Milton Jack Liberman (1638)

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...

Irving & Sylvia Spillman Weltchek (1705-1706)

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...

Mollie & Esther Spillman (1634-1635)

Esther & Mollie Spillman In 1930, on the recommendation of the local B’nai Brith lodge, Katie Broundstein Spillman admitted her daughters Mollie (12) and Esther Rose (13) to the Home from Dallas, Texas. The girls had been born in Buffalo, New York, where...

Serena, Esther, & Woodrow Polewada (1626-1628)

Serena, Woodrow, & Esther Polewada Baruch Polewada, a native of Poland, married Jennie Monetta of Ohio in 1898. In 1922, after making their way to Laflore County, Mississippi, and having six children, Baruch, a deliveryman, died. Jennie died in 1928. The Greenwood...

Matrons (1855-1868)

Matrons, 1855-1868 Between 1855 and 1868, four women held the position of Matron, who was responsible the care, feeding, and clothing of the children and widows. Ann DePass served most of the first five years, while Hannah Noel served the last eight. Other than coming...