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She was the only child of an affluent, very secular Jewish family. When Germany invaded France in 1940, her family fled Paris. After a brief stay in Normandy, Micheline and her parents travelled to southern France, where they spent the next four years moving around to various villages and cities. After years of enduring hunger and fear, her family eagerly returned to Paris after its liberation in 1944.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e          Despite encountering the loss of friends and family members as well as an unwelcoming society, Micheline’s family began to rebuild their lives. Her family became active in the local Jewish community and began attending synagogue. Micheline continued her education and graduated from College De Cannes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e          As a young woman, Micheline married a family friend, who was a fellow survivor. After the birth of two children, the marriage ended in divorce. Micheline later remarried Robert Gerson and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where Micheline’s third child was born. Micheline enjoyed raising her children and helping her husband in the family business, Robley Hats. Later in life, Micheline enjoyed travelling the world and spending time with her children and grandchildren. Micheline died in 2019.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003e         The interview begins with Micheline recounting her family’s history and identification as French, but not Jewish. Micheline recalls her early childhood in Paris. She remembers fleeing Paris when the war began. Micheline traces her family’s travels from Normandy to Bordeaux. She describes life in a small, Catholic village. Micheline considers experiences that made her realize the danger of being Jewish. She recollects living in a hotel in Marseille and then Cannes. She remembers being shunned at school and having few playmates. Micheline describes life under Italian occupation. She remembers the lack of food and other supplies. Micheline recalls resistance efforts by her parents and others. She remembers leaving Cannes when the Germans occupied it. Micheline describes the cruelty, occasional kindness, and ever-present hunger her family endured in the small village they settled in. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e        Micheline recounts hearing Paris had been liberated and returning to their home. She shares what they learned about the fates of friends and family. Micheline describes encounters as an adult with people who had been unkind to her family during the war. She talks about the challenges her family had in trying to reclaim their stolen possessions. Micheline recounts her first and second marriages. She talks about adjusting to life in the United States. 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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Gerson, Micheline Tindel (1931-2019) (personal name)","Frank, Alfonse (personal name)","Tindel, Abraham (personal name)","Tindel, Jaqueline (personal name)","Tindel, Jacques (personal name)","Katz, Rose (personal name)","Gerson, Robert (personal name)","Kalker, Judith (personal name)","Kalker, David (personal name)","Gerson, Christina (personal name)","Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) (personal name)","Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) (personal name)","Schubert, Franz (1797-1828) (personal name)","Duvall, Margaret (personal name)","Petain, Philippe (1856-1951) (personal name)","Henry IV, King of Navarre (1553-1910) (personal name)","David-Well, Pierre (personal name)","David-Well, Michel (personal name)","David-Well, David (personal name)","Meyer, Andre (personal name)","Zuckerman, Perle (personal name)","de Gaulle, Charles (1890-1970) (personal name)","Morgan, J. 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She was the only child of an affluent, very secular Jewish family. When Germany invaded France in 1940, her family fled Paris. After a brief stay in Normandy, Micheline and her parents travelled to southern France, where they spent the next four years moving around to various villages and cities. After years of enduring hunger and fear, her family eagerly returned to Paris after its liberation in 1944.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; Despite encountering the loss of friends and family members as well as an unwelcoming society, Micheline\u0026rsquo;s family began to rebuild their lives. Her family became active in the local Jewish community and began attending synagogue. Micheline continued her education and graduated from College De Cannes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; As a young woman, Micheline married a family friend, who was a fellow survivor. After the birth of two children, the marriage ended in divorce. Micheline later remarried Robert Gerson and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where Micheline\u0026rsquo;s third child was born. Micheline enjoyed raising her children and helping her husband in the family business, Robley Hats. Later in life, Micheline enjoyed travelling the world and spending time with her children and grandchildren. Micheline died in 2019.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;The interview begins with Micheline recounting her family\u0026rsquo;s history and identification as French, but not Jewish. Micheline recalls her early childhood in Paris. She remembers fleeing Paris when the war began. Micheline traces her family\u0026rsquo;s travels from Normandy to Bordeaux. She describes life in a small, Catholic village. Micheline considers experiences that made her realize the danger of being Jewish. She recollects living in a hotel in Marseille and then Cannes. 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My name is Micheline.\n\nKent: Where and when were you born?\n\nGerson: I was born in Paris [to] Parisian parents and grandparents who were\nParisian, too.\n\nKent: What year?\n\nGerson: My mother in 1905, my father in 1894, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me in 1931.\n\nKent: Was there anybody else in your family?\n\nGerson: Yes, I had a grandmother [who was] very well-known because my\ngrandfather owned theaters. He started as a newspaper man and then he bought\ntheaters. He had the [unintelligible; 0:52].\n\nKent: What were their names?\n\nGerson: Alfonse Frank. That was my grandfather, the father of my mom. My father\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was a self-made man. His father was Abraham Tindel. He came from\n[unintelligible; 1:10] Romania a long time ago because they had 11 children. I\nknow they were born in France, so it's a long time ago. My father, who was the\nlast one, was born in 1894. I had an uncle. 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My grandmother's name was Rose Katz. My grandmother remarried a rabbi\nand went to Romania, [unintelligible; 2:17]. They never told me that she was\nAustrian, because we didn't like -- On my other side of the family, my\ngrandmother hated the Germans. I was raised hating the Germans, therefore -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It\nwas done because I was Jewish.\n\nKent: What did you hear about it, as to the reason for hating Germans and Austrians?\n\nGerson: My mother had -- the First [World] War. She was in the First [World] War\nand the bombing, Grosse Bertha [French: Big Bertha], and the bombing of Paris,\nand all this. Then, my grandfather, Alfonse Frank--the one who had the theater\nand died two months after I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born--his family was Alsatian, from Strasbourg.\nIn 1800, when the Germans invaded Alsace-Lorraine, they moved to Paris. He took\ncare of his family, his father, and mother, and I think five brothers and\nsisters. It's very funny because nobody was really observant, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"none of them,\nexcept the father of my grandmother. Her name was Isabel. Her father was -- They\ncome from the first Jews that came to Europe from Spain, but they had money.\nThey built the first synagogue, on St. Catherine in Bordeaux, and a Hebrew\nacademy ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for poor children coming from Spain, when Christopher Columbus\ndiscovered America. I have the papers.\n\nKent: How did you know you were Jewish or how did it show up that you were Jewish?\n\nGerson: I didn't know. I had some friends who were Jewish, but it was not a\nproblem. I mean, I was French; I was not Jewish. I never went to temple. My\nfriend [unintelligible; 4:30]. 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Then, we\nbecame Jewish. I didn't understand it.\n\nKent: Let us start with your parents. Could you describe what they were like as\npeople? Their names and --\n\nGerson: My father was a -- He stopped working when he was 36 because he thought\nhe had enough money. He took care of portfolios of friends, and divorcees, and\nwidows ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for nothing. When people asked me what my father was doing, I said,\n\"Well, he goes to the club every day. He does gymnastics, he swims, and he\nfences.\" My father was not [unintelligible; 5:40]. He was not a doctor. He was\njust my dad. He came often to see me in the [unintelligible; 5:48]. I didn't go\nto a regular school, I was so precious. I went to a school called the\n[unintelligible; 6:01]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"At the school, you went once a week and you had a tutor\nat home for the five following days. I was very good. I had an English nanny who\ncame to take me every day to walk or to go somewhere. I spoke English. When I\nwas born, my mother had a Fraulein for me because this is what was done at the\ntime. I spoke German until I was two years old, but Austrian, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not German because\nit was nicer.\n\nKent: How was it different?\n\nGerson: If you hear Austrian and if you hear German, you'll hear it. If I go one\nweek or two weeks in Switzerland, I understand. I didn't speak it during the war\nat all. I understand it, but I don't speak it.\n\nKent: Talk about your mother a little. What was she like? And their names again?\n\nGerson: My mother was Jaqueline. 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I don't know what happened, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but the law didn't pass\nand it was the war already.\n\nKent: What are some of your major memories before the war when life was still normal?\n\nGerson: The Sundays with my grandmother, because Sundays we were going to have\ntea somewhere, we went to the zoo, and we went -- things like this. I had a very\nnice life. I remember sitting on the chaise with my grandmother and they read to\nme. 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He didn't\nbelieve ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in raising me or talking to me baby. He wanted me to learn. His ambition\nwas for me [to be] an ambassador. [laughs] I'm a special case.\n\nKent: When did you first become aware of the political situation around you in\nthe late 1930s?\n\nGerson: My parents -- Instead of having a house, were looking for an apartment.\nMy father was looking for an apartment because it was the war. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My grandmother,\nRose, was very sick. No, not yet. She was elderly, but she was not sick. My\nparents wanted to get back the house and get an apartment, so they were looking\nfor an apartment. I was following my mother to look at apartments. Fortunately,\nthe cook wanted to stay in the same street, and they found an apartment of five\nrooms. When my mother was -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This was the winter of the war. We moved to\n[unintelligible; 11:05], which is near Deauville, in the house of my\ngrandmother--the other one, the mother of my mom.\n\nKent: Where in France is that? You mentioned the name of a city.\n\nGerson: [Unintelligible; 11:14] is in Normandy. It's near Deauville. We spent\nthe whole winter of the war there. There was enough coal there, or whatever, and\nwe had a very nice time. My school moved to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[the town near Deauville]. There's a\nlot of things that moved over there, so I had about the same life. We lacked for\nnothing, except that they started bombing and my father came on weekends only,\nbut that was it. My parents rented an apartment and moved. We went one or two\ntimes to Paris. There was, I think, an Exposition Colonial. I don't remember\nwhat it was, but I was taken to see it. I remember that. There was a village ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on\nthe wharf. I remember that. I don't know what year it was.\n\nKent: Do you remember hearing anything about the developments in Germany\nthroughout the 1930s when your father would talk about politics and current\nevents? Did you have any knowledge that something was coming?\n\nGerson: Yes. My father knew that we were going to have the war. That I remember.\nThat's why we moved. He wanted to move. He wanted to protect his furniture ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nhis collection, and we moved there to that apartment that he hated and my mother\nhated, but we moved there. They moved, not me. I was with my grandmother and the\nmaids over there in [the town near Deauville]. The spring came, it was worse. My\ngrandmother fell sick, my grandmother on my father's side. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My father gave my\nmother money. He said, \"I don't know what's going to happen, but I want you to\ngo and buy a car.\" He had a car. He said, \"I'm staying in Paris with my mother.\nYou take your mother, if you want, and Micheline,\" me, \"and the maid, and my\ngrandmother, and whoever want to go. Pack whatever you want, but pack it not in\nsuitcases. If you want to take ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things, pack it in sheets because you can put\nmore.\" She left very early in the morning, I remember, because I was a pest and\nI went in my mother's bed very early in the morning. She was not there, so I\nwent to the bed of the chambermaid because I wanted to be with somebody. [There\nwas] no question to go with my grandmother. It was not done. She came back and\nshe said, \"I bought a car.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because of the theater, we had two actors, which was\nMargaret Duvall--she was very well known; she was not a comic, but she played in\na very light comedy--and another friend of my grandmother--who was a singer--who\nwas with us. They said, \"You'll leave us under the bombs.\" My mother said, \"I'm\nleaving nobody--whoever wants to come--but I'm leaving, so get your things\nready.\" My grandmother was ready before everybody else because of the bombing.\nShe was so afraid of that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We left. It was July and it was very hot. That I remember.\n\nKent: What year?\n\nGerson: I don't remember. I think it's 1939, but I'm not sure.\n\nKent: Do you remember if the war had already started in Poland? Had you heard\nabout that?\n\nGerson: Yes, vaguely, but I was not really interested. My mother had very good\nmemories of having no governess during the First [World] War and being free. I\nwas allowed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to take a bicycle, because it was not many cars, and going directly\nto school for the day. I was going to school by myself, which was extraordinary,\nbecause I was never left alone. I did stupidity this time. I climb trees. I\njumped in a neighbor's garden, took her flowers. I went to a pastry. I broke my\npiggybank and went to a pastry shop. [I] ran into a little girl who recognized\nme, of course, and said, \"What are you doing there?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They called my grandmother,\nwho came immediately, and I was punished, of course. That was, for me, it was a\ntime of freedom, really, because I was not with an adult anymore. I had no\nnanny. The English nanny was gone. It was fun for me, except that we went back\nto Paris. They forced us to get the mask for gas. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You're going to laugh, but\nthat was my first ice cream, because I screamed and cried when they put that\nthing on me and they cut the air. I had to breathe with this thing. I was\nterrorized with that thing, so my mother bought me an ice cream in a pastry\nshop. That was my first ice cream outside the house, because it could not have\nbeen good. I could have caught something. I'm really a strange animal at this\ntime. I learned quickly.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kent: Was it the spring maybe of 1940 or before?\n\nGerson: Yes. No.\n\nKent: So, 1940 probably?\n\nGerson: Probably 1940.\n\nKent: Okay. Then, continue. What happened after?\n\nGerson: Then, we left and my father arrived that night. My grandmother died,\npoor thing. I was not very -- I didn't like that grandmother very much because\nshe was more down to earth and rusty than the other one. She didn't want a maid.\nShe didn't want anybody. The other one was very high ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"class and very\n[unintelligible; 17:08], whatever. I enjoyed her better. She taught me how to\npeel food with a fork and knife. I was -- She had tea party and I was there with\na tray. I followed the maid with sugar bowl and milk, and sit on a small chair,\nwhich is here [points off camera], to listen to conversation [and] not to speak.\nIt was to teach me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to get bored without saying a word. I remember that very\nwell. That's it. We left and my grandmother said to my mother, \"It's not --\"\nEven she knew what was happening. They didn't lock the door. They just pushed\nthe door. The neighbors came over an hour later and started helping themselves\nto whatever they could. Yes, the French. I'm talking about French people. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We\ndidn't have Milice yet. That came later. We went from Paris to Bordeaux. It was\nso hot in the car. There was a plane. My father said, \"Oh, there's another one.\"\nI saw the machine gun. I didn't understand either what was going on. It didn't\noccur to me that people were dying. I saw them running in the field. I didn't\nknow why. Nobody spoke in the car and nobody told me anything. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We arrived to\nnear Bordeaux, who was full, so we went further. We went to a pharmacist. My\nfather asked if he knew anybody. It's a small village near Bordeaux. He said,\n\"Yes, I have one room.\" He said, \"I have my mother-in-law, and I have a maid,\nand I have so and so.