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 1 Collection or Record:

Oral History Interview with Mary Hoffman, 1978 August 24

Item

Identifier: B098.04.0007.00004

Abstract

Topics include: Her time with the ladies’ auxiliary for her shul, the Ostover Shul named for where family came from, charitable activities, husband’s courtship of her, memories and life stories, coming into Elis Island with a baby, husband died of pneumonia after First World War, starting boarding business in home to support her family, talks a lot about her daughter and her illness.

Dates: 1978 August 24

Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / Beth Israel Residents / Box 7

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Subject: Synagogue fund raising -- Colorado -- Denver X