The sweep of family history across the generations
Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who staked claims in Wapello County near Ottumwa in May 1843
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
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
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.