\" They said, \"We'll find a room for them in the village,\"\nand they did. The ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lady, while they were talking, took me in the garden to show\nme her flowers, so I don't know what happened, what they discussed. I slept\nbetween my father and my mother. That I remember. They fed us breakfast. The\nnext day, we left for a place that was arranged before for my parents--I didn't\nknow--called le Chateau [unintelligible; 19:25]. That was in the\n[unintelligible]. It's near Agen. We arrived to that place. It was a long, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two\nstory edifice with a beautiful park. It was a descendant of [unintelligible;\n19:44], the nephew of [19:50], that died in the Pyrenees. That was somebody very\nimportant in that region. Of course, we were Parisian. We were not Jews. We were\nParisian refugees. We spent the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"winter there, with many people coming and going.\nIt was terribly cold there, but we didn't lack of anything.\n\nKent: One question. Even though your family wasn't very Jewish --\n\nGerson: Not at all.\n\nKent: Were you aware of what the general attitude was between the French people\nand the Jewish population?\n\nGerson: Not at all. Not at the time. It didn't happen at that time. Nothing\nhappened in that time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If it had happened, I would not have known. When it\nbegan, I didn't know. I asked my mother, \"But why? What? You never told me. Who\nam I? And why us? What did we do?\" She said, \"Why not red haired people? You\nknow, it's the same thing.\" They never told me at that time, \"Don't say --\" The\nonly thing I remember is when we left that castle because it was too many\npeople, we left ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and we went to that place in Nerac, which is in Lot-et-Garonne,\na little further. [It is where] Henry IV, King of Navarre, became King of\nFrance. It had his castle [Chateau de Nérac] and a beautiful park there. My\nparents rented two rooms [from] a man who was working at the town hall, a very\nold Protestant. [They were] very nice people, very sweet. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had to go to school.\nMy mother didn't want to put me in public school because I never went. They\nasked at a supposedly Christian Catholic school. The Catholic school didn't want\nto accept me. We had to go back to Agen to ask the permission from the\n[unintelligible; 21:57]. He said, \"Oh, she's too young to be a bad influence on\nthe other children.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Well, what could I do that would be bad?\" My\nmother said, \"You're not Catholic. You cannot go in the morning early because\nit's catechism. You're too young, so I don't want that. You will come at 9:00\ninstead of eight and you will have mathematics instead.\" Okay, but what the nun\ndid was to change the hours. I had catechism when I arrived and mathematics\nbefore. I told her. Then, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"there was -- I caught a virus. There was a big fiesta\nfor the birthday, or something like that, of the priest of the parochial [church\nparish], where we lived. They make some pastry with oil and I don't know, I\ndidn't ingest it. I was very sick. I went almost to a what is called\n[unintelligible; 22:58] of the liver. There ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was no medicine, there was no\npenicillin, there was nothing. I remember the girls in school coming to visit\nme. They said, \"We're saying the rosary for you because you're going to die.\" I\nwas panicked. I was so skinny and so small at the time, that I couldn't lift a\nglass of water. I started screaming, and crying, and carrying on something\nfierce. It was winter. I said, \"They're going to put me in a hole!\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Along the\nwalks that we took--we French walk a lot--I saw a bird. I kicked the bird and\nunder there was lots of worms. I said, \"Why?\" My mother said, \"Because it's dead\nand the worms eat it. This is a way of cleaning.\" I was panicked when they told\nme I was going to die. I was screaming, \"I don't want to be in a hole and eaten\nby worms!\" I must have been seven years old or something like that. I don't\nremember exactly. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There was a French doctor who was a refugee--Catholic, who had\nsome medicine--I don't know what--and came to give me shots at night because it\nwould antagonize the other doctor who came to see me and said, \"Oh, no food or\nwater.\" I was on Vichy water for something like 28 days with a very high fever.\nI remember I was bleeding from the gums. I was yellow. The white of my eyes was\nyellow. I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very strange. I slept in the same room that my parents. I remember\ngoing to the bathroom and peeing something very thick. I remember. I don't\nknow what it is. It looked like eggs. She said, \"Yes, I know, but it's going to\ngo away.\" It went away. My father was -- He lost his mother and then he thought\nhe was going to lose me. He was crazy. He was crying so much I could hear him\nfrom the other end ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of the corridor, from the other room that we had. It was\ncold. It was freezing and we had mice. When my mother was reading to me in the\nafternoon, the mice came out of the hole, listening. They were just at the end\nof her foot. I remember that. Then, I don't know what happened. Maybe it's the\nstress of that doctor, but I was better and I was alive. But he was not -- He\nwas Catholic. He was a refugee with his wife ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and his little boy. They had an\naunt that was living in Cannes. This is part of why we went there later. My\nfather was absolutely crazy. He had nobody to talk to. We had had an incident\nthat I can't forget either. We don't have that in America -- It's like a\ngendarme. He has a drum and they go from ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"place to place. They said, \"Advice to\nthe population! The Jews have to go and declare themselves and have their\nidentity card stamped.\" My parents didn't go out and for me to go out for four\ndays. My mother said, \"We have to do it. We won't get rations.\" My father said,\n\"No, we're not going to do it. Our name is not Jewish. We're not going to do it.\nYour name is not typically Jewish.\" Both of them were not -- [They] didn't have\nany type -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can show you a picture of my parents. You'll see they're not. They\ndon't look Jewish at all. Not at all.\n\nKent: Was there any way to know you were Jewish? Did you have papers that would\nsay it?\n\nGerson: No. We were not affiliated to any temple in Paris. My father did what he\ndid. That was it. My parents decided ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to go to Marseille to take a break. That\nwas dangerous anyway, but with the papers, it was risky. They took me. It was a\nlong time. They went to Marseille. Everybody that he knew from the stock\nexchange from Paris was there, most of them Jews. I didn't know. We went to --\nWe looked like hell. We had just -- We had no luggage ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because we had no luggage,\nbut we had baskets. My father said, \"I don't care. We'll go to the Grand Hotel,\"\nwhich is one of the nicest hotels. He said, \"I want running water.\" We had no\nrunning water when we were in Nerac. We washed in porcelain basins, with\nsomething to pour. To go to the bathroom, we had a porcelain thing and we went\non top of each other. Once a day, because you didn't want to inconvenience those\npeople, you had to go throw things in an outhouse. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Needless to say, I think all\nof us were constipated. That I remember, too. We arrived to Marseille--my father\nwanted to please my mother--to that magnificent hotel with an elevator. He said,\n\"I want two rooms.\" They said, \"Oh, we are full.\" My father turned to my mother\nand he said, \"This is terrible. I'm going to fire that man.\" My mother said,\n\"Who?\" He said, \"My secretary. He didn't make a reservation.\" We looked like\nshit, I'm sorry to say. [Laughs] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You can't imagine how we were dressed with\nwooden -- They said, \"Well, we have something. Don't worry. We have something.\"\nWe had one room and one soap. The soap was a drama because we took at least five\nbaths each. The soap was a diminishing. There was no way to find any soap there.\nMy father said, \"We're going back. We're packing in and we're coming here.\" My\nmother said, \"No, I don't want to be there,\" because there were very flamboyant\npeople. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was the cream of the society of Paris that was there. She said, \"If\nthe Germans come --\" I think it was the time being the France Libre. She said,\n\"If we stay there, something will happen. I don't want to be with those people.\"\nHe said, \"Well, they were our friends when we were -- It's our friends.\" She\nsaid, \"Yes, I know, but we're not staying.\" Then we went back. They talked to\nthe doctor that took care of me. He said, \"My aunt lives ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Cannes. She could\nfind you an apartment if you want, because we are going to leave, too.\" We went\nagain to Cannes. There was no apartment, but we went to a little hotel called\nBonsoir Marie Madeleine. There were two people that were for le Marshal\n[Phillippe Petain] and whatever. We were all for le Marshal at the time. I\nremember my parents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[were supportive] and at school, they make you write letters\nfor the le Marshal. I wrote letters like everybody else saying that he was\nsaving France or whatever. Yes, I did. I remember I received an answer, which\nwas wonderful for me. Then, my parents left me at the hotel with somebody at\nthe concierge, and they went back to get the rest of the stuff we\nhad ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in Nerac. If I remember correctly and I remember the story, it was the day\nthat the fleet submerged the boats in Toulon. My mother went with two empty\nsuitcases somebody gave her to pack whatever we had. The Germans stopped the\ntrain at Toulon. My mother -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were in the compartment with other people.\nThe Germans opened the door and they said, \"Raus! [German] Get out!\" My father\nsaid to my mother, \"I forbid you to move.\" She didn't know what to do. At that\ntime, it was not a corridor. You went in the compartment by the side, by the\nwindow. She took the two suitcases and jumped over. My father followed. He\nscreamed at her, but they were saved. They stayed at [unintelligible; 31:31] and\nthen ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they could go in another train. I was alone with nobody in that hotel. It\nwas very risky to leave me. I didn't know anybody, of course. I knew some\npeople, but why would they take me? I heard the story after. They went over\nthere in Nerac and they came back [to the hotel] Marie Madeleine. That winter, I\nwent to -- [unintelligible; 32:02] in Cannes, there is a college ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for boys and\ngirls. They accept girls when they are under -- For us, there are six degrees. I\nwas -- I don't remember. In my class, there was [unintelligible; 32:20]. There\nwas David David-Weill, who was Catholic and had a big crucifix [hanging from his\nneck]. Do you know who he is? He's a banker of -- His father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was -- He used to\nbe banker for [Andre] Meyer and Lazard Freres. He carried a little pillow,\nbecause he couldn't sit on a bench like everybody else. He had to have a pillow,\nbecause his behind was too soft to sit on a bench like everybody else. It's\ntrue. I'm not telling you a story. It's true. We hated him. All the other poor\nkids hated him. At that time, we were poor kids because we had nothing to eat.\nThat was the beginning.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kent: You mentioned that most of the other people that your father knew in that\ntown were also Jewish. Did anybody have, like the stamp or any kind of identification?\n\nGerson: I don't know. In Marseille? No, I don't think so. Marseille was the\nultimate goal because you could take a boat and go to America.\n\nEinstein: Was it in Vichy France?\n\nGerson: Yes. We could have come ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to America because my father had money here in\nNew York. He knew some people from the start, that were in New York and said,\n\"Come. Come,\" so he went to the American embassy to obtain papers and visa for\nus. They asked him, \"What religion?\" They asked him if he was ever part of the\nCommunist Party. He looked at them and he tore the paper. He didn't want to go.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"This is a country of freedom. No going. We're staying and we'll do\nwhat we can here.\" They became partisan, of course, but this is, at that time --\nI go a little ahead of myself. The first day of school at that college. I had a\nfriend, who is my age, and the two mothers said, \"You're Protestant. You're\nProtestant. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You never heard of Jewish.\" Okay, so we go to school together. First\nday of school, and there's -- a piece of paper like that [indicates a large\nposter] printed with 'No Juif [French: Jews],\" and whatever, horrible things. We\nlooked at each other, started crying, and went straight back home. After lunch,\nthe mothers took us back because we were not Jewish. Of course, we were screamed\nat because we had that reaction. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Well, we can read.\" She said, \"You're\nnot Jewish.\" His name was Krinsky. In my hotel, there was another little girl,\nwho was a year younger than me named Zuckerman. There was another one named,\nEric Cohen, who was later deported. In school, they come and took him in school.\nThat was the French Milice and one SS. I remember it. They didn't give us -- The\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"teacher, everybody was Gaullist at that time, including my parents. My parents,\nat that time, were carrying a transmitter, and radios, and arms. Stupidity, I\nthink. They did really crazy things.\n\nKent: At that point, what was your understanding of what was wrong with being\nJewish publicly, what it meant or what the price would be?\n\nGerson: It meant being a pariah. It meant that I could not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"play with some -- I\nhad a girlfriend from Paris, who went to the same school. On the Croisette,\nwhich is near the sea in Cannes, I saw her with a governess--her name was\nAnne--and [unintelligible; 36:21], another one, with her governess. They said,\n\"Ah, Madame Tindel. What a pleasure to see Micheline. Can she come and play?\" My\nmother said, \"Of course.\" I went there. There was a birthday party. I went to\nthe birthday party ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they were collecting something for the starving Africans.\nThey wanted me to do it. I said, \"I don't do it.\" I guess they realized that I\nwas Jewish. When I saw her again, because I saw her many times, the governess\ngrabbed her and took her away. That was the beginning of where I realized that I\nwas a pariah ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I smelled Jew. You couldn't -- When you were invited somewhere,\nyou said, \"Tell your parents that I'm Jewish and tell me after lunch if you want\nme to come and play with you,\" because you never knew, which we should not have\ndone it. We should have said nothing, but it was difficult for us not to say\nanything. I remember one of my birthdays. I was ten. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I told my mother, \"Now I\nhave two figures like you.\" We suffered of hunger, but we had the sun. We had\ntomatoes and all the things that grow over there. Women -- You had no hot water\nat the time. My mother used to go to the casino a lot because she saw other\npeople. There was Jews. There were people that were from Paris and stayed there\nbecause it was better to be in the sun. We had only two months ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of winter,\ninstead of Paris, where you have five or six. You can be cold, so we stayed\nthere. We had the Italian occupation. The Italian occupation was wonderful\nbecause they were funny. They were beautiful. I remember them with their feather\non their coiffe [French: cap]. They were not bad. They gave you potatoes. If you\nwere cute, they gave you potatoes, to the children. They were cleaning potatoes\noutside of their hotel, which was in the middle of the street where ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we lived.\nThere was a big hotel. When you passed, they threw you a potato, which we all\ntook--French, pedestrian, and whatever.\n\nKent: About what time or what year was this?\n\nGerson: I had my first gat, I think in 1942. We left in 1942, so it was before.\nThen, there was a transition of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Italy. There was something in Italy and Italy\nbecame not the ally of the German anymore. The father of my friend, Michel, was\nimprisoned by the Germans in a city called [unintelligible]. I remember because\nhis mother was pregnant and I was jealous because I wanted a little brother. I\ntold him, \"I hope, like for the seven plagues, all the children die this year,\nso ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you will not have a baby brother,\" because I want a baby brother, too. He\nsaid, \"I'll talk to your mother,\" and he did talk to my mother. She said, \"You\ncan't have a baby like that.\" He said, \"Talk to my mother. She'll explain to you\nhow you do it.\" We didn't know. My father, at that time, decided it was time for\nme to learn Hebrew. Yes, he was crazy. My father was crazy. We had a rabbi come\nin to our hotel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on Sunday and we had two hours of Hebrew.\n\nKent: What did you make of that? Why would he --\n\nGerson: Because he decided to tell me that I was Jewish, and this and that, and\nwhatever. He said, \"I cannot explain everything.\" He didn't really know Hebrew\neither, but he thought it was good for me to learn. I remember going to a Hebrew\nservice in a garage. I remember the shofar and I start laughing. My mother\ncovered me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She hugged me. I thought it was extraordinary funny. It was very\nstupid, because we could have been taken. But I was a child. I didn't realize.\n\nEinstein: You were not in hiding of any kind at that point, that you still felt\nthat you could tell your friends that you were Jewish, and you were not in\ndanger at that point anymore?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gerson: No, because we had the Italians.\n\nEinstein: That was just under the Italian occupation?\n\nGerson: Yes.\n\nEinstein: Your parents did not say, \"Don't ever tell anyone you were Jewish?\"\nYou already knew?