Jewish Women

Contains three CD recording and full transcript of interview with Libby Adler. Topics covered include: clothing store, going to school in West Hartford, family life/life in Hartford during World War II, life of a soldier's spouse, rationing, Jewish perspective of WWII/Holocaust, life after war, volunteer work (Hebrew Home, Mt. Sinai). Also contains CD of photo scans.

Vertical reference files for individuals.

Contains information on Viola Gerry Borstein's family, as well as a partial oral histroy transcript discussing her military service.

Subject: Ellington Sisterhood Anecdotes, Profiles, and histories of the early Ellington and area Jews by descendents History of Synagogue

Speaker: Dorothy Cohen

Contains CD and transcript of interview conducted by Betty Hoffman for the Jewish Women in WWII Oral History Project. Also contains copies of photos of Muriel Engleman's serivce in WWII as well as copies of photos that appeared in her book, "Mission Accomplished: Stop the Clock," published 2008.

Contains pamphlets and CDs related to the "Pride, Honor and Courage: Jewish Women Remember World War II" exhibit and film premiere. Inlcudes final panels from exhibit.

Subjects: Ethnic diversity of Girl Scouts Individuals involvement in the Girl Scouts Was continued at the HJCC at a later date Ends with the Girl Scout Promise in Hebrew

Speakers: Fanchon Title, Sandy Epstein, Evelyn Albrecht, Marion Keller, Ethel Flatts, June Rose

Contains a CD copy and transcript of an oral history interview with Cynthia Gross as part of the Jewish Women in WWII Oral History Project. The majority of the interview discusses Cynthia's wartime experiences as well as those of her husband.

The most extensive section of this collection is its Newsletters, which are fairly complete from 1968 to the present. The collection also includes a set of meeting invitations from the 1930s. Together these documents give a view of Hadassah activities over several decades.