Denny Meyer, Clip 1: Growing Up in a Community of Refugees
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Denny Meyer
Date: Time Period: 1950s; 2017-03-11; Interview recorded: March 11 2017
Material: Digital audio recording made using ZOOM H2n digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:05:59
Creator: Denny Meyer interviewed by Liz Martinez
Identifier: aql:22068 meyer-denny-clip1
Description: Denny discusses his experience growing up a community of Holocaust survivors and refugees who came to the United States to escape the Nazis. Many members of his local community had lost family members in the Holocaust and were deadly serious which did not make sense to the then young Denny. He goes onto to talk about how he became assimilated via the city's public school system where students from different countries learned each other's ethnic languages.
Creator :
Denny Meyer interviewed by Liz Martinez
Date :
Time Period: 1950s; 2017-03-11; Interview recorded: March 11 2017
Summary/Description :
Denny discusses his experience growing up a community of Holocaust survivors and refugees who came to the United States to escape the Nazis. Many members of his local community had lost family members in the Holocaust and were deadly serious which did not make sense to the then young Denny. He goes onto to talk about how he became assimilated via the city's public school system where students from different countries learned each other's ethnic languages.
Subject :
Holocaust survivors
Rights :
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Coverage :
Locations discussed: Long Island City, Queens, NY Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using ZOOM H2n digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:05:59
Identifier :
aql:22068 meyer-denny-clip1
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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