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Marshall Kuhn papers, 1922-1978.
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Title:
Marshall Kuhn papers, 1922-1978Creator/Contributor:
Kuhn, Marshall., creatorCreator/Contributor:
Jewish Community Relations Council (San Francisco, Calif.)Abstract:
Biographical, genealogical, and family information; school papers; business and personal correspondence; newspaper clippings
and articles; creative writing; organizational catalogues; brochures; skits; testimonials and awards; photographs; letters
from Charles Angoff and Ogden Nash; information about Hermann (Fritz) Graebe, a "Righteous Gentile," who rescued Jews during
World War II; and a recording of a San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council observance of a Holocaust commemoration.
Date:
1922 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- e-gx---Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Anniversaries, etc
Jews -- California
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Germany
Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Anniversaires
Juifs -- Californie
Justes de toutes les nations pendant l'Holocauste -- Allemagne
Anniversaries
Jews
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue
California
Germany
Angoff, Charles -- 1902-1979 -- Correspondence
Nash, Ogden -- 1902-1971 -- Correspondence
Graebe, Fritz
Kuhn family
Angoff, Charles -- 1902-1979
Graebe, Fritz
Kuhn family
Nash, Ogden -- 1902-1971
Conservationists
Jewish educators
Jewish historians
Note:
Formerly known as Collection Number 172.
Educator, health worker, historian, and conservationist. He was also known for his leadership and service in and for the Jewish
community. Committed to safeguarding the environment, he helped ensure the preservation of Sierra Club documents housed in
the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley; won the John Muir Memorial Association conservation award;
and served as the treasurer of the Strybing Arboretum Society in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. In addition, he was also
a board member of the Campfire Girls, the Judah L. Magnes Museum, the American Cancer Society, and many other charities and
social services; he was also the principal of the religious schools at San Mateo's Temple Beth El and at San Francisco's Congregation
Emanu-El.
Materials in English.
Type:
correspondence.photographs.
sound recordings.
Photographs
Literature
Personal correspondence
Sound recordings
Literature.
Sound recordings.
Photographs.
Photographies.
Enregistrements sonores.
Littérature.
Physical Description:
2.75 linear ft
Language:
English
Identifier:
2006585521