Ruth Andres
Ruth Andres was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on February 17, 1929, into a family shaped by immigration and education. Her father's parents came from Russia, settling in Minnesota and then Milwaukee, where her father studied chemistry at the University of Wisconsin and business at Harvard before running a soap company. Her mother's parents emigrated from Lithuania to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Ruth grew up in a Milwaukee suburb, attended Temple Emanuel, and though her family observed the holidays and visited her Orthodox grandparents, she found herself active in a mix of Jewish and non-Jewish circles. A self-described tomboy, she loved sports, learning, and being with people. She began college at Northwestern before transferring to the University of Arizona when her family moved to Phoenix.
After graduating as a teacher, Ruth's love of adventure took her far. She taught elementary school in Long Beach, California, traveled in Europe, and accepted a teaching position with the Air Force in Rabat, French Morocco, teaching young children to read. She later worked briefly as a tour guide at the United Nations in New York before returning to teach in Santa Monica. A friend arranged introductions for her in Dallas, and on one visit she met Dave Andres, a Dallas native whose family ran a grocery store. He proposed, and they married in Phoenix on February 12, 1956. Ruth then made Dallas her permanent home, settling into the welcoming local Jewish community.
In Dallas, Ruth raised five children while building a life of service. She taught English as a Second Language to Russian immigrants, joining the staff at Brookhaven College for twenty years, and volunteered with the National Council of Jewish Women and Jewish Family Service, helping resettle refugee families. She sang in the Temple Emanuel choir, co-chaired the Rose Terrace preschool, and served as president of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society, where she helped win Federation funding and founded the Anna Lu Sakura Award. Inspired by her mother-in-law, she also mentored young artists. She spoke with great pride of her family, especially her daughter Rachel, whose humanitarian work with solar cookers for refugees in Chad earned an international award.
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Rosman Chet who's going to interview Ruth Anders today at her home at 77 2100 woodland Thank You Roz for being here there's no oh okay today is April 3rd 2008 my name is Rosalyn Ben jet and I'm here today to interview Ruth Andrus at her home it's a pleasure because we've worked on so many oral histories together Ruth tell me about your family starting with my grandparents okay my father's parents came from Russia to escape of course persecution came to that gold Medina their name was IJ and Rose Rosenberg my mother's parents came from Lithuania and they settled in Lancaster Pennsylvania where my mother was
born and they were Celia and Benjamin Liechtenstein and my mother Mary Lincoln's team was as two had two brothers Lee and Bob my father my grandfather came to Minnesota and my paternal and then to Milwaukee and that's where my father was born and he went to university Wisconsin and studied chemistry and then he went to a Harvard Business School and got his degree so he came back to the walkie and he bought and had a soap company called Lamba I'm sorry wish it work we'll have all I was mistaken laughs Oh company of America and he was the chemist whose verse wall company my mother
came to Milwaukee to go to college and graduate College they met and they married that's my family I would come down to me I guess I have we have had a brother deceased brother and sister Jack and Sylvia and Polly is leaving today and I was born in February 17th 1929 a while back and you tell me in Milwaukee what what was the neighborhood like where you lived when you were a child it was a suburb very much like Highland Park and it was called shoulders Carson let's say was a don't remember too many Jewish people in the neighborhood it was small we Milwaukee wasn't
big vent and of course it was we played like probably kids played then we played out in the street and play kick-the-can we were just you know kids but on my block I don't remember anyone being Jewish we did belong to Temple Manuel same name which was the reformed temple rabbi Hirschberg and rabbi joseph baron and we went on the holidays my father had been an orthodox and so we did but he took my mother's request it became you know reformed but we did go every Friday night to my grandparents who lived on the other side of town and be like South Dallas here it
was West Milwaukee and that was really where the Jewish section was the Jewish people but the older people the Orthodox and that grandfather I J did found and was president of a north sure but we always went to Temple man we celebrate the holidays oh Hanukkah Passover that like grandparents but we really went to the temple only on holidays I was so it was a Sunday school there I was confirmed there and um belong to a Jewish sorority there SDT but again even my high school year is at showing high school for some reason I got wasn't with the Jewish kids I was friendly with
