Jewish Heritage Collection: Oral history interview with Olga Garfinkel Weinstein
Date:
1996
Interviewer:
Grossman, Michael Samuel
Interviewee:
Weinstein, Olga Garfinkel, 1917-
Description:
Olga Garfinkel Weinstein, born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1917, describes her childhood, including her siblings, the Jewish Community Center, and the traditional Jewish foods her mother served. Olga experienced no anti-Semitism as a schoolgirl, but discusses her awareness, as a young woman during World War II, of what was happening to the Jews in Europe.