Lucy Glaser Merritt - July 8, 1991
Jewish Agencies
Do you remember if anyagencies helped you in Detroit?
The Jewish agency.
The Jewish WelfareFederation.
Yeah, that was one. And then the Quakers are theones who came and helped us a lot.
Oh really.
And tried to provide a social life, especially forpeople like my parents who they thought would feel uh, you know, theimmigration harder because it's always a step down. So they did and the Jewishcommunity already, whatever, the social services I think it was. And then therewere several department stores who provided clothing. The stuff they didn'tsell on the sales they would put on wax and then we could go over there andpick out clothes, which helped.
Where did you live in Detroit?
We boarded. We got a, a room on uh, Euclid near12th, you know that area.
It's a Jewishneighborhood.
Yeah. And uh, these ladies would rent rooms topeople. And the bathrooms had two doors and they rented to several. And if youwanted to go out in the morning you had to be swift to lock that door and thenlock the other to make sure you had the bathroom. It wasn't very comfortableliving, but all this seemed minor.
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