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Date or Range | Story | Description |
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1940 | The Clerc jewelry aryanization files |
The Clerc jewelry assets were seized and resold to an Aryan buyer. The Nazis kept perfect records of the transactions. |
1940 | The Felensteins of Long Island |
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre. |
1941 | Final days in Kovno |
The amazing story of the unrelated Rabinowitz family in the days before the liquidation of Kovno. Two sons survived to make their lives in Israel. |
1941 | Lisbon to New York—with a detour to Havana |
The Ringel family crossed from Lisbon on the SS Guine—but their entry to the U.S. was anything but routine. |
1943 | Helga at the beach |
Elly and her daughter escaped the sweltering city for the pleasures of Long Beach. |
1943 | Lest we forget—Ringel Holocaust testimony |
Rosa Shatner, née Ringel, and her lovely daughter Margot perished in a Serbian death camp. In 1957, Rosa's son Ze'ev Sharon gave testimony. |
1944 | In the Signal Corps in New Guinea |
Stan strung transmission wires in the South Pacific during World War II. |
1944 | Mel Brenner |
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge. |
1947 | Grad-student life in a packet of letters |
Stan maintained correspondence with his closest high school and Army buddies, several of whom went on to prominent careers. |
1947 | Stan finds love outside of a 10-block radius |
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin. |
1948 | Hilda and Joe |
After the war, Joe Liebman came back to Paris with a glamorous new wife. Oh, what a life they led. |
1950 | Our Israeli cousins |
Ze’evs progency: a new generation of vibrant, contemporary Israelis. |
1950 | The Ruby-Rustad experiment—what went wrong? |
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics? |
1950 | Third Generation Rubys |
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes. |
1954 | Kindergarten campaigner |
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal. |
1954 to 2018 |
Our Brenner cousins |
Janis, Leslie and Amy grew up—each a star in her own way. |
1955 | Elly’s European travels |
Elly lived out her senior years in a studio apartment on the Upper West Side. But she lived for her annual European vacations. |
1956 to 1964 |
Green Valley Drive—our exurban childhood |
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate. |
1957 | Sputnik in the backyard |
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories. |
1958 | Mossbauer man—Stan makes his mark in physics |
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy. |