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Romania

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Bercu Gross Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: B356
Abstract

The material in the collection includes items, photographs, and papers related to Dorothy Bercu Gross and her husband Norman Gross, her extended family, and her Vaudeville career in the 1920s and 1930s. Her father owned the Chicago Hide, Fur and Wool Company in Douglas, Wyoming and Denver, Colorado. The collection spans from the late 1800s to 2015 and illustrates an extended Jewish family and vaudeville performers.

Dates: 1904-2015
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Bercu Gross Family Collection

Contact Prints from Sadie Rosenblatt, between 1899-1911

 Item
Identifier: B063.05.0005.00048
Abstract

Contact prints of 35 millimeter roll of film. Images are from Sadie Schwartz Rosenzweig Rosenblatt. Most of the photographs depict various members of Sadie's family posed for formal studio portraits. One photograph shows three Rosenblatt brothers with their bakery wagon in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photographs are identified on a piece of paper included with the image.

Dates: between 1899-1911
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B063, Beck Archives Photograph Collection / Families and Groups / Box 5

Dr. Noa Dymenberg, 1933 March 16

 File
Identifier: B111.03.0003.0004
Abstract Dr. Noa Dymenberg was born in Sifean (sp?), Romania (in the region of Basseribia). Dymenberg joined his father in the lumber business while also studying to be a rabbi, but decided to leave Romania to escape conscription in the army. He went to live with an acquaintance in Vienna, Austria, and began studying under him to become a doctor. Dymenberg soon emigrated to the northern United States, where he attended Midway College and settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Also copy of poem he created...
Dates: 1933 March 16
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B111, Beck Archives Biographical Materials Collection / Series 3, D-F / Box 3

Industrial Removal Office Colorado Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: B171
Abstract The Industrial Removal Office (IRO) was created in New York to Americanize Eastern European Jews, find jobs for the immigrants, and relocate them throughout the United States. The Jewish Relief Society and the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith (B'nai B'rith) in Denver worked to resettle the immigrants in Colorado. Lesser Levy and Milton Schayer headed the industrial removal committee of the B'nai B'rith. The collection contains copies of correspondence from the Industrial Removal Office...
Dates: 1903-1916
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / Industrial Removal Office Colorado Correspondence

Oral History Interview with Hannah Pearl Goodman, 1978

 Item
Identifier: B098.04.0007.00005
Abstract Topics covered: Born and grew up in New York, came to Denver in 1907 with her family to be closer to her mother’s extended family, parents originally from Romania, she thought Denver was terrible because it wasn't anything like New York, went to work at the Golden Eagle, worked as a candy packer for a while filling chocolate boxes, family had a little grocery store, story of how she was set up with her husband and their wedding, living in Grand Junction and Tabernash because her husband...
Dates: 1978
Found in: Special Collections and Archives / B098, Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Oral History Collection / Beth Israel Residents / Box 7

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