Denver (Colo.)
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Boris Schatz Collection
Contains a photocopy of the printed English version of Schatz's autobiography, written in 1905 in Bulgaria and published in 1925 in Jerusalem. It includes reference to his visit to the St. Louis Exhibition (1904 World's Fair) by which he was deeply affected and to which he contributed a fountain. Also included are photocopies of Schatz's obituaries from The Rocky Mountain news and The Denver post, reporting his death in a Denver Colorado hospital where he stopped off for treatment on his way from California to Hungary.
Isaac W. Bernheim papers
Consists of typed copies of letters sent to Isaac and Bernard Bernheim by the Board of Park Commissioners, Louisville, KY, and Andrew D. White, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, on the occasion of the Bernheim brothers' gift of a statue of Thomas Jefferson by Moses Ezekiel to the city of Louisville (1899-1900). Also includes a typed copy of a speech given by Isaac Bernheim to the Hillel Club, Denver, Colorado, 1938, in which he expresses his opposition to political Zionism and advocates the founding of a "Reform Church of American Israelites."
Rahn Family Collection
The Rahn Family Collection centers on the lives of Alfred and Lilli (née Bechmann) Rahn, but also contains many documents of their parents, siblings, and even more distant family members. It also documents the family members' attempts to receive restitution for their losses. The collection includes a large amount of correspondence, official, personal, and legal documents, photographs and photo albums, financial documentation, manuscripts and fragments of creative and academic writing, family trees and genealogical notes, newspaper clippings, poetry, educational certificates and diplomas, texts of lectures, teaching materials, a few recipes, and other papers.
Records of the Industrial Removal Office
The Industrial Removal Office was created as part of the Jewish Agricultural Society to assimilate immigrants into American society, both economically and culturally. It worked to employ all Jewish immigrants. The collection contains administrative and financial records, immigrants' removal records, and correspondence. A database has been constructed to search for persons removed by the Industrial Removal Office.
Records of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (Denver, Colo.)
This collection contains annual reports, promotional materials and publications produced by the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society, which was organized in 1904 to combat all stages of tuberculosis. Publications consist of newsletters, magazines and bulletins covering the years 1915-1918, 1922-1955, as well as a historical essay describing the work conducted by the relief society from 1904-1934.
Senta Gerstein Collection
This collection contains the text of several speeches delivered by Senta Gerstein (née Meyer), as well as numerous award certificates for Gerstein's social work and a few letters of recommendation dating to her life in 1930s Hamburg.