I am still plumbing our original photo archive—which is to say boxes of unsorted photo prints—for images relevant to the project. Yesterday I went looking for photos of a 1959 Christmas on Green Valley Drive. I didn't find what I was looking for but I discovered a trove of other photo sets that I will want to post here. 

This morning I hooked up my scanner and here is the very first important addition to our Storyspace photo library. I have been posting recently about Helga's cousin Edith Krausz, who passed away at in 2007 at age 96. 

Most of the saga of our family's German citizenship restoration was unfortunately not recounted in the blog. Here is the full story of Joanne's successful application for restored German citizenship, and of Dan's rejection. Download the article here. 

A Family's Split Decision (2016)

Our founding document is the 50-page memoir "The Ruby Family Histories: The Early Lives of Stanley and Helga Ruby," written by Walter in 2006. 

Walter had always been the historian, as well as the most prolific writer, in the family. In the months after our father's death, he took the initiative to interview Helga about details of her life, especially her flight from Europe in 1938-41.