Chase, David Theodore, 1927-2016
Biographocal Note
David T. Chase was born in 1927 in Kielce, Poland to Leon and Helen Ciesla. He survived Nazi concentration camps and emigrated to Connecticut in June 1946. He graduated from Weaver High School in 1948. He attended Hillyer College and University of Connecticut. He later married Rhoda Cohen and had two children, Cheryl and Arnold. He and Rhoda launched Chase Enterprises, Inc. in the 1960s. The company engages primarily in real estate development.
Chase was a Council member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from 1988 to 1993. He was committed to philanthropic work.
Chase passed away at his home on 1 June 2016.
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Kellin, Samuel, March 21, 1973
Topics covered in this interview include: B'nai Brith, Ararat Lodge, Jewish community (relations with German vs. Russian Jews, Jewish education, Jewish students at UCONN and Trinity (Hillel), family history, Great Depression, World War II, Hartford Circus Fire & death of his daughter Shirley and a nephew in it, adoption, politics, flood of 1955, antisemitism, McCarthy Era and it's effects on local Jews, Jewish women, Jewish humor/entertaining.
Kellin, Samuel_1973/3/21, Oral History, March 21, 1973
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