\n\nGerson: No. We normally we didn't speak about it. We were Protestant, so that\nwas it. We didn't learn -- I learned a bit of the catechism and the prayers\nbecause I was before when I was in Nerac, I was in a religious school. I knew\nall that in case, but that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was it. But I don't -- When we were in Cannes, it was\ncompletely different because we were with -- I told you, the relief because it\nwas very cold and very hostile in the village, because it was a Protestant\nvillage, little town. People were terribly -- They didn't like refugees. We were\ncovered with fleas. There were fleas. We had a beautiful parquet ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[floor] and we\nwere covered with fleas. My mother bought [unintelligible; 42:10]. She washed\nthe floor with [that product]. You couldn't get in the home after that because\nyou were crying buckets. But we still had fleas. Fleas, because we were\nmalnourished, give you abscesses. My legs were covered with an abscess and my\nmother -- We had nothing. We had no alcohol, whatever. We had something called\n[unintelligible; 42:46]. It's a vial. It's something that you put on, it's humid\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then the abscess opened and you can clean it. That's how we lived at that\ntime. In Cannes, it was better because we had the sun. You could go to the\nbeach. You had other you had kids to play with.\n\nKent: How much sense of danger was there?\n\nGerson: None. In Nerac, it was boring. I remember being terribly bored. I was\ntaken by the nun to Catholic movies. It was boring. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then, I had to go home. At\nhome, my father and mother were not speaking of things about the war. They were\nlistening to the radio a lot and we were going to the grocer that I mentioned\nyou before. We were not different. We were refugees. We were Parisian refugees,\nbut we were not anything else. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In Cannes, we became Jews. When we had the\nItalians, we started thinking my parents started thinking that we were in\ndanger. When we had the Germans, that was another thing, too. At that time, it\nwas different. My mother and I--my father didn't; my father stayed home -- There\nwas a woman that was a Belgium woman, and she had a villa on top of Cannes\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"[unintelligible]. She asked my parents if -- Her husband was sent in a kind of a\nconcentration camp at Barcelonnette, which is higher on the road towards\nGrenoble. She asked my parents if they could take the house for her--because she\nwas a German maid of J.P. Morgan and she had all his stuff there in that\nvilla--could we keep the villa for her. My parents ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"--We were at that time, we\nwere rationed. We had three days a week where the hotel didn't feed us. You had\nto give them tickets for the rest of the time. My mother, everybody in the\nhotels bought some little barbecue. Whatever you cooked, you cooked on the\nbalcony, under an umbrella if it was raining. It was better that way. The only\npreoccupation we had was food, food, food, food. It was nothing else. I told you\nI had Hebrew lesson ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"at that time, which was crazy, but that was my father.\n\nKent: What was it like for you to start being Jewish for the first time in your\nlife? What did it mean to you?\n\nGerson: It annoyed me a great deal. I was not like everybody else. I remember he\nwas a sweet guy, that rabbi. Then we met Jewish Egyptians, very wealthy girls,\nso I could go ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on bicycle again because there was no car at all. The car my\nparents [owned] had been stolen, by the way, by the French people. They came\nfrom Milice. The police came and said they were not allowed. All the French had\nto give back. There was no gasoline except maybe a doctor where you had a ration\nfor gasoline. That was in Nerac. We had no car anymore, but we had bicycles.\nDaddy and Mommy bought a bicycle. The bicycle was saved so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that my father -- If\nhe had to go away, he had the bicycle. My mother and I were going, when I was\nnot in school, to get vegetables or whatever you could find around Cannes, up\nand down. It was not -- We were we were hungry all the time, but it was not the\nsame thing. I'm telling you, the sun is something wonderful. I remember that\nperiod. Even in the winter, it was not that cold. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had a girlfriend. I had a\nbad habit of listening. We all were listening. All the kids were listening to\nwhat was going on.\n\nKent: What did you know about the bigger picture in Europe by that point?\n\nGerson: Nothing.\n\nKent: You were about 11 or 12 years old?\n\nGerson: No, I was I was younger than that. When we left Cannes, I think I was\n11. But I remember my father listening to the BBC on the radio, but I was not\nreally interested in this. What I was interested in [was] if I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was going to have\nsomething different than celery for dinner. I'm sorry, but this is how I\nreacted. I got the -- I learned my father started teaching me English. I got\nbooks from [unintelligible; 47:25]. I still have them here. I carried them\neverywhere. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And that was interesting. We played [unintelligible; 47:35]. We\nplayed Robin Hood. We played stuff like that, but we didn't -- We would play\ntickets a great deal. We played grocery store. We played stuff like that. We\nwere not very interested about what was happening. Except, not to use--we were\nscreamed--the bicycle, if it had a hole, because it was difficult to find\nsomething. You needed shoes. I had no shoes. My mother made shoes with carpet\nthat she bought somewhere. I remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my feet bleeding because it was -- That\nwas the war for me at that time. It was it was not -- It became horrible when we\nleft Cannes. That was different.\n\nKent: About when was that and what happened after that?\n\nGerson: I don't remember. I remember the Germans coming to school to take\nJean-Paul Cohen and Eric, his brother. He asked permission to say goodbye to us.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It dawned on me what was happening and that we could be taken. I heard a\nconversation. I remember with Michel Krinsky, we were talking about it. He said,\n\"You don't know what your mother said.\" I said, \"Tell me.\" He said, \"Your mother\nsaid, if you're arrested, she's going to strangle you or throw you [out] the\nwindow.\" We were on the fifth floor. I said, \"She said that?\" I asked her and\nshe said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"No, this is crazy,\" and, \"You didn't hear [that]. This serves you\nright, because you listen to gossip. He is a horrible gossip. Why would he tell\nyou something so foolish.? It's foolish.\" I had an aunt that was in Marseille\nand she sent my cousin to come for vacation in Cannes with us. They spoke a\nlittle about what was going on in Marseille. There was a lot of people being\narrested. I was not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"interested in what happened in the world. I was interested\nin what happened in my world. I remember one night with something fantastic. I\nremember having -- I ate something that was fantastic. I remember having a\n[unintelligible; 49:42] low fat on Saturday and I remember destroying the pot.\nIt was not in [unintelligible; 49:50], but I almost broke the pot because I\nwanted to lick everything. We had no sugar. We had no material. This is the\nthing that -- I was with women. My father was not with me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So that's why we they\ntalked about, where did you find this? Where can I find that? Where is the black\nmarket? Who is selling with that? This is when we played. It was it was not a\ngame. I don't want to tell you it was a game. We had one visit one morning at\n6:00 in the morning at the hotel before we moved to the villa. It was the\nCommissar [French: Commissioner], the police, who wanted to look at our papers.\nThat I remember. I was scared. I started being scared ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"really. When my cousin\nfrom Marseille came, Jaqueline, I was very scared because I heard about people\nbeing deported. That I heard. One time, I was going back from the beach with my\nfather. We stopped on the bridge, which is to go back up. There was a German\nsentinel on the bridge, and we were on bicycle. This man was looking at my\nfather. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My father was looking at him. He said, \"La guerre gros mal.\" [French;\nThe war is very bad.] My father exploded. He said, \"Yes, for you because you'll\nend up six feet under,\" in German. Then the light turned green. He said, \"Go,\"\nso I went. Of course, I told my mother, who screamed at my father. But that day,\nwe stayed on the bridge a long time. There was a line with people who were\ndeported and there was a child whose hands were [reaching] out. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3060.0,3090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Somebody must\nhave left her. She was screaming for water. The sentinel hit her with the\nbayonet. That down on me. We were talking with each other, saying, \"If you hear\nsomething, let me know.\" We wanted to know. We gossiped. We transported\nstupidity. I remember playing hide and seek with friends and in the house of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3090.0,3120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two\nfriends, a little girl and a boy. We were playing hide and seek and there was,\nunder the staircase, a trap door. I went in the trap door and there was guns. We\nknew about it. We played war, but we didn't know really against who or what. We\nknew about what, against who, but it didn't make an impression to us because we\nhad never seen the war. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We didn't know. I heard my father talking about his\nwar--that's all I knew--when he was in the trenches.\n\nKent: At that point, had you seen dead people or injured people?\n\nGerson: No, I didn't. I saw injured people a lot later. For us, it was not -- My\nfather and mother were always nervous. I get punished a lot because I put my\nnose ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"where I shouldn't. When I told them about the guns and this, I told them\nwhere it was. They said, \"You cannot repeat that to anybody. You understand?\" I\nsaid, \"Yes, I understand.\" [They said,] \"Do you understand that people can come\nand kill them, take them and kill them, and you'll never see them again?\" I\nunderstood. Everything was so strange. Everything was upside down. It was not\nnormal. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There were people who had -- I know they were able to get food. I\nremember one restaurant on the Croisette when I was going to the beach. They had\nroasted chicken. The odor was driving me crazy. I would have done anything to\nhave a piece.\n\nKent: What happened after that? What was the next phase?\n\nGerson: After that, my father was going to the beach because he was a he was a\nvery good skier. He was a good ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ball player. He played basketball a lot [and]\nvolleyball. He was going to a beach where you could play ball. In the meantime,\nthere were some Germans there. He understood everything, so he could report what\nhe heard. I didn't know at the time. I knew after. I went with him. He sent me\nto another beach where there were other kids that I knew, not to stay there. He\nplayed ball a great deal there. He played with ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"them. When they went to him, they\nsaid to him one afternoon, \"Mr. Tindel, if I was you, I wouldn't stay here. I\nwould move.\" He came back up and he told my mother, \"We're going.\" We went to --\nThey packed. I had a cat. It was a big scandal, too, because coming out of\nschool, I found the kitty cat. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I brought the kitty cat home. My father and\nmother said, \"You are not keeping this. We don't know where we're going to be\ntomorrow. We don't need a cat. Bring it back where you found it.\" I cried so\nmuch that my father said, \"All right. You can keep the cat, but he'll stay\noutside.\" Next day, when I said goodbye to Daddy, he was in bed with my father,\nso we kept the cat. The cat fur was everywhere. He was in a basket. On top of\neverything, we had the cat, who was wonderful. They packed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We packed the cat\nand my mother had a bottle of skim milk about this big. [indicates with hands\noff camera] We had to go to -- My father corresponded with a cook that we had\nbefore the war. She said, \"Come to my village. You'll be hidden. It will be\nwonderful. You will be taken care of by me. She will be taken care of. The mayor\nis my cousin. You'll get tickets and you'll lack of nothing.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we went there.\nIt was a winter and it was horribly cold. It was a long trip. We had to stop in\nMarseille. This is one of the things I remember very well. We saw my cousin, my\naunt and my uncle. It was the last time we saw them. I didn't know them before.\nThey didn't like my mother, so we never saw them before. We had to give our I.D.\ncard to the conductor on the train and sleep in the station in the train ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in\nMarseille. My mother said, \"You stay.\" The cook came to get us and she said,\n\"You stay with Eloise. And if there is noise in the night, you stay. And if you\nsee me and Daddy being taken, you stay. Keep the cat and you stay. I'll let you\nkeep the cat if you promise that you will not go, or cry, or do anything. I'll\ncome back. I promise. I'll come back. But you stay.\" I didn't sleep ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"much that\nnight. The next day, we went up to the restaurant wagon or whatever in the train\nto get ersatz coffee. We had no milk. We had disgusting bread. It was not bread,\nbut something they call bread. My mother had the cat on her lap and she opened\nthe cup and gave a little milk to the cat. There was two Germans in front of us\nin the restaurant. They said in German, \"The French have too much milk if they\ncan give it to the animals.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember that and I remember that night. Then, we\nhad a long trip to a lovely place called Noe. That was the end. For me, this was\nthe end. It's the most disgusting, horrible -- You have no idea what it was. We\ncouldn't find -- We went to her cousin--she had lots of family--that rented us\ntwo rooms. They had a son, who must have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been three years old, who was retarded.\nHe had teeth coming out like this. [indicates protruding upper teeth] He had a\nflat head. He had always a beret. He was stinky. He talked, but he kept saying,\n\"Oh, I'm so happy because Micheline is here. I can play with her.\" I was scared.\nI was terrified. My room was next to his. There were no doors. I said to my\nmother, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I cannot. I will not sleep there. I'll sleep with you. I'll sleep on\nthe floor. I won't stay there.\" She said, \"You can.\" His name was Pierrot. She\nsaid, \"You have to. You can't insult those people. It's their son. You can't.\nYou have to stay there.\" She said, \"Eloise is next to you. Nothing will happen\nto you.\" She didn't like it either. We were fed that night, we were had a lot of\nsoup, which was okay. Then, they said after one week that they couldn't keep us,\nthere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3510.0,3540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was too much people, there was too much work. My mother made the bed and\nshe went downstairs to peel vegetables. They inscribed me to school. When we\narrived in school, they said, \"But where do you stay?\" My mother said, \"We stay\nwith the Carouzacks.\" The lady of the school said, \"Ah, you're the Jews of the\nCarouzacks.\" This is how we were hidden. My mother said, \"Where are we going?\nWhere are we going to stay?\" She didn't cry. I'm sure she did when I was not\nthere. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She inscribed me to school.\n\nGerson: My father and mother tried to find a room somewhere, find something in\nthat village.\n\nKent: What part of France was that?\n\nGerson: Lavergne. It's near Agen, not far from Toulouse and Albi. It's the\nmiddle of France. The people there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3570.0,3600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are very big in winter because all their\nclothes and so on. In the summer, they're very thin because they took all the\nclothes. They just take their shoes off. They stink. They have lice. I'm sure\nthey have lice now. They have -- When they have money, they build beautiful\nkitchens, but they don't put the water because they cook in the chimney like\nthey used to. It's still like this and those people -- That was the Milice all\nthe time. The only car that we saw everywhere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3600.0,3630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was when the [unintelligible;\n1:00:32] that was in Cannes, it was everywhere. It was the Francais [French] or\nthe Gestapo. That, I saw. I saw the German officers with their beautiful boots\nand their green leather coat. I found them beautiful. I was scared of them, but\nI found them beautiful. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3630.0,3660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were dressed. Everybody [else] looked like -- You\ncan't imagine at that time. We had no butter, no potato, no pasta, no\n[unintelligible; 1:01:04], no cereal, nothing. During the season, we had some\nvegetables. In winter, we didn't. We ate something called -- something that you\ngive to the horse. I don't know what the name of it in English.\n\nKent: Oats?\n\nGerson: Yes. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3660.0,3690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother could boil that and give us that when we found it and\ntomato in the summer or the black market if we found something. At that time, my\nparents didn't want to travel. I forgot to tell you. When we left Cannes, my\nfather had a gold coin, but we left them in the garden in that villa, buried in\na cookie box, tin box, because we ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3690.0,3720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"couldn't carry it. You were killed if you were\ncarrying gold. You were not allowed to. Only if -- We were Jews. My father was\nafraid they would take his pants down.In Nerac, we found nobody wanted us. I\ndon't know how it's called in English either. The man who rang the bell of the\nchurch, how do you call that?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3720.0,3750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Einstein: Bell ringer?\n\nGerson: Yes, I guess. He rented -- People said, \"Don't go to those people.\" They\nwere two. They were old and they had a big house. They said, \"Don't go to them\nthere. They will not [rent to] a Jew.\" They did rent to us. They gave me\nsomething was more precious than anything. They gave me books. I could read. I\nhad books. She had grandchildren and she had tons of books. She lent me books\nand I learned to play piano there. