Jewish Berliner who prospered as a wholesaler and later manufacturer of outerwear for men and boys. He died in Berlin in 1938 on the eve of a planned departure from Germany. His wife and only child completed that journey.

Isaak Wohlgemuth's widow lived comfortably in Berlin's Bavarian Quarter. She chose to remain in Germany when her family members fled the Nazi persecutions. She died of natural cause in Berlin in 1942

Pogrom victim as a girl in Russia became the Ratner family matriarch in Albany, New York

Our Wohlgemuth family patriarch embraced the values and culture of assimilated German Jewry in the 19th century. Born in a small west Prussian town, he prospered in business in Elbing, Danzig and Berlin. He married Betty Katz from a merchant Kolberg family, and they had two daughters, Elly and Hilda. The family resided for 18 years in the elegant Woelkpromenade in Berlin-Weissensee before his death at age 63.

The progenitor of the Rabinowitz/Ruby/Robbins family in America descended from a branch of the Yesersky family believed to be related to the famous Kovno Rav, Isaac Elchanon Spektor. He raised a large family in New York City while trying to maintain Orthodox traditions

The founder of our Ratner family in America was born Abraham Bloch in Minsk. He came to Rostov, where he married Rose Tulbowitz. He avoided military conscription by changing his name and sailing for America with his wife and her mother. After a short time in New York City, the Ratners settled in Albany, where Abe ran a bottling business and fathered a large family.