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Hoffman, Lillian, 1913-1996

 Person

Biography

Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:

Box 1, 1968-1978

 File — Box B093.0001: Series B093.01 [Barcode: U186020739263]
Identifier: B093.01.0001
Abstract

(31) file folders include: Action Committee of Newcomers from Soviet Union; Anti-defamation League; Bay area council; Jews in the USSR; Multiple committee papers. The Union of Councils for Soviet Jews created massive lists of Refuseniks and political prisoners in the Soviet Union (Prisoners of Conscience)." The Union and set up action committees in cities across the U.S. and began the "Adopt a Prisoner" program.

Dates: 1968-1978

Box 4, 1960 - 1995

 File — Box B331.0004: Series B331.03 [Barcode: U186026081155]
Identifier: B331.03.0004
Abstract

This box contains twenty-one (21) folders with information collected by Lillian Hoffman.

Dates: 1960 - 1995

Box 4, 1968-1978

 File — Box B093.0004: Series B093.01 [Barcode: U186020739297]
Identifier: B093.01.0004
Abstract

(44) file folders include: ''Exodus'' publication; ''Hadassah''; American publications; Miscellaneous publications; Soviet jewry; Individual POC files; Soviet prisoners of conscience; Assorted people; Assorted biographies; Newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1968-1978

Box 5, 1909 - 1989

 File — Box B331.0005: Series B331.03 [Barcode: U186026081189]
Identifier: B331.03.0005
Abstract

This box contains three (3) folders, a binder holding material that Lillian Hoffman collected about Leni Riefenstahl being honored at the Telluride Film Festival in 1974, and a cassette tape titled Carlebach Ha Neshama Shel Shlomo.

Dates: 1909 - 1989

Box 6, 1969 - 1989

 File — Box B331.0006: Series B331.04 [Barcode: U186026081163]
Identifier: B331.04.0006
Abstract

This box contains information about Babi Yar Park, collected by Lillian Hoffman.

Dates: 1969 - 1989

Cassette Tape

 File
Identifier: B331.03.0005.0005
Abstract

This cassette is titled, "Carlebach: Ha Neshama Shel Shlomo" with the copyright date of 1997.

Dates: 1909 - 1989

Chabad's Children of Chernobyl, 1995

 File
Identifier: B331.03.0004.0018
Abstract

This folder contains infromation from the Chabad's Children of Chernobyl charity for Lillian Hoffman.

Dates: 1995

Colorado Committee of Concern for Soviet Jewry Records

 Collection
Identifier: B093
Abstract Soviet Jews who wanted to emigrate from the Soviet Union were known as "Refuseniks." American Jewish students formed the Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) in 1964 and the American Jewish Committee on Soviet Jewry (AJCSI) was also organized that year. Rabbi Samuel Adelman, rabbi of the BMH synagogue, spoke at Temple Emanuel and urged the liberal congregation to help Soviet Jews. Rabbi Raymond Zwerin, Sheldon Steinhauser, and Lillian Hoffman formed what became the Colorado Committee of Concern...
Dates: 1929-1996; Majority of material found within 1968-1978

Committee for the Release of Soviet Jewry Prisoners, 1968-1978

 File
Identifier: B093.01.0001.0022
Abstract

Various materials related to the Committee for the Release of Soviet Jewry Prisoners.

Dates: 1968-1978

Committee of Concern - Denver, 1968-1978

 File
Identifier: B093.01.0001.0024
Abstract

Various materials related to the Committee for Concern for Soviet Jewry - Denver.

Dates: 1968-1978