by marlenetrestman | Jan 8, 2023
Isadore Moritz Home alumnus Isadore Moritz and his wife, the former Julia Bullock. This photo, which was reprinted in a 1998 in a commemorative book published by Temple Emanuel of McAllen, Texas, was provided by Harvey and Calvin Wolff, Isadore’s grandsons....
by marlenetrestman | Jan 7, 2023
Edgar Goldberg Edgar Goldberg was born in 1876 in Delta, Louisiana to Jewish immigrant parents who died before his seventh birthday. Admitted by his uncle, Goldberg lived in the Home for seven years. After his initial discharge to apprentice with a jeweler in Jackson,...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 31, 2022
Fannie and Leah Hutman Fannie Hutman Zlabovsky. Photo from Ancestry.com. Born in Kiev, Fannie and Leah Hutman (ages 5 and 11) were admitted into the Home in May 1883 by their ailing mother Pauline from San Antonio, Texas. The girls’ father, Meyer Hutman, had...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 31, 2022
Lazar Schwartz Widow Babette Schwartz moved into the Home on the day it opened in February 1856, bringing her five children with her. Although the two oldest girls left in 1865, Babette and her three youngest children lived in the Home until 1868. Although much of...
by marlenetrestman | Dec 30, 2022
Frishman Siblings Russian immigrant Samuel Frishman owned a grocery store in Natchez, Mississippi, where he lived with his wife Rosa Blumenthal. In 1881, about a year after Samuel died, Rosa admitted five of their eight children into the Home, raging in age from five...
