The sweep of family history across the generations
Two of the Ruby offspring went back to Israel for significant periods.
Five siblings who stayed true to German ideals until the bitter end
Ed was the rector at Saint Martin's By the Lake in Minnetonka Beach, Minn. The family was raised in towns around the lake region west of Minneapolis, including in the church rectory
How did Betty Katz meet her end in February 1942?
Two young Berliners make a modern marriage—with lasting consequences
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Our family’s amazing year of discovery and connection
Militiaman Hezekiah Stetson homesteaded in Oxford County, Maine, in the years after the American Revolution
In a dramatic moment while crossing the Mississippi River, he broke with his parents' austere Lutheranism for a more ecumenical approach
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.