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She was one of two children born to Isadore and Minnie Richman Kantsiper. Her sister was Sara Kantsiper Switz Rigel. Her parents were born in Russia and immigrated with their families to Savannah. Her father was in the men’s clothing business. Growing up, Miriam spent much of her time with her extended family on her mother’s side. She attended Congregation Bnai Brith Jacob and the Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA). She attended 37th Street School and Richard Arnold Junior High, graduating from Savannah High School in 1944. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from high school, she worked as the secretary to the postal officer at the Hunter Army Airfield. Shortly after, Miriam met her husband, Leo Center. Together, they had three children, Henry, Anthony, and Scott. When Henry passed away at 14 of cancer, his parents established the Henry W. Center College Scholarship Fund at the JEA. She owned and operated her own real estate company in Savannah while raising her children. After 33 years of marriage, Miriam decided she wanted to get divorced and moved to California. In Malibu, California, she earned a degree in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and established a women's spiritual group, Daughters of Destiny. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter moving to Atlanta in the late 1990’s, she returned to Savannah and began writing, publishing, and editing. She authored and published the novel Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell in 2000, and memorialized her friendship with Academy Award winner Johnny Mercer in the musical Johnny Mercer \u0026amp; Me, which debuted in Savannah. Miriam also served an instrumental role in the construction of the Savannah Civic Center. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn her interview, Miriam discusses her childhood in Savannah, Georgia. She talks about growing up in her mother’s parents’ house and talks about her aunts and uncles. She discusses her parents and her father’s career. She also shares memories of her father’s siblings and their spouses. She talks about attending the Jewish Educational Alliance in Savannah, and where she went to school. She discusses her life after graduating from high school and what it was like being young during World War II and after the war ended. She talks about meeting her husband and his career. She talks about her children and reminisces about her children’s relationship with her aunt and uncle. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMiriam discusses her decision to get divorced and move to California. She talks about getting her master's degree and experience in California. She discusses starting a women's spiritual group, Daughters of Destiny. She also talks about writing a book, Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell. She recalls moving to Atlanta and then back to Savannah. She talks about her affiliation with Bnai Brith Jacob in Savannah and recalls the organizations she and her sons were involved with. She recalls the names of some of the people she grew up with, and discusses being friends with non-Jewish people as well. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMiriam reminisces on her relationship with Johnny Mercer and handling his estate after his death. She talks about memorializing him by writing a musical Johnny Mercer \u0026amp; Me. She discusses her instrumental role in the construction of the Savannah Civic Center, honoring Johnny with the naming of the Johnny Mercer Theatre. The interview concludes with Miriam recalling a party she hosted, talking about the guests she invited and having Johnny perform. She briefly talks about her sister, her sister’s children, and her grandchildren. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"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":["Barker, Ceil Richman (1915-2003) (personal name)","Bennett, Lea Kantsiper (1916-2008) (personal name)","Black, Louis (1906-1987) (personal name)","Black, Sophie Richman (1908-1985) (personal name)","Blair, Estell (1926-1998) (personal name)","Blumberg, Sylvia Kaminsky (1926-2014) (personal name)","Breslow, Pearle Kantsiper (1908-1969) (personal name)","Buchsbaum, Alan (1935-1987) (personal name)","Center, Anthony (b. 1949) (personal name)","Center, Henry Walter (1947-1962) (personal name)","Center, Leo (1918-2012) (personal name)","Center, Scott (b. 1955) (personal name)","Clooney, Rosemary (1928-2002) (personal name)","Kantsiper, Abram (1906-1975) (personal name)","Kantsiper, Benjamin (1913-2001) (personal name)","Kantsiper, Isadore (1899-1958) (personal name)","Kantsiper, Minnie Richman (1902-1979) (personal name)","Kantsiper, Sylvia Dubin (1916-1997) (personal name)","Kelly, Eugene “Gene” Curran (1912-1996) (personal name)","Palmer, Betty (personal name)","Palmer, Jr., Kenneth Erving (1931-1993) (personal name)","Kravitch, Aaron (1895-1971) (personal name)","Marie, Rose (born Rose Marie Mazzetta, 1923-2017) (personal name)","Mazer, Dr. Milton (1911-2007) (personal name)","Mercer, Elizabeth “Ginger” Meltzer (1909-1994) (personal name)","Mercer, John Jefferson (personal name)","Mercer, John Herndon (1909-1976) (personal name)","O'Connell, Helen (1920-1993) (personal