by marlenetrestman | Oct 9, 2023
Annie Fleischman The Home’s records reveal nothing of the circumstances that led to the admission of 10-year-old Annie Fleischman from Memphis, Tennessee in October 1911. More is known of the circumstances that apparently prompted her discharge two years later....
by marlenetrestman | Sep 1, 2023
Louise Volmer Louise Volmer arrived at the Home at age 3 in 1911 when her parents, Rabbi Leon Volmer and Tresa Kaufman Volmer, assumed the positions of superintendent and matron. Louise was the first child of a Home superintendent to grow up in the Home. Although she...
by marlenetrestman | Sep 1, 2023
Annie & Bernard Schneider Russian immigrant Morris Schneider lived with his wife, Fannie, and his children, Lena, Bernard, and Annie, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he worked as a barber. In 1914, following Fannie’s death, Morris admitted ten-year-old...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 29, 2023
Dora, Bessie, and Jack Margolin In 1905, Harry Margolin journeyed from Kiev to Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York. By 1907, he had earned enough money from carpentry jobs for his wife, the former Rebecca Goldschmidt, and their young daughter, Dora, to join him. Two...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 28, 2023
Jennie, Dora, & Rosalee Gordon Nathan and Yetta Nobedrick immigrated from Chodorkov, Russia with their young daughters Jennie (Czerne), Dora (Dobe), and Rosalee (Marie) in 1900. Unable or unwilling to pronounce the surname, immigration officials gave the family...
