by marlenetrestman | Jul 10, 2023
Louis Rosen In 1910, following the death of her husband, Ike, Rosa Rosen placed her sons Louis (5) and Marcus (6) in the Home. Although Rosa ran a small store in Little Rock, Arkansas, the income was insufficient to care for her sons in addition to her three other...
by marlenetrestman | Jul 4, 2023
Sam Rosenthal In 1908, 5-year-old Simon (later Sam) Rosenthal was admitted to the Home by his father Charles with his siblings Bessie and Louie. By 1918, the children returned to their father in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, where Sam soon began work in a dry goods...
by marlenetrestman | Jun 30, 2023
Feilschmidt Siblings: Willie, Joseph, Stephanie, Louise, and Hugo In 1902, Leopold Feilschmidt and his wife, the former Regina Barbak, immigrated to the United States from Austria with their young children Willie and Stephanie. After settling in Dallas, Texas, where...
by marlenetrestman | Jun 27, 2023
Moses, Dora, and Jacob Lew In 1907, Elias Lew admitted three of his four Russian-born children to the Home. Regarding the former Bella Glinky, the Home’s registry noted only, “Mother insane.” Jacob, the eldest, after writing his senior essay on...
by marlenetrestman | Jun 26, 2023
Harry, Tillie, and Hirsch Goldstein While death or dire straits defined all children who entered the Home, some faced and remarkably managed to overcome extreme circumstances. Harry, Tillie, and Hirsch were the youngest of eight children of Russian immigrants, Abraham...
