by marlenetrestman | Sep 20, 2025
David Akchin In 1933, eight-year-old David Akchin was admitted to the Home from Shreveport, Louisiana by his widowed father, Wolf. According to David’s son, Don, David’s mother, Hannah, died by suicide before her son’s third birthday. For five years,...
by marlenetrestman | Sep 10, 2025
Melvin, Marvin, & Max Markowitz In 1924, twins Melvin and Marvin were born in Houston to Ed Markowitz, a native of Rumania who worked as a jobber, and his wife, the former Anna Silverman. Sometime after brother Max arrived in 1929, Ed and Anna divorced, with Anna...
by marlenetrestman | Sep 6, 2025
Rose, Maxine, and Joe Bihari In 1930, Hungarian immigrants Edward Bihari and his wife, the former Ester Taub, were living in Tulsa, Oklahoma with their eight children, when Edward died. The next year, Ester admitted her three youngest children – Rose (10),...
by marlenetrestman | Sep 3, 2025
Milton Jack Liberman In 1926, following the death of his mother, the former Sadie Kleinman, one-year-old Milton Liberman went to live with his aunt and uncle, Ida and Ben Harris, in Dallas, Texas. Four years later, Milton’s father, Joseph Liberman, admitted the...
by marlenetrestman | Sep 2, 2025
Sylvia & Irving Spillman Weltchek In 1941, less than eight years after her own departure from the Home, Estelle Spillman Weltchek admitted her two children (Sylvia, 4, and Irving, 6) to the same institution in which she had spent three years. Separated from her...
