{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/pg1hh6f16x/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Reznick, Anne"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2007-03-03 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Reznick, Anne Chikotzki Kinsler (Interviewee)","Einstein, Ruth (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["Video"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Children of Holocaust Survivors Project (CHS)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAnne Reznik grew up in Zerbst, Germany, and stayed there until she was 10-years-old. After some horrific actions taken by the Nazis such as Kristallnacht, she went to Havanna, Cuba, and then eventually to Tampa, Florida. She went to a public school in Zerbst. When she moved to Havanna, Cuba she attended a school specializing in English language for refugees. She completed her education in America. When she was in school, she wrote an essay about what Americanism meant to her. In this writing, she focused on the differences between her life in Germany and America. As an adult, she was very involved in her synagogue in Tampa. Anne was the vice president of the Florida region of Hadassa where she worked from age 14 until she moved to Georgia, the sisterhood president of her Tampa synagogue, and volunteered as a pink lady in Tampa.  \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview with Anne Reznik begins with her family history. She begins by introducing her parents, their names, and places of birth. She recalls her father coming from Wylów, Poland, and her mother from Königsberg, Germany. Anne explains why her father came to Königsberg, Germany, for horse dealing, and how her parents met. This segment concluded with her parents moving to Zerbst.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik then discusses her childhood in Germany. She and her sister Irene had many challenges as German Jews. She speaks of how she lived in a huge house and talked about how her father rented out the basement to other people. Reznik explains how she was treated in her small town, specifically how she had only one friend and how she couldn’t use local amenities, including the pool because she was Jewish. Reznik recollects her mother was going to pull her out of school because of the mistreatment of Jews, but after Kristallnacht, the decision was made for them. The schools were closed to Jews.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik talks about her relationships with her parents, aunts, and grandmother. She touches on the fact that she could talk to her father about the issues that were happening to her family and other Jews in the town. She remembers she did not have this open line of communication with to her mother who believed things would go away if they were not discussed. Reznik had a very good relationship with her grandmother, and she discusses how distraught she was when her grandmother and her other two great-aunts died as a result of treatment by the Nazis. Reznik talks a few times about her inability to remember the specifics of that time because she had blocked it out of her mind.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik’s parents decided it was time to leave Germany after Kristallnacht, they already had papers from her uncle who was living in the American South at the time. Her father used those papers to get his family to Havanna Cuba and they eventually made it to Tampa Florida. Reznik recalls the night of Kristallnacht when she nearly got her head smashed by a brick thrown through her window. The night brought on more chaos such as her house and the items inside being completely ruined and her and her family getting arrested and put in a room with other Jews. Her mother was very calm and collected through the night and helped everyone during this time of need. Her father was hiding in a different town with a Nazi who was one of his customers.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik recalls her mother helping her father cross into the Netherlands first to catch his ship in Rotterdam. Her mother returned to Germany to take Reznik and her sister on a ship to Cuba. In Cuba, they were met by a Jewish committee. The family eventually settled down in Santos Suarez where Reznik went to school to learn English. After a couple of months in Cuba, Reznik’s parents looked for destinations in America and settled in Tampa, Florida. The family stayed in Tampa for many years and was active in the Synagogue, not the Temple. Reznik discusses the inequity between the members of the synagogue and the Temple. She found the Temple members not welcoming to Synagogue members. She did not like this lack of support for fellow Jews in her new community. \u003cbr\u003eReznik goes on to describe growing up in Tampa. She again presents the difference between the people who belonged to the Temple and the Synagogue. As a member of the Synagogue, Reznik says the members of the Temple only accepted her after she won the essay contest and went to Washington D.C. to meet Vice President Wallace.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik discusses how when in Tampa her father moved from working with horses which he had done in Germany, to the scrap metal business. He was so successful he was able to provide his family with a good house in an expensive neighborhood. Her father continued practicing his faith in Tampa being a part of Conservative and Orthodox synagogues, as well as the Little Shul. The entire family was a part of the Board of Shulen.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik married Jack Reznik who her parents did not like at all, more so, her father. He was a Jewish military man. After her parents consented to the marriage, Reznik went to his military base in California to marry him when she was just weeks short of her 16th birthday. When his time in the military was over, the Reznik’s returned to Tampa where they both went to work for her father. When her father died, he left them the business. \u003cbr\u003eReznik’s mother died, and her father died three years later. While her mother was still living, she learned her grandmother and her aunts had died. All her mother’s relatives had died in the Holocaust, and a few of her father’s relatives managed to escape. Reznik had three sons: one when she was 20, 15, and 30. Her husband died of an aneurysm, leaving her a single parent.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik discusses going to Israel and how connected she felt there. She wanted to stay there but she really didn’t have any skills to help benefit the Kibbutz community. Her second husband, her children, and her sister all got to go to Israel, but she went a little bit after them. Her second husband sold Israel bonds.  \u003cbr\u003eReznik eventually left Tampa in the 1980s after her second husband also died. Her boys urged her to move to Tallahassee, Florida, or Atlanta, Georgia. She eventually picked Atlanta, Georgia but she never felt like she fit in there. Reznik ended this interview by revealing her agitation regarding not finding a place in Atlanta and wondering why that was and not knowing why people didn’t like her.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)","\u003cp\u003eAnne Reznick was interviewed by Ruth Einstein on March 3, 2007 in Sandy Springs, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e (general)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29309"]}},{"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\u003eAnne Reznik grew up in Zerbst, Germany, and stayed there until she was 10-years-old. After some horrific actions taken by the Nazis such as Kristallnacht, she went to Havanna, Cuba, and then eventually to Tampa, Florida. She went to a public school in Zerbst. When she moved to Havanna, Cuba she attended a school specializing in English language for refugees. She completed her education in America. When she was in school, she wrote an essay about what Americanism meant to her. In this writing, she focused on the differences between her life in Germany and America. As an adult, she was very involved in her synagogue in Tampa. Anne was the vice president of the Florida region of Hadassa where she worked from age 14 until she moved to Georgia, the sisterhood president of her Tampa synagogue, and volunteered as a pink lady in Tampa. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview with Anne Reznik begins with her family history. She begins by introducing her parents, their names, and places of birth. She recalls her father coming from Wyl\u0026oacute;w, Poland, and her mother from K\u0026ouml;nigsberg, Germany. Anne explains why her father came to K\u0026ouml;nigsberg, Germany, for horse dealing, and how her parents met. This segment concluded with her parents moving to Zerbst. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik then discusses her childhood in Germany. She and her sister Irene had many challenges as German Jews. She speaks of how she lived in a huge house and talked about how her father rented out the basement to other people. Reznik explains how she was treated in her small town, specifically how she had only one friend and how she couldn\u0026rsquo;t use local amenities, including the pool because she was Jewish. Reznik recollects her mother was going to pull her out of school because of the mistreatment of Jews, but after Kristallnacht, the decision was made for them. The schools were closed to Jews. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik talks about her relationships with her parents, aunts, and grandmother. She touches on the fact that she could talk to her father about the issues that were happening to her family and other Jews in the town. She remembers she did not have this open line of communication with to her mother who believed things would go away if they were not discussed. Reznik had a very good relationship with her grandmother, and she discusses how distraught she was when her grandmother and her other two great-aunts died as a result of treatment by the Nazis. Reznik talks a few times about her inability to remember the specifics of that time because she had blocked it out of her mind. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik\u0026rsquo;s parents decided it was time to leave Germany after Kristallnacht, they already had papers from her uncle who was living in the American South at the time. Her father used those papers to get his family to Havanna Cuba and they eventually made it to Tampa Florida. Reznik recalls the night of Kristallnacht when she nearly got her head smashed by a brick thrown through her window. The night brought on more chaos such as her house and the items inside being completely ruined and her and her family getting arrested and put in a room with other Jews. Her mother was very calm and collected through the night and helped everyone during this time of need. Her father was hiding in a different town with a Nazi who was one of his customers. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik recalls her mother helping her father cross into the Netherlands first to catch his ship in Rotterdam. Her mother returned to Germany to take Reznik and her sister on a ship to Cuba. In Cuba, they were met by a Jewish committee. The family eventually settled down in Santos Suarez where Reznik went to school to learn English. After a couple of months in Cuba, Reznik\u0026rsquo;s parents looked for destinations in America and settled in Tampa, Florida. The family stayed in Tampa for many years and was active in the Synagogue, not the Temple. Reznik discusses the inequity between the members of the synagogue and the Temple. She found the Temple members not welcoming to Synagogue members. She did not like this lack of support for fellow Jews in her new community.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik goes on to describe growing up in Tampa. She again presents the difference between the people who belonged to the Temple and the Synagogue. As a member of the Synagogue, Reznik says the members of the Temple only accepted her after she won the essay contest and went to Washington D.C. to meet Vice President Wallace. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik discusses how when in Tampa her father moved from working with horses which he had done in Germany, to the scrap metal business. He was so successful he was able to provide his family with a good house in an expensive neighborhood. Her father continued practicing his faith in Tampa being a part of Conservative and Orthodox synagogues, as well as the Little Shul. The entire family was a part of the Board of Shulen. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik married Jack Reznik who her parents did not like at all, more so, her father. He was a Jewish military man. After her parents consented to the marriage, Reznik went to his military base in California to marry him when she was just weeks short of her 16th birthday. When his time in the military was over, the Reznik\u0026rsquo;s returned to Tampa where they both went to work for her father. When her father died, he left them the business.\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik\u0026rsquo;s mother died, and her father died three years later. While her mother was still living, she learned her grandmother and her aunts had died. All her mother\u0026rsquo;s relatives had died in the Holocaust, and a few of her father\u0026rsquo;s relatives managed to escape. Reznik had three sons: one when she was 20, 15, and 30. Her husband died of an aneurysm, leaving her a single parent. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik discusses going to Israel and how connected she felt there. She wanted to stay there but she really didn\u0026rsquo;t have any skills to help benefit the Kibbutz community. Her second husband, her children, and her sister all got to go to Israel, but she went a little bit after them. Her second husband sold Israel bonds. \u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003eReznik eventually left Tampa in the 1980s after her second husband also died. Her boys urged her to move to Tallahassee, Florida, or Atlanta, Georgia. She eventually picked Atlanta, Georgia but she never felt like she fit in there. Reznik ended this interview by revealing her agitation regarding not finding a place in Atlanta and wondering why that was and not knowing why people didn\u0026rsquo;t like her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne Reznick was interviewed by Ruth Einstein on March 3, 2007 in Sandy Springs, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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And Mrs. Kinsler, can you tell me your name when you were born? What was your first name and your family's name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=0.0,20.48122"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My first name was Hanni. H-A-N-N-I. And my name was Chikotzki. C-H-I-K-O-T-Z-K-I. Because my father was from Poland.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=20.48122,36.21092"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What were your parents’ names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=36.21092,40.06292"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was Lena, and my father was Aaron.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=40.06292,43.80914"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Was your mother also from Poland?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=43.80914,46.27937"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=46.27937,47.62347"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Was she from Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=47.62347,49.22386"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=49.22386,50.42652"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And, where in Poland was your father from? Do you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=50.42652,53.15205"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Wylow [Germany] [German: Wylów].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=53.15205,54.14053"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Pardon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=54.14053,55.02255"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Wylow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=55.02255,57.16224"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know how to spell that? 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Europe wasn’t as mechanized as America, he bought horses used in farms and things. My grandfather had a very big business in Konigsberg [Germany] [German: Königsberg], which is East Prussia. That’s how he met my mother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=62.306,89.80778"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was your mother from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=89.80778,92.77593"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was from Konigsberg [Germany] [German: Königsberg]. She was born there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=92.77593,95.27571"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know what year your father immigrated to Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=95.27571,99.83646"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I don’t know why, but I gave all those papers to my sister. She’ll never do anything with them anyway.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=99.83646,106.57777"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e We’ll get that date later. Do you know how your parents met, the story?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=106.57777,116.31408"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was my grandfather’s bookkeeper, that’s how she met my father. A German-Jewish woman didn’t marry a Polish-Jew–that was marrying beneath you. When she wanted to marry him, my grandparents had a fit. She was very little, but very strong, and once she made up her mind no one could change it. That’s probably why we’re alive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=116.31408,154.18597"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me what you mean by that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=154.18597,158.05896"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e During the Kristallnacht I can think of people that caved in, gave up, and didn’t know what to do with themselves, but not my mother. She went right about her business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=158.05896,172.73131"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e We’ll come back to that in a few minutes. Were you born in Konigsberg [Germany] [German: Königsberg]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=172.73131,178.59176"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born in Zerbst [Germany]. That’s Z-E-R-B-S-T. It became the Russian zone. The county was Anhalt [Germany]. The town hasn’t changed, the name hasn’t changed, or the county hasn’t changed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=178.59176,200.91634"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did your parents move there from Konigsberg [Germany] [German: Königsberg]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=200.91634,204.54035"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother moved because she married my father. My father never lived in Konigsberg [Germany] [German: Königsberg]. [He lived in] Poland. When he married my mother, they decided to go live in Zerbst [Germany] where he became a horse dealer. And that’s where I was born, and my sister was born.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=204.54035,224.24392"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And are you older than your sister?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=224.24392,226.11274"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=226.11274,227.20561"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And your sister’s name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=227.20561,228.09422"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Irene.