Oral History Archive

Filtering by world wars back to all
Khonya Epstein
Author and leader of the Holocaust Survivors Group at Marks JCH of Bensonhurst
Frank Gurrera
Machinist at MTA's Coney Island Overhaul and Repair Shop and oldest active TWU Local 100 member
Betya Shenker
Memories of World War II in Ukraine and immigrating to Southern Brooklyn
Stella Bacolas
Growing up in Greece and living in Coney Island's Luna Park Houses since the 1970s
Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s
Sofya Lobova
A longtime resident of Haber Houses and leader of the Russian-speaking community
John Philip Capello
Mystery artist who carved faces into rocks on the shoreline at Brighton Beach
Frieda Schwelke
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962
Deena Metzger
Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II
Charles Berkman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law
Alvin Dorfman
1944 Lincoln HS graduate and former West Brighton resident
Lennie Fogel
Son of West End and Sea Gate shopkeepers in the 1940's and 50's