Lassow, Louis and Fannie (Karp)

Subjects of transcript include: Jewish family life in Hartford in the early 1900s; crowded conditions of living; street markets; children selling newspapers; immigration; work in a department store; Windsor Street as an integrated neighborhood, the "Pot of Gold"; Fish selling and living above a fish market; Rose's father's struggle to make ends meet as a mender and tinker; various building fires close to Rose's home; children playing in the snow; hasty marriage; a wedding; generosity of a stranger; the death of an infant; courtship in the early 20th century; difficut train travel; Courtship of Mark and subsequent life together; Rose's own children.

Contents of folder include: Transcript of Rose's handwritten manuscript; Photocopies pages of Geer's Hartford City Directory from 1903-1930, various occupations of Lassow family; Photocopy of handwritten correspondence from Molly Canter to Lassow family; Folded map of burial sites outside Jerusalem, drawn by General Chevra Kadisha; Photocopies of burial permission slips from the Jerusalem Department of Health; Photocopies of handwritten transcription of Fannie Lassow's tombstone on the Hill of Righteous in Jerusalem; Sheet from the General Chevra Kadisha of Jerusalem, typed in Hebrew; Photoopies of correspondence handwritten in Hebrew.