name)","Richman, Anne Pollock (1916-2009) (personal name)","Richman, Eva Fialkow (1885-1945) (personal name)","Richman, George (1903-1997) (personal name)","Richman, Harry (1911-1991) (personal name)","Richman, Selig (1880-1945) (personal name)","Rigel, Sara Kantsiper Switz (1925-2018) (personal name)","Rosenzweig, David (1917-2008) (personal name)","Rosenzweig, Ethyl Richman (1918-2012) (personal name)","Rousakis, John (1929-2000) (personal name)","Scharf, Lester William “Bill” (1927-2018) (personal name)","Scharf, Sally Kravitch (1927-2021) (personal name)","Switz, Ellen (personal name)","Switz, Jerry (b. 1948) (personal name)","Thomson, Ebba Olesen (1911-2004) (personal name)","Thornberry, Anne (personal name)","Thornberry, Bill (personal name)","Weil, Selma Sachs “Pee Wee” (1926-2016) (personal name)","Whiting, Margaret Eleanor (1924 -2011) (personal name)","37th Street School (corporate name)","Alan Barry’s Men’s Shop (corporate name)","Aleph Zadik Aleph (AZA) (corporate name)","Benedictine Military School (corporate name)","B'nai B'rith Girls (BBG) (corporate name)","Boy Scouts of America (corporate name)","Congregation Bnai Brith Jacob (corporate name)","Cubs Scout (corporate name)","Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA) (corporate name)","Johnny Mercer Theatre (corporate name)","Le Cordon Bleu (corporate name)","Linoleum and Shade Shop (corporate name)","The Lucas Theatre (corporate name)","Miriam K. 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She was one of two children born to Isadore and Minnie Richman Kantsiper. Her sister was Sara Kantsiper Switz Rigel. Her parents were born in Russia and immigrated with their families to Savannah. Her father was in the men\u0026rsquo;s clothing business. Growing up, Miriam spent much of her time with her extended family on her mother\u0026rsquo;s side. She attended Congregation Bnai Brith Jacob and the Jewish Educational Alliance (JEA). She attended 37th Street School and Richard Arnold Junior High, graduating from Savannah High School in 1944.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from high school, she worked as the secretary to the postal officer at the Hunter Army Airfield. Shortly after, Miriam met her husband, Leo Center. Together, they had three children, Henry, Anthony, and Scott. When Henry passed away at 14 of cancer, his parents established the Henry W. Center College Scholarship Fund at the JEA. She owned and operated her own real estate company in Savannah while raising her children. After 33 years of marriage, Miriam decided she wanted to get divorced and moved to California. In Malibu, California, she earned a degree in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica, and established a women's spiritual group, Daughters of Destiny.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter moving to Atlanta in the late 1990\u0026rsquo;s, she returned to Savannah and began writing, publishing, and editing. She authored and published the novel Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell in 2000, and memorialized her friendship with Academy Award winner Johnny Mercer in the musical Johnny Mercer \u0026amp; Me, which debuted in Savannah. Miriam also served an instrumental role in the construction of the Savannah Civic Center.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn her interview, Miriam discusses her childhood in Savannah, Georgia. She talks about growing up in her mother\u0026rsquo;s parents\u0026rsquo; house and talks about her aunts and uncles. She discusses her parents and her father\u0026rsquo;s career. She also shares memories of her father\u0026rsquo;s siblings and their spouses. She talks about attending the Jewish Educational Alliance in Savannah, and where she went to school. She discusses her life after graduating from high school and what it was like being young during World War II and after the war ended. She talks about meeting her husband and his career. She talks about her children and reminisces about her children\u0026rsquo;s relationship with her aunt and uncle.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMiriam discusses her decision to get divorced and move to California. She talks about getting her master's degree and experience in California. She discusses starting a women's spiritual group, Daughters of Destiny. She also talks about writing a book, Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell. She recalls moving to Atlanta and then back to Savannah. She talks about her affiliation with Bnai Brith Jacob in Savannah and recalls the organizations she and her sons were involved with. She recalls the names of some of the people she grew up with, and discusses being friends with non-Jewish people as well.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMiriam reminisces on her relationship with Johnny Mercer and handling his estate after his death. She talks about memorializing him by writing a musical Johnny Mercer \u0026amp; Me. She discusses her instrumental role in the construction of the Savannah Civic Center, honoring Johnny with the naming of the Johnny Mercer Theatre. The interview concludes with Miriam recalling a party she hosted, talking about the guests she invited and having Johnny perform. She briefly talks about her sister, her sister\u0026rsquo;s children, and her grandchildren.