{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/d21rf5kw2v/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Berger, Edwin"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2015-01-21 (creation)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEdwin Berger interviewed by Brian Silver on January 21, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eEdwin Arthur Berger was born in Shelby, North Carolina in 1925.  His father owned four dry goods stores in Charlotte, Waynesville, Shelby and Gastonia, North Carolina.  When the Depression came his father lost all his stores.  The family was forced to move to Charlotte, North Carolina and then eventually to Atlanta, Georgia.  He lived on Parkway Drive and Argonne Avenue when he was growing up in Atlanta. Edwin went to school at Smiley Elementary for 6th grade and then to Bass Junior High and finally to Commercial High School.  After high school he attended, the University of Georgia for a while until his father became sick with cancer, and he had to return to run his father’s liquor business.  He attended Brawn’s Business School.  In addition to running the one liquor store of his father’s, he later opened two more. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in Atlanta, Edwin Berger frequented many well-known Atlanta landmarks—The Fox Theater, the Varsity, Piedmont Park, the Atlanta Crackers’ field. After experiencing anti-Semitism at a swimming pool, his family became members of the Progressive Club.  Mr. Berger attended Ahavath Achim synagogue for many years. Mr. Berger has family buried in both Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdwin Berger worked at many jobs when he was growing up in Atlanta.  He made kickstands for bicycles, delivered news papers, worked at Baker’s Shoe Store and many other jobs he could not remember. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdwin Berger met his wife Dora Sinko at Brawn’s Business school.  They were married for 66 years. The Bergers lived on Morningside Drive and Lenox Road.  They had one daughter, Iris, who attended Grady High School.  Iris married Jerome Silver and had four children.  After his daughter was married, they moved to Dunwoody and joined Etz Chaim so that they could be with their family on the high holidays.  One of their great joys was to travel where they visited most countries of the world and almost all of the United States.  Dora, Edwin’s wife, died in 2014.  Mr. Berger died on November 26, 2020.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eEdwin discusses the heritage of his family in Europe, his wife’s family in North Carolina and Georgia.  Edwin recounts his father’s business in North Carolina and the reasons that they were forced to leave and come to Atlanta, Georgia.  Edwin describes his life in Atlanta in terms of his education, his many jobs, his friends and the many well-known landmarks that he visited.  He describes movies at the Fox Theater, food at the Varsity, the cost of entertainment during the Great Depression, swimming at Piedmont Park and at the Progressive Club.  Edwin describes anti-Semitic episodes that he experienced during his life.  He discusses how his family went to synagogue at Ahavath Achim.  Edwin reminisces about his friends and their adventures.  He discusses how he took over his father’s liquor store and opened two more of his own.  Edwin details how he became the first liquor store owner to cash workers’ checks and the relationship this built with Herman Russell, a very successful African American businessman and politician.  He describes how he met his wife, Dora at Brawn’s Business School.  He recounts how he tried to join the Army and Marines Corps during World War II, but he was declared 4-F and worked as a block warden.  He talks about the pride in his daughter and her success at Grady High School, Emory University and her later marriage and children.  He details living on Morningside Dr, Lenox Road and later in Dunwoody.  He describes why he moved his membership from Achavath Achim to Etz Chaim.  He shares his views on how Atlanta has changed since he moved here in the 1930’s.  He details his many travels with his wife around the world and in the United States.  He shares that his life has been hard since his wife died and how he hopes that he has been a good father, grandfather and great-grandfather.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/27984"]}},{"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":["Jewish businessmen (topical term)","Antisemitism (topical term)","Atlanta (Ga.) 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Edwin went to school at Smiley Elementary for 6th grade and then to Bass Junior High and finally to Commercial High School.  After high school he attended, the University of Georgia for a while until his father became sick with cancer, and he had to return to run his father’s liquor business.  He attended Brawn’s Business School.  In addition to running the one liquor store of his father’s, he later opened two more. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in Atlanta, Edwin Berger frequented many well-known Atlanta landmarks—The Fox Theater, the Varsity, Piedmont Park, the Atlanta Crackers’ field. After experiencing anti-Semitism at a swimming pool, his family became members of the Progressive Club.  