Businesses -- Bakeries

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This file contains a newspaper article on the Hoffman family's aliyah to Israel in the 1970s, a breif biographical sketch, and an oral history transcript detailing Robert and Lorraine Hoffman's time in the Hartford area where they grew up as well as their lives in Israel.

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This file contains information on Fred and Regina Jacobs's experience in the Holocaust, including surviving Auschwitz. In addition, the articles discuss their dry cleaning business of 34 years.

This interview discusses Fred and Regina Jacobs and their experience coming to Hartford after surviving the Holocaust.

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This file contains a brief biographical sketch of the Kagan family since the arrival of Abraham and Dora Kagan from Eastern Europe through Arthur as a teen in the 1970s.

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This article, written after the death of Nathaniel Kagan, reflects on his life, particularly his tinkering and position as a sales reprsentative for Genie garage door openers.

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Biographical sketch on three Jewish War Veterans from Hartford (Samuel Kalechman, Mitchell Lassoff, Tommy Socket) as compiled by Robert H. Kalechman on December 6, 2003. Focus is on the various wartime accomplishments of the three men, as well as what they did upon returning home.

Scope and Contents This account details the life of Charles Karpman, starting from his childhood in a shtetl called Narovlya, Russia. He discusses Jewish life as well as daily life of a child in Russia.The family immigrated in 1916(?) when he was five through the east through Japan, then Seattle, then eventually to Hartford where his father and other family members had settled. This route was taken because passage west was blocked due to World War I.The milkman gave the Karpmans English...

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Folder includes: News clippings relating opening of new S. Kinder Bagel Baker Restaurant in Corbin's Corner; news clipping about closing of S. Kinder's; correspondence; invitations to opening of restaurant; letters of apology for being unable to seat as many people as purchased a ticket to opening; business cards for S. Kinder and Tatzin Associates stapled to cardboard; news clipping about Lender attempts to raise 1.3 billion dollars to resettled 210K Soviet Jews in Israel.

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Folder contains: correspondence regarding memoir; printout of memoir.