Baron De Hirsch

Interview Topics covered include: Family history/his children. His childhood growing up Jewish in Hartford. His grandfather Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz (Hurewitz). his Bar Mitzvah at the Emanuel in Hartford. Zionism in Connecticut. Emanuel renting out space in Weaver for services/Jewish students at Weaver. Jewish life/his parents' lives in Europe (including Pogroms). How his parents met. Baron de Hirsch and Jewish Farmers. Family life. Supporting/participation in/giving money to the Greater Hartford Jewish...

Scope and Contents The 2004 interview focuses on Hurwitz's time in the Korean War as well as his involvement in the Hartford Jewish community and the Federation. The additional materials in the file speak to these topics and well.The topics covered in the 2006 interview include: Family history/his children. His childhood growing up Jewish in Hartford. His grandfather Rabbi Isaac Hurwitz (Hurewitz). his Bar Mitzvah at the Emanuel in Hartford. Zionism in Connecticut. Emanuel renting out space in...

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Many of the documents in this file are military records. There are two Honorable discharges, one being done so that George Katz could re-enlist in 1938.

Mainly katz's responcibilities were as a Finance Clerk.

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This biographical sketch covers a variety of topics including immigration from feudal Russia, farming and peddling in Hartford area, as well as information about Agudas Achim and Greenberg's time as a cantor there.

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Folder contains: Scanned information schecklist; abstract of transcript; Oral history transcript; second copy of transcript on translucent paper.

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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."