Mr. Berger attended Ahavath Achim synagogue for many years. Mr. Berger has family buried in both Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdwin Berger worked at many jobs when he was growing up in Atlanta.  He made kickstands for bicycles, delivered news papers, worked at Baker’s Shoe Store and many other jobs he could not remember. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdwin Berger met his wife Dora Sinko at Brawn’s Business school.  They were married for 66 years. The Bergers lived on Morningside Drive and Lenox Road.  They had one daughter, Iris, who attended Grady High School.  Iris married Jerome Silver and had four children.  After his daughter was married, they moved to Dunwoody and joined Etz Chaim so that they could be with their family on the high holidays.  One of their great joys was to travel where they visited most countries of the world and almost all of the United States.  Dora, Edwin’s wife, died in 2014.  Mr. Berger died on November 26, 2020.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEdwin discusses the heritage of his family in Europe, his wife’s family in North Carolina and Georgia.  Edwin recounts his father’s business in North Carolina and the reasons that they were forced to leave and come to Atlanta, Georgia.  Edwin describes his life in Atlanta in terms of his education, his many jobs, his friends and the many well-known landmarks that he visited.  He describes movies at the Fox Theater, food at the Varsity, the cost of entertainment during the Great Depression, swimming at Piedmont Park and at the Progressive Club.  Edwin describes anti-Semitic episodes that he experienced during his life.  He discusses how his family went to synagogue at Ahavath Achim.  Edwin reminisces about his friends and their adventures.  He discusses how he took over his father’s liquor store and opened two more of his own.  Edwin details how he became the first liquor store owner to cash workers’ checks and the relationship this built with Herman Russell, a very successful African American businessman and politician.  He describes how he met his wife, Dora at Brawn’s Business School.  He recounts how he tried to join the Army and Marines Corps during World War II, but he was declared 4-F and worked as a block warden.  He talks about the pride in his daughter and her success at Grady High School, Emory University and her later marriage and children.  He details living on Morningside Dr, Lenox Road and later in Dunwoody.  He describes why he moved his membership from Achavath Achim to Etz Chaim.  He shares his views on how Atlanta has changed since he moved here in the 1930’s.  He details his many travels with his wife around the world and in the United States.  He shares that his life has been hard since his wife died and how he hopes that he has been a good father, grandfather and great-grandfather.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I am here with my grandfather on January\n21, 2015 at the Breman Jewish Center. Thank you for agreeing to participate in\nthis Taylor Oral History Project at the Breman Museum. Let me start with your\nfamily history, Grandpa. Who were your grandparents' names?\n\nBERGER: On my father's side the name Berger is all I can remember. My\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandfather and I'm sure his great . . . going from way back, they came from\nPoland, probably near Germany, because Berger is actually German. Berger means\nlike 'the cream of the crop' or whatever. On my mother's side they came from\nRussia, and their name was Sinkovitz. It was changed when they came over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for\nfear that the family may be punished. Whether that was their original name, I am\nnot sure. Then it was cut short from Sinkovitz to Sinko. My mother's maiden name\nwas Ethel Sinko. My father's name was Isaac Berger . . . He was born in 1889 in\nPoland, but I don't know the city. I don't know the city that my mother was born ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in.\n\nSILVER: Do you know just since we are going over it about Grandma's family? Do\nyou know where her family was from originally?\n\nBERGER: I know very little about Grandma's family. They also came from--if I am\nnot mistaken--from Russia . . . Her father was ahead of his time. He was started\nin real ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"estate in a little town called Boone, North Carolina. He was killed by\nlightning. He was in a tub, and he went to turn a light on and lightning hit the\nhouse. He was killed. His wife, my wife's mother, was left with three young\nkids--three little girls--age one, three and five. Then she moved from Boone,\nNorth Carolina to South Georgia where her ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"brother-in-law put her in business.\nShe was very successful in business to the point where she moved to Atlanta,\npaid cash for her house in Druid Hills [neighborhood in Atlanta], sent all of\nher daughters to college, and gave them all beautiful weddings.\n\nSILVER: They were Davidson correct?\n\nBERGER: They were named Davidson.\n\nSILVER: Okay. Was there another--\n\nBERGER: My wife's name was Dora. Her name . . . my wife's mother's name was\nNellie Davidson.\n\nSILVER: What was the maiden name?\n\nBERGER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That I don't know.\n\nSILVER: When your family moved to Atlanta, where did they move from?