The sweep of family history across the generations
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.
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
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country