The sweep of family history across the generations
Our reconstructed timeline: How Elly and Helga Ringel were smuggled with SS escort out of Germany and across the Belgian border in October 1938
Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.
The Ringel family crossed from Lisbon on the SS Guine—but their entry to the U.S. was anything but routine