Bieganski the Blog

My Dad sometimes talked about his experiences with anti-Semitism as a young man after he’d left the orphanage. When he served in WWII, ...

My mother's sister Mabel was a trip. She was the cheapest person anyone knew. Her antics still crack me up, to this day. Some of i...

Source Bill is a 33 year old first year graduate student. He hails from "the heart of the anthracite coal region" in Pennsyl...

Informant was a forty-year-old Jewish female from the American south. Her father was American-born, with Eastern European Jewish immigr...

Source INFORMANT INTERVIEW # 2 "Inherently Comic Janitors."  Informant was Jewish American and male. I grew up in a ...

Source Twenty years ago, in Bloomington, Indiana, I conducted informant interviews with Jews and Poles* for my book Bieganski: The Bru...

Source There's a new documentary out about the Holocaust. It's called "Final Account." Directed by Luke Holland, a Bri...