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A Look Back at the Jewish History of Southern Colorado

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Credit Rocky Mountain Jewish Archives.

Moritz Bernstein, third from left, dressed in a suit, stands with hands in pockets. Customers near him stand in front of Bernstein's Dry Goods Store in Walsenburg, Colorado. (Circa 1890).
Credit Rocky Mountain Jewish Archives

Four adults and twenty-two children on the steps of the Sons of Israel Synagogue. Congregation Sons of Israel was organized in 1903. Pictured here are members of the Hebrew School with their teachers. Standing second from the left is May Myers and third from left is May Margaret Golin. Fourth from left on first row is Rosalie June Golin (Kobey). Second row, left is Loretta Edith Golin (Gass) and third from left is Augusta Gertrude Golin (Meyer). (Circa 1915).
Credit Rocky Mountain Jewish Archives

The obituary photo of Dr. Otto Einstein. Courtesy of Tanja Britton.

Mrs. Moritz Bernstein, her son and daughter Eva and an unidentified woman ride on burros in front of the waterfalls at Seven Falls, Colorado Springs, Colorado, during a tour. Mrs. Bernstein's other son stands behind the group beside a taxidermies elk. All five of the men and women are wearing hats. Moritz Bernstein had a dry goods store in Walsenburg, Colorado, where the family lived and in other southern Colorado towns. (June 1905)
Credit Rocky Moutain Jewish Archives.