Oral histories
Found in 568 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Sally Schneider, 1979 August 30
Topics Covered: Life in the old country, working at age 11 stripping tobacco, parents very poor, father blind so sent to live with aunt, aunt was horribly abusive; police threatened to take children away; mother kept having children; Sally was in an out of school, eventually lied about her age and got married at 14, left school; worked to send money to her mother.
Oral History Interview with Sam Barter, 1983 November
Topics include coming to Denver; parents had already come from Russia and he came over around age 8 or 12 to join them. He was a newsboy for the Rocky Mountain News and shined news. Married Mary Mandel (granddaughter of P. Radinsky) when he was still in is teens, had 6 children. Later runs Barter Machinery. Charitable, very involved in Beth Israel.
Oral History Interview with Sam Beck, 1976 September 17
Oral History Interview with Sam Bloom, 1990
Topics covered: Coming to Denver in 1914, Blizzard of 1914, mom worked in a feed and hay store and dad hauled, shoveled and delivered coal, dad did lots of odd manual labor jobs to support his family. Later family had a hardware store, then appliance store. Family life.
Oral History Interview with Sam Boscoe, 1978 April 2-16
Oral History Interview with Sam Flax, 1976 November 3
Oral History Interview with Sam Robinson, 1979 August 13
Topics covered: Brief family history, from Robinson farming family; grew up around the home, both parents and grandfather helped the home; came on board in 1934; name changes- Denver Sheltering Home, National Home for Jewish Children, National Asthma Center; functions, activities and anecdotes related to home.
Oral History Interview with Sanford Green, 1988 December 1
Topics include: Family immigration from Budapest, Hungary to Kansas (where his father was born) and then to Alameda, Colorado. Family ran a general mercantile store in Antonito, Colorado. Later stores in Denver.
Oral History Interview with Sarah and Julius Meer, 1983 April 25
Daughter of Abrahm & Fannie Vear Juddlowitz from Lithuania, came to Denver. Family had 7 boys and 2 girls. Interview covers activities in Denver, JCRS, Ex-Patients home and BMH.
Oral History Interview with Sarah Bell, 1979 July 24
Topics covered: Born in Russia, came to Chicago, father had horse and buggy, talks about her children, son brought her to Denver, mother and life in Russia, memories of grandparents.
Interviewer note: When Sarah Bell was sad, her mother would tell her ''Sarah, don't cry, dance!'' At the end of the interview, Sarah Bell asked the interviewer Ann Lemberg to dance with her, ''so we danced around the room!!''