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=228.09422,231.92002"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about any memories that you have from your earliest childhood in Zerbst [Germany].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=231.92002,238.93127"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I don’t have very many good ones. I was born in 1928, but by the time 1933 came around, the girls were not allowed to be friends with me because I was Jewish. The only friend I had was Lizpova. She was a very poor girl, that’s why her parents didn’t care if she was friends with me or not. She was the only friend that I had.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=238.93127,277.55523"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e There weren’t other Jewish children in town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=277.55523,281.67623"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e There must have been because my mother bought me a magnificent dollhouse from people that were leaving the country. Of course, there were more Jews. I went to the cantor every day and I wasn’t the only one in this class.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=281.67623,302.54172"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e So did you start in public school or…","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=302.54172,306.53045"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No. That’s when my mother made a big mistake when we came to Cuba. Instead of putting me, like my sister into Cuban school, she put me into refugee school where we learned how to speak English. But what happened to us? We lost all those years of education. No math, no geography. We all came out speaking English the same way.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=306.53045,330.56433"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e In Germany, did you start in German public school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=330.56433,333.63112"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=333.63112,334.52736"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And you had friends before 1933, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=334.52736,337.75109"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I was very little; remember I was born in 1928. I had a couple of friends that, by 1933, weren’t allowed to come to my house anymore. It got very, very bad in school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=337.75109,351.6088"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How did your mother explain that to you? Do you remember any conversations that you had on that topic?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=351.6088,360.5675"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother didn’t like to talk about it, to be very honest with you. My grandmother lived in Konigsberg [Germany] [German: Königsberg], and if I wanted to know what was happening, when my mother sent me there, my grandmother was very willing to talk. Ever since you called me, all I’ve done is think about her. When it was time to say goodbye to her – we all knew we’d never see her again. She said that we would come eventually to America. My mother would be very busy making a new life for us, and she wouldn't remember too much because she would have other things on her mind. I was the oldest child so it was up to me to remember what had happened to us so that it shouldn’t happen again. She was 100 percent right. What had happened to us, my mother never talked about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=360.5675,416.68865"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me, leading up to that time. What do you remember about your grandmother? What was her name and was she your mother’s mother then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=416.68865,429.04266"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e She was my mother’s mother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=429.04266,431.14282"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And her name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=431.14282,432.1211"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Her name was Johanna Crohn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=432.1211,434.02473"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Was her household different from your household?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=434.02473,440.66604"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Very different. Where we lived, itt’s still standing. Where we lived, it was spread out because my father’s horses were there. There was a factory there that my father didn’t use. There was this big house; he rented the downstairs out. Across from that house was another house in which our schoolteacher lived. She told my cousin and I… we used to do our homework with her. Her name was Frau [Woman] Liza.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=440.66604,483.59432"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e She would still teach you even though you were Jewish.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=483.59432,488.40588"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. She rented from a Jew, and they left her alone. They didn’t do anything about that. A lot of people couldn’t do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=488.40588,498.63375"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why do you think she could do that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=498.63375,501.36215"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I have no idea. Underneath our house was huge, it was half the house. My father rented it out. Kristallnacht my mother went downstairs and asked the lady to keep us, but she wouldn’t have any part of us. Now, I think if she had gone to the lady that taught us, she would have taken my sister and I. That wasn’t meant to be because there’s no telling what would have happened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=501.36215,535.76909"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you have other children in the neighborhood that you could play with? How did you spend your time as a young girl before Kristallnacht? How did you spend your time if you were isolated?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=535.76909,551.53761"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e In school in Germany, it was totally different than in America because you went for half a day and then you went two afternoons a week, in my town. My town also had a swimming pool. In Munchberg [Germany] [ Münchberg Germany], which wasn’t far from us, they had German troops stationed and they built the pool for them. I think up until 1936, I was allowed to go in the pool. One day the teacher called on my girlfriend and asked her to come in front of the class. He told me that she had something to tell me. I was very smart in school, so I thought that I had done something wonderful. She told me that I could no longer go to the swimming pool because I contaminated the water. I could sit [on the] bleachers and watch them, but I couldn't go in the water.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=551.53761,615.90207"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you feel when that happened?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=615.90207,619.06496"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Terrible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=619.06496,620.56166"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What were you thinking at the time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=620.56166,623.48896"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I ran. I remember, I ran out of the class. The schoolyard was ugly–it had one tree, and there was a bench. I sat on that bench, and I was crying. A male teacher came up to me and wondered what happened. I told him. He said, “I want you to go home and tell your mother to take you out of school, because this is the beginning, and it’s going to get worse.” I went home and told my mother. She was about to take me out of school. Then, of course, we reached a point where they didn’t allow us to go back to school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=623.48896,660.09712"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What year did that happen?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=660.09712,661.83087"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e After the Kristallnacht.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=661.83087,664.2228"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e So, you could go to regular school through 1939?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=664.2228,669.49289"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Kristallnacht was in 1938.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=669.49289,672.44562"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Sorry, November 1938. Some people were thrown out of school earlier than that. So, it’s interesting that maybe that was a smaller town so…","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=672.44562,684.23978"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a very small town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=684.23978,686.25684"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Maybe those decrees were delayed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=686.25684,688.4735"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e They had 2,800 people living in the town. My school was for girls only. They had a boy’s school, too. I had one teacher the last two years that came to school in his uniform. Which, for some reason didn’t particularly frighten me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=688.4735,713.56393"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there other children or teachers who, as the years progressed through the 1930s, were talking more and more about Hitler and about the Nazis? What do you remember about those kinds of conversations?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=713.56393,724.8287"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I remember them always talking about us, how terrible we were. I couldn’t figure it out because it would never come out–what we had done to be so terrible. They made it crystal clear that their parents didn’t want their kids to have anything to do with us. My father happened to have been a very wealthy man, but that didn’t make any difference whether you were rich or poor. It meant nothing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=724.8287,757.03152"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember talking to your father or your mother about what was happening?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=757.03152,761.85251"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I could talk to my father, but I couldn’t talk to my mother. She felt that if I didn’t talk about it, it would go away. I didn’t believe that. I didn’t think it was going to go away. When I was lucky enough to go to my grandmother, she talked more about it. I asked her one time why this was happening. And she said to me, “If God wants us to know, he will tell us. So, you don’t question what he doesn’t tell us.”","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=761.85251,797.38859"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Was she more religious than your parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=797.38859,804.05594"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My father, as a Polish-Jew, should have been more religious, but wasn’t. My mother, as a German-Jew was more religious than he was. That’s why I always got sent to my grandmother’s for the holidays–to see what it was like to have Passover and all the holidays.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=804.05594,827.46401"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What are your memories of Passover?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=827.46401,833.59069"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was wonderful. My grandmother had the dishes upstairs in the attic, and she would bring them all down. She had one room set aside where all the baking was done, and all the Passover stuff went. She made a better Passover cake than you could buy in Atlanta [Georgia]. And she had a talent. I was thrilled to death because I used to get coffee and put ‘the lots’ in it. I was very spoiled because I was the first grandchild, and I loved it there. They are my best memories.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=833.59069,874.72368"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What are some other memories that you have of your grandmother and the time that you spent with her?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=874.72368,879.32518"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Pardon me?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=879.32518,880.86168"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What are some other memories that you have of your grandmother, or the time that you spent with her? Other holidays or other conversations?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=880.86168,889.92755"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e She taught me a lot. She was the kind of person that if you ask a question, she would answer it. If she knew the answer to the question, she would answer it. I had an uncle that came out of a concentration camp on his way to Shanghai [China]. My grandmother decided that I was the best to let him in because they had put stuff that you clean with,  it was like a powder, in his food, and most of the skin was off his face. He was horrible-looking. My grandmother decided if I went to the door, I wouldn’t get hysterical, and I didn’t. I was so happy to see him, and that he was alive because nobody thought that he would survive. The fact that it looked as bad as he did, I remember that like it was yesterday. He told my grandma that he wanted her cabbage and meat. She said, “You can't have that because of the way you’ve been eating, if you eat something like that, you’re going to get very sick”. He said he didn’t care, that’s what he wanted. He ate it and he didn’t get sick.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=889.92755,971.57917"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know what camp he was in and how it happened that he was sent there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=971.57917,977.35087"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e They considered him, at that time, a political prisoner. I can’t tell you about that because I don’t know what he did. My mother always said that he had nothing to do with politics. She was smart. They weren’t going to expose themselves to something that could get them into trouble.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=977.35087,998.94714"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know the camp?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=998.94714,1002.46073"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e That he went to?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1002.46073,1002.76881"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1002.76881,1003.80764"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Reznik: No. My two great-aunts went to two different camps. They had never been separated in their lives. When they [Nazis] came to get them, they put them on two different trucks. It was the most heartbreaking thing. They never got married and they had gotten old. My grandmother was very lucky, they left her home because she was a diabetic. They just didn’t let her get her insulin, so she died at home. Which, as cruel as it sounds, was a lot better than the way her sisters died. I don’t think a month goes by that I don’t think about my two Great Aunts because I adored them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1003.80764,1050.71565"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What were their names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1050.71565,1052.03237"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e One was Tante [Aunt] Silke, she ran this little notion store. The other was Tante Delchka. Tante Delchka is the one that ran the home. She made the best-scrambled eggs in the world. She used to take me outside where the chickens were and show me how she would reach to see if the chicken had laid an egg. I loved it there much better than I loved being at home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1052.03237,1083.14545"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Were you able to say goodbye to your great aunts, or did they just disappear?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1083.14545,1089.93412"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1089.93412,1090.81109"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e When did this happen?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1090.81109,1091.503"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e What happened was, my mother had to say goodbye to her mother. She knew she was never going to see her again. My mother was there. My sister was there, it didn’t affect my sister too much because she was barely five. I knew we were there to say goodbye. I have a total blackout. I went to a shrink here [in America]. I said, “I would do anything if you would hypnotize me and bring it back.” He said he would never do it because it was so terrible, that’s why I had shut it out and wouldn’t let it come out. The way that I loved them, and the way my mother loved her mother… it must have been horrible, especially knowing that you’d never, ever see them again. And we didn’t.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1091.503,1147.26625"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e As it got towards the middle and late 1930s in your town, do you remember specific things that happened that made life more difficult for you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1147.26625,1158.61654"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My father couldn’t do any more business. There was a sign at the gates that you came into the yard that said, ‘Do not do business with the Jew.’ You had more people in uniform. I can’t say that I was particularly afraid of them. At that point, they hadn’t done anything to me. There were quite a few of them there. But then it started… My father had one of the first cars, the driver would take him where my father wanted to go. You came to town, and they had a big sign that would say ‘no Jews and no dogs allowed.’ You would have to make a big detour to get where you were going, they would not let you get through the town. They stopped each car for identification papers. I always loved to travel, yet as much as I loved going with my father, I got to the point I didn’t want to go with him anymore. This was a big shock to me. When I came to America, and they had rooms for Blacks and Whites. I said to my mother, “What do we let ourselves in for? We just left bathrooms for Jews and bathrooms for non-Jews. Look, here we are in the land of the free. You got the same kind of bathrooms.” Yes, it was absolutely shocking to me that they should have that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1158.61654,1274.6833"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you have any idea how it happened that your parents decided that it was time to leave, or were they forced to leave in some way? Was your father imprisoned or arrested?