\n\nBERGER: I was born in North Carolina. My father owned four dry goods stores. He\nwas highly successful financially. He had a store in Charlotte, [North\nCarolina], one in Gastonia, [North Carolina] one in Waynesville, [North\nCarolina] and one in Shelby, [North Carolina]. I was born in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Shelby. I was the\nfirst person in my family to be born in a hospital. Then the [Great] Depression\ncame. I was born in 1925. The Depression came in 1929, 1930, 1933, and by 1934\nhe was completely broke. We moved to Atlanta because we had relatives who lived\nin Atlanta. My mother came down with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cancer and she passed away in 1935 at\nGeorgia Baptist Hospital after we moved from Charlotte to Atlanta. My father\nraised the three of us. He hired a nanny or someone to take care of the three of\nus. I have a brother and a sister. My brother was eight years older than me, and\nmy sister was five years older. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"From that time he probably would have been\nsuccessful again, but he passed away with cancer.\n\nSILVER: Your mother is buried in Oakland Cemetery?\n\nBERGER: She is buried in Oakland Cemetery where we have like a six grave plot.\n\nSILVER: Who else is there?\n\nBERGER: My grandfather is there. My grandmother is there. I had an aunt that had\na little baby that was stillborn. She's there. There was one other relative that\nwas kin to my grandfather, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I don't know who he was . . . That's in Oakland.\nThe rest of them are buried in Greenwood where we have like a 20 plot grave.\n\nSILVER: Wasn't there a situation that your father ran into that made him move\nout of North Carolina quickly?\n\nBERGER: Yes. In the 1920's when he had his four stores, he was in one of the\nstores up in North Carolina in Waynesville, North Caroline which is up in the\nmountains. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My daddy got into a fist fight with a man. My daddy wore a big\ndiamond ring. The ring put the man's eye out. My daddy didn't know it, but the\nlady that worked for my daddy came in and said, \"You've got to leave today. Get\nyour family and leave. My husband is a Ku Kluxer, [member of the Ku Klux Klan]\nand they are going to tar and feather your whole family because you put another\nKu Kluxer's eye out.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So my father gathered his family took what cash he had. We\nall got in the car. He locked up his store, and we left town that day and went\nto Charlotte, North Carolina, which was a lot bigger. They had better police\nbecause the police were also Ku Kluxer's in small towns.\n\nSILVER: When your family moved here, where did your family move first?\n\nBERGER: We moved ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"near Piedmont Park on Parkway Drive near Ponce de Leon Avenue.\nThe rent back in those days was . . . $41.50 a month. We lived there six months,\nand Daddy couldn't afford it. We moved about six or eight blocks further up\nParkway Drive to $29.50 a month--in other words, to save three dollars a week.\nBecause in those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days, Daddy only made about 25 dollars a week. Times were tough\nback in those days.\n\nSILVER: You moved to Parkway Drive?\n\nBERGER: We moved about six blocks further up the street. Went from $41.50 to\n$29.50 a month, and we stayed there a year or two and then we moved to a little\nbigger ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"place. Then finally daddy began to make a little money, and we moved to a\nnice home. Then eventually, he bought a home.\n\nSILVER: What did he do when you first came to Atlanta?\n\nBERGER: When he first came to Atlanta he got into the liquor business. He opened\nup a liquor store, and he had a partner because he didn't have enough money to\ngo in [to business] by himself. 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I can't work there any longer and you need to make the\nliving for the family.\" I left the University of Georgia and took over ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"his\nstore, which was just an average store. It just made a living and that was about\nit in those days.\n\nSILVER: I am going to back up a second. When you were living in Atlanta you\nlived with just your brother and sister or were there other people living with\nyou as well?\n\nBERGER: No, just my brother, my sister and my father.\n\nSILVER: Didn't you live with your grandparents at one point, too?\n\nBERGER: At one point . . . not really lived with them. When my grandfather died,\nmy father came and told me--I was about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"11 or 12 years old at the time--he told\nme, he said, \"You are going to have to go sleep with your grandmother. She's\nafraid to sleep by herself.\" I went over. She had twin beds. My grandfather had\nlost a leg from diabetes. When I walked in the bedroom, I saw that great big leg\nstanding there--which scared the hell out of me. I went to sleep that night, and\nI was very nervous and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wet the bed. I hadn't wet a bed since I was a young\nkid. My grandmother called up my father and told him said, \"Your son wet the\nbed.\" Daddy said, \"He's probably nervous.