The sweep of family history across the generations
Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast
Helga expressed a commitment to liberal values in her lifelong work for the League of Women Voters.
When Hermann turned 21 in 1906, he presented documentation to secure legal German citizenship.
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
Today it is Rezekne in Latvia. In the 19th century, it was the village in Vitebsk Province where our Tulbowitz clan lived in the old Yiddish way
Both Dan and Joanne applied for reclaimed citizenship under Article 116 of the German Constitution, but only Joanne’s application was approved
In 1812 in Preußisch Stargardt, an elderly Jew Moses and his sons Salomon and Herz took the surname Wohlgemuth in exchange for Prussian citizenship rights. Our family, descended from Herz Wohlgemuth, stayed in Stargardt for the next three generations
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Moses Ringel and Rose Lea Reichman raised a large family in Rzeszów in the Galizianer tradition
From 1880s to the 1930s, the Ringel family prospered in the garment trade in the German capital. Herman made men's outerwear.
Schija Ringel came from Poland to seek his fortune in Berlin’s old Jewish district.
Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?
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.