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Oral History Interview with Adeline Grossman, 1982 September 9

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Identifier: B098.01.0004.00100
Abstract "Adeline Grossman talks about early life in Cheyenne, Wyoming and her life as a mother, wife and ""full time volunteer."" She grew up in Cheyenne before the Depression and was also one of Denver's leading volunteer activist. She also discusses her role in Jewish Children and Family Service.Adeline E. Grossman was the 1984 Golda Meir Award recipient. The Golda Meir Award is given annually by the Denver, Colorado Allied Jewish Federation's Jewish Women's Center to an outstanding...
Dates: 1982 September 9

Oral History Interview with Aimee Strauss, 1982 March 19

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Identifier: B098.01.0004.00092
Abstract "Aimee (nee Peyser) Strauss reminisces about growing up in Denver, Colo. She talks specifically about the education she received in public schools, as well as her religious education at Temple Emanuel Sunday School. She discusses her work experience while a single woman, including her involvement in the education of immigrant Jews on the West Side of Denver. She describes her wedding to Melvin Strauss, their honeymoon in California, and their experiences in the grocery business in Denver....
Dates: 1982 March 19

Oral History Interview with Anne Niblock, 1978 October 25

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Identifier: B098.12.0010.00004
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Anne talks about coming to Denver to finish her degree at the University of Denver and started working for National Jewish Hospital as the only teacher for the students grades 1-7, all the children were patients at the Hospital, she functioned as a teacher, foster mother, counselor; associated with the Denver Public School System.

Dates: 1978 October 25

Oral History Interview with Ben and Bessie Glass, 1978 October 22-1979 August 1

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Identifier: B098.08.0009.00001
Abstract

Ben and Bessie Glass both came to the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) as patients in 1928. Bessie Glass was treated for six years. They met in the hospital and married in 1931. Ben Glass was a printer at the JCRS bindery from 1928 through 1978. They discuss how the JCRS was like a large family of young adults from all over the country and talk about what life was like at the JCRS. They also talk about the transition from JCRS to AMC Cancer Center.

Dates: 1978 October 22-1979 August 1

Oral History Interview with Bernice Bassow, 1978 November 2

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Identifier: B098.14.0011.00003
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Interview covers Bernice's family background, biographical information, Jewish community life in Denver, functions of the women's division of Rose, gift shop and snack bar.

Dates: 1978 November 2

Oral History Interview with Carol Leight, 1978 July 14

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Identifier: B098.11.0010.00006
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Topics cover Carol’s time serving with the NCJW, first as VP in the early 1960s and as president from 1967-1969; talks about Council’s work in the Civil Rights Movement and in the Middle East.

Dates: 1978 July 14

Oral History Interview with Dorothy ''Dokes'' Kobey Berry, 2002 March 22

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Identifier: B098.01.0006.00162
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Discusses life as a pioneer in the thriving mining town of Aspen, family ran business there and prospered, growing up without many other Jewish families, school life, teaching in a country school, moved to Denver around 1924, and talks a lot about her family life.

Dates: 2002 March 22

Oral History Interview with Dorothy Segal, 1979 July 18

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Identifier: B098.04.0008.00024
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Topics covered: Born in Poland, came to America with a friend at 12 years old, came directly to Denver, West Colfax; worked as a seamstress and dressmaker, worked constantly to bring her family over from Poland one by one; lived in boarding house, went to school at night to learn English; family came over and they all lived together, father fixed watches, she never married; life on West side.

Dates: 1979 July 18

Oral History Interview with Elaine Long, 1978 May 24

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Identifier: B098.11.0010.00008
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Topics include Elaine's childhood in Memphis, Tennessee; came to Colorado to visit her brother in 1955 and never left. Talks a lot about segregation, integration of Denver Schools; President of NCJW in 1965, worked with the Job Corps during the Kennedy administration.

Dates: 1978 May 24

Oral History Interview with Eva Berger Saphro, 1982 October 11

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Identifier: B098.01.0005.00102
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Interviewed by her daughter, Eva talks about Glen Park School (later became Colfax Elementary) and was first PTA president, she was the first female president of Hebrew Educational Alliance, which was meant to be the Young Men's Hebrew Association. She also talks about gathering kosher food with Fannie Lorber for patients in Beth Israel Hospital.

Dates: 1982 October 11

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Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado 1
Ancell, Cynde 1
Bassow, Bernice I., 1902-1981 1
Berenbeim, Marilyn 1
Berry, Dokes (Dorothy Kobey), 1905-2009 1
Berry, Hannah Shwayder, 1895-1986 1
Beth HaMedrosh Hagodol (Denver, Colo.) 1
Beth Israel Home for the Aged (Denver, Colo.) 1
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Billie Stein's Harmony Girls Band 1
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Congregation Rodef Shalom (Denver, Colo.) 1
Denver Public Schools 1
General Rose Memorial Hospital 1
Glass, Benjamin, 1897-1985 1
Glass, Bessie T., 1903-1999 1
Goldberg, Jennie 1
Goldberg, Miriam Harris, 1916-2017 1
Grossman, Adeline 1
Hebrew Educational Alliance (Denver, Colo.) 1
Hoffman, Mary 1
Intermountain Jewish News 1
Judelowitz Family 1
Kauvar, C. E. Hillel, Rabbi, 1879-1971 1
Kirsch, Melba Diamond, 1922-2009 1
Kobey family 1
Kobey, Miriam Rachofsky, 1840-1921 1
Leder, Rose, 1889-1984 1
Leight, Carole 1
Long, Elaine 1
Lorber, Fannie E. (Fannie Eller), 1881-1958 1
Meer, Sarah Judd, 1904-1987 1
Miller, Surriee 1
National Home for Jewish Children in Denver (1928-1952) 1
National Jewish Hospital and Research Center/National Asthma Center (U.S.) 1
Niblock, Anne D., 1910-2005 1
Ornsten, Freyda Lynn Blumberg, 1936- 1
Rich, Rebecca, 1904-2002 1
Riskind, Ida (Edelson), 1903-1988 1
Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center 1
Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society 1
Rose Medical Center 1
Saphro, Eva (Berger), 1885-1984 1
Schneider, Sally, 1887-1981 1
Schoenwald, Mayme, 1892-1982 1
Segal, Dorothy, 1897-1983 1
Segall, Alby 1
Shwayder Camp of Congregation Emanuel 1
Shwayder Family 1
Sigman, Vivienne Joy Schoen, 1917-2011 1
Stein, Billie (Lillian), 1907-2002 1
Strauss, Aimee Peyser, 1899-1990 1
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