Floods
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Kellin, Samuel and Sophie, August, 1972
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: B'Nai B'Rith, Awards, Flood of 1955, community service, Jewish education and upbringing, ethics & values, differences in Jewish/Gentile communities, adoption, retail.
Dates:
August, 1972
Kellin, Samuel and Sophie_1972, Oral History, August, 1972
Item — Box OHC-2, Box: 6, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 37
Scope and Contents
Subjects of interview include: B'Nai B'Rith, Awards, Flood of 1955, community service, Jewish education and upbringing, ethics & values, differences in Jewish/Gentile communities, adoption, retail.
Dates:
August, 1972
Kellin, Samuel_1973/3/21, Oral History, March 21, 1973
Item — Box OHC-2, Box: 15, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 45
Scope and Contents
Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up Jewish in Hartford, Working organizations, collecting money, B'nai Brith, Ararat Lodge, Jewish community (relations with German vs. Russian Jews, Jewish education, Jewish students at UCONN and Trinity (Hillel), family history, Great Depression, Home during World War II, son in navy, Hartford Circus Fire & death of his daughter Shirley and a nephew in it, adoption, politics, flood of 1955, antisemitism, McCarthy Era and it's effects on...
Dates:
March 21, 1973
Lassow, Louis and Fannie (Karp), undated
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Transcript subjects
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...
Dates:
undated