Meryl discusses how her Aunt Mollie spoke about the family history but never mentioned how Franya died. Aunt Mollie gave Meryl a Yiddish book that contained the answer to Franya’s death but Aunt Mollie made her promise not to read it. Meryl kept…
Betsy feels we have more in common with each other than different! Betsy expressed her opinion: “We don’t have to like someone’s ethnicity but we don’t have the right to bully, torment or kill others because they are different!”
Franklin D. Roosevelt was very concerned about public opinion and knew the majority of Americans didn’t want immigrants coming here to America. Hilter studied many methods from America and then he adopted them in Europe.
The program addresses those issues in history which happened before, but now seem forgotten by our present generation. We should understand the issues in our country’s history.
Little by little, her secrets gradually unraveled and become part of my existence. At the end of her life, with Alzheimer’s overtaking her mind, they resurfaced with a vengeance.
“Where else but in America could a Jewish kid from Kansas, son of self-made, entrepreneurial parents and a grandson of Russian and Eastern European immigrants, end up as a congressman, secretary of agriculture, and chief lobbyist for Hollywood?”
Betsy Wurzel, Chatting with Betsy
From a Child of Holocaust Survivors to A Politician's Wife
Betsy Wurzel's interview today is with Hadassah Lieberman author of Hadassah, An American Story. Hadassah Lieberman discusses how she found her mother's diary which had stories about her experiences as…