Growing up in Russia

Kaplan, Vladimir_1998, Oral History, August 20, 1998

Item — Box 33, Box: 708

Identifier: 708

Scope and Contents

Interview focuses on Kaplan's experiences as a Soviet soldier during World War II as well as his career after the war, commenting on the ways in which anti-semitism impacted his life.

Dates: August 20, 1998

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 1998

Kaplan, Vladimir_1999, Oral History, November 9, 1999

File — Box 34, Box: 744

Identifier: 0014 001 001744

Scope and Contents

Interview clarifies some points of 1998 interview, focusing on Kaplan's war experience and his experience in the Russian educational system. The transcript is not complete as the tape ended abruptly.

Dates: November 9, 1999

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 1999

Karpman

Digital Record

Identifier: karpman family history

Dates: Unknown

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

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

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Family History/Miscellaneous / Series II: Family Histories D-Z

Katz, Captain Roslyn, October 4, 1983

File — Folder 3

Scope and Contents Oral history outlines Roslyn Katz's life as told by her sister Gertrude after Roslyn's passing. Covers childhood as well as service in Calcutta, India, as well as her life after the service. Katz earned her degree at UCONN in Home Economics, became a teacher for a short time at the John Fitch High School in Windsor, which she disliked. She then worked in several New York Hospitals and learned to be a dietician. When World War II was gearing up, she signed up to join the WACS, serving as a...

Dates: October 4, 1983

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

Katz, Harriette and Greenberg, Avrom, April 6, 1987

File — Folder 3

Scope and Contents

This biographical sketch covers a variety of topics including immigration from feudal Russia, farming and peddling in Hartford area, as well as information about Agudas Achim and Greenberg's time as a cantor there.

Dates: April 6, 1987

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

Kleinman, Harry, Oral History Transcripts, 1973 - 1977

File — Flat_file_folder 4

Interview 1977

Subjects covered in interview include: Family coming to America, education, learning about Judaism Lawyer, Practicing Judaism, Jewish Community, Zionism Jewish Organizations, Politics, Hartford Community, wife, children Judge, about family, personal philosophies

Interview 1973

Subjects of interview include: Growing up in Hartford, Family Life, zionism, creation of Israel, Jewish education, Jewish community.

Dates: 1973 - 1977

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford People files / Files: Ki - Man / Kleinman, Harry

Kleinman, Harry_1977, Oral History, January 12, 1977

Item — Box 8, Box: 142

Identifier: 142

Scope and Contents

Subjects covered in interview include: Family coming to America, education, learning about Judaism Lawyer, Practicing Judaism, Jewish Community, Zionism Jewish Organizations, Politics, Hartford Community, wife, children Judge, about family, personal philosophies

Dates: January 12, 1977