Oral history interview with Sonia Wachtin, Mar. 19, 1975.

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Oral history interview with Sonia Wachtin, Mar. 19, 1975.

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Wachtin describes leaving her birthplace in the Russian Crimea after being questioned by police. She came to New York via Riga on the last Russian steamship into New York before the Russian Revolution. She met her future husband, George Wachtin, in New York via friends of her parents. Her parents came and lived in New York for two years before moving to Seattle. George Wachtin followed and earned a degree in pharmacy from University of Washington. She next describes her life as young married woman, discussing the Hebrew Free Loan organization and Congregation Bikur Cholim in particular. She tells the story of the beginning of Hadassah in Seattle. She also talks about some of the places she and her husband have lived. After World War I they spent four years in San Francisco, where George Wachtin was a pharmacist. Then they moved to Vancouver, BC, where George worked as an interpreter, then back to Seattle, where George was an interpreter for jailed non-Jewish Russians and also a steamship ticket agent.

Sound recordings: 1 sound cassettes (ca. 60 min.) : analog, mono.Transcript: 26 leaves.

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