by marlenetrestman | Aug 12, 2023
Vort Siblings: Jennie, Mollie, Esther, & Abe In 1912, following the death of his wife Rebecca in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Russian (Mustovo) immigrant Morris Vort admitted his four children to the Home: Esther (10), Abe (8), Jennie (6), and Mollie (4). During the...
by marlenetrestman | Jul 26, 2023
Leroy & Josephine Swartzkopf In 1911, after moving his family from St. Louis to San Antonio for a job with Halff & Bros. wholesale dry goods, Lee Swartzkopf died of a heart attack during a family picnic. With the support of Rabbi Samuel Marks of San...
by marlenetrestman | Jul 25, 2023
Joseph E. Wolf At age 11, Joseph Wolf came from Orange, Texas, to live in the Home from 1911 to 1915. He reportedly left during his senior year at Isidore Newman Manual Training School to enlist in the army, which according to one account made him “perhaps the...
by marlenetrestman | Jul 19, 2023
Aaron, Joseph, & Mildred Moskowitz Maurice (Mordecai/Morris) and Esther Goldberg Moskowitz of Russia settled in Galveston, Texas, where –after surviving the hurricane of 1900 — he ran a grocery store and they raised six children. In 1910, Esther died....
by marlenetrestman | Jul 17, 2023
Mollie Goldberg In 1905, following the death of his wife, Bertha, Herman Goldberg admitted his three youngest children (Mollie, Frances, and Morris) to the Home from Jonesboro, Arkansas. While in the Home, Mollie served as an officer of the Golden City Sisterhood. In...
