# New London <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>New London (English)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>New London County, Connecticut, USA</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>41°21′N 72°06′W</td></tr> </table> ## Overview New London is a port city on the Thames River estuary in southeastern Connecticut, historically a whaling and shipping center. The first Jewish residents settled around 1860, and by the late 19th and 20th centuries the city supported a substantial Jewish community with Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform congregations (including Ahavath Chesed and Beth El), a Jewish weekly paper, and Jewish schools serving the wider southeastern Connecticut region. <small>Sources: Jewish Virtual Library — New London; Wikipedia — Ohev Sholem Synagogue (New London).</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Bertha Bernstein (b.1888)]] | Died 03/12/1918 | | [[Joseph Irving Burnstein (b.1921)]] | Born 06/11/1921 | | [[Shirley Z Burnstein (b.1922)]] | Born 12/23/1922 | | [[Paul Finkel (b.1931)]] | Born 06/27/1931 | | [[Samuel Burnstein (b.1881)]] | Died 09/11/1955 | | [[Lawrence Sander Hendel (b.1930)]] | Died 02/05/1959 | | [[Lilly B Burnstein (b.1909)]] | Died 05/15/1991 |