Kristen R. Ehresmann is an epidemiologist and director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Division at the Minnesota Department of Health. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts about the pandemic as a public health nurse and epidemiologist, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the role of MDH in the pan...
Creator:
Ehresmann, Kristen (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-06-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Maynard M. Cohen's interview with Kristian Kristiansen and Wilhelm Harkmark, members of the Norwegian resistance during World War II. This was a part of Dr. Cohen's research in creating his book, "A Stand Against Tyranny: Norway’s Physicians and the Nazis."
Creator:
Cohen, Maynard M.
Created:
1986-05-9 - 1986-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Kristie Rathmanner is a Wright County Public Health Nurse in the Health Promotion Unit and a member of the MDH's COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Advisory Group. In this oral history interview, she discusses her initial thoughts on the pandemic as a public health nurse, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the impact of the pandemic on public health, the role of t...
Creator:
Rathmanner, Kristie (interviewee)
Contributor:
Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:
2021-09-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kya Concepcion is a mixed Native, Black, and white trans femme person from Marietta, Georgia. At the time of this interview, they were living in the Twin Cities. In this interview Concepcion touches upon topics including homelessness, their family relationships, recovery, and workplace discrimination. They also talk about their goals for the fut...
Creator:
Concepcion, Kya
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2017-10-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kye Allums is a Black queer fluid trans person from Minnesota who goes by he and they. In this oral history, Allums speaks at length about playing Division I basketball for George Washington University. He talks about navigating his changing understandings of masculinity, femininity and gender fluidity; and his national and his local advocacy work.
Creator:
Allums, Kye
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Kylar Broadus is a Black male from Fayette, Missouri. At the time of this interivew, Broadus was working as a lawyer and an activist based out of Washington D.C. In this oral history, Broadus discusses topics such as his early realizations of his gender from a young age; his relationship with his father; his spirituality; employment discriminati...
Creator:
Broadus, Kylar
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-01-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Ms. Harris talked about her childhood and some of the experiences which helped form her philosophies. She then talked about education in the Indian community... the problems and prospects of an Indian child getting a good education.
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Contributor:
Harris, LaDonna
Created:
1971-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Lani Dalbacka shares stories of her time teaching English in China right before the start of COVID-19 and her subsequent return to Minnesota at the beginning of the pandemic. She describes first hearing about it in China, and how her colleagues and others took it seriously because of their experience with the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndr...
Creator:
Dalbacka, Lani
Contributor:
Wright, Brooke
Created:
2020-09-16
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
One of a series of interviews with drug addicts conducted by Ralph Tefferteller, associate director of the Henry Street Settlement in New York. Selections from the interviews were published in 1965 as The Addict in the Street, edited by Jeremy Larner. The name used in the title is a pseudonym created by Ralph Tefferteller. Identifying informatio...
Creator:
Greenburg, Larry
Contributor:
Tefferteller, Ralph (Interviewer)
Created:
1963-03-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
In this interview, Larry Katz gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and lawyer. He describes how he grew up in the predominately Jewish Selby-Dale area of St. Paul, MN, having been born in 1933. Katz recalls that his father was a Jewish Orthodox grocer who had settled on the West Side, giving a with a description of the neighborhoo...
Creator:
Katz, Larry, 1933-?
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-12-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
LaSaia Wade is an Afro-Puerto Rican indigenous trans woman, activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. At the time of this oral history interview, she was the Director of Brave Space Alliance, the first Black-led, trans-led LGBTQ center located on the South Side of Chicago, dedicated to creating and providing resources, progra...
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Laura Casey and relates to her work with the Women's Health Center. Casey starts...
Creator:
Casey, Laura
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-12-09
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Laura Jane Grace is a female from Florida who uses she and they. At the time of this interview, Grace was working as a musician for the band Against Me! In this oral history, Grace reflects upon moving around as a child in military family, dropping out of high school to play music, experimenting with cross-dressing and eventually coming out in 2...
Creator:
Grace, Laura Jane
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-06-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Laura Hesselton, who talks about her time as Coordinator at the Aurora Northland...
Creator:
Hesselton, Laura Stolle Schmidt
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-11-20
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
In this interview, Judge Lawrence Cohen, mayor of St. Paul during the 1970s, gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan, politician and legal practitioner. Cohen recounts that he was born in St. Paul and has always lived in the western part of the city. He continues talking about how his father was a merchant who sold general wares. Coh...
Creator:
Cohen, Lawrence
Contributor:
Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:
2008-11-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Lawrence Tanner Richardson is a Black trans man from St. Paul, Minnesota. He talks about his childhood, including being raised by his grandmother and being very involved in the Southern Baptist church. He talks about how his transition affected his relationships. At the time of the interview, he was a United Church of Christ pastor, doing digita...
Creator:
Richardson, Lawrence Tanner
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-06-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lee Andel Dewey is a white nonbinary organizer, HIV/AIDS activist, and abolitionist based in Chicago. They are the founder of LADhoc Accounting, a business providing sliding-scale-to-free accounting, bookkeeping, and consultation servivces to BIPOC- and queer and trans-focused political groups and community organizations. At the time of this int...
Creator:
Dewey, Lee Andel (interviewee)
Contributor:
Beam, Myrl (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (project manager and transcriber)
Created:
2020-12-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Lee Hemming, who talks about her experiences with the Aurora Northland Lesbian C...
Creator:
Hemming, Lee
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2014-12-14
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
At the time of this interview, Lee Lewis was the former executive director of Clare Housing, an organization that provides housing for people living with HIV and AIDS in the Twin Cities. He also was the chair of the Minnesota HIV/AIDS Housing Coalition, and served on the Board of Directors of the National AIDS Housing Coalition. Lewis's involvem...
