Hyman & Harry Stein
Dora Saluitsky Stein, a native of Bialystok in today’s Poland, admitted her sons Hyman (12) and Harry (7) to the Home from Dallas, Texas in 1920. Sailing from Bremen, Germany, she and Hyman (then Chaim) had emigrated to the United States in 1911.
While in the Home, Hyman and Harry attended Newman School before completing their education at Isaac Delgado Central Trades School. During his time at Newman, Hyman served as a manager on the school baseball team and won certificates from the Underwood and Remington Typewriter Companies for his typing prowess. He was also a member of the Home’s Boy Scout Troop 9.
Hyman Stein, seated second from left, appears with Newman’s baseball team in 1924. Other Home kids on the team were, standing, Isidore Kniez and Archie Kronenberg (second and third from left), and Hugo Fielschmidt (third from right). Courtesy of Isidore Newman School Archives.
After his discharge from the Home in 1926, Hyman returned to Dallas. When he registered for the draft in 1940, he stated that he was a self-employed musician. During his World War II service as an Army private, he kept in touch with the Home, writing to Superintendent Harry L. Ginsburg about his special assignment in Uncle Sam’s “Band” which he believed was “for a damn good cause.” By 1950, back in Dallas, he was working as a refrigeration mechanic. Hyman died in 1976 and was buried with a military marker, which his wife, the former Lois Miller, had secured for him. Hyman’s previous two marriages ended in divorce.
Hyman Stein was buried in Westland Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas. From Find A Grave.
In Hyman's Own Words
In 1943, shortly after his induction into the Army, Hyman Stein wrote to Home Superintendent Harry L. Ginsburg, sharing news about fellow Ex Home kid and Army soldier Hugo Fielschmidt. Read Hyman’s letter here. Courtesy JCRS.