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.
An innovator in modern dance and choreography since breaking in with the Murray Lewis Dance Company in the 1980s. The Ratners moved geographically. Janis moves artistically.
When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? He may have gotten the idea during intermission at a Bronx nickelodeon
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?
Abe Blokh became Abe Ratner to avoid conscription and get out of Russia. With his young wife and her mother, they voyaged from Bremen to Leeds to New York
Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse
A surprising artifact discovered after a parent's death leads to a series of discoveries and a new pastime in genealogy
Leon Klein continued to work for American Spirits as its upstate New York sales representative
From 1880s to the 1930s, the Ringel family prospered in the garment trade in the German capital. Herman made men's outerwear.