them but I was had a group who weren't and was president whities which is a not y MCA YWCA and it's just the way it was until I got to college well let's go back to grade school where did you go to grade school what were your interests while you were a child well sports I was such a tomboy I didn't know there was skirts I were knickers until I was like an eighth grade and I loved to play baseball not so much football and we play soccer and we played was hockey I guess but we ice skated which which I was terrible but we
were Waukee who is the recesses of the winter were all an ice rink outside so you had to skate but was what you did so you had but um I love to listen love to be with people and as that watching experience well I'm back into elementary school I'm sorry I'd love to learn I just love school I thought everything was just wonderful you know I went there from age 2 till I was out of 83 because at that time but they started that early it was called Normal School it wasn't until I got married and had children that I caught on them that was
funny instead of an abnormal school but it turned out it happened to be the adjunct of the it was a teacher's college and I understand now that all the teachers colleges the school on which they practiced we were the guinea pigs what's called Normal School but I mean I've been teased about that to this day and then what about high school I touched on that I liked I was like the the literature and social studies and I was very active than doing this I said the whities and the friends and it was just high school was great that was just a wonderful wonderful experience let's
go back to your family's Jewish participation in the community you said they didn't go you didn't go to synagogue though other than the holidays but did anyone belong to any Jewish organizations or how they did interaction with the community in any way yes my father was very business very busy with his business and but my mother had belonged to many of dolls so I think there was Pioneer Woman it was just a given that she was out there doing social work you know and she even worked at the settlement house at which called my area it worked at that point so it was I always
saw that my mother was doing something for other people and probably that started my feeling of me you know that's all about you do things for other people it's just that they need your help and you don't need help you know how about with the Gentile community do you have any interactions I didn't believe that my I mean I did as a youth but I think that my parents would I think of their friends they they were in a Jewish Circle I think it was probably like in Dallas but they had no objections to did you attend Sunday school or Hebrew school not Hebrew school
never learned Hebrew sorry to say we went to Sunday school and we know hated it like most kids and then we got confirmed and but it was standard you know you just did that certainly evening evens let's say did the Reform what about after high school I went to Northwestern my first year and I joined Juicery afo and that was my beginning of having really close Jewish friends and being in that milieu and then my father got sick turned out he became a paraplegic so for the weather being so harsh and walking they moved to Phoenix Arizona so I transferred my sophomore year and of
course I thought it had really died and going to heaven if you've lived in cold climate and had to put on snowshoes and galoshes and heavy coats and you know and just didn't know there was another existence it was okay I got there put on the shores put up with jeez play golf played tennis when swimming went up to the bones to have these barbecues I mean I think it was kind of a play school but I got a good education University of Arizona in Tucson then they went to Phoenix I studied to become a teacher because again I like to work with people and
graduated there now I was active there again I wasn't the 85 president so that qualified me I really I think was a person line to be the Panhellenic president so it was sort of an inner inner faith you know and that was fun I was interested in Hillel so I started that Hillel so I didn't know I was tending to go just naturally was doing more with Jewish people it was very comfortable you know it was a time you know usual who's who in America all that you know whatever it was fun mm-hmm and then one after after graduation you were a teacher what kind
of teacher I was an elementary school teacher and my first chair went to Long Beach California because some of my sorority sisters lived in LA and I already knew the Southwest was heaven so I was gonna stay there was never ever going to go back to the Midwest or the east and after that I took a trip to Europe with a friend from college and she went back and I thought you know I haven't signed up for the next school year I think I'll just play a little bit so I played a while and Paris at all then I thought maybe a very good job
so I went to the I met a rabbi from Paris and he said well you can go and get take your G they tea or something it's a government test and you qualit you become a g7 or something so I took it and I went to find out where I could teach and they said well there was a place it was about monthly a place needed in Rabat French Morocco of course I didn't had to find a map had no clue where that was and I said okay so I went there and meanwhile my parents thought I was never going to come home and I
