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Show -:.: ~ r z ( na ge 4.__ / r. -:.r Mrs. F ~r. u Mrs. P. Mr. K Mr. H })ave anyt""in_? My father always nut tt t~is wav "t hrn:;e DP.op1P are real i-JB.ppv 111tth wrat tne:v're dotn~". 1''-lev rnRde 9 orofession out of thRt. Thev sold pencils. they sold hand~erchiefs, and they went fro~ Jewish house t0 ~e~i~~ ~ousP, fro~ little town to little town. They were satisf tPd wttl1 tt. ~·l p nad t~ onr t;or,rn a shoe store, he was not se~isftPd w it~ i t . 0 P starte~ a small little shoe store; it ended u to b~ a btg s~oe store in a S!!la11 cornrTJunity. ue was respect- Do you re~e~ber anvbody here that gave vou a hard ti~e? .-To, they didn't give me a hard ti"!le, but inside themselves they didn't feel too .•. T~ey didn't as~ for us here, but they were still very ~ind. They didn~t quitA trust you? I don't want you to ~isunderstand that. They didn't mistreat us or did not accent us, but tt,ey did not accept us as rnuch as they could have .•• tt,ev ~idn't beliAve us, they figured "qh, you didn't do so good with the 'Polts}'l Jews either". r~raybe to a certain ex. J~ws tent they were right. ThP Ger~an ~8e~le sort of fancied Gerrnan Jews better than anything else. I don't rernember tnat reallv. I don't think I felt quite that way. We went to wor~, we could ta~e care of ourselves, and people didn't rea 11y •.. But, we didn't as~ ~or it •.••• Than~ you for saying t~at •• I ~~~ttf appreciate that because that conflict was very big in this community in the 1920's, the 19 teens, the 1920's, the 1910's,between the two com~unities. Oh, yes, even before my time it was a lot more. The generation |
