Oral Histories

Capturing Our Community

A major project of the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is to preserve the Milwaukee Jewish community's history on film. Our current collection includes individual oral histories, groups such as the Labor Zionists, family videos like "Two Sisters: Recollections of Immigration," historical footage of Golda Meir, promotional videos, and community programs and events.

Please contact us at (414) 390-5730, or info@jewishmuseummilwaukee.org if you are interested in being interviewed. Your story is our history.

A

  • Abramson, Flora
  • Adashek, Frankie
  • Altman, Alfred
  • Altman, Joyce
  • Appel, Elaine
  • Appel, Joyce
  • Arbit, Bruce
  • Arbit, Naomi
  • Arne, Bertha
  • Askot, Jacquelyn
  • Askot, Mel
  • Atlas, Jeanette
  • Atlas, Lucille

B

  • Backer, Romaine
  • Bader, Alfred
  • Bader, Daniel
  • Barkin, Nir
  • Barnett, Joan
  • Barnett, Phil
  • Baruch, Judy
  • Baruch, Steven
  • Becker, Irv
  • Becker, Margery
  • Becker, Muriel
  • Beckert, Barbara
  • Belopolsky, Ovsey
  • Bensman, Phyllis
  • Berg, Bob and Donna
  • Berke, Elaine
  • Berkowitz, Nathan and Pearl
  • Berkson, Marc
  • Berliant, Sharie
  • Berman, Ruth
  • Bernstein, Eliot
  • Bernstein, Sylvia
  • Biller, Geraldine
  • Biller, Joel
  • Bilsky, Bert
  • Blanck, Natanya
  • Bogost, Rose
  • Brickman, Jay
  • Brill, Marian
  • Brusin, David

C

  • Chamoy, Pat
  • Charne, Irv
  • Charne, Merla
  • Cheplowitz, Yehuda
  • Chernof, Jane
  • Chernov, Ben and Miriam
  • Chortek, Doris
  • Chudnow, Dick
  • Cohen, Jack
  • Cohen, Neil
  • Cohen, Phillip
  • Cohn, Lucile
  • Colton, Beverly
  • Cooper, Richard
  • Corenthal, Michael
  • Cornfield, Jerome
  • Corre', Nita
  • Croen, Philip

D

  • Deshur, Jim
  • Deshur, Penny
  • Deutsch, Suzanna
  • Dizack, Harriet
  • Dorf, Eva
  • Dorf, Harriet
  • Dorf, Jerome
  • Driss, Esther
  • Dunkelman, Yvonne
  • Dygola, Jack

E

  • Edelstein, Judy
  • Edelstein, Marvin
  • Eder, Ralph
  • Effron, Susan
  • Eglash, Hyam and Sheila
  • Eglash, Judy
  • Eglash, Rod
  • Eichenbaum, Ken
  • Eichenbaum, Steven and Maureen
  • Eiseman, Larry
  • Eisenberg, Alan
  • Elias, Paul and Jennie
  • Elkon, Ed
  • Ellman, Susan
  • Erlien, Dee
  • Ettenheim, Milton
  • Ettinger, Suzy and Sally Waters

F

  • Fabric, Claire and Diane Sobel
  • Farber, Ruth
  • Felber, Estelle and Lois Stoler
  • Fono, Susan
  • Freschl, Stephen
  • Friedenfeld, Gerard
  • Friedman, Elaine
  • Fromstein, James

G

  • Gaines, Irving
  • Galron, Alon
  • Gellman, Jane
  • Gellman, Rosalie
  • Gendelman, Doris
  • Gendelman, Max
  • Gendelman, Sheldon
  • Gilbert, Eugene
  • Giller, Herbert and Ruth
  • Glazer, Gerald
  • Goldberg, Albert
  • Goldberg, Isadore
  • Goodman, Margaret
  • Grande, Donald
  • Green, Betsy
  • Greenberg, Beverly
  • Greenebaum, Donald and Janet
  • Gronik, Herbert
  • Guten, Judy

H

  • Habush, Robert
  • Hansher, Ervin
  • Heavenrich, Herbert
  • Heavenrich, Jill
  • Heilbronner, Barbara
  • Heilbronner, Frank
  • Heilbronner, Kathy
  • Hindin, Allan and Jeanne
  • Hindin, Dorothy
  • Hirschberg, Joseph
  • Hirsh, Annette
  • Hoffman, Mildred
  • Hoffmann, Lorraine
  • Holland, Stanley

I

J

  • Jacobs, Paul
  • Jacobs, Rachael
  • Jacobson, Bonnie
  • Jacobson, Marjorie
  • Jacobson, Thomas

K

  • Kahn, Irving
  • Kahn, Joyce
  • Kahn, Ludwig
  • Kane, Rudolph
  • Kanin, Elsie
  • Kanin, Harry
  • Kaplan, Alvin and Judith
  • Kaplan, Earl and Helen
  • Kaplan, Louis and Phyllis Lensky
  • Katz, Moshe
  • Kerns, Henry
  • Keyes, Audrey
  • Keyes, Jack
  • Kinkulkin, Rubin
  • Kissel, Leo
  • Knight, Leah
  • Kohl-Spiro, Barbara
  • Kozina, Anna
  • Krasno, Gloria
  • Kritzik, Stanley