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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We're making a tape for the Savannah Jewish Archives. Miriam is not unknown to me; Miriam is my niece, so I know a lot of the material that we're probably going to cover but we'll get it on the record for that. Miriam, you're on, tell us where you were born and the date, if you wish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=2.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born at 215 West Charlton Street in Savannah, Georgia, in my grandmother's house. My mother said that I was in such a hurry to get into the world that I wouldn't allow her to go to the hospital, so Dr. Eisenberg, who many Jewish people from the that generation used, delivered me. I think my aunts and uncles were at the house. I believe my mother's youngest sister, Ethyl, who's married to the man doing this interview was nine years old when she was there and she heard all the screaming and yelling, not mine, my mother's. I was there for a year, I believe, before Mother and Daddy . . . it was customary then for families, married families, to live with their parents, so my mother being the eldest of the Richman's, Selig and Eva, she and Daddy, who was Isadore Kantsiper, came to live in Mama's house as we call that wonderful house. All the others lived there too because she was the first married one. After a year, I don't know whether they pushed us out or we just fell because it was a bit crowded. One bathroom for that entire family. There were six children, plus Mom and Papa, plus now my older sister Sara and me. Everybody used the one bathroom, and I don't think anybody ever complained that I knew of. It was just taken for granted. From there we moved to . . . Jefferson Street, right around from Broughton Street. They had put my father in a men's clothing store called Zips. I don't think that ever was his ambition. I think his ambition was to be a writer, he was a dreamer. My father was born in Russia, his mother died in childbirth. He was raised by his grandmother until his father went off and got the second wife, who we called Grandma and came and picked him up and brought him to America. He was 12 years old, he had to go to the first grade, so it was a source of embarrassment. Although he was very bright, he was embarrassed. He didn't fit in, he didn't like his stepmother, and he quit school in the fourth grade, so he really had no education, but he liked to read. He was in this men's clothing business; they had all kinds of clothing. I remember it being [indistinct:  2:51] because mother saw that we went to Ebba Olesen Thomson's dancing school, and somebody down there was always gilding our shoe, gold, or bronze for a recital. His father, who we called Grandpa, was a tailor. Harry, the Jewish name was [indistinct: 3:11 possibly 'Avram'], I'm not sure what it was, he made us coats in the tailor shop and he was so proud of them. He was a very sweet and gentle man. He used to babysit with us. The first death I ever remember was his, I must have been five years old, kept it in Mama's house, that's Mama Richman on Charlton Street because you weren't supposed to know about death since you knew it was a mystery family thing. They didn't talk about that. I just knew something happened, Grandpa disappeared. What can I say about the family? I think I was loved and raised by aunts and uncles because my parents were really not qualified to be parents, they were very immature. My grandmother, Richman, was the real loving source of our family. While Mother and Daddy worked on weekends in the men's store. We were always taken to Momma and Papa's house and stayed every weekend there because they kept their store open until mid-Morning on Saturday. Then they went home, and I don't know what happened, but we were kept at my grandparents. Which was a great treat because there I had . . . when Uncle George got married, I don't remember him . . . yes, he was, he was in that house, he brought his bride there. I remember Aunt Ruth . . . they always gave the best bedroom to the new bride and the new grooms. It was the upstairs bedroom that I was born in. I remember she had a little blue shoe, a little blue duck's shoe. She kept black hairpins in it. She had gorgeous long, black, shiny hair. She was a Russian beauty, really. I would watch her braid her hair and pile it up . . . I bet she did. When she got married, she gave me that shoe. I had it for years. I wish I still had it. Then they moved on, and the next couple got married, Sophie and Louis Black. Then Aunt Ruth and Uncle George had a daughter named Marilyn, who was four years younger than I, but the first cousin I had. After that couple moved out, it was Harry and Anne, no, I don't think they got married yet, Ceil and Albert but they lived in Miami [Florida]. Then it was Ethyl and David Rosenzweig, and they lived upstairs, and they had a charming apartment in the upstairs, where I learned to eat, don't tell anybody in the Jewish Archives, fried shrimp. They became my role models, and I just thought they were perfect, and I still do. It was a real loving family, and I started babysitting for their children. I think that's when Harry married Anne, he was the last to get married in the family. The story goes that he was the child that was premature and had to sleep in a shoe box, that's the hand-me-down. I guess that's true. Then on my father's side there were Daddy, who was the oldest, but he had one mother and the others had another. There was Pearle, who was a goddess in my eyes, she married and went to [indistinct: 6:07] she married a Yankee. That was really something different then. It was like going to the moon these days. They had two sons. Then there was Abram, who married Sylvia, and they had two children. The sad part about that family history is that they're all dead. It's four of them just wiped out from various reasons which will take a book to write about, so we won't. Then the next was Ben Kantsiper, who owned Alan Barry's on Broughton Street. He was a very successful businessman, and he has a number of children, I'll explain. Then there was eight, there was Lea, the youngest. She married somebody in Connecticut. She's still alive in a nursing home [indistinct: 6:52 possibly 'but she's really old']. She has one adopted son who was born on my birthday, who is a very successful attorney. Then, what did I do? I went out into the world. When I went through school, I didn't really stick with just a Jewish crowd, I really mixed with all. I made many friends from the Christian sector as well as the Jewish sector. I did belong to a club at the JEA [Jewish Educational Alliance]. One of the things I found out is that I felt validated early on by attention from boys because I really didn't get it from my parents. Suddenly I was this young and beauty at 13 or 14 and boys were hanging around the house. I would just kick them and thought nothing of it. One of the neighbors used to say to my mother, she's so popular. When I heard that word, it's sort of like saying a dog has a pedigree, so I felt important. That went on until I got married.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=36.0,464.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Where'd you go to school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=464.0,466.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I went to 37th Street School, then I went to Richard Arnold Junior High, and then I graduated Savannah High in June 1944. I'm the only person I know of that's never had a high school reunion, nobody's ever gotten together. I've made some feeble attempts, but it never came into fruition. Then I went work . . . I went to Draughon's Business School, because my father used to say, \"I can't wait for you all to get out of the house and earn your own living. I'm tired of supporting you.\" We got that message immediately. I almost quit high school because I was so tired of hearing that. I went to work at Hunter Air Base, and I was the secretary to the postal officer. Then the war ended, thank God . . . it was a very glamorous time to be young. There were beautiful men all around constantly. We had dates two or three a night. I feel sorry for the young women today. We were like tripping through a box of chocolate covered candy and they're complaining they can't find somebody to go out with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=466.0,524.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Now they have to put ads on the internet to make a connection. It's quite different from our time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=524.0,532.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I feel fortunate about the time I came up. It was a really glamorous time to be a young girl during World War II. It really was. Then I met Leo Center when I was dating all these guys, and he was a Savannah athletic hero. We got married when I was 20. We had our first baby when I was 21. He was a traveling salesman, and I nagged him to get off the road and [indistinct: 9:17] with ambition and he went into business. He could tell you right now, one of the reasons for his success, [indistinct: 9:24 possibly 'if it were not for me'], though we are not married anymore. We had Henry, who was a beautiful, perfect little baby and then 20 months later we had Anthony Kaye, who is now a lawyer. Then six years later we had Scott David, and the baby was named for this man that is interviewing me. Actually, Scott fell in love with David, and one of the funny stories was . . . do you want to ask me something?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=532.0,590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=590.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e One of the funny stories is when Leo and I were going on a trip to Europe, I asked my Aunt Ethyl and Uncle David if anything happened to us, if they'd be the guardian of our children. My oldest son died when he was 15, so there were two children then. My Aunt Ethyl, who pooh-poohed death like the rest of the family, said, \"I'll be gone long before you.\" I said, \"We don't know that. Scott's always worrying he's going to be an orphan if we keep traveling and something happens to him.\" They thought about it and said, yes, they would. They came over with a bottle of champagne, and we drank it and toasted our trip. I called Scott out of his upstairs bedroom and said, \"Aunt Ethyl and Uncle David said they will take you.