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?
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
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
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.
The estranged husband of Betty Ringel was one of the 1000 war evacuees who found safe haven in the only U.S refugee camp
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.