname--got his head blown off, right quick like.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: That must have been very traumatic for you.\n\nWEISSMAN: But, we had to move on. That's what they teach you in the service. You\ngot to move on. They were rough on us when we had maneuvers and everything\nbefore we went in. You knew that it was what was going to happen. When we went\non maneuvers, we had some people get killed on maneuvers.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: When the LSTs unloaded on the beach . . .\n\nBERMAN: I know that the LSTs just kept unloading and unloading.\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, they dropped off . . .\n\nBERMAN: Can you describe what it was like jumping in the water?\n\nWEISSMAN: We had a heavy backpack. We had a riffle and we had everything. You\njust jumped into that water. It was cold as hell, too. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You were glad to get to\nthe beach to get out of the water.\n\nBERMAN: How far? How much water did you have to go through to get to the beach?\n\nWEISSMAN: Not too much, because I couldn't swim. Nobody could swim that. It\nwasn't very far. I'd say . . .\n\nBERMAN: Was there air support at that time coming down?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, that was everything. I mean, the sky . . . It was day time, but\nit turned black with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all the airplanes, completely black.\n\nBERMAN: The paratroopers had come in the day or the night before, correct?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes, it was . . .\n\nBERMAN: Have you been back to Normandy?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, but I do want to go. I talked to somebody yesterday [that] said\nthey went on a trip to Normandy and they saw all the crosses. I said, \"Did you\nsee any stars?\"\n\nBERMAN: I've been to Normandy and there are quite a few stars.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"WEISSMAN: Yes, there is.\n\nBERMAN: When you came back from the service and you had all these pent-up\nemotions, was there anybody to talk too?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, nobody but my wife and my brother in-law. I was real close with\nhim. We used to talk about it.\n\nBERMAN: Was he in the service also?\n\nWEISSMAN: Yes. He got out when I did, but he was sick and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he had a bad heart. We\nwent into business together.\n\nBERMAN: What was his name?\n\nWEISSMAN: Willie Miller. He went to [Methodist Hospital] to have a heart\noperation in [Houston] Texas and he didn't make it. Forty-six years old.\n\nBERMAN: Were you able to tell your wife the stories, or did you hide it from her?\n\nWEISSMAN: No, I didn't talk much about it with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/40804/file/112582/transcript/25855/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"her.\n\nBERMAN: Why not?\n\nWEISSMAN: I don't know. It's just hard to go back and all this. It's very hard.\nMy kids want to know all about it and I haven't even said nothing to any of\nthem. I said, \"One day, I'll set you down and tell you everything.\"\n\nBERMAN: We will give you this tape.\n\nWEISSMAN: Thank you.\n\nBERMAN: You mentioned earlier also, that you were good friends with Bernard\nHelpern. I know he was a Holocaust survivor. 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