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In 1912, Jack and his family moved to Atlanta, Georgia where Jack excelled in athletics, and grew up with his nine siblings. Jack worked in service stations then as a salesman for trailers before opening his own trailer lot and helped to pioneer the trailer and mobile home industry in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Berchenko was active in many different aspects the Atlanta Jewish Community. He was a member of the Ahavath Achim Synagogue and of Congregation Beth Jacob all of his adult life. He was active in the Mason and Shriners, and was one of the original founders of the Jewish Home of Atlanta.  Jack and his wife, Elizabeth Shapiro Berchenko raised three children, Sharlene, Peggy, and Joe. Mr. Berchenko passed away in Atlanta in 2003 at the age of 93.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eJack recounts his family’s beginning in the United States, his early years growing up, and his family’s ties with other Jewish families in the Atlanta area. He goes on to describe playing sports as a young adult, his habit of fighting, and socializing in the Masonic Fulton Lodge and the Progressive Club. Jack goes back to explain the family’s money-making strategies, the sales jobs he did from the age of five, getting jobs for his family, and his belief in bashert. Jack reminisces about his early service station jobs, dating Jewish girls and shicksas, and then meeting his wife, Elizabeth Shapiro. He shares his involvement in various organizations and charity work, including Anshi S'fard and Congregation Beth Jacob, and leading the committees for building the Beth Jacob shul and the Atlanta Jewish Home. Jack discusses his experiences around World War II, brags about his children, and clarifies family connections. He reflects on his career in the trailer industry, how he made his fortune, and how he lost his fortune.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29256"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Breman, Mortimer William \"Bill\" (1908-2000) (personal name)","Doyal, R.L. \"Shorty\" (personal name)","Epstein, Rabbi Harry Hyman (1903-2003) (personal name)","Feldman, Rabbi Emanuel (1927-) (personal name)","Frank, Leo (1884-1915) (personal name)","Garber, Alfred E. 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In 1912, Jack and his family moved to Atlanta, Georgia where Jack excelled in athletics, and grew up with his nine siblings. Jack worked in service stations then as a salesman for trailers before opening his own trailer lot and helped to pioneer the trailer and mobile home industry in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Berchenko was active in many different aspects the Atlanta Jewish Community. He was a member of the Ahavath Achim Synagogue and of Congregation Beth Jacob all of his adult life. He was active in the Mason and Shriners, and was one of the original founders of the Jewish Home of Atlanta. \u0026nbsp;Jack and his wife, Elizabeth Shapiro Berchenko raised three children, Sharlene, Peggy, and Joe. Mr. Berchenko passed away in Atlanta in 2003 at the age of 93.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJack recounts his family\u0026rsquo;s beginning in the United States, his early years growing up, and his family\u0026rsquo;s ties with other Jewish families in the Atlanta area. He goes on to describe playing sports as a young adult, his habit of fighting, and socializing in the Masonic Fulton Lodge and the Progressive Club. Jack goes back to explain the family\u0026rsquo;s money-making strategies, the sales jobs he did from the age of five, getting jobs for his family, and his belief in bashert. Jack reminisces about his early service station jobs, dating Jewish girls and shicksas, and then meeting his wife, Elizabeth Shapiro. He shares his involvement in various organizations and charity work, including Anshi S'fard and Congregation Beth Jacob, and leading the committees for building the Beth Jacob shul and the Atlanta Jewish Home. Jack discusses his experiences around World War II, brags about his children, and clarifies family connections. He reflects on his career in the trailer industry, how he made his fortune, and how he lost his fortune.\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/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Berchenko__Jack.mp3"]},"duration":7475.16,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/public/images/audio-default.png","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/226/976/original/Berchenko__Jack.mp3?1707109861","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":7475.16,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Berchenko, Jack [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"SCHOENBERG: On November 1, 1999 for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta,\nco-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish Federation,\nand the National Council of Jewish Women. This is the first tape, the first\nside. Okay, it's about 3:00pm in the afternoon. We are at Mr. Berchenko's\napartment in the former Lenox Forest Apartments, which are now being redone. The\nnoise that you will be hearing periodically is unfortunately ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\npart of the restoration that's going on in the building, and we cannot control\nit. So, we'll have to deal with it. Would you mind telling me who was the first\nperson in your family to come to the United States?\n\nBERCHENKO: My father, Joseph Berchenko. He came over in 1898, I think.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And he had already been married and had part ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof his family?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes, he had one, two, had four children at that time. He emigrated to\nNew York [New York].\n\nSCHOENBERG: From?\n\nBERCHENKO: From . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Kiev [Ukraine].\n\nBERCHENKO: Kiev.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You told me.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's correct. That's right, from Kiev.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And they stayed in New York for a while?\n\nBERCHENKO: They stayed in New York until 1912.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was your mother's name?\n\nBERCHENKO: Tiva Retke, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n Tilley.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tilley?\n\nBERCHENKO: Tilley.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And what was her maiden name?\n\nBERCHENKO: Vistrick.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That, would you spell it?\n\nBERCHENKO: V-I-S-T-R-I-C-K. Vistrick\n\nSCHOENBERG: And your father did what kind of work?\n\nBERCHENKO: My father was in the Army ever since he . . . when he was married, he\nwas, he went to the Army and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is the Russian army?\n\nBERCHENKO: That was the Russian army, and he stayed there until, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI think it was 1897. He came over in 1898, until . . . he stayed there until 18\n. . . let me see, just one minute. I think it was . . . he came over in 1898.\nThat's right, and he brought my mother over about three years later. So, it must\nbe in 1895.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was he running away from the army or had he been discharged?\n\nBERCHENKO: I think he was running away. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nSCHOENBERG: Just like a lot of . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: That was when the Czar Nicholas was assassinated. In the pogrom that\nfollowed, he and several officers that he knew took off to New York.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What kind of work did he do in New York?\n\nBERCHENKO: In New York, he got a job in one of these clothing factories, cut\ncloth and stuff like that. He had no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ngiven talent, except he was a good musician. Very, very talented as a musician.\nHe was raised as a musician, as an elite, but didn't wind up that way.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The family moved from New York, you said in 19 . . .?\n\nBERCHENKO: In 1912.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They came here to Atlanta [Georgia]?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And they had additional children, all the while. While you were in\nNew York and also while you were here? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBERCHENKO: Oh yeah, all the while. My mother came to New York on steerage with,\nI think she had three children, if I'm not mistaken. She came to New York on\nsteerage, that's on top of the deck, that's what it is.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And she continued to have children every couple of years, you told me.\n\nBERCHENKO: Every couple of years, she would have children.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And there were a total of?\n\nBERCHENKO: It was a total of, well she actually had 12 children in her life, and two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof them died. One in . . . both of them in Russia. One in childbirth, one in an\naccident, in a child accident. Then my brother Meyer, was killed here, which\nleft us with nine in our family.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, Meyer was one of the older children? You told me he was in the Army.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In World War I?\n\nBERCHENKO: Meyer was the oldest, that's right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You want to tell his story? What happened to him?\n\nBERCHENKO: Meyer was, he was with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBill Bailey's Ambulance Corp. Meyer was a guy that wasn't scared of nothing. He\nwas tough, he was rough, but one of the sweetest persons in the world. He was\nthe kind of guy, [that] if you were picking up a baseball game, or a football\ngame, you'd want him on your side. In fact, they had a problem during the . . .\nwhen Leo Frank was killed, that night they were afraid they were going to have\ntrouble with the Jews. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbrother Meyer and my father saw that we all went to bed, and they had a couple\nof friends next door, and across the street [who] were very fond of Meyer and my\nfather. They sat up all night long and nothing happened. But that was the kind\nof guy he was, he wasn't afraid of nothing.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So, they were really protecting the family, for fear that there\nmight be something bad . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. Afraid that something might happen.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Could happen against all the Jews?\n\nBERCHENKO: All the Jews, sure. That night it was very, very . . . troublesome.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tense?\n\nBERCHENKO: Tense.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were just a little kid ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthen. You don't remember much, do you?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes, I remember. I used to sell newspapers, and I was on the street\nwhen the extra came out. I was selling it when he was lynched. I remember that well.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did that paper sell well?\n\nBERCHENKO: That was in 1915, I was five years old. When I was six years old, I\nwas street-wise, what they called it. But you had to be in those days. We lived\nat Glenwood ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand Kelley, and I can remember the school. We went right down about two blocks\nto the school and I remember . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was the name of the school?\n\nBERCHENKO: Hill Street School. We remember there were two Jewish families on\nKelley Street, the Vazinsky family and the Garber family. Frances Vazinsky\nmarried a Bresler boy, she just died recently. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe Garber family, they put the children in the Orphan Home. The story was with\nMr. Garber, he was in the Army in The War of 1897, the Spanish-American War. He\nwent off to war and never came back. He left several children, one of them was\nAl Garber, he turned into one of the better CPA's in Atlanta. But he grew up in\nthe Orphan's Home, and I knew him well. 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And they had a beautifully run orphan's home, beautiful.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was located on Washington [Street]?\n\nBERCHENKO: Washington Street, right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's where that perpetual home, Perpetual ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nCare is today behind the stadium.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's the property there. There used to be a football field right\nback of there. I played football as a kid all years, right there, on that field.\nThere was a school on the other side, on Capitol Avenue that extended back\nalmost to that area. They called it James L. Key School.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was a former mayor of Atlanta.\n\nBERCHENKO: Right. Right. That is correct.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who else lived on your block?\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwere several Jewish people who lived on our block on Glenwood Avenue, down at\nthe corner of Glenwood, down the bottom of . . . we lived on top of the hill.\nThat was kind of a hill there. Mackey Klein and his family . . . I think his\nfather died, and they remarried. Her name was, their name was Mackey Klein, but\nI can't think of the name they married.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The mother's name?\n\nBERCHENKO: But ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nanyhow, the Bermans, she used to live two doors from us. The Arnovitz family\nlived there, three or four doors from us. The Tucks used to live right around\nthe corner from us on . . . I'm trying to think of the name of that street. The\nKlein family, Mackey Klein and his sister, she married Leo Hirsch. They're still\nliving, and they had a grocery store there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBut I think those were the Jewish people there. Let me see.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right in your immediate neighborhood?\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your father was a member of, or began one of the congregations you\ntold me.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes, Anshi S'fard. My father came over to Atlanta because of a friend\nliving here, his name was Yampolsky, Sam Yampolsky. Have you heard their name before?\n\nSCHOENBERG: I certainly have.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes. Sam brought several people over. He brought the Altermans over.\nThe Altermans ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwere already in Atlanta, Louis Alterman and the family, George and Izzy and so\nforth. In fact, Izzy Alterman met his wife in our house.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was her maiden name?\n\nBERCHENKO: Her maiden name was . . . I'll tell you in just a minute . . . I'll\nthink of it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was she a friend of one of your brothers or sisters?\n\nBERCHENKO: George, I was raised with George. They used to come over to our\nhouse, when we moved from Richardson ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nStreet over to Pryor Street. After Sunday school, they all came over to our\nhouse because we had a big house, a big front porch, and we used to play spin\nthe top for pennies and nickels. And we'd sit around and, you know how boys and\ngirls get together.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is when you were how old? Approximately?\n\nBERCHENKO: I must have been about 14 years old.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, early teens, early to mid-teens.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, early teens, because we moved from Glenwood Avenue over to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nRichardson Street, and we lived on Richardson until about 1920, or 1921, or\n1922, right around that. So I'd be about 12 years old when we moved over there.\nHer name was . . . Oh, darn, I'll think of it and tell you . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: But anyway, you were born in New York. But how old were you again,\nwhen you came to Atlanta?\n\nBERCHENKO: When I came here? I was born in 1912. I came to Atlanta in 19 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . I was born in 1910. I came to Atlanta, in 1912.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay, So you're just a little one?\n\nBERCHENKO: Just a little one. Two years old.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. Okay. So you really don't remember anything in New York? You\nremember, your earliest memories are Atlanta?\n\nBERCHENKO: My earliest memories are my sister Jenny walking me around the East\nRiver. I must have been between two and three years old, I wasn't quite three\nwhen I got here. That memory will never escape me, because I used to always\nrelate it to everybody. I can remember, she was holding my hands and walking around ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe river. Isn't that amazing?\n\nSCHOENBERG: That is remarkable.\n\nBERCHENKO: Remarkable. And yet I complain about my memory, but it comes and\ngoes. I always used to prize myself on having a wonderful memory, but sometimes\nit just turns off on me.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: Esther Borochoff was the girl's name.\n\nSCHOENBERG: See.\n\nBERCHENKO: Did you know, the Borochoffs? Any of them?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No. I don't know them.\n\nBERCHENKO: Now, my cousin that we brought over from the old country, she married\na Borochoff, but it was a distant cousin. There were two families, Borochoff. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nOne was very wealthy, one was very poor. So they were no kin to each other.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Tell me some more about your father, how he knew Mr. Yampolsky. Were\nthey friends from the old country?\n\nBERCHENKO: They came from . . . They lived together in the old country. And on\ntop of that, Mrs. Alterman, Mrs. Alterman and my mother went to school together.\nAnother one was the Eisenberg family. My mother also went to school with Mrs.\nEisenberg. That's why they all came over here, because he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n[Mr. Yampolsky] was well established here, and there was a book written . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, what was his business, Mr. Yampolsky? That he was so well established?\n\nBERCHENKO: He was a merchant. Yes. I want to tell you, there was a family [that]\ncame over named Davis. Dave Davis, that was his name. When he came over, he took\nthat name and he kept it all the time. He came to our little house, and Mama,\nwith all the children, she fixed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nhim a place to sleep on the floor. And he wrote a book about that. He wrote a\nbook and how remarkable that Tiva Berchenko kept such a clean house, and could\nfix me a place to stay there. Poppa wanted to get Mr. Davis, Dave Davis, a job\nin this place that he had, cutting cloth and so forth. But he decided to come to\nAtlanta because of Mr. Yampolsky. He had a brother here who named himself Morris\nMorris. You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nknow what I mean? That was the names that they took. But this Dave Davis had a\nwonderful family. They were brilliant people. Smart. He wrote a book. There is a\nbook out now, about his coming to the United States, Poppa meeting him at Ellis\nIsland, staying over here, and finally deciding to come to Atlanta.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did his family stay here, Mr. Davis' family?\n\nBERCHENKO: Oh, yes, raised a wonderful family. One of his daughters, Dorothy, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nDorothy Davis married this fella that was the head of, for years, was head of\nthe Alliance . . . the Athletic . . . Barney Medintz.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh.\n\nBERCHENKO: She married Barney Medintz. He died quite some time ago. But he left\nher quite a . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: A legacy.