\" The next night I wet it again. That\nwas the end of my staying with my grandma. She kicked me out and I went back\nhome, which is what I wanted to do to start with.\n\nSILVER: You lived with them. Talk about your schooling. 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We went to a private club on Ponce de Leon near the Druid Hills Golf\nClub and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for a quarter you could go swimming. We walked in and the guy looked at\nme and said, \"Are you Jewish?\" I said, \"Yes.\" He said, \"You can't come in.\" So\nwe left there. I think my father at the time became a member of the Progressive\nClub. I know that we used to go swimming there on Sundays.\n\nSILVER: Where was that?\n\nBERGER: The Progressive Club was over on Tenth Street.\n\nSILVER: Was your neighborhood growing up . . . you had a lot of Jewish friends,\ndidn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you? Was the crowd you hung out with Jewish?\n\nBERGER: I only . . . I mainly . . . I had sort of two groups that I grew up\nwith. One of them was all Jewish and the other was half Jewish and half\nChristian. The half Christian group . . . I finally broke off from that group.\nThey ended up in trouble. Half of them went to jail and whatever and so forth. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nwent with the Jewish boys, and we all ended up being businessmen--every one of them.\n\nSILVER: Who were some of your close friends--specifically their names?\n\nBERGER: I had four particular boys. One was named Saul Kurlat who lives in\nBoston, Massachusetts today. This is back in the 1930's when we were all\nbroke--not one person had a nickel. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Everybody really . . . if you could get a\ndime, up on Saturday--if you could save a dime during the week or you could\ndeliver newspapers or something--you could go to the theater. In most cases the\nfathers didn't even have an extra dime to give their children for a movie. One\nof them was . . . as poor as we were, he was that much poorer. Today, he is\nworth 100 million dollars. Another one is named ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Israel Nelkin, who had no money,\nonce again being poor. Today he and his son own 2000 pieces of real estate in\nAtlanta. The third one was Melvin Warshaw, who lives in Florida--who is quite\nwell to do. Then the only poor one in the family is me. 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They had a live show with an\norgan on Sundays--singing and whatever and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dancing. Then we would go out. If you\nhad a date, you left the Fox Theater. You walk one block down Ponce de Leon.\nThey used to have a big watermelon stand, and they'd cut you a huge piece of\nwatermelon for a dime. If you had a car, you could go to the Varsity where you\ncould get two chilidogs for fifteen cents, onion rings or fries and a drink for\na nickel. For a quarter, you could eat all you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted at the Varsity, and that's\nusually what we would end up doing. We would go to the Fox, and either go down\nto the watermelon stand in the summertime or go to the Varsity in the wintertime.\n\nSILVER: As you were growing up, I know you have said you had a paper route. Did\nyou have different jobs growing up to earn money?\n\nBERGER: Yes. My first job would probably be . . . there was a Jewish man named\nSaul . . . I can't remember his last name. 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We didn't have the quarter so we would slip in that way.\n\nSILVER: Did you ever go to Piedmont Park or was that too far out to go to?\n\nBERGER: No. Piedmont Park was within a 20 ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"minute walk of my home. Every summer I\nwould take a couple of peanut butter sandwiches--peanut and jelly--and maybe my\ndaddy would give me a nickel for a drink. My friend, Saul Kurlat and I would\nwalk to Piedmont to the swimming pool. We would stay in the pool all day, come\nout eat lunch, go back in the pool, and we'd come home about ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"six o'clock at\nnight. We were at the pool, inside the water the entire day just playing around, swimming.\n\nSILVER: With your family did they get involved in any local organizations or\nclubs? You had said the Progressive Club. Were there any other [clubs you were\naffiliated with]?\n\nBERGER: Daddy--when he finally made a little money he was able to join the\nProgressive Club. We would go there on Sundays and go swimming. That was the\nmain thing was swimming. 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Then we would drive within about six blocks of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"synagogue. Like\neveryone else you didn't want to be seen in your car. You would park your car\nway away from the synagogue, and you would walk the last six blocks, and then go\nin the synagogue. You spent the High Holy Days. The Orthodox synagogue was also\non Washington Street, and it was about six or eight blocks further down. My\nfriend Israel Nelkin belonged to that synagogue.\n\nSILVER: What about the Temple? Was the Temple around?\n\nBERGER: The Temple was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for the German Jews and the rich Jews. We were not in\nthat class.\n\nSILVER: You did not go there?