A repository for information about the life of my late great grandfather Hyman Victor, a Jewish immigrant who came to America in 1913.
She is not smiling for the photo. She is not even looking at the camera. Who is my great grandmother? What does her expression mean?
The home of a French Jewish jeweller was "Aryanized" and became a Nazi salon during the Occupation.
After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.
The Tulbowitz/Ratner family originated in the Vitebsk region, lived for decades near Rostov-on-Don, and finally settled in Albany, New York.