The sweep of family history across the generations
An innovator in modern dance and choreography since breaking in with the Murray Lewis Dance Company in the 1980s. The Ratners moved geographically. Janis moves artistically.
In December 1937, the Feidt and Lewi family members share a last holiday together
During the Depression, families helped each other out. The Kleins moved in with the Rubys in Long Beach.
Three brothers of the Kleemann family from the Weinberg district of 19th century Danzig operated a coffee and tea import business. Hugo Lewi married into the family and was a dealer in military effects.
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
A precocious Ratner girl takes on life in midcentury America.
Leon Klein continued to work for American Spirits as its upstate New York sales representative
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.