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Hannah 1922 st. Joseph Missouri mm-hmm let's go back how do you remember when you were just a little girl well I don't remember the city very well because my parents moved around that area a lot and that's where I happened they happened to be there on January the 31st that's where I was born me and my sister I am a twin so yeah so we were born that day now where did you where were you raised I was raised in Marysville Kansas it's a community of about four or five thousand people it's a good community they have very good schools there and that's where I was raised yeah
yeah what do they what did your folks do what your dad did for a living my dad had a pro quo junk shop but he also sold automobile parts and stuff like that you know tires and stuff like that so now when you were a small child the Great Depression hit do you remember that at all you remember what it put your family through well I remember that my mother was a miracle lady that could make anything out of anything but I didn't know that there was we were hard up as was everybody in that area at that time and I remember that it was
it was quite a quite a lengthy thing but I remember that in high school things eased up a little bit eased up and we were sort of like in the money no where did you go to high school Marysville high yeah now what was high school like now your twin sister no they're also yes of course okay and were you guys identical twins no okay okay fraternal no okay what was high school life like high school was the main thing of this of the city the city revolved around the school so to speak it doesn't that way today because I said correspond with a girl
that I went to school with high school was fun we were in choir we were the singing and they had drama class they had I don't know but everything was was a lot of fun it was a great school and I could remember many of my teachers who already really remember because they were great outstanding people so that some have an effect on your life I think so I think I think they did I mean I can't remember any one particular that had an effect but I think your schooling stays with you a whole lot and I don't know about today do you remember the
names of any of those yes I do miss Hill miss Krieger mr. Rowland he was the principal and mr. wall guest was a superintendent over the school system they were very fine people remember I never saw my grandparent my grandfather but my grandmother was very she was kind of like the main lady of the baranski family and she wore dark clothes she wore uh I have you know the hair that was not really hers but a week a week you remember what your grandfather did for a living my grandfather as I said I never knew him but what he did I think it was the second or something I think it was but my father said he was the greatest man who ever lived of
his grant of his parents a grandfather you know my grandfather but I never met him because he didn't come over to America where was he he was in Russia Russia yeah my parents were from Russia yeah how did your parents ever tell you the story about how they got to this country yeah they both came over at different times my father came over in 1907 my mother came in 1911 and my father stopped in England I guess the boat went to England and he lent a man as I recall he said that he lent a man some money and this man repaid him in England
as your parents know each other in Russia yes they did they did my in fact my father claims that he sent after my mother's sister and my mother came instead so they married and had five children his sister I don't know what happened to her but she didn't come over I think her name was rose or something yes tell you that story so why did your wife come instead she just felt like she wanted to go I don't know I think she had more nerve than her sisters because my mother came over by herself my father came over by himself he was the first member
of his family to come over and he he just tell a very interesting story about his trip and he was and he in the lay through how the floor and everything on the way over but yeah on the ship yeah but he came over in 1911 and then he sent after his brothers and sisters and his mother he was the first one of the family to come over in why Missouri one that's a good story my mother had a son in st. Joe her name was chinoco and my mother went went directly there my father heard of heard of the community and went there also no they didn't they they just barely knew each other in Russia you know they gotta quit in America but mrs.
Chen Acuff was sort of like I remember her as being referred to as sort of a haughty person sort of a you know she was more wealthy than we were and her she she had a daughter who was a piano player and that was the interesting thing but she was a very lovely lady yeah so that was your dad in the service in this country no okay how did World War two affect you and your family I was already a growing girl by them yeah and we used to have servicemen come over every Friday night mother made you know my brother was in the war
so my mother compensated by serving the servicemen on Friday night and where was your brother station he was in Fort Hood for a while and then he my brother was a violinist I don't missed that point it was a very good violinist to her he was in the Dallas Symphony he was in the Richardson Symphony for 30-some years he was a concert master and you know I don't want to miss that point now he was also but he was also the one in the service during World War two yes he was uh-huh did he get stationed overseas at all yes yes he says he was
in Germany he wasn't he was in Germany he helped release the prisoners over there on that day that day that he was a liberator yes he was a liberator you know what camps that he went to no I don't know which ones uh but he you know affected him because you know it was months before he could get down to two to you know normal so he was placed in the special arts section and he entertained the soldiers and he was I remember a loner master she was a an actress and I remember that he sent home a lot of pictures with her I was
your other brother in the service too yes yes he was in the Navy okay where was he stationed at yeah I don't know who's in the Navy I don't know where he was stationed you have our two sisters what is a twin now twins we always hear stories how close they are we use just as close with your other sister or you and your twin have a special bond my sister now my sister that is living at the legacy where I live weren't very close right now where she would my twin is in Philadelphia issues in Elkins Park her husband also is a musician in
fact that's how my bra how she met him was because my older brother introduced or he was in California for a while stationed that's where Henry was also Fort Ord California and Helen met Morris and three weeks later they got married so I guess it was love at first sight after high school and to college or to work no I went right to work and I worked for 100 years yeah what was there a special career no I really for a while I was a Kelly girl you know they go from point to point and I like that very much I like that but when
I was in Kansas City which I went up there by myself I worked for the core ventures and what did you come here we came here in 1939 right after we got out of high school my parents felt like we should be among Jewish people and so there were no Jewish people in there as well so we came up Khimki Kansas City my mother also had a sister in Kansas City at that time so we went up there and my dad couldn't find work there he looked all over so he came to Dallas he had relations with a family here Rosenfield he had two sons
Phillip and Israel and so he came here and worked here worked here in Dallas that's the first job he had here in Dallas I was Dallas grown since you go we went downtown just the other day I would never ever ever know Dallas it is so humongous ooh huge it's tremendously large in the downtown area yeah it's growing I mean I couldn't even find my way around there is huge now yeah community yes I am involved I'm a hadassah member I'm interested in everything in Dallas City an invention in your lifetime that you just thought was really tremendous I mean you seem so much I
think the computer is for everybody I mean you know today everything is computerized and I don't myself even own a computer my sister my twin sister she does everything on the computer she does this or does that she sends emails she she knows everything but and she said she doesn't know anything about it because it's a daily improvement it's a it moves from day to day it's very huge yeah that is the big remember getting your first television set I remember we had a radio that we listened to and there is about but I don't remember I don't remember the television set what was that
happiest time in your life yes today is as good as any day to be happy now in your lifetime you've lived through so many momentous occasions of course you know when you were a small child the great the pride and you told us how that affected you of course you lived through World War two the Kennedy assassination something good in 69 the first moon landing and of course the tragedy of 9/11 was there something that really affected you that you took notice of knew exactly where you were what had happened never seen so much literature is what as the 9/11 event it was tremendous even
today they're discovering people that you talk about what happened to them on that day yeah it's it was a very sad event I remember I remember the Kennedy event very well I remember I was working at that time in a furniture store and they somebody actually said out loud that they feared for Kennedy because of the the attitude of the enemy of the people he said somebody is going to kill Kennedy you know and this was a servant of some guy that worked there I mean the attitude of Dallas was very sad before Kennedy came and I feared and really I wasn't even that surprised
because I'd heard about Kennedy and the way the people felt about him so I wasn't surprised what advice would you like to leave for the next generation yes make the most of every day and you know be aware of what's around you and you know enjoy what you can I think that would be the best thing today you
