If you want to take a deeper dive into Felson Family history, check out the materials in the American Jewish Archives, as described below. To learn more about Lyakhovichi and the people who lived there, check out JewishGen.org.

Archives

In addition to the material on this site, there are Felson family archives at Hebrew Union College in the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio. To access these materials, contact Aliza Spicehandler at (513) 487-3000.

Leo Felson

Leon Felson’s papers:  MS 349  Box 5, Folder 1.

Series B. Personal. 1944-1983. [1.5 Hollinger boxes]

Box 5 of Leo’s papers contain personal clippings and memorabilia about Leon Felson.  This consists mostly of wartime correspondence between Leo and his wife, Evelyn from Hawaii and Tsinatao, China (Folders 2 and 3) and a voluminous trove of war-time letters written by Walter and Ben to those back home (Folder 1).  There are also letters from those on the home front (Sophie, Ros, Evy) written to other family members (Folder 1). 

Ben Felson

Ben Felson’s papers, also at Hebrew Union College (MS 849) in a file titled “Felson Family Papers” 

This collection (in a single box) consists primarily of correspondence between various family members of the Felson and Raphaelson families. The bulk of the material centers around Benjamin and Virginia (Raphaelson) Felson and Jacob Raphaelson, with assorted materials pertaining to other family members.

Ben Felson’s Medical Archive is located in The Henry R. Winkler Center at the Health Sciences Library at the University of Cincinnati. 

This trove contains videotaped interviews by Ben of medical luminaries and of interviews of Ben by others.  It also contains correspondence, photographs, and material from his career at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, particularly from his time as the director for the Department of Radiology.   There are 31 boxes, in all.  Box 31 is a folder of family photos.  

Geneology

Joe Brant has donated Nancy Paula’s archives, which includes many files on the Felson family.  The files contain legal documents such as birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, passenger lists.  There is a file on Leyachovichi, (Lithuania, now Belarus), Esther Busel Felson’s home town, that includes a detailed map of the town, as well as Nancy Paula’s work on family history (Busel-Felson family).