Hermann Ringel

Jewish Berliner who prospered as a wholesaler and later manufacturer of outerwear for…

Walter Ruby

The youngest son of the immigrant Rabinowitz family, Walter Ruby reinvented himself…

Stanley Ruby

Golden boy from the "greatest generation" inhabited his Jewish-American identity and values. He…

Helga Ringel

Born into a German Jewish family, she escaped with her mother at age 14 and built a new life as…

Elly Wohlgemuth

A cultured and affluent Berlin Jewish widow who escaped from Europe with her teenage daughter,…

Dan Ruby

Editorial technologist who created Family History Machine

Walter Ruby (the younger)

The eldest child of Stanley and Helga Ruby turned his youthful zeal for the Jewish state into a…

Schija Ringel

Settled in Berlin in the early 1880s

Moses Ringel

Patriarch of our Ringel branch. He fathered eight children with Rose Lea Reichmann in the…

Regina Twiasschor

Daughter of Betty Ringel and Pinkas Twiasschor. Known as Gina. She escaped Berlin with her…

Rosa Ringel

Sister of Hermann Ringel who perished in a Belgrade mobile killing van

Margot Shatner

Daughter of Rosa Ringel who perished in a mobile killing van in Belgrade in 1942. 

Betty Ringel

Sister of Hermann Ringel who married Pinkas Twiasschor and raised two daughters on her own after…

Ze'ev Sharon

Born Woif Schattner, Ze'ev went to Palestine as a young man, and therefore escaped the fate of…

Selma Ratner

Daughter of Abe and Rose Ratner of Albany. Married Walter Ruby. Mother of Joan and Stanley.…

Joan Ruby

Daughter of Walter Ruby and Selma Ratner. Brother of Stanley. Mother of Wendy, Marsha and Robert…

Edith Twiasschor

Ringel-Twiasschor family member who, along with her sister, escaped from Germany to London in…

Hirsch Zvi Ringel

Brother of Schija Ringel who was a rabbi in Berlin. Married to Perl Jacobi. Father of eight.…

Twyla Eilertsen Ruby

Twyla's graduate education in the history of science prepared her for a career in museum…

Jakob Schia Ringel

The Ringel brother who came to North America

Juda Leib Ringel

Brother of Schija Ringel who was a slaughterer in Berlin