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Oral history interview with Jack Bernstein

Oral History | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 2019.125.27 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0027

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    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jack Bernstein recounts his childhood in Brooklyn, Iowa; his family’s move to a Jewish neighborhood in Sioux City; being active in many Jewish organizations and the importance of these Jewish organizations for him and later for some of his children; attending a Hebrew School; his Hebrew teachers; his 1958 trip to Israel; joining his father's scrap and steel business after college; his wife Gail; keeping a Jewish home; the importance of Israel to him; the photographs he has of his grandparents’ wedding; not having many heirlooms from his family, but his wife Gail has silver candlesticks from Poland that were her grandmother's; his family spending summers at Lake Okoboji and visiting national parks; and his Uncle Harry who died in WWII while serving in the military.
    Interviewee
    Jack Bernstein
    Interviewer
    I. Harlow
    Date
    interview:  1991 July 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Iowa Jewish Historical Society

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes.

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bernstein, Jack.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Iowa Jewish Historical Society donated audio and video recordings from the IJHS archive to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2019.
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 17:49:59
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