Businesses -- Department Stores

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Contains newspaper articles, original and photocopied, from The Hartford Courant, and glossy prints of Courant stories and photographs. Also contains 75th Anniversary D & L catalog and D & L credit cards.

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This file contains a photocopy of an October 5, 1992 Hartford Courant Business Weekly article about Horwitz department stores closing. The original is located in Oversize/Business/Clothing.

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File contains a photocopy of an article, "Tales of Two Heroes", reprinted in The Jewish Veteran from the Springfield Daily News.

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File contains a newspaper clipping of the Hartford Courant obituary for Bertha Shapiro.

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File contains a newspaper clipping from the Jewish Ledger regarding Wal-mart in Avon beginning to stock Passover goods.

Interview Much about life in Palestine, Family went to Palestine in 1925 came back to New Britain in 1927 when she was still in school, Returned in 1932 because of Depression (at risk of losing their land if they didn’t return) and stayed for about 8 years until 1939 on cusp of World War II, knew Itmar Ben-Avi (son of Eliezer Ben-Yehudah, father of modern Hewbrew), participated in the Royal Army Service co. as a civilian and in the Haganah, patrolled the shoreline and sometimes helped illegal...

Scope and Contents A hard copy transcript exists but is in poor conditionEdit: New typed transcription attached. Interview Much about life in Palestine, Family went to Palestine in 1925 came back to New Britain in 1927 when she was still in school, Returned in 1932 because of Depression (at risk of losing their land if they didn’t return) and stayed for about 8 years until 1939 on cusp of World War II, knew Itmar Ben-Avi (son of Eliezer...

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Materials contain some biographical information and information on their involvement and donations to the community.