Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Evelyn Lifchez Siegel
Date:
2015
Interviewer:
Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-;Waites, Robin;Kornegay, Lee Ann
Interviewee:
Siegel, Evelyn Lifchez, 1927-
Description:
Evelyn Lifchez Siegel, the second of three children, was born in 1927 to Jennie Burkom and Isaac Lifchez of Columbia, South Carolina. The Lifchezes were members of the Orthodox synagogue, House of Peace. Evelyn recalls Rabbi David Karesh and his prominence in their lives, and discusses how her mother, who was from Baltimore, kept a kosher home. Growing up, the interviewee had both Jewish and non-Jewish friends. She recalls that Columbia's "Jewish girls would take over the USO on the hill" on Sundays during World War II. Evelyn describes how she met her husband, Martin Siegel, whom she married in 1950.
