Our Family History
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| 251 | An athlete, died before his father “Before he married my mother, my father's children protested against the courtship, on the grounds that it would lower their prestige by his marrying my mother, since her first husband had been an ordinary shoemaker, a very low profession at that time among Jews. Two married sons of my father's first wife summoned him to the Rabbi of the town, and they warned him that, if he persisted in marrying my mother, they would not say "kaddish" at his death. My father, narrating the story, said that he replied: "How do you know that I will die first and that it will be necessary for you to say "kaddish" after me? Maybe it will be vice versa, and I will have to say "kaddish" for you?" And as fate would have it, it happened that the elder son named Abraham died earlier, and my father said "kaddish" after him.” | Treszczanski, Abraham (I417)
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| 252 | An MGM contract player, she retired from the screen after her marriage and later became one of the top real estate brokers in California, specializing in multimillion-dollar estates in such prime locations as Beverly Hills. (IMDB) | Joel, Thelma Gertrude (I244)
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| 253 | Announced the joint weddings of his sisters Lillian (to Sigmund Silverberg) and Bertha (to Morris Meyers), on 1/3/1909 (after the death of his parents) | Ephriam, Henry (I1104)
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| 254 | Apparently went by “Helen Kay” at some point (printed on letterhead) | Rosen, Helen (I831)
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| 255 | approximate | Ponemone, Morris (I89)
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| 256 | approximate | Ponemone, Morris (I89)
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| 257 | approximate | Jonas, Yetta (I90)
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| 258 | approximate | Jonas, Yetta (I90)
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| 259 | Around 1776, after the death of Hendel, he moved from Zeitlofs to Schluchtern, where his daughter was married to Lob Aron. After the law was passed that Jews had to take German family names, he chose the name Oppenheim after December 31, 1811 AKA Ben Naftali Kolonymos | Jehuda Lob (I116)
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| 260 | Arrived on May 18, 1934 via the S.S. Hamburg with brother, Salli | Rothschild, Ruth (I2274)
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| 261 | Arrived on May, 18, 1934, via the S.S. Hamburg with sister, Ruth | Rothschild, Salli (I2272)
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| 262 | Arteriosclerosis, acute dilation of heart | Hexter, Madchen (Mary) (I108)
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| 263 | As per Sylvia Bloom - a Protestant woman from a wealthy family in Oyster Bay, Long Island. | Betty (I5253)
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| 264 | At an early age, hit by a trolleycar | Bloom, Charles (I164)
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| 265 | At her home at 341 Elm Street, New Britain, CT | Cohn, Doris (Dora) (I2713)
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| 266 | Atherosclerotic heart disease and atherosclerotic peripheral vascular disease | Bloom, David (I26)
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| 267 | Attended Nettelhorst School, Chicago, Illinois, 1937-1943; Hillcrest School for Girls, Beaver Dam, Wis, 1943-1945 (boarding school - graduated 8th Grade); attended St.Katharine's School for Girls, Davenport, Iowa (boarding school) 1945-1949 - graduated 12th Grade. Graduated Empire State College, State University of New York, BA, Cultural Studies, 1989 | Rosen, Marcia Evelyn (I218)
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| 268 | Attended: The Walden School - West 68 Street, N.Y.C. High School ? University of Chicago New York University Columbia - Teachers College - B.A. and M.A. in Special Eduction Certification: Elementary Education - Learning handicapped etc. State of California Mental Retardation, Physically Limited, Emotionally Disturbed - State of New Jersey. Taught in a variety of schools for the above children both in New Jersey and California. Braille Institute - Last employment. Taught Woodwork - Current Events - English as a Second Language. Listed in Who's Who of American Women - l974-75 - also l977-78 Kalman Levitan - daughter Robin Elaine - ended in Divorce Frederick Scheinblum - ( Previously married to Lee Dardick ) Son - Robert Paul Son - Richard Children of Ruth and Fred: Rafe (Ralph) Randi Lynn Director - Lotte Kaliski School - Englewood Branch Owner/Director - Camp Randi - Milford, N.J. - l96l - l971 Had worked in the Nursery at Hillcrest Summer Camp - Riverview School in Englewood, and Fort Lee School System etc, | Bloom, Ruth Miriam (I146)
