Family History
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 328 Collections and/or Records:
Konover, Simon_1985,Oral History, April 25, 1985
Item — Box 19, Box: 346
Identifier: 346
Scope and Contents
Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Poland, his father’s occupation driving buses before the war, escaping a labor camp to Lumza, Russia where he joined the army driving trucks, experience during the war, being sent to Siberia, experience after the end of the war returning to Poland, immigration to America via Cuba to join brother David, last name change, information about his surviving brothers David and Harold, working in New York, moving to Hartford and working at...
Dates:
April 25, 1985
Kopelman, 1968 - 1981
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Interview
Subjects of interview include: Immigrant, growing up Jewish in Hartford, synagogues, Jewish community, organizations, dedication of the Ados Israel Synagogue, assignation of President McKinley, father was the Cantor. Scope and Contents General notes on immigration and living in New Haven including occupations and activities. Paper includes a geneology tree begining with Bernard and Ruth Lander.Joseph was active and State...
Dates:
1968 - 1981
Korduner, 1971-1994, bulk: 1979 - 1979
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Interview
Topics include pre-war Soviet Ukraine, experience during the holocaust, resistance to the Germans, testifying at a war crimes tribunal, and immigration to the United States. Korduner took his surname from his wife. Korduner talks a bit about his family and how he thinks the holocaust ought to be taught to children. Scope and Contents Publicity materials for 1979 interview: newspaper clippings, flyer.
Newspaper clipping publicizing 50th...
Dates:
1971-1994; Majority of material found in 1979 - 1979
Korduner, Peter_1979/4/4, Oral History, April 4, 1979
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 200
Scope and Contents
Subjects covered during interview include: "Holocaust Remembrence Meeting", Growing up Jewish in Russia, Education WWII, German invasion, Ghettos, Escape to Poland, Pogroms, testifies at post-war trial retrospect, future generations, Q&A
Dates:
April 4, 1979
Koret, Cantor Arthur, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 4
Interview
Subjects of interview include: Musical influences, mother, wife, children,
Cantors and their later careers, choirs, records, festivals, radio, cantorate of Greater Hartford and rise to prominence in early 1950s, rabbinate of Greater Hartford. Scope and Contents Materials include flyers advertising JHS meeting 6/13/1973; Newspaper clippings of eulogies; Copy of newspaper clipping about honoring UofH veterans; Mylar folder of mixed materials...
Dates:
undated