The sweep of family history across the generations
Rosa Ringel married Pinkas Twiasschor in a borough of London in January 1911, at the same time that Twiasschor's sister wed another Berlin businessman. What was that all about?
Our reconstructed timeline: How Elly and Helga Ringel were smuggled with SS escort out of Germany and across the Belgian border in October 1938
Machinist Dan Ruby and his team members envision a new future for Family History Machine
Stan maintained correspondence with his closest high school and Army buddies, several of whom went on to prominent careers.
Amid the chaos of the Nazi period, the Zionist school in Charlottenburg taught skills and values that lasted a lifetime
After the war, Joe Liebman came back to Paris with a glamorous new wife. Oh, what a life they led
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
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?
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
The estranged husband of Betty Ringel was one of the 1000 war evacuees who found safe haven in the only U.S refugee camp
Meta, Blossom and Sadie
In 1912, Isaak and Betty Wohlgemuth moved to the German capital and settled in Weißensee, where their two daughters came of marriageable age
Joseph Rabinowitz’s mother was Bertha Yesersky. Was she related to Sora Yesersky, the wife of Rabbi Elchanon Spektor?
The Ringel sisters, Betty Twiasschor and Rosa Schattner, lived with their children in adjacent apartments on Lothringerstraße.