Family History
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 328 Collections and/or Records:
Meetings and Programs/1976 May 12/Sadie Klau interview
Digital Record
Identifier: sadie klau interview
Meetings and Programs/1976 May 12/Sadie Klau interview, May 12, 1976
File — Box 20
Scope and Contents
Sadie Klau reflects on her childhood and young adult years growing up in Hartford. She talks about her parents and family’s life in Russia before they immigrated to Hartford when she was an infant. She also speaks about the roll of Yiddish in the immigration/assimilation process, how her grandmother was much more observant than the rest of her family, shared memories with Emma Cohen about their school days, meeting her husband Judge Joseph Klau, her time at Connecticut State Agricultural...
Dates:
May 12, 1976
Meetings and Programs/1979 April 4/Holocaust Commemoration/Peter Korduner interview, 1979
File — Box
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains the records, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and other materials which document the functions and activities of the Jewish Historical Society. The bulk of the collection covers the 1990s to the present. Much of the collection relates JHSGH's programs, exhibits, tours, and other projects.
Dates:
1979
Meetings and Programs/1985 April 25/An Interview with Simon Konover, April 25, 1985
File — Box
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
Mikveh Dedication Banquet_1980/5/18, Oral Event History
Digital Record
Identifier: mikveh of hartford_1980
Mikveh Dedication Banquet_1980/5/18, Oral Event History, 1980-05-18
Item — Box 12, Box: 212
Identifier: 212
Scope and Contents
Subjects: "Mikveh Dedication Banquet". Jack Schuss. Children singing, acknowledgements, speakers intermarriage, tradition, culture, preservation, family
Dates:
1980-05-18
Nabel, Kay, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents
Contents of folder include: Newspaper articles and photocopies, relating to Beth Hillel valance rescued from Bad Neustadt in 1930s; JHS receipt of donation from Kay Nabel; handwritten notes about Nabel's family; handwritten notes about sister and location of house; envelope containing 3x5 photograph negatives, "Nabel, Kay in Germany after war with soldiers at a passover seder", "Kay Nabel after war with the Marin brothers", Nabel, Kay, with older sister before war", "Nabel, Kay family in...
Dates:
undated