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| 269 | Attended: Twickenham Bording School - outside of London 1930 - Shanghai American High School Summer holiday - in Cheefoo with Parents, 500 miles north of Shanghai Yenching University - Peeking, China - l Year 1932-36: BS, University of Maryland 1936-40: MD, University of Maryland Medical School 1941: Mt. Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, Internship 1941-42: Mt. Sinai Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, Orthopaedics residency 1943-1946: In service, Army Air Corps (Captain), China-Burma Theatre, World War 2 1946-48: Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York City, Orthopaedics residency 1949: American Board of Orthopedic Surgery 1950: Fellow of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons 1951: Fellow of American College of Surgeons Founding Owner, Tenafly Racquet Club Sculptor, Tennis Player, Avid Reader. Awarded Bronze star (posthumously) for service in Army Air Corps in WWII, China-Burma Theatre Offices: 1952-1994 1 Brownes Terrace, Englewood, NJ 244 West 54th Street, New York, NY | Rothschild, Carl Eliot (I6)
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| 270 | Attended: - Cheshire Academy - 1 Year Yale University - Three Years - D. D.S. University of Pennsylvania Dental school - D. D. S. - 1945 Served U. S. Forces as a Dentist in Panama | Bloom, Daniel Herbert (I84)
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| 271 | Auto accident | Katowitz, Scott Aaron (I4042)
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| 272 | “..she was a high educated young lady, she wrote lots of poetry, also books.” | Hirschmann, Bertha Sutton (I2359)
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| 273 | “Active in City, Temple politics, member of Republican Town Committee” | Rothenberg, Celia (I3370)
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| 274 | “After Levi’s death, Rabbi Dr. Yehezkel Landau is his successor. On November 9 to 10 1938 the synagogue was desecrated and robbed by the rampaging hordes, the interior severely damaged in the so-called Kristallnacht. The synagogue has renewed and reopened in 2007 as Talmud Torah Beth Zion.” | Hoxter, Levi (I5927)
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| 275 | “Alert and very literate, an active reader. Provided home for her married children at the start of their marriage” | Schwartz, Anna (I34)
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| 276 | “As a prominent Lawyer and City Council member, he was a civic leader in Dallas for decades.” | Hexter, Victor Henry (I1054)
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| 277 | “Died” in source, ? in infancy | Rothschild, Bertha (I5492)
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| 278 | “Elliott was born Elliott Richard Dickstein. Sometime later, not sure when, he changed to Elliott Richards, his current name, always seems to have had two Ls and two Ts. His three kids were born with last name Dickstein but sometime around or after divorce with his wife Joelle Katan, all three changed last name to Katan.” “On Tuesday, August 13, 2019, Elliott Richards, loving Father of Paul, Tania and Tessa and proud Papa of Dia and Dara, passed away at the age of 78. Elliott was born on April 4, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York to Pauline and Harry Dickstein. He attended James Madison High School and served in the U.S. Army. Elliott had a storied career including several years driving a New York City taxi-cab and serving as taxi coordinator for Yellow Cab at Long Beach Airport for over thirty years. He loved his coworkers, especially Chip and J.R. Elliott is survived by three children, Paul Solomon Katan (wife Indira), Tania Lisa Katan (wife Angela) and Tessa Katan Greene (husband Kevin) and by two grandchildren, Dia Rose Katan and Dara Jade Katan. He had two brothers and one sister and enjoyed spending time with cousins, nieces and nephews. He is survived by a large extended family that includes his former wife Joelle Katan as well as her brother, sister and family with whom he continued to celebrate holidays. He was a long and loyal friend to many, including childhood friends from his days playing stickball in the streets of