\n\nBERGER: No.\n\nSILVER: Now we are going to fast-forward a little bit. As you were getting older\nand just getting started in business, did you have . . . I know you said when\nyou were younger you had some antisemitism. Did you find that with your store\ndowntown and your various businesses?\n\nBERGER: Yes. My first liquor store was sort of in a rough ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"section. You would get\nin a lot of fights. People would get drunk, and they wouldn't leave your store.\nYou'd try to put them out of the store, because they were harassing other\ncustomers. If you put your hands on them to push them out, they would swing and\nhit you. It created a lot of fistfights which I was in. I never will forget I\nhit a man one day and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gave him a black eye. That was on a Saturday. He came in\nmy store on Monday morning with a black eye. I said, \"What happened to you?\" He\nsays, \"I don't know. Somebody knocked [the] hell out of me.\" It was me that had\ndone it. [laughing] He didn't even remember.\n\nSILVER: What was downtown like in the 1940's and 1950's?\n\nBERGER: When I moved to Atlanta in 1935, Atlanta had 200,000 people. 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They had one where\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Grady High School is now, called Jennings Rose Room. If you were a beer drinker\nor something--I never went there--lot of people if they wanted to take a little\ndrink of beer or whatever, they would go to a place like that. There was not a\nlot to offer. You occasionally would go out of town up the mountains in\nTennessee. 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Five Points would be\nwhere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Peachtree, Whitehall, Marietta Street all come in at Decatur Street . . .\nall come in together. If you went maybe six or eight blocks, all the buildings\nended. If you went down to the Doctors Building, which was at Pine and\nPeachtree, then there was woods and big homes to the Fox Theater. After the Fox\nTheater, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there was nothing but homes the rest of the way down. There was no city\npast that. If you wanted to buy something you had to go downtown--women's,\nchildren's, men's clothing stores--some expensive stores which I couldn't afford\nlike George Muse and a few others of that nature--Zachary's [Men's Clothing\nStore]. I couldn't afford those clothes in those days. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then you had a lot of\nmediocre [stores]. You had a lot of women's stores. Rich's was the big store in\nthose days, the main store. I would say that ninety percent of what people\nbought pertaining to clothing, furniture--things of that nature--they bought at Rich's.\n\nSILVER: Downtown?\n\nBERGER: Sears also, but you had to mail order at Sears. Sears had a huge\nbusiness, but no retail at that time. There was retail on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bottom floor years\nlater, but when I first came here you couldn't walk in Sears for retail.\n\nSILVER: In the 1950's and 1960's segregation and civil rights were obviously\nrampant in the South. What were your associations with the black community? In\nyour community, did you have a lot of interrelations with the black community or\nwas it pretty segregated?\n\nBERGER: A lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my . . . I was really probably the very first check casher in\nthe city of Atlanta in the liquor business. Banks were the only place that you\ncould get a check cashed. Banks all closed their stores, banks, on Saturday at\n12 o'clock. Monday to Friday they would stay open from nine to five or nine to\nfour, I think. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then they would stay open half a day on Saturday and close at 12.\nThey had . . . Farmer's used to come into Atlanta--Atlanta was just really a big\ncountry town--bring trucks with corn on there, and tomatoes, and cabbage,\nwhatever they raised on their farm. They would bring it to the municipal market\non Edgewood Avenue, which was just three blocks from my liquor store. Then they\nwould come to the bank. Somebody would give them a two dollar, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"five dollar check\nfor whatever they bought. Banks were closed on Saturday at 12 [o'clock]. They\nstarted coming into my liquor asking me to cash it, which I turned them down.\nThat was my father's store, and he never did cash any checks. When he passed\naway, when I took it over, I would work that particular shift, the daytime\nshift. Finally, a man came in and kept begging me said, \"I don't have any\ngasoline to get home with. Please can I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cash the check?\" I made him buy a half\npint of liquor and the check went through okay. The next Saturday he came back\nagain, and then the next Saturday he brought a man in with him. That man, a\ncouple of Saturdays later, brought two or three more, and it got started. I\nactually was the very first person in the liquor business to start cashing\nchecks, and I ended up being known as \"the King of the check ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cashers.\" If I knew\nyou, and I knew the company--I don't care what size the check it would be fifty\nthousand dollars--I would cash it.