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Subjects covered during interview include: Family history, immigration, immigrants, Growing up Jewish, Jewish Education, Pogroms, family death Medicine, New York, blouse shop, husband, Cultural Club, helping the workers, chicken farming, family, choir, Jewish Fraternal Organization, family, picture of choir,

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Subjects covered during interview include: Samuel and Rebecca Sless (parents), family history, immigration, growing up Jewish in Philadelphia, Hartford, Sless Pharmacy, Emanuel Synagogue, wife, Rabbi Silverman, daughters, grandchildren, music, AZO song, Beth Shalom, Emanuel synagogues, fundraising for Beth Shalom, Jewish Youth, Zionism, Beth Hillel, European Synagogues and Jewish Communities

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Subjects covered during this interview include: Family History, Immigration, Yiddish, Growing up in Philadelphia, Growing up Jewish, Music education, Music exposure, moving to Hartford, Maxwell's Drugstore, Jewish Life in Hartford, Emanuel Synagogue, fundraising, Beth Shalom Sisterhood and Synagogue, family, marriage, AZO, Zionism, Israel, Israel Synagogues. Continued on 1/26/1981

Scope and Contents Born in 1923 to a very Zionistic family. In teens became a ham radio operator and served in Signal Corps during World War II. Then, worked at MIT Radar School training officers on equipment. In 1946 went to New Jersey to learn about life on a kibbutz in preparation for going to Palestine. In July 1948, he got a job on the S.S. Director, a ship that was being overhauled in order to take Jews out of Europe and bring them to Israel. The ship stopped in Marseilles and picked up 1,300 refugees...

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Tape #239 2t, 4s, 120 mins Interviwee: Maskel, Anna R. Interviwer: Gloria Bein Date: 2/81 and 3/4/81 Place: maskel Home, WH See written summary by Anna Maskel

Transcription Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight is Thursday, April 9, 1981. This is the Annual Holocaust Memorial Meeting of the Greater Hartford Jewish Historical Society. Our subject tonight, our program, deals with history, and specifically it deals with two historical people, and specifically it deals with Teferes Israel Synagogue. The Teferes Israel Synagogue is really a part of history of the Jewish community that originates way back in 1903, and Rabbi Haskel Lindenthal, who is an old...