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Missing Identities

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janette_silverman

How I came to identify Pepa Grass and Isak Wolf Fink

abt 1926 – 1986
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Our Ruby name 
— why did Walter choose it?

Our Ruby name — why did Walter choose it?

Dan Ruby

When and why did Walter Rabinowitz take on our abbreviated last name? It was 1917, months after the death of his father Joseph..

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