Keywords: Europe
Item 11948
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1892 Location: Skowhegan Media: Cabinet photograph
Item 102497
Donation certificate for starving European children, Portland, 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1921-02-01 Location: Portland; New York Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue
Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.
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Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation
Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.
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Lincoln, Maine - Paul Fleming, WW II, South Germany, 1945
His service was mainly in Europe, fighting in the well-known Battle of the Bulge in Germany. He was discharged on February 14, 1946.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Montpelier
Bullfinch’s travels to Europe in the late 18th century acquainted him with the Scottish architect Robert Adams, who popularized the Adamesque style…
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
