President, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma counties, 1983-1984
By: William J. Lowenberg ; with an introduction by Roselyne C. Swig. Interviews conducted by Eleanor Glaser in 1993. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Glaser, Eleanor.; Swig, Roselyne C.; Jewish Community Federation Leadership Oral History Project.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1996
Subjects: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.; Jewish Agency for Israel.; Jews -- Charities.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.; Antisemitism.; Executives -- California -- Interviews.; Zionism.; Jews -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.
Genres: Personal narratives.; Interviews.
Description: 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.