[T1S1] parents' birth in Russia; immigration to the United States; birth of a sister; effects of the depression on the family; father's employment with F and B Paper Company in Pittsburgh; recollections of growing up in Pittsburgh; religious education; early employment; anecdotes about his grandmother; discussion of teachers at Hebrew Institute; methods and hazards of travel in his youth; recollections about the Irene Kaufmann Center (IKC); the Jewish community in the Hill District of Pittsburgh; his sister's education and profession; movement of Jews to Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh; discussion of parents' lives into old age; education, University of Pittsburgh; enlistment into the Air Force; his experiences as a navigator for B17's; his reason for release from the Air Force; meeting his wife, Adele Mallinger; his graduation from the University of Pittsburgh in 1939; feelings about WWII; a visit with his wife in Florida during the war; feelings about D-Day; recollections of Detroit, MI, and training in Dayton, OH.
