In this interview, Walter Schwarz gives an account of his life as a Jewish World War II veteran. He was born in Romania, 1921. Schwarz gives family background in Europe, explaining that his father had ties to Czechoslovakia in the textile industry. He describes his childhood in Europe and teenage years at high school in Czechoslovakia, where Naz...
Creator:
Schwartz, Walter, 1921-?
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
2006-05-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Sheldon Kaplan gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan, legal practitioner and veteran of World War II. In his account of his life, Kaplan describes the circumstances of his birth on the North Side of Minneapolis to Lithuanian parents who were in wholesale produce, attending Lincoln Junior High, the University of M...
Creator:
Kaplan, Sheldon, 1915-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-04-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Sandy James is a Black trans man raised in England. At the time of this interview, James was working as a researcher, a student and a lawyer based out of Maryland. In this oral history, James speaks at length about immigrating to the United States, racism and anti-blackness in the UK versus the US, helping produce the transgender survey for the ...
Creator:
James, Sandy
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-09-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
In this interview, Roz Baker (1923 - ) gives an account of her life as a Jewish native of Minneapolis. She relates her family background which includes an immigration story to the United States from Russia through Cypress in 1915. She describes her childhood growing up Jewish in Minneapolis, relating memories of Labor-Zionist meetings, holiday t...
Creator:
Baker, Roz, 1923 -
Contributor:
Schulman, Ann (Interviewer)
Created:
1999-06-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Roberta Levy gives an account of her life as a Jewish Minnesotan and legal practitioner. She was born in 1937 in Philadelphia to Russian immigrant parents who were persecuted abroad. Recalling her early life, she describes how her father had a store in Philadelphia and was a committed Socialist/Zionist. She gives a description...
Creator:
Levy, Roberta, 1937-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-11-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Renata Garcia is a Mexican transgender woman who grew up in Axochiapan, Mexico. At the time of this interview, Garcia was working as a Sales Associate in Minnesota. Jennicet Gutiérrez is a Mexican transgender woman who grew up in Tuxpan, Mexico. At the time of this interview, Gutiérrez was an Organizer at Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement...
Creator:
Garcia, Renata; Gutierrez, Jennicet
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-10-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Rehema Mertinez is a mixed Jamaican and Puerto Rican woman from Minnesota and Australia who goes by she and they. She talks about her early life, moving to Australia as a child, housing insecurity, and returning to the United States as a teenager. They also discuss the support they received from Avenues for Youth and the Trans Youth Support Netw...
Creator:
Mertinez, Rehema
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-03-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Read Lewis, former executive director of the Common Council for American Unity 1940-1959 interviewed by William Beyer, 28 June 1977 at ACNS offices, New York. The interview begins by Mr. Lewis talking about the formation of Common Ground and the influences that it drew from to help it begin. He then elaborates more by citing an editorial called ...
Creator:
Lewis, Read
Contributor:
Beyer, William (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