L

  • Lakric, Eta
  • Lane, Ben and Belle
  • Lane, Marilyn
  • Lang, Amy
  • Langer, Jack
  • Larkey, Jay
  • Lauwasser, Marlene
  • Lee, Bernice
  • Lee, Mordecai
  • Levin, Lloyd
  • Levin, Sheri
  • Levin, Hal
  • Levin, Valentin
  • LeVine, Leonard
  • Levine, Nachman
  • Levings, Helga
  • Levy, Gerald and Ellin
  • Lewy, Leonard
  • Libber, Tobey
  • Lichter, Janice
  • Lichter, Leo
  • Lipchik, Eve
  • Loeb, Karen
  • Loeser, Louis
  • Lubar, Elliot
  • Lubar, Sheldon

M

  • Mallin, Sanford
  • Mann, Arlene
  • Mann, Jo Ann
  • Marcus, Linda
  • Marcus, Norman
  • Marcus, Stephen
  • Marcuvitz, Alan
  • Mayer, Ethel
  • Mayer, Fred and Renee
  • McConnell, Roger
  • McHenry, Thomas
  • McKinney, Harriet
  • Meissner, Marilyn
  • Meissner, Paul
  • Meyer, Richard
  • Miller, Beatrice
  • Miller, Robert
  • Minkoff, Florence
  • Miringoff, Miriam and Judi Ketten

N

  • Nankin, Armin
  • Neubauer, Donna

O

  • Orenstein, Lawrence and Miriam
  • Orenstein, William

P

  • Padden, Nancy
  • Palakow, Gertrude
  • Paley, Dorene
  • Paley, Miriam
  • Paley, Phil
  • Peckarsky, Vivian
  • Peltin, Sherwin
  • Pelz, Harry
  • Pelz, Marilyn
  • Perchonok, Barbara
  • Perchonok, Harriet
  • Perelshtein, Bella
  • Perlson, Eileen
  • Perlson, J. Lewis
  • Perlstein, Jerold
  • Pick, Joseph and Yvonne
  • Picus, Lenore and Ruth Berman
  • Pittelman, Frema
  • Pivar, Milton and Jerry Lewis
  • Pohl, Carol
  • Polacheck, Donald
  • Polacheck, Isabelle
  • Porter, Jack

Q

R

  • Rabenn, William
  • Rabinovich, Alla
  • Rabinovich, Ida
  • Rabinovitz, Ethel
  • Rakita, Lillian
  • Rand, Arthur
  • Rapoport, Amos
  • Recht, Barbara
  • Reichman, Bernard
  • Resnick, Clarice
  • Richheimer, Carol
  • Richheimer, Werner
  • Rickun, Joseph
  • Rieselbach, Allen
  • Rieselbach, Pat
  • Rosenberg, Lucille
  • Rosenblatt, Adolph and Suzanne
  • Roth, Jay
  • Rotter, Merton and Dorothy
  • Rubin, Jean

S

  • Safer, Jerome
  • Safer, Karen
  • Sanderson, Elaine
  • Sanderson, Robert
  • Sattler, Theodore and Dorothy
  • Schiff, Eleanor
  • Schlonsky, Reva Reitman
  • Schneider, Thomas
  • Schneiderman, Eva
  • Schuminsky, Norman and Beverly
  • Schudson, Ruth
  • Schur, Leon
  • Selig, Suzanne
  • Sernovitz, Ted
  • Sharpe, Rubin
  • Shikora, Barbara
  • Shikora, Melvin
  • Shomtkin, Yisrael
  • Shneidman, Doris
  • Shutkin, Joseph and Glenna
  • Siegel, Leonard and Marie
  • Simon, Paula
  • Singer, Dorothy
  • Slater, Martin and Charlotte
  • Slonim, Peter
  • Sosman, Annalee
  • Spector, Jerome
  • Spector, Michael
  • Spiro, Herzl
  • Spivek, Bernice
  • Stein, Barbara
  • Stein, Kenneth
  • Stein, Margery
  • Steinberg, Harriet
  • Steingart, Sol
  • Steren, Jeffrey
  • Steren, Jody
  • Stillman, James
  • Sulganik, Leonid
  • Sussman, Rose
  • Sweet, Norbert

T

  • Taglin, Max
  • Taglin, Tybie
  • Tarnoff, Michael
  • Taxman, Royal and Myra
  • Teplin, Ervin
  • Teplinsky, Lillian
  • Teweles, L. William
  • Teweles, Nicole
  • Traxler, Ruth
  • Tsirlina, Yelena
  • Tuchman, Herman and Chai

U

V

  • Vusiker, Lena

W

  • Wagner, Marvin
  • Wallace, Jerome
  • Waxman, Andrea
  • Waxman, Michael
  • Weigler, Jordan
  • Weigler, Patti
  • Weinberg, Marian
  • Weingrod, Esther
  • Weingrod, Herman
  • Winter, Hope
  • Wolf, Jacquelyn

X

Y

Z

  • Zaret, Eva
  • Zaret, Melvin
  • Zaret, Rosalyn
  • Zeiger, Selma
  • Zemel, Albert
  • Zetley, Marvin and Marilyn
  • Zetley, Sandra
  • Zieve, Charlotte
  • Zinger, Semen
  • Zucker, Donald and Dorothy
  • Zukrow, Edward

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