thought the Quonset hut it was shaped it was headquarters v Air Division and it was a very great base and I talked with one other woman lived in a French hotel and he's with the children of the children of the air force and actually they weren't breasts they were just cute kids you know I mean they say Air Force Perez and I'm sure today those children probably can't read because I had never taught first reading and we were sharing books can you imagine teaching six-year-olds to read when one hour you can use your books and then the next hour they have to have them it
was it was pretty basic but it was fun and then I came back to New York and I still couldn't quite get West so I walked into the United Nations I thought this would after taking a tour thought you know that guess I could do that so I went and found out how you got employed and asked for a job and they said okay well you know tell me your background and and can you speak another language and I said oh yes I can speak German and they said well good you could take a tour in oh I guess so of course I knew I
could and I had taken six years of German but I don't think I could have taken a tour it but you know sometimes you have to kind of pretend so anyway got that job and I stayed there till summer then I went back and I decided I'm to get a job in California and then I started Santa Monica I had a fourth grade job and would you like to hear the how I got to Dallas yeah my favorite story I think it involves a little gentleman yes the gentleman lover so I went was med sorrel a Newman who was sorely Ungerman from daughter of Edith
and Oh mark Meyer armament because they were big in the community here and she brought me here to have some days with some fellows and okay and the fourth date I had was with Dave Anders and we went on Christmas night and one more day possibly two times because he was her on you know the grocery store is the busiest time at Christmas and without New Year's Eve to the Columbia Club and he proposed to me that night no he said oh he said to me was well I guess if I don't see you what are you leaving I'm leaving Monday well I guess if
I don't see if I don't marry you I'll never see you again he said he didn't say it but I didn't make it up so I said so is that a proposal and he said I guess so and I said okay I'm engaged that and I met his parents the next day loved them wonderful hi Rocco and Harry Andrus unbelievable people sweetie loving from Europe and went to see my parents in a couple days and then went back to teach finish that semester so we could be married February 12 1956 and then I stayed here because he was arrested of native dala side and that's
how I got to death listen and where were you married we were married in Phoenix that's some hotel is still over there and my parents were there and my sister's brother and it's a very small way probably 50 people different from today and very comfortable maybe I doubt it and what what will Stan looks like when you first got here I was thinking about the other day I remember they had a watermelon stand on Hillcrest pass SMU and it's just what you expected w David said oh he always gonna get water down there they cut you a slice and you just set all these cruddy
you know little benches and that was just fun and it was calm like that it was more small-town I'm he's only 52 years ago but it was different there were I think was a trying to think of the bird what's the bird with the wonderful feathers peacock you can I believe there was a whole thing of peacocks the whole area were north parkas today and you know you'd see horses sometimes in areas and you know pastures is I mean to give you an example when my mother-in-law came here in 1921 corn way back the streets weren't paved up to where she lived later til DeLoach
so I mean these streets were paved of course but he was just small and it was good because getting into the Jewish community was very comfortable the very welcoming and it was just simpler but life was simpler but Dallas was definitely has come you know we didn't have the big art museums we didn't have what we have today I remember theater 3 when we joined it it was on downtown and Main Street and practically a basement with card car table chairs so I mean the culture has improved its places Oh I'm Dave was born in Dallas yes how did his family get here his mother
his father was pretty much a like a socialist and he left Russia because it's very impressive yet when he was in Dallas he always thought everything in Russia was still wonderful I didn't quite get that as much as he loved the United States but he came after one of his brothers came and then they came from as I said Russia and he had an older brother mayor and then he saw and then Harry that would say his father and then Abe and they brought them all and then they brought the parents and so they were they had their whole family and they started the grocery
store and his grocery on Pearl Street 19 21 23 and then he at first he peddled like other immigrants did then my mother in law I would say I will summarize it but she came from sovaldi Poland from a very Orthodox family her father was like a teacher and she was supposed to have an arranged marriage and she already had did fall in love with someone who was not was Jewish but what dominant feels Jewish anyway and that she didn't want this arranged marriage so she wrote to her cut her uncle here is it a little while it was is he in Fanny while WI
