by marlenetrestman | May 14, 2025
Gertrude & Sidney Kreisman In February 1928, native Austrian Fannie Klein Kreisman died in Houston, Texas. A few months later, her husband, Henry, a retail merchant, admitted their children, Gertrude (11) and Sidney (8), to the Home. Sidney and Gertrude lived in...
by marlenetrestman | May 13, 2025
Jake Rifkin In 1910, Louis Rifkin traveled to the United States from Russia with his ten-year-old son, Jake, and settled in Memphis, Tennessee. Without the boy’s mother, who either remained in Russia or separated from her husband after arrival, Joseph placed...
by marlenetrestman | Apr 6, 2025
Sam Brody Sam Brody submitted this update which was published in Isidore Newman School’s 2023-2024 Annual Report. Sam Brody, 1939. Courtesy of Sam Brody. While in the Home, Sam learned photography, which he practiced often with his fellow residents. Here, Harry...
by marlenetrestman | Apr 5, 2025
Benjamin, Bernard, & Mildred Shanker St. Louis, Missouri natives, Bernard and Ben Shanker, entered the Home in 1929 and were discharged in 1935 and 1941, respectively. Their sister, Mildred, born in Baltimore, was discharged in 1936. Both Bernard and Ben served...
by marlenetrestman | Apr 5, 2025
Janet Loeb In Janet's Own WordsIn 1983, Janet Loeb Pfeifer participated in the Jewish Children’s Home Alumni Project. Read her “Memories of Life in the Jewish Children’s Home” here. In 1999, Janet Loeb Pfeifer was interviewed about her...
