Tachau, Eric S.

Date:
1979-01-17
Length:
90 minutes
Interviewer:
Chumbley, Kenneth
Transcription available:
no
Series:
Louisville's Jewish Community
Series ID:
9999_009
Interview Number(s):
__700
__701
Summary:
Tachau discusses his grandparents; his parents Charles Tachau and Jean Brandeis Tachau; his father's insurance business, E.S. Tachau and Sons; the Depression of the 1930s in Louisville; his father's relationship with United States Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis; and the efforts of Brandeis and Tachau to assemble a World War I history collection at the University of Louisville. Tachau also discusses his childhood, education at Oberlin College, civic and business interests, Red Cross Hospital, and the civil rights movement in Louisville.
Topic(s):
Jews--Kentucky--Louisville, Depressions--1929--Kentucky--Louisville, Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941, Civil rights movements--Kentucky--Louisville, Insurance companies, Businessmen, Jewish businesspeople