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Interview with Annie Twiggs
No full textIn this interview, Ann Twiggs shares about her ancestors from Young Harris. Her ancestors were the Twiggs, Cooks, and Abernathys.Interview with Annie Twig
Sonya Braverman Interview, September 4, 2024
No full textBorn in 1944, and raised in a Jewish family in Toledo, Ohio, Sonya Braverman knew about the Holocaust by the time she was a young woman pursuing a career in clinical social work. Nevertheless, her relationship with her second husband, Larry Lesser, taught her unexpected things about the psychological effects of Holocaust survival. Born Eliezer Leizerovich in Warsaw, Poland, in 1931, Larry smuggled food into the Warsaw Ghetto to support his family as a child. When his parents and younger brother were captured following the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Larry escaped and survived in hiding. As a teenager after the war, he made his way to Israel where he served in the Israeli Merchant Marines. His world travels eventually brought him to the United States. After a ten-year battle with Alzheimer's Disease, Larry died in 2014. Author of the 2018 memoir, The Queen of Everything, Sonya Braverman's second book chronicles Larry's cathartic return to Poland after his Alzheimer's diagnosis. She recorded her Legacy Series oral history at KSU in 2024.Sonya Braverman discusses her relationship with her second husband, Larry Lesser, a Holocaust survivor and the psychological effects of Holocaust survival had upon him
A Library of Libraries: Private Collections in the Bentley Rare Book Museum - Exhibition Catalogue
No full textA Library of Libraries: Private Collections in the Bentley Rare Book Museum is an exhibition that highlights and critically analyzes private book collections that exist in the Bentley Rare Book Museum. Using selections from the Bentley’s most prominent personal library donations, this exhibition unearths fascinating stories of books and ownership while thoughtfully questioning how and why books end up where they do. Using a combination of panels, interactive stations, and dozens of textual artifacts, A Library of Libraries explores the legacies of humans that persist in the books they once owned and demonstrates how an institutional rare book museum can bring these stories to light.A Library of Libraries: Private Collections in the Bentley Rare Book Museum catalo
Fahed Abu-Akel Interview, April 23, 2024
No full textBorn in 1944 in Kafr Yasif, Palestine, Fahed Abu-Akel spent the first four years of his life under British rule. When the State of Israel was created in 1948, he fled with his father and his siblings to a refugee encampment in a Druze village while his mother stayed behind in their home. Once he returned to his village, he grew up under Israeli rule, learning Arabic, Hebrew, and English in school. Having felt the call to ministry, he immigrated to the United States in 1966 and became a Presbyterian Minister. Based on his experiences as a child, and his witnessing of the Civil Rights movement in the United States, Rev. Fahed Abu-Akel has spent much of his adult life advocating for justice and peace in Palestine and Israel.Oral History with Fahed Abu-Akel who fled with his father and siblings to a refugee encampment in a Druze village
Kennesaw State University, Graduate Catalog, 2024-2025
No full textGraduate programs of study, tuition and fees, academic calendar, academic policies, degree requirements, and course descriptions for the 2024-2025 school year
Interview with Kendall Jerry
No full textJerry Kendall explores the rich history and culture of Towns County by showcasing significant events through a collection of documents and newspaper articles.Jerry Kendall explores the rich history and culture of Towns County by showcasing significant events through a collection of documents and newspaper articles
Interview with Darren Osborn
No full textDarren Osborn describes a variety of photographs of his ancestors who lived in Towns County.Interview with Darren Osbor
Jackie Sherman Interview, January 12, 2023
No full textBorn in New York City in 1954, Jackie Sherman learned that her mother, Doris Regensburger, had to flee Nazi Germany as a young teenager. Along with her parents, Alfred and Johanna Regensburger, Doris and her sister, Marianne, emigrated to the United States in 1940 after a sojourn in England. Doris was sent in February 1939 on a Kindertransport after experiencing the horrors of Kristallnacht in her hometown of Fürth, near Nuremburg. Alfred, a bombardier in the German Army during World War I, helped to save other Jewish veterans from incarceration in concentration camps before escaping with his family. Having owned a successful textile business in Germany, the Regensburgers struggled to start over in the United States, and their experiences as refugees of the Holocaust left a lasting impression on Jackie and her family.Oral history interview of Jackie Sherman the daughter of Doris Regensburger who had to flee Nazi Germany as a young teenage
Jane Cleveland Mantel
No full textJane Mantel was born in Blakely, Georgia on September 4, 1931. Mantel moved to Atlanta around 1950 where she worked as a secretary for the State of Georgia's Childrens' Welfare Department. Jane Mantel found about the Lorelei Ladies, a Atlanta, Georgia Softball team, while talking with a manager when purchasing a vehicle. She played for the Lorelei Ladies for a few years until she was married in April of 1954. Jane moved to Jamaica for 20 years where her husband ran an airline and moved back stateside in 1980 to Plantation, Florida.Oral History with Jane Cleveland Mantel, a member of the Lorelei Ladies softball team in the 1950's
Kennesaw State University, Graduate Catalog, 2023-2024
No full textGraduate programs of study, tuition and fees, academic calendar, academic policies, degree requirements, and course descriptions for the 2023-2024 school year