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Growing up in Hartford

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 193 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Digital Record
Identifier: katz, roslyn
Dates: October 4, 1983

Jewish Women in WWII Project/Oral Histories/Novarr, Sylvia Greenbaum

 Digital Record
Identifier: novarr, sylvia_1983
Dates: August 29, 1983

Kagan, Marcia_1990, Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: kagan, marcia_1990.doc
Dates: October 14, 1990

Kagan, Marcia_1990, Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: kagan, marcia_1990
Dates: October 14, 1990

Kagan, Marcia_1990, Oral History, October 14, 1990

 Item — Box 26, Box: 486
Identifier: 486
Interview

Life in Hartford, Jewish life in Hartford, family history. Pessin’s Deli on Windsor Street owned by her father and his brother. A brother died in World War II Career as a social worker Religious life and education Grandparents switched from Ados Israel to Agudas Achim.

This interview does NOT talk about Marcia's experience during WWII.

Dates: October 14, 1990

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

Kantrowitz, Gussie_1968, Oral History, October, 1968

 Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 3, Box: 1
Identifier: 5
Abstract GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTIONTape No.: 5 No. of Tapes: Name of Interviewee: Gussie Kantrowitz (Mrs. Samuel) Date of Interview: October, 1968 Occupation: Homemaker Date of Birth: Circa 1895 Place of Birth: Russia Transcript (yes/no): yes No. of Pages: 13Abstract: Mrs. Kantrowitz came to America at the age of 10 and with her parents settled on a farm in Willimantic, CT. She married at age 17 and moved to Hartford where her...
Dates: October, 1968

Kashmann, Seymour_1972, Oral History

 Digital Record
Identifier: kashmann, seymour
Dates: March 22, 1972