ll and her aunt Tammy Tobolowsky the whole beginning of all the table velocities in Dallas and they sent her a letter that she said the old man Victor I think Hexter wrote he was an attorney the permission so she did that she gotten and her parents were very sad but they understood she got a passport so she came by herself and she was born 1899 she came as 22 1921 and took this chip I think it was still London and then but it was long do you know Stace whatever it may God trained by herself and came to Dallas and she loved from the minute
she got here she melted and she was a businesswoman a writer talented loving did all sorts of you know like we did settle the Russians and did lots of things very close what was what were you doing I say bride that's the bride before I start having Edie as long as I had my children everyone Jill as I say we were born 56 Jill's born for 57 Roger in 59 mark and 60 and Rachel in 62 okay but I was just only 56 right Paul Francis Blatt and Maurice welcomed me and did things with me socially and then I started with I think the first
thing I got right in the Jewish community that was just a given was National Council of Jewish women and I was studying chairman for a while and that was interesting for me and then the Jewish community family service when the Russians were coming over Dave and I we settled the Russians you get them at this point the airplane at the airport my mother-in-law met them at the train station and they were polish that she's resettle I think looking all of us for some some history of her between I would have been right after the war like family nutrition does but then later the Russians came
through different reason force and we settled Russians I started teaching ESL to the Russians because there are so many you know it's really a it was a sort of a pilot program Susanna did it with Rhys and then I really went on to after doing the voluntary ESL I joined the staff at Brookhaven college was sooo leaked it was the head of the ESL Department the non-credit and I started teaching there and I taught there for 20 years and meanwhile I was still doing volunteer work okay what was what was the Dallas of your children's age like when they were growing up I mean you
know the kids walk to school public school it was Kramer they went to Hillcrest the boys in nine eight the ninth went to st. Mark's but Hillcrest Rachel went to and Jill was excellent they were integrated which was wrong but they weren't oh I think they began to be integrated in about actually my boys went to st. Mark's not for that reason and then Rachel finished there you know it was like the children all had one activity you know they didn't do every sport and they didn't do every lessons every type of lesson so I mean I think we are we were at a much slower pace you know as versus our grandchildren as you well know today and that's that's just the way it is of course there were no computers and we didn't have color television and we had black and white and emphasis was not on that so you know it was it was different mmm-hmm when when you first got married
where did you live she lived a talented country and that was over on Preston Douglas and Oh past Northwest Highway and turned out a lot of people Jewish people lived there and also I remember Ross Perot a junior which we never thought I mean Ross Perot senior he lived there and it was nice as the part was furnished so you didn't have to think he just moved in then we moved to Richardson and actually all Farrah Fowler think of it August I organized a federation a Women's Federation group in Richardson so we could raise money there for women and then after that I was pregnant
again with a third child and there was one bedroom I thought that was time to leave so we moved to this place 771 and I've been here ever since and I plan to be here a long time it's hope now did the children go to Sunday school at Temple Emanuel they did and somewhere in there we went to they had something I think the educational school there are a lot of changes so we got in our heads to go to Temple Shalom and that was good and then we came back we really belonged we felt at Temple we supported both continually so they all went
to Sunday school they all ran across the street to the I forget what that 7-eleven when they weren't supposed to so they could you don't get there Isis like I think kids still did until they took it away and then they all got confirmed and then went to Jewish camps and I think mark did echo Hill and Rachel young Judy and I think that have an impression on them you've been involved in lots of different organizations in Dallas well it's close to I guess how about a temple oh yes Jerry beer and Hortense Sanger founded the Rose Terrace preschool which is in South Dallas and
then I co-chaired it the next year I think was with Jerry and we were responsible besides programming etc for getting food to them for lunches remember lovely volunteers coming it's really far in South Dallas and we've really never been there it was like the others a sign of the world and some of these women just really couldn't get used to but they did they made food at temple and then they wrapped it all over the foil and they drove over with it it was awesome and to this day temple manual has that as I mean we've let it go but we still send money to