\n\nSILVER: Black, white, green . . . it didn't matter?\n\nBERGER: Black, white . . . I don't care. Most of the checks that I cashed were\nfor black people. The white people that cashed checks were their personal,\nindividual checks. These were all workers--cement workers--the people I cashed\nchecks for would be cement workers, electrical workers, wood workers, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cleaning\njobs up, building bridges and houses and things of that nature. They were all\nblue collar workers.\n\nSILVER: Didn't you have a relationship with Herman Russell, one of the most\nfamous entrepreneurs?\n\nBERGER: Herman Russell, who ended up being the richest or one of the richest\nblack people in the United States, started as a plasterer . . . his father did.\nThe father used to bring his sons ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in. He had about five or six sons, and they\nwould cash their check. They were plasterers. Then he would pay each one of the\nsons. The father would save the money. Finally, he saved as much as fifteen\nthousand dollars which in those days was a million dollars. He came to me and\nsaid, \"Mr. Berger, I've got fifteen thousand dollars. I want you to invest it\nfor me.\" I didn't have five cents, but I didn't let him know that. I told him,\n\"I'm not the one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to invest your money. If it went bad, I'd feel bad. But I will\nhold it for you if you want me to until you need it.\" He did not trust the bank.\nHe was old-fashioned type man, black fellow. I became to know the whole family.\nThen finally the father died, and Herman took over. Herman got into politics,\nand he ended up being the largest black owned construction ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"company in the entire\nUnited States.\n\nSILVER: Now we are going to go into college years, which you went to the\nUniversity of Georgia, and then you had to come home to help out your family,\nand then you met my grandmother. Why don't we talk about how you guys met and\nstart going down that road?\n\nBERGER: After I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduated high school, I decided I really wanted to go into\nbusiness. They had a school--Brown's Business College, which prepared you for\nhigher education in accounting. I wanted to be an accountant. The reason I\nwanted to be an accountant was I felt like I could go to work for an accounting\ncompany and they would give me half a dozen ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"businessmen's books. I would pick\nthe most successful man who invested in stocks and bonds, and if he bought a\nthousand dollars' worth of share A, I would buy ten dollars. I would just copy\nwhat he is making his money in, and that way by the time I am 65, I'll have\nenough money to retire on. Then I decided that I did not want to be an\naccountant, and of course daddy got ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sick about that time. When I went to this\nafter high school--when I went to this college to prepare to become an\naccountant--I was taking higher accounting at that time.\n\nOne day . . . No, one morning I went to school, and on my desk was a Valentine.\n[It] said \"Happy Valentine\" and it had something written on there . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"Be my\nValentine\" or something . . . signed Dora. I kept looking at the name. I didn't\nknow who Dora was. I started looking around the school and then I turned to my\nright and there was a girl--big, beautiful smile--looking right at me, sitting\nright next to me. She says, \"I'm Dora.\" So at lunchtime I ran down to the\ndrugstore, and they had one valentine left--I still have it in my book at home\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"now--and I bought it without reading it. I came and signed it real quick and put\nit on her desk. She'd gone to have lunch. She came back and she looked at it. I\nwas looking at her, and I noticed she had a confused look on her face. I said,\n\"What's wrong?\" She showed it to me and it said, \"To my wife.\" Not knowing that\na few years later that I would end up marrying her for the next 66 years or whatever.\n\nSILVER: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She went to the University of Alabama, right?\n\nBERGER: She went to the University of Alabama.\n\nBERGER: For several years . . . and finally one day she came to me, and she said\nmy mother has said if you don't want to get married that I have to start dating\nother boys. So that shook me up. I went home to my father, and I said, \"Dad, I\nwant to get ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"married.\" He says, \"You are too young. I wouldn't do it.\" I kept\naggravating him and aggravating him, and finally after a few weeks, he says,\n\"Okay, you can get married.\"\n\nSILVER: Where did you guys get married?\n\nBERGER: We got married . . . Daddy died from cancer unexpectedly, and we could\nnot . . . we had already set a date. We followed through with the date. 