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1274.6833,1291.54282"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e In 1933, whatever Jewish man they could get ahold of they put in prison for a week, and then they let them out. Those that were smart, they left. My father had a brother that lived close to where my grandmother lived. When my father was still in jail, he came and told my father when he got out to leave. My father said, no, he wasn’t leaving, this was going to pass. This wasn’t going to be a permanent thing. And he begged him. What finally happened is that my father said to him, “I give you a lot of money, and you go to America and take this money and invest it, and if we have to come out, then I’ll know that I have money in your country.” He could not convince my father to go. He was one of many Jews that kept saying it was going to pass, it was going to stop. So that’s how we got out from that money. That’s how my father started his first business, bought his first house – with all the money my uncle had taken out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1291.54282,1371.0442"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e At that point, how did you feel about Jews yourself? I would expect that there was a lot of propaganda against Jews, and you had your own very negative experiences because you were Jewish. Then, on your other hand, you had these times that were very pleasant and joyous with your grandmother and your aunts. How did you put all that together?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1371.0442,1393.31445"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I was always very Jewish. My rabbi in Tampa [Florida] said my problem was that I was very Jewish, but I didn’t do what a good Jew was supposed to do. In other words, I didn’t go to a synagogue for the Shabbat, I didn’t have a kosher house. All the things that you think I would have had I did not–when I was able to do it, I didn’t do it. He wasn’t very pleased with me. And it took me a while until I understood that--he was 100 percent right. And he would say to me, “How do you expect your children to understand that you feel so Jewish? You got to show them how.” Just telling them–and it’s true. I mean, today they’re grown men. They’ll tell you that I’ve always been very Jewish, and they can explain it to you probably better than I can. It was not a good way to teach your children. You see what happened–when we couldn’t go to the synagogue anymore, then everybody wanted to go. Then when we came to America when we could go to the synagogue, we did like everybody else, we didn’t go.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1393.31445,1477.86046"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How is the process, or as much as you know about it, of your parents deciding at a later point? Was it after Kristallnacht?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1477.86046,1490.50081"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1490.50081,1491.56517"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me if you have any memories of the time right before Kristallnacht and then of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1491.56517,1497.01404"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My uncle was already in Atlanta [Georgia], and he was in touch with my father. He told them, whether he liked it or not, he was making papers for my mother, for my father, for my sister and I. My father could do with them whatever he wanted to. Right after the Kristallnacht when it got really bad, my father used the papers, and he came to Havana [Cuba] first.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1497.01404,1524.41824"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me what you remember about Kristallnacht.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1524.41824,1527.00407"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e What I remember about it… There was a window behind my bed. My father was in Leipzig [Germany], [he] called my mother and said that this was the night that it was going to happen. He wanted her to get the rabbi’s daughter to come stay, he didn’t like the idea that she was there with the two of us by herself. We didn’t have a rabbi; we had a cantor because we were too small a community. He did send her over. A rock came through the window, and it landed where my head had been. It just goes to show you it’s Beshert--I wasn’t meant to die… Every night my mother would put a glass of tea by my bed. I went to reach for my tea, and there was none so I got out of bed to go drink my mother’s tea when the brick came through the window and landed where my head had been. So, my number wasn’t up, I wasn’t meant to go. Then the men came. They were all people that we knew: the shoemaker, the grocery store man, the man that had his vegetable cart, all the people my mother had done business with all the years she lived there. She couldn’t get them to stop. They had cans of green paint. They would take whatever they couldn’t break, stick the brush into the cans, and paint everything green. It was basically ruined. After we got out of jail, we wound up in Berlin [Germany] . We found out that in the big cities like Berlin [Germany] and Konigsberg [Germany] [German: Königsberg], where my grandmother was, it wasn’t as horrendous as it was in the small towns.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1527.00407,1651.8094"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you have an explanation for that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1651.8094,1653.37033"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I don’t have an explanation for that. Jews certainly did not rebel. It’s not that, they went against it. They made it perfectly clear what they wanted was my father. My sister told them that my father was not there. One man said to the other man, “A child isn’t going to lie about it, the man just isn’t here.” And it happened to have been the truth, he wasn’t, so they left. And then the Fire Department came, they had to carry us out because you couldn’t walk. The glass was at least this high. You didn’t have a piece of glass that wasn’t broken, regardless of what it was. And whatever wasn’t broken was painted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1653.37033,1706.14687"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e In your home?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1706.14687,1708.51087"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1708.51087,1709.72047"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And how did you feel seeing people that you knew that your mother had known all these years, participating in this action?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1709.72047,1722.54919"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I don’t quite understand you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1722.54919,1723.6681"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you feel seeing people that you knew personally? These were not strangers; these were people that you knew.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1723.6681,1733.19944"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1733.19944,1734.61647"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What are your feelings about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1734.61647,1737.29345"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I think my emotions at that time were very mixed. I will tell you that it absolutely branded me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1737.29345,1746.38493"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e In what way?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1746.38493,1748.31298"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It’s like the shrink that I went to said, “All of you that survived, whether you want to admit it or not admit it, you’re branded. You’ll never forget it. It’s a part of you. And the memories are not pleasant.” For a long time, I didn’t. If I had a friend, I didn’t trust my friend. I didn’t know when she wouldn’t want any part of me, even though I was living here. Then I spent a good part of the time being angry at myself for not going to the synagogue. When we couldn’t go, everybody wanted to go; then when you could go, you didn’t go, which I thought was terrible. They burnt our synagogue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1748.31298,1797.41401"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the name of your synagogue?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1797.41401,1799.35596"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I don’t remember. When the fire department came, they walked us to the prison, we passed the synagogue, and the synagogue was burning. I’ll always remember that. When we got to jail, we were in a room that was about this size. It had boards on the floor that went up. The young ones like my sister and I, went up; the older people sat further down. My mother said I was terrible. The first thing I wanted to do was go to the bathroom. She told me that she couldn’t get somebody to take me to the bathroom. Even when they were in the house, all I wanted to do was jump out of the window. I was a handful. They scared me to death, they really did. And the funny thing is, they did not affect my sister like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1799.35596,1863.21011"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e But how old was she at the time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1863.21011,1865.13993"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Five.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1865.13993,1866.88524"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And you were?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1866.88524,1868.2056"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e In 1938 at the Kristallnacht, I was ten.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1868.2056,1878.07123"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the first thing you remember about that night? How did it start?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1878.07123,1881.5234"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It started with the brick on my pillow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1881.5234,1885.10892"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1885.10892,1886.70397"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Then the men came.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1886.70397,1889.22931"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e They just started breaking things?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1889.22931,1891.64412"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. We had horses there, and they shot the horses. We could hear them fire at the horses. We had a dog, and they killed the dog. Then they rang the doorbell and my aunt, and I went to the door. They held the dog for her to take the dog, the dog was dead. I remember my mother going downstairs to ask the people whether they would take my sister and I for the night and they told her no, they couldn’t get involved. I think about my family a lot because we wound up having no family. Such a small family, and I came from such a big family. I always envy people that have a big family. I told my sister, who lives in Texas, that she and I were blamed for that too. We should have had the cousins get closer together and we could have continued having a big family. But they lived in Texas, and we lived in Florida, and they saw each other only at bar mitzvahs, which was wrong of us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1891.64412,1975.57239"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember how your mother reacted to this event?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1975.57239,1979.50468"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e She was very calm, cool, and collected. She really was. She was five-foot. My father had called from a different town, then he went out to hide with one of his customers. A big Nazi that he paid 10,000 marks a night. My uncle sent them the papers for him to go to Cuba, and he left my mother, my sister, and I in Germany, which my grandmother thought was horrible. How could he go and leave us? My mother kept telling her that they weren’t really going to do anything to us, it was him they wanted. I couldn’t understand how he left us either, it was a big puzzle for me. My mother didn’t seem to mind, and she did exactly what she was supposed to do. There was a big box the size of this room, and it had to be packed with things that would survive, with things that you were allowed to take. There were some Jews that were foolish and would throw in jewelry and stuff. If they were caught, that was the end of them, but they’d do it anyway. Mother was too smart for that; she didn’t do it. I could see her telling different people what to pick up and take and put into this room, and I thought, I don't know if I could have been that calm about it. I mean, her whole life was upside down all of a sudden, she had no idea where my father was and then she went on a mission. She went to find him, and she found him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1979.50468,2105.32704"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did you find him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2105.32704,2106.44562"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e With his customer. She went to all my father’s customers until she found him. We were in a home at that point. My mother came and got me and said, “Your father wants to tell you goodbye, not your sister, she’s too little.” In the middle of the night, we went to this huge home. My father was there, we hugged each other, and we kissed and everything. He said, “I want you to be a good girl and listen to what your mother tells you to do because she’s going to have to take you to Havana [Cuba]. I’m going ahead of you.” Of course, my grandmother was appalled. She couldn’t believe that he would leave my mother and the two of us there. I was too young to really think that much about it, but in retrospect, I always felt that they would have killed him if they would have found him. What was the point in him staying there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2106.44562,2170.1871"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And this was right after Kristallnacht?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2170.1871,2173.76754"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. He left but Kristallnacht was in November. I would say he hid with a strong customer. Then my mother came and got him, and she crossed him to the borders of the Netherlands and went back.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2173.76754,2196.07656"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me get this straight, he hid with a Nazi?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2196.07656,2201.53097"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e For 10,000 marks a night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2201.53097,2207.13542"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e I mean was 10,000 marks worth very much at the time because of the economy. Was that a large sum of money?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2207.13542,2215.46306"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a good amount of money. He couldn’t take the ship out of Germany. He had to get to the Netherlands to take the ship.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2215.46306,2222.55132"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Where did he take the ship from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2222.55132,2225.06977"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Rotterdam [Netherlands]. My mother crossed him across the border. When she got him to where he had to go, she told him goodbye, turned around and came back. To be perfectly honest with you, I don’t know if I [would have] had the nerve to do it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2225.06977,2247.47811"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You said at the beginning of the interview that your mother was kind of steely, that she was very courageous.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2247.47811,2255.54832"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Without a question. It was like she was afraid of nothing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2255.54832,2264.86565"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you know how it happened that she had that kind of personality?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2264.86565,2269.37134"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No. When we lived a normal life, she didn’t have any way to show it. But, when I think about how she crossed the border with my father, then came back, and stayed behind until it was our time to go… She went with us on this freighter. It took 20 passengers. She took no chances, there was jewelry she could have taken, she wouldn’t touch anything like that. She was too afraid of being caught and figured that that was not worth it. She was right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2269.37134,2319.92631"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You also went through Rotterdam [Netherlands]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2319.92631,2323.18302"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e We also went to Rotterdam [Netherlands].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2323.18302,2325.64779"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you tell anyone that you were leaving?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2325.64779,2328.08479"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e There was nobody to tell except what was left of our family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2328.08479,2331.09339"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You went to your grandmother to say goodbye?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2331.09339,2334.18104"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2334.18104,2335.80697"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What was that like?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2335.80697,2338.34902"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e That’s when I had a total blackout. I remember absolutely nothing. The doctor said to me that’s the reason he wouldn’t hypnotize me, that it was so terrible that if I brought it back, there was no telling what would happen to me. It must have been terrible having to watch my mother tell her mother goodbye. Knowing, it was forever.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2338.34902,2363.93268"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you have any anger left about having to leave your homeland? I mean, German children, even young German children were taught so specifically about the fatherland. And I assume that your father fought in World War One. Did he?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2363.93268,2381.79627"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No. He was in Poland. He did not fight in World War One.