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Julius also worked as an undertaker and operated a funeral parlor in the back of the furniture store. Bert’s father, Bertram J. Rosenbush, Sr. (1902-1979), joined a Jewish community of 200 Jewish people, many of them involved in cotton growing and agriculture. Others, like Julius, owned clothing, department stores and other retail stores.  On the High Holy Days, most of the town’s retail establishments were closed. Bertram Julius Rosenbush, Jr. was born on November 2, 1929 to Bertram Sr., and Miriam Stein Rosenbush (1907-2003). He had one younger sister, Bette Doris Rosenbush Wallerstein (1933-2018). He and his family lived just around the corner from the synagogue, B’nai Jeshurun (Reform). He went to Sunday school but the family was mostly secular and usually only attended synagogue on the High Holy Days. He went to public schools until the eleventh grade when we went to military school in Marion, Alabama. The family employed Black people as domestics, cooks and chauffeurs.  Bert’s family was on good terms with the Black population, giving them credit in the furniture store. Bert did all the usual childhood and young adult activities: going to the movies, bicycling, Boy Scouts, swimming, dating, going to dances, picnicking, etc. He also participated in Jewish youth activities, including Falcon. Later, he became a member of the Demopolis Country Club.  Bert married Mary Louise Bell (b. 1933) in the 1970s. Bert attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, then returned to Demopolis to run the family business. As the Jewish population dwindled, in 1995 the Reform Temple was given to the Episcopalian Church. They are using it for storage. Bert and Mary Louise have also donated several buildings to the city, including the Rosenbush Building downtown, which is now (2020) home to the Marengo County History and Archive Museum. Bert Rosenbush, Jr. passed away on January 10, 2019 in Demopolis at the age of 89. After his death, there are no longer any Jews that reside in Demopolis.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eBert recalls his family and their roots in the South and their arrival in Demopolis, Alabama from Mississippi where his father, Julius, opened a furniture store with a funeral parlor in the back.  Bert remembers how his father retired from the funeral business when a murder-suicide occurred in Demopolis in which a man murdered his entire family. The family was so similar to Julius’ that it shook Julius up badly and he left the funeral business. Bert discusses growing up in the South including attending public school, dating, sports, parties, picnicking and getting into mild trouble.  He talks about celebrating Christmas and having a Christmas tree.  Bert also spoke about participating in Jewish youth activities including the Falcon. He discusses the retail furniture business in a small town including hiring Black employees, giving credit to Black people, and getting robbed at gunpoint in 1990 in the store. The thief tied up Bert, Mary Louise, and his delivery people, and locked them in the storeroom. The thief stole Bert’s car and fled. After he wrecked Bert’s car he was captured in Mississippi. Bert and his wife suffered no physical harm. Bert recalls segregation as he experienced it during his youth and his family’s attitude toward Black people, personally and in their business dealings. Bert reflects on the diminishing Jewish presence in Demopolis, which was about 200 in the early 1900s and his sadness that he is the only Jew left in Demopolis (Mary Louise is Baptist). He discusses the strong Jewish influence in retail and agriculture and how it dwindled starting in about the 1970s as the young moved away. The synagogue was closed in the late 1990s and donated to a local Episcopal church. Bert describes his attempts to renovate some historic buildings in Demopolis, to save the synagogue building, and his dedication to commemorating the Holocaust in Demopolis.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28030"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eBert Rosenbush, Jr. interviewed by Sandra Berman on January 11, 2012. One line is also spoken by Bert's wife, Mary Louise Bell Rosenbush.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJulius (1859-1911) and Estella (Essie) Baum Rosenbush (1870-1956) came to Demopolis, Alabama in 1905.  Before coming to Demopolis Julius lived in Mississippi, where he sold turkeys. In Demopolis Julius opened a furniture store, the Rosenbush Furniture Company. Julius also worked as an undertaker and operated a funeral parlor in the back of the furniture store. Bert’s father, Bertram J. Rosenbush, Sr. (1902-1979), joined a Jewish community of 200 Jewish people, many of them involved in cotton growing and agriculture. Others, like Julius, owned clothing, department stores and other retail stores.  On the High Holy Days, most of the town’s retail establishments were closed. Bertram Julius Rosenbush, Jr. was born on November 2, 1929 to Bertram Sr., and Miriam Stein Rosenbush (1907-2003). He had one younger sister, Bette Doris Rosenbush Wallerstein (1933-2018). He and his family lived just around the corner from the synagogue, B’nai Jeshurun (Reform). He went to Sunday school but the family was mostly secular and usually only attended synagogue on the High Holy Days. He went to public schools until the eleventh grade when we went to military school in Marion, Alabama. The family employed Black people as domestics, cooks and chauffeurs.  