Credits

This exhibit is based on family memories and personal scrapbooks, gathered by the members
of the Jewish Oral History Project, a community-led activity hosted by the Mattatuck Museum.
These stories are presented by the hundreds of area people who shared their stories,
the Steering Committee of the Jewish Oral History Project
and the financial sponsors who have supported the project over the last three years.
In addition to this exhibit, the project has created an archive of audio-taped oral histories
and thousands of photographed images and documents
that will be a rich source for future programs and projects.

Participants

Burton Albert
Howard and Sandra Androphy
Goldie Atkin
Edward Bieler
Bernard and Ethel Shiller Birenbaum
Molly Cooper Birenbaum
Helen Bisnovich
Mary Blank
Clayton Blick
Steve and Gloria Strauss Bogen
Meyr and Lydia Bram
Natalie Bram
Gary Broder
Jack Brownstein
Rose Matzkin Coshak
Isadore and Belle Cross
Szymon Cygielman
Harold and Sonya Seymon Davids
Joel and Jayne Demick
Florence Madnick Drubner/Robert Madnick
Ida Bisnovich Epstein
Florence Cohen Erlanger
Marilyn Eslami
Norman Feitelson
Nancy Freidman Fierberg
Dr. William Finkelstein
Rose and Gail Fishman
Paul and Elinor Fishman Freedman
Estelle Ganezer
Donald Garber
Edythe Garbus
Rabbi Seymour and Libby Gewirtz
Leo and Ethel Leopold Goldberg

Israel and Bill Goldstein
Morton Greenblatt
Milton Greenblatt
Louise Greenfield
Adlah Alexander Grossman
Carole Handler
Fred and Janet Meyers Hennick
Robert Holczer
Milton Kadish
Philip Kampner
Eugene Kaplan
Riena Leopold Kaplow
Harold Kay
Rachel and Jacob Kazimierek
William Kramer
Edward Landau
Ray Leopold
Dr. Harry Levin
Stanley and Lois Levin
Donald and Anita Liebeskind
Gerald Libby
Herbert Loebel
Sherman and Arlene Freedman London
Liliya Magidina
Mildred Malkin
Susanne Markwald
Jeanette Weiss Matzkin
Zelig and Evelyn Goldman Matzkin
Sid and Harriet Maxen
Pauline Newman
Ruth Paletsky
Terry Solomon Pfau
Irving Pinsky

Molly Potoff
Robert and Ella Matzkin Prillig
Natalie Rabinowitz Rapoport
Abe and Selma Raskin
Davis Rawal
Rebecca Levinson Rearson
Ida Fried Ressler
Vera Roosin Robin and Sarah Robin
William and Lillian Rosenblatt
David and Margie Meyers Ross
Harry Rubenstein
Frieda Rubin
Marjorie Ruskin
Hannah Sachs
Mortimore Saffran
Laurence Shapiro
Mark and Tamara Shlyankevich
Aaron and Lynne Simon
Dr. Joseph Sklaver
Penny Smith
Joshua and Miriam Solomon
Muriel Alexander Solomon
Morris Stein
Gerald, Sylvia, and Dorothy Stein
Betsy Cassel Stern
Morton and Fran Tarr
Bill, Audrey, and Roy Walzer
Rabbi David Wiesenberg
Beryl Weinstein
Edward Wilensky
Nelson and Roselyn Zackin
Thelma Zackin
Sol and Natalie Risik Zucker

We are grateful to everyone who shared their stories,
and we remember those participants who have since passed on.

This project was conceived by Beth El Synagogue and led by the members of the Jewish History Project Committee, who have guided the work for two years. They identified participants, collected objects for the exhibit, and planned the public programs held in conjunction with this exhibit. They read many of the transcripts and advised the project staff throughout the process of this project. We are deeply grateful to Audrey Walzer for her leadership and to the members of the committee for their commitment to the project.

JEWISH HISTORY PROJECT COMMITTEE
AUDREY WALZER, CHAIRPERSON
LEO AND ETHEL GOLDBERG
FRED AND JANET HENNICK
SHERMAN AND ARLENE LONDON
LAURENCE SHAPIRO
RABBI DAVID WIESENBERG, BETH EL SYNAGOGUE
PAULINE NEWMAN
NORMAN FEITELSON
MORTON GREENBLATT
LINDA HERMANN
NATHAN AND IDA LEIBOVITZ
NATALIE RAPOPORT
MARJORIE ROSS
DEBORAH SHAPIRO (In Memoriam)

Project coordinator: Marie Galbraith
Historian: Ruth Glasser, Ph.D.
Exhibit script, design and production: Ann Smith and Raechel Guest
Installation assistance: Jim McAvoy
Production assistants: André Kreft, Tina Gauthier, Manuel Velez, Randy Clark

Gary Broder’s research and writing about the history of the Jewish community
in Waterbury has also been very helpful in shaping this exhibit.

Sponsors

"They Found Their Way: Generations of Jewish Life in Waterbury" is a project of the Mattatuck Museum, Beth El Synagogue, and the Jewish History Project Committee.
The project has been funded by generous grants from The Foundation, Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut, Inc.; The Waterbury Foundation; the Walzer Family; the Martin and Celia Greenblatt Fund; the Burton and Sylvia Albert Fund; and the Connecticut Humanities Council.