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was good. He was the organist, too, at\nchurch. My mother said, \"It will keep her occupied. She will have something to\ndo.\" I couldn't play with anybody in school there. I was a Jew. I couldn't use\nthe playground. I couldn't touch the swing. I was apart on a chair and in the\nmiddle of the class, because nobody could get near me, or touch me, or talk to\nme. I came back and I told my mother, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3780.0,3810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"You know, when we go to school in the\nmorning, they inspect your head because they have lice?\" My mother said, \"They\nhave lice? Come here.\" She cut my hair about [this] big. [indicates only an inch\nor two long] She asked those people. They had gasoline. She washed my hair with\ngasoline. The lady of the house made a collar with garlic. She said, \"Like this,\nnobody will get near you.\" I said, \"They don't get near me anyway.\"\n\nKent: How did it affect you personally to be pushed away?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3810.0,3840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gerson: I cried. I cried a lot, but I didn't cry in front of my parents because\nI knew what it was for them. My father couldn't see it. My mother got angry, so\nI cried. The only girl that talked to me was a daughter of a man who repaired --\nHe had a mule, and a little carriage, and he was repairing the road with a\nshovel. That was the only people that I played with. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were pariahs, too.\nThey were the poorest of the village. This little girl, Therese, played with me,\nI remember that one. I remember others. Then, the summer came and it was like a\nsummer camp for the 1:04 of Toulouse. They board children. Of course, one of the\ngirls in my school said, \"Well, she can't go because she's Jewish,\" to the nun\nthat was there, because I went, too. I mean, it was a big event in that small\nvillage. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mere [French: Mother] Marie said, \"Yes, she can come because Christ\nsaid that the children go. Come.\"\n\n\u003cinterview pauses; then resumes\u003e\n\nGerson: I have never been deported. I have done nothing. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"For me, the beginning\nof the war was like a game. I am sorry to say I felt free. I was not taught\nmanners or anything. I had not -- [If] my homework was it was done or it was not\ndone, it was not important anymore to my parents. Of course, I had to be polite,\nbut it was not as strict as before and it was fun. The beginning of the war was,\nfor me -- Like my mother -- It was always amusing for her as a child. She had\nher war and I had my war, too. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was fun at the beginning. It was not the same.\nThis is probably why I didn't comprehend how serious it was. I was reliving the\nmemories of my mother when she was little.\n\n\u003cinterview pauses; then resumes\u003e\n\nGerson: I didn't want to go to school when I smelled the way I smelled and\nlooked the way I looked with the gasoline ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on the head, believe me. I thought my\nmother was a horror. At that time, my father was exasperated all the time.\nBecause of the flea bites, he had an enormous abscess on the leg and he couldn't\nwalk. He had his leg up. He was teaching me English. You should see the book. I\nhave it -- Yes, I think I have it somewhere. It's torn and glued with piece of\nstamps, because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my father hit me on the head when I didn't say a word correctly.\nHe had nobody to talk to. He had nothing to do, so he thought it was good for me\nto learn something. We had no newspaper either.\n\nKent: Did any adults ever give you a difficult time for being Jewish, or was it\nmostly other little kids?\n\nGerson: No adults. Maybe to my parents, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4020.0,4050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"not to me.\n\nKent: The antisemitism was more kids being cruel?\n\nGerson: Yes. They told me that they were going -- At that time, they said, \"If\nwe tell the Germans that you were here, they'll come, and get your father, and\nthey'll kill your father.\" They told me about circumcision. I didn't know. I\nnever saw my father nude. They said, \"Your father doesn't look like every man.\"\nI said, \"Yes, he does.\" [They said,] \"No, he does not.\" Of course, we fought.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They said, \"Yes. Ask him. His thing is not like everybody else's.\" I said,\n\"Everything is perfect with my father, my dad.\" They told me, too, that my\nmother had me like a cow has a calf. I said. \"No, she didn't.\" [They said,]\n\"Yes,\" and they explained to me what adults were doing. I came home. I was\nfurious and I fought. My mother said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4080.0,4110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"You should not fight.\" She said, \"It's\ntrue.\" She said, \"Did you ever see a baby calf?\" I said, \"Yes.\" She said, \"Well,\nwe're like animals. Same thing.\" I said, \"Well, you couldn't have done something\nwith Daddy.\" She said, \"It was a long time ago.\" [Laughs]What would she say?\n\nEinstein: Every child's nightmare. [Laughs]\n\nGerson: It was terrible. It was disgusting. My father was doing this to my\nmother. I thought it was just absolutely disgusting. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4110.0,4140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You don't look at your\nparents the same way after that. But the German came to visit to that village\nquite often. Each time, it was frightening. If I was in school, I was afraid\nthat when I come home, they wouldn't be there. I knew nobody wanted me.\n\n\u003cinterview pauses; then resumes\u003e\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4140.0,4170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gerson: I don't know where I was. I think I was in Noe.\n\nEinstein: Yes.\n\nGerson: My father was still up in the resistance, believe it or not. There was a\nlibrary. A library in French is a 'book store.' Daddy took the bus to go there,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4170.0,4200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which was stupid, but he took the bus. He tried to make contact and he did. At\nthat time, he disappeared for a few days some times. Of course, I knew there was\nsomething, but I didn't know really. I remember my mother disappearing, too,\nbecause they were transporting -- I think it was a radio. I don't know what it\nwas. I know that I was not allowed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4200.0,4230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to open -- We had sort of a trunk in\n[storage]. I was told I was not allowed to go there to open [it]. It was closed.\nI shook it to see what was in it. You want to know. You want to know what is\nhidden and what your parents are doing. Of course, they were not going to tell\nme. We still had no water. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4230.0,4260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We still had -- They played the game, the people of\nthe village, with us. This is important for us, for me. We used to go in quest\nfor food again. Believe it or not, they ate, but not us because the mayor gave\nus tickets for I don't know what category. I don't remember at that time, but we\nhad 200 grams of bread ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4260.0,4290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a month. There was travailler [French] worker, or\nwhatever. My mother rented herself to farms. She would take me with her, so we\ncould have a meal. In the middle of a country, they had everything, including\nfoie gras. I'm not joking. I'm not telling you stupidity. It is the truth. On my\nchildren's heads, it is true. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4290.0,4320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had tons of chicken and they didn't sell one,\nor an egg [to us]. When you wanted something, you walked because you couldn't\nuse a bicycle. You went and you arrived to a farm and they'd say, \"Oh, I'm so\nsorry. I married my niece and we used all the eggs. But you see this farm with\nthe red roof? [points far away] This is another farm and they were not part of\nthe festivities, so I'm sure they have something for you.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4320.0,4350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, we went there. We\ndid 30 kilometers on foot for nothing. The only thing we could buy was wine. For\nme, it was nothing. I ate. I was so hungry at the time that -- When you break\nthe branch of a fruit tree, there is some kind of gum coming out of it. I eat\nthis. I ate pencils. I ate paper blotter. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4350.0,4380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The pink is better than the blue, by\nthe way. I never forgot the taste of it. I was like this. [lifts up pinky\nfinger] It was unbelievable the way my father [relied] on my mother. My mother\nhad ersatz everything. Whatever she got, she gave to my father and I. No\npotatoes and they had tons of potatoes. They had tons of everything, but they\ndidn't want to sell it to us. My father was very smart. When he left Cannes, he\nwent to a ship's handler, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4380.0,4410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and he bought rope. He gave them rope to attach their\nsteers for the harvest. For a length of rope, you could have some potatoes.\nPotatoes in salad, when you let them grow a little, this is delicious. Believe\nme, it's wonderful. I always said I would try now, but I never did. These are\nthings that -- That constant quest for -- hunger. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4410.0,4440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was so hungry that I had an\nulcer in the stomach or something like this. I had to be in bed, too, because I\nwas really suffering.\n\nKent: Was it ever explained to you why the locals wouldn't sell food?\n\nGerson: We were strangers. We were rich, from Paris, and we were Jews. We bought\neverything on the black market. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4440.0,4470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They raised the price of everything. We paid the\nhighest price. We tried to eat. There was one place in Gaujac, which is in the\nsame region, where my mother took me one day because you could bathe. They had\npublic baths and they had hot water. But they didn't tell my mother they had no\ntowel. My mother had only a handkerchief. When we took a bath, we wiped\nourselves with a handkerchief. Imagine, my mother was taller than me. We came\nback with the clothes ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4470.0,4500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"glued to your body. Those people were mean to be mean,\nbecause we're foreigners. I'm sorry to say, French people--in the middle of\nFrance, in the north of France, in the south of France--even now, are still mean\nwith foreigners. They don't like foreigners. We don't like the English. We don't\nlike the Spanish. We don't like Italians. We never speak to the next door\nneighbor--you say, \"Hi\"--even if you go to school with their child. This is in\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4500.0,4530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the nature of the beast. We're not nice people.\n\nKent: It was not that they would have been punished by the Germans for helping\nout refugees? It was not like fear?\n\nGerson: No, they have a fear of nothing. It was just enjoyable to treat people\nlike this. They enjoyed it immensely because they were peasants. Before the war,\nthey were not -- They were the lowest class in society. But now, we were the\nbeggars. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4560.0,4590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then, he learned that -- He got a\nletter from Marseille from a neighbor [saying] that his sister and his\nbrother-in-law had been deported. So, there was another crisis in our lives at\nthe time. His eldest sister stayed in Paris. The next door neighbor in the\napartment house was marrying her daughter. 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Like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4620.0,4650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"a\nfool, she was so afraid that she went back with her papers with the stamp 'Jew,'\n'Jude' on it. She didn't wear the star, so, of course, it was a double crime. We\nlearned about that. One day, my father -- I was sick with a stomach ulcer. I was\nin bed. Where we worked was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4650.0,4680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in my room because there was a big marble faucet and\nround sink. But we had no water. My mother was listening to her radio next door,\nin the next room. She heard that Paris was liberated. We had glass ... At that\ntime, you couldn't buy anything either, if you didn't have [ration cards for\nit]. If you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4680.0,4710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wanted to buy glass, you had to have the broken glass. Then they\nwould sell to you. When she went to Agen to buy glass, because we had no\nglass--we came from Cannes with nothing. She went and tried to buy pots. It was\nin -- terracotta. They would not sell it to her if it was not broken. The woman\nthat was selling said, \"Well, you don't have any broken glass or terracotta?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4710.0,4740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My\nmother said, \"No.\" Her sleeve caught on the shelf and the whole shelf fell. My\nmother said, \"No. You have glass and terracotta, so now you can sell to me.\"\nThat was stupid, too. We had [a] glass that my father took on the train. The\nglass was full of water -- and when my mother opened the door and said to my\nfather, \"Paris is liberated,\" the glass exploded. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4740.0,4770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember that. I don't know\nwhy. We never knew why. Because the water was there. It was not cold. We didn't\nhave a refrigerator. We had nothing. My father said, \"It's a sign. We're\nleaving. I'm not staying. We're going.\" At that time, my mother said, \"Yes, but\nthere's no bridge.\" He said, \"Well, they must have barges. We're going.\" We had\nno apartment. We knew the apartment had been taken. Everything was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4770.0,4800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"empty. The\nhouse in Deauville has been empty. It was occupied by the Germans because it was\none of the nicest villas of the little city. We left. It took 40 hours to go\nback to Paris. You couldn't get out because it was so crowded. You couldn't go\nto pee, because people were sleeping. Some woman ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4800.0,4830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"peed through the window. My\nmother didn't want to. They held her and the men turned. She peed out the\nwindow. We didn't want to. We had no water, nothing to eat, but we were going\nback to Paris, to civilization, we thought. We arrived at de Le Gar. At that\ntime, my father had a little gold that was in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4830.0,4860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"middle of the suitcase. It was\nforbidden, of course, not [only for] the Jews, but [for] the French people to\nhave gold, for everybody. He went to find the porter because there was no\ntaxies. There was nothing to help us to go to my grandmother's house. My\ngrandmother had left the castle, went back to Paris, because her grandmother was\nCatholic. She had a certificate of baptism for her and her son. She didn't do it\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4860.0,4890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"for us, but she did it for her son. She lacked for nothing. She wrote this\nletter to my mother, who tried to send her eggs or whatever we could during the\nwar. We went to my grandmother. She had an enormous apartment. She said, \"My\ndear, I can't have you.\" First of all, we arrived at the Arc de Triomphe and we\nstopped there. My father said to my mother, \"We'll go to a hotel.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4890.0,4920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We tried to\nfind it, but it was occupied by the American and there was no room. We had two\nmaid's rooms. It was so cold again. It was [unintelligible; 1:22:16], by the\nChamps-Elysées. My grandmother lived near the Champs-Elysées. It's very nice.\nShe had a lot of furniture. We had nothing. She said, \"Oh, I can have only one\nperson. I can't. I don't want ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4920.0,4950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to [unintelligible; 1:22:30] my house. I can take\nMicheline, but not you.\" I stayed. She said, \"I don't have anything to eat, so\nyou'll have to find food because I can't feed you.\" I'm sure she did, but she\ndidn't want to. She was not a very nice person. My mother went to the apartment\nbecause my father kept paying it. I have--I don't know where it is--the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4950.0,4980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"piece of\npaper that was sent to us, a letter that was sent to us by the PTT [Postes,\nTélégraphes et Téléphones], which is the telephone company, saying that, \"If\nyou're Jewish, or any member of the family is Jewish, or a grandparent is\nJewish, you are not entitled to have the telephone.\" They took the line away. I\nhave the letter. I think I have it here, but I'm not sure. We moved back into\nthat apartment. It was completely empty, but we stayed. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=4980.0,5010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We were looking for\nthings. People said, \"Well, don't you know that we had the war? We don't have\nmattress, we don't have beds, we don't have chairs.\" We had a bridge chair that\nthe Germans, when they moved everything, had left us. We had mattresses because\nmy mother found somebody through a hairdresser who knew somebody who sold us\nmattresses. My cousin from Marseille, the boy and the girl came. They were with\nfriends. They could have stayed, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5010.0,5040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but they came, so we had two more people and\nnothing to eat. At that time, it was so cold in Paris that we had snow banks\nlike this. [indicates many feet high] I had scarlet fever. I remember people\nsaid, \"Oh, but you have to have a lot of heat because for the pimple to come\nout.