The sweep of family history across the generations
Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations
Betty Ringel's two daughters were able to leave Germany before 1938. They were in the twenties and they settled in London.
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
Insider dealings in the French jewelry trade. Swank cocktail parties for the Nazi elite. A rough-cut Jewish jeweler and his ebullient new wife. Where Henry Kissinger met Le Duc Tho.
The Ringel family crossed from Lisbon on the SS Guine—but their entry to the U.S. was anything but routine
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
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?
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection