Immigrant(s)
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 441 Collections and/or Records:
Kantor, Samuel and Elka, 1988 - 1992
Kantor, Samuel and Elka_1988,Oral History, October 19, 1988
This interview discusses growing up in Soviet Russia, strating around the beining of the Revolution until the 1970s when Samuel and Elka left Russia for the United States. It hightlights their careers in economics (Elka) and engineering (Samuel), though they immigrated after they retired. They mention an adopted child (children?) but their names are unclear. Hard to understand at times, probably due to the subjects learning English later in life, however most of it is legible.
Kantrowitz family, 1905 - 1905
One negative, Three 8x10 black and white photographs of Anya Pilch, Maternal Grandmother to Gussie Kantrowitz, n.d.. One 8x10 black and white photograph of Yackov and Baila Cooper, parents of Gussie Kantrowitz, 1905. One 5x7 black and white photograph of Frank Rosen, Willamantic, Husband of Bertha Cooper, n. d.
Kantrowitz, Gussie, October 1968
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.
Kantrowitz, Gussie_1968, Oral History, October, 1968
Kantrowitz, Samuel, October, 1968
Sam Kantrowitz discusses his immigration from Russia first to New York then to Hartford to join his sister. He left because of violence and pogroms. He became a furrier, which had been his family's trade in Russia and was the owner of Connecticut Furriers into the 1960s. He met his wife Gussie in 1910 and they married in 1912.