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Jewish life in Europe

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Europe and Holocaust/Antepolye, Grodno, 1929 by David Sherry, 4 folders, 1929

 File
Identifier: 7172
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...
Dates: 1929
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Holocaust collection / Photo Series II: Europe and Holocaust Photographs

Europe and Holocaust/Antepolye, Grodno, 1929 by David Sherry, originals and negatives, 1929

 File
Identifier: 7173
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1929
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Holocaust collection / Photo Series II: Europe and Holocaust Photographs

Europe and Holocaust/Shul at Volpa, Russia, undated

 File
Identifier: 7160
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...
Dates: undated
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Holocaust collection / Photo Series II: Europe and Holocaust Photographs

Europe and Holocaust/Spiro/Shapiro family, Czechoslovakia, 1930s-1940s

 Digital Record
Identifier: shapiro family
Dates: 1930s
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Europe and Holocaust/Spiro/Shapiro family, Czechoslovakia, 1930s-1940s, 1930s

 File
Identifier: 7159
Scope and Contents

Hasidic rabbis with father, Yechiel Shapiro

Shapiro family

Dates: 1930s
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Holocaust collection / Photo Series II: Europe and Holocaust Photographs

Fishman, Ruth

 Digital Record
Identifier: fishman, ruth_1975/03/03
Dates: 1975 - 1975
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Fishman, Ruth, 1975 - 1975

 File — Flat_file_folder 2
Scope and Contents

Oral history transcript is extremely lengthy (multiple days of interview) Covers life in Europe at the beginning of the Holocaust, life in a ghetto, transportation to a concentration camp, life there, and struggles following the war

Dates: 1975 - 1975
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford People files / Files: D-G

Frankfurter, Katie_2008/05/18, Oral History, May 18, 2008

 File — Box 42, Box: 995
Identifier: 0014 001 001995
Scope and Contents

Interviewed by Macie Boni

Focuses on life before and after the Holocaust with not much about her time in the concentration camp

Dates: May 18, 2008
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 2008

Freiberger, Ilse_2010/03/04, Oral History, March 4, 2010

 File — Box 40, Box: 1077
Identifier: 0014 001 0011077
Scope and Contents

This oral history interview was completed when Ilse was 101 years old. A hard copy transcript exists in her People/Individuals file but it is often confusing as it seems to alternate between what she actually said and what the transcriber interpreted.

Dates: March 4, 2010
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 2010

Gershman, Harry/A True Life Story Endured: Russia and the United States, undated

 File — Box 2
Scope and Contents

Whole text has not been evaluated for subjects. Portion that is in his People/Individuals folder has been read and subjects have been gathered based on that text.

Dates: undated
Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Family History/Miscellaneous / Series II: Family Histories D-Z

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