Gross, Cynthia_2009
Dates
- Creation: undated
Interview-Cynthia Gross
Cynthia Gross was interviewed by an unnamed interviewer on an unspecified date in 2009.
No hard copy in Gross Family file.
Interview-Robert Gross
Robert Gross was interviewed by Gloria Bein March 7, 2005?
Full transcription needed, notes can be found in the People and Individuals File.
Language of Materials
English
Existence and Location of Originals
Original copy of article "West Hartford Residents to be Honored" located in Jack Speigel, f.6.
General Note
Several different articles speak to Robert Gross's political career in West Hartford, primarily his role on the Town Council and that of deputy Mayor.
Several documents related the the Gross family history, including citizenship papers and the documents which started E. Gross Company., which was the first Jewish scrap dealer in Hartford. Later, the company became Gross Paper Co. before being sold in 1979.
Folder also contains notes from the 2005 oral history interview which details his personal and professional life, including his time serving in the Air Force in WWII, where there were few Jews. He also was accidentally declared Missing in Action.
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT
- North End -- Hartford, CT
- Washington Street, Hartford, CT
- West Hartford, CT
- Woodland Street
- Wooster Street, Hartford, CT
Topical
- Agudas Achim (Rumanishe Shul)
- Arsenal School
- Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation
- Business History
- Cemetery
- Emanuel Synagogue
- G. Fox & Co.
- Great Hartford Circus Fire
- Hall High School
- Hebrew Home for Children
- Holocaust survivors
- Housing for the Elderly
- Immigrant(s)
- Northwest School
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Temple Beth Israel
- Vine Street School
- War Veterans
- Weaver High School
- World War, 1939-1945
Repository Details
Part of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Repository