Brooklyn to the Long Beach crew. Elliott truly celebrated nature. A lifelong fisherman, walker and bicyclist; from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with trips to Alaska, Yosemite, Vancouver, Maui, and El Dorado Park. If there were fish, trails, flowers, or birds; Elliott would catch, hike, smell, or smile his way through nature. Like a giant kid, he enjoyed nature walks, animals and the outdoors, eager to take vacations to seek new adventures. But most of all, Elliott cherished his family time and his role as a grandfather. He was proud of his children and their accomplishments. He enjoyed striking up conversations with anyone he met and his style and charm ensured that he never met a stranger. He was a grand storyteller with a quick and witty sense of humor. Our Dad always knew how to be the life of the party and he loved a good story. As we grieve and remember him, we ask that you please share your stories of Elliott in celebration of his life and memory to keep the party going just a little bit longer. The Family suggests sending memorial contributions to: El Dorado Nature Center c/o Friends of El Dorado Nature Center 7550 E. Spring Street Long Beach, CA. 90815” | Richards, Elliott (I4935)
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| 279 | “French-American resident of England” | ?, ? (I5176)
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| 280 | “Her first marriage was to Dudley V. Brand. The two became estranged over Joyner's acting career pursuit. During an argument on August 11, 1927, Brand fired two shots through a closed bedroom door, one shot injuring Joyner in the arm. Clarence Joyner was on hand to protect his sister by restraining Brand” Jealous Husband Shoots Actress", The Southeast Missourian. August 11. 1927. pg. 1. Web. April 3. 2011 | Joyner, Joyzelle (I5076)
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| 281 | “I remember meeting him when we came to this country. He was living at that time with his fifth wife, having buried two and divorced two! He lived to be about 90. He was a beautiful looking man. So was my other grandfather. Both had beautiful physiques.” -Louis Rosen, writing about his grandfather Avram | Meretsky, Avram Meyer (I2591)
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| 282 | “Information given to me by Mr. Grammann from the Memorbuches, which goes back to l826 states:- Cause of death - Not Heart Wonder what he did die of?” Moved to Schluchtern in 1779 AKA Ruben Adopted name Rothschild around 1812 in compliance with German law requiring all Jewish families to have last names Paid 16 Gulden for "protection of the soverign" on 18 Jan 1779 in order to get married. “According to the records kept by the synagogue (called the Memorbook) His father had behind his name the abbreviation ‘R. Schl. D’, which means ‘Rabbi Scholiach Darshan’ - Darshan being a man who taught and explained the holy scriptures. Therefore, in 1811 he called himself ‘Rothschild’ “ “Victor Reis notes that Kalman Loeb moved to Schluchtern "with his father" in 1776... though no other evidence of that... it appears that Kalman Loeb may have moved to Schluchtern in 1776 after the death of his mother, considering that his sister was there and married to Aron Loeb Oppenheimer. Also, of note, the Rothschild name... origin story varies... in 1811 Kalman Loeb purportedly takes the name Rothschild based on his father being recorded in the synagogue memorbook as: Yehuda Loeb ben Naftali Kalman R"Schl'D R"Schl'D is the abbreviation for Rabbi Scholiach Darshan (Source notes of Victor Reis). It is worth noting that many Jews during the late 1700s were "Germanizing" their names. Names based on the sons of Jacob used German names based on their associated animal in Genesis 49, in our family: Yehuda the Lion: Loeb/Loew Naftali the Deer: Hertz/Hirsch (more: http://bloodandfrogs.com/2011/05/animals-and-name-pairs-in-jewish-given.html) I am not sure if there is significance about ending in the hard consonant (b/z) versus soft consonant (w/sch)” | Rothschild, Kalman Loeb (I114)
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| 283 | “Jacop” on 1900 census | Rosen, Jacob (I5071)
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| 284 | “Lived, afer marriage, in Anna’s home (‘demanded fancy meals’), moved to Szczuczyn, helped in home bakery business” | Malke (I782)
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| 285 | “Made his mark in Dallas real estate as a patron of the arts” | Hexter, Louis Jules (I1083)
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| 286 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Dickstein, Herbert (I4893)
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| 287 | “My grandfather's name - my father's father - was Yakov Dovid Rogozinsky and his wife was named Yentil. He was quite educated in Hebrew, well respected, with a seat near the eastern wall. He had what they called a "zocher," which was the privilege of davening shachres every holiday. That was his chore or honor, whichever way you look on it. He considered it a great honor. It would have hurt him terribly if her were denied that privilege. He was very active in the shul, gathering funds for "moyess chitim" or relief for the poor, so that they may have wine, matzohs, provisions for Passover. My grandfather was a smithy; he was the village blacksmith. While no one was wealthy in this little town, this trade made him better off than most. The peasants used to come to him to have their wagons repaired and their horses shod. He was always busy and made a living that way. Although my father was raised in that type of work, he drifted away from it and became a storekeeper. He engaged in all sorts of ventures. He ran a dairy, bought and sold grain from the peasants, gave contracts for selling other provisions. I don't know if he made much money, although he must have made something. But my grandfather was as I have said, quite educated.” | Rogozinsky, Jacob David (I29)
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| 288 | “my mother told me that my [Carrie Miller’s] great-grandmother Rebecca’s parents were traveling notions salespeople, i.e. they had a cart with needles, thread,scissors, etc. and travelled the countryside, selling their wares. And just as an aside, the way I heard it, Rebecca refused every shittach presented to her. My great-grandfather had been educated in philology at the University in Heidelberg. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, and was handsome, so Rebecca finally consented to the match. As the story was told to me, when my great-grandparents were in the 70’s, the kids all grown up, Rebecca told her husband she couldn’t live with him any more and my grandmother Fannie had to find him a room. He died a few years later; some say of heartbreak.” | Ponimonsky, Chaim (I155)
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| 289 | “On March 01, 1926 [Sophie] married Bernhard Rothschild from Schlüchtern (Hessen)....In the summer of 1939 her husband Bernhard had fled to England. His efforts the family demand zuholen were unsuccessful.” Or “Bernhard was born in Schluchtern to Jacob Hirsh and Regina Rothschild. He was married to Sophie (Hes). They had two daughters Miriam and Regina. Bernhard left for the U.S. Upon release from Dachau. Sophie did not leave since one of the daughters was not allowed to leave Germany due developmental disability. “ | Rothschild, Bernhard (I3490)
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| 290 | “Pauline ended up in the Carolinas as widow and would annoy my grandpa Ben with letters asking for money. (Ben had no use for the Yiddish theater people and insisted that Esther divorce herself from them upon her marriage.)” -Email from Lester Rosen, 12/11/2007 | Finkelstein, Pauline (I2764)
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| 291 | “Rose (Rogozinsky) Rosen was born in Olinka, a small village in the shtetl of the disputed territory between Russia and Poland. Her parents were merchants in that town. She was the oldest child, and followed her father to America in 1908 with her younger brother Peter, about a year after Morris arrived in the United States and about six months before her mother arrived with their three younger children. She was by all accounts a very attractive young lady, with dark curly hair and large ice-blue eyes. She was petite, around 5 feet tall, with an expansive bosom, a tiny waist and slender legs. After the family settled in Michigan, in or near Detroit, she met Louis Fonberg. She professed her love for him throughout her life. During the early days of their courtship, if she knew or suspected that he was in the company of another girl, she would search for him on the streets of their neighborhood. There was a significant drawback to their romance. Louis Fonberg was descended from German Jews who considered themselves to be socially prominent. For him to marry a Polish girl was considered by many to be a step down. Consequently, his parents and other relatives treated Rose and her family with condescension. They were cold to her and the children born to their marriage. But marry they did and proceeded to have four offspring, three daughters and a son. Always