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  • Call NumberBJHP_0191
  • Summary(00:45) Parents met in Naples, Italy in a displaced persons camp, where Madeline was born 1946. Parents were holocausts survivors, family from Poland. Arrived in the US in 1947, first settled in Lower East Side, then Borough Park -- (02:50) Growing up in Brooklyn. Spoke only Yiddish until went to public school -- (4:45) Her brothers Martin and Howard went to yeshiva but family too poor to send Madeline, who attended public school. She had very few non-Jewish friends -- (7:43) Until father's death, family attended a very religious shteibl (house of prayer). Introduced to non-kosher food at Brooklyn College. Worked through college -- (10:43) After graduation her mother and brothers moved to Sheepshead Bay, Madeline and her husband to Ocean Parkway until 1972, when they moved to New Jersey -- (13:10) Good memories of Brooklyn except money was tight.
  • Date2020-01-13
  • Physical Description1 audio file (18 minutes) : digital MP3
  • CreatorGottlieb, Madeline
  • CollectionBrooklyn Jewish History Project
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Jewish History Project, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • Genreinterviews
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger. Audio interview conducted on January 13, 2020, by Ariane Loeb at New York Public Library. Collected through the Brooklyn Collection Jewish History Project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is funded by the David Berg Foundation.
  • SubjectAshkenazim ; Orthodox Judaism ; Jewish day schools ; Jews--Identity ; Children of Holocaust survivors
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  • TitleThe Gottlieb family. Oral history interview with Madeline Gottlieb 2020 January 13.
  • Biographical NoteAlexander and Regina (Rivka, nee Kanner) Gottlieb, originally from Poland, survived the concentration camps, respectively Dachau and Auschwitz. They met in a displaced persons camp in Naples, Italy where their eldest child Madeline was born in 1946. In 1947 they emigrated to the United States to join family who had arrived before World War II. They first settled on the Lower East Side where Alexander opened a haberdashery store. Soon after the birth of their son Martin in 1948 they moved to Brooklyn, where their youngest child Howard was born in 1953.