kibbutz

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This file contains an oral history transcript detailing Robert and Lorraine Hoffman's time in the Hartford area where they grew up as well as their lives in Israel.

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This file contains a newspaper article on the Hoffman family's aliyah to Israel in the 1970s, a breif biographical sketch, and an oral history transcript detailing Robert and Lorraine Hoffman's time in the Hartford area where they grew up as well as their lives in Israel.

Scope and Contents This interview documents Margaret Kahn's experience of the Holocaust, as well as her understanding of herself as a result of the hardships of her childhood. Until Hitler rose to power, she states that she had a secure middle class upbringing in a home that did not keep kosher. Once she was forced to attend Jewish parochial schools once Jews were banned from German schools, this became an issue since it meant she had to watch what she brought for lunch. She made a friend there that helped...

Oral History This interview discusses Marietta's childhood growing up in Pilzen, Czechoslovakia including her experience as a her education, being Jewish, and her involvement in the Jewish Youth movement Techelet Yava, later joining Jewish Youth Movement at University of Prague where she met her husband Richard, who was 14 years her elder, and they married the following year when she was 19. Both got involved in the study of psychoanalysis, which they continued through their life. Also...

Scope and Contents This interview discusses Marietta's childhood growing up in Pilzen, Czechoslovakia including her experience as a her education, being Jewish, and her involvement in the Jewish Youth movement Techelet Yava, later joining Jewish Youth Movement at University of Prague where she met her husband Richard, who was 14 years her elder, and they married the following year when she was 19. Both got involved in the study of psychoanalysis, which they continued through their life. Also...

Scope and Contents Folder 1 contains: black and white photocopy of group photograph "Marder family emigrating to Palsetione, Oct. 21, 1933, Vulcania 1933 -- Mrs. Lilian (Eisenberg) Marder and Alice Marder (Mileikowsky) and Sarah Marder (Plen) went to settle in Palestine (Sitting -- bottom row)"; Correspondence from Jewish Historical Society thanking her for donations; Sarah Plen's translation of marriage confirmation; news clippings; handwritten minutes of Zionist meeting; paper in Hebrew; certificate of award...

Scope and Contents Born in 1923 to a very Zionistic family. In teens became a ham radio operator and served in Signal Corps during World War II. Then, worked at MIT Radar School training officers on equipment. In 1946 went to New Jersey to learn about life on a kibbutz in preparation for going to Palestine. In July 1948, he got a job on the S.S. Director, a ship that was being overhauled in order to take Jews out of Europe and bring them to Israel. The ship stopped in Marseilles and picked up 1,300 refugees...