Beth Israel Hospital and Geriatric Center (Denver, Colo.)
Organization
Biography
The Beth Israel Geriatric Center became Beth Israel at Shalom Park. It started as the Beth Israel Home for the Aged and the hospital was added later.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Barney Rubin, 1979 July 20
Item
Identifier: B098.04.0008.00010
Abstract
Topics include: Family background in Russia, father a tailor, family got sick in the epidemic in Russia and died when Barney was 14, resisted Czarist Russia and the draft so left for America, worked as tailor, life in New York, attachment to Russia clothes and ways.
Dates:
1979 July 20
Oral History Interview with Frank Quicksilver, 1979 July 25
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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00022
Abstract
Topics covered: Father died when he was six; served in WWI for the Russian Army on the front line; 1920 Russian civil war starts, white army killed Jews; leaves for US paying many bribes to get out; comes through Elis Island, goes to Baltimore where uncle was and later to DC; gets TB and comes to Denver for treatment with wife and 18 mo. old child, in Denver diagnosed as asthmatic; worked in produce sales, talks about JCRS jobs; lost only son in World War II; feelings on Jewish community;...
Dates:
1979 July 25