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Box 24, 1940-1997
File — Box: B356.0024
Identifier: B356.04.0024
Abstract
The newspaper articles, photographs, objects and LP records illustrate the life of a Jewish family in the western United States. Some of the material is about Dorothy Bercu Gross who had been a Vaudville dancer and then was a fitness instructor. Her husband was a physician.
Dates:
1940-1997
Box 48, 1929-2002
File — Box: B356.02.0048
Identifier: B356.02.0048
Scope and Contents
Contains scrapbook (1930s and 1940s); Harold (Bob) Bercu photograph and correspondence (circa 1945); Norman Mistachkin (1935); George Bercu photograph (circa 1925); pencil drawing of Dorothy Bercu (2002) and George Bercu Masonic documents (1929).
Dates:
1929-2002
Excerpts from Oral History Interview with Ben and Bess Glass (for Slide Show), 1978 October
Item
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
Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6
Item
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 Nelson Schachet, 1982 May 18
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0004.00094
Abstract
Nelson Schachet (1903-1992), born and raised in Denver, recounts his family history including ties to Cincinnati and the family's origins in Lithuania, and his life in the West Colfax neighborhood of Denver during the 1920s and 1930s. He talks about his father's business, Schachet Mercantile Co. located on Morrison Road, and other Jewish-owned businesses in the neighborhood. His father brought Manischewitz matzah to Denver. Bugsy Siegel ate at the delicatessen that was part of the Mercantile...
Dates:
1982 May 18
Oral History Interview with Peryle Hayutin Beck, 1989 February 5
Item
Identifier: B098.01.0006.00139
Abstract
Peryle Hayutin Beck (1914-2006) recalls her family history, including the Ginsbergs' and Hayutins' origins in the Russian Empire; their arrival in America in the late 19th century; the loss of several relatives in World War I; her family's ties to the Lower East Side Jewish community in New York City and Memphis, Tennessee; the arrival of Dora Ginsberg, her paternal grandmother, in Denver, Colorado for health reasons; and the extended family's gradual move from New York to Denver. She also...
Dates:
1989 February 5
Portrait of Jewish Woman, between 1880-1899
Item
Identifier: B063.08.0030.0007.00001
Abstract
Portrait of a woman with a feather and fur hat. The dress is blue silk with a pale blue chiffon.
Dates:
between 1880-1899
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- Abrams, Jeanne E., 1951- 2
- Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol (Denver, Colo.) 2
- Gross, Dorothy Bercu, 1917-2015 2
- Beck, Ira M., 1922-1975 1
- Beck, Peryle Hayutin, 1915-2006 1
- Bercu Family 1
- Bercu, George D., 1886-1947 1
- Bercu, Harold (Bob), 1920- 1
- Cheltenham Elementary School (Denver, Colo.) 1
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- Dickenson Branch Library (Denver, Colo.) 1
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- Glass, Benjamin, 1897-1985 1
- Glass, Bessie T., 1903-1999 1
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- Hayutin, Morris S., 1889-1974 1
- Hayutin, Solomon, 1861-1932 1
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- Marcus, Belle 1
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