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Show Bernie Rose Interview 1/1?/83 Mr. K Mr. R Why don't we begin with your full name and when and where you were born. Bernard L~ Rose, I was born in New York City, and I don't know if it's important to know that I was born in a charity ward there in the hospital, and I was born on March 11, 1911. I suppose the charity ward enters in to some degree because after World War II I wanted a passport to go overseas, and I had to get a birth certificate and I couldn't get a birth certificate. The only thing I could do was prove that my mother and my father, on the day I thought that I was born, had a son, and that son's name was Isadore, and all of my records and my Hebrew name, I mean the public records like school records, board of health record, and all that sort of thing during the years, were the ones I had known from practically the time I was able to recognize my name, so here in my almost 40 years of age I go to get a passport and they tell me I didn't exist. Even my military records were in the name of Bernard L. Rose. Fin4ly my mother, who was still alive at that time, came up with the memory of what had happened. When you went to a charity hospital in New York, if you were Jewish and you were born a boy, your name was Isadore, all of them. And all the girls '7 were named Sarah. And , the Italians it was Gigliomi,or whatever that is, and Maria, and for the Irish it was Patrick and Mary. So, this is ~ow I got my name, I mean my name on my birth certificate, assuming that it's my birth certificate. Well, anyway, I grew up on the lower east side of New York, my mother and father ,, separated and I was raised in the home of 1one of ~~~; 4r my mother'· five sisters, and I went first to the oldest until she had so many |
