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Interview with Nelly Grussgott on post-war Williamsburg, Brooklyn
This video is part of a research project to document the way Hasidim came to America after the war and turn Williamsburg into an insular religious enclave.
Nelly Grussgott was born in 1930 in Berlin. In 1940, she and her mother fled nazi Germany for NYC, but her father could not make it out. Although Nelly and her mother were relatively modern, in 1946 her mother remarried a very pious Hasidic man, Moshe Nigreshel. The couple, along with Nelly, moved to the Williamsburg part of Brooklyn. There, Nelly's mother was expected to adapt rigid Hasidic customs like shaving her golden locks. This Nelly's mother did for life, but Nelly herself could never do it, and she struggled to understand her mother's path. Nelly moved out of Williamsburg when she got married, but her mother remained in the neighborhood until her death in 1990.
Many thanks to Nelly for the lovely conversation and for sharing her memories.
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