oral histories (literary works)
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Works that record interviews conducted to preserve the recollections of persons whose experience or memories are representative or are of special historical or social significance.Found in 432 Collections and/or Records:
Hirth, Ann and Michael, 1995 - 2001
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
This file contains several copies of invitations to Ann Hirth's interview at the JHSGH as well as a letter of acknowledgement. Folder contains a Journal Inquirer newspaper article (4/20/1995) featuring a story about Ann Hirth and her parents experience of escaping Nazi Germany before the inception of WWII. Additionally, it contains the obituary of Ann's husband Mike Hirth. Interview This interview covers Ann Hirth’s life growing up in...
Dates:
1995 - 2001
Hirth, Ann and Michael_1995, Oral History
Digital Record
Identifier: hirth, ann and michael_1995, oral history
Hirth, Ann and Michael_1995, Oral History, April 19, 1995
Item — Box 28, Box: 544
Identifier: 544
Scope and Contents
This interview covers Ann Hirth’s life growing up in Vienna, her family’s emigration to Israel/Palestine, her education and ability as a translator, her travels and various jobs including meeting her husband Michael “Mike” Hirth, moving to New London and living on a chicken farm with her husband and in-laws, moving to Manchester for Mike’s job with the Central Connecticut Cooperative Farmers Association. Mike Hirth also speaks, giving details about his life and emigration to New...
Dates:
April 19, 1995
History of Ados Israel - Holtz, Herman - 1987-04-23, Oral History, April 23, 1987
Item
Identifier: 405
Scope and Contents
Herman Holtz discusses his involvement in Ados Israel, detailing the history of that as well as various other shuls in Hartford. Some anecdotes are the dedication of the synogogue (as well as the death of the Rabbi Kram two days later), the floods of 1936 and 1938, and the schnudder book made my Herman's uncle Louis Price.
Dates:
April 23, 1987
History of the Jewish Historical Society_1974/9/22, Oral Event History
Digital Record
Identifier: history of jhsgh_1974
History of the Jewish Historical Society_1974/9/22, Oral Event History, 1974 - 1974
Item — Box 5, Box: 89
Identifier: 89
Scope and Contents
Subjects:History of the Jewish Historical Society (condensed)
History of the Hartford Jewish Community (condensed)
Recorded before showing of Hartford Jews 1900-1925
Speakers: Emma Cohen, Laurel Vlock and Zelda Gersten
Dates:
1974 - 1974
Hoffenberg, Samuel, undated
File — Box 6
Scope and Contents
2x3 black and white portrait of Samuel Hoffenberg, ca. 1969.
3x5 black and white portrait of Sammuel Hoffenberg, 1956.
Three 3.5x3.5 black and white photographs and negatives of Samuel Hoffenberg when being interviewed by Philip Finklestein on December 13, 1972 for Jewish Historical Society meetin, Hartford Jewish Community Center.
5x3.5 black and white photograph, 8x10 black and white mounted print, and negative of a newspaper cartoon from the Jewish Ledger, "Samuel Hoffenberg Testimonial",...
Dates:
undated
Hoffenberg, Samuel, 1968 - 1978
File — Folder 3
Scope and Contents
These interviews cover much of the same material, focusing on Hartford's Jewish community in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1968 - 1978