Ruby Family History Project
Join us on a multimedia journey into the Jewish-American roots of our parents, Stanley and Helga Ruby. May their memories inspire us
The Ruby and Ringel families are joined in the June 1948 wedding of Helga and Stan
Four generations of Ratners: Joan, Rose, Wendy and Selma
Elly Ringel on a park outing with friends
Hermann and Helga on the Kufürstendam
Walter Ruby in his office at Rockefeller Center
Passport and effects from the Ringel escape archive
Young pioneer: Ze'ev Sharon in 1937
Wohlgemuth headstone in the Starogard Jewish cemetery
Helga on the strand in Long Beach
Hermann Ringel starting out in business
Stan and Selma in Long Beach—he called her Muz
The Ruby siblings visit the Ruby family plot at Mt. Hebron Cemetery
The Rabinowitz men on a family outing
Seven Ruby-Ratner cousins, circa 1958
Betty Wohlgemuth, nee Katz, in a rare portrait
Vivacious Selma Ratner married Walter Ruby
Hilda took the Rubys to the racetrack at Longchamps in 1961
Joseph Rabinowitz preserved his Russian Jewish roots in America
Elly visited the Ruby family in Glen Ellyn
Stan, the bar mitzvah boy, chafed against religious structure
Sharon family members at Kibbutz Afek in 1961
Sophie Tulbowitz was born in Rezhitsa, Vitebsk Province (now in Latvia) and died in Albany, New York
Stan showed promise from his early days in high school chess club
Meta was the first Rabinowitz college graduate
A Rabinowitz family occasion in the early 1920s
Third generation: Joanne, Walter and Dan in Los Gatos
Fourth generation: Zach, Gene and Twyla take in a Dodgers game
Ruby family looks over Haifa from Mt. Carmel in 1961
1869 headstone of GGG grandmother Taube Katz
Story Portfolio
Discovery Notebook
Family Branches
Themes
People & Places
- Stanley Ruby (10)
- Helga Ringel (10)
- Elly Wohlgemuth (9)
- Walter Ruby (7)
- Walter Ruby (the younger) (7)
- Dan Ruby (7)
- Hermann Ringel (6)
- Isaak Wohlgemuth (6)
- Betty Katz (6)
- Hilda Wohlgemuth (5)
- New York, New York (14)
- Berlin, Germany (13)
- Long Beach, NY (7)
- Bronx, New York (6)
- Albany, New York (5)
- Glen Ellyn, Illinois (5)
- Oakland, California (5)
- Allison Park, Pennsylvania (3)
- Chicago, Illinois (3)
- Kaunas, Lithuania (3)