Businesses & Professions -- Tailor

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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.

People File This file contains the oral history interview release form from the 2003 interview, signed about a month after it took place. There is also a partial transcript from the 1997 interview (see corresponding Scope & Contents for more information) as well as a photocopied newspaper article about Kaufman's participation in an oratory competition sponsored by the Aleph Zadik Aleph organization. There are also two photocopied photographs of Leo Kaufman in various clubs at Weaver High as listed...

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Topics covered in this interview include: Growing up in Springfield, parent's immigration, family, employment in Hartford area, service in World War II and veterans organizations, advertising agency.

Transcript subjects Subjects of transcript include: Jewish family life in Hartford in the early 1900s; crowded conditions of living; street markets; children selling newspapers; immigration; work in a department store; Windsor Street as an integrated neighborhood, the "Pot of Gold"; Fish selling and living above a fish market; Rose's father's struggle to make ends meet as a mender and tinker; various building fires close to Rose's home; children playing in the snow; hasty marriage; a wedding; generosity of a...

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Folder contains: correspondence in English; Correspondence in German; Copy of german passport for Hugo Lederer; Immigration application; certificate of good character for Hugo Lederer; ID card for Edith Thierfeld; typed sheets of names of people living in greater hartford, area, presumably german immigrants; Copy of Irene Frischmann's letter relating survival of Holocaust and aftermath; newspaper column relating nature of Mr. Thierfeld's tailor business in West Hartford.

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Folder contains: biography handwritten by David Markowicz; typed transcript of biography.

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: Obituary of Albert; News clipping of interview with Leta regarding memoir of life in Louisiana; photocopy of clipping; photocopies of articles from Louisiana State University Press; photocopy of book advertisement; printouts of Hartford Courant articles; photocopy of article from Washington Post; Photocopy of Kirkus review; photocopy of book review; photocopies of articles from New Orelans newspapers.Folder 2 contains: 2 copies of biography of Michael...

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Subjects of interview include: immigration from Kovnia Gabernia; family life in hartford; working for uncle's tailoring business; loss of the old places of Hartford; areas of Jewish life; various congregations; Jewish education; Labor organization; Charity; decline of Workmen's Circle; Abature Farband.

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Folder contains: autobiography by Minnie Solomon, including subjects such as family life in Poland, immigration, family life in Hartford, child labor as a cigarette-roller, and marriage.