Gass, Alan Golin

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Contains history of Babi Yar Park in Denver, Colorado by Alan Golin Gass.

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Babi Yar Park in Denver, Colorado was dedicated on October 2, 1983 to memorialize the September 1941 massacre of the Jews that remained in the Ukrainian city of Kiev, at a ravine called Babi Yar. The Babi Yar Park Foundation was formed under the leadership of Helen Ginsburg. Collection contains minutes, administrative papers, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, news clippings, photos, public relations materials and architectural drawings from the Babi Yar Park between 1969-2015.

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Babi Yar scrapbook (1971-1984), Alan Golin Gass notebook (2008-2009), Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site packet, and 25 file folders with administrataive records, histories, scrapbooks, and proposals.

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History of the first 43 years of Babi Yar Park, the Spring/Summer 2010 issue of the Mizel Museum Newsletter and a copy of "Star Witness" article from the July 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine along with email correspondence between Alan Gross and people wishing to build a memorial in Kiev.

Abstract Joseph Gass (1870-1943) and his brother Samuel Gass moved to Liverpool, UK. In the 1880s and they immigrated to the United States in 1890. Joseph Gass lived in the failed agrigultural colony at Atwood, Colorado. He moved to Denver, Colorado and married Mollie Kadish in 1896. Mollie Kadish was born in Russia and was brought to Denver by her father Harry Kadish in 1890 from Brest Litovsk, which was part of Russia until 1918. Harry Kadish was an officer in the Russian cavalry during the...

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DVD with 2014 interviews of Sandy Vinnik, Evan Makovsky, Alan Golin Gass, and Ben Weindling. The interviews were conducted in 2014 for the film "Small Town Jews: Creating Colorado Communities."