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Yom HaShoah 1985, "The Holocaust: Forty Years Later... What Have We Learned?"The Holocaust Center of the North Shore (Jewish Federation) commemorates Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Holocaust with a program held at Salem High School, Salem, Massachusetts. The program begins and ends with music from the group of Rosalie Gerut, and it includes remarks by Israella Abrams, Audrey Weinstein, Sonia Weitz, Rabbi Edgar Weinsberg, Rev. Aram Marashlian, Bernard Law (Archbishop of Boston), Rev. Frank Eiklor, George Kaiser, and Barbara Glaser.
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Peabody, Mass., Police Conference, Holocaust Center and ADLHolocaust Center of the North Shore and the Anti-Defamation League present a conference for the Peabody, Massachusetts, police department to prepare officers to deal with hate crime incidents. Harriet Wacks provides remarks and describes the Holocaust Center, and Sonia Weitz provides Holocaust survivor testimony.
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Frank AcinapuraFrank Acinapura, born March 12, 1919, in Union City, New Jersey, USA, provides Holocaust liberator testimony. Mr. Acinapura recalls being part of the liberation of Dachau and the photographs he took. Interviewer: Ann Walker. Note Taker: Anna Bertini. The Holocaust Center, Boston North.
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Irene WolfIrene Wolf, born November 1921 in Kobern, Germany, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewers: Jan Darsa and Zelda Kaplan. Notes: Harriet Wacks. Camera: Camille Bartlett.
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Maurice StrahlMaurice Strahl, born January 16, 1912, in Jarosław, Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewer: Ann Solov Walker. Notetaker: Betty Ann Fishman. Holocaust Center of the North Shore, Peabody, Massachusetts. Taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.
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Marc SpiroMarc Spiro, born July 20, 1922, in Kielce, Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewers: Zelda Kaplan and Evelyn Umlas. Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts.
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Gregor ShelkenGregor Shelken, born December 11, 1915, in Libau, Latvia, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewers: Rabbi Sam Kenner and Louise Goodman. Camera: Don Berman. Continental Cablevision, Beverly, Massachusetts.
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Boris MazelisBoris Mazelis, born June 1, 1933, in Lityn, Ukriane, Soviet Union, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Russian language. Interviewer: Dina Altshuler. Coordinator: Zelda Kaplan. Produced by the Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts, and taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.
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Renee GoldbergRenee Goldberg, born September 16, 1923, in Warsaw, Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewers: Zelda Kaplan and Evelyn Umlas.
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Manuel GoldbergEmmanuel "Manuel" Goldberg, born in Łódź, Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewer: Rabbi Samuel Kenner.
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Alexsando OstrovskyAlexsando Ostrovsky, born 1933 and from Kopaigorod, Ukraine, Soviet Union, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Intervier: Taube Ruskin. Coordinator: Zelda Kaplan. Produced by the Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts, and taped at Cablevision, Peabody, Mass. Mr. Ostrovsky immigrated to the Untied States in 1990, and the interview is conducted in Russian. For English-language reference, see associated computer-generated-and-translated transcript and narrative documents.
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Malka GrungoldMalka Grungold, from Poland, provides Holocaust survivor testimony. Interviewers: Deborah Shelkan Remis and Natalie Lederman. Holocaust Center, Peabody, Massachusetts, and Cablevision, Peabody, Mass.
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Animal TalesA collection of folktales from the Francophone world, translated from French into English by students at Salem State University
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Tony LecondinoTony grew up in Revere in an Italian-American family composed of his father, a mechanic, his mother, a homemaker, and a younger sister, whom he adored. He attended Catholic school as a child but, as an independent thinker, questioned many of its teachings. He attended Revere High School but was bored with the curriculum so he joined a technical high school program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When Lecondino’s parents divorced, he skipped his senior year and joined the US Navy at the height of the Vietnam War. Although he was near combat in Cambodia, he never directly experienced it. The Navy opened up new worlds of travel and sexual experimentation. Still, he lived a “double life” as a closeted man on the ship and a gay one on land. He was honorably discharged due to an injury and would later throw himself into the nightlife of Boston and the North Shore. He got into the music scene, was a DJ, and served as an undercover detective for Jay Collins at Fran’s Place. He would eventually become Fran’s bartender and DJ. Tony helped usher the bar through a new era of openness, dance, music, and integration and even converted a group of hostile Hell’s Angels to allies. He concludes the interview with a story about saving Fran's Place during the 1981 fire that burned down much of the neighborhood.
