Family Story Finder
The sweep of family history across the generations
Action at a distance
Stan's Mathematica notebooks document his later work and speculations
Ghosts of Weißensee—the cemetery played on
How did Betty Katz meet her end in February 1942?
Helga at the Theodor Herzl School
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
Mel Brenner
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge
Mössbauer man—Stan makes his mark in physics
Stan's innovations in Mossbauer spectroscopy.
Rosa’s fateful choice
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Sputnik in the backyard
Watching Sputnik at night from our back yard in a suburb of Pittsburgh is one of my earliest memories.
The physics experiment that went wrong
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?
The problem with anti-ballistic missiles
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
The Rubys in Israel—1961 sabbatical
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection
The Stetsons of Sumner, Maine
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution