United States -- Emigration and immigration
Found in 14 Collections and/or 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.
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.
On Becoming A Westerner: Immigrants And Other Migrants In The American West, 1991
File folder contains conference script written by Earl Pomeroy about immigrants in the American West.
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.
Oral History Interview with Dorothy Segal, 1979 July 18
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.
Oral History Interview with Frank Quicksilver, 1979 July 25
Oral History Interview with Hyman Wright, 2002 October 16
Topics covered: Parents Russian immigrants came to New York, Hymie grew up in New York, went to school there but ended up in Denver looking for work, Married Hungarian immigrant Frida Eisen in Denver, changed his name from Rytsis to Wright when he got married (a few uncles had already changed to that name), drafted in WWII, lived and worked rest of life in Denver.