Ellis Island
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Okolica, Rabbi Henry, undated
Subjects of interview include: Holocaust, immigration, migration from new York to Alabama, Reform Judaism, migration to Connecticut, Ohio, and Daytona, jewish identity, education, family and lack thereof, adapting to America
Oral History Tape Transcript, 1973
Subjects of interview include: Shtetl life in Russia before and during World War 1; immigration to Hartford; Russian antisemitism under Czarist Russia; Synagogues in Hartford; membership in Beth David; Zionism and support of Israel; poetry.
Raphael Family, see also Kleinman, undated
Minnie discusses with Emma Cohen Growing up in Jewish Hartford, her family, education, Jewish Community Members, Jewish Organizations, her husband, work, and Hartford culture.
Rosenbaum, Goldey_1980/10/17, Oral History, October 17, 1980
Subjects covered during interview include: Growing up Jewish in Russia, parents, immigrant, immigration, Ellis Island, farming, education, children, family name, family, orthodoxy, Hebrew, Israel, E. Cohen commentary.
Tager, Max, 1976-2002
Folder 2 contains:Photocopy of "Four To Remember" biography compilation; currency from the Theresienstadt/Terezin Ghetto printed in 1943; program for Victor Chenkin's performance at the Bushnell 3/16/1930; memo to Tager from Hartford Jewish Federation; news clipping imploring Tager's radio program to come back; postcard with a picture of Akatui prison; clipping of Hartford Courant title line