Jewish Community Center
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
Jacobs, Fred and Regina, 1952 - 2012
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This file contains information on Fred and Regina Jacobs's experience in the Holocaust, including surviving Auschwitz. In addition, the articles discuss their dry cleaning business of 34 years.
This interview discusses Fred and Regina Jacobs and their experience coming to Hartford after surviving the Holocaust.
Dates:
1952 - 2012
Jewish Family Services
Collection
Identifier: Institution-0009-001-003
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records of the JFS, newsletters, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs. The collection covers topics including foster care, domestic violence, senior adults, and the resettlement of Soviety Jewry.
Dates:
1913-present
Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Katz, Rosalyn Natalie
Digital Record
Identifier: katz, roslyn
Kalmis, Jack, undated
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This interview discusses Jack Kalmis' life growing up in Ukraine until the Russian Revolution, which led him to leave with his sister to Poland and later to America where they had some family. Kalmis started in the delicatessen business in New York, where he also met his wife Fannie. They moved to Hartford around 1944/45 when Kalmis became part owner of Platt's Delicatessen on Albany Ave.. After retirement, Kalmis wrote poetry on a variety of topics, ranging from violence in Israel and the...
Dates:
undated
Kalmis, Jack_1987,Oral History, July 18, 1987
Item — Box 23, Box: 409
Identifier: 409
Scope and Contents
This interview discusses Jack Kalmis' life growing up in Ukraine until the Russian Revolution, which led him to leave with his sister to Poland and later to America where they had some family. Kalmis started in the delicatessen business in New York, where he also met his wife Fannie. They moved to Hartford around 1944/45 when Kalmis became part owner of Platt's Delicatessen on Albany Ave.. After retirement, Kalmis wrote poetry on a variety of topics, ranging from violence in Israel and the...
Dates:
July 18, 1987
Kantor, Rita, June 23, 1992
File — Box 2
Scope and Contents
Discusses life in Russia/Moldova as a Jew-antisemitism, early death of parents causing trauma. Raising daughter in face of anti-semitism. Red hair apparently is a marker of Jewishness in Russia, which her daughter had. Husband faced discrimination finding employment because he was clearly Jewish-government sanctioned anti-semitism.Jew as nationality more than religion-didn't get as much passed down because of lack of parents but still felt strong Jewish identity. Engaged more...
Dates:
June 23, 1992