Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Sophia Marie Friedheim Beers
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- Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Sophia Marie Friedheim Beers
- Date:
- 1999
- Interviewer:
- Rosengarten, Dale, 1948-;Goode, Harriet Marshall;Stender, Barbara Karesh
- Interviewee:
- Beers, Sophia Marie Friedheim,1927-
- Description:
- Born in 1927, Sophia Marie Friedheim Beers was raised in the Protestant faith in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Her grandfather Arnold Friedheim, a German Jewish immigrant, settled in the town after the Civil War. His brother, Julius, followed him to Rock Hill and together they ran A. Friedheim and Brother. The department store, which supplied uniforms to Winthrop College students, closed its doors in 1964 after nearly a century in business. Sophia recounts the story of her cousins, the Schwartzes, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and came to Rock Hill.
- Collection Title:
- Jewish Heritage Collection Oral Histories
- Contributing Institution:
- College of Charleston Libraries
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Beers, Sophia Marie Friedheim, 1927- -- Interviews
- Topical Subject:
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Jews -- South Carolina -- Interviews, Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History, Jews -- South Carolina -- Cultural assimilation -- History, World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews, Jews -- South Carolina -- Rock Hill -- History, Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Rock Hill – History, Winthrop College –- History, Jews -- South Carolina -- Rock Hill -- Social life and customs
- Geographic Subject:
- Lowcountry
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Shelving Locator:
- MSS 1035-220
- Date Digital:
- 2011-05
- Digitization Specifications:
- Mp3 derivative audio created with Audacity software. Archival masters are wav files.
- Internet Media Type:
- application/pdf;audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Copyright © Jewish Heritage Collection
- Access Information:
- For more information, contact Special Collections, College of Charleston Libraries, 66 George Street, Charleston SC 29424.
- Admin ID:
- 220751
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