\" I thought he was going to run out and sabotage the plane, he was so excited that they would be his guardian. There's a strong family connection. Then I went to work for my husband, he went into the Linoleum and Shade Shop, and I worked for no money. That's what a good wife was supposed to do, supported him with all my ambitions for myself. Then I went into the real estate business with [indistinct: 10:52 possibly ‘Aubrey Robinson’], a Savannah sage, well-known in the real-estate business, both good and bad. I learned a lot from him. Eventually, I went into my own real estate firm Miriam K. Center Realty and was very successful. Then I decided that I wanted to restore a historic home, and I bought this beautiful home on 304 East Gaston Street. Alan Buchsbaum, from Savannah, who's a well-known architect in New York, sort of the granddaddy of high tech, came down and did it with me, and that's when I decided I wanted it to be single. To the dismay of my mother and family, I got a divorce after 33 years of marriage and went on my own. Not too long after that, after the house was down, I completed that mission. I decided that I wanted to move to California. I rented my house out, jumped in my car, drove to California alone in my mid-fifties and I never felt so free in all my life. It was something about going west that I think opens a person up really deep into the soul. That was a great discovery. I started on a journey of spiritual psychology, and I got a master's out there even though I don't have an undergrad, I have a master's, so I've never done anything with it that, quote unquote, one is supposed to do. I don't believe in shoule. I had a teacher who used to say don't shoule on me and I won't shoule on you. That's S-H-O-U-L-E.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=591.0,742.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a good [indistinct: 12:23]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=742.0,746.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I like that one. I decided to study writing in UCLA [University of California, Los Angeles], and I began to write at a couple of newspapers out there. Lived in Malibu for a while, and then up in Ojai, O-J-A-I, California, which is in Indian Valley, in a beautiful area. I wrote for the newspaper there. Ultimately, something sent me back south. 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I finished a book that I was writing called Scarlett O'Hara Can Go to Hell, and it's sold out, and I'm thinking seriously of republishing it to get more press for it later. What I have done, and what my mission in life now is, is called Daughters of Destiny. I've created a women's seminar, which is spiritual [indistinct: 13:27]. I started it in California because I asked myself, what do women such as I do when they find themselves alone? I realized we need a support group, and we need people of life interest, so I just started doing this after I had belonged to many, many groups in California that were [indistinct: 13:46]. I had private therapy; I went into the desert with [indistinct: 13:54]. I have done a lot of things that really helped me open up my authentic voice [indistinct: 14:06] my authentic voice would pretend to be someone we want to be. Coming back to Savannah, I started these groups, I've done them 20 years in California, Atlanta, and Savannah, and now I've just bought a little house [indistinct: 14:19] and that will house women's activities and help women in transition. I also work with drug addicts in a recovery place. It's just the most satisfying thing I've ever done. These women spill their guts out and I just feel that they did it and they tell me how they really feel fulfilled by being in this group. I'm very satisfied with that and I hope that will be my ministry and my mission for the rest of my life.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=775.0,888.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Good, where is that house?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=888.0,890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e It's 12 East 41st . . . but I forgot to say I have two beautiful grandchildren.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=890.0,896.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Can't leave that out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=896.0,897.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=897.0,898.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e That house is in an area that's being revived and really interesting. It's going to be our little sort of art area in Savannah that we never really had before. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=898.0,912.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e [indistinct: 15:12] village was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=912.0,913.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e They're doing a great job on it. Every week there's new [indistinct: 15:18]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=913.0,918.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e It's very different, there's a real mixture of all sorts of people, race, religion, and I think that's healthy, and I think it will be a healthy move for Savannah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=918.0,929.