that as a project Roman territory so it's in the housing development there oh yes I did and you know yes I sang in the choir for about eight years in fact it's him that is important because I think sing in the choir really touched the Jewish nerve because just the music was so magnificent and and time and sorrow I would always explain what it was in the history and it was block who he was and it was very exciting my problem was I didn't have a good voice and like really didn't like hearing my but you got that go on the big tour they were
great people in the wire and you demo and you did the tour with a couple I did tour with them yes we did some wonderful tourist scene in Prague and singing and we sing in Amsterdam and see in Mexico and we had a lot of good tours it was it was a great experience I cherish that and you served as president at the Dallas Jewish Historical Society how did you become interested in the Historical Society at that time really it was in the back of my mind because my mother law with me and really mostly with my son Roger continued to write poetry had continued
to take it over to the Historical Society which I knew nothing about and I remember sitting there with her looking around and listening it was rose Biederman then was the archivist and it's just sort of started to get into me that you know that's what it's all about if we maintain our history maybe we'll for sure know who we are it just kind of sat there because it took years until I ever got interested and I think it was actually real or their call he wants it would you like to be president of Dallas Jewish Historical Society or something like that does it really well
we just don't have anybody into it wasn't well let me think about it and that'll be a challenge so I did and I loved it and I think I follow a Rachel Board Nick and Rachel board and he had taken five of us from Dallas to turn me on a Jewish tour because she'd been married there and so that also piqued my interest and she got me interested and so so it was just it was a natural and it was a real big challenge and I think what really interested me was that it was a chance to really lift it up it was doing very
well but it was just kind of a plateau and at that time those most those people were my age now and we're not quite and so I looked at it to think that maybe I could get people that were you and we did get a lot of new fresh blood or interest and it was exciting because you got the grant I started the that's right we did I was about that well and go back ginger Jacobs and I went to talk to Gary it's just on his trip to South America Gary Weinstein Weinstein yeah hearing my stuff and we went to talk to him about
how important we thought it was to be a part of the foundation Federation Federation but it was an alt city group and we told me when I was all about we were stood for our history of how we wanted to maintain history and ginger also said I need to do a an oral history of your father because he was getting really old and I do think with whatever we sold it with and what we brought in writing the digital I spent days writing and typing on the old Taiki computer and the idea that his father's history was important as well as he had done this
when he was in New Jersey Gary had so he was very order of the importance of historical societies kind of put together and got a leg up and we we were on that committee and they took us I think we're there 11 agencies that got funded yes yes and we got funded and of course we had to raise some money I mean as well as the city I mean the rest of the Jewish organizations but it was a wonderful experience because I cannot tell you I never realized that Jewish organizations could get together you went from the funding for a Jewish school to funding for
Hillel and so on and they just it was wonderful and the leadership was fabulous I just loved it and we got it and today we have as you no this incredible space with a climate control unbelievable vault but for the slide of the shelves it's automatic you press the button then they slide over I mean is top of the top of the market so that was exciting and it was under your leadership that we started at the Historical Society the Antelope Sakura worked right and before that actually I get credit to that because I think it was no climbing that thought about naming it that
I'm not sure but before that he'll get the accent I when we say it was 1996 you had 96 and Sheena I thought I thought of it and then peace I need some help and we've been working together and she's a joy and so we put together a fundraiser for to honor Jared beer and it was Bob beers wife because she had done a family place and very many things were along with Rose Terrace and I'm laughing because oh yeah I went onto the computer I mean what did we know 12 years ago and we typed it out I mean who didn't he color was
this really cheesy color because that was the way it was then and we put just on the piece of paper and we folded it up and we and rested it was so simple I mean it was so so simple prepare job classy we got today and we did it and we were very successful it was it was exciting and then we did one more like that game Lulu proved in our methods now for Jimmy Alexander who has one of the earliest presidents and that was held at the Hall of State Dallas State Fair and that was exciting because people had not been down there had