\" We didn't. Somebody sold us supposedly coal. It was plaster rolled in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5040.0,5070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coal\npowder. That's it. That's my war. Except that we got a phone call from my\nyoungest aunt, the mother of the kids from Marseille saying, \"We have been\nliberated.\" I think it was Birkenau. She said, \"Jacques, I'm okay. I will be\nthere. The Russians have ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5070.0,5100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just liberated us. I have to run to get into a lorry.\"\nWe went to the [unintelligible; 1:25:12] every day with my father. I am ashamed\nto say that when I saw the people that came out, they were not human. You didn't\nknow if it was a man, a woman, young or old. They were walking very slowly. They\nhad those striped pajamas. I was ashamed. I was absolutely atrociously ashamed\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5100.0,5130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of them. They were supposed to be my people. I don't think they were my people.\nI know how my aunt looked. My aunt never came back. I'm sure she was killed by\nthe Russians. I'm sure. We told the children, the kids, that their mother had\ncalled. My cousin was 19. My [other] cousin was 14. They were waiting for their\nmother. Their father? No, but their mother? ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5130.0,5160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. [she] never came back.\n\nKent: At that point, what did you know about where these people had been, what\ndeportation meant?\n\nGerson: I knew at that time. I knew when we left Cannes because I saw the train.\nTo go from Cannes to where we lived, you had to pass over the railroad. There\nwas this bridge of the railroad. You saw the train. I knew. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5160.0,5190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"understand why my\nmother wanted to throw me by the balcony or strangle me. She said, \"I'll\nstrangle her and I'll jump on them so they kill me. I will not be deported.\" We\nhad friends that called on my father. They were living in Marseille. They went\nhalfway and we went halfway. We met them in [unintelligible village]. This woman\nhad three sons. [They] belonged to the same club as my father. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5190.0,5220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The three sons\nwere 19, 16, and 13. They always said that one of those boys would be for me\neventually. They always said, \"Oh, well, she'll marry one of those boys. We have\nthree boys and you have a girl.\" I was invited to a party. I think it was the\nbar mitzvah of the two boys, the two youngest. The fact is, I married the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5220.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"youngest one, which was a tragedy to because he's not normal. He's crazy and\nmade me very unhappy. I stayed with him. I gave him two children and I divorced\nhim. I married him because he was a son. He got me because he said that he was\nthe son of deported people, and that God sent me to him, and my parents knew his\nparents, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5250.0,5280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and brought him memories. He had a factory. A rubber manufacturer he\nwas. The factory was doing very badly. Of course, if the factory was bankrupt,\nmy father [said] my name would have been soiled or whatever. He knew that if he\nmarried me, my father would have worked for him. My father did work for him, of\ncourse. I had two kids with him. That's it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5280.0,5310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kent: How did you react when you knew that the war was over? How did that news\naffect you?\n\nGerson: I'll tell you what. We saved a soap during the whole war to give to the\nAmericans, not to the English, because for us, it was a precious possession.\nThey gave us tons of soap. I got a Hershey bar and I got chewing gum, which I\nnever had in my life. I don't know. I told Bob, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5310.0,5340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I remember looking at those\npeople and it was so extraordinary because their skin were marvelous. They were\nall well-dressed. They were not [gaunt]. Their skin, they were -- I guess it's\nthe corn flakes. I don't know, but they looked so healthy. Everybody was so\nhealthy and we were so horrible. Many of us had a lot less hair because we were\nwith no ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5340.0,5370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"food. I remember my mother had the nails cut very short because she was\ndeprived of everything. It's a miracle that I have teeth.\n\nKent: Those neighbors who you mentioned that met him after the war.\n\nGerson: Which neighbor?\n\nKent: The ones you were saying earlier about how you went back and you saw the\nneighbors and all of that. Can you go back as to how you knew them originally?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5370.0,5400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gerson: When we were in Nerac, they had a grocery store. On Sundays, my parents\n-- Of course, a grocery store meant food. My father went to occupy himself with\nselling food for them. He was a very good salesman. When you went for toilet\npaper, he sold you the paper to scrape the floor or something like that. I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5400.0,5430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"think\nit was fun for him in a way, and occupying him. My father was an intellectual.\nIt was very difficult for him to live like this. This man didn't know we were\nJews. They were Catholic. When the town -- That man with the drum came to ask\nall the Jews to declare themselves. He said to my father, \"You have to declare\nyourselves. It is ridiculous not to declare themselves.\" My father ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5430.0,5460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thought that\nhe was going to denounce us. After the war, I made a trip with the children. I\nwanted to show them. I was explaining to them how we got the Magna Carta, and\nthe [unintelligible; 1:31:16], and whatever. The three kids, my husband and I\npassed not too far from them. The children said, \"If you're that near, why don't\nyou take us to see the little village where you were, that little town when you\nwere during the war?\" I said, \"Okay.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5460.0,5490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My husband said, \"You won't find it.\" I\nsaid, \"Yes, I will find it,\" and I went straight to the house. Coming out, I saw\nMr. Dijon coming out of the grocery store. I got enraged. I went to him and I\nsaid, \"Hello, Mr. Dijon?\" He said, \"Yes.\" I said, \"How is your mother? How is\nyour daughter?\" [I] talked about the two people who rented us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5490.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the two rooms next\nto them across the street. They're gone. I hope they are in paradise. Those two\nwere so sweet. He said to me, \"Who are you?\" I said, \"I'm Micheline Tindel. You\ndon't remember? The Jew.\" I said, \"I made three more and they will make more.\"\nHe said, \"Come upstairs. My wife will be so happy to see you.\" I said, \"No.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5520.0,5550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nwent back to the car and I cried for -- I don't know how many kilometers. I have\nto tell you, too. That his wife had what is called a lupus. Half of her face was\ndisfigured. My mother took her. I went with her when they burned her, the lupus.\nMy mother went with her, took care of her, and she put the bandage on her face.\nIt didn't matter. We were Jews anyway. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5550.0,5580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You had no friend. The Milice and the\npeople -- It's the French people that were disgusting. At that time, there were\nno Germans. It was Free France where we lived. But we were treated horribly\nbecause we were strangers and Jews. That's it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5580.0,5610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do you have any other questions?\n\nKent: Continue on from after the war then. In 1945, you were about 14?\n\nGerson: Yes.\n\nKent: How did you and your family return to a normal life?\n\nGerson: Slowly. We didn't have anything either. My father bought some furniture.\nMy cousins went to their godfather and godmother. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5610.0,5640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My father made another trip to\nget back the gold and was buried. We got it back. He went back to the stock\nexchange and started working. That's it. I went to school and I had a lot -- I\nwas very tardy, so I had a lot of teachers because I wanted to pass my\nbaccalaureate. Then, I did.\n\nKent: Was your home, and belongings, all that still there?\n\nGerson: No. There was nothing left. The only thing ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5640.0,5670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that we had was a little\nChinese cup, which I have here in the middle of the living room. My grandmother\n-- the apartment had been taken. The house of my grandmother had been taken by\nthe Germans. We had nothing left at the time. We rebuilt it. Then, my father\nwent to temple. First of all, because he wanted to thank God, which was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5670.0,5700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very\nstrange to me because he didn't -- He took lessons in Hebrew. He did. Of course,\nI was enrolled. I can't say that I enjoyed it, but I was enrolled and I became\nwhat I am.\n\nKent: How did the locals relate to you all after the war?\n\nGerson: About the same. When I went to school, it was the same thing. If you\nwere invited for tea ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5700.0,5730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on a Saturday, you told -- In the morning, you said to the\ngirl who invited you, \"Tell your parents that I'm Jewish. If you want me come to\nyour house, tell them,\" because I had enough of being treated like this. If she\ncame back and didn't speak to you after lunch time, at 2:00, you knew damn well\nthat was it. We were second class citizens for a very long time.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5730.0,5760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Einstein: What happened to the other Jewish children that you might have known\nbefore the war? What was your society like when you returned?\n\nGerson: The Krinskys survived, Michel. His father was in jail in Italy. He\nsurvived. His mother survived. They went to Le Puy, which is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5760.0,5790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"near Le\nChambon[-sur-Lignon], where the Protestant -- They survived and the baby\nsurvived. He was a godson of my father. The little girl who was in the hotel\nwith me in Cannes, Perle Zuckerman, survived. With a name like that, she\nsurvived. We never heard of the Cohens. We tried to find people that we knew\nduring the war. Many were gone, except Mr. David-Weill, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5790.0,5820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who now has a house in\nNew York and a house in -- He's Catholic completely now, with a name like that.\nBelieve me, when I think of him, he had the most beautiful pants in world during\nthe war. His mademoiselle came to get him and he had croissants during the war.\nWe hated him. At recess, if we could beat the shit out of him, we did. He had an\nenormous ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5820.0,5850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gold chain with a crucifix about this big. [indicates size off camera]\nHe had his book satchel was in real leather. He had the stenograph with a gold\npen. We had nothing. He shared with nobody, talked to nobody. He was sent for\nrecess after the beating--because we beat him pretty badly--to the baby\ncourtyard. I saw him maybe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5850.0,5880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ten years ago at a restaurant. I was with my\nmother--it was Mother's Day--with Bob and my mother. When I saw him, I was dying\nto go in, and talk to him, and tell him what I thought of him. Bob said, \"Stay\nthere. What would you do that for?\" Again, I get enraged for nothing. I'm sorry\nto say that if I'm in a restaurant and I hear German, I don't stay. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5880.0,5910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We move. I\ncan't stand it. It's not my fault. It is not because I'm Jewish, unfortunately.\nIt's because I'm from Alsatian grandparents. I think this is it, too. I am\nFrench. If I show you the papers, you'll see how far we go. I think 1600 is not\nbad. I am French. I'm American, but I am French. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5910.0,5940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm furious with what happened\nnow. I'm always scared when somebody get in power. I'm very ashamed what\n[unintelligible; 1:39:10] did. I'm very upset because he did a wonderful war and\nnow he take bribes. I can't stand having anybody in power which is Jewish, I'm\nafraid. Do you remember the concert with Yoel Levi here? We went there because\nBob wanted to do that. I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5940.0,5970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I hope the will is safe because there could be a\nbomb.\" I'm always thinking there's going to be a bomb. I'm very upset because my\ndaughter sent her younger children to a Jewish camp. I said, \"Can't you go to a\nnormal camp, not a Jewish camp?\" It will stay with me all my life. I never went\nto Israel. I will never go to Israel. There's too much Jews. I can't go. My\nfriend or not, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=5970.0,6000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm friendly with people not because they're Jewish. I'm friendly\nwith people because they're interesting, amusing, or read the same book. I have\na very dear friend that works at CNN. She's a reporter. She's Muslim, but this\nis -- She's a person. She's a nice person. She's intelligent. It's not because\nshe's a Muslim I should turn my back on her.\n\nKent: At the end of the war, was there any assistance ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6000.0,6030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to people, whether from\nAmericans, or British, or whatever?\n\nGerson: No, not from the French either. We found some of the Chinese art\ncollection of my father, which had been taken by Goering. I know where it was.\nWe had the pedestal. I have all the pedestals. We asked and we were not\nreimbursed. Germany didn't pay anything. I have two birds of paradise, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6030.0,6060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which are\nin a museum in Paris. I have the pedestal. I can prove they're mine. I will\nnever get them back. Never. We had an inventory because it's the French police\nthat came to move the apartment and because it was a very crowded apartment with\na lot of furniture. Everything was very beautiful. We had two weeks ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6060.0,6090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"between when\nthe Commissar of the police came to make an inventory [of] what they were going\nto take. The German was with them. They went to the basement where my mother had\npacked all the Chinese art. They kicked it and said, \"Oh, this is only glass.\"\nThe maid could have moved it, the cook, to where we went after. She could have\nmoved it. She didn't. She was too scared, but she kept the apartment. My father\npaid the rent during ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6090.0,6120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the whole war. He paid for his mother's apartment during\nthe whole war.\n\nEinstein: How did he have access to that money? I mean, I am sure the bank\naccounts were frozen. Did he just have it in gold?\n\nGerson: No. He had a bank account in Paris and a checking account with a broker\nin Bordeaux, who paid for him. The carpet we kept because they were in the house\nto repair carpets. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6120.0,6150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So all the carpets we got. That was not touched and our name\nis not Jewish. My father paid with checks. We could pay with checks. It was not\nwritten on the check that we are Jewish. Tindel is the name of a prefect in\n[unintelligible], I think.\n\nKent: By the time you became an adult, did you learn more--maybe from your\nparents or indirectly--about what was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6150.0,6180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going on during the war years? Did you\nlearn any secrets or were things explained to you that you just didn't know as a kid?\n\nGerson: Yes, I learned that the father of Krinsky was during the first -- He was\nan immigrant from Russia. He belonged to the -- His job was to make a vat for\nwine, but he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6180.0,6210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/208","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"invented code for the [unintelligible; 1:43:45]. That I learned.\nOther things, I don't know what you refer to.\n\nKent: Just if your parents later on, as an adult, explained things to you more\nbecause they were maybe trying to protect you when you were younger.\n\nGerson: No, we didn't. We talked about the war sometimes, but we never discussed\nit because it was past. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6210.0,6240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/209","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's not something that we talked about. We talked\nabout it sometimes, but it was more for reference. I'm going to tell you\nsomething. I [went] crazy. When I came here, I put the children in school and I\nsaw them buy for five cents, the little thing of milk and throw it out. I went\nto the principal. I worked in the cafeteria for the kids. I said, \"I want to\nknow where the milk is going. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6240.0,6270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They buy food and they throw it away.\" It stayed\nwith me. My daughter got crazy with me, \"Mom, we're not during the war!\" It will\nstay with me all my life. I forgot to tell you, during the war, one time, we got\nspaghetti. My mother gave me a needle with a thread to pass through the\nspaghetti to take the worm out and we ate it. We ate them. We washed them and we\nate them. We ate it and it was divine, even without a butter or cheese or anything.