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AudioJudith Chalmer 3-November-2005 To Life! A Celebration of Vermont Jewish Women
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Ann Zinn Buffum and Sandra Stillman Gartner, project directors, interviewed Judith Chalmer in Winooski, Vermont on November 3, 2005 as part of DAVARâs oral history project. Judith Chalmer was born on November 4, 1951 in Buffalo, New York. Judith's maternal grandparents came to the United States at the turn of the 20th century. Her mother was born in New York City and grew up in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. Her father grew up in Germany. In 1938, the day after Kristallnacht, the Nazis imprisoned her father in Dachau. Fortunately he was released and immediately immigrated to the United States. When WW II began he enlisted in the army, and ironically was posted to Germany. After the war he was able to find his mother and sister who had survived the Holocaust. Judith's father died when she was one year old. Judith grew up in a Jewish neighborhood in Buffalo and attended a reform Temple. When she was a student at the University of Toronto she met and married Bruce Chalmer. After a summer hiking in Vermont, they settled there and Judith finished her undergraduate degree at Goddard College. She and Bruce had three sons, now grown. The couple later divorced. In the late 1990s, Judith tr…
Directors & creators
DAVAR: The Vermont Jewish Women's History
Subjects
Poet; holocaust poetry; poems of a mixed inheritance; Arts of Vermont
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