Creator:
Lewis, Lee
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:
2015-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lee Levingston Perine is a Black genderqueer person from St. Louis, Missouri. They talk about their early life, college, and grad school, as well as having a very supportive family. They talk at length about masculinity and race, and the difference between their community in DC and in Minneapolis. They talk about relationship dynamics, especiall...
Creator:
Perine, Lee Livingston
Contributor:
Jenkins, Andrea (Interviewer)
Created:
2016-12-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Audio file of an interview with Lena Senensky conducted by Lois Devitt. The interview includes: family history in Russia and immigration to the United States; daily life on St Paul's Lower West Side; creation and early years of the Jewish Home for the Aged.
Creator:
Lena Senensky, 1893-1984
Contributor:
Devitt, Lois (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Maynard M. Cohen's interview with Leo Eitinger, a Norwegian physician, who aided victims of the Nazis during World War II. This was a part of Dr. Cohen's research in creating his book, "A Stand Against Tyranny: Norway’s Physicians and the Nazis."
Creator:
Cohen, Maynard M.
Created:
1986
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Author of the book The Operation which is an account of an open-heart operation performed by C. Walton Lillehei and Richard L. Varco at the University of Minnesota Medical Center
Creator:
University of Minnesota. Radio Station KUOM
Contributor:
Engel, Leonard; Booth, Audrey June
Created:
1959
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
In this interview, Leonard Parker discusses in some detail how as an infantryman in World War II, he was among the few first Allied soldiers to arrive at the Dachau Concentration Camp in southern Germany. Parker gives an account of his life and relationship to Minnesota from a Jewish perspective. He was born in Poland, 1922 to Russian Orthodox, ...
Creator:
Parker, Leonard, 1922-?
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
2006-06-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Linda Brandt is the founder of the Rural AIDS Action Network (RAAN,) an organization established to fill in gaps in service for people living with HIV and AIDS. She served as its executive director from 1992 to 2005. Ms. Brandt has also been involved in many other HIV/AIDS organizations in Minnesota. In this interview, Brandt discusses her publi...
Creator:
Brandt, Linda
Contributor:
Carr, Peter (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing); Margolis, Robin (video support)
Created:
2014-03-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Linda Kelly, who discusses her work with the Center Against Sexual and Domestic ...
Creator:
Kelly, Linda
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-03-24
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Linda Wesp is a white cisgender woman, a family nurse practitioner and Certified HIV Specialist since 2006, providing gender affirming primary care and hormones in Chicago, New York, and based, at the time of this interview, in Milwaukee. In this oral history interview, she discusses her experiences working in trans health care as a nurse, profe...
In this interview, Linn Firestone gives an account of Jewish and non-Jewish organizations in Minnesota during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. He explains how he got involved in organizations, his role within organizations and the roles of other prominent individuals. Firestone describes his Jewish family background and education in St. Paul before ...
Creator:
Firestone, Linn, 1916-?
Contributor:
Boutang, Jeanne (Interviewer)
Created:
1984-10-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
In this interview, Lionel Greenberg gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and World War II veteran. He tells the dramatic story of how while as a navigator in the Army Air Corps during World War II, his B-24 collided with another B-24 over Bavaria. Miraculously surviving, Greenberg explains how he was taken prisoner for seven month...
Creator:
Greenberg, Lionel, 1921-?
Contributor:
Krasnow, Brian M. (Interviewer)
Created:
2005-09-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Lisa E. Johnson shares her experiences of life during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a “broadcast journalist, show host, and de facto news director” at KUMD radio station on the campus of the University of Minnesota Duluth, she says she is considered an essential worker so is still employed but is now working from her home. She describes ...
Creator:
Johnson, Lisa E.
Contributor:
Thomas, Blake
Created:
2020-10-22
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Interview 1 in the Minnesota Lesbian Community Organizing Oral History Project (MLCO) is with the founder, Lisa Vecoli. In this interview, Lisa talks about her intent in setting up the project, what she hopes to accomplish and what she thinks some challenges might be. She also describes her involvement with the Tretter Collection, as a Board mem...
Creator:
Vecoli, Lisa
Contributor:
Hughes, Jen
Created:
2019-04-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Interview with Loni Kemp and Dana Jackson on 10/21/15 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Kemp, Loni; Jackson, Dana
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer); Grindberg, Kyle
Created:
2015-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Lora Wedge, who discusses her work with the Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs...
Creator:
Wedge, Lora
Contributor:
Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:
2015-01-26
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Interview with Lorette Picciano on 02/10/16 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:
Picciano, Lorette
Contributor:
Kroese, Ron (Interviewer); Kuhn, Christopher
Created:
2016-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
Lorraine Teel was the executive director of the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP) from 1989 to 2010. Prior to her work with MAP, she worked in the chemical dependency field for decades. Her work as an advocate for expanding resources for HIV prevention––especially needle exchange programs and safe injection practices––began in the 1980s. In this inte...
Creator:
Teel, Lorraine
Contributor:
Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Hansen, Jada (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing); Margolis, Robin (video support)
Created:
2014-02-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Lerman Family history; Lerman's work in the US Post Office and the railroads; getting into law school at the University of Minnesota and his many years of legal practice as a labor lawyer. Lerman was also involved with the St. Paul Workman's Circle, and discusses labor-related activities in the St. Paul Jewish community, including Labor-Zionism....
Creator:
Lerman, Louis, 1894-1978
Contributor:
Tselos, Gretchen (Interviewer)
Created:
1977-07-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