I either and then we got classy and then we dead none really think it was Carol Erin or Harold Colombian who suggested that an Lowe was such a factor in our society community with what she had done and she had died early of cancer and that that would be a nice name to give to our fundraiser and then along with that honor people that were following in her footsteps so to say and that was exciting and first of all we have 2002 okay so there were 1998 oh we made it it every two years so it shouldn't in 2000 we missed a year well sinus
argon and drill one sweet and here on climate and they got the Sakura the first and Sakura ward that was a Columbia Club and we had a sculptor of a this beautiful statue that we gave to each one that's learned like hands it was like the handsome piece in the dorm adorned I think the other door adores beauty yes it was a child sad with a grown-up set beautiful and brawn and then the next two years we did all our ninjetta sweet Gerald and we gave a special war - ginger Jacobs because she founded it with the society with Ruth can only 70 71 71
I think years ago imagine and then the next time we had 2006 we had Harold Poland nan rabbi Nancy Caston and Howard unless the Schultz and I will tell you how exciting is going to be in two years 208 in one year next spring thanks to Sharon Logan who dropped from heaven she came in and mentioned to you Roz and me Debbie Tobias and Mandy Dossey are an incredible archivists and she said she thought it would be really nice to take out or what 300 some histories that we have even from back from little 820 Oh tape audio tapes then we got to the big
VHS that we got fancy with cameras and then of course DVDs and she said she thought would really be nice to take them and do a summary of them listen to them and have find out what's in smile and then had what they're all about and then put that into a book and then she said and then you could have an event in the spring of oh nine and people were associated with the families would of course love that they would come and you could have a film made which turns out it's going to be by Cynthia Allen Mondale and you could honor all these
different people as part of the add support unbelievable and we said well we don't have a big volunteer form oh she said I off lots of names and she started to write them down Ross you and I were like looking at her like where has she been all our lives she sat there and off the top of her head she gave us what 50 60 days and do you know that we had 78 volunteers thanks to her and some of art doing or transcribing these pieces so we're real excited about that and that's that is probably gonna be the best ever now we have our
incredible space so it's been just fun challenging and very privileged to be a part of all this but you're also a mentor to young artists how did you become interested in in doing this what is it a role do you play I've looked around I see beautiful pieces of art everywhere actually I will show you later with Kent the camera Jewish art but I just always kind of like the underdog he's not an underdog but some of the neat stuff but it draws me yeah yeah it feeds mining I guess to be helpful and Joe Lopez I met him through the magnet arts and he's
a lovely young man unbelievable story walked at age ten and a half from Honduras walked underneath the trains hung out did little Jaws shoeshine whatever he didn't have no money had no family and he had this inspiration that he just wanted to do art he wanted to make something himself he lived in a village where he did not know how to read or write so after getting as far as the border and being sent back a couple times he got to Dallas and he was in a school forget the teacher or whatever and then the woman noticed that when he's going to high school he
had a talent so she got him ready to go to the magnet arts and he went to the the cluster of metal sculpture and he just went ran with it and he won awards and that's where I met him when I fell in love with him he's 22 just right for me and I sponsored him and Godman to art shows and he's just a wonderful young man and we're still working on getting more shows so it's been fun because I found more artists in that group and it's exciting it is speaking of what we do with other people I'll go back a bit when my
children were growing up we always not only do we sell the Russian families but there is called service an organization where people from other countries come and you house them for a week or so and you get to learn about their culture and they learn about yours so we did this for years again my children aren't children noticed that you could always help other people it didn't matter about the color the skin or their nationality if someone needed help or wanted to get to know you you did that you know and it was so interesting because my loving husband Dave was very very bitter against
the Germans because course he was in the Navy he's at d-day but he and for that reason because my mother long lost 422 comedian family which never had eggs our uncles or cousins on his mother's side he was pretty anti-german so we get a request for two German boys to come to us and he thought about a minute he said okay which was amazing never bought anything German there's nothing German in my house the whole thing I'm he he was way Pedro and they came it was so interesting one of them and the young man was really interested in really care he went back to