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Trey YoungBorn Beverly in 1964 and a lifelong resident of Lynn, Young was raised with his older sister and younger brother by a strong but challenging single mother. Young’s grandfather moved the family to Massachusetts to avoid the fate of generations of ancestors who worked in the South Carolina cotton plantations. Life in Massachusetts proved difficult. Growing up in Memorial Street Projects came with many hardships, including “cockroaches and rats the size of cat.” Young’s mother struggled to make ends meet while working in a factory job at Wayne Manufacturing, where Young would be recruited at age 15 to help pay the family bills. Young describes an especially harrowing scene of violence when coming out his mother, who was a devout Southern Baptist. Despite being sent to work at age 15, Young earned a GED and graduated from North Shore Community College with a degree in Art History. They would go on to work in various jobs, none of which was as satisfying as working as a bouncer in Fran’s Place. Young speaks fondly of the family and community in Fran’s, which later spurred him to AIDS activism and fight for marriage equality. He discusses the empowerment and expenses of gender-affirming surgery, as well as his admiration for the younger generation of LGBTQ+ activists.
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Sunil GulabSunil Gulab is an artist, environmental scientist, and community organizer who has been an active member of the Lynn community for more than two decades. Born in Harare and raised in Chivhu, Gulab occupied an “in-between” space as an ethnic Indian in the apartheid state of Zimbabwe. He attended Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama, where he encountered an eerily similar racial system that separated blacks from whites. After college, he moved to Jamaica Plain, where he worked as an au pair for a lesbian couple. As he grew comfortable expressing his gay identity, he eventually made his way to Lynn, a city for which he has enormous respect and affection. He attended several gay bars but was most at home at 47 Central. He served for ten years as a mentor for NAGLY (The North Shore Alliance for GLBTQ+ Youth), during which time he received his MBA from Boston College. His interview discussed racial systems of power, identity politics, and generational differences in the LGBTQ+ community.
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Tia ColeTia Cole, born in 1984 and raised in the Highlands of Lynn, is the oldest of four children and the mother of three. She is a graduate of Lynn English, where she was a founding member of the GSA and North Shore Community College. Her family has deep roots on the North Shore, as far back as the 17th century. She describes her upbringing as “rough and tumble” but with a good deal of affection and community. Tia started going to Fran’s Place after school as a teenager, and she remembers it as a quiet and supportive place to work. Her January 2024 interview discusses being a “queer kid” and the dress code and cultural conflict with the administration at Lynn English, a battle she fought while remaining closeted to her parents. Tia talks about the changing language of gender and sexual identity among various generations. She also talks about serving as a surrogate and the painful ostracization from the LGBTQ+ community when she, as a polyamorous person, began a relationship with a man. Her interview addresses strategies for pushing back against religious arguments about LGBTQ+ people.
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T NashBorn and raised in Lynn, T Nash grew up in East Lynn on Alley Street and then later in West Lynn. A 1992 graduate of Lynn Technical High School and 1995 graduate of North Shore Community College, Nash has spent a life in childcare, education, nursing, and elder care. He is a member of North Shore Pride and Chairperson for the Lynn Pride Flag Raising. He is the proud parent of an adult daughter and five-year-old son, who she and her partner are raising in Salem. A self-described “bully” as a teen, Nash explains how violence and alcoholism shaped her childhood. T discusses the long process of growing comfortable with his sexual and gender identity as a lesbian and trans-man. T speaks fondly about Fran’s Place and enthusiastically about the victory of marriage equality. T is the author of a book about caregiving called "Try Kindness."
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Tiffany MagnoliaTiffany Magnolia is a Professor of English and Coordinator of the Honors Program at North Shore Community College (NSCC), where she has taught for two decades. She ran the LGBTQIA group at NSCC and won a seat on the School Committee as an LGBTQIA candidate. Raised in part by her grandparents in Florida, Magnolia describes a chaotic upbringing with an alcoholic father and schizophrenic mother. From Florida, she moved to Arlington, VA, St. Michael's College in Vermont, and San Francisco, CA, and eventually landed at Tufts University where she would earn her doctorate in English Literature. Her interview includes her relationship with a girlfriend who became her spouse and transitioned to a man. Magnolia has been a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and a committed advocate within the Lynn community. Interview carried out by Andrew Darien.
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Tisha Sterling and Jay CollinsJay Collins was born in 1953 and raised with his five siblings in Beverley, MA. His family owned and managed the Lighthouse Cafe and Fran’s Place for multiple generations. Jay was the most recent owner and manager of Fran’s until its closing in 2016. Tisha Sterling, born and raised in Gloucester, MA was a beloved bartender, manager, and drag performer at Fran’s Place from 1986 to 2016. The two close friends and longtime coworkers exchanged stories about their time at Fran’s. Their interview includes perspectives on the bar’s relationship with the Lynn Police Department, competing bars, AIDS advocacy, the Night of 100 Stars, Drag, and the changing nature of the LGBTQ+ community.
