Sue Katz Archive

  • Sue Katz – Doreen Gordon, Brookline

    Sue Katz – Doreen Gordon, Brookline

    Doreen Gordon, social butterfly and emigrant of South Africa, on her childhood in Africa and Buenos Aires, young and married life in New York City during the post-WWII jazz explosion, and why she thinks 85 is a great age to reach.

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  • Sue Katz – Romulus, Roxbury

    Sue Katz – Romulus, Roxbury

    Romulus, a Roxbury artist and assistant director of Artistic Noise, talks to me about her ascent from the juvenile justice system to her present teaching and creative positions.

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  • Sue Katz – Iko Burns, Brookline

    Sue Katz – Iko Burns, Brookline

    Artist Iko Burns shares with me stories of her youth in WWII Japan, her immigration to the United States, and her sculptures in her Hollywood dream home--in Brookline.

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  • Sue Katz – Sumner Kaplan, Brookline

    Sue Katz – Sumner Kaplan, Brookline

    Sumner Kaplan, former State Representative and retired Trial Court Judge, welcomed me into his Brookline home to talk about his distinguished career and memorable childhood, and childhood friends, in Roxbury.

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  • Sue Katz – Henry & Anne Schwab, Brookline

    Sue Katz – Henry & Anne Schwab, Brookline

    Henry and Anne Schwab of Brookline, who emigrated from Europe during the Holocaust. Henry became one of the Ritchie Boys, a group of German Jews who enlisted in the U.S. Army and were sent on espionage and propaganda missions in Europe. Anne's own escape was fraught with danger, and her settling in Brookline began her rediscovery of community.

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