\n\nBERCHENKO: A legacy in this town. Wonderful fella. And of course, I knew them\nall. I mean, just like one big family. On Sundays, I used to go to the Jewish\nAlliance where a lot of Jewish boys were. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnd what do you think we did there?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, I'm assuming you played ball.\n\nBERCHENKO: We shot craps. Honest to goodness. And the little boys . . . was so\nperturbed because when they had a lot of money in the pot, there were three or\nfour fellas that were ruffians, Jewish boys, and they would holler \"Police!\" And\nthey would grab the money, and everybody'd run. That happened so many times, but\nthat was part of growing up. That was part of growing up, but I'll never forget\nthose things either.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No. Who were the rough ones? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBERCHENKO: I remember Hymie Klein. I think that . . . what's this girl's name,\nthat I told you that's still living? She was married to . . . well, anyhow, he\nwas a rough one. Mackey Klein's sister married a Hirsch boy, he was one of the\nruffians. And there was a couple more that was real, real rough. They used to\nfight and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nsteal the money!\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. We had . . . we grew up in the 1920's, early 1920's,\nand the anti-Semitism was still showing. As a Jew boy, you had to look out for\nthem saying \"Damn Jew\", or this, that, and the other. I taught myself real good.\nI made it my effort to beat the hell out of anybody that said \"Damn Jew.\" I got\nin more fights, than you can imagine.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you were one of the ruffians, too?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, not that way. I would never, I would never ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n steal.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: I was rough, but I had a reputation of being a caretaker. Like if my\nbrother goes out and somebody jumps on him, they come get me, and I square off\neverything. But I don't ever remember . . . I remember getting in a lot of\nfights, with yokels. Strictly yokels. On top of that, I went to school and I was\nso bad in school, my football coach wouldn't let me play football on the team.\nThat's right. He told my brothers that I was \"too . . .\" There's a name for it, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ntoo. What do you call it, \"too bad\" or something. I had . . . one time I was\ngetting ready to practice football, I was just mean, ornery, for some reason. I\ndon't know why. I had a bad inferiority complex, and that gave it to me, bad. In\nschool, none of the boys would mess with me because I had a reputation of being\na fighter. We went to practice football, and we were in a trailer there, you\nknow what I mean? In the back ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . And next to us was another teacher sitting, I didn't see him. His name was\nHal Hulsim. For some reason I said, \"Hal Hulsim is big son of a bitch.\" Oh, he\ncome tearing in there, and he wanted to tear me up. He didn't know who it was,\nnobody dared say my name. None of the football players, they knew I was rough. I\nregretted that the rest of my life. He made it his business to . . . him and\nanother teacher, Hichew. Hichew was a, more or less I'd say, he was a little\nsmall man with glasses on, you know, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand would always pick on you, and this, that, and the other.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was he anti-Semitic?\n\nBERCHENKO: Not really anti-Semitic. None of them actually showed anti-Semitism\nthen, but I'm sure the element was there when I went to Boys High School, that\nwas 1928, 1929, 1930. It was still there, pretty good there. I would always talk\nback to him [Hichew], and tell him he's crazy, and go to . . . and he said,\n\"Berchenko, you're going to wind up in Milledgeville ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin the electric chair.\" And we'd have a discourse like that. But honest to God,\nhoney, I went to school, I had such . . . why I had this bad inferiority\ncomplex, I'll never know. It just happened to me. In my senior year, I went back\nto play football, but the coach would let me. I was captain of the . . . we had\na sandlot team . . . they call them semi-pro teams, but they were just high\nschool boys, who graduated, played in college. There was no place to play in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n1929. That was during the Depression 1930, 1931, we wanted to play. I was\ncaptain of my team. Everybody respected me because I did most of the scoring. I\nwas a real athlete, but over here for some reason. I'm sure my coach, who wound\nup being one of my best friends in business. We'd go to lunch every Friday.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was his name?\n\nBERCHENKO: Shorty Doyle, R. L. Doyle. His boys played football for Georgia Tech.\nHe played for Georgia Tech. It was a strange thing, he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nshould have been elected coach at Georgia Tech when they had an opening. But for\nsome reason, they put [in] somebody else, and that broke his heart. He had some\nof the best football teams, and brought up some . . . his two boys played there,\nthey were All-American. Shorty Doyle liked me, but for some reason he couldn't\ndare let me play football, calling that teacher a \"son of a bitch\". I'm sure\nthey must have told him, \"Look, we don't want Jack Berchenko representing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBoys High School.\" I just know those are the words. But that happened to me.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How were your grades?\n\nBERCHENKO: I was just telling you. I was a senior for two years, the last year I\ndidn't stay there the whole year, I just waited until football season was over.\nI was hoping he was going to reinstate me. He'd let me come out and practice,\nand I'd beat up all his boys, you know. I wasn't any bigger. I was smarter, in\nathletics, and I could run faster, I could do better in everything. Funny thing,\nhe would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ntake his star players, the next day, because they missed a tackle, I got by\nthem, and this was that, “Jack Berchenko did this to you” and so forth, but yet\nI wouldn't play. Anyhow, after I got out of school, I made three, I think I've\nmade, let me see . . . It was 110. I made 110 points, on five subjects. One was\nzero, one was 20, one was 30. I didn't care about school, honey. I was . . . in\nschool, I was a monster. Nobody messed with me though. They used ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto have Jewish boys they'd jump on. I remember once, coming to school, there was\na queer, actually the sweetest guy you ever wanted. I had no quarrel with him.\nThey used to pick on him. I got up one day, we used to ride the streetcar, and\nsaid, \"The first guy that touches him, got me to touch.\" That ended right quick,\nand that summer he committed suicide. Just give you an idea how bad it was, you\nknow. When we went to school on the 1927, 1928, 1929 there was a terrific breed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof nonsense that went on there. Really. It was athletics, and that's about all.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And this was Boy's High?\n\nBERCHENKO: Boys High School, right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Because it was supposed to be the creme de creme.\n\nBERCHENKO: They turned out, practically everybody. Eisenstadt went there, you\nknow that. People were naturally smart, Frank Kostangy, all of them. To give you\nan idea, the paper was called, Oh, I don't know . . . but we, me and a couple of\nfriends of mine, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nsaid \"We're going to put out a paper,\" be in competition. “The Flypaper”. Sure\nenough, we came out, and in the next two months they had to change their name to\n\"so-and-so, combined with Flypaper\", you know what I mean? And all of their\nwriters . . . I was not the editor, but the editor-in-chief, you know. All of\nour officers went with their . . . they listed both of them. But that's what\nwent on in that school. They had some brilliant boys there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI went to school with so many of the leaders of Atlanta right now. It's just\namazing. I don't know where my inferiority complex came from, but it soon\nchanged, and I got to be real active in the community and everything that went\non. Active in the Masonic Masonry. I was an officer in the Fulton Lodge, that's\nthe Jewish Lodge here, and the Shrine and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: How did that get started? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThe Masonic Lodge, I mean with the Jewish?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, it was Fulton Lodge number, oh I think it was 216. They were\npractically all Jewish people. There were two or three yokels in there, but they\nwere advertised as a regular lodge, Masonic Lodge. We did a lot of good work, we\n. . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Who were the sort of the founders of that lodge? Do you happen to know?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, Hyman, Isadore Hyman. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI don't know whether you've heard of him. He was, he was in the meat packing\nbusiness with, oh, they have some other couple of Jewish names you might\nrecognize . . . but Hyman Jacobs, very wealthy man. I don't know where he got\nhis money from, but he made it during the war. And he's very, very wealthy. Most\nof the other fellows were like my age. They were all officers, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyou know, friends and we got married, and our wives.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was it a social relationship as well as?\n\nBERCHENKO: Oh, yes, yes, it was social as well. I remember one time, I had a\ntrailer park, and in my trailer park I sold trailers and people moved in. I had\na 100-unit park. I used to get a lot of the movie world. I mean, what do you\ncall them?\n\nSCHOENBERG: You mean actors?\n\nBERCHENKO: Actors. Yeah, that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnd a friend of mine was manager of the . . . his name was Jody Johnson at some\nbig hotel here. I'm trying to think of . . . It'll come to me, anyhow. He used\nto . . . all the actors would come here and they would play there a week. The\nHenry Grady Hotel was where it was, and Jody Johnson was the name of it. We had\nsuch people that came to Atlanta like, Gene ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAustin, to give you one main name. Gene Austin was here for a week, in fact, I\nhad him for lunch. He and his girlfriend over to our house, when we lived in\nDruid Hills. We had a beautiful house in Druid Hills, it was gorgeous. The\nBresler Home, we bought the Bresler Home. But all the acts that were acts at\nthat time, you just name them, they came to Atlanta.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, that was. It was a big stop.\n\nBERCHENKO: It was a big stop, that's right. One time, you know, they would all .\n. .\n\nSCHOENBERG: They would ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nrent a trailer for a week or two weeks or whatever?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, no. They would either come here and stay in the hotel, or either\nbring their trailer. They would tour. Make the tour in their trailer.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, I got you.\n\nBERCHENKO: . . . And as they came here . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: They would park it.\n\nBERCHENKO: They would park it at my trailer place.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right.\n\nBERCHENKO: So, anyhow . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: These were custom-designed.\n\nBERCHENKO: And you talk about entertainment at the Lodge? One time I got all the\nacts that was in the hotel, and it was, I was at the Progressive Club. We had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na big affair, one of the biggest affairs there. All the members of the Lodge,\ntheir families, and all. We put on the complete show that they had at the hotel\nthat week. It was terrific there. They'll never forget . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, what year approximately are we talking about?\n\nBERCHENKO: We're talking about approximately in 19 . . . wait a minute, it was\nafter the war . . . 19 . . . Oh, honey, I'm guessing now. But I'd say it was\n1950 right around that time, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbecause of the strange thing that happened. This was also one of the things that\nI'm stuck with. The man that managed the Paradise Room, he came originally from\nLas Vegas [Nevada], from that group of people. He knew all the entertainers,\nthat's why they gave him the job because he knew the acts. He was there with me,\nand he had a trailer. I sold him a trailer and he parked it there. He used to\ncome up and talk to me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand also before I forget . . . I wanted to tell you something else, but I'll\nyou, one of . . . well, let me finish with him. So, he was talking, I remember\nhe said he's a little short of money. \"Jack,\" he said, \"How about me?\" And he\ntook out a gun, a pistol. He said, \"I want to give you this.\" And he said, \"I\nwant to tell you where this came from.\" He said, \"this came from Bugsy Siegel's\nhouse.\" He said, \"I used ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto know the girl, Virginia Hill, and this was in the house.\" I don't know\nwhether he said they used it, but I still got the gun. It's a beautiful gun.\nIt's a little .32 colt, little blue colt. That's some of the things that happen\nin [my] lifetime, you know what I mean. I'll never forget that. Anyhow, to go\nback, I had this fellow that's still acting today in the movies. I bought his\nact for my show for Fulton Lodge. They were making $25 a week, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand I used him and that was one of the acts that I had. Oh, I'm trying to think\nof his name. He was still on, in fact, in some shows, he's real old now. He was\njust a kid then. If I can think of his name, you would marvel at it. One of the\nthings he told me and Elizabeth, during the intermission, he sat and talked to\nme. He was a want to be something big in the movies. And they just starting out,\ndoing the acts each week. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nhe said, \"My ambition is to go to Hollywood, and go to movies and then I'll be\nhappy.\" Would you know it, he's one of the best names in Hollywood. And then he\n[was] on television, on television for years, he's . . . Oh, what's his name?\nGosh, I tell you, you would be . . . it would be really nice to tell you who he\nwas, because he's still on. He's grey-headed, still acts. It'll ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncome to me.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It drives you crazy, doesn't it?\n\nBERCHENKO: But, you know, these things are so valuable, I should write them\ndown. At times I'm just as lucid, I can just tell you his name. His brother also\nis in the movies, I saw him on TV the other day. And they're still acting.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I'm racking my brain trying to think who it might be. Anyway, well\nlet's go on. You've told me a little about the Fulton Lodge, who were some of\nthe other members?\n\nBERCHENKO: Some of the other members . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Or some of the officers?\n\nBERCHENKO: Some of the officers ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nare still living. Harold Carr, I don't know whether you know the Carrs, Harold\nCarr? All of my friends, Herbert Gavrin. There's 50, 100, we had 200 members,\n300 members. And we did a lot of work. This was . . . I've got a trophy now,\nwhen I was active in the Junior Chamber of Commerce, we used ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto sponsor the Empty Stocking Fund, which today is one of the biggest out there.\nIn that year, I've got this trophy, I'll be glad to show it to you. It's to\n“Jack Berchenko, for raising the most money”, in that year, I think it was 19 .\n. . 1937 or 1938. But anyhow, I raised $790, which wasn't much money, to give an\nidea of what money was. . . . My mind ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nkeeps jumping back and trying to get that name for you, because he's still on\ntelevision now. Mary, Mary, he played with this girl, Mary somebody. They had a\nserial every week.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Dick Van Dyke?\n\nBERCHENKO: Dick Van Dyke. How do you know it? How did you guess it?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Just because I knew he had been in Atlanta.\n\nBERCHENKO: Dick Van Dyke.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: How do you like, and his brother . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Jerry.\n\nBERCHENKO: Jerry, and I paid him, so help me, $25. He sat and spent the night with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n me.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He's a terrific comedian.\n\nBERCHENKO: He's terrific . . . And, you know, in my day, I had Max Corman was a\npretty good friend of mine. He was in the insurance business. He and Oscar\nLevin, he died, see. They were very good friends of mine. I had a new Cadillac\nalmost every day, and four or five times a year, we would ride down to Miami\n[Florida] and spend a week there. So this particular week, a time we were there,\nwe went to the Five O'clock Club. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThere was a notable girl on movies and so forth. She was a, she owned the club.\nIt was her Five O'clock Club. But anyhow, there was an act there, Dean Martin\nand Jerry Lewis. And they were just doing an act for a $25-$50 deal, you know,\nthey worked there that week. We got a table right near the stage, and they\nweren't busy that night, and so between the shows ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthey'd come down and sit with us. One of them was a terrific drinker and the\nother told stories. We listened and listened and we enjoyed their stories. Dean\nMartin was cutting up and drinking that whiskey. We were buying the whiskey.\nBelieve it or not, Dean Martin told us that . . . by that time he was calling me\nJack, and called my friend Max. He said, \"Jack, this is the last show. We're\ngoing to Hollywood next week.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI nudged Max, I said \"Hollywood, Georgia, maybe.\" Because he didn't appear to be\na Hollywood man. Sure enough . . . and Jerry Lewis said, \"Yeah, we'll be making\nbig money there. We won't have to be working so hard.\" And would you believe it?\nWe watched that show until it went off, about 2:00 in the morning. Then they\nwent right to Hollywood. I never will forget the next time I saw him. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nWe were in Las Vegas, me and Peggy and I had two children. They knew, I told\nthem about what happened in Miami, about Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. He was\nplaying there, and I was going to front him and speak to him. But we were\nwaiting for something anyhow and one of my kids said, \"Daddy, here comes Dean\nMartin.\" And Elizabeth turns around and says \"So what?\" And that was the end of\nthat. She ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nis the sweetest person in the world.\n\nSCHOENBERG: She wasn't impressed.\n\nBERCHENKO: She wasn't impressed. And I didn't make any effort to impress her.\nBut I had met . . . being in the mobile home business, in mobile home parks, I\nhad met so many people in show business. A lot of them.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I hadn't even thought about that, that they had custom trailers and\nthey had to park them somewhere when they were visiting a community.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. You know it was easier, instead of trying to get a\nroom, they'd park in the trailer park.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And they would be comfortable because they'd have all their own\nthings around them.\n\nBERCHENKO: They usually had about a 30-foot trailer, which was easy to go. Also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe manager, the people that managed them, you know, did their booking, they're\nthe ones that booked. But what's his name . