Beth Israel Hospital and Geriatric Center (Denver, Colo.)

Organization

Staff Only

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:

Adolph Kiesler Formal Portrait, 1938

Item

Identifier: B063.08.0033.0014.00001

Abstract

Formal head and shoulder portrait of Adolph Kiesler. Adolph Kiesler was born in Romania on October 18, 1880 and died in Denver, Colorado on December 19, 1967. He started the Peerless Alloy Company in Denver, Colorado in 1908. A philanthropist, he was a founder and president of Beth Israel Home for the Aged (later Beth Israel Hospital and Geriatric Center) and was active in the Allied Jewish Federation.

Dates: 1938

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Individuals / Box 33 / Adolph Kiesler

Oral History Interview with Frank Quicksilver, 1979 July 25

Item

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

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / Beth Israel Residents / Box 8

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