German refugees

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This document outlines the efforts of the Kadden family to get the parents and sister of Siegmund Kadden out of Germany between 1939 and 1941 with the help of Connecticut Senator John A. Danaher.

Scope and Contents This file contains many newspaper clippings and obituaries, detailing Professor Lothar Kahn's career at Central Connecticut State University and his many publications. Many articles focus on the honorary degree posthumously grated to Kahn by the Johann Wolfgang Goeth Univeristy of Frankfurt, Germany. Other materials include newspaper and journal articles written by Kahn, a JHSGH newsletter, fliers for ordering several of Kahn's publications, and a memorial tribute written by his friend Rabbi...

Scope and Contents This interview documents Margaret Kahn's experience of the Holocaust, as well as her understanding of herself as a result of the hardships of her childhood. Until Hitler rose to power, she states that she had a secure middle class upbringing in a home that did not keep kosher. Once she was forced to attend Jewish parochial schools once Jews were banned from German schools, this became an issue since it meant she had to watch what she brought for lunch. She made a friend there that helped...

Oral History This interview discusses Marietta's childhood growing up in Pilzen, Czechoslovakia including her experience as a her education, being Jewish, and her involvement in the Jewish Youth movement Techelet Yava, later joining Jewish Youth Movement at University of Prague where she met her husband Richard, who was 14 years her elder, and they married the following year when she was 19. Both got involved in the study of psychoanalysis, which they continued through their life. Also...

Scope and Contents This interview discusses Marietta's childhood growing up in Pilzen, Czechoslovakia including her experience as a her education, being Jewish, and her involvement in the Jewish Youth movement Techelet Yava, later joining Jewish Youth Movement at University of Prague where she met her husband Richard, who was 14 years her elder, and they married the following year when she was 19. Both got involved in the study of psychoanalysis, which they continued through their life. Also...

Interview This interview covers Truda Kaschmann's life growing up in Germany, her family's departure upon the Nazi rise to power, and settling into America in both Boston and Hartford. In Hartford, she taught dance to support her family (including her parents and in-laws who came from Germany in 1936). She taught at the Hartford Conservatory starting in 1935 and at the Hartford School for Women starting in 1940. As of the 1982 interview, she was still teaching. Was on many school's dance faculty (Miss...

Scope and Contents This interview covers Truda Kaschmann's life growing up in Germany, her family's departure upon the Nazi rise to power, and settling into America in both Boston and Hartford. In Hartford, she taught dance to support her family (including her parents and in-laws who came from Germany in 1936). She taught at the Hartford Conservatory starting in 1935 and at the Hartford School for Women starting in 1940. As of the 1982 interview, she was still teaching. Was on many school's dance faculty (Miss...

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This file contains various items, motsly articles, describing the lives and activities of various members of the Keller family. Most articles forcus on their careers, though their personal lives are touched upon.

See biographical note for more information.