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me a little about the family, belonged to a synagogue? Were they . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=929.0,934.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e The Richman's and the Kantsiper's . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=934.0,936.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Your immediate family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=936.0,937.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e My husband and I belonged to B.B. [Bnai Brith] Jacob, all three of my sons were bar mitzvahed there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=937.0,943.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Your parents were B.B. Jacob?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=943.0,948.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, but my father rarely went to synagogue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=948.0,949.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Your kids were all bar mitzvahed there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=949.0,956.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e They were all bar mitzvahed at B.B. Jacob Synagogue. The girls didn't get bat mitzvahed then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=956.0,957.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=957.0,958.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e We went to a Sunday school though at the old B.B. Jacob, we went to a Sunday school to learn about Adam and Eve and Moses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=958.0,965.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Charming myths. Let's see what else . . . women didn't go to Hebrew school then, and we covered the business, we covered the school and the shul, the JEA. Did you spend much time at JEA?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=965.0,989.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I did it with the old JEA when I was a child, but my sons spent a lot of time at JEA when they were both . . . the oldest son, of course, died when he was 15, but he was active in AZA [Aleph Zadik Aleph], and he was a Boys Scout and a Cubs Scout. He was very active, and a good athlete. Tony spent a lot of time there, and so did Scott. All three of my sons spent a lot of time there. They got great benefits. In fact, when my son Henry died, we named a scholarship after him, Henry Walter Scholarship. Many people in Savannah have told me that their children used that, and what a great benefit it was. I still give gifts to it I want to remember somebody [indistinct: 17:06].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=989.0,1028.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e How about your group, if not widespread, who were your contemporaries?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1028.0,1037.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e When I was growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1037.0,1041.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e From around the teens, maybe.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1041.0,1043.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e There was Sylvia Kaminsky, Rosalyn Flanag [sp], Benny Adler, Shirley, I can't think of her new last name, Estell Blair, Pee Wee Weil, whose name was Selma, she lived in Thunderbolt [Georgia], yes, she was one. We remained friends and still are after all these years. But mostly I've not connected with the people I grew up with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1043.0,1073.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you happen to have non-Jewish friends when most of the crowd hung pretty close together at the Alliance or socials and all the . . . in my generation, and I think even mostly in yours, were where the Jewish crowd.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1073.0,1090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I just think in the beginning I always never categorized people. The girls in the school that I liked, like Peggy Moore, and Dorothy Hall. I just was close to them and to go to each other's house and spend the night. I liked Gentile boys too. My mother didn't like that, that was been a really bad thing in those days. I have a son that married a non-Jewish girl, and it didn't faze me, but there were different times then. I had to sneak out to go with Gentile boys.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1090.0,1121.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, Aunt Ethyl did that too . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1121.0,1124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e You never told me that!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1124.0,1125.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Her family didn't approve.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1125.0,1126.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e Are you telling me that after 87 years? I've never . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1126.0,1129.