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Family histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:

Heller Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B162
Abstract Max Heller wrote a booklet on the Heller Family and compiled family trees for the Heller and Tajerstein-Auger families. He was born 1915 in the eastern Polish town of Wlodzimierz-Wolynsk also know as Ludmir. Collection contains family histories, family trees photographs related to the Heller family. Collection also contains photo albums from various schools, including Cheltenham, Lake Junior High, the Talmud Torah, and the Colfax school which were attended by Minnie Heller, Max Heller, and...
Dates: 1924-1984
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Heller Family Papers

Herman Fligelman, 1971-1974

 File
Identifier: B111.03.0003.0017
Abstract Herman Fligelman (original name Yossel Burt) was born in Russia during the 1860s (exact date unknown) and fled to Berlad, Romania when he was five or six years old to escape conscription in the Czar's army. His parents presumably purchased a foreigner's passport for young Yossel, and he had to assume the passport holder's name, Herman Fligelman. When he was about seventeen (1882?), Herman left for America. He slowly brought his siblings to America, where they settled in Minneapolis,...
Dates: 1971-1974
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 3, D-F / Box 3

Hillkowitz Family, 1947-2016

 File
Identifier: B111.05.0005.0012
Abstract

Rabbi Hillkowitz emigrated to Cincinnati from Lithuania to be a rabbi and tutor, moving to Denver around 1892. His son, Dr. Philip Hilkowitz, was a noted Denver pathologist, active in various medical societies. He joined Dr. Spivak as a founder of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society and served as its president. His father, Rabbi Hillkowitz, suggested the Talmudic motto of the JCRS.

Dates: 1947-2016
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 5, H-I / Box 5

Hoffman Family History

 Collection
Identifier: B326
Abstract Sinai and Dorothy Hoffman were both Russian, married there and had 14 children, 9 of whom survived to adulthood. Beginning in 1905, their children began immigrating to the United States with 19 members of the family immigrating by 1913, including spouses and a grandchild by then, the final son, his wife and two children came in 1922. The family ran a grocery store and a tire business in Denver. Collection contains a book, titled: Loyal Family Circle: A History of Sinai and Dora Hoffman and...
Dates: Other: circa 1980
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Hoffman Family History

Ida Hurwitz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: B168
Abstract Ida Hurwitz wrote family stories and other historical articles, which were published in The Jewish Digest and the Denver Post. She was a member of the prestigious Colorado Authors League and was active in the Jewish American Women Writers. One story she wrote was "We'll Go a Little to the Baths" was about mothers and children going to the baths in Idaho Springs for the summer. Some of stories were published and some are typed copies. She also did genealogical research. Relatives included the...
Dates: 1887-1986
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Ida Hurwitz Papers

Iliff Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M055
Scope and Contents

ITALIA scrapbook noted E.S.Iliff 1882

Dates: 1882
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Iliff Family Collection

Isidor Rothschild Biography and Diary Transcript

 Collection
Identifier: B327
Abstract

Isidor Rothchild was a Jewish business man who worked in the grocery trade in Greeley, CO. He owned and operated the I. Rothchild Produce Company. Collection contains a biography and diary transcript from Isidor Rothschild.

Dates: Coverage: 1861-1922
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Isidor Rothschild Biography and Diary Transcript

Joe Sokolowski Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: M311
Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Joe Sokolowski Scrapbook

Judd (Judelovitz or Judelowitz) Family Tree, 1992 September 23

 Item
Identifier: B338.01.0001.0012
Abstract

Copy of the Judd (Judelovitz or Judelowitz) Family Tree edited by Stanley H. Judd in 1992. A newer version of this family tree can be found in Box 2 of Winograd Judd Family Papers, B266. Judd family tree included because Joe Bernstein married Estelle (Esther) Pollock, a Judd family descendant.

Dates: 1992 September 23
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B338, Bernstein Family Papers / Documents and Prayer Book / Box 1

Lang Family

 File
Identifier: B111.06.0006.0012
Scope and Contents

Folder contains one typed page of family history written by Josephine Lang Tanzer.

Dates: 1879-2008
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 6, J-L / Box 6

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