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2381.79627,2386.215"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Your mother, though, growing up in Germany, do you have feelings about Germany then? And how did they change during this time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2386.215,2396.12321"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I had a great uncle that was a big shot in the First World War. Some big officer. When they came to arrest all the men, he kept saying they’re not going to get him and “They’re not going to touch me because of who I was.” But he was on the last train that took him to South Africa, where his daughter and her husband were. There were so many people, they wouldn’t believe it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2396.12321,2427.04142"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you think about that when you think about it now? You were talking a little bit about trust, and I guess there’s a trust between people and there’s a trust between society and its government. Do you have any thoughts about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2427.04142,2439.46374"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I mean, I think it did something to me because I’m not as trusting as my character would let me be if I allowed it. I’m still afraid, if I met someone. My best girlfriend died about a year and a half ago. I’ve never found anybody like her. Not that I could replace her, and I miss her terribly. If I met somebody like her, I don’t know if I could feel the same way. With Annabel, we met, and we just clicked. She never gave me any reason not to believe what she was saying. I’m one of these people – it’s not good to be like that– I’m black and white. I have no gray. I try to teach my children that it’s better to have black and white and gray. It's much, much healthier. For some reason, even to this day in the way of my life, it's either I like you or I love you or I don’t. That’s it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2439.46374,2530.10676"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you think that came about because of your experiences growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2530.10676,2535.01668"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2535.01668,2536.93892"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you been able to trace that somehow?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2536.93892,2540.97961"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I’m afraid that I still haven’t. There are actually times that I feel sorry for myself that I wish I had been born in this country to a nice Jewish family, they’d belong to a nice synagogue, and that I could raise the kids the way you should be raised and didn’t have any of that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2540.97961,2567.93656"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did your parents talk about being Jewish when you were young and what it meant to them, or was it something that they did?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2567.93656,2575.98781"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It meant a whole lot more to my mother than it did to my father. My father was much more angry than my mother was.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2575.98781,2583.08555"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Angry in what way?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2583.08555,2585.8593"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Like my uncle that went to Africa, he couldn’t believe that was happening, that they were turning on him. After he went to fight for his country, how could they do a thing like that? It was so many people, they didn’t believe. You can ask Americans if it could happen over here, and they’d look at you like you’re nuts. I want to tell you something, it could happen here, too. Anybody that lives with that illusion that it wouldn’t happen here… wrong.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2585.8593,2617.46772"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why do you think it did happen in Germany? Do you have any thoughts about that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2617.46772,2621.27421"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e There were a lot of things that were talked about later on as I got older. The reason that Hitler came into power is the economy wasn’t any good. He came up from out of the woodwork and promised the people the sun and the moon. So, they followed him. The economy did turn itself around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2621.27421,2649.98371"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about your thoughts as you left Germany. Do you remember that trip?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2649.98371,2656.34705"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yes, I remember that trip because there were 20 passengers. We were sleeping in the crew’s quarters because it was a freighter. I remember, as the ship was ready to sail, I spit in the water. My mother came up to me and she pulled me by my pigtails, and she said, “You’re on a German ship, you’re not out of there yet.” She was furious. They took all 20 of us and searched us. They would cut women’s coats open to see if they had stuffed money or jewelry in the lining. They would cut open the soles of shoes. They took my sister and me into a room, where they did the same thing. I guess I must’ve been somewhat of a sissy because I was afraid to go, and my sister was like my mother, she just went.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2656.34705,2723.90029"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You left from Germany. You didn’t go to Rotterdam [Netherlands].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2723.90029,2728.97857"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No, we left from Hamburg [Germany].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2728.97857,2731.43022"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, from Hamburg [Germany]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2731.43022,2736.37697"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, there’s a good thing that happened– my Aunt Ruth, who later on wound up in England, came to be with my mother and us until the ship left. She got tickets for the theater, and she bought me a hat so that I should look older so I could go to the theater too. It was such a thrill for me to be taken. Then, I felt like I was leaving my homeland. Many terrible things happened that I have to admit, I was glad to get out of there. Then when I decided to go back and look at it, it was such an uproar in my family. And why did I want to go back?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2736.37697,2786.82222"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did you want to go back?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2786.82222,2789.90375"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I wanted to see what had happened to it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2789.90375,2792.07559"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you find?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2792.07559,2793.93588"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I found they hadn’t changed the name of my street. It was still Udenslazer, which really shocked me. My father’s property was still standing there totally neglected. My town had grown a little bit. The school that I dreaded going to because I was very klutzy when it came to gym and it was compulsory, you had to take it every day and I would have to climb up the fireman’s ladder and I would get to the top. Then I was afraid to come down and they would stand downstairs and taunt me, “Look at the Jew, she can’t come down.” The more they did that, the more frozen I got. I tried to convince my mother to not make me go, but I had to go. I was smart at school, and I liked school, but that part of school was horrible for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2793.93588,2861.72455"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you talk to the girls while you were there, or were they even at school? Were they completely...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2861.72455,2866.81797"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Reznik: The ones that had been my friends didn’t have anything to do with me. I guess that’s how they were taught by their parents. When they got up in front of the class and the teacher made me get up and said they had something to tell me. I figured I must have gotten another terrific paper. Instead, they told me that I could no longer swim in the swimming pool because my Jewish blood contaminated the water. That was unbelievable to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2866.81797,2902.10153"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You don’t forget that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2902.10153,2903.77633"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No. a lot of things you don’t forget. That’s when we came to Tampa [Florida]. I’ve never been a Zionist in my life, but I worked for Hadassah from the time I was 14. I was a firm believer that the Jews should have their own homeland. I raised thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars. I made so many speeches that it was a sure bet that if I was a speaker, you’re going to get a pot full of money. I will tell them how important it was after what had happened to us. I felt that in my own way, I was doing something.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2903.77633,2954.13684"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Let’s go back just a little bit. You’re on the ship from Germany to Havana [Cuba]. Did it go directly to Havana [Cuba]? And the farther away you got from Germany, how did that feel to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2954.13684,2970.7066"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was strange because my mother and my sister were seasick the whole time, and I was the only one in the dining room. It was the first time that I saw butter in years and all this food. I would sit there and eat and eat and eat while everyone around me was sick.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2970.7066,2995.27194"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e I guess economically, since your father’s business had been basically destroyed, was your family impoverished by the time you left?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2995.27194,3004.0801"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No. My uncle had taken out all this money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3004.0801,3010.26054"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why were you not able to get proper nutrition or enough food when you were in Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3010.26054,3016.56302"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Because it wasn’t only the Jews that didn’t get enough, the Germans didn’t get enough, either. It was a big thing, a meal in one pot, they would advertise. They just didn’t have [food].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3016.56302,3034.7571"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me what it was like to land in Havana [Cuba] and what happened then?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3034.7571,3040.3489"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Landing in Havana [Cuba]was a whole lot better than landing in America. I’ll tell you–landing in America was a nightmare. When the ship pulled into the dock, they unloaded our bundles, and they parked us on the dock. There was nobody there, even though they had notified whoever they were supposed to notify. And my father being as handy as he always was, he found someone to drive us into town.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3040.3489,3068.50846"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Einstein: And what happened in Havana?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3068.50846,3070.73715"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e There were people there that met us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3070.73715,3072.73975"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Who were they?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3072.73975,3074.74049"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was from a Jewish committee that met these ships. And they would take these people like my mother and father. And the first thing they would do is try to help them find a place to live. Which they did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3074.74049,3089.29487"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it HIAS [Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3089.29487,3090.90429"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3090.90429,3091.79893"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e HIAS [Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society]? Or a committee there in Havana.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3091.79893,3095.34425"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a committee in Havana. I can’t think of the name, but I think it was nationwide. Their purpose was to see us get resettled. When my aunt landed in England part of that committee was there too. My other aunt, the one that had raised me was on the Saint Louis that came after us, but she still wouldn’t let them land. When they got halfway back, they made a plea, so she wound up in the Netherlands and spent her entire time in the Netherlands in a concentration camp. What saved her is that she was a nurse, and my uncle was a doctor. They had met in the Netherlands and decided to get married because they felt they could save each other better as a twosome than as one, and it worked for them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3095.34425,3176.42607"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And what are your memories? Your first memories of Cuba and of Havana? What do you think of when you think about your first days there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3176.42607,3189.76491"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e First of all, my father took us to this place called Santos Suarez [Cuba], it was like Sandy Springs [Florida]. And that’s where all the Jews had settled. He learned to play the stock market; he lost thousands of dollars in the stock market. Before we left Havana [Cuba], he finally gave my mother enough money to take us to downtown Havana [Cuba] to a dime store. We could sit at the counter and have a sandwich and a soda. That was the biggest deal I had when we went to Cuba.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3189.76491,3231.5475"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You hadn’t been able to do that in Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3231.5475,3235.53716"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e The Cuban people on the whole were very nice. Across the street from us was a Chinese man who was a barber. His wife was black because the Chinese people were not allowed to bring their wives. They didn’t want to have any more Chinese than they already had. They were very, very good to us. I went and sat in his chair one day, and said to him, “Please cut off my pigtails.” And he said, “Your mother is never going to speak to me again if I do that.” I said, “What’s the difference? She doesn’t speak to you now anyways, just cut them.” God punished me because he cut them and a piece of my hair in the back never grew [back]. I could never have long hair after that. But you should have heard my mother – oh, did she have a fit, how could I have done such a terrible thing? That’s because I was thirteen or close to it. Then I looked like I was 16, 17, and I didn’t want to have these babyish pigtails. 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Tell me about the school that you went to and how that decision was made and what the school that your sister went to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3313.47906,3323.3701"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My sister registered for a Cuban school in the first grade, and that was the end of that. She couldn’t speak a word of Spanish, and they taught her. She got the proper schooling. When she came to America, they knew exactly what to do with her. When I arrived in America, the principal said to my mother “I don’t know what to do with your daughter, I can put her in the twelfth grade [grade with 12-year-olds], or I can put her in the second grade. She’s got such a peculiar background.”","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3323.3701,3353.99051"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you tell me about that? I mean, why was it peculiar?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3353.99051,3357.59584"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Because when I was in Cuba, there was no geometry and no history. The focus was English, no algebra, none of that. So, when I came here, I couldn’t do any of those things.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3357.59584,3375.10345"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you study there? Just English or literature? Why English? Do you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3375.10345,3380.90809"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, so that we would be able to come over here and know how to speak. My grandmother taught me two sentences: ‘I’m hungry’ and ‘I’m thirsty’. By the time we got out of that school and came to America, we could all speak English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3380.90809,3398.21869"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How old were you when you went there? And how long did you stay in Cuba?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3398.21869,3402.16073"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e We were in Cuba a year and a half.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3402.16073,3406.45367"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e It was seen as being a transition, you weren’t moving there, you were just waiting to move on to America.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3406.45367,3411.90542"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3411.90542,3413.50887"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e That was understood by everyone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3413.50887,3414.87695"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, especially the government.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3414.87695,3419.04609"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why do you think the United States government allowed you to emigrate from Cuba, but would not allow you to emigrate from Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3419.04609,3428.41676"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Their quota was full. The other interesting thing was – if a German woman married a Polish man, she became without a country. That quota was horrible. You could sit in Havana [Cuba] for 50 years and never get in here [America]. I don’t know how my mother finally managed to get us in here, but that’s what we were staatloosheid which means that we were without a state, we were without a country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3428.41676,3464.55968"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you have friends when you went to Cuba? How did your social life change?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3464.55968,3470.32828"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Reznik: I met some people when I went to school. All the Jews lived in the same section. I was always busy studying. I didn’t think it was particularly easy to learn English when you had no knowledge. We were taught my hand, my finger, and my mouth. Then we got together to play in the afternoon. We would build our sentences.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3470.32828,3506.94286"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You were all coming from different places, or was everyone from Germany?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3506.94286,3510.78857"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Everyone was from Germany but from different places in the Germany.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3510.78857,3594.