Filtering by world wars
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Frank Gurrera
Machinist at MTA's Coney Island Overhaul and Repair Shop and oldest active TWU Local 100 member
![Photo courtesy of Diana Wiener](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10816/images/2016_03_02_10_09_130005.jpg?itok=bdarS2W3&c=43f87a9b3465f6cc0477cd8745a74322)
Diana Wiener
Growing up in Sea Gate and Coney Island in the 1940s and '50s and moving back in the mid-1960s
![Frieda at 17. Photo courtesy of Frieda Schwelke](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/10621/images/frieda_schwelke.jpg?itok=NGdq_F7V&c=d4d47030f8dd8299f1caa932467646ea)
Frieda Schwelke
Memories of growing up in Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s and moving to Luna Park Houses in 1962
![Photo © Jay Roberts. Courtesy of Deena Metzger](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/6348/images/deena_outside_by_gate_smiling.jpg?itok=h4mllHcs)
Deena Metzger
Writer, poet and healer who grew up in a Yiddish literary family in Sea Gate during World War II
![Charles Berkman. Photo courtesy of the Berkman family](https://www.coneyislandhistory.org/sites/default/files/styles/oral_history_thumbnail_bw/public/interviews/5585/images/charles_berkman_1.jpg?itok=No3g1eIC&c=6a0e535a079a8ec953adeca6802cbb6b)
Charles Berkman
Memories of growing up in Coney Island during the Great Depression and 55 years practicing law