Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People: Marion Kreith

Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People is back! Join Museum of Boulder for their 12th season of this well-loved speaker series. This series highlights the innovative people whose connection to our city makes Boulder the remarkable place that it is today. This season’s theme is Diversity and Partnership, and they have chosen to collaborate with eight impactful Boulder organizations that have made immense contributions to the living history of our community. This speaker, presented in collaboration with the Boulder JCC is Marion Finkels Kreith. 

Marion Finkels Kreith was born in Altona, Germany in 1927. Her family fled Germany in 1938 to escape the Nazis. After three harrowing years crossing Europe, living some time in Belgium, they received visas to travel to Cuba and boarded a ship in Portugal in 1941. In Havana, they found safety from the Holocaust, and Marion worked as a teenager in the flourishing diamond business there to support her family. In 1946, the family was able to immigrate to the United States. She has lived in Boulder, Colorado since 1959.