The sweep of family history across the generations
Three brothers of the Kleemann family from the Weinberg district of 19th century Danzig operated a coffee and tea import business. Hugo Lewi married into the family and was a dealer in military effects.
The Clerc jewelry assets were seized and resold to an Aryan buyer. The Nazis kept perfect records of the transactions.
In 1907, Moritz Feidt built a department store in Berlin Stieglitz. It still stands today
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution
A pioneer to Palestine in 1936, Ze’ev married Penina and they did their part to build the state of Israel as founders of Kibbutz Afek.