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Alice Grossman papers, 1950-1979.
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Title:
Alice Grossman papers, 1950-1979Creator/Contributor:
Grossman, Alice, 1909-2007, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2008.23.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeCreator/Contributor:
Online Archive of CaliforniaAbstract:
The collection consists of some biographical materials, Alice Grossman's personal documents, including her World War II service
discharge documents, a scrapbook with original letters and photographs, a small amount of correspondence, and a loose photograph.
The scrapbook documents the time Grossman spent working at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. In it are photographs of
and letters from Israeli political figures, including Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin.
Date:
1950 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caGrossman, Alice -- 1909-2007 -- Archives
Rabin, Yitzhak -- 1922-1995 -- Correspondence
Rabin family -- Portraits
United States. -- Army. -- Women's Army Corps.
Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
Scrapbooks
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Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number 2008.23
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Alice Grossman papers, BANC MSS 2010/646, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
Alice Grossman was born in 1909 to Louis and Ida Grossman. She had three sisters, Dora, Molly, and Anna. During World War
II, Alice served in the U.S. Women's Armed Forces and after the war she found work as a secretary with the Israeli Embassy
in Washington, D.C., where she remained for 30 years. She and her sisters Dora and Molly moved to San Francisco, where sister
Anna was already living, in the 1970s. All the Grossman sisters were active members of the Balboa Group of the San Francisco
Chapter of Hadassah and Congregation Ner Tamid.
Type:
Photographs.Certificates.
Physical Description:
1 box (.2 linear feet)
Language:
English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.