The sweep of family history across the generations
How did Betty Katz meet her end in February 1942?
Our years in Pittsburgh were spent in a tract house in a natural wonderland—backed up against a family farm and an equestrian estate.
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
Stan summered at a Jewish summer camp in the Adirondacks.
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.