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...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 9, 2024
Ethel, Dorothy, & Thelma Rosenbaum Lucille Malach, a native of Lithuania, married Harry Rosenbaum of Colorado in 1907. Harry’s work as a self-styled cattle buyer and junk dealer kept the couple traveling, including to Odgen, Utah, where daughter Ethel was...
by marlenetrestman | Oct 30, 2024
Rogers & Morris Perlis Until 1921, David Perlis, a junk dealer, and his wife, the former Sarah Baum, lived in Memphis, Tennessee with their six children. That year, David died and Sarah placed her two youngest children, Isidore Rogers (6) and Morris (3) in the...
by marlenetrestman | Oct 26, 2024
Jacob, Louis, & Esther Turansky In 1909, shortly after the birth of his son Jacob, Isaac Turansky left the family’s home in the Russian town of Mglin in search of a better life and settled in Galveston, Texas. Two years later, after Isaac had saved enough...
