The sweep of family history across the generations
Before he became Abe Ratner, he was Abraham Blokh from Minsk.
After service in the War of 1812, Vermonter George Haskell set out with his third wife and many previous children for new lands in the west
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
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Herman Ringel and Walter Ruby wore opposing uniforms in the Great War
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.