Yom Hashoah

This collection contains a wide range of documents spanning all aspects of the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center (Mandell JCC). Notable topics include programs, adult education, senior adults, and cultural arts. The collection also includes a significant amount of photographs which document the activities of the JCC.

Newspaper clipping from the Jewish Ledger discussing Ms. Clemen's invovlement as a speaker at the Rabbi Leon Wind Religious School of Temple Beth Sholom in Manchester, CT. She spoke about her experience moving to Holland, then being deported to labor camps and eventually Bergen-Belsen. She went to the same synagogue as Anne Frank's family.

A sizable collection of Holocaust commemoration related newspaper articles, featuring many notable activists and Jewish community leaders. Clippings from: Hartford Courant, Jewish Ledger, New York Times, and Journal Inquiry. Also, photocopies of newspaper clippings.

Most of the articles contain information on David Jacobs during his time as the director of the Jewish Community Center starting in 2002. The material in the file also touches on his time in the Greater Hartford Jewish community in his younger years as a counselor and later Youth Services Director at Camp Shalom, including photocopied photographs.

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.

Proclamation from the Meyor Kevin B. Sullivan of West Hartford that the weeks between April 14 through April 21 are remembrance days for Holocaust victims. This piece was donated by Adele Gaster