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Sara Prager Brenner papers, 1923-1981.
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Title:
Sara Prager Brenner papers, 1923-1981Creator/Contributor:
Brenner, Sara Prager, creatorAbstract:
Memoir by Sara Brenner describing her experiences growing up in Austrian Galicia and during World War I and her emigration
to the U.S. Also has photographs of members of her family and the family store.
Date:
1923 (issued)Subject:
n-us-or -- n-cn-on -- e-pl--- -- e-un--- -- n-us---Furniture industry and trade -- Oregon
Jews, Austrian -- Oregon
Jews -- Migrations
Jewish women -- Oregon
Stores, Retail -- Oregon -- Photographs
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women
Meubles -- Industrie -- Oregon
Juifs autrichiens -- Oregon
Juifs -- Migrations
Juives -- Oregon
Magasins -- Oregon -- Photographies
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Femmes
Emigration and immigration
Furniture industry and trade
Jewish women
Jews, Austrian
Jews -- Migrations
Stores, Retail
Women
Toronto (Ont.) -- Emigration and immigration
Galicia (Poland and Ukraine) -- Emigration and immigration
United States -- Emigration and immigration
Galicia-Lodomeria (Kingdom)
Galicie (Pologne et Ukraine) -- Émigration et immigration
Europe -- Galicia
Ontario -- Toronto
Oregon
United States
Brenner's Furniture (Firm) -- Photographs
Brenner's Furniture (Firm)
Brenner family -- Photographs
Prager family -- Photographs
Brenner family
Note:
Sara Prager was born in the part of Galicia that was in the Austro-Hungarian empire, and she emigrated from there to Toronto,
at the age of seventeen. She married Karl Gendrich, and they moved to Portland and Eugene, Ore. After Gendrich died, she married
Jack Brenner. They became owners of Brenner's Furniture, a store formerly known as the Eugene Bargain Store.
Materials in English.
Type:
memoirs.photographs.
Photographs.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Physical Description:
3 folders
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585588