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
Machinist Dan Ruby and his team members envision a new future for Family History Machine
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
Stan maintained correspondence with his closest high school and Army buddies, several of whom went on to prominent careers.
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge
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?
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
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
The estranged husband of Betty Ringel was one of the 1000 war evacuees who found safe haven in the only U.S refugee camp
Meta, Blossom and Sadie
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.