Germany he sent us gifts I'm sure maybe his own guilt or his own understanding and he was such a wonderful experience to think that he turns somebody around who had an on sale old very excellent hmm tell me about your family today I mean the family today Oh today well as a grandmother I'll start with the grandchildren and the oldest jill has Benjamin who's 22 X is 17 wonderful she was married to max Lucas then we have Roger who's married to Edith Baker's daughter Riddhi Baker and they had wonderful kaili you know be careful of siege ones wonderful and this is quite on tape and
they're all wonderful and then we have Mark who has Luis who's just 14 how old is Caylee okay his Tim yes thank you and Louis's fourteens had his Bar Mitzvah Myles is 12 ready coming up next year and Elise is was just then we have Rachel who's married to Ben Tish and she has Azra who's 10 and Rebecca who is six and they are all absolutely you know they're wonderful I'm the grandmother I'm totally I mean very objective I have to say I am in love with max because I did meet him and I've read recently about Rachel and the wonderful work that she's doing
and you must be so proud it's pretty exciting didn't realize about that well Rachel all had the opportunity to start a program in Chad it's a refugee camps they're the the people who lived there have been sent I mean shoot out with by arms by military to Chad from door fur and they had been cooking with wood which they had to gather in the area away from their camp and their tents and when they were going out there they were being raped and maimed and killed by the militia it was a wall so Rachel found in netherlands amsterdam there was a company that produced solar
cookers and they basically are a piece of cardboard a piece of foil and then there have to be a cut a certain way so that they are folded up it looks sort of like a small flower but it is closed and it's flat on the bottom and it's solar they put them out in the Sun but just you know I was probably 14 hours and so they could stay in their tents they also helped but there was there's no more deforestation because the trees were if you saw a picture she was there in October it's totally barren it's sand one tree way and then one
more so that of course was very important and she started doing talking about us pamphlets doing fundraising and it kind of snowball and she went to chat with two other people rabbi sure Weiss and Janice as woman Janice started this in Los Angeles as a product called Jewish world launch and the idea is do not stand on the vine you know people stood idly by when Nazis killed our six million Jews and Rabbi sure Weiss saw the importance of doing something for those who couldn't help themselves now because of genocide and Sudan so she and three women two women went to Chad in October and
were so delighted to see the entire camp with all these solar cookers sitting out bright and shiny and they said two pots with them - and Rachel joked she said I think they must have seen on gotten the word on television that were coming to visit and they all put out their solar cookers well of course they're cookers were out all the time they have no television no radio they have no bathrooms they have nothing but they also started the cottage industry there and the women helped them are women to understand different things they could do and so they make them and in 14 years
of them they make these solar cookers now they're sending them flat but used - they're sending them to be assembled and so they've done that and Rachel got the Edward Bronfman Hume an international humanitarian prize it's been in existence for four years the fourth year and this year she is the first woman to receive it and it's a very prestigious award and the thing I love the best is that rachel says the reason that she's always been doing this type of work she's headed adults and missionaries in LA and so on is that her mother her grandmother wrote a poem to her but she was
eight it said one of her books for whom do I say my songs and the poem says that I would like you to listen to me and understand that we have what we need but there are people out there little children with their hands I'll stretch skinny without food and it's our responsibility and it's my conscience hurts and listen to me so you'll understand what I mean about it the Rachel said I'm very witness for my mother loss and all the Jews because no one did so now I'm standing up for the Africans to bear witness for them so it's I love the little door
of a door I think it's very beautiful and you hope family is going to have a reunion in New York so there's a little stipend that goes with it of $100,000 which enormous Rachel's putting back into the project no I imagine that would happen and it's very sighting they'll have it the pierpont morgan library May 6 2008 which is looking at on the Internet is awesome awesome building I mean just incredible have you been there I'm supposed to be just not looked at and so all my children and they're very supportive of each other and then we do what we can do and I'm very
