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Chase, David Theodore, 1927-2016

 Person

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.

Obituary

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Kellin, Samuel_1973/3/21, Oral History, March 21, 1973

 Item — Box OHC-2, Box: 15, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 45
Scope and Contents Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up Jewish in Hartford, Working organizations, collecting money, 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, Home during World War II, son in navy, 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...
Dates: March 21, 1973

Survivors/Connecticut/Chase, David T.

 Digital Record
Identifier: chase, david

Weinberg, Elbert, Sculpture on Ground of JCCGH, 1981-04-30-1991-06-23

 File
Identifier: 7228
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings relating to the JCC Holocaust Memorial Sculpture designed by Elbert Weinberg. Holocaust Memorial Program, and photocopy of newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1981-04-30-1991-06-23