Filtering by World War II
Frank Gurrera
Machinist at MTA's Coney Island Overhaul and Repair Shop and oldest active TWU Local 100 member
Yeva Novik
A 90-year-old Coney Island resident recounts her journey from Moscow to Southern Brooklyn
Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s
Frieda Schwelke
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962
Esther Delgado
Growing up in Gravesend and going to Coney Island in the 1940s and living there today
Stanley Shapiro
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1940s and going back four times a year
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