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Family Life in Hartford

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Found in 163 Collections and/or Records:

Hyman, Eileen_2012/04/26, Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: hyman, eileen_2012
Dates: 2012
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Hyman, Louis, October, 1968

 File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....
Dates: October, 1968
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford People files / Files: H - Ke

Hyman, Louis_1968, Oral History, October, 1968

 Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 12, Box: 1-2
Identifier: 19
Scope and Contents This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....
Dates: October, 1968
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 1968

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
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford People files / Files: H - Ke

Jacobs, Fred and Regina_2007, Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: jacobs, fred and regina_2007
Dates: July 31, 2007
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Jacobs, Fred and Regina_2007, Oral History, July 31, 2007

 File — Box 38, Box: 1015
Identifier: 0014 001 0011015
Scope and Contents

This interview discusses Fred and Regina Jacobs and their experience coming to Hartford after surviving the Holocaust.

Dates: July 31, 2007
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 2007

Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Adler, Libby

 Digital Record
Identifier: adler, libby (ethel)_2009
Dates: February 13, 2009
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Katz, Rosalyn Natalie

 Digital Record
Identifier: katz, roslyn
Dates: October 4, 1983
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Kantrowitz, Gussie, October 1968

 File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents

Gussie Kantrowitz reflects on her connection to Sophie Tucker. Her father went to heder with Sophie Tucker's mother back in Aslev, Russia, and they met the Abuza family (Tucker's family) in Hartford through Anna, Tucker's sister.

Gussie came to Hartford when she married her husband Samuel Kantrowitz in 1912, immigrated to America from Russia with her family at the age of 10.

Dates: October 1968
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford People files / Files: H - Ke

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