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Opening New Doors: Over a century of Colorado Jewish women in the professions

2023 RMJHS annual dinner video.

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A Legacy of Leadership: Colorado Jewish Women for 150 Years

This film was created for the 2020 RMJHS annual dinner.

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"Small Town Jews" Interviews

video includes the 2014 interviews with Sandy Vinnik, Evan Makovsky, Alan Golin Gass, and Ben Weindling. The interviews were conducted for the film "Small Town Jews: Creating Colorado…

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Nicholas Winton, The Power of Good

Video details the life and rescue mission of Nicholas Winton in 1938. Video includes additional information about some of the Jewish children he saved from Nazi violence. Includes a teachers'…

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Jewish Pioneers: Colorado Experience

Film by Rocky Mountain PBS about Jews in early Colorado. The film sourced materials from the Beck Archives.

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Constructing Colorado: Denver Jews and the City's Development

2019 RMJHS dinner video

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Taking to the Road: Colorado Jews in the Automotive Business

2017 RMJHS video.

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Striking Liquid Gold: Colorado Jews in the Oil Business

Brief biographies of Jewish men and women who were or who are in the oil business in Colorado. Written and directed by Jeanne Abrams for the 2016 RMJHS Dinner.

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Kurt Heimann Holocaust Story

Oral history interview with Kurt Heimann. Kurt, born December 7, 1912 in Berlin, Germany, describes being barred from advancing in his early career because of the German antisemitic laws in the…

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Lotte Heimann Holocaust Story

Oral history interview with Lotte Grünfeld Heimann. Lotte, born September 3, 1918 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her happy childhood in prewar Germany; her parents Leo (Eliezar) and Erna (Esther)…

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Out of the Holocaust: Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Grünfeld Heimann Part 2

Part 2 of oral history interview with Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Gruenfeld Heimann. Gerhard Heimann, born on September 29, 1921 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Berlin, where he…

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Out of the Holocaust: Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Grünfeld Heimann Part 1

Part 1 of oral history interview with Gerhard Heimann and Lotte Gruenfeld Heimann. Gerhard Heimann, born on September 29, 1921 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood in Berlin, where he…

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Margot Grünfeld Shafran: Escape from Nazi Germany Survival in the Shanghai Ghetto

Oral history interview with Margot Grünfeld Shafran. Margot, born on January 10, 1924 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her early years as a treasured only child; growing up with an extended…

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Lotte Grünfeld Heimann: Holocaust Story in 100 Years of Songs

Holocaust survivor Lotte Grünfeld Heimann sings songs from her childhood in Yiddish, Hebrew, and German. Songs in Yiddish: "Dos iz a sud derbay" (Perlmutter, Schorr; from the…

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George and Alexander Tscherny: Escape from Nazi Germany

In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, in December 1938, two young Jewish boys, ages 12 and 14, boarded a train out of Berlin for Holland, to escape the escalating brutality against Jews in Germany.…

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2022 Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society - Marlene Connors

2022 Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society Brief RMJHS Business Meeting followed by program Speaker: Marlene Connors "Welcome Moishe" Marlene Connors discusses her…

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