Vixman, Rachel - 1977 - Tape 1, Side 1

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[T1S1] parents' emigration from Vilna; number and names of siblings in her family; parents' dairy farm in Connellsville, PA; information about her family name; recollections of life in Connellsville; education, Bellefield Elementary School; her employment as assistant librarian at the Carnegie Library in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh; religious education in the home; marriage in 1914; her family's residence in Oakland; attending Zionist meetings at the Zionist Institution in the Hill District; family residence in the Hill District; selling subscriptions to the "Jewish Criterion"; becomes assistant to Charles Cooper, president of United Hebrew Relief Association (UHRA) of the Irene Kaufmann Settlement;