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e I think she had a crush on one of the soda jerks at Solomon's Drugstore. She probably won't remember the name. I don't remember it. Soda jerks were very glamorous people, we thought they were mixologists . . .","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1129.0,1145.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e [indistinct: 19:06] I was in love with . . . I had crushes on the BC [Benedictine Military School] boys. I'd watch them in their uniforms. One of the boys asked me to be a [indistinct: 19:14 possibly 'sponsor'] for the football team. My mother said, \"You can't do that.\" I was just crushed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1145.0,1165.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e [interview pauses, then resumes] I know you were active in promoting some affair for Johnny Mercer. Tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1165.0,1172.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e When Johnny died, Ginger, his widow, called me and said that you and Johnny were such good friends he and I, that she would like for me to handle their real estate. He had left his Moon River property to his son Jeff. They flew into Savannah, and I have the title of being the person that sold Moon River, and he didn't want to live in Savannah, Jeff said he wanted no part of Savannah. Then Ginger called me not too long after that and said someone had approached her about naming the Lucas, the Johnny Mercer Theatre, and doing a dinner theater like they do and wanted to know what I thought. I discouraged her because my experience of dinner theaters around the country are [indistinct: 20:11]. I discouraged her from doing that. That would have been money raising fund for her. They would have paid her, so I had the great idea of taking the theater, which was the new Civic Center then . . . late 1970's. Johnny died in 1976. I went to the mayor and Alderman. My then husband Leo was an Alderman. I said, why don't we name the theater the Johnny Mercer Theatre? All of them thought it was a great idea, and John Rousakis said, \"Leo, you can be the chairman.\" He said, \"No, it was Miriam's idea, and she wants to be the chairperson.\" I was the chairperson who put it together. I flew to California to visit our cousin, Hal Kantor, who helped me produce it and direct it. He took me to meet Margaret Whiting and Rosie Clooney and Rose Marie and Helen O'Connell, who were doing a performance of 4 Girls 4. We went backstage, and actually, Margaret Whiting and I had a mutual friend, a dentist, who had already approached us, and she said, \"Let's do it.\" I had to bargain with their agent, and I've never produced a show before. I realized it was just like real estate. You just make it. They give you a price, and you make an offer, and they give you another price, and you counter. I finally got a real good price for the city, and it was a really wonderful performance. I even had the quirky idea of spelling theater, T-H-E-A-T-R-E. A lot of people criticize us, but I know Johnny would get a big kick out of that and that's the way [indistinct: 21:47].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1172.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e That's good. Now I remember that was a big success. I also remember an evening of Johnny at your home. Tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1308.0,1321.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e That's the greatest party I ever gave. Later, before he died, the last few years of his life, he would come to Savannah because his mother was put in a Tybee [Island] nursing home and he didn't want to do it, but he really had to because nobody could take care of her. He did some darling things, like he called me up once in California and said, \"You get somebody to pick [indistinct: 22:21] right, and send me the bill. He asked me one night when he was at the beach at the house that I lived in and said, if I wanted to have a dinner party, he would sing for my guests. I said, \"God, that would be wonderful!\" I gathered some interesting people. We had an artist with me . . . from New York, Bill Scharf. He married one of my girlhood friends, Sally Kravitch, Aaron Kravitch's daughter. And we put together a party and Ken Palmer, the piano player, brought the piano because I didn't have one. It was a very, very successful party. A number of people, I would say, got inebriated to the max. But he sang all these wonderful songs. Mayor Rousakis and his wife were there, inebriated. Anne Thornberry and Bill Thornberry, she was a Cordon Bleu chef who fixed the food. They were very inebriated. Dr. Milton Mazer and his companion [indistinct: 23:20 possibly 'Virginia O'Leary'], my uncle David and aunt Ethyl, Rosie and Chuck Tallman, Betty and Ken Palmer, Sally and Bill Scharf, can you think of anyone else?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1321.0,1412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e No. That was a memorable evening, I'll never forget it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1412.0,1416.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e My son, Tony, who had to walk Johnny Mercer home. Tony was home from the University of Florida, and he said, it was pouring down rain, and Johnny was walking in the gutter outside our house, singing in the rain and saying, \"I wish I was Gene Kelly.