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, Van Dyke.\n\nBERCHENKO: Van Dyke and his brother, they got them to Hollywood. See they would\nsell these acts, to the big people up there. I was very close with them. One of\nthe bookers, the main bookers, I don't think, I can't think of the name, but she lived ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin our park, and she used to talk to me a lot.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Let's go back, because I want to finish, I sort of want to get the\nhistory, I want to get your history stuff. We sort of got afield here. Your\nfamily moved here in 1912, and you had nine kids who grew up and survived.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But your brother, Meyer died. He was a soldier in World War I.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And. And was . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: He was killed in an accident in Atlanta, not in service.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not in the war. Ok, not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . He happened to be a soldier, but he was killed in an accident.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Ok. So from that point on, your dad was still involved in the\ngarment business? Here in Atlanta?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, no. My dad went from the junk business, he couldn't make a\nliving. My daddy was a musician. He was not a business man.\n\nSCHOENBERG: He was a lover, not a fighter.\n\nBERCHENKO: There you go, you can say that again. Everybody in the family had a\njob. Whatever we made, we took home and gave to Mama and Poppa. They would give us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n$0.40-$0.50 a week. That's all we needed, you know, as kids.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And when you . . . how old were you when you started working? You\nsaid you were selling papers when you were five?\n\nBERCHENKO: I was selling papers when I was six. Five, six, seven, eight years\nold. Nine, ten years old. Then I would sell programs for football games on\nSaturdays, wherever there was money to make. I used to go to the auditorium when\nthey had fights there, when they had programs, I'd sell programs. Honey, I did\neverything under the sun. On Saturdays, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nme and my sister, Fanny, we'd put up a stocking, we sold lady stockings for the\n[indistinct: 35:37] business. For $0.25 a piece we'd sell 12-15 boxes, made\n$0.50 a box. All of that counted, we brought all that money home. And during the\n. . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where'd you set up? Just outside the house?\n\nBERCHENKO: Outside of one of the businesses, outside of a pawn shop. You know, I\nput a couple of boxes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: A table, or a couple of boxes?\n\nBERCHENKO: It was a couple a boxes, we didn't have no table. We'd get a couple\nof boxes, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat's what we did. We sold from one to another. I know that I made a lot of\nmoney doing programs when I was 15-16 years old. I'd make $200-$300 a day\nselling programs, and selling football colors. $2 and . . . $2 and $3 for . . .\n$3 for that one with the football on it, $2 for the plain ones. And there's\n10-12 games a year. I used to go ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto Macon [Georgia], Birmingham [Alabama], whenever they had a game, and I took\nmy brother Lou with me, and together we made $300 or $400. We'd bring it home.\nAnother thing, I used to scalp tickets. I did anything where you'd make a\ndollar, and every nickel went to my mother and father. I remember once as a kid,\nI used to go to Grant Park, used to swim, and they used to throw pennies in\nthere. I used to jump for pennies, and I used to get a mouthful of those, take\nthem right home for my mother. But one Sunday, in the lake, a fella had a boat,\nhe was by himself. \"You want a ride, kid?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI said, \"Yeah.\" I jumped in there. The water was still in the boat, and there\nwas a $20 bill there. So help me, a $20 bill. I said Mama would sure like . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's like a fortune.\n\nBERCHENKO: I said, \"Mama, would sure like to have that.\" So he was rowing and I\njust pushed the water over to me, took the money, stuck it in my pocket. I never\nwill forget, telling him, \"Hey, I got to get out. My mama's waiting for me.\" I\ntook that money, I don't know that it was his. I imagine it was, but it didn't\nmatter with me. In those days, money for my family meant everything. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nBut that's the way we lived. I mean, my sister Fanny got a job right out of\nschool. My sister Ida . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: What did she do?\n\nBERCHENKO: She was a secretary, until she got married, and I put her in business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, you've got to . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: She was a secretary and a bookkeeper. She worked for . . . Anyhow,\nshe had a pretty good job. This man, he was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na German Jew . . . I can't, don't remember his name and I don't remember what he\ndid. But I remember the location, I can see the location. She worked there until\nshe got married. After she got married, why I don't know what she did then,\nbecause I was already married. I had my problems with my wife. There's no\nproblems there you know, I had a family, Sharlene. In those days, that was right\nafter the Depression, got married in 1935. You know, it was pretty rough until 1939, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbut mine was bashert, everything that happened, I know that something good came\nto me from somewhere.\n\nSCHOENBERG: We need to go back, though, to that point where you were graduating\nor didn't graduate from high school, whichever. What did you do immediately\nafter that?\n\nBERCHENKO: After, oh that's right, after that I got into the service station\nbusiness. Getting into the service ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nstation business, that means there was a vacant service station place. I wanted\nto get a job to open it up and run it. My first one was on Pryor Street. Pryor\nand Eugenia, a half a block from the Progressive Club. I was Jewish, and I told\nyou that I talked to American Oil Company, Amoco. This station was vacant for a\nlittle while, and I told them that I'd like to run it because of the Progressive\nClub and I could do some business there. Well, they gave me a job paying me $15\na week, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nit was money. Anyhow, I kept that job for a little while. I was pretty well\nadapted to anything like buying and selling a bicycle. I even bought and sold .\n. . My first car that I bought was an old T model. Two farmers came to town,\nthey had an old T model, this was in 1920, 1921 . . . this was in 1923 . . .\nthis was in 1933, and they had a 1927. A 1927 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyear Ford, and I told them I'd give $14 for it, and they took it. Yeah, glad to\ntake it. I fixed it up, honey, I mean cleaned it up, and washed it up, and I\nsold it for $21. That was pretty good for me, and that's the way I was always\ndoing, I was buying and selling stuff, always buying it to make money, for my\nmother and my father and my family. But then when that service station . . . I,\nthere was a . . . the market, community market. The city market was on\nWashington Street and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . Washington and I don't remember the name, but they had a service station\non the back end of it, and it was a beautiful station. It was a Mobil Oil, and\nthey had a lot of business in Atlanta. Good gas and all. The man that managed\nthe general office of the, of the what you call it . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Of the community?\n\nBERCHENKO: Of the community building where they sold all kinds of vegetables and\neverything at.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The Market?\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. He was running it, and he got tired of running it, and\nhe gave me a job running ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nit. That time, I was making more money, and doing pretty good, but I was working\nfor him. I kept working until there was a beautiful station at Pryor and Georgia\nAvenue. That was in my neighborhood, boy that was a good station. So I\nmanipulated along to get to be manager of that. Now, that was getting to be in\n1931 and 1932, almost 1933, because from there I went . . . I quit there, right\nbefore I got married. I managed that station for two or three ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyears, and I must have made $30-$35 a week.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was good money, then.\n\nBERCHENKO: I would buy and sell a car, you know, for $100. I got the bank to\nloan me that money. My father loaned me $200, he borrowed it from Morris Tesler.\nThat helped me to start buying the tools and stuff I needed to fix cars up and\neverything. And I started making money. At that time I was 23, it was in 1933.\nLittle by little I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbecoming a mensch, and people knew me and liked me. I became the man that I\nwanted to be, no inferiority complex anymore. I could meet and talk to\neverybody, and it was fine. From there, from that time on, I stayed there until\n1934. Or right before, I quit right before I got married. No, no, no. I was\nstill married. Let me see.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, it was in the mid-1930s anyway. You got married in 1935?\n\nBERCHENKO: I got married in 1935.\n\nSCHOENBERG: How'd you meet Elizabeth? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, that's a strange thing. I had a reputation of being a real\nruffian. No Jewish girl would go with me, honest to goodness, they wouldn't.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And your mother was the, \"the Rebbetzin\"?\n\nBERCHENKO: She was the Rebbetzin in her group, but we were a close-knit family,\njust a close-knit family. We had a lot of friends, but the kind of friends I\nhad, I had yokels. I played football, baseball, basketball. They weren't Jewish\nboys. When a fight broke out . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: So, did you date shicksas?\n\nBERCHENKO: Honey, you know, I'm glad ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyou asked me that, because that shows you just how this world, how this life is.\nEverything is bashert. I was . . . I used to date shicksas, and Jewish girls. I\nused to go with a Jewish girl from Cedartown, Georgia. Her name was Sarah\nPurrell, she was kin to the Friedmans. When she came to town over the weekend,\nthey'd get me to date her, to take her out. I used to go with several Jewish\ngirls, but really not. I mean, because the Jewish girls didn't want any part of\nJack Berchenko. I was a nice boy, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbut . . . But, you know that \"but\" there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And you didn't have money?\n\nBERCHENKO: Oh, I had enough . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, I guess you did at that point, though.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah. I was taking shicksas out and messing around with them. But\nthis girl, Sarah Purrell asked me one time, said, \"Why don't you get a friend?\"\nShe said, \"I got a nice girl-friend living right next door to me. Come to\nCedartown, spend the day with me on Sunday.\" Because my service station was\nclosed on Sunday. [I said] \"Okay.\" I had a good friend of mine, a yokel named\nPaul White. He used to fight with me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nWhen anybody got in a fight, it was two of us, not one. So anyhow, we went there\nand sure enough, right next door to her was the most gorgeous red-headed girl\nyou ever saw. Beautiful. Figure out of this world. But a real country girl. She\nkind of fell for me and, we would double date, but when we got a chance . . .\nAnyhow the finale of this, is Sarah saw me kissing her goodbye and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was the last of Sarah.\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, not really. Sarah didn't like it, but she let me know that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nshe knew it. But this girl brought it on. She was really, she wanted to get away\nfrom the country, and we were city boys, you know how that was. So about . . . I\nhad the service station then and about three or four months later, I get a call.\nAnd who was it? Louise Edwards. \"It's Louise Edwards.\" \"Louise? Oh, yeah I know\nyou.\" \"Yes, you do. Because you came to see me one time.\" I said, \"What are you\ndoing in Atlanta?\" \"I'm going to Georgia Baptist Hospital. I got a job.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interviewing Jack Berchenko on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nNovember 1, 1999, in his home for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta,\nco-sponsored by American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Federation, and\nNational Council of Jewish Women. We are on the second side of the first tape\nand finish your story.\n\nBERCHENKO: Ok. So sure enough, when I closed the station, and went and got her,\nshe was waiting for me. We started going together like we'd been together all\nour life. She'd come on her off day, she'd come catch a car, street car, and\ncome and sit in the service station there. I'd buy her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nlunch. We started going together, honey, and it got serious. I fell in love.\nWell, she was a beautiful girl, you couldn't help but fall in love with her.\nHonestly, I'm not kidding you because my reputation with Jewish women. I married\none of the prettiest . . . Anyhow, things went on and went on, and sure enough,\nwe were going to get married. I knew it, my mama knew it, and my brothers knew\nit, and my brothers and sisters knew it, and they took it for granted. But\nLouise Edwards was on, they knew I was going to get married. We went out, picked\nout a house on Parkway Drive. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nSo anyhow, Louise wanted to get married right away. And I said, \"Louise, you\ndon't have but five months to go, and you get a, you'd be a real nurse. It would\nhelp us.\" [She said] \"I don't think you want marriage.\" I said, \"Yes, I do. I\nwant to marry you, but let's be reasonable about this. You know, we have to live\ntoo.\" So that kind of calmed her down a little bit. So just as we would have it,\nabout a week later, after I was out all night. Every night I spent with Louise,\nalready I was going steady and that was it. My mama was standing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthere, in front of my bed, and says, \"Honey,\" . . . you got to go?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No.\n\nBERCHENKO: [Okay.] She said, \"Honey, you got to do something for me. I know\nyou're going with Louise, and know you all are going to get married. You know\nit's going to kill your Daddy, as far as you're concerned. You'll be dead, as\nfar as the family is concerned. Don't do that to us.\" I said, \"Mama, I love this\ngirl. So what can I do?\" She said, \"I want you to do me a favor.\" My sister Ida,\nand her husband had a hotel at Miami Beach [Florida], on the beach. She said,\n\"I'm going to give you fare. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI want you to get on a bus, and go there for a week and think about it.\" I said,\n\"Mama, I can't do that.\" She said, \"You do that.\" I was working, I had my\nbrother Lou. She had already arranged for him to, you know . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: To take over?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: So sure enough, she finally talked me into it, and I wrote Louise a\nnice letter. \"Honey, I've got to go to Miami on business. I'll call you the\nminute I get back. And we'll get everything going again.\" I wrote it, and I said\non the envelope, \"Louise Edwards, Georgia Baptist Hospital, City.\" Put it in my pocket, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\non the bus I went. Got down to Valdosta, Georgia, and the letter was still in my\npocket. So I jumped out right quick, and mailed it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, and it said \"City\".\n\nBERCHENKO: They don't have a Georgia Baptist Hospital in that city. She never\ngot it. I got back. She was frantic and crying. Her girlfriend that we used to\ndouble-date with said, \"Jack, what did you do to Louise?\" I said, \"I wrote her a\nletter.\" She said, \"Well, she never got it. And she's about to lose her mind.\nShe's crying all day and all night.\" I tried to make up with her, and I tried to\nmake up with her, and couldn't. Little by little, I started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndating the girls. That was that. The strange thing, Louise Edwards finally\nmarried a doctor.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Here in town?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes, yes. From the Georgia Baptist Hospital, a real nice doctor. They\ngot married, and had two children. Now listen to this, from Louise Edwards. He\nwas a captain in the Army, he was lost . . . not in action. Just missing in\naction, they never could find him. She figured he was dead. They had two\nchildren . . . one day in walks her Captain husband, without ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncalling or anything. Guess what happened? Louise dropped dead.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I was going to say, she probably . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: She dropped dead.\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . . dropped dead right there.\n\nBERCHENKO: She had a bad heart anyhow, and she dropped dead.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Poor thing.\n\nBERCHENKO: And that's what happened there. Now, let me tell you about my rest of\nmy . . . Then right after that, wasn't too . . . well it was quite a bit later\nthan that, I was going with this girl, that girl, and the other. Then there was\na Jewish girl came to town. She was living with the Cahanas on, right on\nWashington Street. She was going to the same dance that I was going to at the\nProgressive Club. It was the opening ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndance, the fall of 1934. They had the autumn dance, the opening season dance. I\nwent up there, and I saw this gorgeous girl, and I found out who she was. Sylvie\nCahana told me she was living with her, and she's a Shapiro girl from Midville.\nI said, \"God, she's beautiful. Can you get me a date with her?\" She says, \"I'll\ntry.\" Well, I used to run around with two Jewish boys, Hymie Schaefer, and . . .\nI can't think of his name, he's still living though, the other one. Hymie died.\nWe used to . . . Corn whiskey, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwe used to drink it. We were smart, one of the party big shots dancing. We knew\neverybody. Everybody was from Atlanta, mostly. I was so involved trying to get\nto this girl. I'd break on her every time she'd dance, she'd think I was crazy.\nThis little bottle of whiskey, I went and threw that over the what-you-call-it.\nI fell deep, madly in love with her the first time I saw her. I told Sylvia, I\nsaid, \"Honey\" . . . Sylvia was a very good friend of the Eisenberg girl, her\nmother. The families ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwere very friendly. She was very friendly with Snookie Eisenberg. Well, anyhow,\nshe said she'd see what she could do. Sure enough, she said, \"Why don't you call\nher now?\" She'd arranged for me to call. I called, and made a date, well then\nthat was it. I mean we just.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was the end?\n\nBERCHENKO: That was the end.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was Elizabeth's maiden name?\n\nBERCHENKO: Shapiro. Now, to show you how badly I fell in love with this girl. I\nused to play basketball on the team. We got ready for practice, everybody's\naround, I said, \"Fellas,\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand they respected me, I said, \"There's a new girl in town.\" I'll swear, this is\nhonest and true. \"Her name is Elizabeth Shapiro. I don't want anybody calling\nher, because she's my girl. We're going steady.