a hard worker, she and her mother ran retail operations in Michigan and later in Dallas. With her first husband, she prepared and sold food for workers at the automobile plants in her area. After relocating to Dallas, Texas, Rose's mother convinced her to marry Louis Smith, a bachelor who had immigrated to Texas from the Russian Pale. Citing the necessity for financial security for the widow and her children, Sarah argued that Louis Smith could provide stability for Rose. They lived out the rest of their lives together. No life is without tragedy, and Rose's life was no exception. As a young woman, she was the victim of an automobile accident that broke her back and required extensive surgical repair. This left her with a permanent limp and a fear of automobiles that prevented her from ever learning to drive. As a result of that life-threatening accident, her mother gave her a new middle name, Nadine. According to Jewish tradition, this additional name would confuse G-d enough to spare her and allow her to recover. During the Great Depression, Louis Fonberg died, leaving Rose with small children to support by herself. Her second child, May, died at the age of three. The toddler pulled a pot of boiling water off the stove on to herself and was fatally scalded. But perhaps the greatest tragedy of her life was the death of her daughter Angie. As the eldest child, Angie was more than a daughter to her. She was Rose's friend and confidante, her protector and comforter in times of trouble. When Angie died, her mother was bereft. Yet she had the strength and compassion to accept Angie's two children and to raise them as her own. This is an indication of Rose's nature. She was a loving and caring person, with a warm and generous heart. If she had a fault, it was that she worried constantly about the well-being of others, especially her children and grandchildren, to the exclusion of her own welfare. She was very intelligent, an entrepreneur who spoke and wrote both Yiddish and English. She had beautiful handwriting and loved music. She was a master gardener whose home was always surrounded by blooming plants. Among those plants were roses, especially her favorite tea roses, which bore not only her name but also the diminutive beauty she possessed. Rose died of complications associated with adult onset diabetes. She will forever be honored by her surviving children and grandchildren, the recipients of her boundless love.” | Rosen, Rose Nadine (I824)
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| 292 | “Sam Yahrbloom was my Uncle. He was married to my Aunt Min. They were in the garment and, I believe, handbag business. When business began difficult for them in New York they moved to Caracas, Venezuela for 10 – 15 years, and apparently made enough money down there for them to retire when they came back to the United States. I remember seeing them off when they took the boat to Venezuela in probably the 1950’s or early 60’s. Sam was a short, reasonably jovial guy. He passed away about 10-12 years before Aunt Min. He died of a heart attack while driving. Apparently he was not feeling well, pulled the car over and died. The irony is that Uncle Sam was probably one of the worst driver’s on the road.” | Yahrbloom, Samuel (I203)
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| 293 | “She was an entrepreneur to beat many. She started on the Lower East Side with a pushcart and developed the business from the pushcart into an international ‘bathrobe’ company named for her father—B. Cohen, Inc.—Her bathrobes were in all the best shops, Saks Fifth, I. Magnin, Bergdorf, etc.” | Cohen, Sadie (I5953)
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| 294 | “Shirley's family history is overshadowed by her sister Freda, who has been in a wheelchair since childhood with cerebral palsy, apparently aggravated by some unwise attempts of corrective surgery as a child. As her parents became unable to care for her , Bob Pinkert, in conjunction with a Mrs Woodhouse, succeeded in convincing the State of Florida to approve a state supported home for such victims, the Woodhouse Adult Home, where Freda still resides. Freda is intelligent , finished high school, and has painted Xmas cards using a brush attached to her forehead, but her speech is barely understandable.” | Stein, Freda (I3879)
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| 295 | “When he was 13 years old, in order to prevent him from being taken into the Czar’s army... his parents married him off, to a girl he had never seen. She was 14, but she had an older sister who was a little crazy, and who was 16...so they pulled a trick... they subtitiuted the crazy one. He never slept with her... he told his father what had happened and he went home with them. The divorce came through when he was 18.” | UNKNOWN (I5523)