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I'd never been a plane and she hadn't\neither and I didn't realize I was on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"plane. We didn't get nervous until\nafter the plane was in the air. We both realized at that time. [We] flew to\nSavannah, [Georgia]. The liquor store happened to be closed on a Friday. My help\nworked all day Saturday. I only had a two-man liquor store which was my father's\nstore. The other person worked all day Saturday, so I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"closed Friday,\nSaturday. I got married Friday morning, and Monday morning I was back at work. I\nonly had a two-day honeymoon. That's how life got started.\n\nSILVER: Your children. I know this answer but talk about . . .\n\nBERGER: We had one daughter named Iris Silver. She married Jerome Silver. We\nwere married several years and we had her. Of course, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she was the bright part of\nthe life. My business began taking off just a little better. We began to make a\nlittle money. We moved to a bigger home.\n\nSILVER: Where was that home?\n\nBERGER: We first lived on Morningside Drive--1510 North Morningside Drive. Then\nwe moved to Lenox Road and we lived off Lenox Road for 25 years. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then we built a\nhome where I presently live now and that's in Dunwoody [Georgia].\n\nSILVER: As she was growing up, did you find the Jewish population was growing\nalso and how was antisemitism in that period of your life?\n\nBERGER: I don't really remember antisemitism. It has always been there and\nalways will be there, but I don't know that it was any worse and maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not quite\nas bad although maybe I was associating with a different type person then than I\ndid when I first went into the liquor business with the first liquor store. I\ndon't remember anything seriously happening back then. I remember naturally when\nthe Temple was bombed and things of that nature. 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Iris and her . . . went to\nGrady High [School], ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which was a tough school. She became valedictorian of the\nschool. She won every award that you could possibly win including a trip to\nWashington, [D. C.] to visit Congress and talk with the Vice President or\nwhatever. She also used to be with a singing group that did the same thing. I\nhave never been more proud of anyone than I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of Iris. She . . . I think she\nespecially tried hard to please her parents. Not too many people in my family\nare valedictorians. I didn't even come close. She was an all \"A\" student all the\nway through school. Then she went to Emory [University], where she met her\nhusband Jerry.\n\nSILVER: You guys went to the AA and you went there for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"years. Then you moved on\nto Etz Chaim and that's when you became . . .\n\nBERGER: What happened was that after Iris got married and had a couple of kids,\nDora and I started talking and we decided that we're going to AA and we're not\nable to see our children at the High Holidays. So we resigned from AA. I don't\nthink we resigned, but we joined Etz Chaim, and we started going ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there on the\nhigh holidays. As the family grew, I started buying seats, and I would buy seats\nfor the whole family to make sure my family was with me on the High Holidays.\n\nSILVER: We are going to bring it back a little bit and ask what you remember\nabout the war years in Atlanta. In particular with what you had to deal with and\nkind of what it was like.\n\nBERGER: I was 16 years ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"old in 1941 when [World War II] began. Too young . . .\nhad to be 18 to get into the Army. I was two years . . . too soon. I did become\nwhat was called a [air raid] warden. They trained us . . . prepared us in case\nwe were bombed in this country. 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I tried to get into the Marine Corps,\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they turned me down because of my asthma. The Army also turned me down\nbecause of my asthma. I was classified as a 4-F, which meant something was wrong\nwith you physically.\n\nSILVER: When you were in your teenage years did you know what was going on? Did\nthe media talk about the extermination . . .\n\nBERGER: They would talk about it and at 16 your mind just is so sharp. You\ndidn't have the full ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"impact. You lived the time, but you really didn't know what\nwas really going on. At 16 years old your brain--my brain anyway--some boys are\nbright enough. You knew you had a war to win, and we would go to the movies. In\nthose days there was no television so the only way you knew anything about what\nwas actually happening you either listened to the radio ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or you went to the\nmovies. On the movies on Sunday they would show you five minutes of all the\nfighting going on and bombers dropping bombs out and bombing the big cities and\nGermany and things of that nature. That was about as close as this country came\nto the war. We produced a lot of merchandise. I was too young to work in the\nfactories in those ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"days. I went to school. I did take a test as a senior. All\nseniors were required--boys--to take a test and if you passed within the top 90\npercent you were able to go to OCS [Officer Candidate School] when you were 18.