by marlenetrestman | Dec 28, 2023
Kronenberg Siblings: Archie, Isadore, Louis, and Altie In September 1914, in Dallas, Texas, Rachel Yonack Kronenberg died during the birth of her fifth child. Her widowed husband, David, was unable to support the family and by December admitted the four eldest...
by marlenetrestman | Nov 22, 2023
Beulah Blondheim Native Virginian Solomon Blondheim and his wife, the former Gussie Brash of Florida, ran a restaurant on Greensboro Avenue in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. They had one child, Beulah, who was born in 1911. Three years later, Gussie died. On the recommendation...
by marlenetrestman | Oct 9, 2023
Louis & Rudolph Stein Born in Hawkinsville, Georgia, brothers Louis and Rudolph Stein were living in New Orleans with their mother, Annie Rothenberg Stein, when their father died. In March 1914, the board granted Mrs. Stein’s petition to admit 8-year-old...
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...
