Here's how Grandmom's family left Russia for a new life in the U.S. fifteen years before she was born.
A repository for information about the life of my late great grandfather Hyman Victor, a Jewish immigrant who came to America in 1913.
The story of how my great-grandmother almost didn't make it to the U.S.
The home of a French Jewish jeweller was "Aryanized" and became a Nazi salon during the Occupation.
This "American mutt" learns about the distant ancestor who immigrated to the US in search of religious freedom... but didn't stay for long!
After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.
Part 1: Joseph Fagan's journey from Minsk to New York City
The Tulbowitz/Ratner family originated in the Vitebsk region, lived for decades near Rostov-on-Don, and finally settled in Albany, New York.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans.