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...
by marlenetrestman | Jul 15, 2023
Weil Siblings: George, Violet, & Pincus In 1911, Leon Schwarz, on behalf of the B’nai B’rith lodge in Mobile, Alabama, petitioned the Home’s board to admit three Weil siblings: George (12), Violet (7), and Pincus (4). As Schwarz explained, both...
by marlenetrestman | Jul 13, 2023
Monk Isidore Mondshine In 1908, Esther Falk Mondshine sailed on the S.S. Lusitania from Liverpool, England to New York with her four children, destined for New Orleans. Two year later, Esther died. Her husband, Maurice, admitted their three youngest children –...
