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OHB 0034

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeROSENZWEIG, Bertha (b. 1911)
ProfessionsCo-founder
EmployersTex Glass

About this oral history

Interview ID #OHB 0034
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionCo-founder (with husband Herman, deceased) of Tex Glass, Inc., Decatur, Texas. Family background; education in Brooklyn, N. Y.; teaching career; her knowledge of husband’s family background and his life in Europe during Hitler era; his technical training, work in glass factories; starting his own glass factory in Vienna; fleeing Nazis and migrating to Greece; Jewish underground in Central Europe; fleeing to Egypt, Palestine; migration to U.S.; their meeting and marriage; work in Canada and Mexico; opening glass factory in Athens, Texas; move to Decatur; employee relations; products and production process; distribution system; financing methods; her managing the business; sale of business; reparations from Austrian government.
Interviewer(s)Floyd Jenkins
Physical Description82 pp.
Terms of UseOpen