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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.…

Died age 93, February 25, 2002
Public school teacher 20+ years, first woman president of the JCC, president since 1959 of the Harry Cohen Foundation
Graduated University of Pennsylvania, post graduate work at Hunter College (NYC)
Harry Cohen…

(Born in 1900, Wilmington, Delaware)
Known as the “Carnival King,” Harry Schagrin supplied rides and prizes for the annual carnivals of the volunteer fire companies on the Delmarva Peninsula. In his travels, Schagrin saw a new gas cooking stove that…

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…

Holocaust survivor and educator

Sarah Francis Goldstein was a native of Delaware, she grew up in Wilmington, attended Wilmington Public Schools, graduated from the University of Delaware in 1930, received a MS in music education from the University of Pennsylvania, and studied at…

Lena and Joseph Blatman owned Blatman's Bakery. She had two sons, Morris E. and Arthur, and four daughters, Ida Geller, Doris Himber, Frances Bellak, and Rosalyn Epstein. Arthur Blatman was killed in action on March 8, 1945 in Germany.

Excerpt of interview presented at the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware annual meeting, April 3, 2022

At Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth