Oral History Archive

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Betya Shenker

Memories of World War II in Ukraine and immigrating to Southern Brooklyn

Naum Barash

A Coney Island Polar Bear recounts his 50 years of winter swimming in Ukraine and Brooklyn

Irina Roizin

Founder and director of Brighton Ballet Theater, founded in 1987

Marina Rubin

Ukrainian emigre writer and author of Stealing Cherries, a collection of flash fiction

Misha Mokretsov

Founder and head coach at New York Fencing Academy in Coney Island

Boris Kotlyar

Mermaid Spa founder talks about bringing the Russian banya tradition to Coney Island

Eva Zucker

Memories of a Yiddish literary household in 1940's and 1950's Coney Island and Sea Gate