United States -- Emigration and immigration
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Oral History Interview with Isidore Caplan, 1978 July 20
Topics include: Early history, born in Kiev, what his family did in Russia; immigrating to America through Galveston, family farm in St. Joseph, MO, farming and labor on the farm, spoke Yiddish at home, met wife in Atlantic City, worked in amusement business, wife’s family background.
Oral History Interview with Rebecca Stein, 1973 September
Grew up with with her grandmother and aunt in a small town in Russia, antisemitism in the town, process of getting to America, working in a factory in New York City at 14 sewing ladies waists, later making house dresses and then a pattern maker. Came to Colorado because her mother was here. Married another Russian immigrant who peddled goods by wagon in mining towns. Moved to Texas when husband became an oil worker and had problems adjusting without other Jewish families in Texas towns.
Oral History Interview with Sophie Stillman, 1979 August
Topics covered: Lived in a poor village in Russia, mother would buy and sell chickens and eggs and father cattle, did housework in Russia, no opportunities there; brother came straight to Denver and worked in cattle; she came to US through NY, took train to Denver; she worked in a cigar factory, took some night school but quit, learned English from brother’s children; married, had 4 children, left husband but didn't divorce him; always lived on West Side, religious life.