Harris, Lillian Avseev
Person
Obituary
See https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2003-03-28-0303272846-story.html
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Goldman, Robert, 1944 - 2013
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Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
1944 - 2013
Goldman, Robert_1985,Oral History, December 4, 1985
Item — Box 21, Box: 378
Identifier: 378
Interview
Family history in Europe and in New York/CT (father from Brest-Litovsk in Poland and mother from Baranovitch, Lithuania)
Father’s family had farm in Hebron from 1910-17, father moved to NY after there was a fire, though Robert’s Grandfather and uncle remained. In the late 1920s, his father (along with him and his mother) returned to the Hebron farm and later moved to Woodstock.
Life on the farm.
Dealing with anti-Semitism/KKK/living in a town with a small Jewish population in...
Dates:
December 4, 1985
Harris, Victor and Lillian, 1963 - 1995
File
Scope and Contents
This folder documents the civic life of Lillian and Victor Harris. Additionaly, there are many articles discussing their daughter-in-law Merle Harris's career in higher education, as well as some information on various other family members. A main feature of Victor's life was the Greater Hartford/World Bible Society.Victor Harris served as the state secretary of the Socialist Party in Connecticut in the 1930s.Article of note: Jonathan Harris's bar mitzvah was held at...
Dates:
1963 - 1995
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- Agriculture & Farming 2
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- Baron De Hirsch 2
- Beth Hillel 2
- Bloomfield, CT 2
- Bridgeport, CT 2
- Businesses & Professions -- Teaching 2
- Businesses -- Dairy 2
- Businesses -- Manufacturing 2
- Businesses -- Tobacco 2
- Colchester, CT 2
- Connecticut State Agricultural College 2
- Depression Era 2
- Displaced Persons (DP Camps) 2
- Eastern European Jews 2
- Ellington, CT 2
- Family History 2
- Farming 2
- Farming: Livestock-Chicken 2
- German refugees 2
- Great Depression 2
- Growing up Jewish 2
- Growing up Jewish in Lithuania 2
- Hartford, CT 2
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society 2
- Hebron, CT 2
- Immigrant(s) 2
- Immigration 2
- Jeweler 2
- Jewish Agricultural Society 2
- Jewish Community 2
- Jewish Community Center 2
- Jewish Education 2
- Jewish War Veterans 2
- Keeping Kosher/Kashrut 2
- Ku Klux Klan 2
- New York, New York 2
- Palestine 2
- Poland 2
- Religious Celebration 2
- Religious Education 2
- War Veterans 2
- Willamantic, CT 2
- Woodstock, CT 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Yiddish 2
- Zionism 2
- oral histories (literary works) 2
- Bar Mitzvah 1
- Businesses -- Farming 1
- Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh 1
- Diaspora 1
- Emanuel Synagogue 1
- Hartford Bible Society 1
- Historical Highlights 1
- Jerusalem, Israel 1
- Jewish Federation 1
- Socialism 1
- United Jewish Appeal 1
- World History 1