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3594.0,3597.49713"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e We were already living in Tampa [Florida] and I went to my mother and I told her, “Please give me $3.” She said, “What for?” I said, “I want to change my name.” She says, “Change it to what?” I said, “I want to do away with the H. I want to do away with the I, and I want to add an E and I’ll be Anne.” And my mother said, “You can do what you want to do, I’m never going to call you that.” Then my father came in and he said, “What’s going on here with your name?” My mother told him, and he looked at me and he said, “I want you to know I’ll never call you that either. My nickname was Hase, which meant little bunny, they called me Hase they wouldn’t call me Anne. When I went to school they called me Anne.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3597.49713,3649.72731"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e There are a lot of kids that live their whole lives being called nicknames by their parents. I guess you were just another.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3649.72731,3657.02647"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My sister was lucky. Her name is Irene. Irene was Irene in Cuba; it was Irene when we came to America.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3657.02647,3667.78974"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you have any other memories of Cuba, of your time there before you moved to Tampa [Florida]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3667.78974,3674.70149"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother insisted I take sewing lessons, and where the teacher was, you had to take the streetcar. Men were very aggressive there; they touched you. I was very big for my age, very well-developed. It wasn’t safe to let me go on the streetcar alone; she would have to take me to sewing class twice a week. I would always say to her, “Aren’t you sorry, now that you make me take sewing?” I hated it. When I came to Tampa [Florida], my girlfriend and I took it again and we were just as bad as I had been in Cuba. Girls couldn’t walk down the streets when it was dark. Of course, I learned about the Chinese not being able to bring their wives and having intermarriage with blacks, like my neighbors. They were very happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3674.70149,3751.41212"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you hear stories from the other kids about what their lives have been like in other places in Germany? Was it like, your life? Was there anything that you heard that was really shocking to you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3751.41212,3764.94463"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I just learned from them that the big towns were not hit as bad as small towns. Of course, as far as all the men being arrested, it was the same all over the country. It was no different where they came from.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3764.94463,3784.44714"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Was your father able to work in Havana [Cuba]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3784.44714,3787.23551"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No, in order to work in Havana [Cuba], you had to become a Cuban citizen. If you became a Cuban citizen then you fell into the Cuban quota, you never got here. He decided that he’d taken out enough money that he didn’t have to work. He played the stock market instead and lost a fortune.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3787.23551,3810.42566"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How is it that you were able to immigrate then, and why Tampa [Florida]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3810.42566,3817.27"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Why Tampa [Florida] is funny. My uncle, my father’s brother made all the arrangements for us and told my father to go to the consulate and get the entrance papers. My father did. Then my mother became ill around Christmas. The doctor said we were supposed to go to Decatur, Illinois. My uncle settled [there]. Then, the doctor said, “There’s no way this woman can go to Decatur, Illinois because it’s much too cold after the heat over there. You’re going to have to move to the southern part of America.” My father got a map, and he put it on the kitchen table and spread it out. The first thing he saw on the map was Key West [Florida]. I remember him saying to my mother, “That’s where the boat stops. It’s supposed to be a very small town. They don’t have any horses there.” Then he came to Miami [Florida], and he said, “That’s out altogether. When this ship lands and all the jewelers come off and you see them with their beautiful clothes and everything. We have no business going there either, they also have no horses there.” Then he went to the other side of Florida, and he saw Tampa [Florida], and said, “I have to find out about this town because nobody knows, and nobody talks about this town.” He found out that it was just a regular town and that they had farms around where they use horses. He let my uncle know that he had decided he was going to Tampa, Florida. And my mom only wanted to know why. So, my father told her. When we got there the people from the ship unloaded whatever we had and put it on the dock. They knew who was supposed to meet us didn’t meet us. My father wandered off and came back with a cab. He told the cab driver to take him downtown. It took us to this Chinese restaurant, upstairs it had a sign in the window ‘Rooms for rent.’ We talked to the Chinese man. Yes, the rooms were for rent, they were three dollars a night. My father said he’ll take two. Then we went upstairs, and he put my sister and I in one room and said, “I’m locking you in, a Chinaman is going to bring you lunch. You’ve never had it, but if you’re hungry enough, you’ll eat it. I’m going with your mother to find the Rabbi.” He left with my mother, and they went down the main street. Twenty blocks away from the hotel, there was a deli, a kosher deli, and he told the man he had to see the Rabbi. The Rabbi came and he told him he wanted to find an apartment. The Rabbi said that that was no problem. He went with my father to show him the first apartment we lived in. He came back all smiles and everything saying, “Tonight you’re sleeping in your new apartment.”","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3817.27,4050.41721"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e So quick.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4050.41721,4053.3765"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My father’s solution. When I think about it, life isn’t like that anymore. My father’s solution to everything was to find the Rabbi, the Rabbi, always had an answer for everything.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4053.3765,4069.68578"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did the Jewish community in Tampa [Florida] welcome you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4069.68578,4075.45035"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e More so than they had when we landed in Havana [Cuba], but they weren’t nice either. My mother told me that they were picking her up and they were going to show her downtown Tampa [Florida]. They had a big department store and another big store. They picked up my mother and took her, then they parked the car and told her that she was to sit and wait in the car, they were going to go have lunch. They didn’t take her. She sat in the car, and she waited and waited until they came back. Then they said it was late and they had to go home. She told my father, “I’m never going out with these people again.” In some of those positions, they had the wrong people. That’s what was wrong with it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4075.45035,4140.07495"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How do you mean?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4140.07495,4142.60244"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I mean, you don’t take a refugee, just landed in a foreign country, and say you're going to go for lunch and leave them sitting in the car.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4142.60244,4153.7023"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Were these socialites, or as much as Tampa [Florida] could offer for socialites that had some leisure time? Or do you remember anything?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4153.7023,4161.41312"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e They were very much like I was when I made all that money for Hadassah, they had a cause. They belong to this organization, I can’t think of the name of it, and one of the things that they did is meet people like us, I suppose to see to it that we got settled. Taking my mother downtown and leaving her in the car and going to eat, I felt that was rotten. I really did. My mother said A) she wasn’t joining the organization, and B) they could come and ask her ten times, she would never go with them to any place, and she didn’t. Then, I learned something interesting, Tampa [Florida] was divided. The Jewish community was divided in half, half belong to the synagogue, half belong to the temple. If you belong to the temple, you lived on Davis Island, that was the ritzy part of Tampa [Florida]. If you belong to the synagogue, you would have lived where we lived. Then I won this essay, and I became very well known. All of a sudden, I got all these invitations from the temple crowd. They didn’t know me from Adam, and I saw how the other side lived. I got invited to a party and I told the girl I wouldn’t go unless I could take my girlfriend. I wanted her to see it too and actually we decided the parties weren’t any different than the parties we had on our side of town. They served punch and cake, and they had a record player and they had boys and the kids danced and played games and it was fun. Like my girlfriend said, we had arrived in society. She said, if you hadn’t won that essay, we would have never made it here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4161.41312,4300.22217"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the essay contest? What was your essay about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4300.22217,4304.59479"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e The Chamber of Commerce sponsored an essay on what Americanism means for me. There was a girl in my school, her name was Adrian Blumberg, she was the smartest girl in school. I told her that I was entering it. You couldn’t have more than five spelling errors, five grammatical errors, it was so limited. She says, “Don’t waste your time because you’re not going to get to first base with your knowledge of English.” In those days, if you told me that I couldn’t do something, that’s all you had to tell me. So, night and day I worked on that thing. Every time she saw me in school, she laughed at me. “How is it going? How is it coming?” Then, I handed it in. One afternoon the phone rang, and it was Adrian Blumberg. Because we were friends, she would call me up and ask me what I was doing. She said, “Have you read the paper?” I said, “No, I haven’t read today’s paper.” She says, “Get it, read it.” I said, “Why?” She says, “Because you won the essay.” I couldn’t believe it. She says, “And you’re going to Washington [D.C.].” My mother was very proud of me, and my father told me that under no circumstances was I going by myself. The Rabbi came and informed my father that it was a big honor to send me and that he shouldn’t turn the Chamber of Commerce down. He had come with money from this one organization to buy me a couple outfits for when I went to the White House. I was supposed to meet President Roosevelt. When I got there, he wasn’t there. I was supposed to meet all these famous people, I should look halfway decent. That’s what I think is in the box. My mother bought me a navy-blue dress and a white dress and a white hat. I think I lived in those two dresses the whole week that I was up there. Congressman Peterson from Florida and Senator Pepper from Florida were my hosts. I stayed with their secretaries. They took me to the senate and being that President Roosevelt wasn’t there, I had lunch with Vice President Wallace. I was very impressed when I went to the senate. I was impressed when I went to the house, how a country could work like that. That was really, really new to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4304.59479,4501.17268"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember what you wrote about in your essay? What did you write?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4501.17268,4505.8908"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e That’s why I won. I compared my life in Germany to my life in America. That’s what Americanism meant to me; it gave me a chance at life. I could do anything I wanted to do, become anything I wanted to become. Not that I did, I got married instead. It was very good because I had a good story. If I didn’t have the story, I would have never won it. Adrian called me and told me that she read my essay, and if I had been just another American girl, I wouldn’t have stood a Chinaman’s chance, and she was right. Hers was letter perfect, she’s a brilliant student. But then my whole life turned around, and then I got invited to all the fancy parties. I didn’t like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4505.8908,4570.5006"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you not like about it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4570.5006,4573.66273"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I told my girlfriend, why didn’t they invite me before? Why did I have to win this thing before I got into all these homes? Why, all of a sudden, did they want me to come spend weekends with them? I’m still like that today.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4573.66273,4596.22427"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How did it end up changing your life in the long run to have gotten this introduction to American life? It’s partly of your own creation and partly of this newfound social attitude of your peers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4596.22427,4616.95828"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me the question again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4616.95828,4621.21746"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e I should try to rephrase that, it was a little confusing. When you wrote about an America where you could create your own life, and at that point, it’s sort of abstract. Then your life was changing very rapidly, you had more entree into society because of this essay. It’s almost like a self-fulfilling thing, yet that wasn’t exactly what you wanted. Were you able to decide where in society you wanted to fit in and how you were going to make your life in America?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4621.21746,4657.97657"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No, because I firmly believe that everybody should be treated equally. You shouldn’t be judged by the amount of money you had in the bank. I hated that. I hated the idea that if I hadn’t won the essay, I would have never gotten on the other side of town. I didn’t like that at all.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4657.97657,4673.8241"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Even though you were German, I’m assuming that the temple crowd was mostly German in the synagogue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4673.8241,4679.28493"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No. That’s wrong.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4679.28493,4680.58702"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e It wasn’t like that. What was it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4680.58702,4682.45292"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e When I came to this country, that’s what they told me, that all Reform Jews were German and all Conservative Jews were not. My grandmother and my father were Orthodox Jews. I was raised in an Orthodox home. Which I think is ironic. I was raised in an Orthodox home, and then I became a Conservative Jew, and now I go to Temple Sinai.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4682.45292,4719.00351"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What age are we talking about? How old were you at this point?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4719.00351,4725.57345"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e When I won the essay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4725.57345,4727.45051"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4727.45051,4729.65447"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I wasn’t any more than 14.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4729.65447,4734.18517"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Just a few years after you came here. Tell me about the rest of these years in Tampa [Florida] and how your family became more integrated and how your parents responded to having their lives turned over again and coming to yet another country. What was going on in your family life during those years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4734.18517,4756.99393"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My father was busy making a living. He did not do it with horses, he did it with 55-gallon drums and rags, and some metal. My mother had a shopping bag. We had a bookkeeper; he was German too. She went down [to my father’s office] every day. She didn’t have to. She went down every morning. She never learned to drive, they pick her up and she sat in her office. Every night she’d come home and after supper, she’d take out her papers and the dining room table would be full of her papers. She took an active interest in what was going on. She had not done that in Germany. This was different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4756.99393,4812.5045"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Are you talking politically?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4812.5045,4813.65424"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4813.65424,4815.39142"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e She got active [in the community] or in business?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4815.39142,4817.73973"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e In business.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4817.73973,4819.72039"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e The papers were from her office. She worked with your father. Was this a scrap metal business? I don’t understand.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4819.72039,4828.64183"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e People that had metal became very, very rich. My father’s main thing was 55-gallon steel drums, which he cleaned and sent to citrus places like Tropicana. They put their frozen juice into, or 55-gallon wooden barrels where they put Crisco and things like that into. Then we had a room where the women sorted the rags and then cut off the buttons and the zippers. We had a washing machine and a big dryer, and they would go in there and get washed and dried and be sold as wipers. Then the Japanese got in the way. They decided they could do a much better job than we could. They took the rags, and they baled them into 50-pound bales of wiping rags when they were compact but that didn’t discourage my father. He kept his rag business. His drum business became much bigger. And as far as metal and art, I don’t think that he had the capital to go into that because he needed money for that. There is terrific competition among the Jews in that business. He was very happy with his rags and bags and his drums, and my mother was very happy with her shopping bag and her books in it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4828.64183,4931.05112"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did they learn English or were they with a community where they could speak German? How did that happen there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4931.05112,4938.86163"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My father is the one that made a few friends, not my mother. Mother was too picky, but my father wasn’t picky at all, and he made some very good friends. Through them, they would go to different affairs which my mother liked very much, but my father liked it even more. The people were very nice to him. They could tell that he had lived an interesting life, even though he was not an educated man. They thought he was very, very smart. And he was. To close one business and then open another business totally different and make a go of it. Being able to afford to buy a house in the best section of Tampa, that was an accomplishment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4938.86163,4993.80823"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did your parents belong to a synagogue over the years in Tampa [Florida]?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4993.80823,4997.54296"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/269","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh yes. We belonged to the Conservative synagogue. We belonged to board of shulen, and my father always belonged to the little shul, which was the Orthodox synagogue. And he religiously, until he died, paid his dues and during the holidays he spent any number of hours there. Only thing that they didn’t go to was the temple.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4997.54296,5024.90556"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Even though he had not been interested in Judaism during this whole period of time, in Germany and then in Cuba, when he came back to America, did you feel you kind of went back to his roots from his own family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5024.90556,5043.332"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I did. I would say that on the whole. He was very unhappy with me because I got married very young. Then, to make matters even worse, I married a very poor man. As far as he was concerned, that was absolutely unforgivable. I told my husband to go into work for him, which was the worst thing I could have ever done in my whole life because the man that was good enough for me hadn’t been born yet. My father was rotten to my husband, he really was. A lot of family conflict there because my mother convinced me that if I went to work for my father, too, there would be more peace. That’s ridiculous. There was no more peace just because I went down there. By the time I had three children, I was still working. I only got to stay home with my youngest for a while. The others I never got to stay home with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5043.332,5105.22662"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/272","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e We skipped ahead a little bit. Did you go to college at all, or did you meet your husband in high school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5105.22662,5114.26417"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I met my husband at the Jewish Community Center because it was the Second World War.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5114.26417,5119.15032"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/274","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And his name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5119.15032,5120.95533"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Jack Reznik. He was in the service. We had two big air bases there. They would come up with the buses from the airbase to the Jewish Community Center, and I would sneak out and he was a terrific dancer and I loved to dance. I met him, and we fell in love, and my father raised the roof.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5120.95533,5159.21334"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was he from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5159.21334,5161.53268"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e New York. My father went to see the Rabbi and told the Rabbi that he better put a stop to this, this was not going to be. The more he tried to put a stop to it, the closer I pushed it. Then I told my father that I was going to marry him, and my father said over his dead body. I did marry him. My father was very much alive, but my punishment was neither one came with me to my wedding in California. I couldn’t have a white dress. I had a blue dress with black patent shoes. And I went all by myself. That was my punishment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5161.53268,5207.94693"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why California?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5207.94693,5209.56432"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Because that’s where Jack was stationed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5209.56432,5213.11038"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e And how old were you at the time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5213.11038,5215.26559"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I got married a week before my sixteenth birthday.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5215.26559,5223.02557"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You were allowed to? You did this anyway, against their wishes?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5223.02557,5228.77003"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, no. I could never go without it, I could never get married without their consent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5228.77003,5234.7288"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e They gave the consent.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5234.7288,5236.89625"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I got sick. Some kind of flu bug or something. They couldn’t break the fever. The doctor said to my mother, “You better let her go to California because she’s never going to get well here.” My mother got so scared that she and my father signed the consent forms and off I took, and I got well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5236.89625,5261.39668"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you live on the base in California? What was your life like at that point?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5261.39668,5266.62596"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Wonderful. The best thing that I did for myself is when I moved away from Tampa, and the worst thing I did to myself is that I moved back when the war was over. That was the worst thing I did; worse I did for my husband and myself. It was no good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5266.62596,5286.37579"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about the good part then. So, tell me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5286.37579,5289.08536"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e The good part. The good part was wonderful. He was a very patient man. Very kind, I didn’t know what love was. But I will tell you something. He loved me and he loved his boys. I was his family, he lived for us. In that respect, he was very, very happy that he had us. Unfortunately, he died when he was 50. That was terrible.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5289.08536,5331.38181"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did you move back to Tampa? Did you feel like you owed your parents something?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5331.38181,5337.00429"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/291","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e He made a big mistake, he took me to New York, and he showed me how his parents lived.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5337.00429,5342.09079"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Which was how?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5342.09079,5343.99117"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was like an apartment house. You had to walk up six flights, and if you wanted to cool off, you had to sit on the roof. The whole thing didn’t appeal to me, I couldn’t see living like that. I said to him, “If we go back to Tampa, eventually, my father’s business will wind up to be yours.” It did wind up my husband’s, only my father sold him the business, but he took out all the inventory, all the accounts receivable, left no money in it. By that time, I was so indoctrinated, I went to see the Rabbi. The Rabbi came down to the shop and he talked to Jack, he talked to me, and he wanted to talk to my father, but couldn't do anything with my father. It was a big struggle for Jack. Very big struggle. I still believe that it caused his death because he had an aneurysm that burst. I hated going down there. Hated it. That’s when I learned, there was no such thing as never and always. He said to me, “I’m never going to leave you, and I will always be there.” Then he picked up and died on me. That was the most horrific thing that happened to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5343.99117,5447.5017"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How old were your children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5447.5017,5453.81311"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e In that respect, I was very lucky. I didn’t have my first son until I was 20. And believe me, mentally I wasn’t ready to have them at 20. My second son, I had at 25, and my third son, I had a 30. And my third son, I was allowed to stay home as long as I was pregnant. He and I have a unique relationship. It’s totally different from the other two. I believe it was because I was home with him. I know people have to go to work today because a lot of people can’t live on one salary. One of the reasons that I had to work – I worked down there too – was because my mother claimed that if I came down there, I would make things better by a mile. It was a bunch of bullshit. I didn’t make anything any better. It’s a bitter regret I have. He was such a nice man. He really was. He didn’t deserve what he got.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5453.81311,5530.99848"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Was there just always tension between your parents and him and you? Did they ever get over that or was it always difficult?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5530.99848,5542.94187"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was like that first. Then my mother died at 59. Three years later, my father died. Three years after that, Jack died. And there I was with no family, no money, no education, and three boys to educate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5542.94187,5566.23609"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you survive that period?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5566.23609,5570.34831"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/299","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I used to sit in a hall and drag out all the papers from the closet to figure out how much I was worth. When I found out how much I was worth, I just would get sick. Sicker than I already was. I don’t know how I did it, but I got two dentists out of it. Both of them graduated from Emory. I got one that went to school and wasn’t interested at all in becoming a dentist and was so badly affected by his father’s dying that he needed six months to graduate and he dropped out of school. No matter how much the other boys and I talked to him; you couldn’t talk to him. Thank God he’s made as much money as a dentist, more money than the young dentist made because he opened the first HIV clinic at Grady. He traveled all over the country. He could have been as rich as Michael.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5570.34831,5647.60503"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/300","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me what your children’s names are.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5647.60503,5651.50437"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/301","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Michael is my oldest, Steve is my middle son, and David is my youngest. Michael’s full name is Michael Hermann. Hermann was my grandmother’s husband. Steve and Paul. They were two brothers of my father’s. We named David, David because we both liked the name, and his middle name is Alan. And that was after one of my great uncles.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5651.50437,5679.6429"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/302","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you tell me how your parents found out what happened to their families in Europe after you had emigrated? Were they able to maintain contact for any length of time?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5679.6429,5694.23794"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/303","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I had this great uncle who had been a big shot in the service, whose daughter had moved to South Africa, and she kept in touch with my mother. For some reason or other, she knew everything that was going on in the family. My mother got a letter and then she got hysterical. I read it, and she wrote that my grandmother had died at home in her bed because she didn’t have insulin, that my two aunts had been sent to two different concentration camps, and that my uncle had made it to South Africa. The rest of my family were dead.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5694.23794,5745.24465"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Everybody?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5745.24465,5747.43612"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/305","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Everyone, everyone, every one of them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5747.43612,5755.7345"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/306","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What about your father’s family? Did he maintain any contact with them after he left?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5755.7345,5760.55508"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/307","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e A lot of them remained in Poland and those who remained in Poland all died. His mother died, too. He had a brother that lived in Berlin [Germany], and a brother that lived in Munchberg [Germany] [German: Münchbeg]. They died because they were Jews. When he came to this country, he had the uncle that left and took my father’s money, and he had one sister that had lived in the same town. That’s all the family he had left. All the rest were killed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5760.55508,5794.53727"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did they ever talk about that in later years?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5794.53727,5797.52513"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Did my father talk about his family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5797.52513,5800.43623"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/310","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5800.43623,5803.48204"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e When I think about it, my mother didn’t talk about her family either. I don’t know why I kept remembering everything. Just like my grandmother had said, I would. I have a lot of trouble falling asleep at night, and a lot of times I’ll think about my grandmother, and I’ll think about my two great-aunts, and everyone just lulls me to sleep.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5803.48204,5831.24113"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You took on a big responsibility to keep their memories alive. That they still live within you and everyone else seems to have forgotten.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5831.24113,5842.34998"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, but I’ll tell you something, it’s very well worth it for me. To me, I understand they are dead, but they’re really not dead. Because in a way, I have kept them alive. Things are wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5842.34998,5867.68712"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you learn about the world because of this time of your life? Did you try to teach any of your ideas about how things should be or how they really were to your children?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5867.68712,5889.74548"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Sometimes the closer you are to a situation, the worse you can... My own husband didn’t believe me. He couldn’t believe that, he couldn’t believe the Holocaust. He couldn’t believe that people could do this to each other, and no matter what I told him, he still couldn’t believe it. As the boys got older, they began to doubt it too. I went to Israel. They only talked about going, they never went. I wish they would have gone. Michael did go one time, they wanted him to stay because they needed a dentist badly. He was married at the time, and there was just no way he could uproot his life like that. Even though he didn't have any children, he couldn’t.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5889.74548,5960.68858"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e When did you go to Israel?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5960.68858,5964.92527"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I went right after the big war. You could still see guns and things as you drove through the desert. I was hypnotized by Yeruham [Israel]. They fascinated me. Just like standing on top, of Masada, fascinated me too. The whole country fascinated me. And we stayed in Jerusalem I think it was a Hilton and it had a balcony. And I felt like I could reach up and touch the stars. That’s how close I was to heaven. Walking the streets of Jerusalem [Israel], I felt really, truly, 100 percent Jewish. I got there because I got remarried and my husband sold Israel Bonds. They were sending him, but he didn’t have enough money to take me. I had just gotten my real estate license. Unfortunately, I didn’t do with it, what my sister did with it, she made a mint of money with it. But I got my trip to Israel. I saw my girlfriend’s house and that was enough to take me there. I loved it. And I went to a kibbutz, I always remember. I walked with this man around the kibbutz, and I said to him, “I think it's wonderful, nobody cares whether your hair is done, or it isn't done, or what you're wearing, or what you're not wearing. It's wonderful. I think this is where I belong. This is where I’d like to live.” He said “It is very nice that you feel like that, however, we don’t have any room for you, you need a trade, something that we can use. Besides, you’re the type, you’d be here three months and you’d miss your children so much, all you would want to do is pick up and go back.” But I loved it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5964.92527,6117.25445"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/318","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e So did you remain then in Tampa?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6117.25445,6120.28208"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/319","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Did I what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6120.28208,6122.42041"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/320","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you remain in Tampa?