Rations, War

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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)

Scope and Contents Photocopies of articles, photographs, advertisements, fliers and correspondence, from the Hartford Courant, the New Britain Herald, the News Weekly, the Hartford Times and other papers, concerning the American Coal Co. Inc. between 1936 and 1943. Highlights include an internal memo on scrap rubber collection, a bulletin entitled "Instruction Given for Oil Rationing" and a letter to American Coal customers urging customers to buy their winter coal a year early, as well as several invitations...

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...