Bert’s family was on good terms with the Black population, giving them credit in the furniture store. Bert did all the usual childhood and young adult activities: going to the movies, bicycling, Boy Scouts, swimming, dating, going to dances, picnicking, etc. He also participated in Jewish youth activities, including Falcon. Later, he became a member of the Demopolis Country Club.  Bert married Mary Louise Bell (b. 1933) in the 1970s. Bert attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, then returned to Demopolis to run the family business. As the Jewish population dwindled, in 1995 the Reform Temple was given to the Episcopalian Church. They are using it for storage. Bert and Mary Louise have also donated several buildings to the city, including the Rosenbush Building downtown, which is now (2020) home to the Marengo County History and Archive Museum. Bert Rosenbush, Jr. passed away on January 10, 2019 in Demopolis at the age of 89. After his death, there are no longer any Jews that reside in Demopolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBert recalls his family and their roots in the South and their arrival in Demopolis, Alabama from Mississippi where his father, Julius, opened a furniture store with a funeral parlor in the back.  Bert remembers how his father retired from the funeral business when a murder-suicide occurred in Demopolis in which a man murdered his entire family. The family was so similar to Julius’ that it shook Julius up badly and he left the funeral business. Bert discusses growing up in the South including attending public school, dating, sports, parties, picnicking and getting into mild trouble.  He talks about celebrating Christmas and having a Christmas tree.  Bert also spoke about participating in Jewish youth activities including the Falcon. He discusses the retail furniture business in a small town including hiring Black employees, giving credit to Black people, and getting robbed at gunpoint in 1990 in the store. The thief tied up Bert, Mary Louise, and his delivery people, and locked them in the storeroom. The thief stole Bert’s car and fled. After he wrecked Bert’s car he was captured in Mississippi. Bert and his wife suffered no physical harm. Bert recalls segregation as he experienced it during his youth and his family’s attitude toward Black people, personally and in their business dealings. Bert reflects on the diminishing Jewish presence in Demopolis, which was about 200 in the early 1900s and his sadness that he is the only Jew left in Demopolis (Mary Louise is Baptist). He discusses the strong Jewish influence in retail and agriculture and how it dwindled starting in about the 1970s as the young moved away. The synagogue was closed in the late 1990s and donated to a local Episcopal church. Bert describes his attempts to renovate some historic buildings in Demopolis, to save the synagogue building, and his dedication to commemorating the Holocaust in Demopolis.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I'm in Demopolis, Alabama with Bert Rosenbush who has agreed to participate in the Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Project of the William Breman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum. My name is Sandy Berman and I'm very appreciative of you participating in this project. I'd like to begin by asking you, Bert, a little bit about your back. . . your [parents]. . . your family's background. Where they were from in Europe and how they came to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Demopolis, Alabama.\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: My granddaddy, Julius Rosenbush, came to Demopolis and opened a store in 1895, but he came to America a few years before that. He was in business in Mississippi and I have a picture of where he was selling turkeys. . . he's got a drove of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"turkeys. So then he was in Mississippi. I forgot. . . let's see, the town was. . .\n\nM. ROSENBUSH: Corinth?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: No, it wasn't Corinth. I can't think of the town right off, that\nhe lived in in Mississippi, but. . . and then my grandmother, Essie Baum, lived\nin Corinth, Mississippi. They had some friends ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in this area and they met. My\ngrandmother, Essie Baum, married my granddaddy around 1895 and he opened a store in Demopolis. He was a very successful merchant. He had a chain of stores in this area. He also ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had a funeral home along with a furniture store. He opened. . . he had a cemetery that he would bury his. . . people in, that didn't have a plot to bury their loved ones. We have a book showing a lot of his people that passed away in those days and they would give a history. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":". . of the family and what they died of, and so forth. Then my grandmother's, Essie Rosenbush, daddy was a veteran of the Civil War. They, as I said before, lived in Corinth, Mississippi.\n\nBERMAN: Is that C-A-R. . .\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: C-O-R-I-N-T-H. 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Rosenbush, Sr.] didn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"keep up with my grandmother's family.