Shtetl life

Scope and Contents From the Collection: M7, Holocaust collection (1937-2008; 3 c.f.) is an artifical collection created by the JHSGH. It consists of personal testimonies, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and photographs. Most of the material focuses on the experiences of survivors and witnesses who settled in the Greater Hartford area. Some material is related to national and international Holocaust studies and commemorations. The most significant portion of the collection consists of audio and videotaped interviews of local...

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This collection consists of multiple photographs depicting rural Jewish peasant life in Poland and Russia, c. 1929. Photos are original, w/ negatives.

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Folder contains: One oral history transcript.

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Two folders:

Rothenberg, Lottie/ Narratives

Rothenberg, Lottie/ Yiddish letters and bound newsletters related to Israel

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This box contains various information about the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies.

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Subjects of interview include: Shtetl life in Russia before and during World War 1; immigration to Hartford; Russian antisemitism under Czarist Russia; Synagogues in Hartford; membership in Beth David; Zionism and support of Israel; poetry.

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One Hartford Courant newspaper clipping (05/14/1987) by Lottie Rothenberg herself about finding out Israel was declared a state while in the displaced persons camp called Camp Kertzog. Another newsapper clipping from the Jewish Ledger (07/23/1993) by Lottie Rothenberg herself recalling shtetl life and experience of the Holocaust.