Kaye and Don Kole Papers

Margaret Kaye Robinson was born December 10, 1935 in Savannah, Georgia, daughter of Samuel and Kate (Holitser) Robinson. She graduated from Savannah High School in 1952 and attended the University of Miami for two years. In 1975, she graduated from Armstrong College (now Armstrong State University) with a BA in English and a minor in Library Science. Kaye researched and wrote The Minis Family in Georgia, published by the Georgia Historical Society in 1992 and co-wrote The Jewish Community of Savannah (Images of America Series, Arcadia Publishing, 2002), Voices of Savannah: Selections from the Oral History Collection of the Savannah Jewish Archives (Savannah Jewish Archives, 2004) and Picturing Savannah's Jewish Community (Savannah Jewish Archives, 2008). She is the founder of the Savannah Jewish Archives.

Donald Kole (né Kowalsky) was born September 20, 1930 in Springfield, Massachusetts, son of Abraham and Beatrice (Wittenberg) Kowalsky. He graduated from Boston University in 1952. He then served in the military, notably Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, during which time he met Kaye at Tybee Island. The two were married on January 1, 1955 at Congregation Mickve Israel and have two children, Deborah Kole Shelton of Atlanta and Jeffrey Holitser Kole of Savannah.