\" Yes, that was a great evening.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1416.0,1434.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, he sang, and Kenny Palmer played that whole . . . I don't think we've mentioned your one sibling and her kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1434.0,1444.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I have an older sister. I did mention that I have an older sister, but I haven't gone on with any of her history. She's two years older than I am, or close to it, I don't know if it was that much. She just moved back to Savannah after a 30-year absence. Has two children, Jerry, who's a private detective in Atlanta, and Ellen, who is in the [indistinct: 24:24] in Miami Beach.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1444.0,1469.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eROSENZWEIG:\u003c/strong\u003e Sara lives now back here after all these years away, she's back here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1469.0,1476.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/transcript/80853/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eCENTER:\u003c/strong\u003e I have a granddaughter, Kristy, who is studying to be a psychologist, and a grandson, Jeffery, who's getting ready to be an [indistinct: 24:42] possibly 'import expert'] he loves to speak Spanish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1476.0,1490.40773"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/annotation_set/1909","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/annotation_set/1909/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Rosenzweig (1917-2008) was born in Savannah, Georgia to Abraham and Sarah Rosenzweig. He graduated from Commerical High School and attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was the owner of David's Supermarket for 55 years. He was involved in the community, including serving as President and Founder of the Savannah Concert Association, Member of the Telfair Academy Board, President of the Jewish Educational Alliance, President of the Friends of the Library Board, Member of the Congregation Mickve Israel, President of B'nai B'rith, and Chairman of United Jewish Appeal. 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City officials negotiated a peaceful surrender of the city in 1864, saving the city from destruction by General Sherman’s army. The city is known for its historic district with its 22 parklike squares, which was based on a design known as the Oglethorpe Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=36.0,464.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/annotation_set/1909/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEthyl Richman Rosenzweig (1918-2012) was born in Russia but immigrated to Savannah, Georgia with her family. She was the youngest of six children born to Eva and Selig Richman. She graduated from Commercial High School and worked as a bookkeeper until she married David Rosenzweig. They had two daughters and a son. She was active in various organizations including Hadassah, B’nai B’rith Women, United Jewish Appeal, and the League of Women Voters. She was a member of Congregation Mickve Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=36.0,464.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/annotation_set/1909/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSelig Richman (1880-1945) was born in Russia and moved to Savannah, Georgia. He became a naturalized citizen in 1910. 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As a child performer during the years just after the silent film era, she had a successful singing career under the stage name Baby Rose Marie. She was widely known for her role on the CBS situation comedy The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966). \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1172.0,1308.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/annotation_set/1909/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHelen O'Connell (1920-1993) was an American singer, and actress, described as \"the quintessential big band singer of the 1940’s\". She was born in Lima, Ohio and grew up in Toledo, Ohio. By the time she was 15, she and her older sister, Alice, were singing duets in clubs and hotels and on radio stations in Toledo. 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Scharf taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford University, the Pratt Institute, and The Art Students League of New York, from which he retired in 2015. In 1947, Scharf married Diana Denny, with whom he had one son, William Denny Scharf. The couple divorced in 1951. In 1956, Scharf married Sally Kravitch. William and Sally had one son, Aaron Anderson Scharf. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302#t=1321.0,1412.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/150175/file/276302/annotation_set/1909/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSally Kravitch Scharf (1927-2021) was born in Savannah, Georgia to Aaron and Ella Wiseman Kravitch. She was an actress with the stage name Sally Jessup. 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