\" Now, this is famous because she\ntold me two or three boys . . . I'm trying to think of the name. But anyhow.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Several people had already called.\n\nBERCHENKO: She said, \"I wonder why these boys called me, and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: They didn't want to?\n\nBERCHENKO: Canceled their date?\" She said, \"I couldn't understand it.\" . . . But\nanyhow, Snookie, Snookie Mendelson's the boys name, his wife Ethel, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nshe was pushing me, “oh, I was a wonderful fella”, this, that, and the other.\nPeople knew that I was very good at business, service station and all like that.\nThat was a hustle. And telling what a wonderful guy I was, and so forth and so\non. So finally, she agreed to marry me. In 1934, she finally said she would\nmarry me. I think I told you, didn't I tell you? About going to, well we went to\n. . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: On the phone. On the phone but not on the tape.\n\nBERCHENKO: When we went to our house, I was so notorious with shicksas, and her name ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas Elizabeth, and she didn't look Jewish at all. I hate to tell you, that's one\nreason I'm attracted to her. I don't know why, it's a funny thing, that's the\nway I was. I can't change. I said, \"Poppa, I want you to meet Elizabeth. We're\ngoing to get married.\" He took one look at me, and says, \"You tranvena, get that\nshicksa out of here.\" So help me God, that was the words he used. I said,\n\"Poppa, she's a Jewish girl. The name's Shapiro.\" And I left my daddy, because I\nnever argue with my father, he was too tough. I went to Mama. We had company\nthere, and they were sitting around this big table drinking tea ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nout of, out of you know, glass . . . glazel tey, you know, with the\nhandkerchiefs. Elizabeth wasn't used to that. She kind of . . . she thought she\nwas going into another word. I told Mama, Mama just nodded and I took her out of\nthere, and that was the end of that. But when her father came, he came right to\nour house and he and my father . . . Shapiro came to meet my family. Everything\nwas just fine.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now what did her dad do in Midville?\n\nBERCHENKO: He had a little Jewish merchandise store, been there for years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Had he started with the pekel? Had he started with a pack?\n\nBERCHENKO: He started with a pekel. And his wife was brought to him, she came\nfrom . . . her name was Bertha Shapiro. They brought him a wife, you know how\nthey used to make a mate. They came from Warsaw. She was a real good artist.\nElizabeth inherited some of that. She was . . . she could do anything as far as\nmaking the house. What do you call them people that . . .?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interior design?\n\nBERCHENKO: Interior decorator. She was very good at that. Sharlene took . . . Sharlene ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbecame then . . . Sharlene was an artist. She could sing, and she could draw,\nfrom her mother. She got that from her.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It ran in the family?\n\nBERCHENKO: Now that is what I call beshert. Meant . . . My mother sent me out.\nAnd whatever I did, I did so to get rid of this girl, I didn't do it. It\nhappened to me. Meeting Elizabeth just happened to me. I had somebody to help\nme, because there was no decent Jewish girl in Atlanta who was going to marry\nJack Berchenko. Honestly, I had a reckon . . . And to think that I wound up as\npresident of Beth Jacob, and one of the officers ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof Fulton Lodge, and I was not on the board of Bank, but I was next to that.\nBecause I was one of the biggest customers of the bank in those days. I was\nselling a lot of trailers and they handled all my paper.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Which bank?\n\nBERCHENKO: Citizen Southern Bank. Mills Lane.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Ok, C\u0026amp;S.\n\nBERCHENKO: And he was . . . Mills Lane came to me when I was building my\n[trailer] park, and said, \"Mr. Berchenko, I want your business. I'll tell you\nwhat, if you give me your business, all of it, anything you want, any amount of\nmoney.\" I said, \"That's fine. You got a deal.\" So ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwith the money he lent me, I built the park in Augusta [Georgia], built trailer\nsales in Macon, Montgomery [Georgia], Savannah [Georgia] . . . Savannah,\nMurphyville, North Carolina, Murphy, North Carolina. I had two or three more.\nThen I built trailer manufacturing out in Jonesboro [Arkansas]. Beechcraft\nManufacturing. We sold a lot of trailers. Most of the trailers we sold were like\nfor these animals, you know what they call those things?\n\nSCHOENBERG: The horse trailers, you mean for the horses?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nno, no. For the animals that they operated on. These vacant trailers, you know.\nGosh, it's on my mind.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I have to stop and think.\n\nBERCHENKO: They have a name. I mean, that they're not home, not living trailers\n. . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not for homes?\n\nBERCHENKO: That they were for other things. For advertising, you know, you'd\npull one around for advertising. We sold a lot of them to different hospitals\nwhere they had primates?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, for okay, you're talking about for experimental, for research?\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. That's right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Research animals.\n\nBERCHENKO: We sold a bunch of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthem. They used to come down from Pennsylvania. We delivered them in Ohio and\nall, but we did a whole lot of business there. So that was more or less my life\nuntil I got married. But I was very active in everything I did. Shrine, I was on\n. . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: What we . . . were you a thirty-second degree or whatever those\nthings are?\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, you got a . . . They gave you . . . You get your first, second,\nand third degree in masonry. Then you take the Scottish Rite, which gives you,\nyou just sit through that. First, second, third ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndegree masonry, you have to learn a lot. I went through different . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: You have to study?\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. But the Scottish Rite was nothing but . . . They did\nthese different acts out, you know, for the different degrees. After you got to\nbe a thirty-second degree, the thirty-third was an honorary degree, and very few\npeople had that. Then you went to the shrine, the shrines are masonry\nplayground, and we really had some good times there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I never have understood how that is all set up, but I know that the Shriners ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndo have a good time, but they also do a lot of good work.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right, it's a charity organization.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. Do wonderful work.\n\nBERCHENKO: Besides playing on one hand, on the another and they do a lot of\nwork. And we had Children's Hospital. We have so many different things. Where\ncharity was concerned, the Shriners were really right there at the top.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. Well, I want to . . . one thing that we have not really gotten\ninto that we sort of touched on for a minute. I want you to tell me more about\nthe founding ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof Anshi S'fard and your dad.\n\nBERCHENKO: Now the Anshi S'fard was here when we were here, it was a shul that\nmost of the people that came over to, uh Mr. uh.\n\nSCHOENBERG: With Yampolsky.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yampolsky. He was a . . . he and his son and Mr. Davis and that bunch\nwere arba turinas. And the other part that came there, the real Jewish type.\nThey went to let this little small shul that didn't even have a rabbi. My father, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwhen he came in, Mr. Alterman was there, Mr. Eisenberg was there, Mr. . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: All the people he knew.\n\nBERCHENKO: All the people that came from his part of the country, all those\npeople came from around that section of the country. They knew everybody back\nover there. They were strangers, about 12 families. They took a house. It was\njust converted from a house.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where was it?\n\nBERCHENKO: On Capitol Avenue, not far from the Jewish Alliance. About a half a\nblock from that, and about three blocks from AA when they were on Washington Street. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: So who led services?\n\nBERCHENKO: One of the members that . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did they take turns? Or was there one person?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, whoever wanted to daven, they took turns. Every once in a while,\nsomebody came in town, like a shamash, or somebody would come in and stay there.\nWe had a place upstairs for shamash. Sometimes coming through here, the Jewish\nman, you know, that was well versed in Yiddishkeit, would take care of the\ndavening. When I was bar mitzvahed in that shul, and all the Altermans were bar\nmitzvahed in there, George and Izzy and all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof them. And the Taratoots, and let me see who else . . . there was quite a few,\nI'd say there's about a dozen to 15 families is all it was.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And what sort of happened to it after?\n\nBERCHENKO: It's still there, but we outgrew it. In other words, we moved into a\nneighborhood which AA was closer, and AA had a Sunday school. They didn't have a\nSunday school, so we went to AA Sunday school. We more or less grew up. We\nweren't bar mitzvahed [at AA], but we grew up with the AA background.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So that's how you ended ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nup with the affiliation with AA?\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. I was very close with Rabbi Epstein. We were real good\npersonal friends, besides being a member of his shul. Whenever he needed\nsomething, believe me when I tell you, that was the end of his needing, because\nI immediately took care of it. I remember one thing we bought. We bought the,\nwhere you wait, the bimah where they put torahs and everything, the bimah. We\nhad a little tag on it, \"donated by Elizabeth and Jack Berchenko\". He kept that\nuntil they moved to the big shul. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nHe had it over on 10th Street too. Until they had it at the big shul, and they\nusually give them to smaller shuls. You know what I mean?\n\nSCHOENBERG: When they outgrow them.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah. Anyhow, it wound up in a little shul in New Jersey. And would\nyou believe it? They had a Berchenko in that . . . In that, what you call it . .\n. they got in touch with us, we got . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: In that town, in the congregation? Who saw that name?\n\nBERCHENKO: . . . who saw that there was a Berchenko there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Are they related?\n\nBERCHENKO: No. Wait a minute, yes, they were! Frank, they were cousins, distant\ncousins of ours. It was Frank Berchenko, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat was the only one I remember.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's amazing.\n\nBERCHENKO: It's a small world, this shul, you know.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It is. And, you yourself . . . well you told me Elizabeth was the\npresident of the Sisterhood and AA, so obviously you've maintained and were\nactive at AA for many years.\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, no, I was real active, I was active at Beth Jacob. My father\ndied in 1947. At that time, it was easier for me to say my kaddish, say daven\nthere, Maleh Rahamim . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: At ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat Beth Jacob?\n\nBERCHENKO: At Beth Jacob, because they were on Boulevard and I was living on\nParkway Drive, and then I lived on Eighth Street around that time. In the\nmeantime, I got real friendly with all the old men that was down in the old\ngroup. I used to pick them up early in the morning, and take them home. They\nused to call me the prince. When they needed some whiskey, there in the shul, it\nwasn't just, \"I need something\", it's \"how much\". And that was it, I got\neverything for them.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, was Rabbi Feldman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthere yet?\n\nBERCHENKO: We brought him there. I was getting to that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, ok. So who was founding Beth Jacob then?\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, Ben Golden was one of the older members. His father had passed\naway, and I can't think of the name, but there are two or three other prominent\nJewish fellows. That was the old group, real . . . that lived on Boulevard. They\nwere the people that moved from the south side to the north side. Most of them\nlived right around this neighborhood on Boulevard. I got to be . . . well we got\na lot of young fellows ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin there with Ben Golden. Then I started going there. I went the full year for\nmy father, and I got active in there. We had a temporary rabbi, and we were . .\n. and also it was a house that was converted, on Boulevard. But then this young\nman, I'm trying . . . Dave Katz and his brother, whenever they come in, they\nhappened to bring a rabbi.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Feldman, Manny Feldman?\n\nBERCHENKO: Manny Feldman to the shul, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto take a look. They spent the day with him, showing him Atlanta. He wound up,\nthat was our rabbi. We were able to afford a rabbi. He grew just like we grew.\nIt was the beginning of rabbi. And from there, we moved to church on . . . in\nthat neighborhood, anyhow. It was a neighborhood congregation.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, it has to be if it's Orthodox, everybody has to walk.\n\nBERCHENKO: We converted it, and from there it was a big place on . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Moved out to La Vista?\n\nBERCHENKO: And I was very active then in a lot of things. The men's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nclub, I was president of the men's club, I was the president of this, that.\nAnything they needed, Jack Berchenko would get it. And that was already in the\n1950s. It was 1961 before we built this shul.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You told me about building the shul. You said that . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: I was chairman of the building committee.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: And I was President of the Synagogue.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That was a tremendous job.\n\nBERCHENKO: Oh, that was a tremendous job. I remember when we inaugurated, had a\nformal opening, there was a senator that came down from, not Washington, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbut . . . A very well-known senator came down, and I was the main spokesperson\nand I introduced him. I remember the rabbi came from Savannah, I don't remember\nhis name, but I made him an honorary member for life, there. You know, so many\nthings there. The whole community was invited to the opening. And after that . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: How did you choose to be where . . . that location on La Vista?\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, it's a strange thing. We had a fellow that came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto Atlanta from St. Louis [Missouri], he and his wife. His name was Morris\nSimburg. Lovely, very active in synagogue work. He had two or three children,\nand he was in the furniture business on Whitehall Street. We immediately got to\nbe real friendly, and I was president [of the Synagogue]. They came over to see\nme when I was up on West Peachtree and Alexander. They introduced themselves and\nsaid they wanted to become members. I never will forget their little girl,\nturned to their boy and said, \"He looks like a president.\" I was sitting there\nbehind my desk, I had a beautiful ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndesk, and I was president of Atlanta Trailer Mart. Anyhow, Morris and Sylvia\ncame there, and they both went to work. They were terrific workers, terrific.\nMorris was a smart man, he was soft-spoken, but he was the kind of guy that\nanything you wanted, you'd go to him. He was just like I was, and that was the\nend of it, he took care of all of it. Do you know that we had several\nexploratory committees? To try to find a location. As chairman of all these\n[committees], that was their job. They would bring it back to . . . well, lo and behold, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI don't remember how, but I know that he and Rabbi Feldman became real friendly,\nand he presented this to Rabbi Feldman, and they presented it to me. And I told\nthem to go ahead with it. He found this piece of property where they are now.\nWith the presentation of buying the property and building the whole synagogue\nthe way the first building was, which is presently like it is now, they made\nsome additions, but practically the same thing. For less than $200,000.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I think that's incredible. You told me that cost ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . .\n\nBERCHENKO: It's hard to believe. When I tell you, that I gave the first gift,\nand the largest gift, it was $25,000. That's hard to believe too, now. I never\nwill forget, when the rabbi and we had a fundraiser, don't remember his name. We\ngot to be real friendly, and I went with him to see several people. I remember\nthey said, \"Jack\" says, \"Now you know, you're the president. You're chairman of\nthe building committee. You have got to set a precedent. What do you want to\ngive?\" I said, \"Well, what would be a nice figure?\" The rabbi laughed, and\nlooking at me, laughed \"$25,000\". Well you know, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin those days that was a lot of money. I bought a piece of real estate, I bought\nmy home in Druid Hills for $42,000. In those days, you could buy a house . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Gee.\n\nBERCHENKO: So I said, \"Okay, I'll give $25,000.\" I said, \"We don't have but a\ncouple of other people in the synagogue that's capable of giving that much, but\nI'm going to get them to give that much.\" And I got to Tilly and her husband,\nthey gave immediately $25,000, and they named the auditorium after him. He died\nafter that, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbut we still named it to begin with. Then Louis Tappel, he died, right as . . .\nhe was president right before me. They made me president when . . . I bought his\npresident. In other words, I said, \"Louis said he'd give me so much money.\" I\nsaid, \"Are you going to give me 25,000?\" He said, \"Yes.\" He gave me $25,000. But\nthen the others were tens, and fives and . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's all right. You got it built.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's how I got to where I was. I was a busy man. I was active in so\nmany things. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI had a reputation.\n\nSCHOENBERG: A good one.\n\nBERCHENKO: Then my reputation was way up here, and everybody knew if Jack\nBerchenko got behind a project, it was going to be there. It was going to be there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, speaking of that . . . let me, I just want to check the tape\nfor a minute and then I want to continue. Yeah, we're good. I want you now to\ntell me about building the first Jewish Home in Atlanta, Georgia, for the aged.