Farming: Livestock
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history transcript, 1980
Subjects of interview include: Hartford history circa 1900; family life in Hartford; father's immigration from Austria; father's business as cattle dealer and butcher; early Jewish education and inability to go to college; husband's music career
Plen, Reuben, undated
subjects of interview include: early life in Sweden, Kenya, and Israel; Military engineering service with British army in Middle East in World War II; work for Moshe Dayan; Sarah's service as wireless operator; immigration to Hartford; opinion of current state of Israel ca. 2003
Rome, Ruth Gersten, undated
Subjects of intervierw include: family, family businesses, early education, involvement with change in Emanuel and Beth El congregations, authorship of children's book, fundraising, work as executive at Hebrew Home.
Savin, Goldberg, undated
Vertical reference files for individuals.
Towns/Colchester/Oral History/Himmelstein, Rachel, 1986, 1986-1986
This oral history details Rachel Himmelstein's experience growing up on a farm in Lebanon, CT, as well as teaching in a one room schoolhouse in that town and in Colchester.
This file also contains a color photograph labled "Opening night Colchester play, Marsha (Lotstein), Susan (Wasserman), and Chris (Bailey), "Mrs. Meil and the Chicken Hawk."