Tillie’s Thrifty Shop

Clothier


Kingstree, SC

FAMILIES: Gershman; Drucker

Tillie Drucker (1900-1977), an Austrian immigrant, married Russian immigrant Harry Gershman in New York City in 1921. By 1945, Tillie was living in Kingstree, South Carolina, where she opened Tillie’s Thrifty Shop.

The Jewish Merchant Project is supported by the generosity of the Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation and the Stanley B. Farbstein Endowment at the Coastal Community Foundation.

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