\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, to tell you about the Jewish home . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Whose idea was it, to start ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n with?\n\nBERCHENKO: Not knowingly what the word moyshev zkeynim [Yiddish: home for the\naged] meant, my mother and father used it so much, it was a household word. I\nlater learned that Jake Jacobs, brother of Isidor Jacobs, was the real father of\nthe Jewish Home. His idea extended way back when I was a kid on Richardson\nStreet, which had to be in the 1920s. They lived on Washington Street, not far.\nAnd my father was a good friend of Jake Jacobs. He used to go to him for advice.\nJake Jacobs was more ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nor less a leader in the community. And his brother Isidor. So anyhow, that was\nthe beginning of the home for the aged. They had several attempts at having a\nhome here, but nobody could ever bring it about.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Where did people, what did people do when their elderly family\nmembers became ill?\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, they had to put them in goyishe homes. I bring up stories about\ntheir goyishe homes, any place that they could find to take care of them,\nbecause some of them needed help, in nursing homes and all. So, all of this led\nup to me getting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ninto why? Why did Jack Berchenko get into it? Well, what made him get into it?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right.\n\nBERCHENKO: Simply because I used to get into practically everything that was\nworthwhile in the community, that I felt I had an interest in. There was a good\nfriend of mine named Jack Zimmerman. Jack Zimmerman, he was a club member, the\nProgressive Club, and I was a club member, and I was there quite often because I\nused to play basketball in the club and do everything, play ball there. I knew\neverybody there, grew up with them. One day I was sitting there, I had just\ntaken my bath, and Jack Zimmerman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas sitting at the locker and he asked me over. He said \"Jack, have a drink with\nme.\" He looked real sad about his mother being in this goyishe home. They took\nher little check away every month when she got it. He didn't know where to put\nher, and she's crying. He goes to see her, and he said it breaks her heart.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And his heart.\n\nBERCHENKO: I felt very bad for him, that was in the back of my mind. That was\nthe beginning of the Jewish Home. It was several times that people would come up\nand tell me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nabout their mother, their parents, being in nursing homes and Jewish homes. It\nwas bad, and Atlanta needed a home. And actually, it'd go in one ear and out the\nother, I had so many other projects. I wasn't interested. But my mother and\nfather lived on Ninth Street, right off of Parkway Drive, and I was going to see\nthem. There was a man named Mr. Reisman that lived about a half a block up from\nmy father's home. He yelled at me, said \"Jack, I want to see you.\" I said,\n\"Well, what is it?\" He said, \"Jack, I want you to help me.\" \"But what ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ndo you want, Mr. Reisman?\" He says, \"I'm trying to help build a nursing . . . a\nmoyshev zkeynim, a Jewish Home, and I need your help.\" He says, \"You've got the\nambition. With you, you cater to a lot of the younger people.\" I gave it a\nthought, and I thought that was silly because most of the men on this committee\nwere old men like old man Alterman, old man Reisman, old man this, that, and the\nother. I was the only a young man on there. I was [in my] forties or fifties.\nThey were sixties to seventies, a different generation. I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\"Well, I'll tell you what I'll do, when's your next meeting?\" He said, \"We've\ngot one tonight, I want you to be there.\" And I made him a promise [that I’d be\nthere]. He was a member of my Fulton Lodge. Anyhow, I just wanted to see what\nwas going on. Anything where the Jewish crowd was concerned, I was interested. I\nhad gotten to the point that my business was fairly successful, and I could\nspread myself out. I told my mama and poppa what I was doing, they were so happy\nand so glad. So anyway, I went there and it was a very inspiring meeting. A lot\nof well, well-known Atlanta Jewish people were on that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncommittee, and right off the reel, they made me a vice president [of the\ncommittee]. I said, “Okay, I'm a vice president, but no vice, tell me what to\ndo.” So we started, and every turn, every turn that we started, it would cut\noff. First of all, it was a bad time, they were building AA synagogue. They were\nbuilding the community center, it was a bad period. But that didn't deter them.\nI went to every meeting. I did what I could. I talked it up, kept my mother and\nfather informed. Then the shul was on Piedmont ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . it was on 10th Street. So I told him [Reisman], or whether he told me,\nsaid \"we're going to have a big meeting at the AA and we'll talk to people and\nsee what we can do.\" So we went to the meeting, and by that time I got Abe\nGoldberg, one of the more active guys. He was going with my sister Fanny. It was\nafter her husband died. He was active in everything in Jewishkeit, you know, Abe\nGoldberg. He and my sister were going steady, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand this, that, and the other. Anyhow, he agreed to come on the board, and we\nenticed two or three other active people that could help us. So anyhow, a\nmeeting was set up at the synagogue on 10th Street, and this is a matter of\nrecord. The Jewish Times had a representative there to check, but there was an\noverflow crowd there, believe it or not. There was really a big crowd. To make\nmatters worse, Mr. Reisman came to me and said, \"Jack.\" He said, \"Just like\nMoshe Rabbeinu,” he couldn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ntalk. He could do, but he couldn't talk. “You can talk and I can't talk. You\nhave got to handle the meeting.\" I'm going to handle the meeting, a bunch of\nadults there. Well, I consider myself a member of the community. And I kind of\nsaid to myself, \"okay, big deal?\" The more I thought about it, the more I put in\nit. I went to that, when we opened, I told them that . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: This was the home on the 14th Street?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, no, no. This is before the home. This is before we built it, this\ngetting into where we build it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. This is still the organizing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. We were organizing at this . . . We had a meeting at\nthe shul on 10th Street, and they had a big crowd there. I opened the meeting\nand explained to them the president was unable to speak and he asked me to\nspeak. I said, \"I'm real happy to be able to do that, because I'm just learning\nwhat moyshev zkeynim is. You know, my mother and father used to talk about it\nyears ago, and I never could understand it, never took time to find out what it\nwas. And here I am talking to you people about moyshev zkeynim, that I hope that\nwe can build real soon.\" I gave them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na real good speech. I said, \"Now all of you people are up here for certain\nreasons, you've either got parents in a home, or some of your friends, or some\nof your brothers and sisters, and we want to do one thing. We want to give those\npeople a place to stay, a Jewish home where they can live their lives with their\nfamily and be happy. That's the only thing that we're asking for. Now, I'm going\nto start this, I know we need a lot of money. Without money, you don't do\nanything. But in honor of my mother and father . . .\" They were sitting there,\nand they were seventh heaven. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: They were kvelling.\n\nBERCHENKO: They were kvelling, that's the word I used. \"I'm going to start it\nwith $3,000.\" A good amount at that time, \"and I'm hoping that quite a few of\nyou people will help me.\" Well, to make a long story short, we got $36,000.\nThat's a matter of record, because every once in a while, they would reprint it,\nand say \"Jack Berchenko, in this organizing meeting, got $36,000.\" Well, from\nthere it went from bad to worse, most of the people didn't believe we'd ever\nhave [a Jewish home], because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwe never could get one before. These were people that were hoping and helping,\nwith me at the helm. We were going to have a Jewish home, and they just, we just\ncould not get people interested because [of the] AA building, and that building\n. . . So this went along, this one [person] started wanting his money back, and\neven Jake Jacobson, who'd given money for this. He was not active, but he was,\nbehind the whole scene. He'd given an amount, toward the home . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: A pledge?\n\nBERCHENKO: I think for $1500, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand he, even he requested a return of his funds. So I went to Rabbi Epstein, I\nsaid, \"Rabbi,\" I said, \"You know, this is becoming alarming. People want their\nmoney back. They don't think there'll ever be a home, and I'm of a mind to go\nahead and buy a home and convert it. And start that way. But I know it's got to\nbe a community affair. I know that that's not the thing to do, but I can't get\nFrank Garson to do anything. I'm going to see Frank Garson, and I'm going to pin\nhim down.\" The good Lord was with me, because Frank Garson ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas mad at Jack Berchenko. [Rabbi Epstein] said, \"Jack, you go ahead. You're\ndoing the right thing.\" He gave me the approval to build a house, and I was\ndetermined not to let it go any further. It was going to stop that day. I went\nright up to Frank's place, it was not too busy. They said, \"Mr. Berchenko wants\nto see you.\" \"Berchenko. Oh, yeah. Okay. What is it, Mr. Berchenko?\" I said,\n\"Mr. Garson, you made a promise to our committee, that when the time came, you\nwould build the building. If we furnish the land, you would build a building,\nand we will have a home here. People want their money ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nback, people are dying in goyishe homes. You've never seen a situation like\nAtlanta. Atlanta's got to have a nursing home. They're too big, and we need it.\"\nWell, to make a long story short, he kind of snapped at me. \"Okay, Come in my\noffice.\" He called, \"Ben. Are you doing anything? You busy? Why don't you start\non the Jewish Home, tomorrow. Tomorrow morning.\" Never forget them words,\nthey're embedded in my body. \"Ben, this is Frank Garson.\" Honest to God, they're right ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin here, in my heart.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Those words?\n\nBERCHENKO: At any time, those words will never leave my heart. \"Start on it immediately.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: And this was Ben Golden from Abrams Construction?\n\nBERCHENKO: From Abrams, he was a builder. Ben had built a lot of stuff for me on\nStuart Avenue. Ben belonged to Beth Jacob. So sure enough, he had a crew out\nthere, honey. Now the property was given to us by Ben Massell. Beautiful\nproperty, it was on 14th Street, not far from the Progressive Club. He'd given\nus that property, back ten to twelve years before that. This thing had been\ngoing on for years and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nyears, and could keep on going on. Eventually, believe me, they would have had a\nhome, but not as fast as what we gave them.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, how many beds were in that home?\n\nBERCHENKO: I think there were about 20 . . . But believe me, those people loved\nthat place. I happened to get a Jewish fellow in there, it was no problem. I\ntook him there. He enjoyed it until he died. Bernice Berman, her mother was in\nthere. I'm trying to think of a man that . . . a good friend of mine that ran\nit, he was really nice. He was, he had some experience ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nrunning a Jewish Home.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You mentioned the name earlier, we were talking about this. You\nmentioned two women's names, who were active.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes, it was Miss Goncher.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What was her first name?\n\nBERCHENKO: Rodriga, no. Her first name was? . . . I know the other was Fanny,\nFanny Bernstein, and I can't think of it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Spell their last name.\n\nBERCHENKO: G-O-N-C-H-E-R, Goncher.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Just like it sounded.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, but they lived on Pryor's street. When we moved on Pryor\nStreet, they lived across the street from us, on Linwood and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nPryor. Her husband was a tailor. She lost a son in the Army, Meyer.\n\nSCHOENBERG: In World War II?\n\nBERCHENKO: In World War II. Her mother was in the nursing home, and she did . .\n. she would do anything to get her out of there, to get her into a Jewish home.\nMrs. Bernstein was just beside herself. They worked day and night, speaking to\npeople, talking to people, you know what I mean? Getting everybody they could\ninterested. When we finally got it, they were the happiest people in the world.\nWell, I took it for granted, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nit was a job. I'd done it, I did my share, I'm thrilled. As long as I live that\nI say, I was the one that said, \"Ben you build it.\" That was the beginning of\nit, as far as I'm concerned. Jack Berchenko, that was your share of what you\ndid. But as I told you, the elite took over right off . . . the people that ran\nthe community, that was active in the main community. [Tape stopped, and restarted]\n\nSCHOENBERG: What, balabusta?\n\nBERCHENKO: The balabusta immediately took over, and Jack Berchenko was nowhere\nto be heard. And I felt that, I felt it real ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbad. And I resented it, because I did do a lot of work on that, and I did feel\nit. As long as I felt that I, myself, Jack Berchenko, brought the home here. Not\nthat they wouldn't have a home, but I got the home started. That was the\nbeginning of the home, of the Jewish Home. So as I say, Fanny Bernstein was . .\n. at the time they were dedicating [the home], [Fanny] called me, \"Jack, aren't\nyou coming?\" I said, \"No. I've done my job. I don't need to be there.” It was a\nbeautiful home. I think I've been there once.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You're talking about the home, the home on Howell Mill? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, it's a beautiful home. Why, listen, I'm thrilled that they got it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, now they've got the new version of it. They're still building\npart of it.\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, what's his name, that the name, it's named after . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Breman?\n\nBERCHENKO: Breman, yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Bill Breman.\n\nBERCHENKO: I knew him when he first got married. His uncle, they ran a junk\nplace on Decatur Street. His uncle ran it, and he brought him up from the\ncountry. They did very well during the war, they made a fortune. Bill and his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwife, when he first got married, we lived in Druid Hills. I bought the Bresler\nhome, beautiful home. Give you an idea, I bought it for $42,000. It sold for\n$495,000. That's right. Three years ago.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh my, what street's it on?\n\nBERCHENKO: 784 . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oakdale? Springdale?\n\nBERCHENKO: Springdale. Before that, I had bought a home on Oakdale. And then I\nhad to go to the army, so I sold that home because I was in the draft. The draft\nboard . . . did I ever tell you what happened to me in the draft? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: [No.]\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, draft board number eight got me.\n\nSCHOENBERG: This is from World War II?\n\nBERCHENKO: World War II, and I was thrilled. My brother was the Army, my brother\nwas in the Navy, my sister in the Marines. And I was going to the Marines. I was\nbig and tough, just finished a career with the Atlanta All-Stars. I was captain\nof the team. We won the city championship. And Jack Berchenko was, you know, he\nwas something. So, yeah, I couldn't wait. I finally went out to Fort Mac, when\nthey had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto go through there to go . . . to be put in different ways. The man that had\nlike . . . the Army had a little booth there, and the Navy, and the Marines. And\nyou go to which one you wanted.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Which one did you want?\n\nBERCHENKO: Marines. I was tough, honey. But you know what happened? They found I\nhad a little murmur in my heart. The worst thing is, my ankles were so swollen .\n. . I don't know whether you can see them, no you can't see them . . . But\nplaying football, I'd knock them out of shape ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand all, sprain my ankle. They never would get back, although it didn't deter me\nfrom playing basketball or softball and everything. But he said, “Jack” . . .\nThe man in charge was a good friend of mine. He played football with me as a\nkid, and he used to be a policeman, and I knew him real well for years. He said,\n\"Jack, we can't take you. Number one, your ankles.\" This is a man's job with his\nfeet. You know what I mean? Marines.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, sure.\n\nBERCHENKO: Foot soldier.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: \"And you got a bad heart, too.\" I know they kept sending me from one\ndoctor to another. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI had a slight murmur. They said, \"Jack, I'll do everything in the world.\" He\nsaid, \"I know your sister's in the Marines. I know it's going to break your\nheart.\" So he said . . . I asked him what to do. He said. \"Go join the Army.\" So\nI go join the army. Listen, I'm ready to do anything out there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: I was supposed to go at this date. My draft board said, \"We're full,\nwe'll take you to the next one.\" I lived that way for two years. Each time they\nwere taking the younger ones. Finally, when I was 32 years old, my draft board,\na month before that said they're going ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto take me this week. I sold my home, and took my children, my wife and my\nchildren, to a little house off of a Ponce de Leon Avenue and took them there.\nAnd I got ready to go.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, you were getting her in something smaller.\n\nBERCHENKO: Getting her all set. And the next week, they called me and said,\n\"Jack, we're not going to take you.\" I said, \"Why not?\" \"You're 32 years old. We\ngot too many younger boys, 19, 20, 21, 22.\" I said, \"Look, I got a sister in the\nMarines.” You know, the same story. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\"Too bad, Jack. We just can't take anybody with children.\" I had two children\nthen, born in 1941. I had two children, and they're not taking [me]. Don't\nmatter how good you are. So that was that. I tried to enlist in the Army. The\nArmy said they took me, called me up, “Jack, you're the eighth board” . . .\nnumber eight, whatever it was, the board had me and said, \"you belong to them.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, the draft board?\n\nBERCHENKO: Draft board. They said, \"We can't do anything.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: They couldn't touch you.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. And that was the end of that. So ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you got to sit out the war in Atlanta?