The sweep of family history across the generations
Our reconstructed timeline: How Elly and Helga Ringel were smuggled with SS escort out of Germany and across the Belgian border in October 1938
Isetta Stetson descended from early Massachusetts colonists, going all the way back to the Mayflower on one side. Nine generations later, her midwestern parents still upheld Yankee values
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
Today it is Rezekne in Latvia. In the 19th century, it was the village in Vitebsk Province where our Tulbowitz clan lived in the old Yiddish way
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
The estranged husband of Betty Ringel was one of the 1000 war evacuees who found safe haven in the only U.S refugee camp
Moses Ringel and Rose Lea Reichman raised a large family in Rzeszów in the Galizianer tradition