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6122.42041,6123.97835"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I remained in Tampa until 1980. By the time 1980 came around, my husband had died. My parents were dead. I had no one left.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6123.97835,6135.63768"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Can you tell me the name of your second husband?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6135.63768,6138.99093"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e It was Sales, Bert Sales. He sold Israel bonds, that’s how I met him. He’s dead too now, but I didn’t love him.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6138.99093,6156.48646"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why did you decide to marry?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6156.48646,6160.71541"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I was so young when I got married the first time that when my husband died, I felt like I was half a person. I believed that the only way you were whole is if you were married, which is not true. I know that now, but I didn’t know it then. So, I married him. He was very happy, but I hadn’t been fair to him. I certainly didn’t marry him for his money because he didn’t have any. Selling Israel Bonds, you don’t make a lot of money. I guess what drew me to him too was his interest in Israel. Even though I have never been a Zionist, that’s the strange part about me, I never had any desire to go there and dig in the soil, never. My aunt who wound up in the concentration camp for five years, she wanted to go to Israel. My grandmother put her foot down and said that she wasn’t going. Later on, claimed if she had let her go, she wouldn’t have spent five years in the concentration camp, but it wasn’t meant to be.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6160.71541,6259.93706"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e In 1980, where did you find yourself?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6259.93706,6263.81488"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e In 1980, Michael came home and said, “This is it. You got to put the house on the market, and you have to make up your mind if you’re going to move to Atlanta or if you’re going to move to Tallahassee. There are two of us in Atlanta and one of us in Tallahassee. You have the choice.” I said, “I don’t want to sell my house. I don’t want to leave Tampa [Florida].” He says, “You got no choice, if you get sick or something, we can’t close down our practice and come down to take care of you. This is your turn now to come to where we are.” He didn’t appeal to me at all. My aunt was still alive then and I said, “You think you can make up my mind if I want to go to Atlanta or Tallahassee.” I said, “I think I’m going to go to Tallahassee [Florida] because the traffic in Atlanta is horrible.” And she said to me, “I did not raise a chicken.” So, Atlanta here I came.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6263.81488,6332.73895"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/328","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e How was it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6332.73895,6335.27795"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/329","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Very Southern. I wasn’t used to it. Tampa’s not very Southern.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6335.27795,6342.90439"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Why is it not very Southern? I don’t, I don’t know Tampa [Florida].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6342.90439,6346.49332"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/331","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e First of all, it’s on the West Coast of Florida. People didn’t drink mint juleps on the verandas, and they didn’t have such teas here, they also weren’t as cliquish. I found moving to Atlanta I finally learned about the South. I felt I had moved into the Deep South here. I wouldn’t choose to roll with that either.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6346.49332,6378.21241"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/332","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me about the culture shock.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6378.21241,6382.55061"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/333","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e The culture shock, that’s a long story. As you can see, I read a lot. It was a culture shock moving here. There’s no question of that. I lost my best girlfriend and it’s unusual at my age to meet a best friend because we didn’t have any background together. Since her [passing], I haven’t been able to find a friend. It was unusual how we got together, and she died very suddenly. How much we cared about each other, and our backgrounds were totally different. I was crazy about her, and I lost my best friend and Tampa at the same time. I used to go home at least twice a year, I don’t do that anymore.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6382.55061,6464.23834"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/334","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you get involved with? Any kind of Jewish anything here in Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6464.23834,6471.19754"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/335","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e No. That was a big disappointment to me too. All those years that I worked at Hadassah, I was a life member, and I was this and I was that. I was vice president of the Florida region of Hadassah. When I came here, they couldn’t care less that I came here. All the things that the people that moved to Tampa used to bitch and complain about that nobody came to them, I experienced the same thing. In Tampa, I had been in the sisterhood president of my synagogue. Nobody was interested in that either. I figured that’s the way they want to play the game, I’ll play it like that, but I miss it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6471.19754,6517.78121"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/336","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You haven’t found a place here. And it’s been 26, 27 years that you’ve lived here in Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6517.78121,6525.92205"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/337","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I can’t find anybody that really wants me. Now I’m at an age that… when I was in Tampa, we had a lady that came from Atlanta, she was my age that I am now at the time. She was too set in her ways and she couldn’t make it. Sometimes I think that if I got involved in an organization now, I’m also set in my ways. The way we did things then and the way you do things now, it’s different, it’s not the same. I would like to volunteer but I was a pink lady in Tampa. After all these things, I don’t want to do that anymore. I miss being active in my synagogue. I miss that very much. And I guess a big part of that is my fault.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6525.92205,6598.68203"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/338","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e You’ve had to pull up stakes and acculturated in many different cultures, in many different cities in your life. Several big moves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6598.68203,6612.96327"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/339","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e When I went to the shrink the last time he said to me, “I always meant to tell you, and I’ve never told you, but you don’t take change very well.” I said, “It’s strange that you should say that because of how many times I had [to] change.” He said, “But look at you now. You’re lost.” And I said, “That’s a good word for me. I am lost.”","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6612.96327,6637.9426"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/340","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Atlanta is a huge city, and I think a lot of people who come here, even after many, many years still feel that way. I hear it a lot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6637.9426,6648.28232"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/341","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e That’s what I hear a lot too. It doesn’t make me feel any better because I don’t want to be like that. There must be people like me around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6648.28232,6660.1597"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/342","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e What do you do for pleasure? Do you? Do you have grandchildren here? Who do you see?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6660.1597,6666.98051"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/343","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I have two grandchildren here, but unfortunately, I’m not my daughter-in-law’s favorite cup of tea. Consequently, I don’t see much of my grandchildren, which hurts me very bitterly. For pleasure, up until I broke my hip, I played mahjong once a week, which was not my game. In Tampa [Florida], I always played bridge. What I needed was a refresher course. I had a very good girlfriend who died also, she was a little older than I was and died very suddenly. She always used to tell me to come to the house, that she’d give me the refresher course. She was a real good bridge player, but I never did it. Part of what’s wrong with me is my own fault. When I had the opportunities to do something… Like ten minutes away from me is Benson Center, I’ve never been.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6666.98051,6732.0026"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/344","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Sometimes the timing isn’t right. Maybe sitting and talking about it will give you the impetus to get out there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6732.0026,6741.44141"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/345","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e And I need something to give me something I tell you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6741.44141,6746.07242"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/346","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e If you had the opportunity to talk to young people, to tell them about what you’ve learned from these experiences throughout your life, what would you tell them? What are your thoughts about this more than 60 years later?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6746.07242,6767.48167"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/347","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e When I was young, I didn’t have a hard time talking to younger people. Now that I’m old, I have a harder time talking to young people. Our values have changed so much. You don’t have many volunteers anymore like you had.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6767.48167,6790.06018"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/348","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e If you could communicate something about your experiences, something that you’ve learned, something that you would want them to understand, your grandchildren who may be watching this tape, what would you like to communicate? What would be your message?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6790.06018,6812.15858"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/349","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e My message would be to always be proud of the fact that you are a Jew. It means the world to me. I don’t ever, ever want to think those 6 million people died for nothing. I would go right back out and speak every day again. If I had to do something, if it ever, God forbid, it came to that again. I happen to be one of these few people that believe it could happen here just as well as it happened over there. We’re not that safe here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6812.15858,6856.17287"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/350","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e People are people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6856.17287,6857.79081"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/351","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e People are people is right. Did you see the Oscars?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6857.79081,6864.71714"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/352","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e No.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6864.71714,6866.33673"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/353","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I got a big kick out of, what’s his name? Who ran for president?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6866.33673,6872.76482"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/354","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Al Gore?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6872.76482,6874.16008"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/355","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, that night, he could have gotten elected.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6874.16008,6878.97517"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/356","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, he’s popular now. He got elected the first time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6878.97517,6883.55871"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/357","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e  I truly didn’t have anything against that. That’s another funny thing about me, I’ve always been a Democrat. I’m not a Bush person at all. Which I think is the beauty of this country, you can be what the hell you want to be. Nobody puts a gun on your back and says, “You have to vote Republican” or “You have to vote Democratic.” You make up your own mind about what you want to vote. What aggravates me to death is people that will not go out to vote. When it’s such a privilege that you have.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6883.55871,6920.21847"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/358","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e It might be like your case with going to synagogue–when you think that no one can ever take your rights away from you, you get blasé about it. I think that a lot of the American youth are a little blasé about the rights that they actually should be grateful for. I think hearing your story is something that would give them a lot more understanding about what’s at stake. I mean, the Nazi Party was voted in democratically. Democracy is something that takes a lot of work from the citizenry. I think what you’re saying is very, very important.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6920.21847,6961.92443"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/359","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e If you were 17 or 18, would you think it was important?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6961.92443,6970.21706"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/360","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Is there anything that I haven’t touched on that you want to talk about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6970.21706,6976.79404"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/361","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I wish this wasn’t on the tape. This is a question I have, I want to know why it was that when I lived in Tampa and I went there cold turkey and I was so damn popular, why did I never make it in this town?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6976.79404,6995.15214"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/362","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e In Atlanta?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6995.15214,6996.07096"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/363","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6996.07096,6997.0209"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/364","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6997.0209,6999.82244"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/365","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Was it that I didn’t have enough money?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6999.82244,7003.01477"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/366","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e I don’t think so. I know a lot of people who don’t have money. I don’t know what to think about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=7003.01477,7011.48012"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/367","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I’m not the most brilliant person in this world, but I don’t think I’m stupid either. Matter of fact, I think I’m pretty good company. And yet, there’s no place for me. That sounds very dramatic, but that’s the truth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=7011.48012,7036.23864"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/368","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e For someone who has had to move around so much and not because you’ve chosen to that must be especially a sad feeling, feeling of not having a place.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=7036.23864,7053.8693"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/369","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e I had a very bad weekend last week and I don’t know why, but it was a very bad weekend for me, and I thought to myself, why can’t I have a little bit of what I had? I don’t want it all back, but just a little bit of what I had in Tampa, I would be happy with.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=7053.8693,7073.1184"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/370","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEinstein:\u003c/strong\u003e Let me thank you now for doing this tape. I think it’s a very, very interesting story. And, maybe we can talk some more about these, these other things, in a bit, but I want to thank you very, very much for sharing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=7073.1184,7089.4223"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/transcript/81727/annotation/371","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eReznik:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, you’re very welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=7089.4223,7630.9416"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Reznick, Anne [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/372","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWylow is in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 7 km north-west of Przecław, 8 km south of Mielec, and 48 km north-west of the regional capital Rzeszów. It is about 900 miles from the German border.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=53.15205,54.14053"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/373","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKönigsberg, now Kaliningrad, was a port city on the southeastern corner of the Baltic Sea. It is today known as Kaliningrad and is part of Russia. The city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1944 and during the Battle of Königsberg in 1945; it was then captured by the Soviet Union on 9 April 1945. 