Interview: Sam Spritz (1st interview)

Interview: Sam Spritz (1st interview)

Sam Spritz was born (circa 1898) into a Jewish family in pre-revolution Russia.  In 1913, he moved with his father and brother to Philadelphia, attracted by the promise of freedom, democracy, and easy access to education.  In the early 1920s, Spritz's mother and grandmother died of starvation in Russia during the Povolzhye famine. The rest of his family died after the Nazis invaded Russia during World War II. In Philadelphia, Spritz worked in a shirt factory while studying in night school, married and raised a family, and ran his own female undergarment factory.

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Charles Hardy

Sam Spritz

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Russia

Garment industry

Jewish

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.

Hygiene.

Medical care

Technological innovations

Sequoyah Walters