Businesses & Professions -- Furrier
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Kantrowitz, Samuel_1968/10, Oral History, October, 1968
Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 3, Box: 2
Identifier: 6
Abstract
GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 6
No. of Tapes:
Name of Interviewee: Samuel Kantrowitz
Date of Interview: October 1968
Occupation: Furrier
Date of Birth: Circa 1897
Place of Birth: Pinsk, Lithuania
Transcript (yes/no): yes
No. of Pages: 8Abstract:
Mr. Kantrowitz has been in the furrier business known as Connecticut Furriers for 50 years in partnership with Israel Neiditch. He came to America in 1906 at age 17...
Dates:
October, 1968
Karpman, Unknown
File — Box 2
Scope and Contents
This account details the life of Charles Karpman, starting from his childhood in a shtetl called Narovlya, Russia. He discusses Jewish life as well as daily life of a child in Russia.The family immigrated in 1916(?) when he was five through the east through Japan, then Seattle, then eventually to Hartford where his father and other family members had settled. This route was taken because passage west was blocked due to World War I.The milkman gave the Karpmans English...
Dates:
Unknown
Max, Anna, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents
Folder includes: correspondence in Italian and German related to records of death of family in Holocaust; handwritten translations attached on back of correspondence; passport photocopies; photocopy of death certificate; handwritten notes; photocopies of photographs; photocopies of newspaper pages; photocopies of newspaper advertisements; certificates of recognition.
Dates:
undated
Max, M & Rose, undated
File — Flat_file_folder 5
Scope and Contents
Folder includes: photocopy of typed introductory note to Rose's poems; poem by Rose; photocopy of poem; poor-quality photocopies of newspaper pages; news clipping about life of Rose and Mr. Max; newspaper page mounted on thin board; photocopy of page.
Dates:
undated