Oral history interview with Abe Zelikovsky, Dec. 3, 1979.

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Oral history interview with Abe Zelikovsky, Dec. 3, 1979.

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Zelikovsky discusses his parents' emigration and the family's life in China. His father's fur business had posts in Harbin, Mukden, Tientsin, and Shanghai, so the family moved between these cities. He describes the Jewish community in China and his early education in the Jewish schools. He also comments on the Japanese government favoring Jews in the 1910s and 1920s, and the kindly treatment of Jewish refugees in Shanghai after Hitler's rise to power. At the time of the Pearl Harbor bombing, Zelikovsky's father had already moved to the United States, but the rest of the family had only traveled as far as Manila. His mother, being officially stateless, decided to enter the University of Santo Thomas internment camp. Zelikovsky, his mother, and his sister remained there for three years before arriving in New York in 1945. Zelikovsky discusses their journey to the United States, his college years, and his professional career. He also mentions the career of his mother, Ida Zelikovsky Green Lassers, as a pianist.

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes : analog, mono.

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Abe Zelikovsky was born in Harbin, China, in the 1920s. His parents were Jewish refugees from Tomsk, Russia, who had fled to China prior to the Russian revolution. Zelikovsky came to New York in 1945 and later moved to Seattle, Washington, to work at the Boeing Airplane Company. He also owned and managed Newport Hills Television. From the description of Oral history interview with Abe Zelikovsky, Dec. 3, 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 50672829 ...