Poland
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Fred Zadek Salomon , 1872-1978
File
Identifier: B111.09.0009.0001
Abstract
Fred Zadek Salomon was born April 10, 1830 in Strelno, Poland and opened the first general mercantile house in Denver in 1959. He fought in the Civil War and was instrumental in the formation of Denver as the major city in the what would become the state of Colorado. Fred was involved with the Denver City Water Company, the Denver Chamber of Commerce, the Denver Town Co., Denver Lodge No. 171, B'nai B'rith, the Merchants Protective Association, the Denver Pacific Railroad, and the Denver...
Dates:
1872-1978
Genealogical Resources and Maps
Collection
Identifier: B395
Abstract
Contains the Shtetl Atlas which is a compilation of four sets of maps. One is a map of Poland published in 1929 which includes parts of Lithuania and Byelorussia and index of Polish towns and villages. The second is a series of maps of Byelorussia and the Ukraine, published in Astria-Hungary in the mid-nineteenth century. The third and fourth sets of maps of maps are also of Byelorussia and the Ukraine, published by the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The other publication is "Drucker's List,"...
Dates:
1941-1994
Golden Family, 1992
File
Identifier: B111.04.0004.0009
Abstract
The Golden Family Tree consists of histories of the familes of Samuel and Peshe Golden, Aaron and Hinda Hochlick, Hodes and Pesach Richberg, and Mielke and Efraim Bronstein.
Dates:
1992
Heller Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: B162
Abstract
Max Heller wrote a booklet on the Heller Family and compiled family trees for the Heller and Tajerstein-Auger families. He was born 1915 in the eastern Polish town of Wlodzimierz-Wolynsk also know as Ludmir. Collection contains family histories, family trees photographs related to the Heller family. Collection also contains photo albums from various schools, including Cheltenham, Lake Junior High, the Talmud Torah, and the Colfax school which were attended by Minnie Heller, Max Heller, and...
Dates:
1924-1984
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
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Heller Family Papers
Hyman Zadek Salomon , 1969
File
Identifier: B111.09.0009.0002
Abstract
Hyman Z. Salomon was born in 1832 in Posen, Prussia. He moved to what was then the city of Auraria, now Denver, in 1859 and is claimed to be the first Jewish settler in Colorado. He married Cecilia Joel and the couple had two daughters. Hyman originally set up as a mercantile man but he was also involved with the Capitol Hydraulic Company, the Platte River Ditch Company, and several other businesses in Denver along with his brother, Fred Z. Salomon. Hyman passed away on November 21, 1897.
Dates:
1969
Krakowiak Polish Dancers of Boston
File
Identifier: D002.01.0003.0009
Abstract
Photographs of the Krakowiak Polish Dancers of Boston
Dates:
Date Unknown
Letter from Walter Schuckman to Emil Loeb, 7 July 1945
Item
Identifier: B407.01.0001.0011.00004
Abstract
This is a letter from Walter Schuckman to Emil Loeb, written on July 7, 1945 at the Choir House at the Dean's Court in London, England. In the letter, Walter tells Emil about Emil's son Ernest visiting him in London. He apologizes that he cannot ask Ernest to stay with him, as he is living at his university. He says that he is surprised Emil's other son Frank is not married yet. He then talks about some of his war-time experience. "You know, in August 1944 I came from...
Dates:
7 July 1945
Louis Cohn, 1837 December 3-1899 July 31
File
Identifier: B111.02.0002.0021
Abstract
Louis Cohn (1837-1899) was born in Breslau, Prussia (now Wroclaw, Poland), and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1861. He traveled the Santa Fe Trail to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and opened a general merchandise store in the early 1860s. Cohn moved to San Luis, Colorado, in the early 1870s, and in 1876 married widow Juanita Mary Ruperta Valdez Cohn (1855-1895). In 1880, Cohn was elected as a delegate to the Colorado Democratic Convention, and was later elected to the Colorado House of...
Dates:
1837 December 3-1899 July 31