NHF_WC_2017_Sunshine_Inez
2017 July 14
Inez Sunshine is a Jewish American born in Buffalo, New York in July of 1936. Her father was in the scrap metal business, so during the War he collected scrap metal locally and from drives to sell to government and military groups. She speaks about the lighting candles and saying prayers for President Roosevelt and "our boys serving overseas", as well as the various ways that shortages and rationing affected her family, specifically in regards to poultry and stockings. Many years after the War, Inez visited Auschwitz, and she describes learning for the first time that her family had lost someone in the Holocaust.
Also present at the interview was Anthony Samolsky, who grew up in South Africa. His father served in the military, and he remembers meeting his father for the first time after he came home.
Also present at the interview was Anthony Samolsky, who grew up in South Africa. His father served in the military, and he remembers meeting his father for the first time after he came home.
Digital
English
38m 1s
Inez Sunshine, Interview, National Home Front Project, Washington College, Chestertown Maryland
Interview was recorded by Cherie Ciaudella, Maria Betancur, and Alex Ramos for the Starr Center of the American Experience National Homefront Project
C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience (Washington College)
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States
Oral histories
oral histories (literary genre)
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--United States