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Box 1, 1940-1992

 File — Box: B394.01.0001
Identifier: B394.04.0001
Scope and Contents

The box contains "The forty-seven hundred: the story of the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing" by Janie Brownh Nowak, produced by the Mount Sinai Alumnae Association (1981). It also contains five file folders, including a folder with genealogical and family information and a folder with two minicassettes with an interview of Rose Weinberg in 1992.

Dates: 1940-1992

Oral History Audio-cassette Tapes, 1966-1976

 File
Identifier: B333.08.0014.0002
Scope and Contents

Contains 26 audio-cassettes of oral histories by Maria Lowenstein, most done in the late 1970s. Maria talks about her childhood in Estonia, WWI, WWII, Nazis, finding Henry Lowenstein, Karin Steinberg, and Ingrid Lind. Also, one DVD with 29 mp3 files of the interviews and an Excel index.

Dates: 1966-1976

Oral History Interview with Abe and Helen Pomeranz, 2002 September 22

 Item
Identifier: B098.01.0007.00164
Abstract

Topics covered: Abe a Polish immigrant growing up in Lamar, CO, only one other Jew in town, moved to Denver in high school, served in the Air Force during WWII, married Helen during war; talks about life experiences.

Dates: 2002 September 22

Oral History Interview with Bertha Meltzer Wine, 1980 February 20

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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00027
Abstract Topics covered: Family background in Austria, father was a Rabbi, 9 children, 3 sons all became rabbis; fleeing Austria after Hitler took power, end of family in Europe; memories of life in Austria, came to America in 1910, first in family to come, came to New York first for 3 years, missed the mountains and came to Denver; became a sewing teacher at a factory, efforts in Denver to unionize, always working in a clothing factory, move to ready to wear made it harder to make a good living;...
Dates: 1980 February 20

Oral History Interview with Beryl Miklin, 1982 May 6

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Identifier: B098.16.0011.00012
Abstract

Beryl was a Latvian born Holocaust survivor and the only surviving member of his family. Interview talks about his life before the war, worked as a tailor. Experiences during the war in camps. Experiences after the war.

Dates: 1982 May 6

Oral History Interview with Charles Schwarz, 1981 August 18

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Identifier: B098.16.0011.00004
Abstract

Charles Schwartz is a Holocaust survivor born in Poland. The oral history covers his pre-war and war-time experiences especially when he was interned at Auschwitz. He immigrated to Boulder, CO in 1949 and moved to Denver 10 years later.

Dates: 1981 August 18

Oral history interview with Daryl Lester Tennal, Jr., 2003 February 27

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Identifier: DCL2003.203
Abstract

Tennal recalls his experiences as a Marine assigned to duty in the Pacific region during World War II. He describes his early days in the Marine Corps and becoming a member of the Marine Corps Band. He also details many of the battles and offenses he participated in while fighting the Japanese on islands in the South Pacific, including Guadalcanal, the Solomon Islands and Guam, and the effects of the malaria he contracted while stationed there.

Dates: 2003 February 27

Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Jaranyi, 1981 August 9

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Identifier: B098.16.0011.00002
Abstract

Interview provides detailed accounts of life in Hungary, arrival to Auschwitz Concentration Camp, description of hunger, loss of identity and basic needs. Death march and hardships after liberation are also vividly described. Elizabeth was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust.

Dates: 1981 August 9

Oral History Interview with Ellsworth L. Hayes, 1981 November 20

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Identifier: B098.16.0011.00006
Abstract

Ellsworth Hayes was a US soldier during WWII and was with a unit that witnessed a British liberated concentration camp. Originally from Pueblo, Hayes was drafted into the Army in 1940. He describes what he saw at the camp.

Dates: 1981 November 20

Oral History Interview with Fred Wahl, 1984 April 14

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Identifier: B098.16.0012.00017
Abstract

Interview covers life experiences in Poland in the early 1930s, increasing antisemitism. Escaped to Cuba in 1936 and then came to America. Joined the US Army, experience of the war from the army perspective. Reuniting with his sister, only surviving member of his family. Experience in postwar America and attitudes toward America, family and Jewish organizations.

Dates: 1984 April 14

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Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado 2
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Fallbach, Thomas R., 1927- 2
General Rose Memorial Hospital 2
Sedalia Historic Fire House Museum Oral History Project 2
University of Denver 2
Abrams, Jeanne E., 1951- 1
Beck, Ira M., 1922-1975 1
Beck, Peryle Hayutin, 1915-2006 1
Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol (Denver, Colo.) 1
Bolstok, Helen (Hela), 1925-2009 1
Bolstok, Szlama (1922-1985) 1
Butterfield, Tom, 1924- 1
Chartier, Otis M. (Otis Meril), 1921- 1
Cheltenham Elementary School (Denver, Colo.) 1
Congregation Emanuel (Denver, Colo.) 1
Cronan, Gerald L., 1925- 1
Dachau (Concentration camp) 1
Denver Chapter of Hadassah 1
Dickenson Branch Library (Denver, Colo.) 1
Ginsberg family 1
Ginsberg, Dora, 1873-1936 1
Goldsmith, Henry (Heinz Leo), 1923-2001 1
Gray, Jerry, 1929-2013 1
Grimes, Ray (Raymond), 1922-2005 1
Hayes, Ellsworth, 1910-1991 1
Hayutin family 1
Hayutin, Anna Ginsberg, 1893-1973 1
Hayutin, Morris S., 1889-1974 1
Hayutin, Solomon, 1861-1932 1
Horowitz, Samuel, 1900-1985 1
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. Denver Lodge No. 171 (Denver, Colo.) 1
Jaranyi, Elizabeth, 1918-1998 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
LST-762 (Ship) 1
Loewenstein, Maria (Marie Lilli Margarete), 1894-1982 1
Loewenstein, Max Moses, 1885-1948 1
Lowenstein, Henry, 1925-2014 1
Machann, Barbara Belfield 1
McCracken, Kathryn L. 1
Miklin, Beryl, 1915-1998 1
Miklin, Miriam Kastenberg, 1925- 1
Mittler, Leo, 1927- 1
Mosko, Joseph 1
Naval School of Diving and Salvage (U.S.) 1
Phi Sigma Delta 1
Pomeramz, Helen (Mallin), 1925-2005 1
Pomeranz, Abe, 1912-2003 1
Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center 1
Rosenberg, Nathan 1
Rosenfeld, Israel, 1928-2015 1
Schaffer, Irving 1
Schindel, Solomon, 1923-1990 1
Schwartz, Charles, 1915-2007 1
Seewald, Jacob, 1911-1993 1
South Shoals Lightship 1
Starr, Zesa, 1915-1998 1
Stone, Earl Stanley, Rabbi, 1914-1992 1
Tennal, Daryl L. (Daryl Lester), 1922-2005 1
United States Marine Band 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Infantry 1
United States. Marine Corps 1
Urman, Judy, 1927- 1
Wahl, Fred, 1917-2008 1
Wahl, Rosi Rindsberg, 1927- 1
Weddell, Ingrid Lind, 1920- 1
Weinberg, David, 1906-2005 1
West Douglas County Fire Protection District 1
Wharton, Karin M., 1915-2014 1
Wiedeman, Beverly 1
Wine, Bertha Halpern (Meltzer), 1890-1982 1
Wright, Hyman "Hymie" (Rytsis), 1906-2006 1
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