Sam Levitan (1580)

Sam Levitan In 1927, following the death of his wife, Tillie, New Orleans salesman Herman Levitan admitted his two-year-old son, Sam, to the Home. Sam’s earliest memories of the Home were walking around in his crib while being surrounded by admiring young girls....

Lillian Hofstetter (1579)

Lillian Hofstetter When Lillian was two, her mother died. She shuttled between two aunts in New Orleans while her father traveled frequently for his job as a ship steward. In 1927, at age 6, Lillian was admitted to the Home. After attending Newman School for the lower...

Rose Sohmers (1578)

Rose Sohmers Rose Sohmers was admitted to the Home in December 1926 at the age of 23 months by her father, Felix, a cabinetmaker. What happened to her mother, the former Rosie Felsenstein, is today unrecorded. As told to her by Home Nurse Anna Levine...

Rose & Emanuel Sherman (1571-1572)

Rose & Emanuel Sherman Living in New Orleans with their family, siblings Rose and Emanuel Sherman were the two youngest of seven children. Their mother died from appendicitis when Rose was one year and four days old. In 1925, shortly after their mother’s...