The sweep of family history across the generations
Betty Ringel's two daughters were able to leave Germany before 1938. They were in the twenties and they settled in London.
Insider dealings in the French jewelry trade. Swank cocktail parties for the Nazi elite. A rough-cut Jewish jeweler and his ebullient new wife. Where Henry Kissinger met Le Duc Tho.
The Ringel family crossed from Lisbon on the SS Guine—but their entry to the U.S. was anything but routine
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?
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
Today it is Rezekne in Latvia. In the 19th century, it was the village in Vitebsk Province where our Tulbowitz clan lived in the old Yiddish way
Our best documented family line is Feige Kaufler's ancestry among the Jewish families of Krakow.
Moses Ringel and Rose Lea Reichman raised a large family in Rzeszów in the Galizianer tradition