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Oral histories

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 568 Collections and/or Records:

Oral History Interview with Leo Mittler, 1981 November 27

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Identifier: B098.16.0011.00008
Abstract

Oral history covers her experience as a Polish boy growing up the ghetto during WWII, as a prisoner in seven different labor and concentration camps. Also describes difficulties of adjusting to life in America and his feelings about Poland and Germany.

Dates: 1981 November 27
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / Holocaust / Box 11

Oral History Interview with Leslie Davis, 2006 March 23

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Identifier: B098.01.0007.00169
Abstract

Leslie Davis' grandfather was Leopold Guldman, owner of the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Store, later department store, in Denver from 1880s-1940s. Lived with her grandparents from 1927 until she married in 1944, father worked for Denver Post. Memories of her grandmother, grandfather and his generosity and business practices, religious life, and growing up in Denver and the Guldman mansion.

Dates: 2006 March 23
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 7

Oral History Interview with Lillian "Billie" Stein, 1978 April 4

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Identifier: B098.11.0009.00001
Abstract

Topics covered: Early family life, learning to play the trumpet, father had a Taylor shop; life as a musician with her all girls band “The Harmony Girls”; had been on Junior Council, became vice president and then president of National Council of Jewish Women, activities they did (bowling, theatrical group), early council memories, hat council has done and still does.

Dates: 1978 April 4
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / National Council of Jewish Women / Box 9

Oral history interview with Linda Tillery, 1999 May 25, 2003

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Identifier: M450.05.00010
Abstract Linda Tillery recounts remembrances of growing up in a family environment imbued with African American music. In spite of this early exposure, however, it was not until she was 41 years old, after her parents died in 1990, that her interest in understanding African American folk music and spirituals deepened. At this time she embarked on an oral history project to study spirituals by researching written and recorded sources found in key U.S. archives and by interviewing primarily older...
Dates: 1999 May 25; Issued: 2003
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M450, The Spirituals Project Records / Digital Materials

Oral History Interview with Lon and Grace McCain, 1986

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Identifier: M054.01.0002.00006
Abstract Lon and Grace McCain discuss details about the University Park area of Denver, Colorado, including the effect that University of Denver has had on the neighborhood, the occupations of their neighbors, and recreational opportunities in University Park. They also provide background information on the neighborhood and its residents including John Wesley Iliff and Rufus Clark. The McCains give a brief history of their home, which was built in 1891 by Herbert Alonzo Howe, the University of Denver...
Dates: 1986
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M054, Barry Matchett University Park Oral History Collection / Oral History Tapes / Box 2

Oral History Interview with Loretta Eitelgeorge, 1986

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Identifier: M054.01.0001.00011
Abstract Loretta Eitelgeorge relates her personal memories of musical and social events in the University Park area of Denver, Colorado, the occupants of various homes in the area (some families included 3 generations simultaneously residing in the Park), the interrelationship between the University Park Methodist Church and the University of Denver faculty, the gradual build-up of the area, and the many trees and plants in the area, especially the Denver University Rose, cultivated by Dr. Ira E....
Dates: 1986
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / M054, Barry Matchett University Park Oral History Collection / Oral History Tapes / Box 1

Oral History Interview with Louis Charsky, 1979 May 31

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Identifier: B098.01.0003.00067
Abstract

Louis Charsky talks about working in chemicals and drugs which he'd deliver in a horse drawn buggy, growing up Orthodox and going to BMH, and liquor business.

Dates: 1979 May 31
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 3

Oral History Interview with Louis Cook, 1977 July 6

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Identifier: B098.01.0001.00011
Abstract Louis Cook discusses his father's emigration from Russia and describes Jewish life on West Colfax Avenue in Denver, Colorado in the early 1900s. He also discusses Cook's Russian Bath House that his parents Harry and Ida operated and the Cook's Bath baseball team, the early Hebrew Education Alliance, and his early career as a newsboy. Louis Cook was born May 8, 1895 in Denver, Colorado, where he lived all of his life. He married Susie Finer in 1918. Cook was one of the founders of the Hebrew...
Dates: 1977 July 6
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 1

Oral History Interview with Louis D. Bronstein, 1990 July 1

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Identifier: B098.01.0006.00141
Abstract

Topics Covered: Born and raised in West Denver, talks about religious learning, school and Jewish Community in Denver and family life.

Dates: 1990 July 1
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 6

Oral History Interview with Louis Melnick, 1978 June 15

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Identifier: B098.01.0002.00029
Abstract

Interview with Louis Melnick talks about life in Billings, Montana and about Jews in Montana. Melnick was very active in his synagogue serving as secretary and treasurer for about 55 years.

Dates: 1978 June 15
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / General / Box 2

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