wa00004. Autobiographical Resources: Diaries, Memoirs, and Oral Histories
Record Group
Identifier: wa00004
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
A Political Dialogue: Iowa's Women Legislators oral histories
Collection
Identifier: IWA0089
Abstract
Interviews with Iowa women legislators conducted by Suzanne O'Dea Schenken.
Dates:
1988-1993
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bertha Korn Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0434
Abstract
Writer and life-long student who was active in the Sisterhood (Jewish aid society) at the Beth El Jacob Synagogue in Des Moines and Hadassah, a national organization aiding disadvantaged Jews, primarily children.
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Rosalie Braverman papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0259
Abstract
Community activist in civic and Jewish organizations in Iowa City, Iowa.
Dates:
1929-2010
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ruth Salzmann Becker papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0123
Abstract
Nurse and community activist in Iowa City who, as a young Jewish woman, fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to the United States.
Dates:
1858-2012
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Shloss and Mannheimer Families papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0334
Abstract
Prominent Des Moines families including Irma Mannheimer, her husband Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer of Temple B'nai Jeshurun, and her parents, Rose and Max Shloss—the owners of Lederer and Strauss and Company.
Dates:
1896-1986
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives