Betty Grebenschikoff and Jennifer Grebenschikoff
Recorded
January 14, 2009
44:28 minutes
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mbx004785
Description
Betty Grebenschikoff, 79, is interviewed by her daughter Jennifer Grebenschikoff, 58.Subject Log / Time Code
Betty’s father had the same lip and look as his parents; description of their vacation to visit her grandparents in Czechoslovakia
Grew up in Shanghai, met husband there at a swimming pool; Russian refugee from Siberia
Jewish school is Shanghai; “Once My Name Was Sarah” title of the book that she wrote; all Jewish females in Germany had to take Sarah as their middle name
No one came to pick up the family at the airport in New York; no money; a stranger approached them and bought them a coke
Landing in Shanghai; the smell, “nothing but people”; the heat; 20,000 Jews fled to Shanghai
Participants
- Betty Grebenschikoff
- Jennifer Grebenschikoff
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- Auschwitz
- Australia
- Berlin
- birth of first child
- China
- coca cola
- cohorts (groups of friends)
- Coke
- Communism
- Czechoslovakia
- economic beliefs and practices
- family expressions
- family heroes
- family members in history
- family trips and excursions
- first impression of America
- historical events/people
- Hitler
- holocaust
- Holocaust survivor
- Influential People
- JFK airport
- luck and fate
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- New York Kennedy Airport
- Newark, NJ
- personal experiences
- religious beliefs and practices
- Russian Refugee
- school day memories
- Shanghai
- Siberia
- social beliefs and practices
- Spouse
- steerage
- Suez Canal