\nMy mother [Miriam Stein Rosenbush]. . . was sick and she just. . . it was a\nlittle problem then, in the family, although my daddy stayed married to my\nmother for 50 years. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lived together, but my mother was. . . sick. Then I'd\nsay, about four years ago, my daddy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had sent a telegram to some of the family in\nTexas, congratulating a marriage in the family. So they found this telegram that\nmy daddy had sent and then somehow they found my name and they called me up. So\nwe have a relationship now, with all my family. . . the Baum family from Texas.\nThey've gotten on the. . . historical society out there. My ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"granddaddy started a\ntemple in. . . I believe it was a temple. . . an organization, a Jewish\norganization. . . in Texas. . . so they. . . we just. . . getting all the\nfamilies together. They're coming to see Mary Louise and me, the 21st of this\nmonth. 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But it was. . . what town\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was it?\n\nBERMAN: We can come back to it.\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Okay.\n\nBERMAN: Do you know why they immigrated? Why he immigrated? Did he ever talk\nabout it?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: No, they never talked about it, but I'm sure it was for the\nfreedom that they would have in America. I have pictures of my granddaddy and\nhis brothers. He had four brothers. I could show you that picture ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"before you leave.\n\nBERMAN: Did all [brothers]. . . all the family end up in Demopolis?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: They lived. . . some of them lived in Bessemer [Alabama], in Birmingham [Alabama], and Meridian [Mississippi]. An interesting thing about one of the brothers: they made a salve. It was made out of wolves' fat. I have a little carton where they. . . he sold a salve.\n\nBERMAN: That's a great story. So, your grandparents met in Mississippi. I'm\njust. . . getting it all together here. 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There mostly. . . on the High Holy Days, practically\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"every store in town was closed. The ones that weren't Jewish they would close\ntoo. So on the High Holy Days the downtown area was just all closed up.\n\nBERMAN: Why would the other stores close?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: I don't know why they would close and I'm not 100 percent sure\nthat they did. 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They were. . . like I said\nbefore, they were good to me and I was respectful to them, but I never became\nreal close to them in any way.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did your father or you have Black employees at the furniture store?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Yes. Then my grandmother always had a Black driver for her car.\nShe couldn't drive. They would drive my grandmother. 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I remember one\ntime, the mayor asked for a donation. . . said he wanted to do something and I\nmade a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"donation to him. But I never did know what he did with the money.\n\nBERMAN: What was the general tone in Demopolis during that period? Was. . . were\nthere [White] Citizens' Councils? Was there any Klan activity here?\n\nB. 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Our temple was. . . we remodeled our temple around 1951. . . it was a big\nbeautiful building with. . . it had an organ in it and a balcony for the choir.\nThen it was a wooden building. . . it ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"became hard for our congregation to keep\nup. At the time, my daddy was building this house and the architect drew up some\nlittle plans for the remodeling of the Temple. We had a reader and a Torah. It\nwas a nice little building. 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But it was given to them and there's nothing I can do\nabout it. I went in it one night to make a little talk about the temple and the\nlawn mower was in there. Then a friend of mine went in the temple one time and\nprayer books were all over the floor and he brought me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one.\n\nBERMAN: That's a shame. You had mentioned that there was a major department\nstore in town. . .\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Mayer Brothers?\n\nBERMAN: What happened to that?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: They borrowed some money from the bank. The bank took it over and\nall of the Mayers left town and passed away. 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Do you think loss of\nmanufacturing? Loss of. . . ?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Cotton. . . cotton was king and then when cotton started. . . the cotton. . . farmers. . . there were a lot of tenant farmers. They had farms and then the colored people raised the cotton and lived on the farms [in] tenant ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"houses. They would come to town and shop and spend their meager earnings. It just changed. 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[It] had leaded ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"glass windows. Just a great, big, beautiful home. When she died it wasn't preserved. I regret that. But it's just. . . the way it happened.\n\nBERMAN: Have you ever thought about living anywhere else in all these years?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: No, no, no. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But my daddy. . . never attended services very much.\n\nBERMAN: Did you have a Passover seder at your house?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: The only Passover supper we ever had in Demopolis, I got it together. I had this local restaurant where I would eat a lot and I had the lady fix a Passover supper. 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I took an active part in that, and tried to do what I could as a young man to\nmaybe help the town a little bit. But I just. . . I never did get involved in\nthe Rotary Club and the Lions Club and the Kiwanis Club. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was a Mason and I took part in that organization, so I'm. . . but I would've. . . I don't know\nthat I could've done much. I don't know whether the people would've listened to me or not.\n\nBERMAN: Do you miss the furniture business?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Not really. 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It would have cost us several hundred thousand dollars to maintain it and we didn't have any children to leave it to. We felt like it would be a heritage for the Rosenbush name to give it. . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it's called the \"Rosenbush Building.\" So we talked about it and decided to give it to the city. They just had a new Council that came in shortly after we gave the building. 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They had several of the members of the congregation that\nwere in the club and it never was any antisemitism or any remarks or anything.\nThat's just the way it was in Demopolis.\n\nBERMAN: Does it seem strange to you that you are the last Jewish person in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Demopolis?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: It's just the way the good Lord dealt the cards. In 1990, my wife\nand I joined the Temple [Emanu-El] in Tuscaloosa. 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Every year my wife and I used to put up a\ndisplay at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"library about the Museum. We had some pictures that we'd put up.\n\nBERMAN: Growing up in Demopolis in the 1940s did you know anything about what\nwas happening to the Jews of Europe?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: No, my daddy never talked about it. I was oblivious to the fact. 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In the summers my daddy would by\na season ticket for us to go to the swimming pool. I enjoyed playing tennis and\nswimming. . . then my girlfriend. . . we would. . . go to the dances together. I\nguess those were the years that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I enjoyed the most.\n\nBERMAN: Did. . . it just went right out of my head. You mentioned going to\ndances and the swimming pool and your girl. . . oh, I know! Was there one movie\ntheater in town?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: One movie theater.\n\nBERMAN: What was the name of it?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Marengo Theater.\n\nBERMAN: How much did it cost to go to a movie and have a snack?\n\nB. 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During the summer I'd put peroxide on my hair and turn it a\ndifferent color, and play tennis, and just that type of activities.\n\nBERMAN: Was there any ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4530.0,4560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friendships forged between the white children and the\nBlack children at that time in the 1940s, 1950s, do you remember?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: No, we never, never. . . they'd have their activities and we'd\nhave ours. It was a good relationship, but it was just two different. . . 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ROSENBUSH: Maybe my wife could say a few words.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4590.0,4620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She's saying, \"No, no.\" Was there ever a favorite customer at the\nfurniture store? Somebody. . . good or bad. Or a customer that you just. . .\nhave a memory about?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Not really. We had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot. . . when I started out in the furniture\nbusiness, my daddy bought a 40-passenger Ford bus and converted it into a\nshowroom. I'd go from house to house selling furniture. I'd go all over this\npart of the country, selling furniture.\n\nBERMAN: In a bus?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Yes. People would. . . I'd stop at a house and they'd get on the\nbus and see if there's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"something they wanted, and [I'd] sell it to them on\ncredit. Some of the sales I made were bad sales and [we] never collected for\nthem and some of them were good.\n\nBERMAN: How long did that go on?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: I don't know, maybe a year or two. Then some of the towns I'd go\nto. . . 