Boston (Mass.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Bernard L. Gorfinkle Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-664 and P-664A
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, news clippings, ephemera and a scrapbook compiled by Bernard L. Gorfinkle, a Boston area lawyer and civic leader who served in the United States Army during both World Wars and was a participant in the negoriations leading to the Treaty of Versailled and the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
Dates:
undated, 1914-1979
Herbert Gorfinkle Papers
Collection
Identifier: P-904
Abstract
Herbert Gorfinkle was the eldest child and only son of Colonel Bernard and Frieda Gorfinkle of Newton, Massachusetts. Born in 1923, Gorfinkle came of age during World War II and entered the U.S. Army while an undergraduate at the University of New Hampshire. As a Tech 5 combat engineer, Gorfinkle was responsible for clearing landmines ahead of his advancing unit. He was also a trained army photographer, and aside from his letters home, he documented his years in the war with photographs. A...
Dates:
undated, circa 1850s-2000