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Halina Wind Preston interview
Halina Wind Preston (1922-1982) was a Polish immigrant, Holocaust survivor, educator, and activist. Though she had planned to pursue higher education in the U.S., the outbreak of WWII prevented her from leaving her home country until 1947. The Nazis…
Halina Wind Preston interview
Halina Wind Preston (1922-1982) was a Polish immigrant, Holocaust survivor, educator, and activist. Though she had planned to pursue higher education in the U.S., the outbreak of WWII prevented her from leaving her home country until 1947. The Nazis…
H. Albert Young
(Born in 1904, Russia) H. Albert Young, the first Delaware Jew to be elected to statewide office, was attorney general from 1950 to 1954. In that capacity he argued the Brown vs. Board of Education case, on behalf of Delaware, before the United…
Estella Frankel Item #96
Estella Frankel (1902-2001), a second-generation Russian-American, was a Wilmington based violinist who began learning violin at the age of seven. She was heavily involved in Wilmington’s music scene throughout her life and taught music both as a…
Estella Frankel Item #159
Estella Frankel (1902-2001), a second-generation Russian-American, was a Wilmington based violinist who began learning violin at the age of seven. She was heavily involved in Wilmington’s music scene throughout her life and taught music both as a…
Drs. David and Ethel Platt
Drs. David and Edith Platt were physicians based in the Wilmington area. They established a private practice catering to working class people together after their marriage and completion of medical school. They remained with the practice for nearly…
Dr. Louis Levinson interview Item #135
Dr. Louis Levinson was a veterinarian, politician, and WWI army veteran from Middletown, Delaware. He grew up on a farm in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, where he acquired his love of caring for animals, and went on to study veterinary medicine at the…
Dr. Abraham A. Golden early memory of Jewish Wilmington Item #131
Dr. Abraham A. Golden was a former Chief Petty Officer in the Navy and an osteopathic doctor who completed his clinical fellowship at Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. In this interview, he discusses his family’s background, his early life and…
Dora Markowitz interview Item #134
Dora Markowitz was a Polish immigrant who moved to the U.S. in her late teens. Though she originally worked as a milliner in New York City, she became a homemaker and a farmer after she and her husband purchased farmland in Kent County, Delaware.…