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Pictured is my mother (front row) with her net ball team in Singapore. I believe this was taken at the British Army medical base where she worked. I ...

Orphaned in Valkevish Poland, my paternal great grandmother, Rachel Cohen, was shipped to the US, on a boat with her best friend who died en route in her arms. Rachel ...

My parents emigrated from Mumbai, India and settled in Toronto, Canada in 1965. We're Bene Israel Jews. Our story is very old going back almost 2000 years when it's said ...

My 3rd great grandfather Harris Elias (Tzvi Akiva ben Eliyahu) came to NYC from Poland in 1859 and remained in the Lower East Side until his murder at age 65 ...

My parents were both Holocaust survivors who met in Linz, Austria a few days after my dad was liberated from Mauthausen and serving on the medical staff of a hospital ...

I asked my mother about what I knew were own frequent nightmares. I knew of them because I often heard her crying and screaming at night, through the walls ...

M father's parents came from Austria and Hungary at the turn of the 20th century. They met and married in New York. They lived a good life ...

My paternal grandfather's parents were from Stepan and Kyiv. My maternal grandfather's parents were from Tetiiv and Plyskiv, two small towns in central Ukraine only about 30 miles apart. My ...

From Life in the Shtetl to a Family and Business Career in New York. In early 1914 my paternal grandfather left his family and life in the shtetl in what was ...

Both sides of my family came to the United States from Russia as Refuseniks. However, my grandfather was not granted an exit visa. The picture is of my dad in ...

I was not born Jewish, although my father, a church-going Mormon like my mother, would often make comments about some Jewish ancestry. My father told me as a child to seek ...

I wish I had more of a story. Neither of my parents spoke much about their parents or their own childhoods. My grandparents on both sides came from Russia before ...

My mother's maternal grandmother, Ida Miller (nee Lowenthal) emigrated from Dobromil, Poland (present day Ukraine) as a young girl with her family. In the picture (left to right) is ...

The Bean (Bun) family fled the shtetl of Ponamuk, Lithuania at the turn of the last century due to escalating violence against Jews in the region. My Great Grandfather Jacob ...

My great-grandmother, Chai Meidenberg (nee' Weinbraun), pictured here in Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland. She is standing over the grave of her father, Zelman Weinbraun. The inscription indicates that he died on ...