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Suzy Post was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1933 during the Great Depression. Both sets of her grandparents immigrated to the United States from Germany in the early 1900s, bringing with them Reformed Jewish traditions. She recalls the Jewish…

This is a poster board created by Jennifer Murray and Katie Segal. The information and quotes featured on the poster come from an interview conducted by Carol Ely on September 8, 2016. This poster was presented at the Kentucky Jewish History…

This is a poster board created by Leslie Davis. The information and quotes on the poster are from an interview with Ezrine conducted by Veronica Scott, Lindsay O'Hara, and Emma Logsdon on November 9, 2017. This poster was displayed at the Kentucky…

Blue Prayer Comic Flyer. Front and Back (one page). Includes a letter, and telling students to know their rights as Jewish people

Dr. Stanley Saxe introduces himself and his family. He discusses his family's migration from Russia to America and his parents' life and work in the tobacco industry. He also describes his childhood in Malden, Massachusetts. From quotas limiting the…

Stanley Kravetz was born in Georgetown, Kentucky on March 4, 1934. Both his mother and father were born in Lithuania and immigrated to the United States as refugees. Kravetz discusses his grandparents’ lives, his experiences growing up in rural…

This is an image of a display window for Skuller's Jewelery, a business opened by Harry Skuller and continued by his wife, Lena, after his death. The business was located on 115 West Main in Lexington, KY.

This essay asks students to compare and contrast different survival accounts of the Holocaust.

Rabbi Sharon L. Cohen was born in 1969 in Miami, Florida. While her parents are both from the United States, her great-grandparents emigrated from Russia. Growing up, Cohen’s parents raised her in a Jewish home with strong values that eventually…

A picture of Scooter Stein that was taken before his interview in the recording studio of the Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky.