| Title: |
Max Pogorelsky
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of California, San Diego. UCSD Libraries. Catalog
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| Collection: |
Why I Left the Old Country and What I Achieved in the U.S.
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| Description: |
For this work, the author received an award from YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute) in a competition of several years ago, on the theme below. The document is an important one in that it contains source material toward a history of Jews of this era.
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| URL: |
http://library.ucsd.edu/~elliot/MaxPogorelskyAutobiography.htm
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Pogorelsky, Max
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Bialystok, Bialystok Voivodship, Poland; Bialystok voivodship, Poland; Poland; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Businessman; Café owner; Cutter; Factory employee; Weaver
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Historical events discussed: |
Holocaust, 1938-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Asia; Europe; North America; Poland; Russia; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Asia; Autobiographies; Emigration and immigration; Europe; Holocaust, 1938-1945; Jewish families; Jews, Soviet; Jews--Europe, Eastern; Jews--Social life and customs; Jews--Societies, etc.; North America; Pogroms--Russia; Poland; Russia; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2006-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0032881-35975
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