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6270.0,6300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kent: Once you became 17, 18, 19, how did you go about deciding what you were\ngoing to do for your future?\n\nGerson: I didn't decide anything. I followed what my father told me to do. I\nwent to school and I passed my baccalaureate. I wanted to be a doctor, but he\ndidn't want to me to do this, so I became a history major, but not for this war.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6300.0,6330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's for far away, the history of the world more than anything else. You have to\nunderstand that I have done more of the Jewish holidays or whatever after the\nwar, because we had no friends. The people that we knew were people from the\ncommunity where we went, which were a sister of the temple here. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6330.0,6360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We became\nfriendly with those people who, funnily enough, bought all the houses around\nwhere we have our houses. My father bought a house after the war in Cannes, on\ntop of Cannes. The whole community, most or many people in the community that\nhad children of my age, bought houses there. We all were very friendly. But it\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6360.0,6390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was not only those [people]. I was friendly with Catholics, too. We tried not to\ndiscriminate. It's not like here. You have -- My husband grew up with only\nJewish people. Not me. Even after the war, it was not only Jewish people.\n\nKent: Can you tell a little bit more about that first marriage and the two kids?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6390.0,6420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gerson: My first marriage. My god.\n\nKent: How old were you?\n\nGerson: I was 23. I was not really in love with him, but I think I was in love\nwith another guy. But he chased him away. He was there all the time. When he met\nme, he went to pick me up, and all the boys that I knew and went out with, he\nwas always there. I met him at the party and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6420.0,6450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"my father told me, \"Go.\" I had, not\na broken, but a twisted ankle. I couldn't dance. I said, \"Why should I go?\" He\nsaid, \"You'll be with young people. Go.\" I said, \"If they come and pick me up,\"\nso they came and pick me up. I was very gay, very funny at the time. I was not\nugly either. I met him there. Or, he met me. I didn't meet him. He was behind my\nchair. I was telling a funny story and I had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6450.0,6480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lots of people sitting with on the\nsofa, with lots of friends here. He stayed with me. Then, he said to a friend of\nmine, \"I want to see her again.\" [My friend said,] \"This is difficult because\nshe has no boyfriend. She is friends with a lot of people.\" I worked for the\ntemple for the youth organization, but I never went to dance there because I\ndidn't like the boys. They were not very attractive, so I didn't. [laughs] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6480.0,6510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/218","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He\ndidn't go there, but I was, if I can say, in love with a boy that was a little\nolder than me. He was doing his medicine. My father and his father were not\ngoing along. We went. We were fine. The mothers liked each other. He was with me\nall the time. It was very platonic in a way, because I met him when I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6510.0,6540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/219","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"16. He\nwas in school on the Champs-Elysées. I was in another school in front of it, on\nRue La Boetie [an intersecting street]. On Friday, he'd walk on one side of the\nstreet. I walked on the other. One day, he got a little sensitive that, \"We see\neach other every Friday, but we don't talk to each other?\" I said, \"I guess so.\"\nHe came to help me clean up. After the party, I came to clean up, or I came to\ninstall the party, put the record player, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6540.0,6570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/220","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bring the records, bring food, and\norange juice, and stuff like that. I left. I didn't want to stay there. It was\nboring to me. He came, and cleaned with me, with other guys and girls. We\ndiscovered, we liked each other very much. He said, \"I could never marry you.\" I\nsaid, \"Well, sleep with me and get me pregnant. Then, we'll get married.\" He\nsaid, \"Are you crazy?\" He said, \"To make a child with your father's daughter, I\ncan't do that. He will kill me.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6570.0,6600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/221","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"No, no. We'll get married. I promise\nyou we'll get married.\" He said, \"We will never dare that.\" \"Now,\" he said to\nme, \"that's the best proposal I ever had,\" but I didn't do it I was such a\ncoward. At that time, I met the other one. He said to me, \"You should marry him.\nHe has a position. He's ready to settle down. He has everything you could\ndesire. You should.\" I said, \"Yes, but there's something I don't like about him.\nI don't know what.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6600.0,6630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/222","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The other one courted me very strangely. My mother kept\ntelling me it's because he had suffered so much. His parents were arrested in\nMarseille. His brother had been killed. He was the last one. He was a spoiled\none. You realize it's terrible. My father said, \"God sent him to us,\" which is\nwonderful. After that, he said he was the devil. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6630.0,6660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/223","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I cannot tell you what happened\non the night I married him because it's so ridiculous and there was such an\ninnocent. I thought -- I didn't know anything about Jewish things. The way he\nbehaved was very strange. I thought it was a Jewish custom. The night -- He was\nso drunk the day of my wedding. I thought he had planned a honeymoon somewhere.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6660.0,6690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/224","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had discussed it. I wanted to go to Greece, to Rhodes, Butterfly Island. He\nsaid, it's going to be too hot. I said, \"Maybe.\" We married the 23rd of July. He\nsaid, \"But where do you want to go?\" I said, \"I told you. I thought that's what\nyou did.\" He didn't even reserve a room for our first night. He said, \"We're\ngoing to Fontainebleau.\" I thought he had reserved something. He said, \"Are you\nkidding? I'm too drunk.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6690.0,6720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/225","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He said, \"We'll go somewhere.\" We arrived in Versailles\nand he said, \"I can't get out of the car. Go and ask if they have a room.\" I\ncame with my new wedding band and I was very shy. They said, \"Oh, yes, madame,\nwe have a suite for you.\" We had eaten nothing that day because we received\npeople. When I came back -- I went to wash because it was hot. It was the 23rd\nof July. I went to take a bath, came out, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6720.0,6750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/226","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and he was with his suit like this\n[shows coat over his head], on the bed asleep. I pushed him twice and he didn't\nmove. I cried a little and I went to bed. I fell asleep. Next morning, he was\ntotally nude in front of the window looking at the park. He said to me, \"You\nhave ten minutes to call your mother. We're going to Switzerland.\" I said,\n\"Switzerland?\" He said, \"Yes.\" \"Okay,\" I said, \"Allen, you're nude.\" He said to\nme, \"We're going to live together 50 years, so ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6750.0,6780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/227","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you better get used to it.\" It\nwas the first time I saw a man nude. I was very preserved.\n\nKent: What was it like becoming a mother and raising a family?\n\nGerson: That's the only thing I wanted because I understood that there was\nnothing there. He told me, \"You imbecile. You married me because I played a good\nrole. I got you and your father is going to help me now.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6780.0,6810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/228","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It took me about two\nyears to have a baby. After that, he could drink, sleep with other women. I\ndidn't know that. I found out when I came back to Paris that he had affair and\nthat was it. I said, \"You know, we're going to do something. I will host for\nyou,\" because this is what he needed. I spoke English and he needed me for this\nand for his business. \"But,\" I said, \"We'll never sleep together ever again,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6810.0,6840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/229","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because a toothbrush had been used by somebody else. I'll throw it away. Don't\nnever touch me anymore. When the children are 15 or 16, we divorce. It's not\nlike this.\" Then, I met a sister of Bob. She came to Paris. It was a very nice\nstory. She was charming. She had been in [The Juilliard School] here [in New\nYork City]. She was going to study piano in Paris. She was adorable. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6840.0,6870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/230","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We became\nfriends and she was in love with a guy here, so she didn't stay for very long.\nShe went to Italy, I think it was for Thanksgiving or something like that. At\nthat time, I had one child. She got married with her husband, got pregnant. I\nwas pregnant with Judy, my second baby. I had the flu. I couldn't move. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6870.0,6900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/231","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He beat\nme up and he slept with me. I was too sick to get up to wash. I had Judy, and I\nthought I was going to have an abortion, but I didn't. I kept her because I was\nafraid something would happen to my son. She was pregnant in America. We were\ncorresponding. [My ex-husband] was coming here for the toy -- to talk with the\nmanufacture ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6900.0,6930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/232","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"of rubber. He came to Atlanta to meet his parents. Bob had quit his\njob with the paper company. He heard everybody talking about Europe and decided\nthat was the time to go. He would stay 15 days, or two weeks, or three weeks, go\nto England, France, whatever. He asked his sister to write to me and ask me for\na room. I said, \"Okay.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6930.0,6960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/233","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He didn't want to spend more than $3 or something like\nthat. I found it in my district. My husband said, \"I'm going to America, so\nwrite to him that the car, you, and your friends are at his disposal,\" which I\ndid. He kept the letter. That helped me with my divorce [which] lasted five\nyears because we went to the Supreme Court. We fell in love. Yes, I was a\nbigamist. I [was called] all kinds of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6960.0,6990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/234","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things. My husband is a survivor--not a\nsurvivor, but his parents were killed in [unintelligible], I think I told you.\nRemember when his parents were there to meet mine? They were killed. It's not\nonly one tragedy that we had in our lives. My life was okay--not with my\nhusband--but when I met Bob, I had all I needed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=6990.0,7020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/235","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to come here. But I couldn't get\ndivorced. Finally I came.\n\nKent: When did you arrive here in America?\n\nGerson: Nineteen sixty. I have to look.\n\n\u003cinterview pauses; then resumes\u003e\n\nGerson: I found a room for him not very far from where I lived. My son\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7020.0,7050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/236","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"caught--he was not quite two--the measles or something like that. I was supposed\nto come to America. I said, \"I'm not going. David needs me. I'm not going.\" My\nex-husband said, \"You know what? You go, too.\" Before, he said, \"We'll get a\ngoveness. They'll keep the children. You come with me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7050.0,7080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/237","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You will help me,\" and,\n\"People are nicer if you're with me.\" I didn't want to go. I was not attracted\nby America at all. If you want me to be perfectly honest, the Americans in\nFrance were not very couth. They got drunk a lot. They were a little scary, too.\nMy father every Friday or Saturday when he went to temple brought one home ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7080.0,7110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/238","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\nwhen they left, they left. They never said -- I mean, Major [unintelligible]\nwere very nice people supposedly. My father worked for the Americans after the\nwar to try to trace the money that the Germans had stolen. He and my mother went\nback to Monte Carlo to try ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7110.0,7140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/239","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to find the people who had stolen--not only the\nGermans, the French. He worked for them for nothing. He did it. We received a\nlot of those people who were very nice. But, when they left, they never sent\neven a Christmas card. I said, \"I'm not interested. I don't care for New York. I\nhardly go to India. I'm for the old country, not the new country.\" It was not\nattractive. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7140.0,7170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/240","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Those people had too much. It was too much, too big. [I said,] \"I'm\na little Parisian from the 16th district. I am not going to a country that big.\nI don't know anybody.\" [He said,] \"You know, Betsy.\" [I said,] \"Yes, but I don't\nwant to go.\" Finally, David caught the measles. I said, \"I'm not going.\" Good\noccasion. Bob was coming and he had no intention of calling me just to say thank\nyou when he left. I sent him a cable on the boat ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7170.0,7200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/241","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"telling him that I had dinner\nready for him if he would come. It was down my street. When he arrived, he had a\nroom, but he didn't have a bathroom. He wanted to take a shower. He tried to\nexplain to the woman in French that he wanted a shower. She said, \"Demain\n[French], tomorrow.\" He said, \"No, today, today.\" [She said,] \"Tomorrow, sir.\"\nHe picked up his little address book and he called me. He said, \"Could you\nplease translate to me? I'm sorry to bother you. Thank you for the room, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7200.0,7230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/242","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but why\ncan't I have a bath?\" I said, \"Because it's rented. The people have stayed. If\nyou want a bath, turn right and go two blocks. I live at number 50. I'm on the\nthird floor. Dinner is ready for you.\" I said, \"Where are you? I'm waiting for\nyou.\" He said, \"I didn't know.\" [I said,] \"I sent a cable.\" [He said,] \"I didn't\nreceive it.\" I said, \"Well, come.\" I had everybody laughing at me because I was\nalone and I was going to have that American ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7230.0,7260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/243","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"coming. It was springtime. It was\nJune. God knows what we're going to do. I said, \"Don't be stupid. He's going to\nbe a small Jew like this [holds hand low to ground] and very ugly.\" I said, \"I'm\ngoing to try to get girls to out with him.\" I said, \"I'm married. What am I\ngoing to do with him?\" I didn't live with my husband at the time. My husband was\nmore or less at home for to get his clean shirts, and underwear, and have me\npack his suitcase. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7260.0,7290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/244","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I opened the door because I had two guys, who were friends,\ncame with a bottle of champagne, saying, \"This is for you and the American\ntonight. What a night you're going to have.\" I said, \"You're crazy. You know me.\nYou know I'm not going to do anything. It's crazy.\" I opened the door to let\nthem go and I heard somebody fumbling downstairs. I called, \"Bob?\" I saw a hand\non the banister. He looked up and I looked down. He came. The two others left.\nWe were young. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7290.0,7320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/245","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He came upstairs. I had asked my father said, \"When he comes,\nwould you please come and have dessert and coffee?\" My father lived across the\nstreet from me. I said, \"Come, because what am I going to talk about with this\nguy?\" I said, \"I can make plans. I give him the key of the car, explained to\nhim. I give him the plan of Paris. I give him a booklet,\" and, \"If you want to,\nyou can come one day for dinner. Other people, my girlfriends who are not\nmarried will take him out.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7320.0,7350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/246","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It was a season. It was June. I was invited to a lot\nof places. They said, \"Take him.