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Rona G. Finkelstein
Rona G. Finkelstein (1927-2014) was an educator, author, and active community participant. She taught philosophy at Delaware State College and acted as the executive director of Delaware Humanities. In 2002, she published the book Where We Came…
Nisson Finkelstein Item #182
Nisson Finkelstein (1925-1989) was a physicist, businessman, and activist. He was the founder and former president of ILC Industries Inc., the company that designed and produced the spacesuits used in NASA’s Apollo program. He was heavily involved in…
Leo & Sybil Zeftel File #175
Leo Zeftel (1925-1999) was an organic chemist involved in the negotiations that resulted in an international chemical weapons treaty, ratified by the U.S. in 1997, and worked to raise awareness of the dangers of chemical weapons. He was deeply…
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…
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…
Bennett & Alice Epstein
Alice Epstein (1931-2006) was an educator and reading specialist who worked as a teacher in Wilmington public schools. Her husband, Bennett Epstein (1929-2008) was an accomplished chemical engineer with DuPont and an active participant in the civil…
Harry David Zutz
Harry David Zutz (1917-2008) was a second-generation Russian American insurance executive. Though he initially struggled to find work in the middle of the Great Depression, Zutz entered the insurance business as an office agent for U.S. Fidelity and…
Mrs. Rosa Keil interview File #149
Rosa Keil (1890-1980) was an Austrian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. at the age of 3, a homemaker, and an author of pose and poems. She wrote her 1952 novel, “A Woman Called Chaye”, while raising nine children. Keil was heavily involved in her…
Rabbi Gewirtz interview Item #140
Rabbi Leonard B. Gewirtz (1918-2003) was ordained in 1945. He moved to Wilmington, where he served the Adas Kodesch Congregation for over 50 years. As a rabbi, he began the state’s first bat mitzvah program, sanctioned a women’s prayer group, and…
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…
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.…
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…