Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma counties, 1983-1984 : oral history
transcript / 1996.
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma counties, 1983-1984 : oral history transcript / 1996Creator/Contributor:
Lowenberg, William J., 1926-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Glaser, Eleanor, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Swig, Roselyn C.Creator/Contributor:
Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History ProjectCreator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Family background, Octrup, Germany; effect of Nazi edicts: move to Borculo, Holland, Westerbork Transit Camp, Birkenau, Auschwitz,
Warsaw Ghetto, Dachau death camps; liberation, 1945; arrival in San Francisco, 1950; real estate business; marriage to Fern
Ellis, 1957; president of Jewish Home for the Aged (1970-1971) and Bureau of Jewish Education (1973-1976); Federation executives;
accomplishments as president, San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation, 1983-1984; construction of headquarters building;
Jewish Agency; political and civic involvement; honors and activities in Jewish organizations.
Date:
1996 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJews -- Charities
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives
Antisemitism
Executives -- California -- Interviews
Zionism
Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
Juifs -- Œuvres de bienfaisance
Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Récits personnels
Antisémitisme
Juifs -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
antisemitism
Zionism
Jews -- Charities
Jews
Executives
Antisemitism
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
California
Jewish Community Federation (Calif.)
Jewish Agency for Israel.
Jewish Agency for Israel.
Note:
William J. Lowenberg ; with an introduction by Roselyn C. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1993. Regional Oral
History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Produced as part of the Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as Phonotape 2984 C:1-10.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyPersonal narratives.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (viii, 162 pages) : illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm
10 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.