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On November 8 and 9, 1938, the Nazis started a state-sponsored nationwide pogrom. Across the country (and in Austria) Jewish synagogues, homes and businesses were looted and burned, Jews were attacked on the streets and 91 were killed. Thousands of Jewish men were sent to concentration camps for several weeks and released only when they agreed to leave the country as soon as possible. The Jews were made to pay for the damages to their premises. The pogrom was called “Kristallnacht,” which means “Night of Broken Glass,” because of all the damage done to Jewish shop windows. Thousands of German Jews and close to 6,000 Austrian Jews were arrested after Kristallnacht and deported to the Dachau or Buchenwald concentration camps in Germany. Most were released within a few weeks, but only if they promised to immigrate immediately, leaving their property behind.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=158.05896,172.73131"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/375","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAnhalt, or Saxony-Anhalt was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone until 1949.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=178.59176,200.91634"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/376","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Russian Zone was a zone in Germany controlled by the Soviet Union 1945–89\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=178.59176,200.91634"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/377","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eZerbst is a town in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, about 140 km southwest of Berlin.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=204.54035,224.24392"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/378","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003echazzan\u003c/em\u003e or cantor is the official in charge of music or chants and leads liturgical prayer and chanting in the synagogue.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=281.67623,302.54172"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/379","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMünchberg is a small town in Upper Franconia (Bavaria), Germany, about 200 km from Zerbst. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=551.53761,615.90207"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/380","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), commonly known as the “Nazi Party,” was a political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945. The party’s leader was Adolf Hitler. Initially, Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeois, and anti-capitalist rhetoric. In the 1930s the party's focus shifted to antisemitic and anti-Marxist themes. Racism was also central to Nazism. The Nazis aimed to unite all Germans as national comrades, whilst excluding those deemed either to be community aliens or of a foreign race. The Nazis sought to improve the stock of the Germanic people through racial purity and eugenics, broad social welfare programs, and a disregard for the value of individual life, which could be sacrificed for the good of the Nazi state and the “Aryan master race.” The persecution reached its climax when the party-controlled German state organized the systematic murder of approximately 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 people from the other targeted groups.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=713.56393,724.8287"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/381","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAdolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer (“leader”) of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator of Nazi Germany, he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure of the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=713.56393,724.8287"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/382","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eShanghai, China was home to more than 17,000 German and Austrian Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution in 1938 and 1939. Housing conditions were poor. The most economically vulnerable of them lived in barracks funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Conditions in Shanghai became worse after America entered the war and Japan’s fighting intensified. Supplies were cut off and refugees had even fewer supplies including food. Japanese authorities had strict regulations for the Jews in Shanghai including living within designated areas of the settlement and stripping them of their national identification.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=889.92755,971.57917"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/383","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA political prisoner was a person imprisoned because their actions or beliefs are contrary to those of the Nazi party.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=977.35087,998.94714"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/384","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTampa is a city in Florida, Hillsborough County. It is the third most populous city in the state. The city was founded as a military center during the 19th century when Fort Brooke was established. It is located on the Gulf Coast and the bay’s port is the largest in the state, making it an important economic asset. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1393.31445,1477.86046"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/385","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e (Hebrew) or \u003cem\u003eShabbos\u003c/em\u003e (Yiddish) is the Jewish Sabbath and is observed on Saturdays. \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e observance entails refraining from work activities and engaging in restful activities to honor the day. \u003cem\u003eShabbat\u003c/em\u003e begins at sundown on Friday night and is ushered in by lighting candles and reciting a blessing. It is closed the following evening with the recitation of the \u003cem\u003ehavdalah\u003c/em\u003e blessing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1393.31445,1477.86046"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/386","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKosher/Kashrut is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law. Food that may be consumed is deemed kosher, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kosher, meaning \"fit\" (in this context, \"fit for consumption\"). 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Cuba also denied entry to two ships carrying Jewish refugees escaping Nazi persecution where the ship's captain tried to find another country to accept the refugees, but failed, and the ship was forced to return to Belgium\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1497.01404,1524.41824"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/388","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLeipzig is in Saxony, Germany. It is 194 km south of Berlin. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1527.00407,1651.8094"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/389","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBeshert means inevitable or preordained.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1527.00407,1651.8094"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/390","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBerlin is the capital and largest city of Germany. Hitlers headquarters were in Berlin which makes REZNIK’s comment about Berlin not being as horrendous as small towns curious. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=1527.00407,1651.8094"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/391","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Netherlands, approximately 330 miles from Germany, tried to remain neutral in World War II. The port city of Rotterdam was bombed by the Germans in 1940. Soon after the Netherlands fell to the Germans, a series of anti-Jewish measures began. In January 1941, all Jews in the Netherlands were required to register themselves as Jews. A total of 159,806 persons registered, including 19,561 persons born of mixed marriages. The total included some 25,000 Jewish refugees from the German Reich. The situation deteriorated quickly, with new regulations and measures issued every month. By September 1941, Jewish students had been expelled from public schools. Despite public protests, Dutch Jews were increasingly driven into social isolation and stripped of their possessions until deportations began in the summer of 1942. Between 1942 and 1944, the Germans and their Dutch collaborators deported 107,000 Jews. Only 5,200 survived. Most were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau or Sobibor, where they were murdered. Two-thirds of the 25,000-30,000 Dutch Jews who went into hiding managed to survive. 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In 1930, the Quota Act, which restricted immigration to South Africa, was passed. While not expressly stated, the aim of the Quota Act was to restrict Jewish immigration. Still, between 1930 and 1936, approximately 6,000 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany had come to South Africa. Then in 1937, the Aliens Act essentially closed the door to Jewish immigrants and during the Holocaust, fewer than 500 Jews entered South Africa.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2396.12321,2427.04142"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/394","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHamburg is a port city in northern Germany. In 1933, there were 16,885 Jews in the city. By 1937, 5,000 had left Germany. Hamburg was home to two Jewish schools, the Talmud-Tora-Schule [German: Talmud-Torah School] for boys and the Israelitische Töchterschule [German: Israelite Girl’s School] for girls. In April 1939, the two schools were merged in the girls’ school at Carolinenstrasse 35 [today’s Karolinenstrasse] and stayed open until all Jewish schools in Germany were forcibly closed in June 1942. From 1941-1945, Jews were deported on 17 transports to Lodz, Minsk, Riga, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt. More than 300 of the city's Jews committed suicide; 80 during the height of the deportations in late 1941. By 1943, there were only 1,800 Jews left in Hamburg, most of whom were married to non-Jews. The Jewish community was officially liquidated in June of that year. In all, about 7,800 Hamburg Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Die Jüdischen Opfer Des Nationalsozialismus [German: The Jewish Victims of National Socialism] is a memorial book compiled by the State Archive in Hamburg and published in 1965. The book lists the 6,150 known names of 7,812 Hamburg Jews who were victims of Nazi Persecution. It includes all of the names on each transport of Hamburg Jews as well as information on deportations from medical facilities and on persons who committed suicide.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2728.97857,2731.43022"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/395","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eZionism is a movement which supports a Jewish national state in the territory defined as the Land of Israel. Although Zionism existed before the nineteenth century, in the 1890s Theodor Herzl popularized it and gave it a new urgency, as he believed that Jewish life in Europe was threatened, and a State of Israel was needed. The State of Israel was established in 1948 and Zionism today is expressed as support for the continued existence of Israel.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2903.77633,2954.13684"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/396","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHadassah\u003c/em\u003e, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer service organization founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold. It currently has over 300,000 members and supporters worldwide. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=2903.77633,2954.13684"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/397","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eHIAS provided aid to Jewish refugees living under Nazism and assistance to Americans trying to sponsor immigrants.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3089.29487,3090.90429"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/398","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe German occupying forces started to set up prison camps in the Netherlands too in 1941, and those camps were the scene of forced labor, provocation, and mistreatment of prisoners as well as executions. There were no camps with gas chambers in the Netherlands, however, like the ones used in the German extermination camps.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first camp in the Netherlands was near Schoorl, where mainly Jews, Communists, and political prisoners of an anti-revolutionary persuasion [an influential Dutch politico-religious movement claiming the government didn't derive its authority from the people but from God’s sovereignty] were imprisoned from February 1941 on. The regime was mild compared with that of the other camps in the Netherlands: the prisoners were not compelled to carry out heavy work, and there was enough food. Because the camp proved to be too small and there was hardly any room to expand it, it was already closed down at the end of October.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Germans looked for a larger barracks complex and found one on Leusderheide. This is where the Amersfoort transit camp was taken into use and expanded to form a meeting point for a large number of different categories of prisoners who were to be transported to camps in Germany. It was followed in the summer of 1942 by camps near Ommen (the later camp Erica), where those sentenced for economic crimes were detained; near Vught, the only concentration camp in the Netherlands; and near Westerbork, which was mainly filled with Jews waiting to be transported to the east.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3095.34425,3176.42607"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/399","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eIn May 1939, the German liner \u003cem\u003eSt. Louis\u003c/em\u003e sailed from Hamburg, Germany, to Havana, Cuba. The 937 passengers were almost all Jewish refugees. Cuba's government refused to allow the ship to land. The United States and Canada were unwilling to admit the passengers. 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In international law, a stateless person. A stateless person is someone who is \"not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law\". \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=3428.41676,3464.55968"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/402","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eJames Hardin Peterson (February 11, 1894 – March 28, 1978) was a U.S. Representative from Florida. Peterson was in office March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1951. He was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Florida's 1st congressional district in the 1932 election. 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He was diagnosed with infantile paralysis, better known as polio, in 1921, at the age of 39. Despite permanent paralysis from the waist down, he was careful never to be seen using his wheelchair in public, and great care was taken to prevent any portrayal in the press that would highlight his disability.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4304.59479,4501.17268"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/404","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eClaude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. 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While the \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e remains the law, in Reform Judaism women are included (mixed seating, \u003cem\u003ebat mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e, and women rabbis), instrumental music is allowed in the services, and most of the service is in the local language as opposed to Hebrew.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4682.45292,4719.00351"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/407","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlso known as Masorti Judaism, Conservative Judaism is a 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. It attempts to combine a positive attitude toward modern culture while preserving a commitment to Jewish observance. In general, Conservative congregations also observe gender equality (mixed seating, women rabbis, and \u003cem\u003ebat mitzvah\u003c/em\u003e). The governing body for Conservative Judaism in the United States is the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), formerly known as the United Synagogue of America.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4682.45292,4719.00351"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/408","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOrthodox Judaism is a traditional branch of Judaism that strictly follows the written \u003cem\u003eTorah\u003c/em\u003e and the oral law concerning prayer, dress, food, sex, family relations, social behavior, the \u003cem\u003eSabbath\u003c/em\u003e day, holidays, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4682.45292,4719.00351"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/409","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eTemple Sinai in Sandy Springs, Ga was founded in February 1968. Initially, 30 families joined the new Reform Jewish congregation. It grew to 145 families in one month and today there are over 1,600 member families. Meetings were held in various locations for the first five years. In 1973 the permanent synagogue on Dupree Drive in Sandy Springs was dedicated.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4682.45292,4719.00351"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/410","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShul\u003c/em\u003e is a Yiddish word for synagogue that is derived from a German word meaning “school,” and emphasizes the synagogue's role as a place of study.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=4997.54296,5024.90556"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/411","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA kibbutz (Hebrew: \"gathering,\" \"clustering\"‎) is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, some kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. 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It is one of the oldest cities in the world, and is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Both the State of Israel and Palestine claim Jerusalem as their capital. Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there, and Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power. Neither claim is widely recognized internationally\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=5964.92527,6117.25445"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/414","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMasada is an ancient fortress in southern Israel’s Judean Desert. 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During the American Civil War it was a strategically important city for the Confederacy until it was captured in 1864. The city was almost entirely burnt to the ground during General William Sherman’s March to the Sea. After the war, the city rebounded and became a national industrial center.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560#t=6263.81488,6332.73895"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/141744/file/274560/annotation_set/1941/annotation/417","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Dorothy C. 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