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My mother, Szeren Frischman from Cigand, Hungary, met and married my father, Izso Klein from Dombrad, in Hungary in 1935. My mother was already a US citizen and my ...

Here's a newspaper clipping with my father, not yet off the boat.  He’s the worried young man with the kinky black hair on the right of the photo. He ...

This picture survived WW II. It shows my father's first family in Czestochowa, Poland in 1940. Their (and my) story is known by most people in the world ...

I, Hersz Szwarz (Harry Schwarz) traveled to Ellis Island aboard the US General Hersey in 1949. My parents were leaving from a DP camp in Landsberg, Germany, where I was ...

4 generations together in Israel: This is a picture of our family in 2010. My (now ex-) husband (in the hat), his brother and older sister were born is South Africa, ...

The story in the family is that my great grandfather, Simon Cohen, came to the US from Poland in about 1860. He was born in Pazin on April 27,1835. Supposedly ...

I didn't grow up a Jew. Neither did my mother, or her father, or his father before that, or anyone's father as long as anyone can remember. But ...

This is the wedding photo of my paternal grandparents, who got married in Brooklyn after arriving in America circa 1897. They were first cousins. He was from Schlisselberg, Russia outside ...

Both my parents are Holocaust survivors. My father is from Tarnow, Poland, about 45 miles east of Krakow. He was one of seven children and the only one in his ...

My Grandmothers came from The Ukraine. This is a poem I wrote for my daughter. I am a second generation Jew. My wife's family, and this is the first time I ...

My parent came separately to New York City. My Mom from Hamburg in 1938 and my Dad from Nuremberg in 1935. They met here. My father's family lived in Nuremberg ...

My father's family had been in Vienna as literate civil servants and professionals since the early nineteenth century when only a few Jews lived in that city. Family names ...

My wonderful gentle, kind father passed away just 10 days ago. He 97 and a German Jew. Many people at the memorial service were stunned to learn this, his ...

In 1936, my grandmother (Ellen Wildau, 18), her mother (Ida Wildau, ?), and her maternal grandmother (Zerlina Strauss, 84), left Germany to emigrate to New York via England. Ida's ...

I am 85 years old and the first girl in the family to be born in the United States. My grandfather lived in a small town outside of Balta, ...