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.
In 1907, Moritz Feidt built a department store in Berlin Stieglitz. It still stands today
Social reformer Nathan Meeker was among nine men killed in an uprising of Ute Indians at the White River reservation where he was serving as U.S. agent. His wife and daughter—Smith family descendants—were held hostage for three weeks
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution
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.