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:

Hyman, Louis_1968, Oral History, October, 1968

Item — Box OHC-1, Box: 12, Box: 1-2

Identifier: 19

Scope and Contents This interview covers Hyman's life as a weaver in Shisluwitz(?) and Bialystock, his immigration to join his parents in North Daktota, and his move to Hartford to join his wife's family who settled there. He also discusses his involvement in peddling and wholesaling, as well as his participation in the Jewish community at the Garden Street Synogogue and through oxies. His parents made Aliyah sometime before 1914, fulfilling the dream they had when Hyman's father initially left Europe....

Dates: October, 1968

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 1: Interview recordings and transcripts / 1968

Ida (Farber) Katz

Digital Record

Identifier: katz, ida_1974

Dates: August 26, 1974

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Importance of Oral History_/Unknown/, Oral Event History

Item — Box 7, Box: 128

Identifier: 128

Scope and Contents

Subjects: Introduction by Emma Cohen: About the Interviews Landy about how to keep history, the importance of it

Speakers: Susan Landy, Emma Cohen

Dates: 1968 - 2018

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford / Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Oral History Collection / SERIES 2: Event recordings / Undated

Jacobs, Fred and Regina

Digital Record

Identifier: jacobs, fred & regina_2007

Dates: undated

Found in: Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford

Jacobs, Fred and Regina, 1952 - 2012

File — Folder 3

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1952 - 2012