The sweep of family history across the generations
Two of the Ruby offspring went back to Israel for significant periods.
Dan supplemented his attendance at a Warsaw genealogy conference with a tour of family locations. Read his blog postings and view the post-trip video coverage.
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
How did Betty Katz meet her end in February 1942?
Stan maintained correspondence with his closest high school and Army buddies, several of whom went on to prominent careers.
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
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
The Ruby family comes of age in a bedroom suburb west of Chicago
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans
Before moving his family to Berlin in 1912, Isaak Wohlgemuth prospered as a mover in Danzig. His family roots were in nearby West Prussia.