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My Grandmom Bessie

Submitted By Susan Vineberg

 My Grandmom Bessie: My Grandmom was big – big of voice, big of body but most of all big of heart. I was her first granddaughter and I think her favorite person in the world.

 

Nathan Yablin- My Father

Submitted By Bernard Yablin

Early days in the US

Food Memory

Submitted By Johanna Moss

My story is about my grandmother (Nana) who would make homemade applesauce just for me when I went to visit her in Ohio.

The Sklut family legacy

Submitted By Linda Markoff

 How my mother's family came to America.

My Grandmom

Submitted By Sharren Filan

 My grandmom's trip from Austria

My Bubbe and Jossel Weinstein

Submitted By Joyce Weiss

 

Story of my Bubbe and my uncle, Jossel Weinstein, who died at the age of 4 in Russia.

 

My Mother, Eva Stern

Submitted By Ethel Robin

 

An immigrant from India to New York settles in Woodbine, New Jersey.

 

Family Connections

Submitted By Jodi (Cohen) Segalewitz

 

Unusual Connections to My Immigrant Grandmother


Early One Saturday Morning

Submitted By Michael Herskovitz

 

History is important to me, especially about the Holocaust, because it is a major part of Jewish history and I am Jewish.

Love Story

Submitted By JoAnne Vanett

 

Love at first sight..a young woman accepts a proposal if he will return and bring her family to safety

My Survival

Submitted By Ernest Pressburger

 

Jewish, born in Germany in 1934. Lucky to be able to leave in 1941. Traveled alone with my sister to US. I was 6 years old and she was 9.

Our fathers’ rescue of 118 people from Russia

Submitted By Harold & Jerry Sheinbach

Eight years after he immigrated to the United States in 1913, and serving in the U.S. Navy, our father, Sam Sheinbach, returned to Europe intending to bring his parents and immediate family members to America.

Coming to America

Submitted By Esther Zinn Gordon

 My father Louis Zinn's passage from Poland to Hamburg,Germany to Cuba and stowed away from Cuba to New York.

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