United States -- Emigration and immigration
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
Alan Saliman Family Papers
Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society Records
Max Rabbinoff
Max Rabinoff was a retired grocery clerk when he acted as a Santa Claus to children in the Lincoln Park housing project. He collected broken and worn toys, fixing and donating them to poor and sick children. He was born in Bobroisk Minsk Russia and emigrated from Belarus in 1908. He lived in Denver for 40 years. He was survived by his wife Jenny; four daughters, Celia, Ann, Helen, and Ethel; two sons, Abe and Leo; 14 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Mendelsberg and Tempelhof Family Papers
Miller Family Papers
Moses-Israel and Faye Goodstein, circa 1885
Digitized copy of photograph of Moshe Isaac and Faye Goostein taken in the 1980s. There are two separate oval photographs.
Oral History Interview with Amalia Banker, 1978 August 25
Topics include: Early life and memories, emigration from Jerusalem, emigration to Denver.
Oral History Interview with Barney Rubin, 1979 July 20
Topics include: Family background in Russia, father a tailor, family got sick in the epidemic in Russia and died when Barney was 14, resisted Czarist Russia and the draft so left for America, worked as tailor, life in New York, attachment to Russia clothes and ways.
Oral History Interview with Bertha Meltzer Wine, 1980 February 20
Oral History Interview with Bessie Toltz, 1979 August 24
Topics covered: Came to Denver from Warsaw, Poland in 1922; worked in garment factory in Poland, couldn't find job in Denver, ended up working in a Jewish restaurant- Rosen's, married a cattle dealer and farmer from Longmont; Jewish farm life; moved family to Denver; memories of WWI in Poland, desperation, starvation, no contact with their father during war who had come to US in 1913.