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She left Demopolis in high school\nand never ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"came back. We have a good relationship, we talk to her on the\nweekends, but she hasn't lived in Demopolis in. . . 50 years.\n\nBERMAN: Did she leave for marriage or did she just leave Demopolis?\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: My daddy sent her off to school in Virginia and then she met a man\nand married him there and just never came back.\n\nBERMAN: I was just ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/transcript/21055/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wondering. . . so I think we're just about finished.\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: I thank you for the interview.\n\nBERMAN: Thank you so much!\n\nB. ROSENBUSH: Maybe it won't be too boring for the people that listen.\n\nBERMAN: No, no! I'm so glad I asked that final question because you never told\nme you drove a bus around these small towns! That's great! Thank you so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=4770.0,4800.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Rosenbush Furniture Company was established in 1895 and operated until 2002.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDaniel Baum (1837-1926). He fought for the Confederacy in the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIn earlier days, the undertaker in a town was often a furniture maker. The undertakers were usually skilled cabinet makers and woodworkers whose skills were easily translated into making caskets. This became a side business for many furniture makers in small towns throughout the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThis incident occurred on November 25, 1934. The “negro servant girl” arrived at the home of her employers, Francis Clements Smith and Elsie Hildreth Smith, in Demopolis on the morning of the 25th. There she found the bodies of her employers and their two children, Frank and Sabra. They had all been shot. Bert’s father handled the arrangements and they were buried in Tuscaloosa. The Coroner’s Jury found that it was a homicide saying that Francis had killed his wife and two children and then killed himself an hour later. This is odd, however, because Francis had two gunshot wounds to the head, which is hard to do if one is committing suicide. The children were young, one just a baby of three months who was shot in her crib. See article from the \u003cem\u003eDemopolis Times\u003c/em\u003e, November 29, 1934 in the file for more details.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, a job that otherwise must be performed painstakingly by hand. The first modern mechanical cotton gin was invented by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the first large department stores of note in Demopolis, Mayer Brothers, built its three-story brick building adjacent across from the public square in 1897 and operated for most of the twentieth century. That building is now utilized by Robertson Banking Company.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMilton Henry Long (1891-1956) became heavily involved in Demopolis life, owning five downtown stores and donating vast sums of his wealth to the B’nai Jeshurun congregation, its local cemetery, and local educational causes like a school for Blacks in Greene County, Alabama.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRosh HaShanah\u003c/em\u003e (New Year) and \u003cem\u003eYom Kippur\u003c/em\u003e (Day of Atonement), the two most important holidays of the Jewish year.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e Reform Judaism is a division within Judaism, especially in North America and Western Europe. Historically it began in the nineteenth century. In general, the Reform movement maintains that Judaism and Jewish traditions should be modernized and compatible with participation in Western culture. While the Torah remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, bat mitzvah, and women rabbis), musical instrumentation is allowed in the services and most of the service is in English.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOrthodox Judaism is a traditional branch of Judaism that strictly follows the Written Torah and the Oral Law concerning prayer, dress, food, sex, family relations, social behavior, the Sabbath day, holidays, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA form of Judaism that seeks to preserve Jewish tradition and ritual but has a more flexible approach to the interpretation of the law than Orthodox Judaism. 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Over a long weekend, participants endured rounds of breakfast dates, lunch dates, tea dance dates, early evening dates, late night dates, formal dances, and cocktail parties, with the goal of meeting a “nice Jewish boy or girl” who might well become a spouse. Similar courtship weekends in Southern cities included Montgomery, Alabama’s “Falcon,” Birmingham, Alabama’s “Jubilee,” and Columbus, Georgia’s “Holly Days.”\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/32616/file/101443/annotation_set/267/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Last Night of Ballyhoo\u003c/em\u003e was written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter Alfred Uhry that premiered in Atlanta in 1996. 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