Kantrowitz, Samuel
Digital Record
Identifier: kantrowitz, samuel_1968
Dates
- Creation: October, 1968
Creator
- Cohen, Emma Perlstein (Hartford, CT) (Interviewer, Person)
Interview
Samuel Kantrowitz was interviewed by Emma Cohen in October, 1968.
Language of Materials
English
General Note
Sam Kantrowitz discusses his immigration from Russia first to New York then to Hartford to join his sister. He left because of violence and pogroms. He became a furrier, which had been his family's trade in Russia and was the owner of Connecticut Furriers into the 1960s. He met his wife Gussie in 1910 and they married in 1912.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository