Berl falbaum biography

 WW: Hello, my name is William Winkel. Today is April 21, This is the interview of Berl Falbaum for the Oral History Project. Thank you very much for sitting down with me today.

BF: My pleasure.

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Thank you for being here.

WW: Can you please tell me, where and when were you born?

BF: I was born in Berlin, Germany, in October 8,

WW: When did you come to the United States?

BF: Well, it was during the rise of Hitler – of course, he's already been in power – we escaped from Nazi Germany in August of '39, and escaped to Shanghai, China, where twenty thousand Jews escaped to.

And I spent the first ten years of my life in Shanghai.

WW: What brought your family to Detroit?

BF: Well, after the war, different countries were starting to pick up refugees, and this country – the United States opened its borders, and we applied, and fortunately got accepted, and we came to Detroit, landing first in San Francisco, in August of '

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