\nI passed the test. 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I live in New York ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and after the war I think I'm going\nto come back because I'm crazy about Atlanta.\" He was out at Fort Mac [Fort\nMcPherson]. He said, \"Jump on one foot. Jump on the other foot ten times.\" He\nsaid, \"Have you ever had asthma?\" I said, \"No sir.\" I lied. He says, \"Oh, yes\nyou have it. You're lying about it.\" Rejected. He put a big reject stamp on\nthere. That was as close as I came to entering ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and getting in anything was just\ngoing out to be examined.\n\nSILVER: It sounds like you wanted to go.\n\nBERGER: Yes, I did. The two Tanner boys that enlisted with me . . . that I was\ngoing to enlist with them . . . they were both killed not too much longer. They\nwent out in the Pacific on one of the islands--Iwo Jima or whatever it was. I've\nforgotten the island. Both were killed. I remember talking to their father, and\nthe father knew that I had gone with them to try to get in. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/transcript/21008/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had told him.\nHe said, \"Edwin you're very lucky. You're still living. My boys are dead.\"\n\nSILVER: Now we are going to start wrapping this up. Now what do you see as the\nbiggest change in Atlanta from when you were growing up? Obviously it is much\nbigger now, but what are some of the bigger things that you notice about Atlanta\nnow as compared to when you were growing up?\n\nBERGER: The biggest change that I have seen is sort of multicultural. 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I think we are good.\n\nJeremy: Thank you so much for everything.\n\nSILVER: We're signing off.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=3090.0,3120.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Edwin Berger [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBoone is a town located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina, United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCharlotte is a major city and commercial hub in North Carolina. Gastonia, Waynesville, and Shelby are towns outside of Charlotte located in western North Carolina, United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The time of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930’s or early 1940’s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the twentieth century.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGeorgia Baptist Hospital was originally founded in 1910 as Tabernacle Infirmary. In 1913 it was sold to the Georgia Baptist Convention. In 1921, it moved to its present downtown Atlanta location at Boulevard and East Avenue, where it still operates today as Atlanta Medical Center.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOakland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery and one of the largest green spaces, in Atlanta. Many notable Georgians are buried at Oakland including Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind; Joseph Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where John Pemberton first sold Coca-Cola as a soft drink; Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam, the United States Amateur, United States Open, British Amateur and the Open Championship in the same year; as well as former Georgia governors and Atlanta mayors.  Oakland is an excellent example of a Victorian-style cemetery and contains numerous monuments and mausoleums that are of great beauty and historical significance.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ku Klux Klan (or Knights of the Ku Klux Klan today) is a white supremacist, white nationalist, anti-immigration, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, anti-black secret society, whose methods included terrorism and murder. It was founded in the South in the 1860’s and then died out and come back several times, most notably in the 1920’s when membership soared again, and then again in the 1960’s during the civil rights era. When the Klan was re-founded in 1915 in Georgia, the event was marked by a cross burning on Stone Mountain. In the past, its members dressed up in white robes and a pointed hat designed to hide their identity and to terrify. It is still in existence.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003ePiedmont Park is a 189-acre park located just north of downtown Atlanta. 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The City of Atlanta purchased the building in the late 1980’s for office space and the building became known as City Hall East. After decades of declining occupancy, the building was sold to a developer who reopened it in 2012 as Ponce City Market, a mixed use residential, office and retail space.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32565/file/101362/annotation_set/255/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Atlanta Crackers were minor league baseball teams based in Atlanta between 1901 and 1965. The Crackers were Atlanta's home team until the Atlanta Braves moved from Milwaukee in 1966. The Crackers played in Ponce de Leon Park from 1907 until a fire destroyed the all-wood stadium in 1923. 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