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| 296 | “When Morris Finkel met Emma Thomashefsky in 1893, he was an actor-manager in his 40s who had already been left by his first wife. Emma, the younger sister of Yiddish theater giant Boris Thomashefsky, was a 16-year-old chorus girl. Emma was said to be enamored of the power that surrounded Finkel as manager and impresario. To avoid her brother’s disapproval, Emma ran way with Morris to Philadelphia and married him. The first few years of their marriage were apparently happy. They raised two daughters, Bella and Lucy, as well as Finkel’s son from his first marriage, Abem, who was barely younger than Emma. But by all available accounts, Finkel was a cold and controlling man, and the relationship became strained. Finkel kept his wife short of cash, even when her work as a leading lady brought in the bulk of the household income. He locked her out of the house if he felt she came home too late from visiting or from the theater. Abem became Emma’s champion — and Finkel, in an oddly Oedipal twist, became jealous of their friendship. In 1903, Finkel was involved in managing the Grand Theatre, which had a disastrous season. He was forced through a civil suit to give over his shares in the undertaking to Jacob Adler, who — in a slap in the face to Finkel — engaged Emma for the 1904 season. In addition, Emma had begun a romance with Levinson, an actor in the company. She asked Adler for an advance of $150 on the coming season and began divorce proceedings against her husband. According to an article in Di Yidishe Velt, Levinson gave a deposition to her lawyer, stating that Finkel had been using a private detective to follow the couple, and on one occasion, when the detective alerted Finkel that Emma and Levinson were sitting together in Central Park, Finkel arrived on the sceneand began beating Emma. In the summer of 1904, Emma and the children retreated to a summer colony in New Jersey. On June 7, Finkel turned up unexpectedly and, upon seeing Emma walking with Levinson, took out a gun and shot Emma first and then himself. The bullet lodged in Emma’s spine. Finkel died instantly.” | Finkel, Morris (I3276)
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| 297 | “[Norvin] was stationed on Shemya Island in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, at Shemya Army Airfield, for all of 1944. He was assigned to the 11th Air Force, 404th Bombardment Squadron. [He] turned 18 on February 8, 1943, so of course he was drafted. He was eligible for an educational deferment, however, as he was still in school until the summer of 1943. After he finished out the semester, he reported for duty with the army. They sent him to basic training at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, Mississippi, and then on to radar school in Boca Raton, Florida. He became a radar mechanic for the B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, and was sent to the Aleutians, where he worked on the planes that would be sent over to Japan to do bombing and strafing runs.” | Rothschild, Norvin (I120)
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| 298 | “[Sam] was a fantastic character. Every family has to have one. He was left-winger from the word go. He came to the US and he got a job in a vaudeville act with a midget. He was a big blonde guy with a big sense of humor. He shaped my literary pretensions by giving me books – Joseph Conrad, Babook, Guy Andore, etc. This is Sam.” - Lincoln Diamant | Kramer, Sam (I540)
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| 299 | “[she] was largely responsible for collecting and maintaining our family archives, and she never tired of telling us anecdotes about the Hexters and about her family, who came from Hungary.” | Brown, Ruth W. (I1084)
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| 300 | Baltimore, 1860-1869, Wholesale Clothing, 320 W. Baltimore 1873, Washington, DC, E.A. Reese Company, 1008 7th Street NW Lawyer Civic Leader in Dallas, TX Couldn't locate a George in the 1850 US census. Maybe he went be the name of "Richard" in 1850. Richard Hexter b. ca 1829 Germany lived with Abraham and Kaufman in Schuylkill, Minersville Burrough, PA in 1850. Resided in Louisville, KY in 1880. According to Memphis death certificate, father was Michael. | Hoxter, George (Gerson) (I1052)
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