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, no, I didn't sit it out. I was on the . . . where they turned the\nlights out, you know, I went around.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh.\n\nBERCHENKO: I was one of those.\n\nSCHOENBERG: A warden.\n\nBERCHENKO: And then on top of all of that, one of my friends was a staff\nsergeant with the Medical Corps. He would drill these potential doctors, that\n[were] going to the war. He would drill 15 or 20 of them, take them up and down\nPeachtree Street. He knew that I went to high school, and took ROTC. So I\ninherited his job. He gave me that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\njob. It was a funny thing. We would laugh about it. Left, right, left, right,\nyou know, and all that crap. Right through Five-Points, up and down the street.\nWe would meet at a vacant lot, right up on Whitehall Street, right off of . . .\nright near Five-Points. I had 15 to 20 of them. They were a pharmacist, a couple\nof surgeons, well-known surgeons were in my group, and the rest were just\nregular. We did that until the war ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwas over.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's cute.\n\nBERCHENKO: Most of them went, they were always taking doctors, so they went\n[overseas]. It was cute, they used to see me on the street and call me Sarge,\n\"Hey Sarge!\" You know, and I got a nice letter back from the . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: War Department?\n\nBERCHENKO: . . . War Department. Thanking me for being Staff Sergeant. They\ncouldn't make me a Master Sergeant. I couldn't become a Master Sergeant, because\nthe highest you could get in what I was doing is Master Sergeant. You had to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na doctor or something like that. I worked in a medical corps, because that was\none of my ideas growing up all the time. I wanted to be a doctor. That was one\nof my wishes. Didn't turn out, though.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interviewing Jack Berchenko on the 1st of November 1999, in his home\nin Atlanta, Georgia, for the Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta,\nco-sponsored by the American Jewish Committee, the Atlanta Jewish Federation,\nand the National Council of Jewish Women. This is the second tape, the first side. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAt this point, I thought I would ask you, because we really haven't even touched\non your children. You want to brag?\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, I don't have but one son that I can really brag on, that has\ndone an ultra job. The other two have been wonderful wives and have wonderful\nchildren, that's the main . . . God, I'll tell you, my least little wish is that\n. . . And when Elizabeth was sick, they knew my money was limited. They didn't\nask me to help, Peggy took care of, I think she paid around $300 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na week. Sharlene was working, her husband wasn't doing too well, and I wouldn't\nlet her spend too much money. She gave what she could, and they have been so\nwonderful to me. When I moved the first time, down to the other place, they\nwouldn't let me do nothing but sit down. \"Here.\" They wouldn’t let me touch a\nthing. Sharlene hung all the pictures. Peggy came, brought the boxes. They did\neverything. I sat down and watched. And I tell you, if it was a time for tears,\nthey were tears of joy.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So Sharlene is the oldest? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nBERCHENKO: The oldest.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And she's married to whom?\n\nBERCHENKO: To Eddie Jacobi. They got a divorce in 19 . . . well, about five\nyears ago. There was a problem. In his middle years, he was lost. He met a young\nlady that was divorced. She was Jewish. Her father and his father were in a\nnursing home at Northside. Being thrown together with her, one thing led to\nanother. One day on the telephone, my wife happens to pick it up. He's on there talking ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto her. He was a handsome fellow, very good looking fellow. I'll show you some\npictures. Believe it or not, Sharlene, just told him, \"Okay, you love her, you\ntold her you love her.\" I heard her, \"Get your things and get going.\" That was it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So what . . . she's always been sort of independent. She works as a\nbridal consultant?\n\nBERCHENKO: A bridal consultant, sure. She's always independent, sure.\n\nSCHOENBERG: So . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: She has three wonderful children. The children all naturally took up\nwith her. All of them hated their father at times. But they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwent back to him. You know how that goes? A broken family.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Very Hard.\n\nBERCHENKO: And the same thing has happened now with her daughter. And the same\nthing with my son. But all of them married Jewish girls. My son married a\nshicksa, but it made him happy. What can I say? He's an adult. Today, kids,\nthey've got their own lives to live. When they're not able to, I'll step in. But\nwhen they're able . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: What does Peggy, what was Peggy's background? You told me she was\nparticularly good at school, she has a master's degree?\n\nBERCHENKO: She's very smart. She got married when she was around 20, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nright at. David had just graduated from Emory Medical College. And she told me,\nshe said, \"Dad, I'm going to marry David.\" She didn't ask me, she said “I'm\ngoing to”. She was a little independent, but I loved her. I respected her\nintelligence. Sharlene wasn't as smart as she was. Peggy's got a sound, solid\nmind on her. When she said, \"Daddy, I'm going to marry David.\" She didn't say .\n. . Sharlene and Eddie came to me, and asked me, could they? Which, you know, I\nwas glad to see them get married, that's normal. But not with Peggy. And Joe has ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\na sad time, his wife was one of the smartest young girls I ever saw . . . with\nYiddishkeit, that family. She could daven, you know, that good. Her sister was\nthat way. They could daven, sing Jewish songs, they'd go to Jewish affairs to\nNew York and other places. They lived in the small country town of Lincoln,\nNebraska. She was smart as a whiz, but she fell in . . . She got a job in the\nstate, with the state, something ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nto do with the jails, the state jail?\n\nSCHOENBERG: At the Public . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: Public Safety something like that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . .Safety Department or something?\n\nBERCHENKO: But anyhow, the manager there, they fell in love. She went off with\nhim. I think she's still married to him. She had one child with Joe, Danny. And\nshe's had another child by this other guy. We were very friendly with her\nfamily, [she] came from a nice Jewish family. Her mother was . . . this girl's\nmother, Joe's first wife’s mother, very active president of Hadassah, everything Jewish, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin the small towns. Lincoln, around that community around, oh, 15, 20 little\ntowns around there. They'd come there for the holidays, like they come into\nAtlanta. They're lovely people. She worked for this . . . Oh, she had a big job\nwith the school system there, her mother. And her other sister was very smart,\nshe had a job. All of them, just brains.\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's a shame it didn't work out. But Joe's happy now. He's been\nmarried to . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: He's very happy . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . .The same woman for a long, long time.\n\nBERCHENKO: . . . He's got a girl, and she's a shicksa. She's not the prettiest\nthing in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe world, but she's smart as a whiz. She's got a job, a real big job with the\ngovernment. She interviews people, and makes surveys of different things. One of\nthose things . . . I mean, she has a job, it's similar to yours, but more, I\ndon't know, more a higher up, I would say.\n\nSCHOENBERG: More supervisory?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah. A supervisor. She does all her stuff on the computers. She's\none of those things.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They don't have any children together?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, no children. Her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\noffice, the government's office there, for Lincoln was in Omaha, Nebraska. She\nwould commute every day, 38 miles back and forth. She finally got tired of that.\nShe worked there for 15 years and she retired, and she's going to work for\nsomebody else. A big position with a big company, something like that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But in Lincoln?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And he's an architect?\n\nBERCHENKO: He's an architect. He had a job with the city, and he left the city\nafter 15 years. He doesn't jump around. All ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthis time he was getting different degrees, working, getting night degrees and\ngoing to colleges. Anyhow, he resigned at the city, took a job with a very\nprominent firm in Lincoln. It wasn't the largest firm, he's with the largest\nfirm now, but with this job. Well, he saw he wasn't getting anywhere with that\nfirm. So, I talked him into going into business for himself. Joe's not a\nbusinessman, not a good businessman. He would give them a survey that would cost\nthem perhaps $10,000 - $12,000, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand he's still in about $7,500 or $1,500, something like that. That didn't go\ntoo good, so he didn't do very well. And they [the largest firm in Lincoln]\nfound out he wasn't doing too well for himself, and they asked, invited him to\ncome to their company. Well, since he's been with this company, they made him an\nofficer and he's got charge of . . . It's equivalent to just all the architect\nthings they do. They bring it to him for final analysis, and for the final\nwrite-up presentation. He makes these presentations. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nIn the meanwhile, he's real good. He goes out to different places and he's a\nspeaker. They have him as a speaker, an architect. That's one of his categories.\nI mean very good in speech making.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I bet he hasn't fallen far from a tree.\n\nBERCHENKO: No . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Somebody else is pretty good at talking.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, well, it's a funny thing. I'm going to tell you something,\nbelieve me, I don't do this much talking. I let my soul out to you. I want you\nto know that.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Really?\n\nBERCHENKO: I don't let, I don't . . . Nobody knows my background but you. I\nmean, really, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nvery few people. They know that I was active here, and active there, and so\nforth and so on. Most of those people that I was active with are dead now, and\ngone. The deep friends I've known since we were growing up. They know what I\ndid, all this . . . is that my phone?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. [phone rings, interview stops, then resumes] We're back to Joe.\n\nBERCHENKO: Joe has written an article which will be published this month in one\nof the leading architect journals, magazines that comes out this month. A\ntwo-page article, in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\none of the best-known magazines in the . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: In that field?\n\nBERCHENKO: In that field. And it's coming out this month.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, has he ever taught?\n\nBERCHENKO: No. He said he'd like to do that. And the strangest thing, he's a\nteacher, not a businessman.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, that's what it sounded like. That's why I asked.\n\nBERCHENKO: Look at this, this was in a movie magazine not too long ago. This is\nmy granddaughter, Toni. It's in \"Fast\". \"What are these people doing here? And\nwhat are they going to do?\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's interesting. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nYou told me that Toni writes for . . . Toni is a granddaughter, who is one of\nPeggy's children, and she writes for television and for movies.\n\nBERCHENKO: Right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: She writes scripts. And she's had some . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: She's a script writer?\n\nSCHOENBERG: . . . award winning scripts. This is an article about Toni and other\nyoung people who are her contemporaries.\n\nBERCHENKO: Where they're headed and so forth.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And yeah. This is very interesting. It's great. Is this from the Los Angeles ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n[California] area paper?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, she lives in L.A.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, that's what you said.\n\nBERCHENKO: She lives four doors from . . . a big television star. He's still\nliving, he's real old.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Don't make me try to pull up a name, again.\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, Bob Hope. I'll pull it up for you.\n\nSCHOENBERG: There you go.\n\nBERCHENKO: She lives four doors from Bob Hope.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay. There you are.\n\nBERCHENKO: In a real nice neighborhood.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, I guess so. I would think he must live in a pretty swank\nneighborhood. Well, I'm . . . May I have this [article] to put with your biography?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes. I was going to bring ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat to you.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Thank you.\n\nBERCHENKO: That was the beginning of knowing about the Home, because my children\nsaid, that ought to be in the Home there, because . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, in the archives.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Watch it. Don't . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: I'm watching.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Your one foot is caught, there you go. Ok.\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, I took care of my mother and father.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I'm sure, I was going to say . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: Their least little wish was my command.\n\nSCHOENBERG: See, it comes back. What goes around, comes around.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You did for yours, and now your children are doing for you.\n\nBERCHENKO: I would send my mother and father to Miami for the winter. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnd they stayed on the beach, because I . . . well even if I didn't have any\nmoney. All my life, everything I've made, I turned it over to my parents. I\nnever kept anything, just enough to keep going. [I was] very devoted to my\nmother and father.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay, I'm looking back through the notes that I made while we were\ntalking on the phone. And one of the things that I, one of the notes I wrote\ndown was, \"the AZA didn't want you because you were too tough.\"\n\nBERCHENKO: No, I was too . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: They rejected you?\n\nBERCHENKO: Incorrigible. Remember that word? That's what my coach ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ntold my brother. That's what the coach told Lou, said \"Lou, he's a great\nathlete, but he's too incorrigible.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Couldn't control you?\n\nBERCHENKO: Couldn't control myself. No, I'd fight at the drop of a hat. But they\nused to handle me with kid gloves. I remember, I go back and remember the\ndifferent teachers that used to handle me. They never, nobody ever crossed me. I\nshouldn't say that, but it's the truth. I mean, I got nothing to lie about now.\nI’m not going nowhere.\n\nSCHOENBERG: At this point.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. I don't have no place to go. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, let's see, I . . . What is this about? Your sister-in-law was\nRuth Shapiro?\n\nBERCHENKO: Ruth Shapiro, right. She was married to Monty Rubin.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They lived here?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, they lived here. They got no children. He's dead, and she lives\nin one of the sections right off, right near Piedmont Hospital, off of Beecher Street.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, she and Eva and Ida Schlein?\n\nBERCHENKO: Ida, Ida Sloan was a first cousin.\n\nSCHOENBERG: They all lived with you when you were children?\n\nBERCHENKO: Ida ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nSloan did, only for a short length of time, until their parents could be, until\nwe found a place for them to live, and a business for them.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Okay, so you brought them over, sort of?\n\nBERCHENKO: We brought them over. I tell you, it must have been, let me see 1910\n. . . In about 1920, we brought them over. We brought another family over. Both\nof these were my mother's sisters. Poppa didn't have any family. Then we brought\na third one over, but they moved to Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania]. They had two\nchildren. I can't remember their names, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . the name of Sloan, her name was Eva. Couldn't think of her name, her name\nis Eva, Eva Sloan. I used to call her Tante, Tante Cuba. Used to always call her\nTante Cuba.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Cuba?\n\nBERCHENKO: Cuba. They came from Cuba.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, oh, oh. Oh, how funny.\n\nBERCHENKO: Tante Cuba. Because they . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: They came to Cuba first, and then they came here?\n\nBERCHENKO: They said they had to stay there in Cuba, before they could get into\nthe States.\n\nSCHOENBERG: The United States?\n\nBERCHENKO: And then with the other family, the same way. Now, the third family\nwas a member of the Communist Party, and they wouldn't let them in [the United\nStates]. So, we got two families in, and the third ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nfamily couldn't get in.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Now, the Cuba family, who were at AA, big family.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Did they go to Cuba too? Where did they get the name?\n\nBERCHENKO: Ida Borochoff, she's Ida Borochoff now.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: She was a Schlein.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: They changed to Sloan, okay. They came from where my mother used to\nlive, and they came to . . . they were coming to Atlanta, but they had a stop in\nCuba until we could get the papers worked out for them. They stayed there about\na year and a day, I think.\n\nSCHOENBERG: No, I was . . . what I was talking about, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI wondered if there was any relationship between the family whose [last] name is Cuba?\n\nBERCHENKO: No, no, no, no, no. We just gave them that name, Cuba because . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, that was just for fun. Yeah, I know. That's why it was so odd.\n\nBERCHENKO: But I used to call her Tante Cuba.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's funny. I was looking to see where else you had lived. Let's\nsee, I have . . . After you were married, you all lived on Parkway Drive, and\nthen you lived on Eighth Street, and Johnson Road? You did move around. And then\nyou had the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nfirst house, in Druid Hills, was on Oakdale?\n\nBERCHENKO: Oakdale.\n\nSCHOENBERG: 880.\n\nBERCHENKO: Then Springhill, 784.\n\nSCHOENBERG: 784. And.\n\nBERCHENKO: Lived at Plaza Towers.