by marlenetrestman | Aug 28, 2023
Jennie, Dora, & Rosalee Gordon Nathan and Yetta Nobedrick immigrated from Chodorkov, Russia with their young daughters Jennie (Czerne), Dora (Dobe), and Rosalee (Marie) in 1900. Unable or unwilling to pronounce the surname, immigration officials gave the family...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 28, 2023
Jacob (Dubinski) Dubin By the time of the 1910 census, Henry Dubinski, a peddler, and his wife Rachel, had moved from Houston to San Antonio with their four children. Just five months later, Henry died. Rachel, with the support of San Antonio’s B’nai...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 26, 2023
Golda Schonbach Born in Austria, four-year-old Golda Schonbach immigrated to the United States with her mother Anna in 1910 and settled in New Orleans. In 1912, according to news accounts, Anna died by suicide, leaving a short note for her husband in Yiddish and...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 24, 2023
Mendelsohn Siblings: Louise, Pauline, Max, and Murdock Following the death of their mother, the former Rebecca Cohen, from tuberculosis in 1911, the Mendelsohn siblings, Louise, Pauline (Polly), Max, and Murdock, were admitted to the Home by their father, Joseph, a...
by marlenetrestman | Aug 23, 2023
Loeb & Jacob Sabel In May 1890, The Montgomery (AL) Advertiser reported the “Sad Case” of immigrant shoemaker Eli Sabel, his wife Hannah Schultz, and their five children. After Eli deserted the family, Hannah was committed to Alabama’s Bryce...
