Meir, Golda, 1898-1978

Abstract Future Israeli prime minister Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch Meyerson) resided in Denver from 1913 to 1914 as a high school student. After an argument with her parents, she ran away from Milwaukee to join her sister Shayna Mabovitch Korngold and her husband Sam in Denver. Shayna was one of the many east European Jews who flocked to Colorado to "chase the cure" for tuberculosis. Shana was a patient at both the National Jewish Hospital (NJH) and later at the Jewish Consumptives'...

Abstract Goldie Mabowitz Meir ran away from her home in Milwaukee in 1913 to live with her sister Sheyna Korngold and to attend high school. Golda Meir was a student at North Side High School for two years from 1913-1914. The file contains a copy of a transcript for ninth and tenth grades for Goldie Mabowitz, a short history by Max A. Heller, an article on "Golda in Denver", and a program from a benefit for a scholorship fund and The Golda Meir House on the Auraria Campus. Gold Meir's niece Judith...