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And you said you were on Margaret Mitchell [Drive] for a while?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, I went to Plaza Towers, before there I went to Margaret\nMitchell. Children were grown, so didn't need the schools.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And now you're here. How long have you lived here?\n\nBERCHENKO: We've lived here about ten years. About 14 years, at the other place.\nAnd 12 [years] another.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nreally have . . . the name of your company, we never really said and . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: Atlanta Trailer Mart.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Which existed until 1990?\n\nBERCHENKO: It's still in existence.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But I mean, as yours.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Then, what'd you do, sell it?\n\nBERCHENKO: I sold it to Sylvia Parks. Her and her son. She came to me one day\nand said, he's in trouble, needed something. Said \"You've been in business so\nlong, you ought to retire.\" She talked me into selling my park and my sales,\nthat was the end of my business. He's still got it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interesting. Okay . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: Did you ever know ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nSylvia Parks and Dr. Parks?\n\nSCHOENBERG: No.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's before your time?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Guess so. One of the things I've . . . if you would, just very\nbriefly, the business that you were in, was most unusual.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You sort of pioneered it?\n\nBERCHENKO: I pioneered it. I sold the first trailer in the city of Atlanta. I\ntold you how I got into the trailer business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: But you told me that on the telephone. Why don't you tell the history?\n\nBERCHENKO: Okay. All right.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Because I do think it's kind of interesting.\n\nBERCHENKO: Would you like to hear it?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, sure. You were working originally ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin the . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: After I got married, I gave up the service station. I had a service\nstation on Parkway Drive. I gave up the service station, because it wasn't\nbringing me in enough money to live on, for Elizabeth and myself. I had a very\ngood friend that used to sell used cars at one of the biggest used car dealers\nin Atlanta. I don't remember his name, but I told him my problem and I told him\nI had to find a job making more money. He knew I was a terrific salesman, and he\ntold me that business was so bad, this was during ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe Depression, that he let his last salesman go. And he said, \"Jack, I know of\na job that's open, but it's strictly commission. And I don't know whether you’ll\nwant it or not. It's selling trailers.\" I said, \"What is a trailer?\" He said, \"I\ndon't know. You go up there and find out. Evans Motor Company.\" It was 232\nPeachtree Street, and was owned by two brothers, Roy and A.C. [Evans]. They had\nthe franchise, for the, not the Volkswagen, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nwhat's the small car, then? What's a little car? Little tiny cars?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Little tiny cars?\n\nBERCHENKO: You know, like a beetle?\n\nSCHOENBERG: M.G.?\n\nBERCHENKO: No. No, this was before the war.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, before the war?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Gosh. Well, see, that was before my time, I don't know.\n\nBERCHENKO: Anyhow, they had the franchise for this, and they were deep in debt\nto one of the finance companies who was loaning them money. They had a lot full\nof used cars they couldn't sell, couldn't afford salesmen, and nobody had any\nmoney then. That was in 1938 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nand 1939, right in the midst of everything. I went up to see about getting a\njob. I was very desperate. My mind was made up. I knew I was a good salesman,\nand I had to have a job. So, I went up there and sure enough, I spoke to the\nsales manager, I don't remember his name. It'll come to me in a few minutes, but\nI told him I was a terrific salesman and he said, yes, they needed a terrific\nsalesman. They had something, they didn't know what it was themselves. It was a\ntrailer, and it was in their show window. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nIt was about 12 feet long. He said, \"Now, we can not afford to pay a salary. We\ndon't have the money. But if you take it on commission, we can afford to pay you\nif you sell something.\" I said, \"Well\" . . . I'm trying to think of this name.\nIt'll come in a few minutes. . . I said, \"Mr. So-and-so, I'm married and got a\nchild. If you would just give me enough money to get by with, I'll make you the\nbest salesman you ever had. I can sell it, whatever it is.\" Sure enough, he\nsaid, \"Jack, I believe you can. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you a $15\na week drawing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\naccount on a salary as strictly commission, and you can go to work.\" I said,\n\"How soon can I go to work?\" He said, \"You can go to work now.\" Sure enough, I\nwent right to that show window, and made myself at home and I looked at a\ntrailer. I didn't know what a trailer was. I had no idea it had a water tank on\nit. I had no idea the size of it. I had no idea of the length of a trailer. I\nhad no idea of anything like that. I was not minded, I was not brought up to be\ntechnical about those things. But I looked, I asked them for some literature,\nbut they didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nhave a piece of literature. They called the Covered Wagon people, it happened to\nbe a 12 foot Covered Wagon. They called them, I got some literature the next day\nand I studied it and I was able to talk to people. [There were] a lot of people\ndoing nothing. Didn't have jobs, out of work. They were walking the streets, and\nthis was an amusement, seeing a trailer. They didn't know more about a trailer\nthan I did, because when some came in, I embarrassed myself. I told them it was\n40 foot long, had a 30 foot water tank on there, which is so utterly ridiculous.\nIf they knew, they didn't make ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nany bones about it. They just took it with a grain of salt, let it go. Anyhow, I\nread up on the literature, and I showed as many people, and people came through,\nit didn't cost anything. Then that place was full, most of time with people\nlooking at it. Nobody had any money, nobody wanted to buy it. But, toward the\nend of the week. This, I think, was on a Monday, if I'm not mistaken, that I\nwent there. And toward the end of the week, there was a couple, two men came in\nfrom Birmingham, and they represented a big automobile, automotive outfit. I can't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthink of their name, but they were interested in this little mobile home. I know\nnot what for, but they said they wanted to buy it, so they asked me how soon can\nI make delivery. That word \"delivery\" almost floored me. I said, \"Just a\nminute,\" and I ran upstairs. We had a two-story building, and I ran up the\nsteps. Mr. Evans was sitting there with his chin in his hands, wondering where\nhis next dollar was coming [from]. And I said, \"Mr. Evans, I've got this trailer\nsold. Would you come down and help me close it?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nHe didn't really hear me, didn't believe it rather. But when it finally struck\nhim, he almost knocked me down going down those steps.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I can't believe it!\n\nBERCHENKO: That's a true story, every word's true. We went downstairs. Sure\nenough, he wrote it up, and that was the beginning of the industry. Now, that's\nthe first mobile home in the city of Atlanta, or the state of Georgia, as far as\nI know, that was sold. And I sold it. I take that credit, for saying that I\npioneered the mobile home industry. Well, the trailer business, all of a sudden,\ngot real good. This was about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n1939, 1940, I think. Things were beginning to get better. Sure enough, people\nstarted coming in and they wanted a place to live. The next Covered Wagon I got\nwas a little bigger. It was a 16 foot. It was still only a two-bedroom, but it\nhad more modern things in there. [It] had a nice cook stove, and heating unit in\nthere. This [first one] didn't have a heating unit in there, so it was more\nlivable. I immediately, with the literature, was able to . . . and they sent me\na batch of literature. I started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ngiving out literature. That month, I think at the beginning of the month, that\nmonth, I sold three of them. They could not believe it. I'll take an oath, the\ntrailer business started. Where it came from, the Good Lord was helping me,\nbashert. They started sending me customers, and people started coming in from\nlittle towns to look at it. They were interested in a place to stay. It was a\ncheap place to stay. People didn't have . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Still is.\n\nBERCHENKO: Had a place to live, a roof over their head. So I was the darling of\ntheir eyes and hearts. I could do nothing wrong. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: When did you go up on your own?\n\nBERCHENKO: I'll tell you I'm coming to that. Anyhow, it was a little ironic\nbecause I was making double the amount that this manager, general manager was\nmaking on commission, and they couldn't stop the deal.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, sure. They had said you . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: I had gotten him out of debt with the finance company, that was a big\nthing. So anyhow, the next year a new model comes out, and we were selling, 15 -\n20 a month then. They were going great. They started making them better. They finally ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ncame out with aluminum siding, aluminum roof, and eventually they put on a hard\nroof instead of a cloth roof. So, everything got better and better and better,\nand more people bought them. Manufacturers got into this business. We started\ntaking on a couple of lines. Well, one day we're doing a big meeting, Mr. Evans\nsaid to me that they were going out of the mobile home business. I said, \"Why?\nIt's made you so much money.\" He said, \"I know it has.\" He said, \"We're out of\ndebt now, and I don't want to take a chance of getting back in debt.\" The reason\nfor that is, most ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nof these trailers are sold on time. So much a month, so much down, so much a\nmonth. And we endorse their contracts. If for any reason, they start coming\nback, we're going to be in the soup again. I said, \"Okay.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: So you're basically underwriting the loans?\n\nBERCHENKO: Right. [Underwriting] the deal. But they were paying me commission\nevery week on it, and I was making more than . . . Well, anyhow, I asked Mr.\nEvans, I said, \"Mr. Evans, I've done so good at mobile homes, I'd like to\ncontinue it. Can I have the franchise?\" They had a franchise. He said, \"Sure,\nI'll do anything I can to help you, Jack. You've helped us out of a jam.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnd I said, \"You know how much I relied on what you did for me? Well, we petted\neach other so much. And that next day, I started looking for a location. The\nthing that I had that would help me so much, is the fact [that] I knew every one\nof my customers, we became friends. And you mentioned a girl, the Stein girl,\nEthel Stein. Her brother was one of my first customers.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Billy Wise?\n\nBERCHENKO: Billy Wise, I went to Boys High School with him, it's a small world.\nBut the thing that I brought up with Jack, Jack ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . what's her name?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Stein, her brother? Jack Stein?\n\nBERCHENKO: Jack Stein bought a trailer from me. They lived that way, you know,\nthey lived high on the hog. They were real rich, real rich. I knew most of them\non a talking basis. They'd call me for advice, \"How about a hitch?\" and I'd get\na hitch for them, and this and that. Well, I was right there on top. The mobile\nhome business was spreading, and Atlanta Trailer Mart came into being. I found a\nlocation, a vacant lot down the street on West Peachtree Street, down ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nabout two blocks, where West Peachtree and Peachtree merged. On the West\nPeachtree side, on that corner, I found a lot that would hold about 10 - 12\ntrailers. That's all I wanted anyhow. I had about 15 or 20 customers that I knew\nthat had trailers just sitting in the backyard. The trouble with trailers at\nthat time, you couldn't actually move them, because they hadn't learned yet that\nthey couldn't put water in a water tank, because that water was sloshing, and\nthe back end of that trailer was going like this, and they're afraid they'd have\nwreck. They had several wrecks on that account. The industry soon ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ntook care of that deal, but these people still had the old type things. So, I\ncalled each one of them, and asked them if they would like me to sell their\ntrailer for them. They said, \"Sure, Jack, come get it.\" Lord, I was in seventh heaven.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You were selling used trailers?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, I was selling used trailers. And honey, I was so happy. To make\nmatters . . . I didn't have too much cash. I went to my father . . . this friend\nof ours, Mr. Tesler, very wealthy. He was a clothing manufacturer on Whitehall, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\non Mitchell Street. He came from the same place my father came from. They were\nboyhood friends, and whenever Poppa needed anything, $100 or so, he'd get it. I\ntold him, I said, \"Poppa, do you think Mr. Tesler would let me have any money? I\nneed about $200. I want to pay two month's rent and I want to pay the telephone\nbill for two months. So if anything happens, I'm not going to have any trouble.\"\nHe said, \"Don't worry, I’ll get it for you.\" The next day my father had $200\nthere. I paid two months’ rent. This fellow that worked as a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\njanitor moved trailers real good, and I had an old Ford with a hitch on it, so\nhe went to work for me. I had him for $15 a week, and he was terrific. Finally\ngave him $25, so he started pulling them trailers in. And honey, we had people\nlooking. We had crowds actually, people over the weekend would come to look at\ntrailers. And they knew I could get them a new one, but I wasn't interested in a\nnew one. I was interested in the used ones. The first week I put trailers out\nthere, it was like on a Tuesday, that Saturday ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI sold one of them. I think I promised to get him $1200, I sold it for $1500.\nNow, I made more money than I think Evans made for the week. That's how my\nbusiness started. From then on, I don't know where from, business just started\ncoming. I went to the place where Evans bought his trailers, and started one new\none, then two new ones, then five new ones. Then I got in with . . .there where\nnew manufacturers they got in that time too, that had a lot of money. The\nbiggest manufacturer ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI got in with, was Bill McDonald. He owned the Atlanta Baseball Club. He finally\nsold it to me, and I finally got rid of it. I don't know whether I told you that\nstory or not, but that was an interesting story. Bill McDonald got in, built\nseveral little factories. He's from Chicago [Illinois]. But he built several\nlittle factories around Michigan, so forth and so on. I didn't know he was, what\nyou call it, these gangsters, what do you call it, Mafia?\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, Mafia?\n\nBERCHENKO: Mafia.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh.\n\nBERCHENKO: I didn't know that. But anyhow, he got to be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthe largest manufacturer of mobile homes in the United States, in the world.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And he was doing it with dirty money?\n\nBERCHENKO: And I was his choice dealer. Honey, he let me have trailers, gave me\ndiscounts. By that time, they had transfer companies that used to bring them\ndown, you know.\n\nSCHOENBERG: With the big trucks.\n\nBERCHENKO: At that time, I started opening up branches. One in Macon, one in\nSavannah, one in Montgomery. I was selling trailers . . . To give you an idea\nhow fast I was selling them, how much money I was making, I used to borrow money ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nfrom Mr. Tesler, but then I got this deal. Well, that's before, . . .but anyway.\nI was getting money from Mr. Tesler, so one day I said . . . his daughter,\nMarie, she never married. She was what you call it, couldn't get married.\nAnyhow, any time I needed money, I go to Marie, \"I want to buy a couple of\ntrailers from an outside company. I wanted to look at a floorplan in about a\nweek.” \"Sure.\" “$10,000 $15,000.” \"No problem.\" I was . . . and they were so\nhappy to see me, and this, that, and the other. Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI opened up a place in Murphy, North Carolina, I was making money so fast,\nhoney, giving it to everybody I could. Buying Elizabeth new cars, buying my kids\nnew cars. Money was just, I didn't think there would ever be an end to it. I\nfound out one day that there was. Anyhow, I said, \"Marie, I'm going to make you\nmy partner in this branch that I've got, in Murphy, North Carolina. And\neverything I make there, I'm going to give you half of.\" She said, \"Okay, that's fine.\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: That's not bad.\n\nBERCHENKO: Well, in about a year's time I came up there, I had a check for $10,000. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI made $20,000 on that lot, in less than a year. I said, \"Mr. Tesler, I’ve got\nsomething for you.\" And I handed him the check. \"Oh, no, I don't want it.\" \"It's\nyours. I made it. Mr. Tesler, you've got to take it. You've been so good to me,\nand I've got more money than I know what to do with.\" He looked at me\nsheepishly, says, \"Jack, I don't want your money.\" I said, \"Well, I don't want .\n. . it's not my money, it's your money. Because I opened this in our name.\" And\nhe took that money. There was almost tears in his eyes. He didn't need it. At\nthat time, everything was going great, after ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n1939-1941. Right before the war, everything was real terrific.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. It turned around.\n\nBERCHENKO: Right before the war, you know how everything was. Then I went down\nthe street, there was a lot down there, a beautiful lot. I needed a bigger lot\nto put the trailers on, and the man that had it [had] bought it for $186,000.\nHe's one of the biggest real estate men in town. I leased it from him for $80 a\nmonth. I was going great guns. The wind up was, he sold it to me for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n$36,000. He didn't need it anymore, and he wasn't going to build anything over\nthere. I put a beautiful place there. I was there about five years. I got Ben\nGolden to build me some beautiful offices and a repair place. I was buying real\nestate about that time. Everything was going my way, everything. I got this\nbeautiful place down there, and I was making . . . I was averaging over $1,000 a\ntrailer, and averaging selling 10 a week. As I said, money was coming in. Honest\nto goodness, I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\ngave it to anybody. I had a reputation, as you saw on this, giving was a\npleasure for me. Anybody that needed, came to me, they knew they were going to\nget it. I bought my mother and father a home on a Ninth street, and my sisters,\nI put in business. I did everything for everybody. My brother came back from the\narmy, I put him in business. I bought him a printing company. Harry Loan\nPrinting Company. As I say, the more I gave, the more I got. Well, after that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . . then around 1950, I knew we had to have a trailer park. There's no place\nto park these trailers. So I said, \"I'm going to build a trailer park, because I\nhave the money and nothing to do with it.