Photograph of the founding class holding baseball bats at the Torah Academy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Those pictured include: Mitchell Trockman, Gary Grantzburg, Loren Clayman, and Sherman Werner.
Created:
1945 - 1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait of George E. Haynes (1880-1960)at his desk, the third African American hired by the YMCA as a full-time, paid secretary at the national level in 1905.
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
A class picture of the pre-school students and teachers at George Kaplan Hebrew Seminary. The Seminary was founded in 1944 in St. Paul as a branch of the Hebrew Institute. It was intended to meet the needs of Conservative families on the West Side of St. Paul.
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
German Child at Wiesbaden Hospital, 1945. His parents, in anger, asked me why our American planes had done this to an innocent child...? We saw countless amputations of this sort. -Maxine Rude
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
This handwritten journal was created by Robert "Bob" Wyness, a gardener at the Glensheen Estate. Bob Wyness moved to Duluth in 1921 at the age of six, when his father George Wyness was hired as the Head Gardener for the Estate. After assisting his father for many years, Bob took over as Head Gardener in 1955. He retired in 1985. This journal con...
Creator:
Wyness, Robert
Created:
1945 - 1946
Contributed By:
Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Smiling young man and young woman. Young man with checked shirt carrying pitchfork and hoe. Printed on verso: "You can help harvest war crops by displaying this poster ... " see image MSP02350a
Creator:
Bruehl, Anton, 1900-1983
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Upper Midwest Literary Archives.
Foreground: Forest and small Goshawk painted on glass. The glass is painted black behind all the colors of the foreground forest and goshawk. Paintings on loan from the Univ. of Minnesota, Bell Museum. Display case: Jaques Art Center Collection
The George Kaplan Hebrew Seminary was founded in 1944 in St. Paul as a branch of the Hebrew Institute. It was intended to meet the needs of Conservative families on the West Side of St. Paul. The school building was located on Summit Avenue in St. Paul.
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A photograph showing members of the graduating class in caps and gowns. St. Paul differed from Minneapolis in that it supported two Hebrew schools rather than one centralized school. The Hebrew Institute and the Capitol City Hebrew School maintained their affiliations with founding synagogues: consequently, enrollments for the schools was smalle...
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Greta (Fischerova) Fischer, was a refugee from Czechoslovakia who fled to London at the beginning of WWII in 1939. Her parents,who remained in Czechoslovakia perished in Theresienstadt. Fischer spent the war years working in British nurseries and after the war immediately joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)...
Creator:
Rude, Maxine, 1921-2012
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Group of school children in two sections forming a corridor in front of a building to welcome a guest, most likely Kenneth Dexter Miller diring his visit to Czechoslovakia shortly after WWII as head of the American Relief for Czechoslovakia.
Created:
1945 - 1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Oil painting on canvas depicting a flooded forest and bird of several species: ducks, herons, egrets. A narrow spit of land with four trees rooted on it spans the middle ground, and the birds are flying, standing, and perching in and around these trees. The trees are also contain many herons' nests. This is the background of one of the eight "du...
Members of the Hey and Vav Club sit at two long tables which are set with coffee cups and saucers. A social club for members of the Jewish community in Duluth. Because Jews were excluded from gentile clubs, the community formed its own, which helped forge social and business connections among members. Membership in clubs also enforced an America...
Created:
1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Recreation Association which was founded in 1906 as the Playground Association of America and later known variously as the Playground and Recreation Association of America (1911), National Recreation Association (1930), and National Recreation and Park Association (1965). Initially...
Creator:
National Recreation Association
Created:
1945 - 1955
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
