Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Adolph Kiesler and President Harry Truman shaking hands.

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President Harry Truman stands at a speakers podium and Adolph Kiesler sits beside him at the head table.

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Adolph Kiesler and President Harry Truman sit at a head table.

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Adolph Kiesler and President Harry Truman sit at a table with a microphone in front of them.

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Adolph Kiesler and President Harry Truman stand holding a State of Israel Bond.

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Left to right: Governor Ed Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, and Adolph Kiesler standing in front of a microphone.

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Left to right: Governor Ed Johnson, President Harry S. Truman, and Adolph Kiesler standing in front of a microphone.

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Genealogical information on the Hausman family and a letter to Mrs. N. Hansman and copy of letter to President Truman from Senator E. H. Johnson regarding his strong support for the admission of Jewish refugees into Palestine.

Abstract East European Jewish immigrant, Adolph Kiesler, became a noted Colorado philanthropist. Born in Rumania in 1880, Kiesler settled in Denver's West Colfax Jewish neighborhood at the turn of the century, when he began as a peddler. He later recalled "I worked for fifteen cents a day at odd jobs, and then I got a job carring coal for seventy-five cents a ton." Like so many immigrants, he scrimped and saved and after fifteen years and a variety of jobs, he had saved enough money to launch the...