by marlenetrestman | Dec 31, 2024
Louis Cohen Louis Cohen arrived at the Home at age 3 in December 1922. Apart from news clippings reporting that he appeared in the Home’s 1933 anniversary performance of Alice in Wonderland and that he graduated in 1937 from Samuel Peters Commercial High School...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 30, 2024
Louis, David, & Esther Berman In 1920, Russian immigrants Jacob and Sarah Berman and their four children were living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Jacob repaired shoes. In 1922, for reasons not known today, Jacob admitted Louis (10) and David (12), the two...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 22, 2024
Jacob, Ethel, & Louis Greenberg “From ambuscade,” was the way the Fort Worth Record & Register described the December 1901 murder by shooting of Joe Greenberg, a farmer living near Fort Worth, Texas. His attacker, who had earlier claimed that...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 12, 2024
Judith & Bella Ophirton In 1910, Lithuanian immigrant Leon (Heifer) Ophirton married Ida Schmidt, a native of Riga, in New York. They later moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where their two daughters, Judith and Bella, were born. A third daughter, Miriam, was born and...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 10, 2024
Abraham (George) & Bessie Plotkin In 1921, within a few months after the death of his wife, the former Rachel Levine, Russian immigrant tailor Jake Plotkin admitted the two youngest of their four children to the Home. Abraham, later known as George, was eight...