happy except of course I love all but I have friends and family and activities and it's good I'm almost there and who are you role models I think I picked up a little bit of everything as I grew up and I think from teachers and parents and my parents but I think really my mother-in-law I welcomed because she just had a way a deep soul that cared so much for other people and she had this thirst for knowledge and she was great sense of humor and then she was always volunteering and it kind of just put it all together you know and and I just
think that she he was and you are most proud of I would say I'm probably most part of my family you know what's better than your family loving family is what it family first is one of my children says and you know they've all they're they're good they're great people and they're I think that there were they given their own way different ways to society and I they understand the Jewish you know to come was it to come along and I think they do it in the Jewish community and all of the Jewish people and their children see this and I'm hoping that's the way
they will live their lives and I believe they will for anything that you'd like to add not until you turn it off okay thank you so much I'm here same one that goes on this is my mother's parents Celia and Benjamin lived asleep Liechtenstein and they're living in right here in like City where they had a little jewelry store that Congress semi-retired because they had one in in Lancaster Pennsylvania this is my mother's family my mother's the only girl from the left and her brother Leo looks anestine on the right we called bampi and Nana were the parents and her younger brother this is the
jewelry store would be probably about 19 August 1989 you know I don't know where was it oh this was in Lancaster Pennsylvania this is a picture of my mother sweaty would see her in the middle with my dad on the left and her brother and some cousins this is a hierarchal bubbies family her father and her brother and her sister and there was another sister and they were all lost in this Holocaust I will call my mother-in-law's Terrence her mother no me Clio me Clayman and her father this was his second marriage she was 16 when he married her and he was all over 30
but he had him unfortunate happening with his first wife or God suddenly my mother lost family I told you were murdered in the Holocaust and she continued to send I believe it's $25 American Express checks over to Europe Poland Slovakia Poland hoping that that might help them to get out of course it was another chance but it was her hope Mary's parents who were brought here who were living above this down below or Dave's family lived above the store originally this is a picture of Harry and mrs. family his older brother of the top hat his next brother to the left Isaac and Harry's a little one on the left of both his picture of his aunt and the mother his holy aide down below and Harry at that age Dave at that age looked exactly like Harry a very strong Andrus gene there this is a picture of my mother Oh probably when she was maybe sixty or something I don't remember and a picture of my father the same portrait time this is a picture of Dave than my wedding in 1956 and my maternal grandmother licked the scenes on the right she was about 85 or something and then on the left is IJ Rosenberg with his second wife Goldie this is you-know-who a few years back like 52 the beautiful bride with the handsome husband he was cute that's why I fell straight in love with him that smile never ending sweet smile and another picture of my Nana Sudha likes to the Steve and her husband Benjamin then after her Jill's oldest is named and Dave's in my certificate of marriage please not right here okay it's the brass that's reflected sneak this is the wedding invitation framed of my mother-in-law mr.
mrs. Sam Tobolowsky and mr. mrs. dizzy while requests the pleasure of your presence at the marriage of their nice item Ray claman by mr. Harry - I guess mr. Harry Andrus and then it goes on and I say at home 2,400 Corinth Caroline Street Dallas Texas and then at the bottom which we don't do this way anymore it says we wish to express our thanks and appreciation for your beautiful gift and assure you that both the gift and the skirt in which was given will always be pleasantly remembered by us sincerely mr. mrs. H and receive the data is that beautiful where is the date up here here we go it was Sunday evening the 8th of January 1922 at 7 o clock at current Street Dallas Texas very nice and formal this is my beautiful handsome father I was very close to my father and he is in World War one and he was doing something with chemical warfare it was his his field but I didn't say what really interesting this menorah was bought in the Jewish Museum in Chicago 35 years ago I now see that it's in a catalog for Jewish item misses so I guess the artist is still making different versions to me it's like fiddler on the roof with the little house they're flying in the air kiddush cups in the tiny one with in the front with stave addresses so they had that representation then spice boxes from the New York Museum that's enough oops No all right it's a spice handle from Israel very nice along with my nails sadaqa boxes and this little statue on the right was brought by Roger from his team tour and it's by Frank Meister praying this enough already Ruth it's all I saw another plate okay it's just good you