The sweep of family history across the generations
Remembering our Ringel and Wohlgemuth/Paechter family members who perished in the Shoah.
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Ze’evs progency: a new generation of vibrant, contemporary Israelis.
Most of what we discovered about Rabbi Spektor's genealogy was entirely true. All but the myth of our family's connection to it
Herman Ringel and Walter Ruby wore opposing uniforms in the Great War
Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.
Walter thought he had proved the family legend of descent from the celebrated Kovno Rav, Rabbi Yitchak Elchanon Spektor. Later facts emerged that suggested a more tenuous connection.
A pioneer to Palestine in 1936, Ze’ev married Penina and they did their part to build the state of Israel as founders of Kibbutz Afek.