The sweep of family history across the generations
How did Betty Katz meet her end in February 1942?
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge
Most of what we discovered about Rabbi Spektor's genealogy was entirely true. All but the myth of our family's connection to it
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
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
Walter thought he had proved the family legend of descent from the celebrated Kovno Rav, Rabbi Yitchak Elchanon Spektor. Later facts emerged that suggested a more tenuous connection.
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.