\" I went and bought a piece of property\non Stuart Avenue. I bought 15 acres at Stuart and Lakewood Avenue, for $2,800.\nThat's right. It was a vacant lot, there was nothing there but a vacant lot. I\nstarted on this trailer . . . built this trailer place. The most beautiful sales\nlot, two sales lots, one right next to another. I said that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nI'd go ahead and put this beautiful trailer park, the only modern trailer park\nin Atlanta. In the state of Georgia as far as that's concerned. A 100-unit\ntrailer park, beautiful office, still there. 1780 Stuart Avenue. As far as the\nindustry was concerned, I was an officer in the national industry. I was a vice\npresident. I never got to be president. I was chairman of most of the\ncommittees. Anybody in the trailer industry knew me. Very few on the ground\nfloor like I was, and new people coming ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin it all the time. I put some of them . . . I put George Kaufman and his wife,\nhe died. He was working for my sister Fanny, so he died, and Shirley ran it. She\njust remarried. She married, he's well known in the city. He was a . . . Anyhow,\nthey just sold that business for $12 million. That's right, they sold it. They\ndidn't offer me none of it. They didn't owe me anything. The bought it from my sister. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Was that the part that you put her in business?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, sure. Yeah, and when she got where she wanted to retire, she\nlet George and Shirley have it. That was her niece. That was my sister's daughter.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh, ok.\n\nBERCHENKO: And they did really good. And . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, that's good.\n\nBERCHENKO: I'm trying to think of this fellow's name that she met. Henry Bermby.\nBermby, he's known around the community.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah. Oh yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: He married her, and so they're living on a holiday. They're traveling\nall over the country. So that's it, I gave everybody anything they wanted. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nThat was the way I lived. But as I say, it came to a sad ending. I started\nmessing with the stock market. It was gambling, what it was, you know. I'd go to\nLas Vegas, used to take my wife, used to take . . . friends would go with me, go\nto Miami. I was living high off the hog. I made so much money, I gave it away so\nfast I couldn't keep count of it going out and coming in. I had a large\nworkforce, and I was good to everybody. But when that gambling, I started\ngambling, and I started ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmessing with the stock market. I started buying and these futures, they can make\nyou rich or make you . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: It'll kill you.\n\nBERCHENKO: I'd buy 10 or 12 stocks one day, and next day sell 14, the next day\nI'd buy eight more. I was on the phone always with the stock market. So I\nstarted . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: The only people who . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: . . . losing and losing, and finally got to the point where I had to\nborrow, and I started borrowing from the bank. The man that loaned me the money\nwas president of the bank. They had a recession, bank recession in the late\n1980's. 1987, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n1988, 1989. I had some of the best stocks. I'll tell you about one, and I won't\nbid you anymore. I bought a mobile home stock, Good Industries. That stock sold\nfor $8 a share, and I kept it for two years. Good Industries were buying up all\nthese little manufacturers. They wanted to be a conglomerate, and that they\nwere. One of the biggest factories, one of the best mobile home companies was\nthe George . . . Oh, anyhow, it was the best mobile home manufacturing company.\nThey had sold . . . They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nbought his factory. George's father died on something I could have died on. When\nthey had the atom bomb explosion, we were invited. George was a past president\nof the Mobile Home Dealers Association, and I was actually, I was invited, his\nfather invited me. Last minute, I couldn't go, but George and his father went.\nHis father got . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Radiation sickness?\n\nBERCHENKO: Radiation, died from it. Killed him. George got it too, but he lived\non a little while. Anyhow, George came to see ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nme afterwards, and, I asked about all that, and his father dying. We were like a\nbig family. The mobile home industry got be one big family. We had meetings, and\nparties and everything. We'd go to New York, Chicago. We lived it up with\neverybody. So George came to visit me, he was good friend of mine. He's about my\nage, and he came to visit me . . . One time he spoke . . . The President of the\nUnited States was at one of our meetings, and he [George] was a speaker. As I\nsay, it wasn't a little thing, it was a big thing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nAnyhow, George came to see me and I said, \"George, what are you going to do with\nthat [Good Industries] stock? I know you have to take a lot of stock.\" He said,\n\"Jack. I'm glad you asked me.\" So help me, now this is the honest to God truth,\nso help me God. He said, \"Jack, just as soon as I get back, I'm going to get rid\nof mine.\" I said, \"How much you got? 10,000?\" He said, \"Something like that.\"\nYou know wasn't exactly, but they took a lot of stock. In those days, that was\nnormal. So anyhow, when he left, I told Elizabeth, I said \"Honey, I better get\nrid of that stock. If George puts 10,000-12,000 on the market ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n. . .\" The market, it was down to $6.\n\nSCHOENBERG: It's going to go to hell.\n\nBERCHENKO: $6 now. I don't know what the hell it'll be. And I picked up the\nphone, and I find out it was $6. I had 2000 shares. I said \"Sell it.\" Another so\nhelp me God story. I think it might have been within 30 days, a don't remember\nthe date, but that stock started going up. You know what they went up to? Last I\nremember it was $95 a share.\n\nSCHOENBERG: And you sold it at . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: At $6. I lost $4,000 on it. But losing $4,000 wasn't nothing to me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nYou know, I always lost money on stocks. But I'm showing you some things that\nhappened to Jack Berchenko, where my money went to.\n\nSCHOENBERG: God.\n\nBERCHENKO: I lost all of that. It's another loss, forget it. Money meant nothing\nto me. I had a nice family, a wonderful family, a wonderful life. And I kvelled\nin my wife and family. I let everything else go to hell. The worst thing that\nhappened to me, I put up a trailer park on Stewart Avenue. Trailer parks went\nlike everything else, from $50 a month ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthey go to $200 or $300 a month. You can imagine how much money is coming in. I\nwas only getting $50 a month, and I sold mine to these people. I had one in\nAugusta, and I borrowed money from these people, and I gave them the title. They\nstole the title from me. I had a deed there, and I needed $40,000 more. He said,\n\"Come and get it.\" I got the $40,000, so it made it they owed me $150,000. On\nthe back of the loan, they were putting down that I was selling [it to] them. He\nwanted to buy from me, and I wasn't selling. They endorsed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nmy name, they forged my name. And so help me God, I lost it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: You didn't take them to court?\n\nBERCHENKO: I took them to court. My children said, \"Don't Jack. Money don't mean\nnothing to you. Let him have it. Forget about it.\" Because I was running crazy\nabout it. I couldn't get a lawyer, because I didn't have the real money that it\nwould take. He'd been a crooked . . . He was in the finance business.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Himself.\n\nBERCHENKO: And one of those deals that he pulled, he had a crooked lawyer and\nhad everything ready. He had to have that deed, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthat piece of property I sold for $350,000. I took a $300,000 note to pay each\nmonth, and had a balance of $300,000. He stole it. He got the $300,000, plus\nhalf. He got about $450,000, where I only got $150,000 out of it. He hit me for\n$300,000. His name is Dick Katz. He's still in business here in Atlanta. Belongs\nto Beth Jacob. I vowed I'd kill him if ever saw him, but I made it my business\nnot to see him.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Not to see him.\n\nBERCHENKO: That was another reason I did not go to shul there. Because he sat right ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nin the aisle there, and I'd have to see him. So help me, as bad off as I am, I'm\ngoing to . . . one time, I'm going to kill him. But that happened to me, just to\nshow you how a thing can go up, and a thing can go down.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: That was the situation. But the man, that was president of the bank,\nthe bank lost everything they had. Citizen's Southern Bank.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, CNS had a hard time.\n\nBERCHENKO: That's right. They canned him, they let him go. I had a lot of\ncommitments from them.\n\nSCHOENBERG: What's his ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nname? Dick? I know who you're talking about. He followed Mills Lane. The guy who\nwas after Mills Lane?\n\nBERCHENKO: That man was Mills Lane.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh. Oh, this was still at the time of Mills Lane?\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, this was Mills Lane. Sure.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Ok.\n\nBERCHENKO: And Mills . . . When Mills wanted to make a loan on some people that\nwanted to go into the trailer business, matter of fact, he'd get me to come out\nand appraise it. He used me a lot of time. We got to be on the first name basis.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right.\n\nBERCHENKO: I knew everybody . . . like when I was going to build my trailer, my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nfactory, I needed $300,000 real, not real quick, but I didn't want to mess with\nmy other money. So he said, \"Go to so and so.\" The man that handles, who closed\nout all of his finances. He didn't want no part of this deal, and he told me so.\nMills said, \"You go see him, tell him I said it.\" That's the way I used to get\nmy . . . “tell him I said it.” Then I got all kinds of money I wanted.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Interesting.\n\nBERCHENKO: I went in there. He said, \"Yeah, I know what you come for.\" He said,\n“Jack, you sure you doing the right thing?\" I said, \"Yeah, I'm doing the right\nthing.\" He said, \"You ought to be ashamed of yourself, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nputting so much money in trailer manufacturing. What do you know about trailer\nmanufacturing?\" I said, \"What did I know about trailers when I started either?\"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Right.\n\nBERCHENKO: He said, \"Jack, I hate to see you do this, but you know, I wouldn't\nlet you have a nickel. You know that?\" Sure enough, he was a big, big man at CNS.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Oh Yeah?\n\nBERCHENKO: But we were very close, all of us.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Well, listen, I think that it's getting dark,\n\nBERCHENKO: Yes, and I can . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Must be getting kind of late.\n\nBERCHENKO: I could talk to you all night long, honey. Put me on a talking spree.\n\nSCHOENBERG: I love what you have said, and I will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nreserve the right to come back another day after I've reviewed the tapes . . .\n\nBERCHENKO: Anytime you want to, I would just love it.\n\nSCHOENBERG: To see if there's anything else that we want to talk about.\n\nBERCHENKO: You talking about kvelling, I kvell and just let this all out. Let it\nall . . . my kids beg me, put on tape what I just told you. Just these little things.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Stories.\n\nBERCHENKO: Yeah, little stories that happened in your life, that's a book,\nthat's your life's history. You wrote a book there.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yep.\n\nBERCHENKO: I could fill a book on the things that happened to me, the good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\nthings and the bad things. I lost every nickel I had, because when I said when\nMills Lane, they threw him out, I couldn't get any more money. I had a lot of\nstocks on option, and it was like a . . .\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: One night after another.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: I had an interest in a trailer park. I lost that. I lost the trailer\nfactory. I lost that. Wasn't anything else to lose.\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah.\n\nBERCHENKO: I walked out of there without a nickel one. Oh, I had $50,000 to $100,000. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/transcript/64396/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\n\nSCHOENBERG: Yeah, but not the big bucks that you had made.\n\nBERCHENKO: Not the big dollars that I . . . 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It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/annotation_set/1286/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta raises funds, which are dispersed throughout the Jewish community. Services also include caring for Jews in need locally and around the world, community outreach, leadership development, and educational opportunities. It is an affiliate of the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/annotation_set/1286/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Council of Jewish Women is an organization of volunteers and advocates, founded in the 1890s, who turn progressive ideals in advocacy and philanthropy inspired by Jewish values. They strive to improve the quality of life for women, children and families.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/annotation_set/1286/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKyiv, also spelled Kiev, capital city of Ukraine, located along the Dnieper River. It was founded in the 6th or 7th century, and by the late 9th century its princes had expanded their territory to establish the state of Kyivan Rus. In 1240 it was destroyed by the Mongols of the Golden Horde. After being rebuilt, it came under Lithuanian, Polish, and Cossack rule. It was incorporated into Russia in 1793, and in 1934 Kyiv became the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/annotation_set/1286/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 1868 –1918) was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. During his reign, Nicholas gave support to the economic and political reforms promoted by his prime ministers, Sergei Witte and Pyotr Stolypin. He advocated modernization based on foreign loans and close ties with France, but resisted giving the new parliament major roles. Ultimately, progress was undermined by Nicholas's commitment to autocratic rule, strong aristocratic opposition and defeats sustained by the Russian military in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I. By March 1917, public support for Nicholas had collapsed and he was forced to abdicate, thereby ending the Romanov dynasty's 304-year rule of Russia (1613–1917). Nicholas supported Serbia and approved the mobilization of the Russian Army on 30 July 1914. In response, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and its ally France on 3 August, starting World War I. The severe military losses led to a collapse of morale at the front and at home; a general strike and a mutiny of the garrison in Petrograd sparked the February Revolution and the disintegration of the monarchy's authority. After abdicating himself and on behalf of his son, Nicholas and his family were imprisoned by the Russian Provisional Government and exiled to Siberia. After the Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution, the family was held in Yekaterinburg, where they were executed on 17 July 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/annotation_set/1286/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePogrom is a Russian word meaning \"to wreak havoc, to demolish violently\" that historically refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews. Anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire were large-scale, targeted, and repeated anti-Jewish rioting that first began in the 19th century. 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Frank was sent to Milledgeville State Penitentiary to await his execution. Governor John M. Slaton, believing there had been a miscarriage of justice, commuted Frank’s sentence to life in prison. This enraged a group of men who styled themselves the “Knights of Mary Phagan.” They drove to the prison, kidnapped Frank from his cell and drove him to Marietta, Georgia where they lynched him. Many years later, the murderer was revealed to be Jim Conley, who had lied in the trial, pinning it on Frank instead. 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The residence facility was open from 1876 to 1930. It was originally called the Hebrew Orphans’ Asylum and was originally an actual orphanage. In 1901, the name was changed to the Hebrew Orphans’ Home. Then its services phased into placing children in foster home care and helping with adoptions instead of an actual orphans' home, during which time it was called the Jewish Family and Children's Bureau (and another variation—Jewish Children's Services). Finally it got out of the children's institutional care business entirely. 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The main campus of Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are located in Druid Hills. Druid Hills was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and was one of his last commissions. A showpiece of the design was the string of parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue, which was designated as Druid Hills Parks and Parkways and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1975. 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Bill received numerous humanitarian and human relations awards for the extensive community service work that he did, including the Distinguished Service Award of the Gate City Lodge of B'nai B'rith (1965); the American Jewish Committee Human Relations Award (1981) and the Abe Goldstein Humanitarian Award of the Anti-Defamation League (1984). He served as president of the Temple and the Jewish Home, now called the William Breman Jewish Home. Bill also founded the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/123725/file/226976/annotation_set/1286/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eFort McPherson occupied nearly 500 acres in southwest Atlanta from 1885 until 2011. At the time of its closure, the base was one of the largest command centers in the U.S. military. The installation was home to a major unit of the Third U.S. Army as well as the headquarters of the U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM), which is responsible for the command and control, unit training, and operational readiness of the active army, National Guard, and reserve. In 1940 thousands of recruits began to stream into the post. In December 1941, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, activity at the post reached a record pace. Medical personnel attached to the post hospital began conducting research on tropical diseases and insecticides. On July 11, 1944, Fort McPherson was made one of the nineteen nationwide Army Personnel Centers. Soldiers entering and leaving the service flowed through the post. This activity continued after the war. 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