Hartford Public High School

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Subjects of interview include: early life in Hartford; father's carpentry business; immigration of parents from Russia; ethnic makeup of Hartford's North End prior to it becoming a predominantly Jewish area; Influx of Jews into north end; work as salesman and Hartford Board of Ed member; local politics; soliciting help from the WPA; acting as Director of Plant Operations for board of ed; wife's teaching career.

Scope and Contents Folder contains: Small envelope containing newspaper clippings detailing Mayer's work to save life of girl with Diptheria; photocopies of clippings; photocopy of book page "Four to Remember" (See copy in Annie Fisher/Abe Goldstein); photocopy of newspaper article "the history of the Jews in Hartford"; Short biography of Nathan Mayer; Invitation to research study presentation at JHSGH; 2 copies of Mayer's poetry; 2 copies of mayer's Address to Ararat Lodge; 3 photocopies of newspaper article...

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...

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Subjects covered in interview include: Family coming to America, education, learning about Judaism Lawyer, Practicing Judaism, Jewish Community, Zionism Jewish Organizations, Politics, Hartford Community, wife, children Judge, about family, personal philosophies

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...

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: news clipping of Melrose becoming new Weaver principal; plastic sleeve containing invitation to interview at JHSGH, news clippings, handwritten note, photographs of Melrose an company; yellow sheets of handwritten notes; plastic sleeve containing news clippings; Merit award for work at Jewish Family Service; plastic sleeve containing news clippings and envelope; plastic sleeve containing news clipping, typed material, small WWII photograph, State of New Mexico driver's...

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Subjects of interview include: Hartford history circa 1900; family life in Hartford; father's immigration from Austria; father's business as cattle dealer and butcher; early Jewish education and inability to go to college; husband's music career