Helman, Helen

Date:
1978-06-22
Length:
60 minutes.
Interviewer:
Chumbley, Kenneth
Transcription available:
no
Series:
Louisville's Jewish community
Series ID:
9999_009
Interview Number(s):
__460
Summary:
The narrator discusses growing up in a Jewish neighborhood on east Walnut Street. Her grandfather immigrated to the United States from Kiev, Russia. Her parents' family owned a fish market in Louisville. She discusses World War II and its effect on the local Jewish community, and work with various agencies, including those concerned with Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, World War, 1939-1945