The sweep of family history across the generations
Rosa Ringel married Pinkas Twiasschor in a borough of London in January 1911, at the same time that Twiasschor's sister wed another Berlin businessman. What was that all about?
Ed loved crosswords, so Dan Ruby created a tribute puzzle for his memorial. Kate and Twyla were the clue crew.
Betty Ringel's two daughters were able to leave Germany before 1938. They were in the twenties and they settled in London.
Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast
Members of a farming family took to the sea both as an occupational calling and a means of emigration
Ed was the rector at Saint Martin's By the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. The family was raised in towns around the lake region west of Minneapolis, including in the church rectory
Ed officiates at a movie wedding
Twyla Ariel Eilertsen Ruby was born on August 7, 1985
Just a bit about Twyla, Gene, Zach and Lani.
German refugees in the UK, even Jews like Gerhart Feidt, were deemed potential enemy aliens
In December 1937, the Feidt and Lewi family members share a last holiday together
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
From Red Hook to Gerritsen Beach to Bay Ridge, Jack and Camilla Eilertsen lived the Norwegian immigrant experience in Brooklyn
The estranged husband of Betty Ringel was one of the 1000 war evacuees who found safe haven in the only U.S refugee camp
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
The Twiasschors settled in Berlin in several waves from Kolomiya, Ukraine
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.
Outlooks of a pre-millennial