\" I said, \"I can't go with him. I'm married. I'm\nnot going to go with a guy that I don't know and an American.\" They said, \"Well,\nyou do what you feel.\" Okay. He came upstairs. He was absolutely charming. He\nstayed until about 2:00 in the morning, talking. I broke three plates. I was so\nnervous. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7350.0,7380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/247","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He came the next day for the key and he had lunch with me. After three\ndays he said, \"I have to marry you.\" I said, \"You're nuts.\" He said, \"No, get a\ndivorce. You're not happy.\" I said, \"How do you know I'm not happy or not?\" I\ndidn't say anything. He said, \"I can smell it and I want to marry you.\" I said,\n\"You're crazy.\" I did marry him. I fell madly in love with him after four days\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7380.0,7410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and that was it.\n\nKent: He was a keeper.\n\nGerson: Yes. I told him, \"I don't want to get married again if I divorce. I'll\ncome one month in America.\" He bought me back here because he said, \"You know,\nI've been to your house and I've been to Paris. I have seen all the glamour.\" He\nwent to London, he went to Amsterdam, and came back to Paris. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7410.0,7440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Went to London,\nand came back to Paris, went to Berlin, and came back to Paris. He said, \"I have\nto visit Europe.\" I swore I would write to him [send a telegram] through\nAmerican Express. American Express didn't follow the letter very well, so he\nthought I had forgotten and it was just a romance that was ended. When he was\nreading \"Exodus,\" I think, he decided in Rome that he was going to take a plane\nand go to Israel. Meanwhile, I was dying. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7440.0,7470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I didn't know where he was. I was\ngoing crazy. He went to Israel. [He] didn't like it at all. That's his story,\nnot mine. He came back at home. He got up very early that morning and American\nExpress was open. He took a cup of coffee, went to ask if he had mail. They\nsaid, \"Oh, my god, do we have mail!\" They kept bringing him buckets and buckets\nof mail. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7470.0,7500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He called me. He said, \"I'm so sorry. I didn't know. I didn't write to\nyou.\" I said, \"Why did you go to Israel? Why don't you come,\" because we are\nsupposed to meet somewhere in Portofino or somewhere. We went to Cannes. After\nall this time that he spent with me--it was three months already that he was\ntraveling--he said, \"This is very romantic, but I want to see you on my own\nground.\" The only thing I had in mind [was that], 'If he leaves and I don't go\nwith him, I'll never see him again.' ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7500.0,7530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I went. My ex-husband said that I should go\nanyway. He booked a return on the boat. I had booked something and my ex-husband\nbooked something, too. The agency said to me, \"Madam, I would like to know if\nit's a group or if it --\" I said, \"No, it's only two people.\" We went.\n\nKent: How did your parents feel ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7530.0,7560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about this new development?\n\nGerson: My father didn't -- My father was obviously very naive. My mother knew\nthat I was in love with him. My father didn't. My father was furious when he\nfound out. He was very -- My mother had a car accident, almost killed herself,\nbecause my ex-husband, when I was gone, decided that -- He went to see everybody\nwe knew and say that I had left with an American, abandoned the children, which\nwas not true. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7560.0,7590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"People said, \"It's not possible the way she is with those\nchildren. It's impossible. You're crazy.\" He said, \"No, I swear to you, she left\nme and she left the children.\" He went back to Cannes, where the kids were with\nmy mother. He said he wanted the children. My father, being an officer and a\ncommander of the Legionnaire, who could not be arrested -- They were going to\narrest my father, to take the kids. The [officer] said to my father, \"Take the\nchildren and go somewhere. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7590.0,7620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And call your daughter. Tell her to come back. Then,\nyou can take the kids and we won't prosecute you or arrest you.\" What happened\n[was] they went to a villa which was near Paris, friends of theirs. My mother\ndecided that it was not right. She said, \"We'll give you the children because\nshe may incur a lot of trouble.\" She went down to Cannes. I couldn't get a\npassage immediately. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7620.0,7650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/256","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She had a car accident. She rolled twice, and broke her\nneck, her pelvic, and whatever. I went back. I stayed one week in America. One\nweek. I came back. I found out that he was sleeping with his Governess from he\nwas little. The woman at the time was, I don't know, 60, but I was very young\nand I thought it was disgusting ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7650.0,7680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/257","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to do something like that. I came to my house\nand this woman is installed with my maid. I said, \"Where do you sleep?\" She said\nto me, \"In the maid's room.\" I said, \"It's not possible.\" I went upstairs. The\nbed was rolled up. I said, \"You're sleeping with him.\" She said, \"Oh, but we can\nhave a very peaceful life. Don't get excited.\" I called him. I said, \"You better\ncome here immediately,\" so he came. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7680.0,7710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/258","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"Take her away because I'll kill\nher. She touches my children, I'll kill her.\" I said, \"You're taking me to the\nhospital.\" My mother was in the middle of the country. He took me to see my\nmother. She was all right. She was in a hospital. She was treated, came back to\nParis. We settled by my affair a little bit. My father at that time received a\nletter that I had sent my mother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7710.0,7740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/259","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and opened it. My mother said in that letter,\n\"I hope you don't get pregnant,\" so my father understood. He sat me [down]--he\nhad a big desk--in front of his desk. He said to me, \"I have to talk to you.\" I\nsaid, \"What is it?\" He said, \"Here.\" I said, \"That's a letter--that's all--to my\nmother.\" he said, \"Yes, but I opened it.\" He said to me, \"Is it true?\" I said,\n\"Yes, it's true.\" He said, \"You go home. I will tell you when I'll speak to you.\nI can't speak to you. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7740.0,7770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/260","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's absolutely disgusting what you did. You've used my\nconfidence and my trust.\" Okay, fine. I went home and I fought with my husband.\nHe beat the hell out of me, of course. I never told them that I did sleep with\nBob ever. After five years, we went to Supreme Court. I gave testimony. I had\neverything. I had a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7770.0,7800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/261","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things suppressed or in closed doors, because I\ndidn't want the children to know what their father was, because their father was\na homosexual. Yes, he was a homosexual and was with women, too. I learned a lot\nthat time. Then, I got a divorce and that's it. I'm here. When I arrived here, I\nsaid, \"I'll never move again,\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7800.0,7830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/262","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and of course, I moved.\n\nKent: Did your parents also ever move to America?\n\nGerson: Yes, they came twice a year.\n\nKent: They visited.\n\nGerson: Oh, god, they visited. To stop them -- I'm an only child. It was very\ndifficult. I built the back of the house because my father had a heart attack\nand I thought he would come here and live here. But he couldn't. He didn't want\nto leave Paris. They came for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7830.0,7860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/263","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the birth. My mother stayed seven months when I\nwas pregnant with Christina because I do not tolerate being pregnant. I'm\nterribly sick. I have to be in a bed. For the two first, I stayed for months in\nCannes in bed. For Christina, the same thing. He carried me down on that sofa. I\nstayed until -- I was seven months pregnant and I had her at seven and a half months.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7860.0,7890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/264","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kent: What was it like moving to America? Did you come to Atlanta first,\ndirectly? What was it, about 1964?\n\nGerson: It was tough.\n\nKent: What was it like in the early days to adjust to a new country?\n\nGerson: Don't forget that I spoke English fluently. I was spending a lot of\nholidays in England, in Guernsey, so I spoke English. That was not difficult.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7890.0,7920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/265","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What was difficult was the name of stuff that -- I didn't talk, spoke with the\npeople I stayed, or the family I had in England, because I didn't know the name\nof curtains, a rod, or a piece of meat. I didn't know anything. I could discuss\npolitics. I could discuss literature. I could speak about a lot of things, but\nnot everyday life. America is very strange when you arrive the first time. To\nchoose a chicken ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7920.0,7950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/266","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"when it is frozen, it was very tough. I came with the Spanish\nmaid and she used -- We spoke French at the market. That was Colonial, here. I\nsaid, \"Maria, look for a chicken. I'll go for something else.\" She said to me,\n\"I can't choose,\" very loud in French in the grocery store, \"I can't choose a\nchicken. They're all hard piece of shit.\" [Laughs] I didn't know the cut of meat\n-- Atlanta was a very small town, very small, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7950.0,7980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/267","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I was accustomed to a big city.\n\nKent: What were some of the other ways that America was different from Europe in\nthe culture or the mentality?\n\nGerson: The people I met with were probably very bright, but I thought that\npeople were overly friendly. I had not -- In Europe, you don't go to somebody's\nrefrigerator to get a glass of water. Here, they do.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=7980.0,8010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kent: Informal?\n\nGerson: Very informal. The friends of Bob were all Jewish. I was not used to\nthat, too. We lived here. That was not where the young couples lived. They lived\nin Margaret Mitchell or whatever. I didn't want to live in the country. It was\ncountry. I didn't want to be there. There was no way. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8040.0,8070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/270","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"No, you have a father, but you can call him another --\" He\nsaid, \"Call me 'Sam.'\" I said, \"No, that's not very proper.\" He said, \"All\nright.\" My son said, \"How do you say 'Papa' in English?\" I said, \"Daddy.\" He\nsaid, \"Okay, we'll call him Daddy because we're divorced, too.\" I said, \"Yes,\nyou are.\" They didn't like their father at all. They adjusted very well. We have\nnine grandchildren, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8070.0,8100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/271","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is not bad.\n\nKent: Has your relationship with the Jewish world changed any over the last years?\n\nGerson: Here?\n\nKent: Yes.\n\nGerson: I know some I'm friendly with. 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For 20 years, I have a Brazilian\n-- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8130.0,8160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/273","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This, too, is Latin world. It's difficult. I don't know. I'm different than\neverybody else. I will be different the rest of my life. I have been branded.\n\nKent: Yes, that is what I want to --\n\nGerson: Yes.\n\nKent: In what ways do you suppose the whole war experience affected you compared\nto how you would be normally? 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My best friend\nis Madame ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8190.0,8220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/275","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"La Fosse, which I have known her since I was 17. She is, again,\nCatholic. Her husband is descended from [Charles] de La Fosse, the painter who\npainted the ceiling in Versailles. Many of my friends are Catholics. It's the\nway it is.\n\nKent: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8220.0,8250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/276","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As far as your inner world, how do you suppose that war experience\naffected you? How did it change you?\n\nGerson: I can't tell you how it changed me. I know I have that hatred for the\nGermans, that I will have it on my last breath, I think. I don't care if they\nwere in Russia. I told Bob that -- We were --Two years ago, I was on the beach.\nThere was a family of German people and they had young people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8250.0,8280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with their\nchildren. I said, \"I could kill the children.\" He said, \"You're joking.\" I said,\n\"No, I could. I really could. I would.\"\n\nKent: Could you explain that a little more?\n\nGerson: I think I would like to take revenge of my wasted life because my life\nhas changed so dramatically. It changed so much. It destroyed my father. My\nfather ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8280.0,8310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/278","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was such a fun man. He was like that until the day he died, but there's a\npart of him that was really wounded. He didn't trust -- My father went to the\narmy at 18 because he was French and he wanted to fight for France. He found out\nthat he was not a Frenchman; ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8310.0,8340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/279","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he was a Jew. He never consider himself as a Jew. I\ntold you, his mother was the daughter of a rabbi. She moved from the Jewish\ndistrict because she said, \"I want to cut it. I want my children to be French. I\nwant them to become something, not stay in the ghetto.\" I am like that, too. I\ndon't want to be only with Jews. There's something -- I'm not happy with only\nJews. I'm not comfortable. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8340.0,8370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/280","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We went to the dedication of the temple and I was\nlooking at people, which I have known, because I told them to cook for the\nSisterhood for two months, I think, or three months. I'm not their people. I'm\nfriendly with them, but I don't belong there either. I belong here.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8370.0,8400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/281","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Kent: I wonder, how do you feel about the French?\n\nGerson: Not good. I'm very upset with them. But I vote. I have the double\nnationality still. I voted against [Francoise] Mitterrand twice. I went to\nFrance twice to vote against Mitterrand. In the last election, I voted. I will\ntell you, I'm furious with the results, furious with [Jacques] Chirac. We had\nChirac against [Jean-Louis] Le Pen. It's better than to have Chirac than Le Pen.\nI receive French newspapers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8400.0,8430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/282","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I listen to French news here. I go crazy with my\nfriend, who works at CNN.\n\nKent: Can you just explain that a little bit, you know, to bring all this into\nthe present? What is it about the French politics?\n\nGerson: They have no pride. They have no charisma. They have no honor. They are\nnothing anymore. We used to be a country. We are nothing. They say they are so\nglorious ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8430.0,8460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/283","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"in the past or whatever. I recorded a very nice series on art objects,\nartisan making or remaking, repairing art objects. This, I'm proud of. It was\nCatherine Deneuve that was the speaker. She did a very nice job. I'm proud of\nthe past. The present, forget it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8460.0,8490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/284","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's disgusting.\n\nKent: Since your own childhood was interrupted by the war, how did that affect\nyour being a mother and raising kids through that same period? Were you aware of\nthe war affecting you as a mother?\n\nGerson: Probably. That's why I called David 'David' and Judith 'Judith.' My\nfriends said, \"You're crazy. You're marking them.\" I said, \"I want them ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8490.0,8520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/285","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to be\nmarked. I don't want them to be humiliated the way I was. Here, I named the\nother one, Christina. I wanted to name her Natasha. Bob didn't want to. I\nthought it was a cute name. It was Marco, Antonio, or Natasha. Here, it's\ndifferent. But I don't know. We've never given a name to my house in Cannes,\nnever. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8520.0,8550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/286","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My father wanted to call it 'Shalom Mas,' because 'shalom' is shalom and\n'mas' in Provencal [French] means house. We never have. It's only my name or the\nname of my father.\n\nKent: What would you want your children and grandchildren to take from this\nwhole story? What would you want them to learn?\n\nGerson: I'm going to tell you something. My son lives in the middle of France in\nthe Noire valley. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8550.0,8580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/287","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When the kids, which are coming again here, came, he wanted\nthem to be named. He has no rabbi. He has no synagogue over there. But he's\ntelling the children who they are, what they are, and what we went through. He\ndid. The eldest is ten; the second seven. They know. I'm going to have her named\nthis time when she come in July, because he has been named here. My eldest\ndaughter married a Catholic. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8580.0,8610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/288","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He doesn't practice. It was not my choice. She\neloped and married him. He's a very nice guy. They have four kids and they know\nthey are Jewish, but they don't practice at all. They practice here. That's why\nI make Hanukkah, and Passover, and the Purim, or whatever, because I want them\nto know. I think it's better for them to know what they are, that they're half.\nI'm not sure that my granddaughter is going to marry a Jew, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8610.0,8640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/289","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which is okay. It's\nnot my child. It's my daughter's child. My daughter said to me, \"Passover is not\nPassover if it's not with you. If you don't make it, the children say, 'It's not\nPassover.'\" I said, \"Is it because of the food?\" She said, \"No, because of a\npriorities in life. My son-in-law, who is very nice, said to me, \"The religion\nis wonderful because it's at home. It's very much family oriented.\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8640.0,8670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/290","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He likes it.\nThe other son-in-law is very Jewish, so it's fine.\n\nKent: You mentioned about how the war affected your father. How do you suppose\nit affected your mom?\n\nGerson: How did it affect my mom? My mother did somethings for my father and for\nme. 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They made a big deal out of it.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8700.0,8730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/292","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"My mother always never told me -- She went to temple, but she never told me that\nshe -- She followed. When you hear the same thing every Friday, you follow. We\nwent every Friday for me, to please my father. My mother didn't believe in God\nat all. My mother -- We went for Passover. We never did Passover in my house. We\nalways ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8730.0,8760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/293","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did it with the community. We went with the people from the community,\nbut not at home.\n\nEinstein: Bob's family was established here in Atlanta, right?\n\nGerson: Yes.\n\nEinstein: What was it like coming as a as someone who was not American and\ncoming into the city where his family was very well known and had been here for\na while. What was it like starting to become part of that family?\n\nGerson: I didn't have time. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8760.0,8790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/294","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They died one year after. I saw them here one month.\nI saw them. I visited here twice before they died. I don't know. It would have\nbeen so much easier for me. I would have made so much more friends. My in-laws\nloved me very much. It would have been nice, except my sister-in-law became\nOrthodox. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8790.0,8820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/295","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"This would have been a catastrophe because this is not a thing I would\ndo--as a matter of fact, we didn't see each other much when during the time they\nlived here, because now they live in Jerusalem--because it's not for me. It's\nimpossible for me.\n\nEinstein: I think when I started talking with you that you had mentioned that\nyou really did not see yourself in the category of a survivor?\n\nGerson: No.\n\nEinstein: Can you talk about that a little bit?\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8820.0,8850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/296","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gerson: I don't think -- It's very -- For you, it is interesting because you\nhave not been occupied and you don't know what it is really. I'm a survivor\nwithout being a survivor. I have not been in a camp. I have not been marked. I\nsuffered differently. I suffered in my pride, and of hunger, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8850.0,8880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/297","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"stuff like that,\nbut I am not the typical survivor. I'm very different. You probably have heard\nof the [unintelligible], which are friends of ours. He left. They were not very\nwealthy in France. He made it nice in Canada. I think he made a very nice life.\nHe's quite comfortable and whatever, which I admire. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=8880.0,8910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/298","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But if I had met them in\nFrance, I would not have become friends because they were not the same class.\nIt's terrible to see something like that, but I have to be honest.\n\nEinstein: Is that liberating for you in any way, that America is not as clear? I\nmean, they say that America is not as class oriented, caste society.\n\nGerson: I really don't know. 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Was there anything that you tried ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9060.0,9090.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/304","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to teach your\nchildren about life as a Jew in the world?\n\nGerson: No. I sent them to temple. They went to Sunday school. They confirmed\nthere. Christina is the last one. She married a guy from a very observant\nfamily--not very, but they are more observant than I am. 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Just to make sure we get everything down.\n\nGerson: Not really, except that I would like to--but I will not do it--I'd love\nto have a star of David for Hannukah ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9180.0,9210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/308","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here on -- because everybody's decorating\ntheir house. But I will not do it. I'm afraid to be marked, because this is more\nor less -- I know there's a lot of folks. Last year, we were invited to the\nAlexander's, who bought a home here. They had all the Jews at the park. It was\nwonderful. It was great, but I was terrified. I told Bob. He said. \"You're\nparanoid.\" I said, \"I'm going to speak to those people, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9210.0,9240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/309","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'm going to be on the\nlist, and I'm going to be marked again.\" I was very afraid of that. I am still\nafraid of it, to be honest with you. I opened something that I never spoke about\nto anybody. I told you things that I never told anybody or in conversation. 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The sister of my father, and the brother-in-law, and their children, and\nthe parents of my ex-husband, and their brother -- Those kids, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9270.0,9300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/311","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they were very\nbright. They studied by themselves at home and they were received at the highest\nschool in France. I mean, Polytechnique is not easy to put there by itself. He\nwas received third, the eldest. The second was received at -- Institut d'études\npolitiques de Paris. It's extraordinary for a boy at 17 to be received, working\nat home. I married the stupid one. [Laughs] ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9300.0,9330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/312","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"These were people which were\nextraordinarily bright. They were wonderful people. The trouble is that, having\na lot of money, they got caught because they spent in Marseille. She used to be\npresident of the Red Cross. It was a little bit stupid. When she was deported,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9330.0,9360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/313","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she stayed in Drancy. She organized a school there and she organized the\n[unintelligible; 2:36:13] for the old people. She stayed three months with the\nchildren and her husband--three months instead of being deported immediately.\nThey had ample time for her sister to pay the ransom and liberate them, but the\nsister didn't want to spend the money. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9360.0,9390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/314","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She had access to their money. She could\nhave done it and she didn't. Her own sister. I can tell you a story about people\nthat I know who where they are, which are horrifying.\n\nEinstein: What is the most horrifying aspect of it? I mean, not the story\nitself, but what horrifies you most about the way people behaved during that time?\n\nGerson: They will behave like that again.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9390.0,9420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/315","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Einstein: They have behaved like that again.\n\nGerson: They will behave again. We have the Muslims now. I went to Russia two\nyears ago with Bob on a cruise. I didn't want to go, but he wanted to go. I\nthought that the castle, Petrodvorets, it looked a lot like Versailles. It\nlooked so much like Versailles. We saw so many Muslim there. We went to Denmark.\nThere was a lot of Muslims there. That scared me ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9420.0,9450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/316","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because it's not only the Jews\nthis time. It's everybody. It's going to be everybody. This is scary for me.\n\nEinstein: You have had enough fear in your life, you don't need any extra.\n\nGerson: I have had it. I mean, now it's the Americans torturing the Iraqi.\n\nEinstein: It seems like cruelty.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9450.0,9480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/317","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Gerson: Can you imagine? I think we're dehumanized. I think we have no humanity\nleft. It's not that I'm crazy about the Iraqis, but in the name of God, we are a\nhuman beings. How could we dare do something like that? We have learned nothing.\nPeople are doing this. I mean, I didn't even like--and I can't say that I'm a\nfan of Saddam Hussein--when you saw on the TV looking for lice or whatever, I\nthink it's degrading. 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I have to find out who is\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9570.0,9600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/transcript/40787/annotation/321","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good or not, or what's really valid or not. But we waste so much. We have so\nmuch and we waste so much.\n\nEinstein: It's heartbreaking.\n\nGerson: Yes.\n\nKent: Thank you for being willing to go through the whole story.\n\nGerson: Thank you for coming.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=9600.0,9630.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934/annotation/322","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Marais neighborhood in Paris, France is in the 4th arrondissement. After an influx of Jewish immigrants fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries settled in the area, it became known as the Pletzl [Yiddish: little place]. It is located in the Marais district.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934/annotation/323","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWorld War I, also called First World War or Great War, was an international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East, and other regions. The war pitted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey—against the Allies—mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934/annotation/324","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBig Bertha [German: Dicke Bertha] was the popular nickname for a type of howitzer that was first used by the German army to bombard Belgian and French during World War I. At the time, they were the largest, most powerful mobile artillery pieces used by any army. Although the Allies called the extreme long-range cannons the Germans used to shell Paris in 1918 ‘Big Bertha,’ they were actually a different type of gun.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934/annotation/325","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAlsace–Lorraine, now called Alsace–Moselle, is a historical region located in northeastern France. It was created in 1871 by the German Empire after it had seized the region from the Second French Empire in the Franco-Prussian War with the Treaty of Frankfurt.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934/annotation/326","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eAfter years of persecution, in 1492, the Catholic monarchs of Spain issued a decree, known as the Alhambra Decree, that all Jews must either convert to Catholicism, leave Spain, or die. While thousands did convert, between 100,000 and 300,000 Jews left Spain. went to Portugal and Turkey, while other travelled to North Africa, Italy, and Western Europe.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934/annotation/327","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Synagogue in Bordeaux, France [French: Grande synagogue de Bordeaux] stands on Grand Rabbi Joseph Cohen Street, set back from the St. Catherine Street. Finished in 1812, the original building was later destroyed by fire. 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The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22 years old; it was not published, however, until a year after his death.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/83612/file/171920/annotation_set/934/annotation/330","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWorld War II officially began in Europe when Germany invaded Poland on Friday, September 1, 1939. 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The central concentration camp in France was Drancy, not far from Paris. From March 1942, Drancy became a transit camp for Jews who were being deported to the East. After passing anti-Jewish legislation in October 1940, the Vichy regime broadened its actions to arrest and detain Jews in its territory. They were incarcerated in 15 concentration camps which included the camps of Gurs, Le Milles, Rivesaltes and St. Cyprien. By the beginning of 1941 some 40,000 Jews had already been arrested. In addition to those arrested, some 35,000 Jewish men were conscripted by force into the “Labor Corps,” or Compagnies de Travail. Almost all the foreign Jewish men, more than a third of the population of foreign Jews in France, were either conscripted into the Labor Corps or incarcerated in concentration camps. There were additional concentration camps run by the Vichy government in the vicinity of Paris and in northeastern France. 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As resistance fighters in Europe tried to strike back against their occupiers, the BBC’s European Services would broadcast secret messages to them. The BBC’s policy of honesty in its reporting and openly admitting defeats was in marked contrast to the propaganda of Germany’s radio stations. 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By June 1941, the resistance movement had become well organized and its work against the Germans increased accordingly. By 1944, it is estimated that there were 100,000 members of the various resistance movements that existed in France. The resistance movement provided the Allies with intelligence, attacked the Germans when possible and assisted the escape of Allied airmen. Public outcry over the brutality of roundups and the reluctance of French officials to comply with German demands for the deportation of French citizens saved the lives of many Jews. 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The first anti-Jewish measure came September 1940 when definitions of who was a Jew were outlined and a census of Jews was taken. Then in October, authorities began proscribing various business activities for Jews. On August 31, 1941 German forces confiscated all radios belonging to Jews, followed by their telephones and bicycles. Jews were forbidden to use public telephones or change their address, and next were forbidden to leave their homes between 8 pm and 5 am. All public places, parks, theatres and certain shops were soon closed to Jews. German forces issued new restrictions, prohibitions and decrees by the week. Jews were barred from public swimming pools, restaurants, cafes, cinemas, concerts, music halls, etc. On the Metro, they were allowed to ride only in the last carriage. Antisemitic articles had frequently been published in newspapers since the Occupation. The Germans organized antisemitic exhibitions to spread their propaganda. The music of Jewish composers was banned, as were works of art by Jewish artists. During 1941, antisemitic legislation, applicable in both zones, was tightened. On October 2, 1941, seven synagogues in Paris were bombed. In March 1942, all Jews were required to register their children with police. On May 29, 1942, German authorities issued a decree—to take effect on June 7—that all Jews in occupied France must wear the yellow star. In France, Jews wore a yellow Star of David outlined in black with Juif [French: Jewish] written in Hebraic style. 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