The sweep of family history across the generations
It was a signature moment of the turbulent 1960s. Walter, 18, and Dan, 15, were there in Chicago, working as messengers for the Eugene McCarthy campaign.
Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations
Two of the Ruby offspring went back to Israel for significant periods.
In July 2003, Stan and Helga came to the East Bay for a golden summer outing.
In 1898, Paechter’s Kaufhaus in Tiegenhof came under repeated anti-Semitic arson attacks.
Machinist Dan Ruby and his team members envision a new future for Family History Machine
Just a bit about Twyla, Gene, Zach and Lani.
Stan maintained correspondence with his closest high school and Army buddies, several of whom went on to prominent careers.
She made each of her six grandchildren feel special
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
Helga expressed a commitment to liberal values in her lifelong work for the League of Women Voters.
Stan strung transmission wires in the South Pacific during World War II.
Stan's musical idol was Benny Goodman, the King of Swing.
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
From civil rights to war resistance to arms control, Ruby family members embraced liberal social causes
During the Depression, families helped each other out. The Kleins moved in with the Rubys in Long Beach.
Stan was smart and fresh, with something to say about almost anything
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
From Mozart to swing to the Grateful Dead.
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
Lee Harvey Oswald's killer Jack Ruby was not related to our family. He tarnished our family name in the history books.
Paechter descendants ended up on every continent after World War II.
Our Paechter family prospered in the Vistula delta town of Tiegenhof. But their roots probably go back further in west Pomerania.
Herman Ringel and Walter Ruby wore opposing uniforms in the Great War
Walter Ruby's boss in the liquor business became an influential figure in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Both Dan and Joanne applied for reclaimed citizenship under Article 116 of the German Constitution, but only Joanne’s application was approved
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin
Out of the files of the U.S. Patent Office and into the peculiar subculture of corkscrew collectors
In 1812 in Preußisch Stargardt, an elderly Jew Moses and his sons Salomon and Herz took the surname Wohlgemuth in exchange for Prussian citizenship rights. Our family, descended from Herz Wohlgemuth, stayed in Stargardt for the next three generations
A surprising artifact discovered after a parent's death leads to a series of discoveries and a new pastime in genealogy
Joan Ruby married Milton Felenstein. Their life and family in Rockville Centre.
Most of the family from Tiegenhof found their way to Berlin by the early years of the twentieth century. At first they prospered—until the coming devastation
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection
Before moving his family to Berlin in 1912, Isaak Wohlgemuth prospered as a mover in Danzig. His family roots were in nearby West Prussia.
The Wohlgemuth family settled in Elbing, near to Tiegenhof, during the 1890s, where they owned and operated a water mill.
First came Walter, then Danny and Joanne. They would carry on the Ruby-Ringel genes.
If Sholom Tulbowitz had gone to Dvinsk instead of Rostov, as his cousin did, his Ratner descendants might have grown up in Perm instead of Albany.
Outlooks of a pre-millennial
The U.S. liquor industry took off after the repeal of Prohibition. Walter Ruby was the marketing manager for the American Spirits company
Cherry picking the best content from our founding document written in 2006: "The Ruby Family Histories — The Early Lives of Stanley and Helga Ruby"
A newspaper clipping placed Walter Ruby on the scene of an automobile wreck in Hudson County, N.J. Not every lead pans out.
Walter Ruby hustled his way as a traveling silver salesman, with some career side trips into boxing promotion and medicinal alcohol.