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Excerpts from Oral History Interview with Ben and Bess Glass (for Slide Show), 1978 October

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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00049
Abstract "Ben and Bessie Glass, a couple who met while young patients of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) in the 1930s, recount their memories of living at the institution while recovering from tuberculosis. They discuss the somewhat unsuccessful attempts of the staff to segregate the younger boys and girls who were patients there. They also describe the institution's efforts to provide rehabilitation in all aspects of the patients' lives, for example by providing the opportunity to...
Dates: 1978 October

Funeral Service of Dr. John C. Livingston, 1999 October 28

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Identifier: B098.01.0006.00161
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Recording of the funeral service of John C. Livingston.

Dates: 1999 October 28

Moe Katz on Atwood Colony and Various Synagogues, 1979 May 20

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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00045
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Moe Kattz is interviewed on the Atwood Colony, 10th Street Shul (Shearith Israel), living on 11th Street, the Marion Street Shul (Oheb Zadek) and Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol.

Dates: 1979 May 20

Oral History Interview with Amalia Banker, 1978 August 25

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Identifier: B098.04.0007.00001
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Topics include: Early life and memories, emigration from Jerusalem, emigration to Denver.

Dates: 1978 August 25

Oral History Interview with Ann Nathenson, 1998 November 24

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Identifier: B098.01.0006.00159
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Discusses family origins in Poland on a little farm 7 miles from Russia, father taught Hebrew, moving with her mother and sisters out of their family farm when the war broke out to refugee camps, life in the refugee camps. Step-brother worked to bring family to America. Discusses family in Denver and US and goes through family tree. Ends singing song in Yiddish.

Dates: 1998 November 24

Oral History Interview with Dora Perlmutter, 1979 July 29

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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00011
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Topics include: Born in Russia, father a cattle dealer; married in Russia to Pinchus Perlmutter who was a plasterer/contractor; first children were a set of triplets, one died, now has 5 children; father came to America and brought back money, was killed in WWI; when immigrating the boat ran into a storm and sank, she and her children were saved on a lifeboat but many died; learning the daven; talks about life in Russia and life in Denver.

Dates: 1979 July 29

Oral History Interview with Eleanor Judd, 1984 February 21

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Identifier: B098.01.0005.00123
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Topics include her parents (Winograd) immigration to America through Elis Island, dad ran a junkyard, growing up Jewish in Greeley, Colorado, the Klu Klux Klan in Greeley, Eleanor’s trip to Europe in the 1930s.

Dates: 1984 February 21

Oral History Interview with Israel Toltz, 1982 January 19

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Identifier: B098.01.0004.00087
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"Israel Toltz discusses the arrival of his family in Montrose, Colo., as well as Jewish businesses in Montrose. He recounts moving to Denver, Colo. in 1913. He also talks about Jewish families in small towns, life on the West Side of Denver, and his personal history. Israel Toltz married Frieda Radetsky (1906-1978) and they raised two children: Warren and Roberta."

Dates: 1982 January 19

Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00011
Abstract Louis Cook discusses his father's emigration from Russia and describes Jewish life on West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado in the early 1900s. He also discusses Cook's Russian Bath House that his parents Harry and Ida operated and the Cook's Bath baseball team, the early Hebrew Education Alliance, and his early career as a newsboy. Louis Cook was born May 8, 1895 in Denver, Colorado, where he lived all of his life. He married Susie Finer in 1918. Cook was one of the founders of the Hebrew...
Dates: 1977 July 6

Oral History Interview with Miriam Miklin, 1984 October 10

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Identifier: B098.16.0012.00016
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Interview covers life experiences from before WWII in Poland and through her entire experience in the Holocaust. Miriam and her two sisters were the only surviving members of their family. After the war they tried to go home, stopping at a town 30km away and sensing the hostility toward them they left. Later the same evening there was a pogrom where 60 young Jewish survivors were murdered. They were too afraid to go home after that and left for Czech.

Dates: 1984 October 10

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Banker, Amalia, 1887-1979 1